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1962ref. 142903Paris: Cinedis 1962. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight film stills for the 1962 French musical film. Featured are several stunning images of actress Tcherina as Isa Duchess of Teruel. Brief numerical annotations on the versos in manuscript pencil. Belgian actor-director Rouleau's rarely seen drama was the opening film at the 15th annual Cannes Film Festival winner of the festival's Technical Grand Prize and nominated for a Palme d'Or. Of note is the film's cinematographer Claude Renoir whose other credits include "Serenade" 1940 "Madame Butterfly" 1954 "Barbarella" 1968 and "The Spy Who Loved Me" 1977. Isa is a dancer in a troupe of poor traveling comedians who perform in public; she stars as the Duchess of Teruel unhappily married and in love with a poor man who inevitably commits suicide resulting in Isa's nervous breakdown. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling light edgewear a handful with slight discoloration. Cinedis unknown
1962ref. 142903Paris: Cinedis 1962. Collection of 16 vintage borderless single weight film stills for the 1962 French musical film. Featured are several stunning images of actress Tcherina as Isa Duchess of Teruel. Brief numerical annotations on the versos in manuscript pencil. Belgian actor-director Rouleau's rarely seen drama was the opening film at the 15th annual Cannes Film Festival winner of the festival's Technical Grand Prize and nominated for a Palme d'Or. Of note is the film's cinematographer Claude Renoir whose other credits include "Serenade" 1940 "Madame Butterfly" 1954 "Barbarella" 1968 and "The Spy Who Loved Me" 1977. Isa is a dancer in a troupe of poor traveling comedians who perform in public; she stars as the Duchess of Teruel unhappily married and in love with a poor man who inevitably commits suicide resulting in Isa's nervous breakdown. 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling light edgewear a handful with slight discoloration. Cinedis unknown books
1935ref. 143369Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1935. Vintage photograph of director René Clair on the set of the 1935 film. With the stamp of Pathe-RKO on the verso. Based on the 1935 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown first published in "Punch" magazine about an American who buys a Scottish castle and has it moved to Florida unaware that the castle's ghost comes with it. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1935ref. 143369Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1935. Vintage photograph of director René Clair on the set of the 1935 film. With the stamp of Pathe-RKO on the verso. Based on the 1935 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West" by Eric Keown first published in "Punch" magazine about an American who buys a Scottish castle and has it moved to Florida unaware that the castle's ghost comes with it. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1969ref. 140010N.p.: Accord Productions 1969. Vintage British quad poster for the 1969 British film. Based on Charles Chilton's 1961 radio play "The Long Long Trail." Richard Attenborough's debut film gives a highly satirical musical retelling of the First World War. Highlighting the disconnect between those calling the shots and the soldiers carrying out the orders Attenborough chose to depict all the military and political leaders in a lavish pierhead pavilion while the soldiers are crammed into grizzly trenches. Highly stylized the film's most poignant and notorious scene depicts a field filled with innumerable white crosses symbolizing the immense death toll of WWI. Shot on location in England. 30 x 40 inches folded. Two light manuscript pencil annotations to the verso else Near Fine. Accord Productions unknown
1969ref. 140010N.p.: Accord Productions 1969. Vintage British quad poster for the 1969 British film. Based on Charles Chilton's 1961 radio play "The Long Long Trail." Richard Attenborough's debut film gives a highly satirical musical retelling of the First World War. Highlighting the disconnect between those calling the shots and the soldiers carrying out the orders Attenborough chose to depict all the military and political leaders in a lavish pierhead pavilion while the soldiers are crammed into grizzly trenches. Highly stylized the film's most poignant and notorious scene depicts a field filled with innumerable white crosses symbolizing the immense death toll of WWI. Shot on location in England. 30 x 40 inches folded. Two light manuscript pencil annotations to the verso else Near Fine. Accord Productions unknown books
1960ref. 142077Beverly Hills CA: Elmer Gantry Productions / United Artists 1960. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Director Richard Brooks gets up close to direct Burt Lancaster as Lancaster holds Jean Simmons. Based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture winning for Best Actor Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Elmer Gantry Productions / United Artists unknown
1967ref. 144377Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage photograph of Mary Linda Rapelye on the set of the 1967 film. Manuscript annotations in pencil and press agency stamps on the verso. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 781. Ebert II. Penzler 101. Columbia Pictures unknown
1965ref. 144688Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of director Richard Brooks and actor Peter O'Toole on the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. After being labeled a coward Lord Jim seeks redemption through an exceptionally dangerous mission. In its wake he finds himself faced again with the choice of self preservation or honor. The Technicolor film was based on Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name. Shot on location in Cambodia China Malaysia and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1965ref. 144688Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of director Richard Brooks and actor Peter O'Toole on the set of the 1965 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. After being labeled a coward Lord Jim seeks redemption through an exceptionally dangerous mission. In its wake he finds himself faced again with the choice of self preservation or honor. The Technicolor film was based on Joseph Conrad's novel of the same name. Shot on location in Cambodia China Malaysia and England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 142077Beverly Hills CA: Elmer Gantry Productions / United Artists 1960. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Director Richard Brooks gets up close to direct Burt Lancaster as Lancaster holds Jean Simmons. Based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture winning for Best Actor Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Elmer Gantry Productions / United Artists unknown books
