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1971ref. 141851Canada: Trinity Films 1971. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in are two personal autograph notes from Hollywood agent Paul Kohner of the Kohner Agency and a two page synopsis of the film dated November 21 1973. A prison break story wherein the largest and the smallest prisoners on the block forming an unlikely team in order to escape. Jonah Royston is best known for "Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS" 1975. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1971 with credits for screenwriter Jonah Royston. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with plastic comb binding. Trinity Films unknown
1972ref. 167514N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1972 French softcore film. A married American journalist is seduced by two stewardesses kicking off a series of unusual and occasionally political occurrences. 5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good plus. Bier 734. N.p. unknown
ref. 140050N.p.: N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. A cab driver in Mexico is devoutly dedicated to his daughter which causes a great change in his life. Joe Raciti was an actor best known for his work in "The Firebrand" 1962 in which he portrayed Jack Garcia. Set in Mexico City. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph A. Raciti-Carlyle. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 141646N.p.: N.p. 1982. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. With 17 pages of information about Polish screenwriter Witold Orzechowski laid in including a background on his film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain and about his affiliation with the Solidarity political party. Orzechowski directed the first Eastern European cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad with the television movie "Her Return" 1975. Background information addressed to producer Paul Kohner. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes" which many consider to be Conrad's response to Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" whom Conrad detested. The story generally deals with the life of an oft-downtrodden revolutionary told through the story of a language teacher living in Geneva. Set in St. Petersburg Russia and Geneva Switzerland. Red titled wrappers. Title page present noted as treatment with credits for screenwriter Witold Orzechowski and author Joseph Conrad. 19 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 149933Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage linen-backed reference photograph of director Joseph Pevney and a camera crew aboard the Albatross while on location for the 1958 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A ship's captain decides to make an emergency stop in Hawaii to repair a quickly flooding hull against the wishes of a woman passenger wanted for murder in Honolulu. Set and shot on location in Hawaii. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1994ref. 166459Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film by noted television and film director Joss Whedon. Annotations in manuscript ink throughout indicating locations of scenes. A government scientist dies only to wake up in an entirely different body: that of a serial killer named Snowman. Although the script never progressed to production Whedon used several of the themes of "Afterlife" in his 2009 television series "Dollhouse." Self wrappers. Title page present with credit for Whedon dated September 16 1994. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1984ref. 147308Paris: Sofracima 1984. Early draft script for the 1984 Mexican crime film here under the working title "Rainy Days Rainy Nights." Text in English. After her car breaks down in the middle of the night in rural France a young woman is lured to the home of a local pharmacist who promises to allow her to use his telephone to call a towing company. A violent struggle soon ensues forcing the woman to kill him in self-defense after he attempts to sexually assault and strangle her. A very early draft predating substantial revisions by director Juan Lopez Moctezuma. Set in France. White non-standard Sofracima studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Emmerich Oross. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 86. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a black Velo binding. Sofracima unknown
1977ref. 146559Munich: Terrafilm 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film original ribbon copy typescript. Laid in with the script is a two-page typed letter addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from Terra Film producer Lothar H. Krischer and director Karoly Makk with manuscript ink annotations to the first page. Also included is a telegraph from Krischer to Kohner introducing the script. Text in German. A young woman arrives at a dilapidated hospital searching for answers to her past. Academy Award-winning Hungarian director Karoly Makk garnered accolades for his incisive political films during Hungarian cinema's renaissance in the postwar period most notably "Love" 1971 "Cats' Play" 1972 and "Another Way" 1982. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Karoly Makk and screenwriter Gunther Heller. 171 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with yapping and light soil bound with a gold prong. Terrafilm unknown
