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1988ref. 149687N.p.: N.p. 1988. Vintage reference photograph of actors Divine and Jerry Stiller from the 1988 film. Cult independent director John Waters' most enduring film following a kindhearted overweight teenager who becomes an overnight sensation on a Baltimore television dance show and subsequently uses her newfound fame to speak out in support of integration. Basis for the Tony Award winning 2002 musical and subsequent 2007 film adaptation directed by Adam Shankman and starring Nikki Blonsky Michelle Pfeiffer and John Travolta. Set and shot on location in Baltimore Maryland. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 152157Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1955. Draft script for the 159th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on June 12 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. An opportunistic newspaper reporter captures a photograph of a little boy with his head stuck in a garbage can and proceeds to use the image in a piece about child neglect-to the embarrassment and anger of the boy's parents. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter B.M. Atkinson Jr. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered III-25. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1956ref. 152152Culver City CA: Four Star Films 1956. Draft script for the 1956 television episode originally aired on June 8. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. With a call sheet and shooting schedule bound in after the title page. A former hobo experiences difficulties in trying to return to "normal life." Pink titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Alvin Sargent. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/11/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Housed in brown wrappers with a handwritten title label affixed to the front wrapper dated April 1956. Four Star Films unknown books
1972ref. 146899N.p.: Europrodis 1972. Six vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1972 film with one of Jose Benazeraf being double weight with matte finish. "Hubert Toyot" stamp on the verso. Catherine Franck and Patricial Hermenier play sexually liberated air hostesses who seduce American journalist played by Rod Cameron and move on to their next conquest but he refuses to accept it and pursues them. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine some curling one with small crease in upper right corner. Europrodis unknown books
1970ref. 137527N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film adapted from the collaborative novel written by Joseph Conrad and Ford Maddox Ford in 1909 but not published until after Conrad's death in 1924. The third of three collaborations by the two novelists. Black stiff generic report wrappers with a red-and-white title label on the front wrapper crediting screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lowe and novelists Conrad and Ford. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Photocopied. Toning to the title page else pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 149388London: London Film Productions 1951. Vintage reference photograph of director Carol Reed and actor Ralph Richardson on the set of the 1951 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamp of Tele-Magazine. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel. A selfish criminal takes on a new position as the second-in-command of a trading operation on a remote island village where he seduces the village chieftain's daughter and embezzles from his employers. Controversial at the time of release for its depiction of an interracial romance even though the so-called indigenous Algerian actress in question Kerima was in actuality a white woman from France. Set in Borneo shot on location in Sri Lanka. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a short closed tear to the top edge repaired on the verso with white tape. London Film Productions unknown books
1967ref. 146428Rome: Arco 1967. Draft script for the 1967 Italian film. Text in English printed in Rome. Based on the 1923 novel wherein a former pirate falls in love with a mentally ill young woman who falls in love instead with a French naval officer. Set in France shot on location in Italy. Blue wrappers with the film's English title printed on a red label and affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present with the film's English and Italian titles given. 207 leaves with last page of text numbered 206. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a strip of adhesive residue likely from tape running vertically across the rear wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. Arco unknown books
1919ref. 138929Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1919. Vintage color glass slide advertisement for the 1919 film the first film released by the newly minted United Artists co-founded by star Fairbanks with Charlie Chaplin Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith. A wealthy American gets embroiled in the politic turmoil of a fictional European monarchy only to find he is secretly the heir to the throne. 4 x 3.25 inches. An unused example without theatrical show times listed on the blank at the bottom. Very Good plus or better. United Artists unknown books
1968ref. 158000N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph of director Joseph Losey watching a scene with Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow on the set of the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An impoverished woman meets a young girl who claims to be her long-lost daughter believed to have died in a drowning accident years before. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with brief wear at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 145852Paris: Societe Francaise de Production SFP 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Joseph Losey and Yves Montand from the set of the 1978 film. Mimeo snipe Agencia EFE stamp and Agence Le Lynx stamp on verso. A sequel to Alain Resnais' 1966 film "The War is Over." It is 1975 and fascist dictator Francisco Franco is dying. Montand plays Jean an exiled Spanish communist comfortably living as a screenwriter with his wife Julia Miou-Miou in France while still supporting the resistance in Spain. A complicated relationship to his son and a tragedy in Spain test Jean's beliefs and commitment to the cause. Set in and shot on location in France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good Plus minor edgewear and some light staining primarily on left and bottom. Societe Francaise de Production [SFP] unknown books
1982ref. 149712N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1982 film featuring a young Isabelle Huppert. Based on the 1964 novel by Roger Vailland. A young woman leaves her family's small-town trout farm to begin a new life in Japan in the process catching the attentions of two wealthy suitors. Set and shot on location in Japan and France. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1957ref. 138455Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised First Draft script for the 1958 film. Brief notation in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper verso. Based on the novel and written for the screen by Ernest K. Gann about a disgraced former Navy captain Hudson piloting a disparate group of passengers through a storm on a rundown schooner. Green titled wrappers dated June 13 1957 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY. Title page present undated noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with a credit for screenwriter-novelist Gann. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/11/57. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 137049Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1959. Carbon Draft script for the 1961 film. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. Gangster biography with noir elements based on Harry Grey's 1958 novel a paperback original. Dutch Schultz Morrow is a mobster at the top of his game in the 1920s. He kills a man romances the man's daughter Parrish and turns a good cop bad. Red titled wrappers dated 9/24/59 with a credit for screenwriter Browne. Title page present identical to front wrapper. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Hardy The Gangster Film p. 213. Warner Brothers unknown books
