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1989ref. 135643Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1989. Two original screenplays for the 1990 film one being a First Draft 1988 and the other a Second Revised Draft 1989. Brief annotations in manuscript ink on the title page of the second script. Director De Palma's unfortunate box-office flop based on Tom Wolfe's first novel. Sherman McCoy Hanks the "master of the universe" is a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin Griffith. One day the two find themselves in the South Bronx where Maria sees a black youth approaching so frightened she guns the engine and runs him over killing him. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police. Alcoholic journalist Peter Fallow Willis anxious for a story hears about the incident through a local black community activist. Once the story is out the end is inevitable for Sherman. Set in New York shot on location there and in California. De Palma would return to independent filmmaking with his next effort the creepy horror film "Raising Cain" 1992 starring John Lithgow. First Draft script: White wrappers. Title page present dated October 1 1988 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe.163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Revised Draft script; Yellow wrappers. Title page present dated October 12 1989 December 15 1989 in manuscript ink just above the printed date noted as SECOND REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Cristofer and novelist Wolfe. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Xerographic duplication with pink blue green and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/17/89 and 10/27/89. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1973ref. 163692Los Angeles: Wolper Productions 1973. Treatment script for the 1973 television movie originally aired on November 27 1973 on ABC. An hourlong documentary film about the Battle of Yorktown during the Revolutionary War focusing on George Washington's role in the conflict. Beige untitled Wolper Productions wrappers with a die-cut title window on the front wrapper. Title page present dated June 12 1973 with credit for screenwriter Al Ramrus. 44 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only with three white revision pages dated 6/25/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. Wolper Productions unknown
1977ref. 142870Hollywood: Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film originally aired on April 9 1978 on NBC. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. An elderly married couple find themselves increasingly dependent on their grown children as their physical and mental health deteriorates. Fred Astaire won an Emmy Award as Best Actor and Helen Hayes received a nomination as Best Actress for her performance. Additional Emmy nominations included Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress Patty Duke Supporting Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special Joseph Biroc. Green full calf binding with titled paper wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus presentation binding Near Fine. Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1978ref. 142871Burbank CA: Ross Hunter Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 television film conceived and aired in 2 parts originally by NBC on May 27 1979. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1976 novel of the same name by New York Times bestseller Helen Van Slyke. A widow raises rebellious children dates a younger man and renews a romance with an old friend. Donna Reed's television movie debut but also brought her back to television after a twelve-year absence. Ross Hunter's final project. Set in New York and Ireland shot on location in Los Angeles. Green full calf binding with titled paper wrappers as issued noted as Second Draft on the front wrapper dated August 31 1978 with credits for screenwriter Stanford Whitmore. Title page present dated August 31 1978 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Stanford Whitmore adapted from the novel by Helen Van Slyke. 220 leaves with last page of text numbered 231. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus presentation binding Near Fine. Ross Hunter Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1958ref. 151065N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph with wide vertical right border and cropped bottom of Douglas Sirk and Lana Turner on the set of the 1959 film. "Telegram and Gazette" stamp dated "AUG 15 1958" "Associated Press" stamp and descriptive newspaper clipping of photo now separated all on verso. Based on the 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst. Two single mothers-one white one black-struggle to raise their rebellious daughters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in New York City shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with two small closed tears in right margin and cropped bottom. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 140927Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage French film program from the 1956 US film. Based on Robert Wilder's 1946 novel of the same name. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder itself a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy impulsively marries a secretary at his father's office unaware that his best friend is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Dorothy Malone and nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Robert Stack. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Light wear to the margins and pin holes else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoirs du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown
