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1952ref. 130769Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A mother confronts her college aged son about his girlfriend who is a communist spy and turns him into the FBI but he's killed by enemy agents before he can confess. One of the most blatantly pro-McCarthy films of the Red Scare era. Lacking title page self wrapper typically issued by Paramount during this time period. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 133 leaves on blue stock mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good with exception to page 132 unbound. Paramount Pictures unknown
1942ref. 159867Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Leo McCarey revising a line with actress Ginger Rogers on the set of the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with a RKO Radio Pictures stamp. A burlesque performer suspects her fiancé of being a Nazi sympathizer a suspicion shared by a handsome American foreign correspondent. 6.5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1942ref. 159867Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Leo McCarey revising a line with actress Ginger Rogers on the set of the 1942 film. Printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with a RKO Radio Pictures stamp. A burlesque performer suspects her fiancé of being a Nazi sympathizer a suspicion shared by a handsome American foreign correspondent. 6.5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1952ref. 130769Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A mother confronts her college aged son about his girlfriend who is a communist spy and turns him into the FBI but he's killed by enemy agents before he can confess. One of the most blatantly pro-McCarthy films of the Red Scare era. Lacking title page self wrapper typically issued by Paramount during this time period. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 133 leaves on blue stock mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good with exception to page 132 unbound. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1932ref. 166686Berlin: Universum Film UFA 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing director Robert Siodmak and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Lilian Harvey. French mimeo snipe and UFA stamp on the verso. A young woman falls in love with a stage clown unaware that the man wooing her offstage is the performer behind the costume. 7 x 5.25 inches. Very Good plus. Universum Film [UFA] unknown
1932ref. 166686Berlin: Universum Film UFA 1932. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing director Robert Siodmak and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Lilian Harvey. French mimeo snipe and UFA stamp on the verso. A young woman falls in love with a stage clown unaware that the man wooing her offstage is the performer behind the costume. 7 x 5.25 inches. Very Good plus. Universum Film [UFA] unknown books
1950ref. 157111Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Archive of material from the 1951 film belonging to actor Lon McCallister including a Final Draft script with McCallister's annotations throughout an eleven-page shooting schedule four reference photographs and three poster mock-ups for the film. Additionally laid in with the script are two loose leaves one with notes in McCallister's hand noting lines of dialogue. A group of green army recruits nicknamed the "peach fuzz brigade" become hardened over the course of the Korean War facing violent raids and attacks by snipers. Script: Green titled Columbia Pictures wrappers noting the working title "Rookie in Korea" noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8031 dated Oct. 17 1950. Title page present dated October 17 1950 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Sackheim. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated October 24 1950. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1950ref. 157111Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Archive of material from the 1951 film belonging to actor Lon McCallister including a Final Draft script with McCallister's annotations throughout an eleven-page shooting schedule four reference photographs and three poster mock-ups for the film. Additionally laid in with the script are two loose leaves one with notes in McCallister's hand noting lines of dialogue. A group of green army recruits nicknamed the "peach fuzz brigade" become hardened over the course of the Korean War facing violent raids and attacks by snipers. Script: Green titled Columbia Pictures wrappers noting the working title "Rookie in Korea" noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8031 dated Oct. 17 1950. Title page present dated October 17 1950 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Sackheim. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated October 24 1950. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 140202Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who play Ken McLaughlin with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion angering the mare's owner Beaver Greenway a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile Ken McLaughlin Arthur returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Wyoming Utah and Ohio USA. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 84 and production No. 133 dated April 7 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated April 7 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining at the edges of a few leaves wrapper Very Good with some dampstaining on the front and rear wrappers. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1947ref. 140202Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur who play Ken McLaughlin with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion angering the mare's owner Beaver Greenway a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile Ken McLaughlin Arthur returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award. Set in Wyoming shot on location in Wyoming Utah and Ohio USA. Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 84 and production No. 133 dated April 7 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated April 7 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good with dampstaining at the edges of a few leaves wrapper Very Good with some dampstaining on the front and rear wrappers. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963ref. 150212N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless photograph of Luchino Visconti Burt Lancaster and crew on the set of the 1963 film. Coat of Arms with Leopard and "Le Guepard" stamps on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 150212N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless photograph of Luchino Visconti Burt Lancaster and crew on the set of the 1963 film. Coat of Arms with Leopard and "Le Guepard" stamps on the verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career and one of a handful of examples of Burt Lancaster's willingness to take on literate complex roles. Nominated for an Academy Award. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome Lazio and Sicily Italy. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. BFI 1087. Criterion Collection 235. Ebert II. Godard Histoires de cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 22. N.p. unknown books
