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1990ref. 140789Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1990. Draft script for the 1992 film. Based on the 1988 play of the same name also by Craig Lucas. A young pessimistic woman who is a communist also works as a bartender and gets married to a conservative young man who works at a Chicago publishing house. At their wedding an old man asks to kiss Rita and when he does his soul changes places with her and now Peter must see beyond the physical to the beautiful soul underneath for the old man to kiss Rita again and return to his own cancer-ridden body. Set in New York shot on location in Chicago and Highland Park Illinois and Jamaica. Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 18 1990 with credits for screenwriter Craig Lucas. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1946ref. 138606Paris: Ecran Francais 1946. Vintage program for the 1946 French film. INSCRIBED by director Claude Autant-Lara in manuscript ink: "Sylvie / seul et unique film a illegible poétique du cinéma français / A Claude Autant / avec toutes mes amitiés! / Claude Autant-Lara / Vichy illegible 1989" "Sylvie / one-and-only film illegible poetics of French film / from Claude Autant / with best wishes / Vichy illegible 1989". Based on the 1942 comic play by Alfred Adam. On the eve of his daughter's 16th birthday a father hires a man to dress as the ghost of the figure in her favorite painting. Two suitors also dress as ghosts to vie for her attention. All this commotion causes the real ghost to appear in order to help Sylvie sort everything out. 12.25 x 9.5 inches. Saddle stapled. Near Fine with cello tape reinforcements to the staples. Ecran Francais unknown books
1978ref. 164326N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless oversize color reference photograph from the 1978 French sexploitation film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A vice squad determines to take down a drug and prostitution ring. Director Jacques Scandelari helmed a number of gay pornographic films under the pseudonym Marvin Merkins the most notable being the 1978 feature "New York City Inferno." 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good. Bier 201. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 132241Germany: Peter-Presse / Atlas Films 1966. Original 1966 German A1 poster for the 1942 US film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23.25 x 33 inches rolled. Near Fine. Peter-Presse / Atlas Films unknown books
1940ref. 161700Los Angeles CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1940. Vintage reference keybook photograph of actor director and screenwriter Orson Welles with a dresser on the set of the 1941 film. Linen backed with two sets of punch holes along the top edge. Often considered to be one of the finest American films ever made the story of a reporter investigating the last words of wealthy newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane. Welles' first feature film winner of an Academy Award and nominated for eight others including Best Picture. Shot on location in New York and California. Photograph 8 x 11 inches image 3.5 x 4.5 with large margins. Very Good plus with adhesive residue on the verso and toning. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 6. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 134869Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of Rita Hayworth taken for the 1947 film by Columbia Pictures special photographer Robert Coburn. With Coburn's stamp on the verso. Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s. His star subjects included Hayworth Joan Crawford Kim Novak Carole Lombard William Holden Glenn Ford and Orson Welles. Coburn's most famous portraits immortalized Hollywood's greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940 Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio's chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including "Picnic" "Gilda" and "The Big Heat". 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 163788N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Blindstamps at the corners with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the versos. Based on the 1965 Chester Himes novel. An early blaxpoitation film about two cops investigating a phony local preacher. The film proved a runaway box office success inspiring a slew of buddy cop films both within the genre and beyond. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Parish and Hill 71. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 146009Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. Set in and shot on location in Michigan. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown books
1930ref. 149692N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1930 film with actors Constance Bennett and Kenneth MacKenna standing together on the right along with director Paul Stein on location at a racetrack. With an agency stamp on the verso. A plain secretary works for a womanizing divorce lawyer who only dates married women. To avoid having to deal with the matrimonial pursuits of any of his potential romances he offers her financial support if she marries him in name only. Set in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some faint soil at the margins. N.p. unknown books
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1990ref. 141322Berkeley: Saul Zaentz 1990. Third Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Matthiessen about the conflicts and relationships between an indigenous Amazon tribe the missionaries that want to convert them and the mercenaries hired to move them off their land. Set in Amazon rainforest shot on location in Brazil and Venezuela. Green titled wrappers noted as Third Draft on the front wrapper dated April 23 1990 with credits for screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere and Hector Babenco and author Peter Matthiessen. Title page present dated April 23 1990 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriters Carriere and Babenco and author Matthiessen. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Saul Zaentz unknown books
1969ref. 147032N.p.: Sandrews 1969. Vintage one sheet Swedish poster for the 1969 film. At some ambiguous time in the near future international superpowers introduce "international peace games" a lethal miniature battle of drafted teens from around the world which is then broadcast as a popular reality television show. Shot on location in Sweden. 27.5 x 39 inches folded as issued. Very Good plus two small holes at middle and lower crease intersections. Sandrews unknown books
1985ref. 145179Los Angeles: CBS / Universal City Studios 1985. Draft script for the 1986 pilot episode for the television show "Outlaws." A sheriff and his deputies are transported from the year 1899 into the future by a lightning storm and they establish a new life as private detectives. Set in Houston in 1899 and 1999. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present noted as production No. 86084 dated November 26 1985 with credits for screenwriter/executive producer Nicholas Corea. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. CBS / Universal City Studios unknown books
