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1956ref. 133745N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for an unproduced film "Just Before Laughter" based on the 1955 novel "A Change of Climate" by Stanley Kauffman. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos with a Jaffe Agency label on the title page. The story of a professor who leaves his teaching position to become a salesman at a company he later finds had corrupt dealings with the US Army. Set in New York and Florida. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Partos and novelist Kauffmann. 131 leaves mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 133745N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for an unproduced film "Just Before Laughter" based on the 1955 novel "A Change of Climate" by Stanley Kauffman. Copy belonging to screenwriter Partos with a Jaffe Agency label on the title page. The story of a professor who leaves his teaching position to become a salesman at a company he later finds had corrupt dealings with the US Army. Set in New York and Florida. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Partos and novelist Kauffmann. 131 leaves mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1946ref. 136046Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of actress Myrna Loy from the set of the 1946 film. Based on the 1936 memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim "A Genius in the Family." Loy is shown here in period dress in the doorway of her personal trailer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1946ref. 136046Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph of actress Myrna Loy from the set of the 1946 film. Based on the 1936 memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim "A Genius in the Family." Loy is shown here in period dress in the doorway of her personal trailer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1956ref. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938ref. 144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown
1938ref. 144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1986ref. 135813London: Independent Television 1986. 3rd Draft script for the television movie. Based on the 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh which in turn was based on Waugh's own experiences working at the Daily Mail. Working copy with manuscript annotations in blue red and black ink and pink highlighter throughout as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are a number of original and photocopied newspaper articles dealing with the production six pages of background information on their Moroccan shooting location and four pages of call sheets from Morocco. A tale of sensationalist foreign correspondents covering a war in Ishmaelia desperately looking for news of a story to send home and the unlikely man who finds the real scoop. Shot on location in Morocco and the United Kingdom. White self titled wrappers noted as 3rd Draft on the front wrapper production No. 10556 dated June 1986 with credits for screenwriter Boyd novelist Waugh director Millar and eight other crew members including producer Sue Birtwistle. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Independent Television unknown
1986ref. 135813London: Independent Television 1986. 3rd Draft script for the television movie. Based on the 1938 novel by Evelyn Waugh which in turn was based on Waugh's own experiences working at the Daily Mail. Working copy with manuscript annotations in blue red and black ink and pink highlighter throughout as well as handmade tape tabs marking the scenes. Laid in are a number of original and photocopied newspaper articles dealing with the production six pages of background information on their Moroccan shooting location and four pages of call sheets from Morocco. A tale of sensationalist foreign correspondents covering a war in Ishmaelia desperately looking for news of a story to send home and the unlikely man who finds the real scoop. Shot on location in Morocco and the United Kingdom. White self titled wrappers noted as 3rd Draft on the front wrapper production No. 10556 dated June 1986 with credits for screenwriter Boyd novelist Waugh director Millar and eight other crew members including producer Sue Birtwistle. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mechanical duplication with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Independent Television unknown books
1971ref. 169563Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Gene Hackman. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City with glorious period detail in nearly every frame. The screenplay was written by author Ernest Tidyman one year after the publication of his seminal Harlem-based crime novel "Shaft." Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Gene Hackman along with three additional nominations. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Grant US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1971ref. 169563Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Gene Hackman. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York City with glorious period detail in nearly every frame. The screenplay was written by author Ernest Tidyman one year after the publication of his seminal Harlem-based crime novel "Shaft." Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Gene Hackman along with three additional nominations. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Grant US. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 136064New York: National General Pictures 1970. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1970 film. Shown are director Gene Kelly with James Stewart and Henry Fonda. A revisionist Western in which James Stewart an aging cowboy inherits his brother's house of prostitution. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown
