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1973ref. 150408Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1973 film one showing director William Friedkin and one showing Friedkin and screenwriter William Peter Blatty. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series following the demonic possession of a twelve-year-old girl and the ensuing attempts to purge her body of the evil spirit. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status as a classic with a strangeness and depth supplied by the strength of Ellen Burstyn and Max von Sydow's performances. One 9.75 x 8 inches one 9.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974ref. 140876N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Synopsis laid in. The School of Acrobatics and Acrobatic Training is ab American private school demanding precise execution and extreme attention to detail. The story follows "aeronautical acrobatics" a branch of acrobatics that represent the outer fringe of the school's studies. Set in Arizona. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credit for screenwriter William Goodhart. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 140876N.p.: N.p. 1974. Draft script for an unproduced film. Synopsis laid in. The School of Acrobatics and Acrobatic Training is ab American private school demanding precise execution and extreme attention to detail. The story follows "aeronautical acrobatics" a branch of acrobatics that represent the outer fringe of the school's studies. Set in Arizona. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credit for screenwriter William Goodhart. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1937ref. 165558Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph of actor William Lundigan enjoying a cup of coffee between takes on the set of the 1937 film. Printed mimeo snipe provenance stamp and the stamp of photographer Ed Jones on the verso. A small town reporter ends up in jail after attempting to pressure a notorious gangster's girlfriend into an interview. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Neat pinholes at each corner else about Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1937ref. 165558Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage photograph of actor William Lundigan enjoying a cup of coffee between takes on the set of the 1937 film. Printed mimeo snipe provenance stamp and the stamp of photographer Ed Jones on the verso. A small town reporter ends up in jail after attempting to pressure a notorious gangster's girlfriend into an interview. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Neat pinholes at each corner else about Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 125385Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Original pressbook for the 1954 film noir based on the 1951 novel by William P. McGivern. Howard W. Koch director of "The Girl in the Black Stockings" 1957 here creates an unsparing view for its time of the violence and corruption often seen behind the badge of a police officer. Barney Nolan Edmond O'Brien becomes a bad cop in an otherwise cozy suburban atmosphere then deconstructed and invariably led to a befitting death Silver et al. 12 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. One corner with a short crease and a couple of tiny closed tears else bright. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1954ref. 125385Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1954. Original pressbook for the 1954 film noir based on the 1951 novel by William P. McGivern. Howard W. Koch director of "The Girl in the Black Stockings" 1957 here creates an unsparing view for its time of the violence and corruption often seen behind the badge of a police officer. Barney Nolan Edmond O'Brien becomes a bad cop in an otherwise cozy suburban atmosphere then deconstructed and invariably led to a befitting death Silver et al. 12 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. One corner with a short crease and a couple of tiny closed tears else bright. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books
1923ref. 126252N.p.: Universal Jewel 1923. Vintage hand-tinted half sheet poster for the 1923 film. Also released under the titles "His Good Name" and "Your Good Name." Based on the 1922 short story "His Good Name" by William Slavens McNutt. Years after returning home from prison and finding his mother dead and father evicted Bat Shugrue then known as "Gas-Pipe Kid" becomes a baseball star and refuses to throw a game for blackmailers threatening to reveal his past. 28 x 22 inches on card stock. Very Good plus with moderate edgewear including small closed tears creasing and chipping at the extremities. Must be shipped flat Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Universal Jewel unknown
1923ref. 126252N.p.: Universal Jewel 1923. Vintage hand-tinted half sheet poster for the 1923 film. Also released under the titles "His Good Name" and "Your Good Name." Based on the 1922 short story "His Good Name" by William Slavens McNutt. Years after returning home from prison and finding his mother dead and father evicted Bat Shugrue then known as "Gas-Pipe Kid" becomes a baseball star and refuses to throw a game for blackmailers threatening to reveal his past. 28 x 22 inches on card stock. Very Good plus with moderate edgewear including small closed tears creasing and chipping at the extremities. Must be shipped flat Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Universal Jewel unknown books
1970ref. 155986Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force who seek to avoid public exposure of the interracial affair. Director William Wyler's final film. Set in the fictional town of Somerset Tennessee and shot on location in Humboldt Tennessee. Seven pages saddle stapled. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 155986Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force who seek to avoid public exposure of the interracial affair. Director William Wyler's final film. Set in the fictional town of Somerset Tennessee and shot on location in Humboldt Tennessee. Seven pages saddle stapled. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at the edges. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1945ref. 142818Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Collection of nice vintage concept art sketches for advertisements or posters for the 1945 film. Pencil and marker on tracing paper. The sixteenth and penultimate "Dr. Kildare" film the and the last of four films featuring Van Johnson as Dr. Randall "Red" Adams and the fifth of six films focusing on Lionel Barrymore's Dr. Gillespie after Dr. Kildare actor Lew Ayres was fired by MGM for declaring himself a conscientious objector when drafted during World War II. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1945ref. 142818Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Collection of nice vintage concept art sketches for advertisements or posters for the 1945 film. Pencil and marker on tracing paper. The sixteenth and penultimate "Dr. Kildare" film the and the last of four films featuring Van Johnson as Dr. Randall "Red" Adams and the fifth of six films focusing on Lionel Barrymore's Dr. Gillespie after Dr. Kildare actor Lew Ayres was fired by MGM for declaring himself a conscientious objector when drafted during World War II. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1989ref. 150949Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Martin Landau and Woody Allen on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films a dark drama with comic elements interweaving two opposing stories. In one ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's Landau mistress Angelica Huston threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam Claire Bloom. Responding to the threat his gangster brother Jack Jerry Orbach offers to have her killed. In the other documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern Allen is hired by his pompous television producer brother-in-law Alan Alda to make a documentary about him and begins to fall in love with producer Halley Reed Mia Farrow. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Schrader Canon Fodder 39. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1971ref. 147580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Collection of nine photographs including six black and white vintage studio still photographs two-color studio still photographs and one black and white reference photograph for the 1971 film. Included with the collection is a xerographically duplicated four-page set of captions intended to accompany the set with "for reference" written in manuscript ink annotation across the first leaf. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1992ref. 150946Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1992. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Judy Davis on the set of the 1992 film. Married couple Jack and Sally Sydney Pollack and Davis casually inform their best friends married couple Gabe and Judy Allen and Farrow they are separating leading Gabe and Judy to question the stability of their own relationship. One of Woody Allen's most celebrated films a pointed examination of marriage love and vulnerability. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Davis. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown
1975ref. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown
1987ref. 150950Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1987. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen cinematographer Carlo Di Palma and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Allen's love letter to the Golden Age of Radio wherein narrator Joe a Jewish-American New Yorker reminisces about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in Rockaway Queens initiating a series of vignettes of radio personalities intertwined with the life of Joe's working class family. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown
1965ref. 162146Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Paula Prentiss in a sheer lace bodysuit. Photofest label affixed to the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter about a soon-to-be-married womanizer as he attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1987ref. 150950Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1987. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen cinematographer Carlo Di Palma and crew on the set of the 1987 film. Allen's love letter to the Golden Age of Radio wherein narrator Joe a Jewish-American New Yorker reminisces about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in Rockaway Queens initiating a series of vignettes of radio personalities intertwined with the life of Joe's working class family. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1989ref. 150949Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Martin Landau and Woody Allen on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films a dark drama with comic elements interweaving two opposing stories. In one ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's Landau mistress Angelica Huston threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam Claire Bloom. Responding to the threat his gangster brother Jack Jerry Orbach offers to have her killed. In the other documentary filmmaker Clifford Stern Allen is hired by his pompous television producer brother-in-law Alan Alda to make a documentary about him and begins to fall in love with producer Halley Reed Mia Farrow. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert III. Schrader Canon Fodder 39. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1992ref. 150946Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1992. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen Mia Farrow and Judy Davis on the set of the 1992 film. Married couple Jack and Sally Sydney Pollack and Davis casually inform their best friends married couple Gabe and Judy Allen and Farrow they are separating leading Gabe and Judy to question the stability of their own relationship. One of Woody Allen's most celebrated films a pointed examination of marriage love and vulnerability. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Davis. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 147580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Collection of nine photographs including six black and white vintage studio still photographs two-color studio still photographs and one black and white reference photograph for the 1971 film. Included with the collection is a xerographically duplicated four-page set of captions intended to accompany the set with "for reference" written in manuscript ink annotation across the first leaf. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1975ref. 127315Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A coward accidentally becomes a war hero after being forced into in the Russian army. The last of Allen's early outrageous comedies before pursuing a more narrative and dramatic approach beginning with "Annie Hall" 1977. Set in Russia shot on location in France and Hungary. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. United Artists unknown books
1965ref. 162146Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Paula Prentiss in a sheer lace bodysuit. Photofest label affixed to the verso. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter about a soon-to-be-married womanizer as he attempts to adjust to a monogamous life with help from his neurotic psychoanalyst. Set and shot on location in Paris Sevres and Chaumontel France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