1945ref. 159854N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing director Marcel Carné on the set. French annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso along with a Photofest label and a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the bottom edge. An influential classic of French cinema following a courtesan in nineteenth century Paris who finds her attentions torn between four possible suitors-a mime an actor a thief and an aristocrat. Set and shot on location in France. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 141. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 159854N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing director Marcel Carné on the set. French annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso along with a Photofest label and a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the bottom edge. An influential classic of French cinema following a courtesan in nineteenth century Paris who finds her attentions torn between four possible suitors-a mime an actor a thief and an aristocrat. Set and shot on location in France. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 141. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1932ref. 149934N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing the fish stand in the Marseille harbor. With a manuscript pencil annotation on the verso noting the number 8. A young fishmonger's daughter discovers she's pregnant with little chance of marriage to the father who has departed overseas for a sailor's life. The second film in director Marc Allegret's delicate lyrical Marseillaise trilogy preceded by "Marius" 1931 and followed by "Cesar" 1936. Set and shot on location in Marseille. 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy at the bottom edge with some soil on the bottom half of the recto only. Criterion Collection 883. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1932ref. 149934N.p.: N.p. 1932. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1932 film showing the fish stand in the Marseille harbor. With a manuscript pencil annotation on the verso noting the number 8. A young fishmonger's daughter discovers she's pregnant with little chance of marriage to the father who has departed overseas for a sailor's life. The second film in director Marc Allegret's delicate lyrical Marseillaise trilogy preceded by "Marius" 1931 and followed by "Cesar" 1936. Set and shot on location in Marseille. 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy at the bottom edge with some soil on the bottom half of the recto only. Criterion Collection 883. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 150219N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marguerite Duras on the set of the 1969 film. Credits printed on verso. Marguerite Duras' directorial debut based on her radical 1969 novel about two couples exploring the destructive potential of their desires their identities dissipating and merging at an isolated seaside resort where no other guests are seen only heard playing tennis surrounded by a dense forest. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 150219N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Marguerite Duras on the set of the 1969 film. Credits printed on verso. Marguerite Duras' directorial debut based on her radical 1969 novel about two couples exploring the destructive potential of their desires their identities dissipating and merging at an isolated seaside resort where no other guests are seen only heard playing tennis surrounded by a dense forest. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 162363N.p.: N.p. 1980. Three vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1980 adult film. An orphaned heiress enjoys a series of erotic encounters with men and women none of whom can satisfy her insatiable drive for sex. Shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 162363N.p.: N.p. 1980. Three vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1980 adult film. An orphaned heiress enjoys a series of erotic encounters with men and women none of whom can satisfy her insatiable drive for sex. Shot on location in London. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 169550Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1950 film noir showing Sterling Hayden and Jean Hagen embracing while Marilyn Monroe looks on with envy. MGM stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1949 novel by W.R. Burnett and hugely influential as one of the earliest films in the heist film sub-genre. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Selby US Masterworks. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Criterion Collection 847. National Film Registry. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1950ref. 169550Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1950. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1950 film noir showing Sterling Hayden and Jean Hagen embracing while Marilyn Monroe looks on with envy. MGM stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1949 novel by W.R. Burnett and hugely influential as one of the earliest films in the heist film sub-genre. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Selby US Masterworks. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Criterion Collection 847. National Film Registry. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947ref. 163341Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1947. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film showing actress Marlene Dietrich. Mimeo snipe on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists an American army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer in postwar Berlin. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman however the captain and the entertainer are engaged in an affair leading the captain to seduce the congresswoman in an attempt to hide his conflicting motives. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in Berlin. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Selby US. Selby UK. Paramount Pictures unknown
1930ref. 166084N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage publicity portrait photograph of Marlene Dietrich from the 1930 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Benny Vigny's 1927 novel "Amy Jolly die Frau aus Marrakesch" an autobiographical story based on his own experiences in Marrakesh while serving in the French Foreign Legion. The film is today best remembered for a scene in which Dietrich performs in a man's tailcoat and kisses another woman. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Actress for Dietrich. Set in Mogador. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1942ref. 157691N.p.: N.p. 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Mitchell Leisen talking to actors Marlene Dietrich and Fred MacMurray between takes. Provenance stamp on the verso. An eccentric unmarried actress who longs for motherhood finds an abandoned baby and enlists a divorced pediatrician's help in raising the child. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with paper tape reinforcements on the corner versos. N.p. unknown
