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1957ref. 150480Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Frank Sinatra and Rita Hayworth from the 1957 film. "Columbia Pictures" stamp "Advertising Code" dated "June 14 1957" stamp and mimeo snipe on verso. Loosely based on the 1940 musical with book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Womanizing heel Joey Evans Sinatra woos former flame and wealthy widow Linda English Hayworth to help finance his dream club "Chez Joey" but feelings for the beautiful nice young chorus girl Linda English Kim Novak get in the way. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in San Francisco shot on location in San Francisco Oakland and Berkeley California. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1941ref. 149752Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1941 film showing Lon Chaney Jr. in costume as the eponymous Wolf Man getting groomed by makeup artist Jack P. Pierce. A man visiting his ancestral home in Wales is bitten by a strange wolf-like creature leading to his occasional moonlit transformation into a bloodthirsty werewolf. Universal Pictures' second werewolf film preceded by the less successful "Werewolf of London" 1935 and followed by several "Wolf Man" monster mash-up sequels including "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" 1943 and "House of Frankenstein" 1944. Set in Llanwelly Wales. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned. Universal Pictures unknown books
1960ref. 144662Rome: Cineriz 1960. Collection of 21 original borderless double weight still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Susan Strasberg is seen in several photographs always in pinstripes and several feature costar Terzieff with striking images of laboring women a death pit and German soldiers. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil and Contino's rubber-stamp on the versos. An impressive showcase in landscape format of a life behind barbed wire and the conditioning of inmates. Strasberg portrays a Jewish women sent to a concentration camp during WWII leading an escape plan even as the turmoil of war threatens to defeat her will. Pontecorvo's engaging war film with feminist undercurrents albeit overshadowed by what would become his most accomplished film "The Battle of Algiers" 1966. Nominated for an Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 9.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus overall light curling brief foxing a few with small dampstains and corresponding bruises on the rectos. Complete collation details available on request. Cineriz unknown books
1967ref. 132193Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Revised Final script for the 1968 film dated October 5 1967. Based on the 1966 novel by Roderick Thorp about a brooding detective embroiled in a case that uncovers deep police corruption within the department. Frank Sinatra's fourth collaboration with director Gordon Douglas and a box office success. One of the first mainstream Hollywood films to include explicit references and depictions of the lives of gay men including the homophobia and indifference to violence against them they faced from police departments. In 1979 Thorp wrote a sequel to The Detective entitled Nothing Lasts Forever which was adapted in 1988 as Die Hard. Due to his having starred in the earlier film Sinatra had contractual rights to star in the sequel. He wisely turned it down due to his age and action movie history and Bruce Willis' career were made. Set in New York and shot on location there and in California. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper marked copy No. 116 dated October 5 1967. Title page present dated October 5 1967 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Mann and novelist Thorp. 177 leaves mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/7/67 and 12/4/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970ref. 152410N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film attributed to Gore Vidal. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Loosely based on Vidal's 1948 classic landmark novel "The City and the Pillar" one of the few books of the period which portrayed overt homosexuality as natural and without moral ramifications. In 1970 and 1971 Variety International reported Franco Rossellini had been in discussion with Vidal to produce his screenplay adaptation of his 1948 novel with Vidal also slated to direct reiterated in William Hawes' 2008 book "Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: the Making Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film." According to Hawe's the production had not gotten off the ground because "funding proved to be insufficient even for a low-budget version." Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 25 1970 with credits for author Gore Vidal. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 130510London: Atlantic Productions 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi Germany during the Second World War. 30 x 40 inches. Fine. Phillips US. Atlantic Productions unknown books