1962ref. 149644Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing a group of Allied troops storming Pegasus Bridge with a camera crew in the foreground. With manuscript pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout along with the stamp of Marine films. Based on screenwriter Cornelius Ryan's 1959 book. A star-studded dramatization of the events of D-Day from both the Allied and Axis perspectives with many scenes such as the aforementioned storming of Pegasus Bridge filmed at their corresponding real-life French locations. Set and shot on location in France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1972ref. 161146N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage two color program and invitation to a preview screening for the 1972 film. Preview screening held at the MGM Theatre in Culver City on Tuesday October 17 1972. Based on the 1971 biography by H.S. Ede. A fictionalized account of the fervent relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska who was more than twice his age. Shot on location in Somerset Bristol and Dorset England. Bi-fold program: 9 x 9 inches. Very Good with some light soiling and bruising on the verso a pinhole at the top center of both leaves and a cello tape shadow near the fore-edges of both pages of the interior spread. Invitation: 4 x 9 inches recto only. Very Good plus with two pinholes at the top center and light creasing and edgewear. N.p. unknown
1971ref. 154969N.p.: MGM / EMI 1971. Vintage program for the 1971 film. Based on the 1953 West End musical by Sandy Wilson about a mousy stage manager forced to take the lead in a low-budget musical revue after the lead actress breaks her leg. While Wilson's original is a straightforward pastiche of 1920s musicals director Ken Russell's adaptation is a full-blown parody of 1930s musical films particularly Busby Berkeley with heavy metatextual elements as the more lavish numbers take place in the imagination of a Hollywood producer watching the show. 8.25 x 10.25 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus with light soiling foxing and creasing. MGM / EMI unknown
1970ref. 161924N.p.: Sack Amusement Enterprises 1970. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the verso. Bored Hollywood Hills housewives with the help of an entrepreneurial housewife turned madam turn tricks with their husband's co-workers. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Sack Amusement Enterprises unknown
2017ref. 163937N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Revised Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 2018-present television series one dated 8/9/17 and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode the Dutton family attempts to recover from the deaths of the eldest son and a brother-in-law. Originally aired on June 27 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. 8/9/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/9/17 noted as episode No. 102 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revised Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 102 and Pink Revised Pages with credit for Sheridan. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
2017ref. 163941N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2018-present television series one undated and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Kayce continues to battle the tribal police while John attempts to keep Kayce and Monica at the ranch. Originally aired on July 25 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as episode No. 105 with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. 8/12/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 105 and Production Draft with credit for Sheridan. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
2017ref. 163942N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 6 of the 2018-present television series including one Production Draft and one Network Draft. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Chief Rainwater and developer Dan Jenkins team up threatening John's hold over the Yellowstone ranch. Originally aired on August 1 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Network Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 106 and NETWORK DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Production Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/7/17 noted as episode No. 106 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
1982ref. 160158Tokyo: Wakamatsu Production 1982. Vintage mini poster for the 1982 Japanese pink film. A married railway ticket puncher starts sedating women with chloroform in order to invade their houses. His cruelty escalates and he grows bolder in his desires. A late release by controversial pink film director and producer Kôji Wakamatsu. 7 x 5 inches. About Fine. Weisser p. 319. Wakamatsu Production unknown
1976ref. 99595Switzerland July 5th 1976. 1976. Fine. - Over 275 words typed on his personal 11-1/2 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide stationery with his Swiss address centered at the top. Norman Krasna writes to Jean Dalrymple about his latest play "Hold the presses." he says having rethought the ending. "I had a long searching session with the muse and also a critique from a friend and the three of us have come to the conclusion that the ending is not right." Feeling that his original ending seemed to imply that the girl settled for marriage "as she hasn't got the ability to be a star". "People don't go to the theatre to accept resignation. I prefer the girl on her way to be a star and have the marriage too." Signed "Norman". An apparent phone number is penned at top left of the letter and another spelled out in French at top right. The letter is further briefly annotated on the verso. The top edge of the page is slightly creased and the letter is folded for mailing. Near fine. The American screenwriter playwirth producer and film director Norman Krasna 1909-1984 was known for his screwball comedies based on a case of mistaken identity. He wrote several successful Broadway plays including "Dear Ruth" and "John Loves Mary" and directed 3 films "The Ambassador's Daughter" "The Big Hangover" and "Princess O'Rourke" all of which he also wrote and was nominated 4 times for screenwriting Academy Awards winning once for "Princess O'Rourke". The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world. Switzerland, July 5th, 1976.