1945ref. 147050Universal City: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein" which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters all in Dracula's house including the Prince of Darkness himself John Carradine the Wolf Man Chaney Jr. and Frankenstein Glenn Strange along with the requisite mad scientist Onslow Stevens and hunchbacked assistant Jane Adams. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1944ref. 133742N.p.: N.p. 1944. Treatment script and copy of the original story for an unproduced film "The Murder on Jefferson Street" based on the 1944 short story by Dorothy Canfield. Copy belonging to screenwriter Frank Partos with his name in manuscript pencil. Also included with the script are contracts from Dorothy Canfield Story Magazine and Harcourt Brace and Company signing over the story's film and television rights to Partos. A psychological thriller set in a Middle Western town called Huntsville the story follows the career paths of two men who work in the same office as one attempts to psychologically damage the other in order to take his better position. Housed in a blank black spring binder. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Partos and story writer Canfield. 128 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Near Fine spring binder Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1990ref. 147444New York: N.p. 1990. Two scripts for an unproduced film a 1983 First Draft script and a 1990 Draft script. The First Draft script titled "Kean: A Film Biography" contains a few annotations in manuscript marker of text and dialogue corrections. The 1990 Draft script is entitled "Kean: A Play for Life." Accompanying the First Draft script is a Laid in letter as well as photographically duplicated copy signed "Fred" with New York address and telephone number and dated 6/12/83 in manuscript marker from Frederic Kimball to producer Elliott Kastner. Kimball closes the letter with "I hope you are still interested. Al is." likely referring to Al Pacino a longtime confidant and collaborator on films such as "Looking for Richard" 1996 "Author Author" 1982 "Dick Tracy" 1990 and "And Justice for All" 1979. Also laid in is an additional copy of the first page of the First Draft script. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996. A biopic on the tumultuous life of the 19th century British Shakespearean actor Edumund Kean. 1983 First Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 6/10/86 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Offset duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound Laid in letter 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good folded horizontally 1/2" from top with large 2 x 3 inch chip on top left and small closed tears on left side. 1990 Draft Script: Title page integral with wrapper dated 1990 with credits for screenwriter Frederic Kimball. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine bound with prong binding. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 134381Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film written by Marvin H. Albert based on the 1960 Geoffrey Household novel about an ex-military man with a dark past that comes back to haunt him. "Frances Richardson" in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper but this person's role in the film is undetermined. An interesting script with several "storyboard" pages throughout detailing scenery. A story set in Middleburg Virginia circa 1869 just after the defeat of the Confederate Army and nearing the end of the Civil War. Blue studio wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper copy No. 120 dated January 19 1967. Title page present dated January 19 1967 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Albert and novelist Household. 148 leaves mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock with 5 storyboard leaves on white stock. Toning to the wrapper and storyboard leaves and a few light creases to the wrapper else pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1978ref. 167427N.p.: Glen A. Larson Productions 1978. Draft script for the two hour pilot for the 1978-79 NBC series which aired on September 10 1978 here under the working title "Sword of Justice" Created by Glen A. Larson the series lasted for a total of ten episodes including the two-hour pilot found here before ending on July 11 1979 with a second two-hour episode entitled "Blackjack." Playboy Jack Martin Cole Dack Rambo who after being framed for a crime he did not commit and serving three years in jail during which his parents died and his family fortune was nearly destroyed and he learns a variety of criminal skills vows revenge on those responsible. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 9 1978 with credits for screenwriters Glen A. Larson and Michael Gleason. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with foxing on the page edges and foxing edgewear and silverfish damage to the outer leaves bound with two gold brads. Glen A. Larson Productions unknown
1962ref. 131827Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1962. Treatment script for the 1963 film. Paul Brenner at AllMovie: It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent basing his exploration of the African subcontinent on old diaries of his uncle. When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa Merriwether based on his alleged expert knowledge of the region is selected to recover the capsule. Joining Merriwether and his pre-Kervorkian suicide kit is security agent Frederica Larsen Edie Adams. Hot on their heels are Russian agents Luba Anita Ekberg and Dr. Ezra Mungo Lionel Jeffries who want to get to the space capsule first. Self wrappers. Title page present integral with front wrapper dated 1st June 1962 noted as Original Screen Treatment on the front wrapper with credits for producers Saltzman and Broccoli. 35 leaves mimeograph on gray stock. Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine side stapled with a single staple. United Artists unknown