1957ref. 149744N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph of director Josef von Sternberg what appears to be Howard Hughes and various crew members on the set of the 1957 film. With the stamp of Cinemagence on the verso. A Soviet pilot lands at a USAF base in Alaska where she pretends to be a defector leading the base commander to assign an American pilot to monitor her behavior. Sternberg's first film with Howard Hughes' RKO Studios made only a few years before his retirement from directing. Shot on location in California. 5 x 6.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 146804N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film. Text in English. A medieval nobleman maddened by grief makes a pact with the devil to resurrect his dead wife who returns with a lust for the blood of children. Light blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Juan Buñuel and screenwriters Bernardino ZAPPONI Pierre MAINTIGNEUX and Michel NURIDSANI. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 166. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly creased wrapper Very Good plus with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver clasps. N.p. unknown books
1964ref. 149719Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actor Albert Finney. With the stamp of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the verso along with a stamp noting the film's title for the French release "La Force des tenebres." Based on the 1937 film which was based in turn on the 1935 play by Emlyn Williams. A blue-collar sociopath charms his way into the home of a reclusive wealthy invalid where he seduces both her daughter and her maid while posing as the household butler. Set and shot on location in Hertfordshire England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with pinholes and light rust to the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1981ref. 138784Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1981. Vintage black-and-white French press photograph from the set 1981 UK film. Shown are director Karel Reisz and actors Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons conferring on a scene. French press stamp and a copyright sticker from United Artists on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 171057N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage photographs one of director Karl Malden and uncredited camera operator Albert Myers and a vernacular photograph of Malden Myers and cinematographer Sam Leavitt from the set of the 1957 film. Photographs belonging to uncredited camera operator Myers one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. British born Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a camera operator and camera crew member in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s. He is credited in 30 films from 1927 to 1978 and assuredly worked on many more films uncredited during that time. His credits include "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Based on the 1956 Broadway play by Ralph Berkey and screenwriter Henry Denker. Richard Widmark stars an Army Colonel investigating the case of a Major played by Richard Basehart who is accused of and admits to collaborating with the enemy as a POW during the Korean War but the Colonel doubts the Major's guilt. Malden's only directing credit. Shot on location in Agoura California and Governors Island New York. 8 x 10 inches and 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 152780N.p.: N.p. 1958. Four vintage oversize matte-finish reference photographs from the 1958 film one showing actor Patrick McGoohan in full safari garb crouching with a cheetah two showing actors Belinda Lee and Michael Craig and one showing Lee between takes on the set petting a lion. The British fiancee of a senior warden at a south African game preserve finds her affections unexpectedly drawn by her beau's younger brother. Shot on location in Kenya. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus one with a short closed tear to the bottom edge and all with light creasing and toning to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 145544N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film "Twist." Copy belonging to director Ken Hughes with his annotations throughout. A police investigator shoots a longtime nemesis while chasing him after a heist and must cope with the loss of his greatest equal. Set in England. Tall black wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Tudor Gates. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 145848Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. Set in and shot on location in England and France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus some edgewear very small hole and dimples on lower right and very light creasing. United Artists unknown books
1950ref. 107868London: Apex 1950. Draft script for the 1951 British film. Editor Peter Hunt's copy with his manuscript annotations throughout. Peter Hunt began his career in the UK film industry as an editor working on several of the best-known early James Bond films "Dr. No" "From Russia With Love" "Goldfinger" as well as "The Ipcress File." He debuted as a director with "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in 1969. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated April 1950 noted as shooting script with credits for Kenneth Hume. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two staples. Apex unknown books
1964ref. 152144Hollywood: World Wide Pictures 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout. With an eight-page shooting schedule bound in before the script. The rebellious son of two television reporters forces his parents to examine their own lives leading to their conversion to born-again Christianity. Green titled wrappers noted as production No. 197. Title page present with credit for screenwriter James Collier. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and tan revision pages throughout dated Nov. 19 1964. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong. Housed in blue wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper dated 1964. World Wide Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 147014Venice CA: Moritz Borman Productions / Mutoskop Film 1985. Draft script for the 1989 film here under its working title "The Artisan." Text in English. Based on Stephen Sheppard's 1986 novel "The Artisan" which was in turn based on the true story of Johann Georg Elser a quiet German carpenter who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939. Set and shot on location in Hungary Germany and Austria. Brown generic International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present dated June 1985 with credits for screenwriter Stephen Sheppard. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with a light tide mark on the front and rear wrappers and page edges and accompanying dampstaining to the final leaf bound with two gold brads. Moritz Borman Productions / Mutoskop Film unknown books
1964ref. 131832London: Three Kings Films 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. With several substantive manuscript emendations to dialogue throughout. A British "teen" comedy with a title that borrows the title and spirit of Conrad Hilton's 1957 autobiography. A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son's rock group begins bringing in the crowds. One of several British films from the mid-sixties which offered the added inducement of a guest appearance by "The Killer" Jerry Lee Lewis who had more success in the UK than the USA after marrying his teenage cousin in 1958. Magenta titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 6-11-64 in manuscript pencil with credits for screenwriter and composer Fairhurst. 108 leaves mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock with pink revision pages throughout dated 23.11.64. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Three Kings Films unknown books
