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ref. 160028Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1987. Revised First Draft script for the 1990 film. Tim Burton's second "Modern Prometheus" film following his 1984 short "Frankenweenie" about a mad scientist who dies before he can complete his latest creation: a nearly complete human being. The creation is left with scissors for hands and doomed to live a life of solitude until a kindly mild-mannered Avon lady welcomes him into her home. Often cited as the director's masterpiece released two years after his hilarious and creepy romp "Beetlejuice" 1988 one year after his beloved comic adaptation "Batman" 1989 and two years before his second and final contribution to the Dark Knight legend "Batman Returns" 1992. Mustard titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers undated. Title page present dated February 22 1990 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Caroline Thompson. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated between 4/27/90 and 6/27/90. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1965ref. 158305N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film here under the working title "Billy." Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page amending the title to "Original Dracula Meets Billy the Kid." Copy likely belonging to screenwriter Carl K. Hittleman with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on virtually every page amending dialogue and scene numbers with two unnumbered pages bound in created on a different typewriter. Dracula travels to the American West intent on making the fiancée of the now reformed Billy the Kid his next victim. One of director William Beaudine's final films originally released on a double bill with Beaudine's other Western horror picture "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter." Front wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter Carl K. Hittleman. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine with cello tape repair and reinforcement to final page bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 143218Tokyo: Gendai Eigasha 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Front wrapper notes a date of 1969 and credit as a Gendai Eigasha production. The second page is a elegaic introduction to the film story: "On the erotology and insurrection of sugi Sakae who wrote of dancing as flowers strangled and left in spring and It Noe who lived her entire life in confused beauty-we the youth and you and I in our degenerate joy which reaches an unbalanced complicity are talking." Based on the life of anarchist Sakae sugi and his relationship with three women.It is the first film in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism followed by "Heroic Purgatory" 1970 and "Coup d'Etat" 1973. Considered to be one of the most representative films from the Japanese New Wave movement. Set in and shot on location in Japan. White titled wrappers dated 1969. Title page present. 86 leaves with last page of text numbered d-44. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with mild foxing on rear wrapper title on spine. Gendai Eigasha unknown books
1969ref. 167422Los Angeles: Paragon Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Count Dracula and his wife are alive or undead and well in modern-day Arizona where they use their hunchbacked butler to capture and kill young girls allowing them to drink their victims' blood in martini glasses as Bloody Marys. A humorously campy entry in the Dracula canon produced by noted exploitation studio Crown International Pictures. Set in Arizona shot on location in Lancaster California. Red titled wrappers. Title page present undated. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Good moderately soiled and dampstained on the left and right sides bound with two gold brads. Paragon Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 154178N.p.: N.p. 1957. Revised Draft script for the 1957 film here under the working title "Viking Women." Copy belonging to uncredited actor Dick Miller with his name in manuscript ink to the title page and manuscript pencil annotations throughout underlining lines for Ottar although the role was played by actor Jonathan Haze. A group of Viking women-warriors go on a sea voyage to recover the missing men from their village but an encounter with a massive dragon-serpent forces them to take shelter on a mysterious island. Beige titled wrappers noted as Revised on the front wrapper. Title page present dated undated noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Lawrence Louis Goldman and story credits to Irving Block. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 168509N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage eleven-page ribbon copy typescript short story circa 1940s-1950s subsequently serving as the basis for the 1972 adult film. Rare. An iteration of an explicit short story penned by an anonymous author sometime before or during World War II circulated underground in retyped typescript or carbon typescript copies during the 1940s and after. "Behind the Green Door" is notable as one of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. Eleven leaves last page of text not numbered. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Good or better bound with two staples on the top edges. N.p. unknown books
ref. 166556N.p.: N.p. 1982. Draft script for the 1983 British comedy film. Noted as copy No. 58 in manuscript ink on the title page. Bound in with the script are ten pages of Xerographically duplicated storyboards for the short film-within-the-film "The Crimson Permanent Assurance." The final Monty Python film to star actor and writer Graham Chapman before his death in 1989 and a return to the sketch comedy format which characterized the group's earlier television series. Shot on location in Queensway Strathblane and Lancashire England. Red untitled Script Specialists wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated March 1982. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with five pink revision pages laid in at the rear of the script dated 26/5/82. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing throughout bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 160437N.p.: N.p. 1997. Archive of material relating to the 1998 film. Archive includes four scripts dated variously between 1991 and 1997 and credited variously to screenwriters Christ Zois Zoë Lund and William Gibson as well as approximately ten pages of correspondence and ephemera relating to the film's production and a xerographically duplicated copy of Gibson's source story. One screenplay with the ownership name of Zois on the title page. From the archive of Christ Zois Abel Ferrara's frequent co-screenwriter. Of note are several pieces of correspondence regarding writing credits for the film dated variously between 1997 and 1998. Screenwriters Abel Ferrara and Christ Zois claimed that prior adaptations of Gibson's novel by Gibson Lund and others had no bearing on their own adaptation. Ferrara and Zois would ultimately receive sole screenwriting credit on the completed film. Based on the 1984 short story by William Gibson about two freelance industrial spies in Tokyo who decide to use a call girl to execute their latest mission. Shot on location in New York. November 1991 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated November 1991 noted as Third Draft with credit for author and screenwriter William Gibson. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. October 9 1993 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated Oct. 9. 1993 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Zoë Lund. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. September 28 1997 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/28/97 noted as Draft with credits for screenwriters Christ Zois and Abel Ferrara. 75 leaves with last page of text numbered 74. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a binder clip at the top left corner. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Christ Zois. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a binder clip on the top edge and housed in a red card folder. N.p. unknown books
ref. 157439Yokohama Kanagawa: Kurosawa Production Co 1980. Draft script for the 1980 Japanese film. The story of a low-class criminal taught to be the decoy or kagemusha of a dying feudal lord based on the historical daimyo Takeda Shingen and depicting the 1575 Battle of Nagashino in the cinematic climax. When Toho Studios could not afford to complete the film George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola convinced Twentieth Century Fox to cover the shortfall in exchange for international distribution rights recieving credits as executive producers on the finished film. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Foreign Language Film and winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Sengoku period shot on location in Iga Ueno Castle Himeji Castle Kumamoto Castle Yuhara Plain Hokkaido Japan. White perfect-bound wrappers. Rubber stamped copy No. 74 at the top right corner of the front wrapper. 166 leaves with last page of text numbered "146." Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with light toning wrapper Very Good with foxing overall and age toning to the page edges. Criterion Collection 267. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
ref. 148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: a names of the chosen cast members b set rehearsals and camera rehearsals c times for shooting e.g. Morning Afternoon Evening and Night phone numbers for production personnel d names of potential and/or hired camera assistants e names of potential and/or hired actors f indication of the production company chosen Toho Corporation as well as film stock and lens sizes to be used g additional notes regarding location of some settings h changes to dialogue and action and h some final post-production notes. Director Akira Kurosawa's first color film based on Shugoro Yamamoto's 1962 novel "Kisetsu no nai machi" A City Without Seasons. A series of vignettes about a slum in the suburbs of Tokyo and its impoverished inhabitants. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Set and shot on location in Tokyo. Script: White titled wrappers. Title page present. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered d-37. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding. Schedule: White titled wrappers. 13 leaves with last page numbered 23. Mimeograph duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a faintly toned spine and very faint foxing to the fore-edge side-stapled with two staples. Detailed notes with translation of annotations noted above with accompanying images are provided with the script. Toho unknown books
1945ref. 147298Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1945. Souvenir Shooting script for the 1945 film issued by Selznick Studios to promote the film just prior to its release. Title page and credits covered over two separate pages with a credit for Salvador Dali who penned the surreal dream sequence in the film. Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov winning one. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story for the screen and Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Selznick to buy the rights to the novel which Hitchcock and his wife were adapting. Mustard yellow titled wrappers noted as Final Shooting Script on the front wrapper dated June 25 1945 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. Title page present with primary screen credits over two pages. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. In a custom gray cloth clamshell box with a brown leather spine label and titles in gilt. Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Vanguard Films unknown books
1957ref. 161357N.p.: N.p. 1957. Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on the 1945 Broadway play by Luther Davis in turn based on Frederic Wakeman's 1944 novel "Shore Leave." Three Naval pilots on a four-day leave in San Francisco attempt to ignore the distant call of war instead drinking dancing and seducing local women. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated April 5 1957 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Julius Epstein director Stanley Donen novelist Frederic Wakeman and playwright Luther Davis. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/25/57 and 5/3/57. Pages Near Fine binding Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 161414N.p.: N.p. 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1959 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. 23 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on screenwriter Fred Gipson's 1947 novel "Circle Round the Wagon" about two young brothers go on a hunting trip with an older friend. Fabian's film debut. Gipson's second published novel preceding his better-known 1956 novel "Old Yeller." Shot on location in San Bernardino. Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present dated July 9 1959 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter-novelist Fred Gipson and screenwriter Winston Miller. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/13/59 and 7/22/59. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus front board slightly warped. N.p. unknown books