1959ref. 141014N.p.: Lion International 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. The first film by Cassavetes for which he raised the entirety of the production budget himself the story of three African American siblings in Harlem two of whom often pass for white. Begun as an acting exercise in a workshop Cassavetes was conducting with Burt Lane the story was originally filmed in 1958 with completely improvised dialogue and action based on scene outlines created by Cassavetes. After the film was poorly received at its three initial screening by just about everyone Cassavetes knew he reworked the ideas into a more traditional script with screenwriter Robert Alan Arthur and reshot the film replacing between half and two thirds of the original footage and dramatically altering the story. Released in 1959 this version better reflected his vision for the film and received a critics award when shown at the Venice Film Festival the following year. A watershed moment in American independent films heralding not just the arrival of a new iconoclastic director but the birth of an entire movement. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Lion International unknown
1988ref. 140598N.p.: Golden Sun / Artisan Entertainment 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film here under the working title "Death Squad." A special forces combat unit is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated 8/8/84 with credits for screenwriters Sandra K. Bailey Douglas Borton. 106 leaves mechanical duplication with last page of text numbered 103. Pages near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light rubbing on the front wrapper internally bound with three gold brads. Golden Sun / Artisan Entertainment unknown
1971ref. 161988N.p.: Morgan Pictures Corporation 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 re-release of the 1966 film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso. A suburban housewife turns her stenography business into a highly profitable prostitution ring made up of neighborhood wives. Based on an actual 1964 scandal in Nassau County NY. Director Joseph W. Sarno's first color film. Shot on location in Long Island and South Fallsburg New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Morgan Pictures Corporation unknown
1965ref. 167080N.p.: Paramount Studios 1965. Draft script for the 33rd episode of the second season of the 1965-1966 NBC Western television series which aired on January 9 1966. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Young Hawk" with marker and ink annotations of his name his character's name and "Office" on the front wrapper with manuscript marker annotations of actor's names adjacent to the character's names on the Cast page. Created by Larry Cohen his first series as creator and producer the series was originally intended as an allegory about blacklisting during McCarthyism which according to Cohen lead to him being fired from the series after mistakenly telling its right-wing star Chuck Connors. Following star Connors' popular 1958-1963 Western series "The Rifleman" Connors stars as Jason McCord a former US cavalry captain who was court-martialed after being unjustly accused of cowardice. The series premiered on January 24 1965 and aired for two seasons and 48 episodes ending on April 24 1966. In this episode Connors comes upon a bound white Indian woman who says three wolfer brothers kidnapped and attacked her who he decides he needs to find and kill while returning her to her people. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with two blue revision pages dated 11/4/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light toning and foxing to the extremities bound with two gold brads. Paramount Studios unknown
1945ref. 148158N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage black-and-white glossy photographic French lobby card from the 1945 film. The French classic centered around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan Arletty and four men who love her. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in shot on location in France. 11.75 x 9.5 inches. Very Good with three closed tears one 3 inches two repaired on verso with cello tape pinholes to corners and edgewear. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 141. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 146001Culver City CA: Lorimar 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 920102 dated February 5 1980. Title page present dated February 5 1980 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter John Sayles. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Lorimar unknown
1949ref. 137414Hollywood: Monogram Pictures 1949. Revised Draft script for the 1949 film. "Brand of Fear" here under the working title "Range Rogues." Copy belonging to actor Marshall Reed who played "Cal Derringer" in the film with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript ink and annotations throughout in manuscript ink and pencil. One of Wakely's final films at Monogram Pictures where he became a popular musical Western actor under his own name beginning with "Springtime in Texas" 1945 and ending with "Lawless Code" 1949. This time Wakely and his partner Cannonball Taylor escort a school teacher Davis to Oreville where she is accosted by two outlaws. The local marshal London wrangles with one of the outlaws who informs his cohort that the marshal is actually wanted by the law himself and they attempt to blackmail him. Wakely and Cannonball show up to help the marshal who in reality is the school teacher's father and nab the outlaws. Wakely eventually had his own comic book series published by DC Comics 1949-1952 and he was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Western Music Association Hall of Fame. Shot on location at Melody Ranch and Walker Ranch in Newhall California. Blue titled wrappers with a credit for Wakely. Distribution page present with receipt removed rubber-stamped copy No. 221 with credits for Wakely and screenwriter Dickey noted as production No. 4905. Title page integral with distribution. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 20 twentieth page of a shooting schedule. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Hardy p. 390. Pitts 492. Monogram Pictures unknown
