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1969ref. 160971N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of eleven vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1969 Italian sexploitation film. Faced with a broken marriage a woman decides to try to rekindle her incestuous relationship with her younger sister who is herself happily married to a wealthy older man. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1999ref. 149053Beverly Hills CA: Imagine Entertainment 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going Sabrina Grdevich Carlos Jacott Heidi Schanz and Eric Stoltz. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. An early darkly comic screenwriting effort from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach best known for "Kicking and Screaming" 1995 "The Squid and the Whale" 2005 and "Marriage Story" 2019 following a group of friends struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 4/29/99 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Thomas Schlamme. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only with one white revision page dated 4/23/99. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Imagine Entertainment unknown
1968ref. 131321Beverly Hills CA: Mirisch Productions / United Artists 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to actress Merie Earle her first film credit and INSCRIBED on the front wrapper: "This was my first / "on location" picture / Everything was / "red carpet" I loved it / Merie Earle." Notations in manuscript red ink and pencil throughout at Earle's speaking parts as "Grandma." Merie Earle was a solid fixture on the television series "The Waltons" 1972-1979 as "Maude Gormley." Based on Ben Hecht's 1963 book about a young writer Bridges caught in political corruption in Chicago early 1900s. A grand cinematic tale nominated for art direction costume design and sound. Margot Kidder Lois Lane of "Superman" 1978 got her Hollywood start with this film as a prostitute who deflowers Bridges. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 167 dated May 8 1968 with credits for producer-director Jewison. Title page present dated May 8 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ginnes and producer-director Jewison. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and white revision pages throughout dated either 7/8/68 or 7/11/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Mirisch Productions / United Artists unknown
1967ref. 149300Spain: Internacional Films 1967. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1967 film. With a dealer stamp on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations regarding layout. Based on Orson Welles' early play "Five Kings" which condensed Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle into one story. The film was the last of Welles' three legendary Shakespearean adaptations following "Macbeth" 1948 and "Othello" 1951. As with nearly all of Welles' efforts as a director the film was plagued by financial and logistical problems shot with nearly no budget and received no promotion and a very limited release-but is now rightfully regarded as his final masterpiece. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and winner of two other awards at Cannes in 1966. Shot on location in Spain. One photograph 11.75 x 9.5 inches one photograph 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light creases and scratches. Internacional Films unknown
1967ref. 156020London: The Rank Organization 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos of three photographs and all four with the stamps of The Rank Organization. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A successful advertising executive decides to quit his job and break up with his wife and mistresses in order to pursue his dream of being a literary writer but finds the transition more difficult than anticipated. Set and shot on location in London. 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. The Rank Organization unknown
1948ref. 159121Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1948. Vintage reference photograph from the 1948 film showing Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" by Sherwood King. Director Orson Welles promised to write produce and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film courted controversy not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. Shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Master List. Selby US Masterworks. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1947ref. 155856N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photograph of director Orson Welles and his then-estranged wife actress Rita Hayworth on the set of the 1947 film. Manuscript ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Welles promised to write produce and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film based on Raymond Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" courted controversy not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good lightly toned overall with brief wear at the corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 161339N.p.: Arca-Film 1969. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 West German film. Five with Arca-Film stamps on the verso. A pseudo-documentary sexploitation film about infidelity told through several stories of broken marriages. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Light soil on the versos else Near Fine. Arca-Film unknown
1973ref. 141877Vienna: Lisa Film 1973. Draft script for the 1973 West German film. Text in German. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's controversial 1897 play "Reigen." A satire of the sexual and class mores of the late 1800s not produced on stage until 1920 although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual content and depictions of relationships across class and cultural lines the play was immediately condemned as pornography and withdrawn from the German stage although it remained unsurprisingly popular. Schnitzler's play was adapted for film several times previously most notably by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964 both using the French title "La Ronde." Set in Vienna. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for playwright Arthur Schnitzler and director Otto Schenk. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a gold prong binding. Lisa Film unknown
1973ref. 161102Paris: Pierson Production 1973. Three vintage borderless color oversize reference photographs and a pressbook from the 1973 French adult film. Each photograph with a censorship blindstamp at the upper right corner. After an unsuccessful attempt to sleep with a boy her own age an eighteen-year-old goes on a odyssey of sexual exploration culminating in a love triangle between a wealthy older woman the teenager and a renowned male writer. Photographs 12 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Pressbook 9.25 x 13 inches. Folded three times as issued. Very Good moderately worn at the corners. Bier 504. Pierson Production unknown
1980ref. 141949Santa Monica: Pendragon Film 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film "Kiss Daddy Goodbye" seen here under the alternate title "Caution Children at Play." Copy belonging to costume designer David Chierichetti with his name blue ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Two telekinetic children avenge their death of their father a professor of the occult who was killed by a gang of renegade bikers. Director Patrick Regan cast his own children for the leading roles. Set in California. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present rubber stamped copy No. 024 with credits for screenwriters Alain Silver Patrick Regan Ron Abrams and Mary Stewart. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication first generation copy with no copied punch holes on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Pendragon Film unknown
