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1966ref. 136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1989ref. 167211Hollywood: Austin Enterprises 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film seen here under the working title "Beverly Hills Vampire." Copy belonging to makeup artist Richard Miranda with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a five-day shooting schedule along with a call sheet dated May 24 1988. A straight-to-video comedy about three nerds who hook up with vampiric call girls during a trip to Hollywood. Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills. Blue titled wrappers. Missing title page. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Austin Enterprises unknown
1989ref. 167211Hollywood: Austin Enterprises 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film seen here under the working title "Beverly Hills Vampire." Copy belonging to makeup artist Richard Miranda with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a five-day shooting schedule along with a call sheet dated May 24 1988. A straight-to-video comedy about three nerds who hook up with vampiric call girls during a trip to Hollywood. Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills. Blue titled wrappers. Missing title page. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Austin Enterprises unknown books
1994ref. 160129Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film seen here under the working title "Simon Says: Die Hard III." The third film in the Die Hard series following "Die Hard" 1988 and "Die Hard 2" 1990 and preceding "Live Free or Die Hard" 2007 and "A Good Day to Die Hard" 2013. In this installment NYPD Lieutenant John McClane teams up with a local electrician to stop a mysterious terrorist from setting off bombs across New York city. Shot on location in New York South Carolina and Maryland. Orange titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated July 10 1994. Title page present dated July 10 1994 noted as Version 3.31 with credit for screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1979ref. 156737Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1979. Revised Shooting script for the 1979 television film here under the working title "Can You Hear the Laughter The Freddie Prinze Story." Copy belonging to sound mixer Keith A. Wester with his name in manuscript ink on the top right of the front wrapper and his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on 20 pages. Bound in preceding the script are a six page Staff and Crew contact list a 30 page Shooting Schedule 17 pages of Call Sheets with annotations in manuscript ink and a map to the Comedy Store West. Originally aired on CBS on September 11 1979. Based on the article "Good Night Sweet Prinze" by Peter Greenberg published in the June 1977 issue of Playboy magazine. A portrayal of the sudden rise and success of the troubled Puerto Rican stand-up comedian and actor Freddie Prinze who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 29 1977. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 60. Title page present dated March 19 1979 noted as REV. SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only with green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/23/79 and 5/4/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
1979ref. 149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in manuscript marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set. Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell. Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one. Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown
1979ref. 149493Burbank CA: Cougar Films LTD 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film here under the working title "Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages in manuscript marker and pencil on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated for "Mon. May 12 80" with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil and a copied hand-drawn map for directions to the Paramount Ranch the location of the Western town set. Not to be confused with the 1996 film directed by Wes Craven and starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell. Twelve campers on a rafting trip down the Rio Grande decide to set up camp in an old Western ghost town when an unknown killer begins to eliminate them one by one. Set in the Rio Grande shot on location in Lake Piru and Paramount Ranch California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1979 with credits for screenwriter Byron Quisenberry. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some creasing and edgewear bound with two gold brads. Thrower Nightmare USA. Cougar Films, LTD unknown books
1982ref. 035925Universal City CA: Universal Studios 1982. Complete Universal Studios Press Kit for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" by Cameron Crowe author & screenwriter Amy Heckerling director and Starring Sean Penn Jennifer Jason Leigh Judge Reinhold Phoebe Cates Robert Romanus Ray Walston Brian Backer Nicolas Cage Eric Stolz and Forrest Whitaker. Single folder with two pockets. One pocket contains 12 - 8 x 10 black & white press photographs from the film. The other pocket contains biographical information on actors Sean Penn Jennifer Jason Leigh Judge Reinhold Phoebe Cates Robert Romanus Ray Walston and Brian Backer. Biographical information on Cameron Crowe Amy Heckerling and producers Art Linson & Irving Azoff. Also credits and final production notes. Overall condition of the packet is good with faint slight staining and some foxing to the folder. There is rusting to staples. The twelve photographs are in very good condition. Rare. White folder. #035925. First Edition. Folder. Good. 4to. Movie Press Kit Teen Cult. Universal Studios
