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1929ref. 150991Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1929. Vintage borderless studio still photograph of actors Constance Talmadge and Andre Roanne from the 1929 silent film. Based on Jean Vignaud's 1928 novel. Talmadge sister of actresses Norma and Natalie starred in her first major role in D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" 1916. Unlike her sisters Constance preferred to appear in light romantic comedies such as "A Pair of Silk Stockings" 1918 "Wedding Bells" 1921 and "The Primitive Lover" 1922. Although many of her films are now considered lost Talmadge is now best remembered for originating the tradition of preserving footprints in concrete outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre after accidentally stepping into wet concrete in front of the theatre in 1927. As with many silent film stars her career faded with the advent of sound film and by the 1930s she and her sisters had retired from the screen. 7.25 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus overall. United Artists unknown books
1990ref. 142107Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1990. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1990 film showing director Besson peering through a missing pane of glass with a camera. A breakthrough international success for Besson who would go on to a long career as a director and producer of action films and would hit it even bigger three years later with "The Professional" "Leon". Remade twice first as the 1991 Hong Kong film "Black Cat" "Hei Mao" directed by Stephen Shin and starring Jade Leung and then as the 1993 US film "Point of No Return" directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda; and twice adapted for television in 1997 as "La Femme Nikita" starring Peta Wilson which aired for five seasons on USA then in 2010 as "Nikita" starring Maggie Q which aired for four seasons on The CW. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Grant France. Gaumont unknown
1990ref. 142107Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1990. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1990 film showing director Besson peering through a missing pane of glass with a camera. A breakthrough international success for Besson who would go on to a long career as a director and producer of action films and would hit it even bigger three years later with "The Professional" "Leon". Remade twice first as the 1991 Hong Kong film "Black Cat" "Hei Mao" directed by Stephen Shin and starring Jade Leung and then as the 1993 US film "Point of No Return" directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda; and twice adapted for television in 1997 as "La Femme Nikita" starring Peta Wilson which aired for five seasons on USA then in 2010 as "Nikita" starring Maggie Q which aired for four seasons on The CW. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Grant France. Gaumont unknown books
1969ref. 150609Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German film. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with a small closed tear to the right edge. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1969ref. 150609Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian-German film. A powerful corrupt industrialist family illustrates the transition of the German upper class from resentment to acceptance of the Nazi party. The first film in Visconti's German Trilogy followed by "Death in Venice" 1971 and "Ludwig" 1973. Shot on location in Germany Austria and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with a small closed tear to the right edge. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
ref. 146370N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A passenger plane headed to Paris has a psychotic killer on board. Screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Denby were known for co-writing the 1971 Italian television miniseries "Il carcerato." Beige titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Original screen story with credits for screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Demby. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with gold prong binding. N.p. unknown
ref. 146370N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A passenger plane headed to Paris has a psychotic killer on board. Screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Denby were known for co-writing the 1971 Italian television miniseries "Il carcerato." Beige titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Original screen story with credits for screenwriters Mauro Severino and Lucia Drudi Demby. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with gold prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 172993N.p.: Golden Era Film Distributors 1966. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1966 Italian film. With mimeo snipes attached to the versos. Based on the 1869 novel by Florence Montgomery. Two children try to cope with the death of their mother as their father retreats into his career. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Florence Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Radiance Films 51. Golden Era Film Distributors unknown
1966ref. 172993N.p.: Golden Era Film Distributors 1966. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1966 Italian film. With mimeo snipes attached to the versos. Based on the 1869 novel by Florence Montgomery. Two children try to cope with the death of their mother as their father retreats into his career. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Florence Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Radiance Films 51. Golden Era Film Distributors unknown books
1952ref. 156133N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage program for the 1952 German film. Text and titles in German. Based on the 1881 novel by Johanna Spyri about a young girl living with her grandfather and her pet goat in the Swiss Alps whose cruel aunt forces her to move down the mountain to the village below. Shot on location in Switzerland. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1956ref. 158784N.p.: Ãguila Films 1956. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1956 film. An Italian-Spanish co-production. A nuclear scientist decides that his work is not doing any good for humanity and runs away to a small coastal town in Spain to hide. Set in Calabuch Spain shot on location in Peñsicola Castellón Spain. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ãguila Films unknown books
