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1995ref. 167753N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1995 film showing Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi onstage in her early days at Cheetah's Gentleman's Club mid-striptease. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. One of the most hotly contested films of the 1990s. Largely panned at the time of its release it has since gained enormous cult status and has even been reevaluated by critics and filmmakers such as Jonathan Rosenbaum Jim Hoberman Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette who defend the film as a serious satire something actor Kyle MacLachlan dismisses describing the film as ".horrible. Horrible!" and noting that "it just gets worse" as it progresses. John Waters may have described it best: "'Showgirls' is funny stupid dirty and filled with cinematic cliches; in other words perfect." Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 167511N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1967 French film showing Haydee Politoff and Patrick Bauchau preparing for a swim. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A love triangle develops between two best friends and the beautiful sexually open young woman who interrupts their vacation on the Riviera. The third film in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series made quickly and with very little budget due to delays in starting production of what was to be the next film in the series "My Night at Maud's" 1969. Shot on location in Cote d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1949ref. 156358Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing the titular gorilla facing off against a man on a rearing horse. Printed mimeo snipe and RKO Radio Pictures stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A stop-motion monster fantasy film created in the wake of the massive success of Radio Pictures' "King Kong" 1933 even using the same director-screenwriter-producer team. A young woman heads to Hollywood with her pet gorilla named Joseph hoping to make enough money to save her ranch home in Africa. When a seedy nightclub entrepreneur proposes the gorilla be used as part of his nightclub's entertainment it seems like an easy way to make money-but Joe is miserable as he is mistreated and unhappy in America. Received an Academy Award in 1950 for Best Special Effects. Set in Hollywood. 10 x 8 inches. About Very Good plus with short closed tears at the edges and creases at the corners. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1996ref. 170742N.p.: N.p. 1996. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the 1996 film showing Ewan McGregor drinking with his friends. Director Danny Boyle's second and best-known film an adaptation of the acclaimed 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh a darkly comic examination of the life of a heroin addict trying desperately to extract himself from his habit and the accompanying lifestyle. McGregor rose to international stardom on the strength of his performance as the lead Mark Renton and would return for the sequel "T2 Trainspotting" released in 2017. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 167461Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth and final novel published in 1934 about an esteemed psychiatrist who sacrifices his career to marry his patient an emotionally unstable young woman. Director Henry King's final film. Set and shot on location in France Italy and Switzerland. 10 x 8 inches. One Fine one Near Fine with light wear to the finish. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1972ref. 148216N.p.: N.p. 1972. Collection of 24 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1972 film 23 studio still photographs and one photograph of Fellini on the set. A semi-autobiographical impressionistic portrait of Rome featuring two contrasting sections one based on Fellini's first journey to the city as a young man under Mussolini the other featuring scenes of contemporary city life. Set and shot on location in Rome Italy. 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 161263Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1966ref. 148214Universal City: Universal Film 1966. Collection of 16 vintage color French lobby cards from the 1966 film. Based on the 1953 novel by Ray Bradbury. Set in and shot on location in England. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus pinholes to corners with come corner and edgewear. Universal Film unknown books
1957ref. 150435N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actress Jayne Mansfield leaning over to get a bottle of ginger ale from the refrigerator. With a manuscript pencil annotation identifying Mansfield and the film title on the verso. Based on the 1955 Broadway play which also starred Jayne Mansfield. A satirical take on mid-century Hollywood following an ad man who hires a famous actress to promote a new line of lipstick but must pretend to be the actress' lover in exchange in order to make her real boyfriend jealous. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 167739Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 "surrealist documentary" rock film showing Frank Zappa. In 1970 Zappa completely re-formed the Mothers of Invention to include drummer Aynsley Dunber jazz keyboardist George Duke and three members of The Turtles. Zappa began to write a film for the new lineup and recorded "Chunga's Revenge" 1970 with them as a "preview." Subsequently Zappa met conductor Zubin Mehta and worked with him to produce a concert in May 1970 wherein the Los Angeles Philharmonic was augmented by the Mothers or vice versa as you like and referred to this as "the second preview." The film itself shot in a week at Pinewood Studios outside London was a tripped-out documentary about life as a musician on the road and Zappa characteristically chose an eclectic group of celebrities to join the proceedings including Theodore Bikel Ringo Starr and Keith Moon. The resulting soundtrack is a matter of debate among Zappa enthusiasts but is notable for its orchestral finale "Strictly Genteel" a touchstone for the variety of classical music experimentations Zappa would subsequently pursue. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 160495N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage borderless reference photograph of screenwriter Carl Foreman on the set of the 1952 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 8.25 x 10 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 156004N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage reference photograph of William Wyler visiting the set of the 1948 film talking to director Fred Zinnemann and actress Jarmila Novotná between takes. A young Auschwitz survivor searches for his mother in the years following World War II. Actor Ivan Jandl was presented with a special juvenile Academy Award but was unable to travel to the US to receive the award due to restrictions by the communist government of his native Czechoslovakia. Shot on location in postwar Germany in Ingolstadt Munich Nuremberg and Würzburg. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners and bottom edge. N.p. unknown books
1941ref. 170358Los Angeles: Vitagraph 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actor Gary Cooper in his iconic role. When a laid-off reporter is asked to write one final column she fabricates a letter from a John Doe planning on committing suicide on Christmas Eve in protest of society's ills. When the letter becomes a sensation Ann convinces the papers to hire her back and turns the letters into a series of articles. The only problem is in order to convince the public John Doe is real they need to find someone to impersonate him. Enter down-on-his-luck homeless man John Willoughby. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Vitagraph unknown books
