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1934ref. 149348Paris: Films sans Frontieres 1934. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1934 French release of the 1933 Spanish short film. With mimeo snipes on the verso along with holograph ink annotations numbering the photographs. A short pseudo-documentary focusing on the inhabitants of Las Hurdes a mountainous region near La Alberca Spain with an exaggerated depiction of their suffering. Originally shot as a silent film with live narration provided by director Luis Bunuel at the premiere in Madrid in December 1932. The uproar caused by what the Spanish government termed "defamation of the good name of the Spanish people" caused the film to be banned until 1936. Set and shot on location in Spain. 5 x 3.5 inches trimmed irregularly. Very Good plus slightly wavy. Complete collation details available on request. Films sans Frontieres unknown books
1965ref. 149424Rome: Euro International Film 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing director Mario Monicelli and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Marcelo Mastroianni and Margaret Lee on the set of the 1965 Italian film. With holograph ink annotations on the verso. An army officer romances his way through Europe with the caveat that he can only find romantic satisfaction in situations where his life is in danger. Set and shot on location throughout France Italy Switzerland Burma and Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. Euro International Film unknown books
1973ref. 134920Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Complete-as-issued set of 15 black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1973 film. Housed in the original sack envelope as issued rubber stamped "MEAN STREETS / 15 STILLS / B." Scorsese's breakthrough film one of the establishing pillars of New Hollywood cinema setting the template that would guide the best of his work to follow. Set in New York City and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Sack Very Good Plus with minor wear. Warner Brothers unknown books
1947ref. WRCLIT61188Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures 1947. 1116 leaves plus lettered inserts. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers with label upper wrapper in duplicate. Title of later remake lettered on spine otherwise very good to near fine. A composite script with later stamp denoting it a Vault Copy of this unproduced adaptation of Maugham's novel comprised of pages dated variously through August September and October. In 1934 MGM released John Meehan's adaptation starring Greta Garbo and were evidently exploring the possibility of a remake of the popular property. Swerling was a solid writer to bring to the task having worked recently on LIFEBOAT IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN and other significant titles. But for whatever reason the project did not come to fruition and the film based on this script was not made. MGM returned again to Maugham's novel in 1957 and released an adaptation by Karl Tunberg under the title THE SEVENTH SIN. Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 144082Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets amounting to over 800 numbered images from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces with several sheets capturing a formal dinner with the cast and crew presumably the film's premiere. Most with 12 images per sheet a few with 6-frame strips of 35mm film each image with a series number and all sheets credit at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Apoteker. Housed in a red paper 2-ring binder with French titles printed on the front. Several with brief numerical annotations on the verso. Noirish crime thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photos 8.25 x 10.25 inches a few slightly variant sizes hole-punched and two with square cuts. Very Good plus overall with curling and light foxing creases to the binder. Cinedis unknown books
1954ref. 150809N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Bound in after the outline are several sets of character descriptions and continuity notes. Santa Fe's first female doctor Greer Garson wants to introduce modern medical technology to the town but encounters resistance both from the local hospital which is run by a Catholic priest Walter Hampden and from the town's only other doctor Dana Andrews. Set in Boston Massachusetts and Santa Fe New Mexico shot on location in Tucson the Sonoran Desert and the Sierrita Mountains Arizona. Green titled wrappers with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy. Title page present dated 4/13/54 noted as Story Outline with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Frank Butler. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Pitts 4148. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 130416Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1982. First Draft script for the 1982 film written for the screen by James Kirkwood based on his 1975 novel. Credited solely to Kirkwood and with a paper spine label indicating the script dates to December 1976 over five years prior to the film's production. With brief but substantive corrections in holograph pencil on four pages. Dark blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter novelist Kirkwood. 166 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Parish and Hill 188. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 152309Rome: Cineriz 1962. Collection of three vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film two showing actors Alain Delon and Monica Vitti the other showing a busy scene on the trading floor. All three photographs with a stamp specific to the film's Italian release on the verso along with cropping annotations in pencil and two with holograph ink annotations identifying Delon and Vitti. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Antonioni's modernity trilogy preceded by "L'avventura" 1960 and "La notte" 1961. Shot on location in Rome and Verona Italy. 9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 278. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Cineriz unknown books