1973ref. 172052N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film showing one of the eponymous "prison babies" with a promotional illustration for the film at the left margin. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a tiny bruise to the left portion of the recto. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 129803Burbank CA: Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers 1944. Draft script for the 1947 film. This is an early draft developed at Vanguard Films prior to the property being sold to Warner Brothers. An American remake of the 1935 British film of the same name. Largely set in Italy the story concerns the relationship between poverty-stricken musician Sebastian Dunbrok Errol Flynn and unwed mother Gemma Smith Ida Lupino. Suspecting that her fiance Caryl Gig Young Sebastian's brother is the father of Gemma's child young heiress Fennella McLean Eleanor Parker retreats to the Italian Alps. Attempting to straighten out the situation Sebastian finds himself falling in love with Fennella. For his brother's sake Sebastian breaks off the relationship and marries Gemma but while awaiting the birth of her child he writes a heartfelt ballet score dedicated to Fennella. However when Gemma's baby dies the conscience-stricken Sebastian changes the dedication to his wife whom he has learned to genuinely love. Notable for a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Blue titled wrappers dated August 21 1944 with credits for playwright Margaret Kennedy. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 131 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with tearing at the left hole punches bound with three gold brads. Wrappers now encapsulated in protective mylar. Vanguard Films / Warner Brothers unknown
1985ref. 141530Berlin: Filmedis 1985. Draft script for the 1988 film. Text in English for a German film. Here under the working title and translation of the original French novel "Do You Want to Die With Me." Based on Francis Ryck's novel "Voulez-vous Mourir Avec Moi." A man and a woman enter into a very intense relationship accentuated by the fact that this man has murdered four previous girlfriends and this one might be his next victim. Set in Finistere France shot on location there. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Filmedis unknown
1970ref. 149020N.p.: Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1968 Italian film. Nature-boy shepherd Serafino Adriano Celentano inherits his aunt Gesuina's Nerina Montagnani fortune and proceeds to frivolously spend it on family and friends. After destroying a new convertible his uncle Agenore Saro Urzi files to have him declared mentally incompetent. Shot on location in Marche Lazio and Abruzzo Italy. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with small split in crease pinholes to top corners and manuscript annotation on verso visible on recto. Columbia Pictures unknown
1942ref. 130516Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. First Draft Continuity for the 1942 film. This is a pre-production continuity not to be confused with a post-production continuity. The "other woman" in this early 1940s Twentieth Century-Fox programmer turns out to be Emily Virginia Gilmore faithful secretary to master architect Henry Summers James Ellison. Hoping to trap her boss into marriage Emily begins sending "mash notes" to Henry purportedly from a mysterious female admirer. She then coerces her old pal Ralph Dan Duryea to pose as her jealous Southern-fried boy friend of the nonexistent letter-writer. Poor Henry convinced that Ralph is the gangster who's been threatening him with bodily harm takes off for parts unknown. Our heroine spends the rest of the picture chasing Henry until he finally catches her Hal Erickson Rovi. From the AFI Catalog: "The working title of this film was 'Leap Year' also the title of Lamar Trotti's original story. According to a September 4 1941 memo in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department located at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library Trotti wrote the story "sometime ago" and sold it to the studio for one dollar when producer Walter Morosco decided to make it as a "low budget picture." Although the legal records indicate that Jerry Sackheim worked on a screenplay for the picture the extent of his contribution to the completed film has not been determined. Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 185 and production No. 730 dated June 6 1942. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 6 1942 noted as 1st Draft Continuity with a sole credit for screenwriter Jungmeyer. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with revision pages on blue stock dated variously between 6/10/42 and 6/20/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967ref. 149453Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Richard Thorpe and actors Angie Dickinson and Glenn Ford looking over a script on the set of the 1967 Western film. With a printed mimeo snipe noting the film's original title "The Pistolero of Red River" which has been crossed out and retitled "The Last Challenge" in manuscript ink annotation affixed to the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations and a mimeo snipe. Based on John Sherry's 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress." A young gunslinger heads into a small western town with the intention of dueling the local sheriff who is famed for his skill and speed with a gun. Thorpe's final film concluding a decades-long affiliation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in California and Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few light creases to the top right corner. Pitts 2185. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