1995ref. WRCLIT68986New York: Columbia Pictures 1995. 9119 leaves plus many many lettered inserts. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of a rainbow of variously colored stocks. Bradbound in wrappers with production company label. Upper wrapper a bit flecked ink name and a few annotations see below otherwise a very good copy. A very interesting and substantially revised draft of this adaptation of Green's novel incorporating several stages of a re-write by Green of Tally's script identified and dated by a succession of dated title leaves with the revises identified by date corresponding to an extraordinary array of dated revises comprising just short of the entirety of the text. This copy bears several ownership signatures as well as identifiers of the revisions as for him in an unknown hand and scattered notes of sound mixer Les Lazarowitz who though uncredited by IMDB clearly had a role at some point in the production: this copy bears Green's presentation inscription to him: "Les - Make the sound perfect or the Teacher will pay you a visit. George Dawes Green." Brian Gibson directed the February 1996 release which starred Alec Baldwin as Teacher Demi Moore Anne Heche James Gandolfini et al. Tally an Obie Award winning dramatist as well as screenwriter whose scripts for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and ALL THE PRETTY HORSES won an array of awards and nominations received final screen credit. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1941ref. 149234Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego California. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 37 and production No. 701 dated OCTOBER 29 1941. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 29 1941 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. WRCLIT67361Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 4173 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos. Bradbound in white production company wrappers. About fine. An unspecified but very close to final draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft notes Charles Vidor as director after John Huston left over budget disagreements and includes prefatory material not included in earlier drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred. The Selznick Studio unknown books
1957ref. WRCLIT67360Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 3191 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow production company wrappers. Some minor spots of red offsetting to lower edge of upper wrapper otherwise very near fine. An unspecified but substantially preproduction draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft precedes John Huston's coming on board as director and of course his departure at which point Charles Vidor took over. This draft is nearly 20 leaves longer than several subsequent drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred. The Selznick Studio unknown books
1971ref. 142743New York: Magic Lantern Inc 1971. Draft script for the 1974 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Hermann Hesse. A depressed half-man half-animal played by Max von Sydow is introduced to the hallucinogenic world of the "Magic Theater" where he seeks redemption via a metaphysical transcendence. The film took seven years of complicated pre-production to create including building a relationship with the Hesse family in order to acquire the rights. While "Steppenwolf" is a precisely-realized film replete with Jungian symbols and created with some of the best special effects available at the time the film has remained somewhat obscure due to problems with its marketing and distribution including the color of the prints having been incorrectly developed. Set in 1920s Germany shot on location in Germany and Switzerland. Black titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for novelist Hermann Hesse. Title page present dated April 1971 with credits for screenwriter Fred Haines. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Mimeograph duplication with blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Magic Lantern Inc unknown books
1968ref. WRCLIT70658Beverly Hills: Metro Goldwyn Mayer / APJAC Productions 1968. 2149a1 leaves plus a multitude of lettered inserts. Quarto. Mechanically duplicated typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in pale blue printed studio wrappers. Wrappers faintly sunned at edges with a couple of tiny chips and snags at edges but a very good or better copy. A "Final Shooting Script" for Herbert Ross's film reboot of Hilton's novella and subsequent play based on a screenplay by Terrence Rattigan R.C. Sherriff co-scripted the 1939 adaptation. Peter O'Toole starred as Mr. Chips and Petula Clark as his wife in a sort of stream of consciousness musical. The supporting cast included Siân Phillips and Michael Redgrave. The text of this script was duplicated in the UK where the production was filmed with an Odanti Script duplicating service colophon. As would be customary copies were then transferred to the studio in the US -- the printed wrappers on this example conform to the MGM U.S. style. In spite of some harsh reviews the film was nominated for numerous industry awards in multiple categories. O'Toole was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and won the equivalent for the Golden Globes. Metro Goldwyn Mayer / APJAC Productions unknown books
1957ref. 146337N.p.: Hugo Haas Productions 1957. Draft script for the 1958 film here under the original release title "Stars in the Backyard." The title would be changed to "Paradise Alley" in 1961 before a limited release in 1962. Includes extensive 10 day shooting schedule over 16 pages as well as 2 Set Construction Estimates bookending a two page "Rough Set Breakdown." Notations in holograph pencil and pen throughout checking sets and entering costs on "Rough Set Breakdown" and Set Construction Estimates and throughout the script marking out props and dialogue. A curious notation of the name "Billy Bitzer" adjacent to the dialogue of character Mr. Gregory when he says he was D.W. Griffith's first cameraman Billy Bitzer being Griffith's groundbreaking cinematographer. Czech-born director Hugo Haas wrote produced and directed his own swan song quite the Hollywood movie an autobiographical homage to the cinema he knew. The cast featured film veterans from old Hollywood such as silent film star Corinne Griffith vaudeville star Billy Gilbert Keystone Cop Chester Conklin and Wicked Witch of the West herself Margaret Hamilton. Aging European director Rudolph Agnus Haas moves to the seedy Los Angeles neighborhood known as Paradise Alley a crowded home of bickering tenants. Finding a friend in Mr. Gregory Chester Conklin a retired cameraman Agnus proposes making a movie with the residents as actors to unite them and stop their petty bickering. Using a camera with no film and a cucumber made up to look like a microphone Agnus plan succeeds. When a studio hears of the project they offer to bankroll it enabling Agnus to actually make his film. