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1975ref. 135604Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set both in front of the camera and behind it and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next to Isabelle Adjani. Stamp of French press agency Les Artiests Associes on the verso of each print. Based on the diaries of the youngest daughter of author Victor Hugo about a woman whose romantic obsession with an indifferent military captain eventually leads to her despair and madness. Isabelle Adjani was nominated for an Academy award making her at age 20 the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time in 1975. Story set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Barbados Senegal and the Channel Islands. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes unknown
1965ref. 151469Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Specially bound copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore bound in full red leather with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds on the verso of the first leaf in manuscript ink is "Juanita I Love you! You are the greatest! My deepest Thanks Love Debbie" the second on a the recto of a photograph of Reynolds and Moore from the film in manuscript marker and making reference to Reynold's character is "What feeling! What a face! What an actress! What a great Lady! Your Fan Sister Ann." A fanciful biography on the life of Belgian nun Jeanine Deckers who recorded the number one hit pop song "Dominique" in 1963. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in and shot on location in Gent Belgium. Red full leather binding with gilt titles and with actor Juanita Moore's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. Title page integral with first page dated 9-2-65. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered "130-135." Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink blue green and gray revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-4-65 and 11-24-65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
2007ref. 146585Hollywood: Apatow Productions 2007. Producer's archive for the 2007 comedy film including a Revised Shooting script with extensive production schedules props lists and set and wardrobe files bound in. Also included is a final cast crew and contacts list dated May 18 2007 bound separately with black coil binding. A childhood tragedy leads musician Dewey Cox up the ladder to stardom cycling through nearly every musical genre imaginable on the way up. A parody of 20th century music biopics stretching from Johnny Cash to Roy Orbison to Bob Dylan to Brian Wilson. Set in Alabama and California. Black titled wrappers with credits for production coordinator Barrett Leigh. Title page present dated May 10th 2007 with credits for screenwriters Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-6-2007 and 5-10-2007. Pages Near Fine housed in a Very Good plus three ring binder. Apatow Productions unknown
1967ref. 138581Paris: Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica 1967. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1967 film. Studio rubber stamp on the verso. One of the photos features Marina Vlady sharing a cigarette with Roger Montsoret. Based on a 1966 article on casual prostitution in France by Catherine Viminet. One of three feature films Godard released in 1967 and like both "Week End" and "La chinoise" one that showcases Godard's increasing focus on deconstructing filmic narrative and structure and vocalization of leftist political ideas. Godard has stated that his overall desire with the film was "to include everything: sports politics even groceries" to make "an attempt at description of a phenomenon known. as a complex." 5 x 7 inches. Fine condition. Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Concordia Compagnia Cinematografica unknown
1975ref. 149627Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Set of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1975 film five in black and white one in color the last being a striking still shot of the altered RKO Radio Picture logo one of the earliest examples of a stately studio logo being customized for a particular film. A cult film favorite based on a now lesser-known 1973 stage musical by Richard O'Brien. On a dark and stormy night an uptight young couple finds that their car has broken down in the middle of nowhere forcing them to seek shelter at the weird and wonderful home of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a mad and perverse scientist. Photos vary from 9.25 x 7 inches to 10.25 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. National Film Registry. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1980ref. 152211N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. SIGNED on the title page by director and screenwriter David S. Ward. Based on John Steinbeck's novels "Cannery Row" 1945 and "Sweet Thursday" 1954. David S. Ward's directorial debut. In 1940s Monterey a self employed marine biologist and former baseball star begins a relationship with a drifter working at the local bordello. Shot on location in Monterey and San Diego California Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David S. Ward and author John Steinbeck. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 146891Unknown: I.P.C. Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "The Catcher in the Raw." At a California hot springs resort a shady therapist helps eight carefully selected applicants find themselves and "experience their bodies" a process which mostly involves consuming large amounts of LSD meditative screaming and slow-motion basketball games. Louis Garfinkle's sole directorial credit and an excellent example of the intersection of early 1970s wellness culture and sexploitation. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for director Louis Garfinkle. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. I.P.C. Pictures unknown
1958ref. 143132Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 419 vintage black-and-white photographs with original publicity ephemera from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured are over 300 smaller photographs elegantly presented in two "Lavis aquarelle" spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrappers and affixed paper title labels with 3 or 4 photographs to a page. One notebook bears a label on the front wrapper verso noting film lab Tele-Photo production company Sopro Film Cinedis film title and photographer P. Apoteker. Several larger photographs credit photographer Francois Pages with his rubber stamp on the versos featuring images of actress Demongeot as she models in fur coat for onlookers including costar Maurice Ronet and director Cazeneuve. Several photos feature cast and crew at a release party. Brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos two with rubber-stamped series number. Several photographs with annotations on the verso in manuscript ink and pencil several with layout annotations on the recto a few with rubber-stamped series number. Loose photographs ephemera and original envelopes are housed in the original French Kodak paper box with annotations on the box top in manuscript ink and film title affixed to the side. Noir thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photographs in large quarto notebooks 3.75 x 5 inches loose photographs range from 3.25 x 4 inches to 8 x 11.75 inches. Photographs Near Fine overall light curling a handful with short creases ephemera and notebooks Very Good plus box Very Good. Cinedis unknown
