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1941ref. 161382N.p.: N.p. 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter and associate producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eleven reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages with nine pages of song lyrics ribbon copy typescript pages and manuscript pencil annotations on two pages and copied annotations on five pages. Two Navy seamen borrow money to wager on their ship for the upcoming gunnery practice with the knowledge that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship unaware his enlistment is ending before the contest. Shot on location in Honolulu and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with brown quarter leather binding. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Al Dubin. 182 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of ribbon copy typescript song lyric pages rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/12/41 and 6/13/41. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good with moderate rubbing to the spine and corners. N.p. unknown
1941ref. 161382N.p.: N.p. 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter and associate producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Eleven reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages with nine pages of song lyrics ribbon copy typescript pages and manuscript pencil annotations on two pages and copied annotations on five pages. Two Navy seamen borrow money to wager on their ship for the upcoming gunnery practice with the knowledge that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship unaware his enlistment is ending before the contest. Shot on location in Honolulu and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with brown quarter leather binding. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Al Dubin. 182 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of ribbon copy typescript song lyric pages rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/12/41 and 6/13/41. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good with moderate rubbing to the spine and corners. N.p. unknown books
ref. 159007N.p.: Dell Publishing 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Both with Dell Publishing photograph library stamps on the verso. An unhappy apathetic housewife who has just left her husband decides to go on the run with a bank robber. Shot largely on location on a shoestring budget with much of its dialogue improvised the film was Barbara Loden's directorial debut. Set in eastern Pennsylvania and shot on location in Scranton and Carbondale Pennsylvania and Waterdale Connecticut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto versos relating to cropping and publication. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 965. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Dell Publishing unknown books
1965ref. 160196N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A planned sequel to "Christmas on Earth" an absurd Beat-era stream-of-consciousness narrative following the Snow Queen and a group of fairies as they attempt to save Jean Genet playing himself from life as a Bowery Bum. Filmmaker Barbara Rubin was a figure of almost mythical importance in the New York underground. Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground was friends with Bob Dylan and a former lover of Allen Ginsberg and helped Jonas Mekas organize the Film-Makers' Cooperative all before converting to Orthodox Judaism at 24 and moving to France with her husband and children. Rubin is today best remembered for her transgressive 1963 masterpiece "Christmas on Earth" a 16mm film so sexually explicit it sent ripples through the New York film scene and was subject to multiple censorship efforts by the police made when Rubin was only 18 years old. Self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1965 with credit for screenwriter Barbara Rubin. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust marks along the binding bound with three staples. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 160196N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A planned sequel to "Christmas on Earth" an absurd Beat-era stream-of-consciousness narrative following the Snow Queen and a group of fairies as they attempt to save Jean Genet playing himself from life as a Bowery Bum. Filmmaker Barbara Rubin was a figure of almost mythical importance in the New York underground. Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground was friends with Bob Dylan and a former lover of Allen Ginsberg and helped Jonas Mekas organize the Film-Makers' Cooperative all before converting to Orthodox Judaism at 24 and moving to France with her husband and children. Rubin is today best remembered for her transgressive 1963 masterpiece "Christmas on Earth" a 16mm film so sexually explicit it sent ripples through the New York film scene and was subject to multiple censorship efforts by the police made when Rubin was only 18 years old. Self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1965 with credit for screenwriter Barbara Rubin. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust marks along the binding bound with three staples. N.p. unknown books
ref. 160091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Shooting script for the classic 1989 film. Cameron Crowe's directorial debut about the post-graduation romance that develops between an awkward but noble army brat and the beautiful class valedictorian. One of the defining high school films of the 1980s and a breakthrough role for actor John Cusack. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Seattle. Gray titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated February 29 1988. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated February 29 1988 with credit for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
ref. 160091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Shooting script for the classic 1989 film. Cameron Crowe's directorial debut about the post-graduation romance that develops between an awkward but noble army brat and the beautiful class valedictorian. One of the defining high school films of the 1980s and a breakthrough role for actor John Cusack. Shot on location in Los Angeles and Seattle. Gray titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated February 29 1988. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated February 29 1988 with credit for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication on green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 163658Buckinghamshire: Sparkline Limited 1988. Second Draft UK script for the 1990 British film. Adapted for the screen by Clive Barker from his 1988 novella "Cabal." A mental patient who is wanted for serial murders is initiated among a group of monsters only he can see. Shot on location in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire England Alberta and Columbia Canada and Los Angeles USA. Tall black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated December 1988 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for director screenwriter and novelist Clive Barker. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Weldon 1996. Sparkline Limited unknown