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Hugo Haas. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Hugo Haas Productions unknown books
1969ref. 152375N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1969 film showing Kim Novak topless mid-costume change aided by two wardrobe ladies. Based on the 1961 novel. A genre-bending film combining heist comedy and Western genres in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 150335N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage photograph of director Ingmar Bergman setting up a shot with actors Elliott Gould Bibi Andersson and Max Von Sydow. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a stamp noting No. 11620 and the stamps of PIX Inc. and Camera Press Ltd. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home an emotionally scarred survivor of the Holocaust. Bergman's first English language film shot in England and Sweden and his first film to involve a major American actor Gould working alongside Bergman regulars Sydow and Andersson. Set and shot on location in Sweden and England. 12 x 8.5 inches. Very Good plus faintly toned along the top edge. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 131823London: National General Pictures 1968. Revised British script for the 1969 film a UK-US co-production. Based on the play by Peter Shaffer written for the screen by Philip Yordan. Dan Pavlides: Fueled by promises of gold Pizarro Robert Shaw and his explorers make a third trip across the treacherous Andes Mountains to Peru where they meet King Atahuallpa Christopher Plummer considered to be a god by his faithful followers. The two leaders overcome their initial mistrust and suspicion garnering admiration for each other. When the King is sentenced to die Pizarro tries unsuccessfully to prevent the monarch's death at the hands of gold-hungry explorers. Green titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1 June 1968 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Yordan. 163 leaves mechanical duplication with pink blue green white tan and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 16 May and 22 July. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three screw brads. National General Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 144414Tokyo: Toho Company 1954. Vintage double weight photograph from the 1954 film the first appearance of Godzilla who would go on to appear in countless other Japanese monster movies as well as non-Japanese ones. With holograph annotations on the verso. The original Godzilla film is one of the first Kaiju films a Japanese sub-genre of films featuring giant monsters attacking cities and engaging in violent confrontation with the military and other monsters. The film was an allegory for the effects of the hydrogen bomb and radioactive contamination and gave way to a long series and whole genres and sub-genres of related films dealing with similar themes of invasion contamination and global catastrophe. Shot on location in Tokyo. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine BFI 680. Criterion Collection 594. Toho Company unknown books
1965ref. 143456Burbank CA: Artanis Productions 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film dated 2/15/65. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill with his name in gilt on the front board bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design. Housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. A bored husband and wife visit Mexico on their anniversary where a series of miscommunications leads them to getting unintentionally divorced and her married to his business partner. Banned by the Mexican government due to the film's offensive stereotyping of the country. Title page present dated 2/15/65 with film titles and credits for screenwriter Howard. 152 leaves dated 2/15/65 with last page of text numbered 148. Mechanical duplication. Very Good plus overall boards with light mottling along the left edge of the front board short closed tear to the front endpaper. Artanis Productions unknown books
1956ref. 139915N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK one sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. Set in Malaya shot on location in Malaya and England. 27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine with light toning and black holograph annotations to the verso. The Rank Organization unknown books
1956ref. 139914N.p.: The Rank Organization 1956. Vintage UK three sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya where she was previously a POW with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during World War II. Set in Malaysia shot on location in Malaysia Australia and England. 41 x 81 inches rolled and mounted on archival linen. Near Fine. The Rank Organization unknown books