ref. 153062N.p.: N.p. 1977. Collection of 25 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1977 film including 23 matte-finish and 2 glossy. Several with manuscript pencil annotations to the verso noting the film's title in French "La Guerre des Etoiles". The film that became a multibillion dollar media empire pun intended now including eleven additional live action films animated shows novels comic books video games and countless tons of officially licensed merchandise with no signs of slowing down. Winner of six Academy Awards and nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness. Set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away shot on location in California Arizona Mexico Guatemala Tunisia and the UK. Three photographs 10 x 8 inches 22 photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 160216Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Rainbow copy with a manuscript ink annotation on the title page noting copy No. 209. Based on the 1978 novel by John Irving. One of the best literary adaptations of the 1980s a great example of a successful and uncompromised translation of a novel's idiosyncrasies directly to the screen and a triumph of ensemble acting. Nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress for John Lithgow and Glenn Close respectively. Shot on location in New York and New Jersey. Blue titled PanArts/Warner Brothers wrappers. Title page present dated January 1981 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Steve Tesich and novelist John Irving. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink blue and yellow undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with soil on the fore-edge of the title page wrapper Very Good slightly yapped at the edges and lightly soiled bound internally with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1930ref. 151357Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs housed in a contemporary photo album each photo with descriptions in silver manuscript ink just below it and distributed in three sections as follows: 1 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" Howard Hawks 1930 an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots of planes in flight and several others of star Douglas Fairbanks Jr. With manuscript annotations to the album pages identifying most of the photographs; 2 16 vernacular photographs taken on the set of the pre-Code film "The Life of the Party" Roy Del Ruth 1930 and 18 vernacular photographs of the sinking of the RMS Tahiti off cost of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands on August 16-17 1930 taken from the nearby SS Ventura. The front cover of the photo album identifies the photographer as J.N. Boucher and he appears four times in the album twice dressed as a pilot in "The Dawn Patrol" section and twice in "The Life of the Party" section in one standing in front of a Vitaphone truck along with a man identified as Dolph Thomas who worked as an uncredited sound engineer on the film. Photographs variously sized generally between 3.5 x 2.5 and 5.25 x 3.25 inches Very Good plus. Photo album Good only with several pages detached a few loose photographs. First National Pictures unknown books
ref. 172081Honolulu HI: Lost Productions 2004. Rainbow Revision Second Draft script for the 2004 pilot of the 2004-2010 ABC television series aired on September 22 2004. Copy belonging to Property Master Peter C. Clarke with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and highlighted name on various memos and with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 26 pages noting props. Every leaf watermarked with the number "914" and bound in a generic three-ring binder with a list of Lost Productions contacts laid in under the clear plastic on the front wrapper. Bound in following the script are 70 leaves of contact lists memorandums a petty cash reimbursement form and shooting schedules and laid in the front binder flap are four pages of memos dated April 7 2004 a pink shooting schedule dated March 19 2004 two pages of maps and directions and an letter of gratitude to the cast and crew following the shoot from creators and screenwriters J.J. Abrams "J.J." and Damon Lindelof "Damon" Producer Sarah Caplan "Sarah" and Executive Producer Bryan Burk "Bryan" housed in a Koi Restaurant envelope labeled "Peter Clarke / Props." Considered by many to one of the greatest television series of all time the science fiction adventure drama created by Jeffrey Lieber Abrams and Lindelof premiered with the pilot found here on ABC on September 22 2004 and aired for six seasons of 121 episodes before ending on May 23 2010. The series won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2005. 48 survivors of a Oceanic Flight 815 find themselves stranded on a mysterious remote island in the South Pacific and find their lives intertwined in a fight for survival. Shot on location in O'ahu Hawaii. Untitled generic white binder with a "Lost Productions Inc." contact list laid in clear plastic on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 3 2004 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriters J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 95 with 70 pages of production documents bound in following script. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/9/2004 and 4/19/2004. Pages Near Fine binder Near Fine overall. Lost Productions unknown books
1945ref. 161348N.p.: N.p. 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film seen here under the working title "This Love of Ours." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on Roger Butterfield's 1944 book detailing the heroic actions of US Marine Al Schmid during World War II and his rehabilitation after being blinded in battle. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Philadelphia and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present undated with credits for Wald director Delmer Daves screenwriter Albert Maltz and biographer Roger Butterfield. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 159. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/8/44 and 2/21/45. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with moderate wear on the leather and front board lightly soiled. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 1355Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 1940. Letter 295 x 230mm pp. Title 1 2-186 mimeographed duplication rectos only. First draft continuity script for the 1941 film. Orange titled continuous card wrapper rubber stamped internal three brass brad binding. Noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper production number 559 copy number 29 dated October 7 1940. Title page present also dated October 7 1940 and noted as 1st Draft Continuity. Pages very good but for a bit of toning and worming to the upper left corner of the final 15 pages cover soiled worn and with some splits to the extremities good. Ex-Howard Barnes; Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom cloth box. Inscribed on the title page by screenwriter Dudley Nichols to film critic Howard Barnes; "Critic par excellence in memory of our old days on The World when neither of us dreamed of working in this fascinating medium of the film Affectionately Dudley Nichols July 15 1941". Referencing the time they both spent as journalists for the New York World. There is a postscript that reads: "This was my first draft done in three weeks. Many things happened to it afterwards as your keen eye will note. D.N". A British big-game hunter is captured after stalking Hitler as a sporting challenge then escapes to England only to be relentlessly pursued by Nazi agents whose campaign of terror claims the life of the young woman who sheltered him. After a harrowing confrontation with his nemesis he acknowledges his true intent and parachutes back into Germany now committed to carrying out the assassination he once denied contemplating. Set in 1939 Bavaria and London shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. 20th Century Fox Film Corporation unknown books
ref. 170404Beverly Hills CA: Lawrence Turman Films 1970. Revised Draft script for the classic 1976 horror film. Early draft predating Robert Marasco's 1973 novel noted in manuscript pencil on the title page as dating from "Summer 1970" with Bob Fosse's name as a directorial credit in addition to Marasco's screenwriter credit on the title page. In the late 1960s Marasco-at that time best known as a playwright-wrote a screenplay entitled "Burnt Offerings." In 1969 Fosse was announced as being attached to the project as a director with Turman Films and Cinema Center Films slated to produce. This iteration of the film failed to materialize and Marasco would adapt his screenplay into a novel published in 1973 by Delacorte Press. The novel would eventually be successfully adapted for the screen by screenwriter William F. Nolan and director Dan Curtis. A family from the big city are preyed upon by evil forces inhabiting their rented summer estate. A key entry in the supernatural horror boom of the 1970s. Shot on location at Dunsmuir House in Oakland California. Dunsmuir itself carried its own unlucky history: its original owners both died within a year of the house's construction. Orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED with credits for Marasco and Fosse. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lawrence Turman Films unknown books
ref. 153819N.p.: N.p. 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film. Copy belonging to actor Dick Miller with his name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. From the estate of Dick Miller. Directed by noted 1970s filmmaker Barbara Peeters during her tutelage period with Roger Corman. A well received film both upon its release and in retrospect that while exploitative of course has a notably feminist bent with strong and decisive female characters. Yellow untitled wrappers with a small manuscript pencil annotation to the top right corner of the front wrapper noting copy No. 26. Title page present dated March 4 1975 with credits for director and screenwriter Barbara Peeters. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 160647Hollywood: Motown-Weston-Furie Productions 1971. Final Shooting script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to early production designer Harry Horner with his name in manuscript ink on the title page. Noted as copy No. 23 on the lower right corner of the title page with manuscript pencil and ink annotations on six pages. According to the AFI Catalog immediately prior to the commencement of photography several last-minute changes were made to the production crew including the replacement of Harry Horner with Carl Anderson. The script found here also co-credits director Sidney J. Furie as screenwriter with Terence McCloy. Furie did not receive a screenwriting credit in the final film. Based on Billie Holiday's 1956 autobiography co-authored by William Duffy which recounts Holiday's troubled rise to fame failed romantic relationships and drug addiction. Diana Ross' film debut. Set in New York and Baltimore. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 11 1971 noted as Final Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Sidney J. Furie and Terence McCloy. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Near FIne bound in a Near Fine red three-ring binder. Motown-Weston-Furie Productions unknown books
1922ref. 158284Beverly Hills CA: Warner Brothers 1922. Set of three vintage hand-tinted lobby cards for the 1922 film. Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 novel. A young husband and wife spend money with aplomb anticipating a large payout once the man's grandfather dies. When the patriarch passes away and they discover they have been left nothing in his will. Considered today to be a lost film. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus some with pinholes to the corners lightly and evenly toned. Warner Brothers unknown books
1941ref. 162231Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions and exploitation at the hands of the mine owners. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Wales shot on location in California. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated April 18 1941 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 240 with receipt removed. Title page present with credit for Philip Dunne noted as 2nd Revised Final and dated April 18 1941. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated 5/19/41 throughout. Pages Very Good plus slightly yapped with light tide marks along the bottom edges of the first five leaves wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 170959Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television 1978. Draft script for the 1982 television movie seen here under the working title "Sisters" Originally aired on June 7 1982 on NBC. Rare. One of only two original feature-length original screenplays written by Maya Angelou the other being the 1972 television movie "Georgia Georgia". In a small town in North Carolina a young schoolteacher's life is upended with the arrival of her younger sisters who challenge her straitlaced ultra-moral attitude towards life. Filmed in 1979 but not aired until 1982. Set in North Carolina and shot on location in Montgomery and Opelika Alabama. Blue titled wrappers dated June 12 1978 and noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated June 12 1978 noted as REVISED FINAL with credit for screenwriter Maya Angelou. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox Television unknown books
