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1957ref. 168227Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A major in the US Air Force is asked to join a team working on an experimental Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber although the first experiments with human test subjects prove dangerous. Based on a 1955 episode of the "Climax" anthology television series directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Charlton Heston. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the margins else Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1931ref. 135170Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When he turns the tables evading his work responsibilities and traveling around with a French singer they fear that the singer is out to blackmail him. Pale blue studio wrappers dated April 27 1931 noting footage of 7000 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown
ref. 146547N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink annotations to the title page. After a dissatisfying experience with a prostitute a man begins to have a number of hallucinatory experiences while sitting in a bar. Blue untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Flannery. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound with a silver clasp. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 167883N.p.: N.p. 1965. Three vintage single-photo assemblages of publicity and reference images from the 1965 British film musical. A musical comedy about a love triangle between a pub owner's daughter a popular model and an aspiring Australian singer. The film debut of Suzy Kendall. Shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Stapled at the top left corner. Good only with dampstaining on the bottom corners. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 145504Los Angeles: Bert E. Friedlob Productions 1956. Vintage press photograph of actors Dana Andrews and Sidney Blackmer on the set of the 1956 film. With a rubber stamp on the verso. A newspaper publisher conspires with his to be son-in-law to expose the ineptitude of the district attorney who has wrongly sentenced multiple people to death. Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Bert E. Friedlob Productions unknown
1950ref. 142329N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. A gentleman pays the bail of a recently-jailed political activist who is then invited to a meeting of the League of Free Men. When the activist turns up murdered a few days later with a mysterious note found on his body the police begin investigating exactly what this organization is all about. Set in London. Brown titled wrappers with typescript title label affixed on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as First Version with credits for G.E. Moore. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Ribbon copy typescript with type in black and red. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a string binding. N.p. unknown
1950ref. 142332N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. A violent gang of men chaos all over the outskirts of London by beating up the daughter of an older woman they are sheltering and abducting people throughout the London countryside. Set in London. Brown titled wrappers with typescript title label affixed on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter G.E. Moore. 34 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 31. Ribbon copy typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with string binding. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 146534Los Angeles: Selznick/Glickman Productions 1974. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed letter on Selznick/Glickman Productions letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to an agent at the Paul Kohner casting agency and signed by film producer Daniel Selznick. Based on the 1972 novel. An American physician is the only doctor who can perform a surgery that will save a Soviet scientist's life-but the scientist is on the verge of an atomic breakthrough that could kill millions. Set in Russia and Paris. Yellow untitled card wrappers. Title page present noted as Screen Treatment with credits for screenwriter Gene R. Kearney and novelist Marshall Goldberg. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. Selznick/Glickman Productions unknown
1961ref. 162066N.p.: Trans-Lux 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1961 French film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 novel "La Mort de Belle" by Georges Simenon. Jean Desaily plays everyman Stéphane Blanchon a professor living a quiet life with his wife Christine in Geneva until a beautiful American student Belle living next door is found strangled to death. Shot on location in Geneva Switzerland and Val-de-Marne France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Selby France. Trans-Lux unknown
ref. 141934London: Carter De Haven. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation in manuscript ink. Gerald Vaughan-Hughes is a British screenwriter best known for his work on "The Duellists" 1977 "To the Devil a Daughter" 1976 and "Sebastian" 1968. Damon is a young jazz singer in England performing on the night club circuit and dealing with the daily drama of drunk drummers and art school love interests. Set in England. Blue blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gerald Vaughan-Hughes. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Carter De Haven unknown
1954ref. 160264Universal City CA: Universal International Pictures 1954. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Gloria DeHaven from the 1954 film. Three sailors on furlough in Paris meet three women they would all like to get to know better. Set in Paris. 5.25 x 7.25 inches trimmed. Very Good plus with some creasing and one small bruise to the center of the bottom border on the recto. Universal International Pictures unknown
1962ref. 167588Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Loosely based on the 1920 German silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." After her car breaks down a woman seeks shelter at the vast estate of Caligari a perverse Welsh hermit who imprisons the woman for his harem of tortured "guests." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1969ref. 163550Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film showing actor Gregory Peck. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. A crew of three astronauts are stranded in space with only 42 hours of oxygen remaining. On Earth NASA officials propose a rescue mission using an experimental untested spacecraft. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one. Shot on location at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown
1968ref. 163546N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Gregory Peck and Nathaniel Narcisco. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by T.V. Olsen about a US Army scout who befriends a white woman and her mixed race son although he fears the woman's violent ex-husband an Apache will seek revenge. Set in New Mexico and Arizona shot on location in Sonora Mexico in Wolf Hole Valley Arizona and in Red Rock Canyon and Overton Nevada. Approximately 10 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Pitts 4113. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 146048Universal City: Universal International Pictures 1958. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1959 film. Based on the 1951 novel "And Ride a Tiger." After his jet crashes during the Korean War an Air Force pilot suffering post-traumatic stress flashbacks meets the family of his navigator who was killed in the crash and finds himself falling for his friend's widow. White titled self wrappers noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper dated November 3 1958 with credits for actors June Allyson Jeff Chandler Sandra Dee and other cast members. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered REEL 5AB PAGE 11. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal International Pictures unknown
1940ref. 129749N.p.: N.p. 1940. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money but the men in her life secretly protect her. Although it disturbs her when she finds out she's been watched over she eventually forgives them both and then must choose one to marry of course. Though similar in title to the 1944 King Vidor film "An American Romance" also written by Herbert Dalmas this script bears little to no resemblance in plot to that film and we must assume that this was an earlier less effective screenplay of Dalmas'. Pale yellow wrappers with credits for screenwriter Dalmas. 177 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 141636N.p.: Aspen 1968. Final Draft script for an unproduced film. A man is unwillingly drawn into a debate around morality and death as he is questioned by the police following his best friend's suicide. Dark green wrappers with British-style die-cut window. Title page present dated July 23 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mechanical duplication with white and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between June 17 1968 and July 23 1968. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Aspen unknown
1941ref. 164506Universal City: Universal Studios 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actress Irene Dunne in a lace-embellished dress and net fascinator. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. A small-town singer falls in love with a city playboy on a train to New York only for him to ignore her as soon as the train pulls into the station. Days later after gaining a job as a nightclub singer she is propositioned by the playboy's brother. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown
1979ref. 140031Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1979. Eight vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1979 film. Interesting sequel that picks up where "The Poseidon Adventure" 1972 leaves off with the ship floating capsized and a band of pirates reaping havoc. 11 x 14 inches. Corner bumps and short creases else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1973ref. 140783N.p.: N.p. 1973. Draft script for an unproduced film. Paul is a little person dealing with life the only way he knows how. He is typecast in Hollywood and frequently plays a ventriloquist's dummy and stared at when he is just trying to go about his day. He has great luck with women but not so much in forging close relationships. His only friends are other freaks and he hopes to hit it big at the horse races and on the stock market. Set in Hollywood. Title page present with credits for screenwriter J. Michael Nicholson. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between January 3 1973 and November 21 1973. Pages Near Fine bound in a standard three ringed binder with an affixed title label on the front board. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 140855N.p.: N.p. 1980. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Detective Doom is investigating a gang war when he discovers a large cache of grenades belonging to one of the gangsters. Tan untitled wrappers. Eight leaves with last page of text numbered seven. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a manila envelope. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 147254N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Incomplete as issued noted as part one of two. Engaged Czechoslovakian immigrants Bogdan and Shari are promptly separated on their first day in New York City. Luckily Shari befriends Harold a young architect who with the help of his world-wise mother and spacious modern apartment! cares for Shari. Meanwhile Bogdan searches frantically for his fiancee but eventually must leave New York to seek employment in Texas. Prolific French screenwriter Jacques Deval was best known for "Tovarich" 1937 and "Tuesday's Guest" 1950. Set in New York City. Dark green untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jacques Deval. 41 leaves with last page of text numbered 39. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 135506Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the 1943 film noir. Based on the 1942 novel "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good condition with edge creasing and a few closed tears and with two cello tape repairs to the verso. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1981ref. 138137Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Final Draft script for "Daniel's First Love" an episode Season 1 Episode 9 of the 1981-1982 television comedy Western series "Best of the West." The sitcom aired on ABC September 1981 to August 1982 as an Old West spoof featuring Sam Best Higgins a Civil War veteran who becomes a bumbling gunfighter named the Calico Kid. He has a wife named Elvira Watkins and a son named Daniel Peluce. The series was canceled after one season due to Joel Higgins leaving to star in "Silver Spoons" on NBC. Notable guests included Andy Griffith Al Lewis Christopher Lloyd Slim Pickens and the great Betty White. "Daniel's First Love" features Daniel meeting his first love a romance starting with a few kisses and ending with a shotgun wedding. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 60171-003 dated January 9 1981. Title page present dated January 9 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter-creator-developer Pomerantz. #PAGES leaves with last leaf of text being a xerographically duplicated Script Requisition dated 1/8/81. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1959ref. 131673Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Collection of 12 vintage color British front-of-house cards from the 1959 film. Based on characters and concepts from the 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard and written for the screen by novelist James Clavell. Released as the "sequel" to the 1950 MGM film "King Solomon's Mines." Harry Quartermain George Montgomery is the son of Allan Quartermain who first set out on the quest for the source of Solomon's wealth and he is determined to succeed where his father failed. He goes to Africa with his good friend Rick Cobb David Farrar and as they continue on their journey Erica Neuler Taina Elg joins them. She is the daughter of a missionary who has been killed by a local tribe. Harry cannot hide his antagonism toward Erica. She is German and Harry's mother was killed at sea by Germans in World War I. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