1967ref. 144377Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage photograph of Mary Linda Rapelye on the set of the 1967 film. Manuscript annotations in pencil and press agency stamps on the verso. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 781. Ebert II. Penzler 101. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1980ref. 167451Universal City: Universal Television 1980. Draft script for the fourth episode of the 1981 NBC mini-series here under the working title "The Gangster Chronicles: An American Story: Chapter IV" which aired on February 21 1981. Copy with a manuscript marker annotations of "role:- Aiello" on the title page and the underlining of "Narrative" on the first and last page of the script. The thirteen part critically-acclaimed Emmy Award-winning mini-series was an attempt at presenting an historically accurate crime drama about the lives of Bugsy Siegel Joe Penny Lucky Luciano Michael Nouri and Meyer Lansky Brian Benben beginning in 1907 and spanning seven decades. The series premiered on February 12 1981 and was aired over nine nights ending on May 8 1981. Later released in an edited 121-minute version on videocassette entitled "Gangster Wars." Shot on location in Capitola and Santa Cruz California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 21 1980 with credits for screenwriter Richard Alan Simmons. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 237 with the script beginning on page 194. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Television unknown
1980ref. 167451Universal City: Universal Television 1980. Draft script for the fourth episode of the 1981 NBC mini-series here under the working title "The Gangster Chronicles: An American Story: Chapter IV" which aired on February 21 1981. Copy with a manuscript marker annotations of "role:- Aiello" on the title page and the underlining of "Narrative" on the first and last page of the script. The thirteen part critically-acclaimed Emmy Award-winning mini-series was an attempt at presenting an historically accurate crime drama about the lives of Bugsy Siegel Joe Penny Lucky Luciano Michael Nouri and Meyer Lansky Brian Benben beginning in 1907 and spanning seven decades. The series premiered on February 12 1981 and was aired over nine nights ending on May 8 1981. Later released in an edited 121-minute version on videocassette entitled "Gangster Wars." Shot on location in Capitola and Santa Cruz California. Front wrapper integral with title page dated October 21 1980 with credits for screenwriter Richard Alan Simmons. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 237 with the script beginning on page 194. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Television unknown books
1960ref. 125415N.p.: Layton Film Productions 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Brian Donlevy plays a US detective sent to Brazil to find an American woman accused of murder. He finds his target but not before getting sucked into his own brand of crime. Richard Cunha who directed a few minor but pertinent films in 1958 "Frankenstein's Daughter "Missile to the Moon" and "Giant from the Unknown" sets the pace with a television serial-like quality. A solid second feature from the post-noir period. One sheet folded twice as issued 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a small numerical notation at the bottom of the front wrapper and light rubbing overall. Hinged diecut of the door on the front wrapper and issued in color on thick stock characteristics unique amongst pressbooks. Layton Film Productions unknown
1960ref. 125415N.p.: Layton Film Productions 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film noir. Brian Donlevy plays a US detective sent to Brazil to find an American woman accused of murder. He finds his target but not before getting sucked into his own brand of crime. Richard Cunha who directed a few minor but pertinent films in 1958 "Frankenstein's Daughter "Missile to the Moon" and "Giant from the Unknown" sets the pace with a television serial-like quality. A solid second feature from the post-noir period. One sheet folded twice as issued 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine with a faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages a small numerical notation at the bottom of the front wrapper and light rubbing overall. Hinged diecut of the door on the front wrapper and issued in color on thick stock characteristics unique amongst pressbooks. Layton Film Productions unknown books
1963ref. 147808Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 short animated film. Chaos ensues when an animator's illustration comes to life. Initially created as the pilot for an unproduced comedy television series and ultimately released as a stand-alone short film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall one with faint soil to the right edge. Warner Brothers unknown
1963ref. 147808Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 short animated film. Chaos ensues when an animator's illustration comes to life. Initially created as the pilot for an unproduced comedy television series and ultimately released as a stand-alone short film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall one with faint soil to the right edge. Warner Brothers unknown books
1979ref. 78850Century City California: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Wraps. Very good. Third Revised Draft dated May 1 1979 of the script for the 1980 Stuart Rosenberg film starring Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. It was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 1981 Academy Awards. This is Jack Hirshberg’s copy with the iconic film publicist’s signature or printed name on the first page of some of the revisions. Quarto: 292 pp. A rainbow script photomechanically reproduced on the recto of standard pink green white yellow and blue stock. The printed green paper front wrapper and plain blue rear wrapper are bound with two brass brads. Short closed tear to the left edge of the front wrapper just above the top brad; otherwise very good. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1955ref. 145400Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage press photograph from the set of the 1955 film. Based on Clifford Odets' 1949 Broadway play. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1960ref. 150186Universal City: Universal Pictures 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name. Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard. While on the run from the law a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237. Universal Pictures unknown
1961ref. 144217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard about a cowboy who on the run from the law travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1960ref. 150186Universal City: Universal Pictures 1960. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name. Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard. While on the run from the law a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 144217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby under the pseudonym Vechel Howard about a cowboy who on the run from the law travels to visit an old lover in Mexico only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1955ref. 145400Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1955. Vintage press photograph from the set of the 1955 film. Based on Clifford Odets' 1949 Broadway play. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown books
