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1964ref. 150332N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actor Omar Sharif playfully clicking his heels in the air between takes while filming on location in Austria for the 1964 film. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso along with a PIX Agency stamp crediting photographer Denis Cameron. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A romantic comedy anthology about the varied owners of an idiosyncratic yellow Rolls-Royce from its first owners a British aristocrat and his unfaithful wife to its last a socialite who accidentally becomes involved in the Nazi invasion of Ljubljana. Set and shot on location in London and Hertfordshire in England Naples Florence and Tuscany in Italy and Austria. 11.25 x 14 inches. Near Fine with brief wear to the corners. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown
1980ref. 138127New York: Filmways Pictures 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. Included is a second script a revised draft in wrappers containing the latest revisions and two shooting schedules one detailing shooting dates beginning Week Three and one detailing dates beginning about Week Nine. Notations throughout both scripts in manuscript ink and pencil. Based on screenwriter Tesich's own coming-of-age in Indiana in the 1960s. Danilo Wason Georgia Thelen David Huddleston and Tom Metzler are four friends growing up in a 1960s industrial town. Told through a series of vignettes in the eyes of Danilo the film chronicles each friend as they come to accept that their lives may have become something they never thought possible. Shot on location in Indiana Illinois and Pennsylvania. One of director Penn's final and lesser known films after "The Missouri Breaks" 1976 and before "Target" 1985. First script without wrappers or title page a rainbow copy with several sets of revision pages pink yellow goldenrod blue gray green dated variously between 7/7/80 and 8/29/80. Second script in blue Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with no title page a revised draft dated 8/29/80 throughout. Shooting schedules corner-stapled. All items Very Good plus overall. Filmways Pictures unknown
1981ref. 152195Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their name in manuscript pencil to the top right corner of the front wrapper. A coming-of-age tale set in 1959 following a group of four friends in their early twenties struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Baltimore. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 156 dated January 12 1981 with credits for director and screenwriter Barry Levinson. Title page present with credits for director and screenwriter Barry Levinson. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 2/23/81. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1957ref. 133039N.p.: N.p. 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway directed by Charles Vidor and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. The second time the novel was filmed following the 1932 version directed by Frank Borzage and preceding a three part British television miniseries in 1966. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine with a small corner crease at the bottom right. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. N.p. unknown
1991ref. 169054N.p.: Castle Rock Entertainment 1991. Rainbow Revision Shooting script for the 1992 film. Copy with the marker annotations of "Set Copy / Please Do Not Take" written on the front wrapper and a manuscript marker annotation of copy number "193" on the top of the title page. Billy Crystal's directorial debut about the rise and fall of a standup comedian named Buddy Young Jr. The film was adapted for the stage in 2021 with Crystal reprising his performance as Young. Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated September 26 1991 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriters Billy Crystal Lowell Ganz and Babloo Mandel. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green goldenrod and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/27/91 and 10/31/91. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Castle Rock Entertainment unknown
1984ref. 171899N.p.: Blake Edwards Entertainment 1984. Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "Mickey and Maude." With rainbow revisions. A tabloid television reporter is torn between his wife and his girlfriend both of whom have recently announced that they are pregnant. Ann Reinking's final film performance. Silver generic Blake Edwards Entertainment wrappers. Title page present dated March 7 1984 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Reynolds. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between March 7 and 22 2984. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Blake Edwards Entertainment unknown
1953ref. 148513Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager Van Heflin is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz George Dolenz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel Adams then finds there's a price on his head. Set in Mexico shot on location in the Simi Hills and the Ray Corrigan Ranch Simi Valley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing near the edges. Universal Pictures unknown
1964ref. 160701Beverly Hills CA: Mirisch G.E. Productions / United Artists 1964. Collection of vintage photographs and ephemera from the 1963 film including four reference photographs one internal studio-issued photograph of the proposed artwork for the one sheet poster one stapled gathering of press release material and a flyer advertising the film's German release. The first film in the classic wildly successful "Pink Panther" series about an inspector's botched attempts to catch a notorious jewel thief before he steals a priceless diamond. Set in Switzerland shot on location in France Italy and California. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Press gathering: 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus. Flyer: 12.25 x 4 inches. Very Good folded once vertically as issued with a small dampstain and accompanying tear at the top of the fold. National Film Registry. Mirisch G.E. Productions / United Artists unknown
1967ref. 129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Xerogaphic duplication dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1977ref. 149031Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1977. Archive of seven vintage double weight borderless photographs from the 1977 film by special photographer Alan Pappe. Included is are four striking photographs of Julie Christie two photographs showing Fritz Weaver and Julie Christie with "the creature" and one photograph of director Donald Cammell on the set. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso of each photograph. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years covering a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Based on Dean Koontz 1973 novel of the same name about a scientist who creates an artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with procreating with the scientist's wife. Roughly 9.75 x 6.75 inches slightly irregularly trimmed. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969ref. 154541N.p.: Debrod Productions Inc 1969. Third Draft script for the 1969 film dated January 13 1969 noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink at the top right of the title page. Three sets of revision pages blue green and pink laid in. 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 the uncertainties of young adulthood during an age of turbulence set within the hookup culture of late 1960s New York City. Shot on location in New York City. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated Jan. 13 1969 noted as Final Version / Third Draft with credits for screenwriter John Mortimer and author Mervin Jones. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue green and pink revision pages laid in dated variously between 1/27/69 and 3/4/69. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold screw brads. Debrod Productions, Inc unknown