1949ref. 150986N.p.: N.p. 1949. Two vintage reference photographs one of Orson Welles and Carol Reed and one of Reed Joseph Cotten and Welles on the set of the 1949 film. Reed's classic 1949 British film noir based on an original screenplay by Graham Greene starring Cotten as Holly Martins Anna Schmidt as Valli and Welles as Harry Lime with Cotten and Welles at the peak of their respective powers. The second of three films in which Green collaborated directly with Reed and remains Greene's only original screenplay. Produced and directed by Reed who narrated the UK version and who worked with Greene on two other films "The Fallen Idol" and "Our Man in Havana." Winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominated for Best Editing and Best Director. Set in and shot on location in Vienna Austria and England UK. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 64. Ebert I. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 18. Selby UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown
1949ref. 150986N.p.: N.p. 1949. Two vintage reference photographs one of Orson Welles and Carol Reed and one of Reed Joseph Cotten and Welles on the set of the 1949 film. Reed's classic 1949 British film noir based on an original screenplay by Graham Greene starring Cotten as Holly Martins Anna Schmidt as Valli and Welles as Harry Lime with Cotten and Welles at the peak of their respective powers. The second of three films in which Green collaborated directly with Reed and remains Greene's only original screenplay. Produced and directed by Reed who narrated the UK version and who worked with Greene on two other films "The Fallen Idol" and "Our Man in Havana." Winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominated for Best Editing and Best Director. Set in and shot on location in Vienna Austria and England UK. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 64. Ebert I. Grant UK. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 18. Selby UK. Spicer UK. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 152517Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Collection of 69 vintage photographs from the 1974 British comedy/horror film a mix of studio still photographs and reference and promotional photographs. Included is a photograph of director Clive Donner David Niven and Linda Hayden on the set. All photos housed in archival sleeves and bound in a red leather three-ring binder. The vast collection includes photographs of Niven Hayden Teresa Graves Peter Bayliss Jennie Linden Nicky Henson Bernard Bresslaw Cathie Shirriff Andrea Allan Minah Bird and Luan Peters among others. Dracula portrayed by the typically charming Niven attempts to revive his great love the Countess Vampira by collecting blood from Playboy models touring his castle but when Vampira awakens she is now a powerful black woman in a delightful performance from Graves. The US release changed the film's name to "Old Dracula" in an attempt to cash on the success of Mel Brook's 1974 blockbuster "Young Frankenstein" and the two were frequently shown as a double bill. Shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Binder 10 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 180. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1992ref. 154689Pittsburgh and Rome: ADC Films 1992. Second Draft script for the 1993 film INSCRIBED by screenwriter and author T.E.D. Klein on the title page. Theodore 'Eibon' Donald Klein T.E.D. Klein is an American horror writer and editor who despite his sparse output is highly regarded for his meticulous prose and provocative essays. He was the acclaimed editor of The Twilight Zone Magazine from 1981 to 1985 and author of the bestselling novel "The Ceremonies" 1984 and the award winning four novella collection "Dark Gods" 1985. "Trauma" is his only screenplay. Dario Argento's underrated first feature-length American production a giallo horror film wherein Asia Argento stars as Aura an anorexic young woman who with the help of her new young lover David searches for "The Headhunter" killer responsible for the beheading of both of her parents. Asia Argento's character was partly inspired by her half-sister Anna who suffered from anorexia and died in a scooter accident shortly before the film's release and is seen during the closing credits sequence. Featuring memorable performances from Piper Laurie Frederic Forrest and Brad Dourif. Set in Minneapolis shot on location in Minneapolis Hopkins and St. Paul Minnesota. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated April 1992 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter T.E.D. Klein and story credits for Franco Ferrini Giovanni Romoli and Dario Argento. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with light toning and adhesive shadow to the title page bound with three gold brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse Vol. 2. ADC Films unknown
1992ref. 154689Pittsburgh and Rome: ADC Films 1992. Second Draft script for the 1993 film INSCRIBED by screenwriter and author T.E.D. Klein on the title page. Theodore 'Eibon' Donald Klein T.E.D. Klein is an American horror writer and editor who despite his sparse output is highly regarded for his meticulous prose and provocative essays. He was the acclaimed editor of The Twilight Zone Magazine from 1981 to 1985 and author of the bestselling novel "The Ceremonies" 1984 and the award winning four novella collection "Dark Gods" 1985. "Trauma" is his only screenplay. Dario Argento's underrated first feature-length American production a giallo horror film wherein Asia Argento stars as Aura an anorexic young woman who with the help of her new young lover David searches for "The Headhunter" killer responsible for the beheading of both of her parents. Asia Argento's character was partly inspired by her half-sister Anna who suffered from anorexia and died in a scooter accident shortly before the film's release and is seen during the closing credits sequence. Featuring memorable performances from Piper Laurie Frederic Forrest and Brad Dourif. Set in Minneapolis shot on location in Minneapolis Hopkins and St. Paul Minnesota. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with title page dated April 1992 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter T.E.D. Klein and story credits for Franco Ferrini Giovanni Romoli and Dario Argento. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine with light toning and adhesive shadow to the title page bound with three gold brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Howarth So Deadly So Perverse Vol. 2. ADC Films unknown books