1984ref. 171971N.p.: N.p. 1984. Revised Second Draft script for the 1984 film. A dramatization of the life of country music star Patsy Cline following her rise to fame tumultuous relationship with her husband and promoter Charlie Dick and death at the age of 30 in a plane crash. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Jessica Lange. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 16 1984 noted as Rev. Second Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Getchell. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 165071Universal City: Universal Studios 1971. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1971 film including one borderless and one bordered. Bordered photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Ken Kesey's 1964 novel about a family of independent loggers who refuse to support a local logging union's strike against a lumber conglomerate. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor for Richard Jaeckel. Set in the fictional town of Wakonda Oregon and shot on location throughout western Oregon in Lincoln County and the Oregon Coast. One photograph 8 x 10 inches the other 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown
1960ref. 146330London: Merton Park Studios 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 British film noir here under the working title "The Man Who Knew." Loosely based on Edgar Wallace's 1918 crime novel "The Man Who Knew." A man who has arranged his business partner's murder finds his plan has gone awry when the hitman does not properly dispose of the murder weapon which is stolen and eventually makes its way into the hands of the police. Tall white titled self wrappers housed in a tan folder dated September 1960 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Robert Stewart and novelist Edgar Wallace. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 54. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with rust to the binding and title page detached side stapled. Grant UK. Merton Park Studios unknown
1968ref. 169572N.p.: N.p. 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film all showing actress Leigh Taylor-Young. Dissatisfied with his life and impending marriage a mid-thirties attorney gets high and runs off with a young hippie only to discover he's still unhappy. The title of the film is a reference to "Alice B. Toklas brownies" a slang term for pot brownies. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 151433N.p.: N.p. 1991. Fourth Draft script for the 1992 film here under the working title "The Year of the Comet." An international chase ensues in pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history bottled in the year of the Great Comet of 1811. Shot on location in France Scotland and England. Self front wrapper integral with title page dated February '91 noted as Fourth draft with credits for screenwriter William Goldman. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine back wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstains on bottom left bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 149379N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. An anthology film of four short films titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza" directed by Roberto Rossellini "Il Nuovo Mondo" directed by Jean-Luc Godard "La Ricotta" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and "Il Pollo Ruspante" directed by Ugo Gregoretti Pasolini's scathing comic rebuke on social inequality and religious hypocrisy wherein a lavish film production of the crucifixion of Christ in a poor region outside Rome finds the extra playing the "good thief" Stracci Mario Cipriani quite literally starving during the production trying everything to get some food all while being berated by the bombastic insufferable director Orson Welles. The film resulted in Pasolini being convicted of blasphemy and the film being banned in Italy. Pasolini was sentenced to a four month prison term which he avoided by paying a fine. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 236. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 167091N.p.: Aetos 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 Italian film showing actors Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp in an intimate moment. Stamp of photographer Angelo Frontoni on the verso. Over the course of several days a mysterious visitor seduces each member of a bourgeois Milanese family. The second film in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mythical Cycle quartet preceded by "Oedipus Rex" 1967 and followed by "Porcile" and "Medea" both 1969. Set and shot on location in Rome and Milan. 9.25 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. BFI 1166. Aetos unknown
1965ref. 151530Lausanne: Majestic Films 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix on the set of the 1965 film. "Majestic Films S.A." and "Yoyo" stamps on verso. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. Majestic Films unknown
1975ref. 155772N.p.: Unia Films 1975. Five vintage borderless color snapshots from the 1975 French hardcore film. Stamps of Unia Films on the versos. The two adult sons of a small-town shopkeeper return to their hometown where they become involved in shady criminal dealings and many sexual encounters. Originally filmed as a softcore film with "hard" scenes added at a later point to appeal to the craze for hardcore sex scenes in France after Gaullist censorship was revoked in the early 1970s. 4.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 1368. Unia Films unknown
1948ref. 135654Berlin: Nero AG 1948. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Preston Sturges and actors Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison on the set of the 1948 film. 8 x 10 inches 20.5 x 25.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 292. Nero AG unknown
1972ref. 164302N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1972 German film. Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. An exploration of 1950s Hollywood melodramas through the lens of 1970s Germany about the destructive skewed power dynamics between a twice-divorced fashion designer her live-in maid and her new lover. Set in Bremen shot on location in Worpswede Germany. Three photographs 5 x 7.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Arrow 12. Criterion Collection 740. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 141021London: The Rank Organization 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film. Laid in are two pages of corrections. With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. Based on Jon Cleary's 1966 novel of the same title. The New South Wales police sergeant Scobie Malone is summoned for questioning and cooperation when the Australian High Commissioner is wanted in England for murder. Now he must uncover the truth as well protect the High Commissioner from assassination attempts. Set in London shot on location there as well as New South Wales Australia. Teal blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated October 20 1967 with credits for author Jon Cleary and screenwriter Wilfred Greatorex. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mechanical duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between November 15 1967 and January 8 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. The Rank Organization unknown
1936ref. 143033New York: Gaumont British Picture Corporation 1936. Draft script for the 1937 film. Specially bound copy bound in green cloth with title in gilt. An American gangster joins the British Army in order to evade the police. Released in Great Britain under the title O.H.M.S. which signifies "On His Majesty's Service." Military propaganda from Britain's War Office made with full Army Council cooperation. American director Raoul Walsh was chosen after his success with "What Price Glory" in 1926 which helped boost recruiting for the US Marine Corps. Set in New York and London shot on location in London. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles with stamped production No. 69 in gilt. Title page present dated 31st July 1936 noted as screenplay. 116 leaves. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with dampstaining on open edge binding Very Good plus. Gaumont British Picture Corporation unknown
1968ref. 170748N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing Raquel Welch in a headscarf and bikini. A mob boss works with a pair of kidnappers to pull off a huge heist bringing in a criminal mastermind to help run the operation. Set and shot on location in France and Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