1973ref. 154511Beverly Hills CA: Sean Inn Inc 1973. Shooting script for the 1973 film. The mafia attempts to muscle in on an African American numbers-running ring. Shot on location in Cleveland. Black wrappers with red titles. Title page present dated Revised May 12 1973 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Don Williams. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/24/73 and 6/6/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Sean Inn, Inc unknown
1947ref. 161213Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1947. Vintage herald for the 1947 film noir. Based on Daniel Mainwaring's 1946 debut novel "Build My Gallows High." A former private detective lives a quiet life in a small town until his past catches up with him forcing him to return to the world of crime. An unimpeachable high spot of the genre. Set in Bridgeport California shot in the High Sierra Mountains of Nevada and Reno as well as locations throughout California. 12 x 9 inches. Bi-fold. Fine. Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1973ref. 170446Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1973. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1975 film including 17 bordered photographs and one borderless double weight photograph. Eight with mimeo snipes on the verso. A very nearly experimental Western made by Sam Peckinpah at his peak sufficiently strange to have remained of interest only to the most intense fans of Western revisionism. Comparable only to "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" 1971 and "The Shooting" 1966 in terms of sheer impressionism being laid upon the genre with iconic imagery and super-stylization in every frame. Shot on location in Durango Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus or better. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1977ref. 135605Paris: Trinacra Films 1977. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1977 film shot by still photographer Etienne George. Shown are director Francois Leterrier and his crew to the left on a dolly and actress Sylvia Kristel on the right in a state of semi-undress. The last film in the original "Emmanuelle" trilogy. An interior shot apparently meant to be a barn as the ground is covered with hay for a film shot on the Seychellois island of La Digue. Miramax film founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein acquired the rights to the film at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival capitalizing on the popularity of what had become an international franchise broadcasting a unique appeal as an erotic film series with feminist leanings. With slightly wide margins as issued. Photograph 9.5 x 12 inches image 6.25 x 10.5 inches. In an archival mat. Mild creasing at a couple of corners else Near Fine. Trinacra Films unknown
1964ref. 158708London: Planet Films 1964. Draft script for the 1965 British horror film. A cult of satanic worshippers led by a magnetic 400-year-old vampire prey on the Romani living in a small town in Brittany. OCLC locates no holdings. Shot on location in Finistère France and in Buckinghamshire England. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 1964 with credit for screenwriter Lyn Fairhurst. 94 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Planet Films unknown
1982ref. 159844N.p.: N.p. 1982. Four vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film including three borderless and one bordered. One with a snipe on the verso crediting photographer Maureen Gosling and three with the printed labels of Photofest. Early twentieth century rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald funds his dream to build an opera house in the Peruvian Amazon by hauling a huge river boat laden with rubber across a mountain. Werner Herzog's astonishing outrageous and downright insane masterpiece the subject of Les Blank's remarkable documentary "Burden of Dreams" 1982. Set and shot on location in Peru and Brazil. Three photographs 9.5 x 7 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. One with a tiny splash at the top right corner else Fine. BFI 2032. Ebert III. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 161215N.p.: William Castle Productions 1961. Vintage 40 x 60 inch poster for the 1961 film. Rare in this size format. A mysterious woman offers a bellboy $2000 to marry her only to brutally murder the justice of the peace during the ceremony before fleeing. Widely regarded as one of the best films of director and B-movie maestro William Castle and undeniably influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" released the year prior. Castle well known for his utilization of promotional gimmicks implemented a "Fright Break" for "Homicidal;" a 45-second timer which overlays the impending climax with Castle's voice-over advising the audience they could leave the theater and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the ending of the film audience members who chose to leave however would have to wait in a yellow cardboard booth entitled the "Coward's Corner" manned by a nurse with a blood pressure cuff. 40 x 60 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and minor edgewear else bright and unfaded. See image. William Castle Productions unknown
1959ref. 135799N.p.: N.p. 1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois satirizing the dress habits of their distinguished friend American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s both under the tutelage of William Styron while both of them were associated with The Paris Review. During this time William Rose wrote his most famous screenplay "The Ladykillers" 1955 as well as the British classic "The Maggie" 1954. He would go on to win an Academy Award for his original screenplay "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" 1967. 3 leaves 8 x 10 inches. Ink and colored pencil. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. Carbon typescript draft: Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:" Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1945ref. 29200HBDJ 1945 1st Edition THUS IN POOR TATTERED WORN DUSTJACKET With BACK & Spine DJ MISSING MOVIE EDITION FEATURING JUDY GARLAND & MARGARET O'BRIEN on DJ Front NO INTERIOR Illustrations SCUFF & RUB BOOK COVER GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME WATER DAMAGE TO EDGES CVR DJ IS POOR Condition Only DJ Front is There The Back Flap with Rub & Wear the Rest of DJ NOT PRESENT 6" X 8 1/2" HC DJ front cover torn and frayed - repaired spine and back section missing - as is the front flap autograph note by it's author Sally Benson also included is a tiny letter invitation to a tea party found within the book. Interior is clean clear and together making it an solid 'readers copy' WORLD PUBLISHING FORUM BOOKS hardcover
