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1943ref. 164464Universal City: Universal Studios 1943. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1943 film showing actor Joseph Cotten. Printed mimeo snipe on the verso along with a date stamp. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. The third film in the "Three Smart Girls" musical trilogy starring Deanna Durbin. In the final installment Durbin reprises her role as singing socialite Penny Craig who falls in love with an Air Force pilot. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly wavy on the bottom edge else Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown
1944ref. 164457Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress Virginia Christine. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. After being unearthed due to an irrigation project the mummy Kharis roams the bayou searching for his lost love Princess Ananka. The fifth entry in Universal's "Mummy" series preceded by "The Mummy's Ghost." Set in the Louisiana bayou. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Weaver and Brunas Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1959ref. 163884Hollywood: United Artists / Ziv 1959. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 28 of the 1959-1961 television series. Originally aired on April 2 1960 in syndication. "Lock Up" was a short-lived legal drama series focusing on the cases of renowned Philadelphia corporate attorney Herbert L. Maris. In this episode an oil millionaire suspects his business partner of murdering a woman. Screenwriter Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" 1959 although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels short stories radio cinema and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft Bloch received the Hugo Award the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970. Orange titled wrappers dated 14 December 1959 on the front wrapper with credit for Bloch. Title integral with the front wrapper. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 42. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. United Artists / Ziv unknown
1944ref. 164456Universal City: Universal Studios 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress and dancer Chinita. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. In the days leading up to their arranged marriage a bride discovers she is literally allergic to her husband-to-be. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good. Universal Studios unknown
1947ref. 164461Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1947 film showing actors Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures where he worked well into the 1950s. Based on the 1945 memoir by Betty MacDonald about a young couple who decide to become chicken farmers leading to a number of humorous mishaps. Colbert was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Universal-International unknown
1969ref. 161591N.p.: National Showmanship Films 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1965 Swedish film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A group of women work together at a laundry when one begins to spread a rumor that the manager is a lesbian and tried to seduce her which creates a dangerously explosive situation. Shot on location in Santa Fe New Mexico and Nacka Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. National Showmanship Films unknown
1970ref. 161698N.p.: Rond Inc 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film with a provenance stamp on the verso and two labels obscuring a previous provenance stamp. An innocent girl has her sexual awakening over a wild weekend. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Rond, Inc unknown
1943ref. 164451Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1943. Two vintage photographs from the 1943 film including one studio still photograph showing actors Lon Chaney Jr. and Ramsay Ames and one reference photograph showing Chaney Jr. alone. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. The first film in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series. Universal struck a deal with publishers Simon and Schuster in 1943 obtaining screen rights to their "Inner Sanctum" radio series with Chaney Jr. slated to star. "Calling Dr. Death" would set the standard for the series including the classic introductory sequence of a fortune teller who warns the audience of impending albeit cinematic doom and the recurrent "stream of consciousness" voiceover. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly faded. Weaver Universal Horrors. Universal Pictures unknown
1968ref. 163595Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage bound production budget and two cost reports for the 1969 Western film. This grouping of documentation does NOT include the film's script. Based on the 1968 novel by Lewis B. Patten. An old-fashioned lawman is fired after killing a man in self-defense but refuses to resign resulting in violence on both sides. Actor Richard Widmark was dissatisfied with the film's original director Robert Totten and arranged to have him replaced by Don Siegel. Each director felt that the film did not represent his creative vision and the resultant dispute over the directorial credit led the Directors Guild of America to create the pseudonym Alan Smithee. Set in the fictional Cottonwood Springs shot on location in California and Arizona. Tall green Universal Pictures leatherette wrappers dated June 26 1968 noted as production No. 2022 with credits for Totten actors Richard Widmark and Lena Horne and producer Richard Lyons. Approximately 50 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver screw brads. Pitts 1015. Universal Pictures unknown
ref. 163863Los Angeles: Gracie Films 1994. Revised Shooting Draft script for the 1996 film. Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the rear wrapper verso. Wes Anderson's feature film directorial debut cowritten with actor Owen Wilson about three friends who plan a heist in the southwestern suburbs. Based on Anderson's 1992 short film of the same title whose success at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival persuaded filmmaker James L. Brooks to finance a full-length version of the film. Shot on location in Dallas Fort Worth and Hillsboro Texas and at the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in Camarillo California. White generic Gracie Films wrappers. Title page present dated September 20 1994 noted as Shooting Draft and credits for Anderson and Wilson. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Gracie Films unknown
1941ref. 164506Universal City: Universal Studios 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actress Irene Dunne in a lace-embellished dress and net fascinator. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. A small-town singer falls in love with a city playboy on a train to New York only for him to ignore her as soon as the train pulls into the station. Days later after gaining a job as a nightclub singer she is propositioned by the playboy's brother. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Studios unknown
1945ref. 164495Universal City: Universal Pictures 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film showing actor Andy Devine posing humorously in a tunic and sandals. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A young woman becomes queen of the kingdom of Khemis after her father is killed in a slave revolt but soon thereafter becomes captured and enslaved. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1945ref. 164487Universal City: Universal Studios 1945. Five vintage publicity photographs from the 1945 film all showing actress Yvonne De Carlo. Two with printed mimeo snipes and provenance stamps on the verso. Loosely based on the life of famed dancer and courtesan Lola Montez. De Carlo's breakthrough role about an exotic dancer who becomes a spy during the American Civil War. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Zimmerman p. 19. Universal Studios unknown