1970ref. 148876Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Daria Halprin seemingly trapped in the middle of a mid-century modern glass vestibule from the 1970 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Antonioni's great American experiment and the only film the director ever made in the United States written for the screen by a young Sam Shepard. Though made from an Italian's perspective the film stands today as a great visual statement on the American West in the late 1960s rampant consumerism and the hippie zeitgeist. 8 x 10 inches with wide horizontal margins. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1965ref. 143355Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Vintage press photograph on the set of the 1966 film giving a boom mic's view of a camera crew and director Mike Nichols filming a scene with stars Richard Burton and Sandy Dennis. Directorial debut of Mike Nichols and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress and nominated for eight more. Based on the 1963 Tony Award winning play by Edward Albee. 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1967ref. 151244London: Gala Film Distributors 1967. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 Czechoslovakian film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A volunteer fire department in a provincial town plans a ball in honor of the chief's retirement but the proceedings are marred with comic difficulty at every turn. The first color film directed by Milos Forman a hallmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave and the final film Forman directed in his native Czechoslovakia before relocating to the US in the late 1960s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1937ref. 150759N.p.: N.p. 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of director Mitchell Leisen demonstrating how to kiss Jean Arthur while Ray Milland looks on from the 1937 film. Based on the 1937 short story by Vera Caspary. During the Great Depression obscenely wealthy baker J.B. Ball Edward Arnold angered at his wife's Mary Nash spending throws her very expensive sable coat off the roof where it lands on the head of stenographer Mary Smith Arthur leading to a life-altering chain of events. Set in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Some edgewear else Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography: 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 131321Beverly Hills CA: Mirisch Productions / United Artists 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to actress Merie Earle her first film credit and INSCRIBED on the front wrapper: "This was my first / "on location" picture / Everything was / "red carpet" I loved it / Merie Earle." Notations in holograph red ink and pencil throughout at Earle's speaking parts as "Grandma." Merie Earle was a solid fixture on the television series "The Waltons" 1972-1979 as "Maude Gormley." Based on Ben Hecht's 1963 book about a young writer Bridges caught in political corruption in Chicago early 1900s. A grand cinematic tale nominated for art direction costume design and sound. Margot Kidder Lois Lane of "Superman" 1978 got her Hollywood start with this film as a prostitute who deflowers Bridges. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 167 dated May 8 1968 with credits for producer-director Jewison. Title page present dated May 8 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Ginnes and producer-director Jewison. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and white revision pages throughout dated either 7/8/68 or 7/11/68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Mirisch Productions / United Artists unknown books
1947ref. 150230N.p.: N.p. 1947. Collection of three vintage slightly oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1947 film taken during production in Acapulco Mexico two showing a large parrot perched on the camera and one showing several unknown gaffers standing near large floodlights used during filming. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with a PIX stamp crediting an unknown photographer noted in holograph pencil annotation as "Hatch" and a library stamp. 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. Based on Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake" following an Irish drifter who finds himself caught between a mysterious woman and her disabled tycoon husband. A lavishly photographed surreal production now considered a hallmark of film noir. Set in San Francisco and New York shot on location throughout New York City Guerrero Mexico and San Francisco Sausalito and San Luis Obispo California. And on Erroll Flynn's yacht "Zaca" in the waters near Acapulco. Two 8.5 x 11 inches one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. N.p. unknown books
1947ref. 134869Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of Rita Hayworth taken for the 1947 film by Columbia Pictures special photographer Robert Coburn. With Coburn's stamp on the verso. Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s. His star subjects included Hayworth Joan Crawford Kim Novak Carole Lombard William Holden Glenn Ford and Orson Welles. Coburn's most famous portraits immortalized Hollywood's greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940 Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio's chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including "Picnic" "Gilda" and "The Big Heat". 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 144708Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Liza Minnelli gives a strong non-musical performance as a woman who has been disfigured by a vengeful boyfriend and who finds comfort in a friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. Illustrated titled card wrappers with a credit for director/producer Otto Preminger. Title page present dated May 1 1969 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Marjorie Kellogg. 185 leaves with last page of text numbered 184 mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internal prong binding. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948ref. 139636Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1948. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1948 film. Featuring Eleanor Parker standing next to Sydney Greenstreet with Gig Young kneeling at the feet of Alexis Smith in front of the pair. From the private collection of Eleanor Parker. Photographer Bob Palmer's rubber stamp to the verso. Based on the 1859 Wilkie Collins novel. An artist Gig Young hired to teach a wealthy woman Eleanor Parker uncovers a plot to erode her sanity. He becomes involved with one of Parker's cousins and together the pair attempt to save her and the family fortune from her conniving invalid uncle and new husband. Set on an English estate. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine condition. Selby US. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969ref. 140903Italy: San Marco / Les Films Number One / Janus Film und Ferneshen 1969. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1969 film. Based on the Greek myth the film is opera legend Maria Callas' only feature film role one in which she did not sing. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1088. San Marco / Les Films Number One / Janus Film und Ferneshen unknown books
1963ref. 149379N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. An anthology film of four short films titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza" directed by Roberto Rossellini "Il Nuovo Mondo" directed by Jean-Luc Godard "La Ricotta" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and "Il Pollo Ruspante" directed by Ugo Gregoretti Pasolini's scathing comic rebuke on social inequality and religious hypocrisy wherein a lavish film production of the crucifixion of Christ in a poor region outside Rome finds the extra playing the "good thief" Stracci Mario Cipriani quite literally starving during the production trying everything to get some food all while being berated by the bombastic insufferable director Orson Welles. The film resulted in Pasolini being convicted of blasphemy and the film being banned in Italy. Pasolini was sentenced to a four month prison term which he avoided by paying a fine. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 236. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 135654Berlin: Nero AG 1948. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Preston Sturges and actors Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison on the set of the 1948 film. 8 x 10 inches 20.5 x 25.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 292. Nero AG unknown books
1966ref. 145971Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Draft script for the 1967 British spy film. With producer Richard Zanuck's name written on the front wrapper in holograph ink though not in his hand. Based on an unpublished novel by Larry Forrester. An American skydiver in Spain is enlisted by a Scottish secret agent to recover the detonator for an H-bomb that has fallen into the hands of hostile enemy agents. One of three 1967 Twentieth Century-Fox films about female spies that functioned primarily as star vehicles for their leading ladies the other two being "Caprice" with Doris Day and "Come Spy with Me" with Andrea Dromm. Set and shot on location in Andalucia Spain. Green titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 4192. Title page present noted as copy No. 14 in holograph ink dated 15th August 1966 with a credit for screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1962ref. 139131France Italy: Cineriz 1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material like shooting schedules and synopses a cinema magazine reviewing the film and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin Martres a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations in holograph ink throughout. More than 150 leaves of correspondence and notes. A glimpse inside the behind-the-scenes process of French press and the attention paid to prolific French figures of cinema notably Rene Clair. Maryse Martin whose film credits include "The Happy Road" 1957 "Bonjour Tristesse 1958 and several films each for directors Jacqueline Audry Maurice Labro and Jean Gourguet was a popular "B" actress who played supporting roles in over 40 films. She presumably worked for a press agency involved in publication of film reviews press kits photographs and more. Several letters are represented addressed to and from Maryse from persons like Gay-Lussac Gordon Reid A. Sergio Berrocal George L. George Monsieur Bergougnous Monsieur Lourau J.D. van Leeuwen Edmundo Duran members of UniFrance Film Alessandro Ferrau R. Betmalle Clare Simpson Pierre Lazareff Francois Timmory I. Dally and even Rene Clair's secretary. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. All material Very Good overall housed in Martin's file folder with the film title in holograph ink. Complete collation details available upon request. Cineriz unknown books
1966ref. 144953Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 Western showing director Richard Brooks and crew getting ready to shoot a close up of actor Lee Marvin letting loose with a machine gun. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary only to discover the job in not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon despite being nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in Mexico and Texas shot on location in Mexico Arizona Nevada and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 149573Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage reference photograph of actors Paul Newman and Shirley Knight examining film negatives with cinematographer Milton R. Krasner looking on. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1959 play wherein a failed Hollywood actor and gigolo returns to his small hometown accompanied by an older faded movie star hoping to win back his former girlfriend. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Begley. Set in St. Cloud Mississippi. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1967ref. 146012Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert Blake and Scott Wilson from the 1967 film. Crop annotations in holograph pencil and the stamp of photographer Michel Ciment stamp on the verso. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. Nominated for four Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus some light creasing and edgewear. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