ref. 150807San Francisco: Zoetrope 1981. Final Draft script for the 1981 musical film. Copy belonging to actress Lainie Kazan with her name on the title page in manuscript ink and her manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a single revision page with Kazan's manuscript pencil and ink annotations and an envelope for the Paradise Travel Agency covered with ink annotations regarding line changes containing a flight coupon signed by Kazan. Dreamy flaky Frannie leaves her down-to-earth unfaithful boyfriend Hank on their fifth anniversary. Over the course of 24 hours both have affairs with their ideal partners but eventually realize their paramours can't hold a candle to their love for each other. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Red Zoetrope Studios wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 032 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated January 1 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for director Francis Coppola sic and screenwriter Armyan Bernstein and music credits to Tom Waits. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Zoetrope unknown
ref. 160435N.p.: N.p. 2017. Archive of two Draft scripts for the 2020 film one undated and with the ownership name of screenwriter Christ Zois on the title page-this being from Zois' archive collection-with Zois' extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout the other dated June 27 2017. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. The sixth collaboration between actor Willem Dafoe and director Abel Ferrara a psychological thriller heavily based on the work of Carl Jung about an American living a largely solitary existence in Siberia. Undated script: Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus unbound. June 27 2017 script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with first page of text dated June 27 2017. 37 leaves with last page of text dated 37. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single binder clip on the top left corner. N.p. unknown
ref. 143465Tokyo: Shochiku Films 1990. Draft script for the 1991 film dated May 28 1990 about a year before its release. A tale of three generations in a postwar Japanese family and their responses to the atomic bombing of Japan. When the film played at the Tokyo Film Festival critics of Japanese militarism said Kurosawa had ignored the historical facts leading up to the bomb. Kurosawa's response was simple: he wanted his film to say that war was between governments not people. Richard Gere plays one of the family's Asian-American cousins a decision falling somewhere between stunt casting and commentary. Set in Nagasaki and shot on location there. Blue titled wrappers dated 5.28.1990. Title page present. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered 150. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Shochiku Films unknown
1941ref. 161382N.p.: N.p. 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter and associate producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eleven reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages with nine pages of song lyrics ribbon copy typescript pages and manuscript pencil annotations on two pages and copied annotations on five pages. Two Navy seamen borrow money to wager on their ship for the upcoming gunnery practice with the knowledge that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship unaware his enlistment is ending before the contest. Shot on location in Honolulu and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with brown quarter leather binding. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Al Dubin. 182 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of ribbon copy typescript song lyric pages rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/12/41 and 6/13/41. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good with moderate rubbing to the spine and corners. N.p. unknown
ref. 159007N.p.: Dell Publishing 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Both with Dell Publishing photograph library stamps on the verso. An unhappy apathetic housewife who has just left her husband decides to go on the run with a bank robber. Shot largely on location on a shoestring budget with much of its dialogue improvised the film was Barbara Loden's directorial debut. Set in eastern Pennsylvania and shot on location in Scranton and Carbondale Pennsylvania and Waterdale Connecticut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto versos relating to cropping and publication. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 965. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Dell Publishing unknown
1965ref. 160196N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A planned sequel to "Christmas on Earth" an absurd Beat-era stream-of-consciousness narrative following the Snow Queen and a group of fairies as they attempt to save Jean Genet playing himself from life as a Bowery Bum. Filmmaker Barbara Rubin was a figure of almost mythical importance in the New York underground. Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground was friends with Bob Dylan and a former lover of Allen Ginsberg and helped Jonas Mekas organize the Film-Makers' Cooperative all before converting to Orthodox Judaism at 24 and moving to France with her husband and children. Rubin is today best remembered for her transgressive 1963 masterpiece "Christmas on Earth" a 16mm film so sexually explicit it sent ripples through the New York film scene and was subject to multiple censorship efforts by the police made when Rubin was only 18 years old. Self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1965 with credit for screenwriter Barbara Rubin. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust marks along the binding bound with three staples. N.p. unknown
ref. 160091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Shooting script for the classic 1989 film. Cameron Crowe's directorial debut about the post-graduation romance that develops between an awkward but noble army brat and the beautiful class valedictorian. One of the defining high school films of the 1980s and a breakthrough role for actor John Cusack. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Seattle. Gray titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated February 29 1988. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated February 29 1988 with credit for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