1955ref. 152321Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1955. Vintage reference photograph of actors James Dean and Julie Harris examining a small scale model of a farm on the set of the 1955 film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations identifying Harris and Dean to the verso. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck about two brothers who struggle for the attentions and favor of their deeply religious emotionally troubled father. Winner of Best Dramatic Film at Cannes and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Actress Jo Van Fleet would go on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and the film was nominated for three more Academy Awards including Best Director Best Screenplay and the first ever posthumous acting nomination in Academy history for Dean's lead performance. Set and shot on location in Monterey and Salinas California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown
1975ref. 117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for an unproduced film. Vintage as assembled mostly from xerographically duplicated leaves with two leaves pp. 138 and 139 being ribbon copy. Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. Based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh about the dissolute lives of aristocrats and socialites living in postwar London. Pink wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated September 1975 noted as Amended first draft with credits for screenwriter John Wells and author Evelyn Waugh. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 167. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 148846New York: Bill Doll and Company 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Bill Doll and Company unknown
1975ref. 151533Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of François Truffaut cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn and cast and crew members on the set of the 1976 film. French and English printed snipe and "Sygma" and photographer "Simonpietri" stamps on verso. An interrelated series of vignettes about the lives of children in a small French town primarily using non-professional actors ranging in age from infancy to 14 years old. One of Truffaut's best loved and most financially successful films. Set in and shot on location in and around Thiers France. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1942ref. 130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown
1982ref. 167406N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. Script with the manuscript marker annotation of "Po Boy Productions / Fred Williamson / Director 1982" on the title page. Fred Williamson's unofficial sequel to his 1974 film "Three the Hard Way" which also starred Williamson Jim Brown and Jim Kelly. Williamson and Brown are a pair of tough cops who go after the mob that fixed their friend Richard Roundtree's martial arts tournament and shot their friend Jim Kelly. Set in and shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Maroon untitled wrappers. Title page present. 68 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. Black Action Films p. 225. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 132454London: Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. 1928. Vintage UK program for the 1928 German film released in the UK as "The Spy." Lang's followup to "Metropolis" and penultimate silent film an underrated spy versus spy thriller containing some of the most virtuosic set pieces of the director's career including a spectacular train crash at the film's climax. 9.5 x 12 inches 12 pages side stapled in card wrappers. Wrappers Very Good plus overall interior bright and Near Fine. Fritz Lang Film / UFA / W and F. unknown
1963ref. 146931Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE" "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD." and a struck through with manuscript pencil "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson Van Dyke is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie Leigh if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie Jessie Pearson on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee Ann Margret goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 1 - 9 x 12 inches 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus edgewear and creasing to far corners. Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1995ref. 166472Santa Monica: Beacon Communications 1995. Draft script for the 1997 film. Communists hijack Air Force One with the First Lady and her daughter onboard forcing the president to decide whether he will break his vow never to capitulate to terrorist demands or sacrifice the lives of his family. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Washington DC throughout California and in Cleveland and Mansfield Ohio in the US and in Moscow Russia. Self wrappers. Title page present dated August 22 1995 with credit for screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Beacon Communications unknown
1969ref. 149604Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship the other with actors Robert Forster Peter Bonerz and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures the other with the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. A hardened and dubiously ethical television cameraman finds out he is being watched by the FBI amidst the tumultuous protests taking place around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Highly influential for its groundbreaking use of factual historical events interspersed with fictional narrative. Featuring early music by Frank Zappa's band Mothers of Invention and addressing underlying social issues of race gender and poverty the film frankly depicted much of the growing countercultural movement of the late 1960s even going so far as to use real-life footage of civil disobedience occurring in 1968 Chicago. Due to its startlingly political narrative as well as nudity and language the film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA though by 1970 this would be downgraded to an R. One photograph 10 x 8 inches one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 658. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown
1960ref. 149725N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1960 French film showing actors Charles Vanel and Brigitte Bardot. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding layout along with the stamp of Parimage agency and ICI Paris. A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover forcing her to reflect on her memories of their turbulent relationship. Set in Paris. 11 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with a few touch-ups on the recto for press use. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 149643N.p.: N.p. 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film showing actors Paul Muni George Raft Karen Morley Purnell Pratt and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" released only a few months prior generally considered to be the quintessential American gangster film one that Capone himself came to embrace and even screen in his home. Set in Chicago. Both photos 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine and Very Good plus respectively. First photo Muni and Morley dancing has two short closed tears at the top edge repaired with conservator's tape on the verso. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Penzler 101. Grant US. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 130748Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. Includes a 10-page shooting schedule. Loosely based on the St. Albans Raid the northernmost land action of the American Civil War. The film took great liberties changing both the time and motivation for the raid. In the film a group of Confederate POWs escape across the US-Canada border to plan an attack on St. Albans Vermont. They send ahead of them a spy who begins to question the ethics of their mission. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as Revised Shooting Final on the front wrapper dated December 10 1953. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated December 10 1953 noted as Revised Shooting Final with credit for screenwriter Boehm. 116 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12-12-53 and 1-6-54. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Shooting Schedule: 10 leaves with annotations. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
