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1965ref. 157286N.p.: N.p. 1965. Three borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1965 film. Two photographs with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and one with a date stamp reading 8 OCT 1965. Roman Polanski's second feature film and his first in English. A disturbed young woman experiences a variety of hallucinations and nightmares when left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister. A breakthrough role for Catherine Deneuve and the film that paved the way for Polanski's future success. Set and shot on location in London. One photograph 8 x 9.5 inches two photographs 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing at the corners. Criterion Collection 483. Grant UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 149124N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow in front of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Ave New York City during the filming of the 1968 film. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film one of the best genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director established producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and Hollywood veteran John Cassavetes. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ruth Gordon and nominated for Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine National Film Registy. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 630. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1925ref. 137138Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses a well known figure in Hollywood because of his friendship with William Randolph Hearst. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with diagonal chips missing from two corners but the image largely unaffected. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 158260N.p.: N.p. 1970. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. After nearly a decade as one of America's most successful independent filmmakers sexploitation auteur Russ Meyer first reached out for the brass ring of major studio success with this frantic and most entertaining cult favorite once described by Meyer and screenwriter Roger Ebert as "the first exploitation-horror-camp-musical." The film follows three members of an all-girl rock band called The Kelly Affair who relocate to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Their success comes at the price of their friendship and integrity however and the girls eventually succumb to a nonstop train of decadence drugs and betrayal. Featuring one-hit wonders the Strawberry Alarm Clock supporting performances by Meyer regulars Charles Napier and Haji and a bit part from future Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier the film proved to be Meyer's biggest box-office success. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 836. N.p. unknown
1989ref. 139236France: Eve Productions 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity a rarity even in sexploitation films at the time and quite the introduction to soon-to-be Meyer's regular Charles Napier. Meyer shot several new sequences late in production about a quarter of the film's runtime either to replace footage lost by a photo lab or because an actress left the shoot early the reason is disputed. The new sequences unrelated to the original ones give the film an almost surreal quality leading Roger Ebert to call it "possibly the only narrative film ever made without a narrative." The film was one of the most successful of Meyer's career leading him to return to and refine this style in subsequent films peaking with Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens in 1979. 47 x 63 inches folded as issued. Near Fine. Eve Productions unknown
1965ref. 152052California: Eve Productions 1965. Vintage pressbook for the 1965 film. The final film in Russ Meyer's "noir" cycle 1964-1965 or "Gothic" period as Meyer puts it a series of sexploitation films shot in black and white with powerful and vengeful female characters male impotence and a serious dramatic plot involving less of the "nudie" filmmaking style so prominent in the director's early films. One of the first films to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in a Vietnam War veteran. Six pages saddle stitched 11 x 17 inches. Folded once horizontally. Very Good plus overall. Eve Productions unknown
1959ref. 152047Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 film. A door-to-door dental appliance salesman has a chemical reaction to an anesthetic which grants him X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He subsequently overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie the film that basically launched the lighthearted nudie pictures of the early 1960s. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and nightclub circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. For his debut Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "Frenchy" "nudist" film but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots an arguably feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. One leaf bi-fold. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown
2011ref. 170195Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 2011. Revised Draft script for the 2013 film with rainbow revision pages throughout. Based on the 2012 book "Gangster Squad: Covert Cops the Mob and the Battle for Los Angeles" by Paul Lieberman. A dramatization of the formation of the "Gangster Squad" a team of Los Angeles police officers and detectives tasked with taking down a prominent crime boss. Set in 1949 Los Angeles shot on location in Los Angeles. White untitled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated September 8 2011 noted as FULL PINK with credits for Lieberman and screenwriter Will Beall. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 8 and November 22 2011. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Silver and Ursini American Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown
1955ref. 150449N.p.: N.p. 1955. Two vintage reference photographs of director Sacha Guitry on the set of the 1955 film taken by photographer Edward Quinn. "Ed. Quinn" stamps on verso of both one with additional "Cinema Napoleon" stamp. Guitry's historical epic depicting the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena with Napoleon depicted by two actors Daniel Gelin as the young and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. Featuring notable cameos by Erich von Stroheim as Ludwig van Beethoven and Orson Welles as Napoleon's British jailor Sir Hudson Lowe. Shot on location throughout France. 7 x 9.75 inches. Light edgewear and light creasing at extremities else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1952ref. 135865Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member with brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso of the last page of text and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod Windsor runs a town where law states that men are illegal. The tough McLeod is soon caught in the lusty lasso of Woody Callaway Rober a handsome and persistent cowboy. The Poverty Row studio Lippert Pictures lasted nearly two decades 1948-1969 and would resurface as the production company for "Don't Do It" 1994. Notable films produced or distributed by Lippert include "Jungle Goddess" 1948 "I Shot Jesse James" 1949 forgotten films noir like "Radar Secret Service" and "Motor Patrol" both 1950 Samuel Fuller's "The Steel Helmet" 1951 Sam Newfield's "Lost Continent" 1951 and Terence Fisher's classic Hammer noir "Man Bait" 1952. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text undated with a credit for screenwriter Hampton. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hardy The Western p. 218. Okuda 486. Lippert Pictures unknown
1957ref. 154819Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. In 1954 during the Vietnam conflict a smuggler named "Lucky Legs" and a group of French mercenaries infiltrate and destroy an arms depot near the Chinese border. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 566. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1976ref. 159153N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 adult film. After being kidnapped a doctor and his lover plan to shoot the pornographic film of their dreams at a remote French chateau. Four photographs 9.5 x 7 inches three photographs 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned. Bier 849. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 137587Hollywood: The Ladd Company 1984. Original press kit for the 1984 Italian-American film. Included in the press kit are 24 black-and-white still photographs including one photograph of director Sergio Leone biographies of select cast and crew final credits production information and insight into Leone's process. Based on Harry Grey's 1952 novel "The Hoods." David Aaronson De Niro is a former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster who after thirty years of absence returns to Manhattan where he confronts the foibles of his past and the painful truth of his life to date. Actress Jennifer Connelly's film debut and director Leone's final film a film that like his similarly titled 1968 classic "One Upon a Time in the West" remains one of his few American productions. Film stills various sizes. Biographies credits and production information printed on 8 x 10 leaves corner-stapled rectos only. Stills and printed leaves Near Fine house in a Very Good plus full-color 9 x 12 studio single-pocket folder. The Ladd Company unknown
1966ref. 157627Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1966. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Japanese film. Stamps of Nikkatsu Productions on the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink. A disillusioned pornographer tries to stay out of the clutches of the local mob while taking care of his ailing landlady and her children secretly spending time with his mistress and lusting after his teenage stepdaughter. 6 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 207. Nikkatsu unknown
1985ref. 141111N.p.: N.p. 1985. Revised Draft script for the 1985 play. Copy belonging to Peter Mark Richman who played the character of Lewis in this production with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in manuscript ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays and thus is haunted by his unfinished characters including Adolf Eichmann a gorilla and a blue-collar worker named "The Raincoat." Steve Shagan was a critically acclaimed novelist playwright and screenwriter who came to prominence working on the television series "Tarzan." Throughout his long career he was nominated for both Academy Awards and Emmy Awards. Set in Los Angeles. Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Draft with credits for playwright Steve Shagan. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 150475Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of director Stuart Rosenberg and actor Paul Newman on the set of the 1967 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by Donn Pearce who co-wrote the screenplay about a convict who wins a bet to eat 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour and later suffers a failure of communication with the warden. Winner of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for George Kennedy and nominated for three others including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Newman. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a light horizontal crease affecting the lower portion of the image. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown
1983ref. 163380Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Final script for the 1984 film. An aspiring country music star bets the owner of a nightclub that she can turn an ill-mannered New York cab driver into a singer. Set in New York and Tennessee shot on location in Santa Clarita and Piru California and in Leipers Fork Tennessee. Gray titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated September 22 1983 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated September 22 1983 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriters Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/28/83 and 1/24/84. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1977ref. 160639Paris: Trinacra Films 1977. Two vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1977 film. Reference number stamps on the verso of each. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy following "Emmanuelle" 1974 directed by Just Jaeckin and starring Kristel and Alain Cuny and "Emmanuelle 2" 1975 directed by Francis Giacobetti and starring Kristel and Umberto Orsini. 9.5 x 7 inches. One with pinholes from a staple on the bottom right corner else Near Fine. Trinacra Films unknown
1976ref. 149916N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 Italian film. Based on the real Salon Kitty a cabaret and brothel used by Nazi secret intelligence to collect information on high-ranking SS commandants and foreign dignitaries during World War II. Heavily edited for its US release with many political elements purged in order to market the film as a sexploitation production. Considered one of the progenitors of the Nazi exploitation genre. Set in Berlin. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Blue Underground. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 149558London: New Cinema Presentations 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film. With the label of New Cinema Presentations on the verso. Based on Rochelle Owens' 1967 play wherein a farmer's sexual relationship with his pet pig sets off an erotic increasingly unhinged chain of events among the local hicks in his small town. Shot on location in Stockton California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. New Cinema Presentations unknown
1977ref. 162549Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Three vintage reference photographs from the American release of the 1977 Italian film all three showing actress Ursula Andress in the bath. A police commissioner teams up with a political activist to solve the murder of a prince. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1971ref. 159627Los Angeles: Boxoffice International 1971. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 sexploitation film. A middling Spaghetti Western actor dreams that he has become Casanova the world's greatest lover after he is knocked unconscious during a sex party. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Boxoffice International unknown
1965ref. 158640N.p.: Unknown 1965. Vintage press kit for the 1965 film. Pictorial white envelope containing seven studio still photographs and two matte-finish reference photographs and one newspaper clipping with an advertisement for the film. A European-style sexploitation film about a love triangle between one woman and two jealous men during a sailing trip to Catalina Island. Set in location in Los Angeles Catalina Island and Malibu. Envelope photographs and clipping Very Good plus with light offsetting on the envelope. Unknown unknown
1953ref. 146323N.p.: N.p. 1953. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Included with the script are four partially-bound identical sets of carbon typescript pages listing prospective filming locations and camerawork and two smaller unbound leaves one blank and one with manuscript ink annotations to the recto. Screenwriter Vera Caspary was best known for her 1942 novel "Laura" the basis for the classic 1944 film noir and the project that most strongly established her presence among Hollywood studios as a desirable writer for film. Years later however in the midst of the HUAC investigations Caspary became persona non grata as she had been an active member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and never fully shed her proletarian leanings. In order to avoid prosecution and the potential destruction of her career Caspary moved to Europe and spent several years searching for studio financing and writing film treatments including the never-produced "Street Song." The project tells the story of an acclaimed but vain opera singer who falls in with a group of street musicians and learns humility and ultimately love. Tall orange titled wrappers noted as Treatment on the front wrapper dated 14th April 1953 noted as Copy No. 15 with credits for screenwriter Vera Caspary. Title page present dated 14th April 1953 noted as Treatment with credits for Caspary. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with some rust to the first few leaves and light foxing wrapper Very Good plus bound with green string. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 156217N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 pre-Code film showing director Victor Fleming and a camera crew watching as actors Clark Gable and Jean Harlow film an intimate scene. Based on the 1928 play by Wilson Collison about a love triangle on a rubber plantation in French Indochina. The film was the second of six films Gable and Harlow made together following "The Secret Six" in 1931. Basis for the 1953 John Ford film "Mogambo" starring Gable and Ava Gardner. Set in French Indochina. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with paper tape on the verso. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