ref. 163658Buckinghamshire: Sparkline Limited 1988. Second Draft UK script for the 1990 British film. Adapted for the screen by Clive Barker from his 1988 novella "Cabal." A mental patient who is wanted for serial murders is initiated among a group of monsters only he can see. Shot on location in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire England Alberta and Columbia Canada and Los Angeles USA. Tall black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated December 1988 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for director screenwriter and novelist Clive Barker. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. McPadden Heavy Metal Movies. Weldon 1996. Sparkline Limited unknown books
ref. 159101Hollywood: Marimark 1986. Two Draft scripts for the 1986 film seen here under the working title "Limo." Both copies belonging to actor Howard Hesseman with his annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout and one script with his signature in manuscript ink on the bottom right corner of the front wrapper. A strong-willed young woman gets a job as a driver for an upscale Beverly Hills limousine service upsetting the older men working for the company. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Undated script: Tall self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for director and screenwriter David Beaird. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with the final leaf moderately worn and partially detached from the binding. Bound with two gold brads. Script dated 4/30/85: Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated 4/30/85 with credit for screenwriter David Beaird. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/22/85 and 6/3/85. Pages Near Fine wrappers Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. McPadden Teens in Hell. Vinegar Syndrome 177. Marimark unknown books
1959ref. 144663Paris: Les Films Ariane 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in manuscript ink on the page and in mimeograph on the verso all credited to photographer Dole on the recto. The keybook illustrates a few film sequences most with a stoic Gabin in hat with several composed studio portraits of actress Nat. Included are four larger single photographs of Gabin doing a chair trick in a pub a sequence present in the keybook also credited to Dole on the recto. Based on Lefevre's novel "Rue des Prairies" 1955. Gabin plays a POW who returns a widower and in charge of three children. His experiences during the war are relieve through heavy drinking but he has a warm side that proves beneficial. Photographer Dolé was consistent if anything a regular with directors like Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy and Grangier and several Jean Gabin films. Keybook photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches four photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches small white borders. Light curling else Near Fine. Notebook Very Good plus. Les Films Ariane unknown
1959ref. 144663Paris: Les Films Ariane 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in manuscript ink on the page and in mimeograph on the verso all credited to photographer Dole on the recto. The keybook illustrates a few film sequences most with a stoic Gabin in hat with several composed studio portraits of actress Nat. Included are four larger single photographs of Gabin doing a chair trick in a pub a sequence present in the keybook also credited to Dole on the recto. Based on Lefevre's novel "Rue des Prairies" 1955. Gabin plays a POW who returns a widower and in charge of three children. His experiences during the war are relieve through heavy drinking but he has a warm side that proves beneficial. Photographer Dolé was consistent if anything a regular with directors like Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy and Grangier and several Jean Gabin films. Keybook photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches four photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches small white borders. Light curling else Near Fine. Notebook Very Good plus. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1957ref. 161062Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Five vintage photographs taken on the set of the 1958 film including four studio still photographs showing director Douglas Sirk talking with actors Lisa Pulver and John Gavin and one borderless photograph showing novelist screenwriter and actor Erich Maria Remarque. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Remarque's 1954 novel about a German soldier who returns home to find his home bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. Studio still photographs 8 x 10 inches borderless photograph 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus several with light toning and wear on the edges. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 142863Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess was a technical advisor for the film and the gold flying helmet Rock Hudson wears was his personal possession. A poster for "Battle Hymn" appears outside the movie theater in the 1959 pilot episode of The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody" Set in 1950s Westhampton Ohio and Seoul shot on location in Seoul South Korea and Nogales AZ. Navy full calf binding without paper wrappers as issued. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Charles Grayson. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 123-A. Multilith duplication with pink blue white revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/29/56 and 4/23/56. Pages Near Fine presentation binding Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1956ref. 142863Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess a real-life United States Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War. Hess was a technical advisor for the film and the gold flying helmet Rock Hudson wears was his personal possession. A poster for "Battle Hymn" appears outside the movie theater in the 1959 pilot episode of The Twilight Zone "Where Is Everybody" Set in 1950s Westhampton Ohio and Seoul shot on location in Seoul South Korea and Nogales AZ. Navy full calf binding without paper wrappers as issued. Title page present noted as Second Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Charles Grayson. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 123-A. Multilith duplication with pink blue white revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/29/56 and 4/23/56. Pages Near Fine presentation binding Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 161062Universal City: Universal Pictures 1957. Five vintage photographs taken on the set of the 1958 film including four studio still photographs showing director Douglas Sirk talking with actors Lisa Pulver and John Gavin and one borderless photograph showing novelist screenwriter and actor Erich Maria Remarque. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. Based on Remarque's 1954 novel about a German soldier who returns home to find his home bombed and his parents gone. Shot on location in Berlin. Studio still photographs 8 x 10 inches borderless photograph 7 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus several with light toning and wear on the edges. Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown books