1968ref. 141216Rome: N.p. 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a note from Gladys Hill to Irene Heymann dated May 13 1968. A Kentucky family's horse breeding business is ruined in the Civil War leading the patriarch to seek out a new ranch in Texas. There he comes under fire from a Mexican breeder who wishes to be the sole breeder in the region. Set in Texas. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1968 with credit for screenwriter Lyn Jank. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 141216Rome: N.p. 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a note from Gladys Hill to Irene Heymann dated May 13 1968. A Kentucky family's horse breeding business is ruined in the Civil War leading the patriarch to seek out a new ranch in Texas. There he comes under fire from a Mexican breeder who wishes to be the sole breeder in the region. Set in Texas. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1968 with credit for screenwriter Lyn Jank. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 162774Hollywood: Manson Film Productions 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 film. Not to be confused with the 1987 television Western directed by Robert Day. In northern Italy in 1944 American soldiers and Italian partisans join forces against the Germans. Shot on location in Orange County California. 15 x 12 inches folded once vertically. Four pages saddle stapled. Very Good plus. Manson Film Productions unknown
1963ref. 162774Hollywood: Manson Film Productions 1963. Vintage pressbook for the 1963 film. Not to be confused with the 1987 television Western directed by Robert Day. In northern Italy in 1944 American soldiers and Italian partisans join forces against the Germans. Shot on location in Orange County California. 15 x 12 inches folded once vertically. Four pages saddle stapled. Very Good plus. Manson Film Productions unknown books
1970ref. 147267Munich: Roxy Film 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in English. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli film director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army in spite of his father's wishes that he become a politician. Set in Israel. Housed in a gray envelope. Title page present with credits for director Wolfgang Petersen screenwriter Manfred Purzer and novelist Amos Kollek. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with a light tide mark to the left edge unbound. Roxy Film unknown
1970ref. 147267Munich: Roxy Film 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in English. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli film director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army in spite of his father's wishes that he become a politician. Set in Israel. Housed in a gray envelope. Title page present with credits for director Wolfgang Petersen screenwriter Manfred Purzer and novelist Amos Kollek. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with a light tide mark to the left edge unbound. Roxy Film unknown books
1934ref. 160349N.p.: Franco-American Film Company 1934. Vintage Spanish magazine advertisement for the 1934 film here under the Spanish title "El lago de las damas." Based on the 1929 novel "Grand Hotel" by Vicki Baum. A young man starts a summer job at a lake resort where he falls in love. Their situation is complicated by the tomboy who lives across the lake and his ex girlfriend showing up. 9.5 x 13 inches. Very Good with creasing along the right edge and at the top right corner as well as four small tears at the right edge presumably from creasing. Franco-American Film Company unknown books
1988ref. 148206N.p.: N.p. 1988. Vintage photograph of Marcel Ophuls at work on the 1968 documentary film. Ophuls' documentary chronicling the life of Klaus Barbie "The Butcher of Lyon" an SS and Gestapo functionary and Nazi war criminal from his childhood through his deportation from Bolivia to stand trial for crimes against humanity in France in 1983. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes where it was premiered. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 141114N.p.: N.p. 1975. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Translated from the French a Stone Age tribe which values men above women and fears fire conducts the yearly ritual of having young girls run to the hills and the men to chase after and catch them to impregnate them. A man with no hair known as the Pale Man raises an axe against his brother The Hawk in order to save a woman named Fair Girl and for his crime is banished from the tribe. Set in the Stone Age. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 22 1975 with credits for screenwriter Marcel Pagnol translator Robert Wyler and commentator Paul Davids. Eight leaves with last leaf of text numbered eight. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 141114N.p.: N.p. 1975. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Translated from the French a Stone Age tribe which values men above women and fears fire conducts the yearly ritual of having young girls run to the hills and the men to chase after and catch them to impregnate them. A man with no hair known as the Pale Man raises an axe against his brother The Hawk in order to save a woman named Fair Girl and for his crime is banished from the tribe. Set in the Stone Age. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 22 1975 with credits for screenwriter Marcel Pagnol translator Robert Wyler and commentator Paul Davids. Eight leaves with last leaf of text numbered eight. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 139447Berlin: Deutsche Film Hansa 1959. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of demure Maria Perschy on the set of the 1959 West German film. Copyright rubber stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The daughter Perschy of a traffic cop Erhardt falls in love with a race-car driver Schumann. Perschy made her first Hollywood film in 1962 in John Huston's "Freud." Shot on location in Germany. 6.25 x 8.25 inches. About Near Fine. Deutsche Film Hansa unknown
1959ref. 139447Berlin: Deutsche Film Hansa 1959. Vintage borderless black-and-white press photograph of demure Maria Perschy on the set of the 1959 West German film. Copyright rubber stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. The daughter Perschy of a traffic cop Erhardt falls in love with a race-car driver Schumann. Perschy made her first Hollywood film in 1962 in John Huston's "Freud." Shot on location in Germany. 6.25 x 8.25 inches. About Near Fine. Deutsche Film Hansa unknown books
1960ref. 167550Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the American release of the 1959 Italian film. A team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins discover a giant blob monster which appears to be related to a comet passing near the earth. An early directorial effort by influential Italian filmmaker Mario Bava who would go on to define the giallo genre. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and soiled to the top right corner. United Artists unknown
1960ref. 167550Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the American release of the 1959 Italian film. A team of archaeologists investigating Mayan ruins discover a giant blob monster which appears to be related to a comet passing near the earth. An early directorial effort by influential Italian filmmaker Mario Bava who would go on to define the giallo genre. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn and soiled to the top right corner. United Artists unknown books