1984ref. 152231Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1984. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on iconic leading lady Lana Turner's 1982 autobiography following Turner's humble beginnings and rise to fame and the alcoholism and relationship troubles which clouded her later years. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 29 1984 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter James Lee. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 175. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1968ref. 157623Los Angeles: R.A.C. Films 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Con women steal one million dollars from two mob money couriers forcing the men to find and recover the money before their employers discover the theft. Versatile and prolific cross-genre filmmaker Lee Frost was best known for his string of often radical exploitation and adult films throughout the 1960s and 1970s most notably including "The Animal" 1968 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "Policewomen" 1974. Shot on location in Las Vegas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a light crease on the bottom right corner. R.A.C. Films unknown
1961ref. 152439N.p.: N.p. 1961. Cut Version Draft script for Season 1 Episode 12 "Trick or Treason" of the NBC anthology series "The DuPont Show of the Week" which aired on December 17 1961 and is today presumably lost. Copy belonging to uncredited associate producer Milt Myers with script housed in spring binder with Myers name in gilt on lower right. Annotations in manuscript pencil throughout with first name of Monique van Vooren who played Krys written boldly and underlined on top of title page. Script is preceded by a six page "teaser" for the episode. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. American OSS captain DiLuca Martin Gabel who has fallen in love with the Dutch spy Krys is fed erroneous invasion plans through Holland which Krys reveals to the Nazis confusing them as the Allies prepare for the Battle of Normandy. "The Dupont Show of the Week" was a comedy drama and musical television anthology series which aired on NBC for three seasons from September 17 1961 to August 30 1964 and was nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/25/61 noted as CUT VERSION with credits for screenwriter Leon Tokatyan. 87 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-23. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of four leaves IV6 - IV-8 and IV-19 which are carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Spring binder Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1954ref. 146060N.p.: N.p. 1954. Draft script for the 1954 film. With faint manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Set months before the beginning of the Korean War an American Air Force instructor is assigned to a Kungju base where he is set with the formidable task of completely transforming the South Korean pilots into unstoppable fighting machines in 25 days. Originally intended for release as a 3D film and filmed in dual 53mm Polaroid 3-D by the time the film premiered in 1954 public interest in 3D had declined and the film was shown as a flat print. Set in South Korea and shot on location in California. Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter John C. Champion. Title page present with screenwriting and story credits for John C. Champion. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1926ref. 171336Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the 1926 silent film showing Lillian Gish and John Gilbert in a playful moment. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Gish then MGM's highest paid actress had an unprecedented level of control over the production and was allowed input into direction story casting cinematography and costume design. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good moderately toned with nicks to the margins and creasing affecting the right portion of the photograph. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1943ref. 164451Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1943. Two vintage photographs from the 1943 film including one studio still photograph showing actors Lon Chaney Jr. and Ramsay Ames and one reference photograph showing Chaney Jr. alone. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The first film in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series. Universal struck a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster in 1943 obtaining screen rights to their "Inner Sanctum" radio series with Chaney Jr. slated to star. "Calling Dr. Death" would set the standard for the series including the classic introductory sequence of a fortune teller who warns the audience of impending albeit cinematic doom and the recurrent "stream of consciousness" voiceover. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1975ref. 162161N.p.: Cinema International 1975. Six vintage lobby cards for the 1975 French film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An experimental film loosely based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" about a young woman in a post-apocalyptic world who seeks refuge from a violent civil war in an abandoned château. 11.5 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 571. Cinema International unknown
1960ref. 150445N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1960 French film showing actress Catherine Demongeot posing near a metro stop in Paris. With a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release on the verso along with layout annotations in ink. A satire of Parisian society through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl visiting from the French countryside who sneaks away from her relatives to venture into the city alone. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