1947ref. 164485Universal City: Universal Pictures 1947. Two vintage publicity photographs from the 1947 film one showing actors Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby and Yvonne De Carlo walking on the set with producer Mark Hellinger the other showing De Carlo alone. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso of one. A group of prisoners at the strict Westgate Penitentiary plan an escape but fear their plans will be ruined by sadistic power-hungry guard Captain Munsey. Director Jules Dassin's important first film a key noir followed by several others notably "The Naked City" 1948 "Thieves' Highway" 1949 "Night and the City" 1950 and "Rififi" 1955. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 383. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Universal Pictures unknown
1947ref. 164293Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1947. Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film noir showing Lauren Bacall and Agnes Moorehead. French release stamp on the verso. Based on the 1946 novel by David Goodis about a man who undergoes extreme facial plastic surgery in order to avoid arrest after he is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. The third of four films to pair Bogey and Bacall. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
1967ref. 164292N.p.: N.p. 1967. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1967 Yugoslavian film all showing actress Eva Ras. Two with a printed French mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and three with provenance stamps and labels on same. A young switchboard operator begins a relationship with a serious beau but finds herself subject to a colleague's advances when her boyfriend is out of town on business. Told in non-chronological order with imaginative digressions and frequent interruptions creating a critique of communist society and censorship. The second feature film of Du an Makavejev the most celebrated Yugoslavian director of the 1960s. Two photographs 9.5 x 7.25 inches two photographs 5 x 7 inches. Generally Very Good plus. Criterion Eclipse 18. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 164325N.p.: Miracle Films 1969. Two vintage photographs from the UK release of the 1969 Italian-French anthology film both showing scenes from Bernardo Bertolucci's segment "Agonia." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Largely dealing with themes of religion and spirituality the film featured segments written and directed by five Italian directors and one French director. Bertolucci's segment starred members of The Living Theatre including noted actor and director Julian Beck. Distributed by the notoriously versatile Miracle Films a significant force in both international cinema and American pornography in the late 1960s and 1970s. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus one Very Good both slightly curled. Miracle Films unknown
1975ref. 164282London: Cinegate 1975. Four vintage studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1952 Japanese film. Provenance stamps and layout annotations on the versos. Based on Saikaku Ihara's 1686 collection of short stories about a noblewoman who falls into ruin as a result of her affair with a lowly page. Among director Kenji Mizoguchi's finest films an exploration of class gender and the search for dignity in seventeenth-century Japan. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 664. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Cinegate unknown
1923ref. 164284Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1923 silent film showing director actress Pola Negri and George Fitzmaurice between takes together consulting a copy of Robert Hichens' source novel. Mimeo snipe provenance stamp and Famous Players-Lasky stamp on the verso. Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name which was based in turn on Hichens' 1909 novel about the titular seductress and the men who fall into her love trap. Early noir antecedent. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a two-inch flaw in the finish affecting the bottom left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 164320N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing director Hal Ashby with actor Beau Bridges and crew members during filming on location in New York. Ashby's directorial debut based on the 1966 novel by Kristin Hunter about a naive wealthy white man who buys an inner-city tenement in Park Slope Brooklyn intending to evict the low-income Black tenants and turn the building into a luxury home for himself. He soon grows fond of the residents even beginning a relationship with one of the women living in the building and decides to remain as the landlord. Set in Park Slope Brooklyn and shot on location in Brooklyn and Manhattan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown
1945ref. 164423N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1945 film showing actor John Carradine as Count Dracula. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein" which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters all in Dracula's house including the Prince of Darkness himself Carradine the Wolf Man Chaney Jr. and Frankenstein Glenn Strange along with the requisite mad scientist Onslow Stevens and hunchbacked assistant Jane Adams. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 164317N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film showing director Anatole Litvak and a camera crew setting up a scene with actors Bette Davis and Charles Boyer. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1938 novel by Rachel Field about a governess' doomed romance with a French nobleman. Nominated for three Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 164297N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage reference photographs of actress Joanne Woodward on the set of the 1957 film-one showing Woodward with Lee J. Cobb the other showing Woodward with David Wayne. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the case of Chris Costner Sizemore a woman believed to have dissociative identity disorder then called multiple personality disorder. Woodward received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 164302N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1972 German film. Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. An exploration of 1950s Hollywood melodramas through the lens of 1970s Germany about the destructive skewed power dynamics between a twice-divorced fashion designer her live-in maid and her new lover. Set in Bremen shot on location in Worpswede Germany. Three photographs 5 x 7.5 inches one photograph 4.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Arrow 12. Criterion Collection 740. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 164361Universal City: Universal Pictures 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film showing actress Louise Allbritton behind a camera. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A teenage orphan from New England receives an inheritance for education but instead uses it to travel to New York to pursue the object of her obsession an Army surgeon. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