1971ref. 139058Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Vintage Australian insert poster for the 1971 US film. Printed by Robert Burton Pty. in Sydney. Based on screenwriter Larner's 1964 novel. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and a key film in the BBS Productions cycle of the early 1970s as well as a New Hollywood film albeit lesser-known. Hector Tepper plays college basketball superbly but his lover Olive Black has reservations about their relationship. All the while Hector's friend Gabriel Margotta contemplates and protests the Vietnam War. Nicholson's directorial debut after astonishing performances in "Easy Rider" 1969 and "Five Easy Pieces" 1970. Shot on location at the University of Oregon and throughout the state. 12.75 x 30 inches folded twice as issued. Very Good plus with light toning brief edge creasing and a few central tears. Scarce. Criterion Collection 547. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 141357Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode with his signature on the first page and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. Two private investigators work on the south side of the Sunset Strip next to Dean Martin's actual nightclub Dino's Lodge. Each episode was an hour long and featured two hardboiled detectives and an aspiring PI working next door as a valet. The actor's first appearance in a show that hewed so closely to his "Rat Pack" persona though he had appeared in a few other television dramas and Westerns as early as 1952. Set in Los Angeles. Bound in a homemade sewn binding with a card wrapper black endpapers and binding sealed with tan paper tape. Title page present dated March 1 1962 noted as Revised. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Mechanical duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between February 20 1962 and March 1 1962. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrapper perfect bound. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
1956ref. 142716Culver City CA: Screen Gems / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Revised Final Draft script for Season Four episode 35 of the 1952-1957 television series "The Ford Television Theatre" originally broadcast May 31 1956 on NBC. Script belonging to Lyn Thomas who played June Darin in the episode with her holograph name in red ink on the front wrapper and her lines circled in holograph ink throughout. Ex-con Frank Darin meets his onetime nemesis the detective that put him in prison years ago. though they part friends he is immediately suspected when the detective is found murdered. The Ford Theatre radio program started in New York on NBC with Broadway actors then moved to Hollywood on CBS for a second season where Hollywood actors headed the cast. The first televised version of the series appeared 1948 as a live hour long drama as most of the programming of the era. A filmed half-hour Ford Theatre returned in 1951 and became the first network television series to be regularly filmed in color by October 1954. The final season aired on ABC for the 1956-57 season. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers noted as Revised Final draft on the front wrapper production No. 3534 and dated March 9 1956. Title page present dated March 9 1956 noted as Revised Final draft with credits for screenwriter Jack Harvey. 50 leaves with last page of text numbered 46. Mechanical duplication with yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between March 12 1956 and March 15 1956. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Screen Gems / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1935ref. 146172Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation 1935. Final Shooting Script for the 1936 film with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Included with the script is a bound set of revisions and retakes dated February 28 1936 also with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. A gambling rogue seduces rich women in order to use their dowries to support his decadent lifestyle and pay off his debts. When he falls in love with a copper heiress in the process of trying to swindle her he must decide between the wealth and power their marriage would bring him and the social disgrace she would encounter if his prior indiscretions were ever made public. Final shooting script 10-2-35: Green titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 10-2-35 with credits for screenwriter Allen Rivkin and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/4/35 and 11/2/35. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Revisions and Retakes: Blue partial wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / REVISIONS & RETAKES on the front wrapper dated February 28 1936 with credits for associate producer Edward T. Lowe and story credits to Gene Markey. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 40. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 3/2/36. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor quite dry with some cracking and a lower right corner of the front rear wrapper detached bound internally with three gold brads. Fox Film Corporation unknown books
1974ref. 146141Paris: Viaduc Productions 1974. Two vintage color studio still photographs of Jane Birkin from the 1974 film. Blind stamp on upper right of each. A cynical dark comedy of sexual politics in 1970s Paris. Nicolas Jean-Louis Trintignant a shy meek bank clerk discovers he has a way with beautiful women Jane Birkin Romy Schneider Florinda Balkan and is encouraged and schooled from impoverished novelist Claude Jean-Pierre Cassel to use his liasons to become one of the richest most powerful men in Paris. Set in and shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Very good pinholes in corners with paper tape repair on verso. Viaduc Productions unknown books