1972ref. 153131London: Avianca 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Fourteen." Copy belonging to producer Harvey Harrison with his name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page. The eldest children of a working class family of fourteen are forced to take care of the younger children when their mother falls ill. Set and shot on location in London. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Roland Starke. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good with wear to the top right page corners of the first 13 pages and front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Avianca unknown
1972ref. 153131London: Avianca 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Fourteen." Copy belonging to producer Harvey Harrison with his name in manuscript ink annotation to the title page. The eldest children of a working class family of fourteen are forced to take care of the younger children when their mother falls ill. Set and shot on location in London. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Roland Starke. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Very Good with wear to the top right page corners of the first 13 pages and front wrapper bound internally with two silver brads. Avianca unknown books
1952ref. 148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film. The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it. Nominated for one Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown
1952ref. 148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film. The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it. Nominated for one Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1958ref. 148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images. Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images. Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 148402N.p.: Golden State Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film belonging to actress Adele Jergens with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper and printed title inked over both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny played by Jergens in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips all along the top page edges still in place with many pages dog-eared. Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair after which she briefly worked as a Rockette being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison" George Blair's "Fighting Trouble" 1956 and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters" 1956 before retiring from acting in late 1956. Anne Carson Joan Taylor convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of finds herself in prison with three cellmates the hardened Jenny Jergens boss of the other inmates the mentally delusional Dorothy Phyllis Coates and sweet-talking Melanee Helen Gilbert. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center bound internally with three gold brads. Golden State Productions unknown
1956ref. 148402N.p.: Golden State Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film belonging to actress Adele Jergens with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper and printed title inked over both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny played by Jergens in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips all along the top page edges still in place with many pages dog-eared. Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair after which she briefly worked as a Rockette being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison" George Blair's "Fighting Trouble" 1956 and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters" 1956 before retiring from acting in late 1956. Anne Carson Joan Taylor convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of finds herself in prison with three cellmates the hardened Jenny Jergens boss of the other inmates the mentally delusional Dorothy Phyllis Coates and sweet-talking Melanee Helen Gilbert. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center bound internally with three gold brads. Golden State Productions unknown books
1969ref. 151549N.p.: Produzione Europee Associate PEA 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph with left margin of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome in a series of gloriously decadent extravagant and grotesque episodes following the pan-sexual scholar Encolpius Potter and his insatiable friend Ascyltus Hiram Keller. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Shot on location in Rome Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling at top and 1.5 inch crease at bottom. Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA) unknown
1969ref. 151549N.p.: Produzione Europee Associate PEA 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph with left margin of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome in a series of gloriously decadent extravagant and grotesque episodes following the pan-sexual scholar Encolpius Potter and his insatiable friend Ascyltus Hiram Keller. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Shot on location in Rome Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling at top and 1.5 inch crease at bottom. Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA) unknown books
1964ref. 150499Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the1964 French film showing director François Truffaut and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with a stamp noting No. 59. Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess. Set and shot on location in Portugal and France. 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1936ref. 150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