1988ref. 160846Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1988. Final Draft script for Season 2 Episode 2 of the 1987-1994 classic television series originally aired in syndication on November 28 1988. Printed on blue leaves. Bound in preceding the script are three pages for "Cast" "Sets" and a "Pronunciation Guide." 20 years after the classic NBC 1966-1968 television series Gene Roddenberry was tasked with creating "Star Trek: The Next Generation" for Paramount Pictures. Set a century after the events in the original series and starring a new cast of characters "The Next Generation" succeeded in becoming an equally beloved series in the franchise and created four spin-off films from the series "Star Trek Generation" 1994 "Star Trek: First Contact" 1996 "Star Trek: Insurrection" 1998 and "Star Trek: Nemesis" 2002. The Enterprise becomes enveloped and trapped by a black-hole like phenomenon they are investigating when a hostile Romulan war ship appears. Yellow illustrated wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated September 26 1988. Title page present dated September 26 1988 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Jack B. Sowards and director Winrich Kolbe. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 170416N.p.: Continental 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Charles Craig and Frank Doak as television anchormen breaking the bad news of the Living Dead. One of the earliest scariest and most influential zombie films shot in black and white on a shoestring budget. Romero's feature film debut criticized upon release for its unprecedented explicit gore and now rightfully considered a cult classic. Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania near Evans City in Butler County. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Continental unknown books
1929ref. 165828Universal City: Universal Pictures 1929. Vintage borderless portrait photograph of "Sunny" Jim McKeen by photographer Ray Jones from the 1929 comedy short. Jones' signature etched in the negative on the lower right with children's illustrations also etched into the negative about the child. With a mimeo snipe on the verso here under the working title "The Newlyweds and Their Child." 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. Based on the George McManus comic strip "The Newlyweds" created in 1904. One of a series of 39 comic shorts which featured "Sunny" Jim McKeen as Baby Snookums. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 167853N.p.: Screen Gems Inc 1962. Vintage double weight satin-finish reference photograph taken on the set of the 1957 film showing Van Heflin talking with an unidentified cast member during a smoke break between takes. Based on Elmore Leonard's 1953 short story. One of the first revisionist Westerns with a classicism that stands up to "High Noon" but a cynical attitude toward good and evil that was years ahead of its time. Shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light discoloration on the top edge. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 657. Pitts 4370. Screen Gems Inc unknown books
1973ref. 162525New York: American International Pictures AIP 1973. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1973 film both showing Jim Brown and Gloria Hendry. Sequel to the 1972 film "Slaughter" directed by Jack Starrett and starring Jim Brown. One of the quintessential franchises in the Blaxploitation genre about a former Green Beret and Vietnam veteran who sets out for revenge against the mob after the death of his parents. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1965ref. 130135Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. The 1960s remake of the classic 1939 John Ford Western in which a group of ten unlikely traveling companions on a stagecoach to Cheyenne must fight together when beset upon by both outlaws and Native Americans. Shot on location in Colorado. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper production No. 58 dated April 9 1965. Title page present dated April 9 1965 noted as Final with credit for screenwriter Landon. 137 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6-9-75. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1975ref. 127471Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1975. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1975 film. A delightfully scathing script from Robert Towne and star Warren Beatty set during the days surrounding the 1968 presidential election featuring Beatty as a narcissistic womanizing hairdresser who attempts to raise money to open a salon only to be consistently sidetracked by his various romantic entanglements. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lee Grant and nominated for three more including Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Jack Warden. Set in and shot on location in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches previously Folded as issued. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 947. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 159587Munich: Romano Film 1970. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 German sexploitation film. All with the stamp of Romano Film on the verso. Hans Billian directed a string of movies in the "Heimatfilme" "homeland-films" genre in the early 1960s starting to direct softcore sex comedies later on in the decade. He began directing hardcore films when the ban on full-length hardcore pornographic films was lifted in Germany in the mid-1970s and moved to directing exclusively adult films in the 1980s and 1990s. Shot on location in Baden-Baden. 5 x 7 inches. Fine. Romano Film unknown books
1957ref. 158233N.p.: N.p. 1957. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1957 French film including four oversize photographs. Numerical annotations and annotations identifying subjects in manuscript pencil and ink on the versos. Loosely based on Hadley Chase's 1954 novel "The Sucker Punch." A rich widow's daughter marries a good-looking but self-interested man who promptly falls in love with another woman. Oversize photographs 9.5 x 12 inches and one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Selby France. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 161531N.p.: Griffith Productions 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. Early sexploitation film directed and shot by Herschell Gordon Lewis who would become better known a year later with the release of "Two Thousand Maniacs" and many other Z-budget blood-soaked horror films. A young millionaire is obsessed by a woman appearing in a dream. After an investigation he discovers burlesque performer Gina Adair and searches for her at her favorite nudist camp. Shot on location in Miami Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Griffith Productions unknown books
1949ref. 158691N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actress Eva Henning in a negligée. Ingmar Bergman's seventh film about the troubled romantic and sexual experiences of several Swedish adults. Based on the 1948 short story collection by Birgit Tengroth who also appeared as Viola in the film. Shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 9.5 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the corners. N.p. unknown books
