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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1970ref. 148810Tokyo: Toho 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph 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 lense 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
1951ref. 151291Culver City CA: Loew's Incorporated 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film. Script department copy stamped as COMPLETE and RERUN JAN 3 1952. With 94 small borderless reference photographs tipped on the versos of script pages and 23 additional photographs of the cast and crew on the set tipped on blank pages inserted after the end of the script dated between March 27 and May 12 1952. Also bound in is a 25 page appendix detailing historical information about the pilgrims their ship and voyage. Based on the 1950 novel "The Voyage of the Mayflower" by Ernest Gebler a fictionalized account of the journey of the Mayflower from England to North America. Winner of an Academy Award. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 68 and production No. 1552 dated 12/18/51 with credits for director Clarence Brown and screenwriter Helen Deutsch. Distribution label present on the front wrapper with receipt removed. 187 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white yellow and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 10-9-50 and 4-16-52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Reference photographs between 2.25 x 2.25 and 4.5 x 3.5 inches on the set photographs 5 x 4 inches. Generally Very Good plus to Near Fine. Loew's Incorporated 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 holograph 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 holograph 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
1995ref. 3180Hollywood: Propaganda Films 1995. First Edition thus. Post-Bound Leather. Fine. No DJ as Issued. Very minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. Blue calf leather boards gilt lettering marbled pastedowns. 8vo. Approx. 123pp plus np Character Notes. A fine leather binding Gramercy Pictures in gilt on the front pastedown. This is Number 25 of the April 1995 script with June 1995 revisions final. It is from the collection of the film's producer Monty Montgomery. A rare chance to add a remarkable bit of James/film ephemera to one's collection. Propaganda Films hardcover books
1939ref. 148582Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture 1939. Vintage oversize double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939" stamp with the annotation "ESB" to right of stamp and "From Sallisaw Okla. 13/11/39" at bottom in holograph pencil all on verso. Based on the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck. The now-famed story of a suffering sharecropper family forced to relocate John Ford's film adaptation stays true to the tone of Steinbeck's original which was published only three months before producer Darryl F. Zanuck acquired the rights. Though Steinbeck purportedly threatened to sue the studio using the money he made from the sale if they changed the story's intent to bring attention to the conditions of migrant workers he was quite pleased with both Nunnally Johnson's screenplay and the film itself. The ending to the film varies significantly from that of the book with Steinbeck's acknowledgment of the need for such a change. Winner of two Academy Awards and nominated for five others including Best Picture. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1989. Set in Oklahoma and en route to California shot on location in California New Mexico Oklahoma and Arizona. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good with creasing at top and corners four small closed tears and chip to top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Technicolor Motion Picture unknown books
1956ref. 143240Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1956. First Draft script for the 1956 film. Title in English on rear wrapper. Based on a 1946 children's novel by Michio Takeyama about a conscience-driven Japanese soldier who adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk after he fails to get his countrymen to surrender to an overwhelming force. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Set in Burma during WWll shot on location in Burma and near the Izu Peninsula in Japan. White titled wrappers. Title page present. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered e-25. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with some toning due to age wrapper Very Good with mild foxing and light water damage near spine. Criterion Collection 379. Eureka Masters of Cinema 12. Nikkatsu unknown books
1950ref. 131050Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1950. Revised First Draft Continuity script for the 1951 film. Included is an index to the script breakdown detailing various scenes and script page numbers with revisions. Copy belonging to Dane Anderson an uncredited member of the crew with his name on the front wrapper of the script breakdown and annotations throughout in holograph pencil. File copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Weidman's 1937 novel and Vera Caspary's loose adaptation. Harriet Boyd Hayward is a fashion designer who partners with Teddy Dailey whom she loves and Sam Jaffe and starts a new business dedicated to selling affordable women's dresses. A rival fashion company lead by Noble Sanders momentarily distracts Harriet but at the last minute she realizes her true devotion to Teddy and Sam. Screenwriter Polonsky was blacklisted shortly after the film's release refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee. White titled wrappers rubber-stamped as REVISED FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY on the front wrapper copy No. 3 and production No. 2446.8 dated August 4 1950. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated August 4 1950 noted as Revised 1st Draft Continuity with a credit for screenwriter Polonsky. 170 leaves with last page of text numbered 168. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Script Breakdown: self wrappers as issued. 88 leaves dated 10/2/50 mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1946ref. 118614London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12 just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a 10-way tie for first place "A Matter of Life and Death" is probably the most philosophically ambitious of their masterpieces. David Niven is a British wartime aviator who unwittingly cheats death and must ultimately argue for his continued existence before a celestial court. In between these two events is a wildly imaginative and surreal tale told first in Technicolor on earth then in Dye-Monochrome black-and-white in heaven. This oversize program book evokes the spirit of the film beautifully with clever use of two-color processes mostly pink and blue throughout. Includes biographies and large photos of the principal actors reviews an essay about the techniques used to shoot the film and credits for the cast and crew. The credits and promotion are specific to the UK rather than international or US distribution of the film through Eagle-Lion and General Distributors. Self-wrappers 14.5 x 11.5 inches saddle-stapled. Very Good plus condition with fine shallow creasing at the wrapper extremities. The Archers / Eagle-Lion unknown books
1963ref. 146394Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few holograph pencil annotations throughout mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate however how seriously Becket will take the vocation leading to the dissolution of their friendship in the face of Becket's rising political power. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in England and France. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 12th February 1963 noted as REVISED. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeographed on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some rusting near the binding bound internally with three silver brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in holograph pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope. Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. A businessman 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. 747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown books
1955ref. 144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Collection of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in holograph ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown books
1965ref. 132451Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. First Draft script for the 1965 film. Included are production notes dated November 1965 laid in and an architectural sketch of the "sky truck" noted as "REVISED / APR. 22. '65" As deluxe a script for this film as we have seen and a highspot for noted director Robert Aldrich. One of the great adventure films of the twentieth century wherein a cargo plane with fewer than a dozen men goes down in the Sahara in a sandstorm. One of the men is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before food and water are depleted. Black titled wrappers noted as 2ND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 6th. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Heller and novelist Trevor. 178 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/15/65 and 4/27/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine with a small fingernail-size bruise at the top left corner of the front wrapper. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