ref. 160743N.p.: A-A Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Hostesses." Copy belonging to actress Kathy Hilton with her annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and throughout. A softcore sexploitation film about a woman who decides to become a cocktail waitress in order to get closer to men and money-in that order. Screenwriter Ed Wood Jr.'s fifth collaboration with director Stephen Apostolof following "Orgy of the Dead" 1965 "The Class Reunion" 1972 "Drop-Out Wife" 1972 and "The Snow Bunnies" 1972. Beige titled wrappers undated noted as production No. 113 with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Early xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper partially detached from the binding bound with two gold brads. A-A Productions unknown
ref. 160743N.p.: A-A Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Hostesses." Copy belonging to actress Kathy Hilton with her annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and throughout. A softcore sexploitation film about a woman who decides to become a cocktail waitress in order to get closer to men and money-in that order. Screenwriter Ed Wood Jr.'s fifth collaboration with director Stephen Apostolof following "Orgy of the Dead" 1965 "The Class Reunion" 1972 "Drop-Out Wife" 1972 and "The Snow Bunnies" 1972. Beige titled wrappers undated noted as production No. 113 with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Early xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper partially detached from the binding bound with two gold brads. A-A Productions unknown books
ref. 149074Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy with his ownership name on the title page in manuscript link and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page. A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse designed to capitalize on the enormous success of the 1971 film "Evel Knievel" but with this entry featuring inimitable motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel as himself. Also cast are Gene Kelly as his alcoholic mechanic and Leslie Nielsen as a power-hungry Mexican drug lord. Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico unaware that a drug cartel intends to kill him and use his tour bus to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine. Set in California and Mexico shot on location in Monterey Park Burbank and Long Beach California. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated February 13 1976 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Antonio Santillan sic. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
ref. 149074Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. Uncredited makeup artist Rick Schwartz's copy with his ownership name on the title page in manuscript link and with penciled check marks throughout relating to close-ups in the film. Secretarial notation of supervising producer Irwin Allen's name on the title page. A stunt-heavy 1970s powerhouse designed to capitalize on the enormous success of the 1971 film "Evel Knievel" but with this entry featuring inimitable motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel as himself. Also cast are Gene Kelly as his alcoholic mechanic and Leslie Nielsen as a power-hungry Mexican drug lord. Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico unaware that a drug cartel intends to kill him and use his tour bus to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine. Set in California and Mexico shot on location in Monterey Park Burbank and Long Beach California. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present dated February 13 1976 noted as SHOOTING FINAL with credits for screenwriter Antonio Santillan sic. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
ref. 158051Hollywood: Frsco Productions 1976. Archive of three draft scripts for an unproduced film including One First Draft script one Second Draft Shooting script and one Third Draft Shooting script. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the title page of the First Draft and cast pages of the Second Draft Shooting script. A musical spoof of John Huston's classic 1941 film noir "The Maltese Falcon." Screenwriter Frank Saletri a criminal defense lawyer in Los Angeles worked as a part-time screenwriter and producer primarily of exploitation especially Blaxploitation films. Saletri's screenwriting work was largely unproduced with the exception of the 1973 film "Blackenstein" and the possible exception of "Black the Ripper" a questionably apocryphal film whose existence has been debated for decades among grindhouse fans. First Draft: Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1975 noted as First Draft in manuscript pencil annotation with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Second Draft Shooting script: Green untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 179 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Third Draft Shooting script: Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1976 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Frank Ritenhyde Saletri. 181 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Frsco Productions unknown books
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown
ref. 146779Universal City: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage US silkscreen banner poster for the 1973 film. Based on Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel about the titular professional assassin hired by a militant French underground organization to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. Set in and shot on location in Paris Versailles and Hautes-Alpes. 82 x 24 inches. Rolled. Very Good with no restoration. Several vertical creases with some cracking three closed tears measuring tow four and five inches several small closed tears in margins otherwise bright and unfaded. Penzler 101. Universal Pictures unknown books
ref. 160169Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to production accountant Gordon Kee with his name in manuscript ink on the first leaf. Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood era and one of the best proletarian-minded works of the 1970s. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Denver and Canon City Colorado in Detroit and Hamtramck Michigan and in Reno Nevada. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 97 dated August 16 1972. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 8/16/72 with credits for screenwriter Garry Michael White. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication on eye rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1949ref. 139871Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear as well as a number of manuscript annotations primarily denoting the titles of various musical numbers. Based on the short story "Stork Don't Bring Babies" by S.K. Lauren Grable and Dailey play a showbiz couple who discover in successive order that they cannot have children that they can adopt children and that they aren't really fit to raise children. But things get better with the help of several musical numbers scored by Harold Arlen. Bound in green faux leather boards with gilt titles and rule and marbled endpapers. Title page present dated Dec. 1 1949 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriters Trotti and Binyon. 191 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/21/19 and 1/5/50. Pages Very Good plus photographs Near Fine with some bruising or chipping to the verso of the preceding page on either the top or bottom edge. Boards Near Fine with a bump to the upper rear corner. Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