1969ref. 149600Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1969. Vintage reference photograph of director Peter Yates and actors Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow on the set of the 1969 film. Based on Mervyn Jones' 1966 novel following a man and a woman who meet in a singles bar sleep together and spend the subsequent day learning about one another. One of the earliest New Hollywood dramas an examination of hookup culture in the late 1960s. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965ref. 149858N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film. 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. 9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 135647Paris: C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor 1962. Collection of 6 vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the French release of the 1962 film. Each photo with the stamp of French distributor Cocinor on the verso. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners of each photograph. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. / Cocinor unknown books
1973ref. 149572Paris: Sonocam 1973. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1973 French erotic film one showing actress Karin Schubert the other showing Schubert and actor Amidou. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso. Based on the 1971 novel. A call girl is punished by the owner of the brothel where she works and is subsequently forced to take on a variety of sadomasochistic clients. 9.5 x 7 inches. Fine. Bier 1451. Sonocam unknown books
1961ref. 144353Rome: Lux Film 1961. Original Italian program for the 1961 film here under the original Italian title "Divorzio all'italiana." Illustrated throughout with black-and-white still photos from the film full-color front wrapper fold-out art and the program details a synopsis and cast and crew credits. Notations throughout in manuscript ink mostly amending certain words of the synopsis. Ferdinando Mastroianni is bored with life and his wife Rocca. He falls in love with his cousin Sandrelli and since divorce is illegal in Italy unless there is just cause like catching your spouse committing adultery he decides to find his wife another lover instead of killing her. Seems simple enough. The first of Mastoianni's four "Italian Style" films and winner of an Academy Award for Best Writing a BAFTA three Golden Globes and nominated for a host of others. 9.5 x 13.25 inches 9 leaves saddle-stapled. Very Good overall lacking staples with creases brief tears and foxing. Criterion Collection 286. Lux Film unknown books
1942ref. 149117Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of Preston Sturges adjusting Claudette Colbert's outfit made of men's pajamas and a pullman blanket on the set of the 1942 film. Studio label affixed to bottom margin of recto with ambiguous initials and "May 30" written in manuscript ink. Mimeo snipe on verso. In the minds of some critics Sturges closed out the screwball comedy era with a bang in this breakneck venture which had dialogue flying back and forth at a speed that was radical even by Sturges' standards. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 742. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1964ref. 149932Universal City: Universal Pictures 1964. Vintage studio still photograph of producer Stanley Shapiro and actor Marlon Brando in conversation between takes on the set of the 1964 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A love-them-and-leave-them womanizer meets a man equal in skill at deceiving women but with an added knack for conning them out of money. The two men attempt to seduce a naive American woman to settle a bet as to which one is the better con artist. Later remade as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" 1988. Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 151138London: J. Arthur Rank 1959. Final Draft script for the 1960 film. Based on Richard Gordon's 1957 novel. The fourth film in Rank's popular "Doctor" series and the first not to feature actor Dirk Bogarde as Dr. Simon Sparrow although Bogarde would return for the next film in the series "Doctor in Distress" in 1963. The series follows the frequently romantic comic antics of a group of young doctors. Set and shot on location in London. Green titled wrappers noted as Semi-final Script on the front wrapper dated 14-12-59. Title page present dated December 1959 with credits for screenwriter Nicholas Phipps and novelist Richard Gordon. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown books
1951ref. 157122Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A young prospector witnesses a group of bandits murder a miner and his son and resolves to help the law stop the gang unaware that the sheriff is secretly working as the bandit leader. Set in Montana. White titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated Sept. 21 1951. Title page present dated September 18 1951 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Barry Shipman. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light creasing on the fore-edges of the first four leaves bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 143870Italy: Cinematografica RI.RE 1961. Collection of 14 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Action sequences picketers Delon and his compatriots and a charming candid of Barbara Lass are present. Numerical annotations and a few with actor names on the versos in manuscript pencil along with the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon. The film's premiere was at Cannes and earned director Clément a Palme d'Or nomination. In 1921 Ulysses Delon enrolls in the Italian Fascist party and his initiation is to gain the trust of local printer Fossati Cervi. Fossati's family and beautiful daughter Lass are anarchists contesting Ulysses' beliefs and he ultimately decides to forge his own political path. Set in Rome shot there on location. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine slight curling. Cinematografica RI.RE unknown books
1977ref. 139658Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist dummy. He rekindles a romance with a now-married ex-girlfriend Peggy Ann Snow Ann-Margret much to the chagrin of her hotheaded husband his agent and his surprisingly violent ventriloquist dummy. Gouache and pencil on illustration board. Artwork 19.5 x 14 inches housed in an off-white 24.5 x 19.5 inch mat. Light adhesive residue on the top and bottom edges else the illustration is Near Fine. Mat in Very Good condition with light bumps and soil. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1934ref. 149509Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1934. Vintage reference photograph from the 1934 film showing Mickey Mouse speaking to an astonished Jimmy Durante. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations to the verso regarding layout. An actor known for starring in jungle films wants to work with real lions in his next movie and decides to throw a big star-studded party to win over a wealthy European baron who keeps lions as pets. Set in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