1970ref. 136064New York: National General Pictures 1970. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1970 film. Shown are director Gene Kelly with James Stewart and Henry Fonda. A revisionist Western in which James Stewart an aging cowboy inherits his brother's house of prostitution. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1984ref. 155089N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1984 film showing actors John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton. Based on George Orwell's classic 1949 novel about a civil servant in war-torn dystopian London. Richard Burton's final screen appearance. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 155089N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1984 film showing actors John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton. Based on George Orwell's classic 1949 novel about a civil servant in war-torn dystopian London. Richard Burton's final screen appearance. Set and shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 134790Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. 14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1953ref. 134790Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. 14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1942ref. 130419Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final script for the 1942 film. A lighthearted drama centering on a female stamp collector obsessed with a government mail sack of undelivered letters that has turned up after missing for 50 years. The AFI Catalog notes that all the title cards for the film's opening credits are handwritten on envelopes postmarked 1889. A studio press release asserted that producer Ralph Dietrich got the idea for the film from a newspaper story concerning "the discovery in Philadelphia some months ago of a mail bag apparently the loot of a robbery some seventy-five years before." The story reported that the mail would be delivered by the post office to the addressees or their heirs. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 70 and production No. 768 dated April 1 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated April 1 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Braus. 122 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/1/42 and 5/1/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1942ref. 130419Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final script for the 1942 film. A lighthearted drama centering on a female stamp collector obsessed with a government mail sack of undelivered letters that has turned up after missing for 50 years. The AFI Catalog notes that all the title cards for the film's opening credits are handwritten on envelopes postmarked 1889. A studio press release asserted that producer Ralph Dietrich got the idea for the film from a newspaper story concerning "the discovery in Philadelphia some months ago of a mail bag apparently the loot of a robbery some seventy-five years before." The story reported that the mail would be delivered by the post office to the addressees or their heirs. Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 70 and production No. 768 dated April 1 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated April 1 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Braus. 122 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/1/42 and 5/1/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1995ref. 163974N.p.: N.p. 1995. Draft script for the 1995 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her numeric annotation in manuscript ink on page 2 and her annotations in manuscript pencil regarding props on the rear wrapper. In an alternate America where the social and economic positions of white and Black Americans are reversed a white factory worker kidnaps the factory owner as revenge for an unjust firing. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Red untitled wrappers. Lacking title page presumably as issued. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1995ref. 163974N.p.: N.p. 1995. Draft script for the 1995 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her numeric annotation in manuscript ink on page 2 and her annotations in manuscript pencil regarding props on the rear wrapper. In an alternate America where the social and economic positions of white and Black Americans are reversed a white factory worker kidnaps the factory owner as revenge for an unjust firing. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Red untitled wrappers. Lacking title page presumably as issued. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 143719Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions 1974. Final Draft script for the 1974 television film originally aired November 20 1974 on ABC. Three armed men take over a private train car determined to rob and murder all of the passengers. Yellow titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated Aug 13 1974. Title page present dated Aug 13 1974 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Eugene Price. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. mechanical duplication with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/19/74 and 9/11/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Reyes 127 Deal 121 122. Quinn Martin Productions unknown
1974ref. 143719Los Angeles: Quinn Martin Productions 1974. Final Draft script for the 1974 television film originally aired November 20 1974 on ABC. Three armed men take over a private train car determined to rob and murder all of the passengers. Yellow titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated Aug 13 1974. Title page present dated Aug 13 1974 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Eugene Price. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. mechanical duplication with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/19/74 and 9/11/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Reyes 127 Deal 121 122. Quinn Martin Productions unknown books
1975ref. 140691Los Angeles: Hollywood Television Theatre 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. Based on Ibsen's 1892 play considered one of his most revealing works about Halvard Solness a master builder who returns to his hometown to construct a church with a towering steeple. Iit is revealed Solness has a great fear of heights. Yet he climbs the steeple for the grand unveiling of the building only to fall to his death. Edward Bond was an English writer and director famous for his many plays which lead to the end of theater censorship in the UK including "Saved" 1965. Though not wholly concerned with cinema he produced several screenplays in his life including an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's "Laughter in the Dark" 1968. Set in Europe 1900. Red titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated May 13 1975 with credits for screenwriter Edward Bond and playwright Henrik Ibsen. Title page present dated May 13 1975 noted as First Draft with credits for playwright Ibsen and screenwriter Bond. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Hollywood Television Theatre unknown
