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1940ref. 156009N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film showing director William Wyler and actress Bette Davis enjoying tea on the set. A rubber plantation owner's wife claims self defense after shooting her secret lover but a damning letter in her own hand may uncover the truth. 9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. Spicer US. Grant US. N.p. unknown
ref. 29792Culver City Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM July 24 1928. Original yellow wrappers preserved with some marginal loss on later card covers 303 x 230 mm front wrapper with typed title at centre '""The Mysterious Island"" / Screen Play / by / Lucien Hubbard'; at top right is typed 'Prod. No. 273' and at lower right 'Script Okayed by Mr. Thalberg. July 24 1928'; above the title is the original MGM studio label rubber-stamped 'No. 4664' with the typed film title and same date of July 24 1928; the pencilled name 'Jane Daly' i.e. Jacqueline Gadsden above the label appears to be written in the film star's own hand while her name is also written in pencil but in a different hand near the foot of the front wrapper; 121 leaves 280 x 215 mm mimeograph duplication; the film's title crediting Hubbard as the screenwriter and dated July 24 1928 is integral with the first page of the script; contents very clean throughout corners a little dog-eared with the two original brads in place. Rare and important draft shooting script for the Hollywood film The Mysterious Island. Loosely adapted from Jules Verne's science fiction novel L’ile mystérieuse this MGM production - a part-talkie - was filmed in two-strip Technicolour and had a checkered production history: shooting had commenced in 1926 but the film was not released until 5 October 1929. Lucien Hubbard 1888-1971 was officialy credited as the writer of the screenplay and as director even though scenes shot earlier by Maurice Tourneur and Benjamin Christensen - both removed from the project by Irving Thalberg because of their painstaking approach to filmmaking - were used in the final version. Lucien Hubbard is today perhaps best-known as the producer of the silent film Wings 1927 for which he won an Academy Award. Until recently a single ten-minute reel with a colour sequence in the UCLA Film and Television Archive was thought to be the only portion of The Mysterious Island that had survived in Technicolour although complete black-and-white prints had always been known. Then in 2013 experts from George Eastman House discovered that a colour print had been preserved in the Czech National Film Archive; the restored colour print of the film was screened at the 33rd Pordenone Silent Film Festival in October 2014. The cast of The Mysterious Island included Lionel Barrymore Count Andre Dakkar Jane Daly Jacqueline Gadsden Sonia Lloyd Hughes Nikolai Montagu Love Falon Harry Gribbon Mikhail Snitz Edwards Anton Gibson Gowland Dmitry Dolores Brinkman Teresa and Major Roup an underwater creature. Art direction was by Cedric Gibbons with technical effects by James Basevi Louis H. Tolhurst and Irving R. Ries. Jacqueline Gadsden 1900-1986 was an American film actress during the silent era. Her most famous role was in It 1927 in which she starred alongsde Clara Bow. In 1924 she had married William Harry Daly and in fact she made two other films in the same year that The Mysterious Island was released 1929 - one for Columbia and another for MGM - in which she was billed under the name Jane Daly. The Mysterious Island was her last film prior to retirement from motion pictures. Â unknown
1953ref. 156132N.p.: Allianz Filmproduktion 1953. Vintage program for the 1953 German film. Text and titles in German. An American millionaire returns to his native Dubrovnik in his yacht accompanied by his flighty beautiful young daughter. Shot on location in Yugoslavia. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. Allianz Filmproduktion unknown
ref. 150024Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Archive of three screenplays for the classic 1989 film including one Shooting script one Re-shoot script and one Final Draft script. Shooting script with several manuscript ink annotations throughout mostly noting editorial revisions. Bound in after the Shooting script is a 34-page xerographically duplicated Re-shoot script dated November 4 1988. Cameron Crowe's directorial debut following the romance that develops between an awkward but noble army brat and the beautiful class valedictorian after graduation. 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. Shooting script: Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated February 29 1988 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits 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 bound with two gold brads. Reshoot script: Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 8 1988 noted as RESHOOT SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Final Draft script: Lacking front wrapper but retaining its manila rear wrapper. Title page present dated November 10 1987 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967ref. 140880N.p.: N.p. 1967. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter dated February 16 1967 from Elizabeth Leeson secretary of Leon Mirelli returning the screenplay to Ilse Lahn as well as 15 on-set photographs housed in an envelope. During the Korean War a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a widowed Korean woman and her child. Chaos descends as the soldiers find their radio is broken they are running out of supplies and they are slowly being picked off by snipers. Set in Korea. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Ribbon copy typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 156574Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Shooting script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to title designer Dan Perri with his signature in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American West. Set in the American West shot on location in Alberta Canada. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/17/75 noted as SHOOTING with credits for screenwriters Alan Rudolph and Robert Altman. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box. United Artists unknown
1968ref. 145862Hollywood: M.J. Frankovich Productions 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Single manuscript notation on the title page. The story of two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 5 1968 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 9 1968 and October 17 1968. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. M.J. Frankovich Productions unknown
1984ref. 153795N.p.: Hemdale / Double Eagle 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the name of actor Aaron Norris on the front wrapper an unusual indication of a perhaps intended role. A group of scientists accidentally create a deadly chemical compound which is promptly stolen by a rival scientist who threatens to kill thousands of people with the compound unless he is given one billion dollars. Two spies from the mysterious Sub Rosa agency are sent to retrieve the chemical. Titled self wrappers in a generic binder. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter R. Delano Brown. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Hemdale / Double Eagle unknown
1984ref. 146251Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1984. Original Shooting script for the 1984 film. Title typo on the front wrapper stamped in red. A seductive thriller about a bored housewife who is seduced by a burglar who begins to recreate erotic fantasies from her secret diary. Director-screenwriter Douglas Day Stewart had to his credit "The Blue Lagoon" 1980 and "An Officer and a Gentleman" 1982 along with the cult classic "Flashdance" 1983. Set and shot on location throughout California. Black titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated January 16 1984 SHOOTING SCRIPT a small letter B written in manuscript pencil at the top right corner and with a credit for director-screenwriter Steward as well as producers Bruckheimer and Simpson. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered "107A." Xerographically duplicated rectos only with blue and pink revision pages dated variously between 1/24/84 and 2/1/84 and one page with 2/2/84 and "Office" in manuscript ink. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 147189Universal City: Universal Studios 1970. Draft script for "Too Many Victims" the ninth episode of the fourth season of the crime drama television series "Ironside" originally aired on November 12 1970 on NBC. A long-running series featuring the eponymous Robert T. Ironside a wheelchair user and investigative consultant for the San Francisco police department. In "Too Many Victims" the daughter of a cop crashes her car while driving high leading her father to use less-than-legal methods to run in a local drug dealer whom he suspects may be supplying teenagers with weed. Set and shot on location in San Francisco. White titled self-wrappers dated March 3 1970 with credits for screenwriter Irv Pearlberg. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Universal Studios unknown
1972ref. 140774Madrid Spain: The Monovox Company 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. A mysterious man posing as an artist is luring young women to his apartment in 1936 Madrid where he asks them to pose and then kills them and takes their photo. Forty years later a young woman is living in the apartment these unspeakable acts occurred in and she decides to find out who lived there before her. When she ends up dead her friends become concerned with who killed her and who is stalking them. Set in Madrid. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter John Melson and author Ryan Anderson. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound in a spring binder. The Monovox Company unknown
1943ref. 156715Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their manuscript annotations in pencil on several pages. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Cinematography. Set in London. Goldenrod studio wrappers rubber-stamped FILE COPY and COMPLETE on the front wrapper noted as copy No. 67 and production No. 5069 dated 11-5-43 with credits for director Albert Lewin. Title page integral with the first page of the text. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with a single pink revision page dated 3-13-44. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Good only with a tear on the bottom right portion of the front wrapper and rear wrapper split from the binding bound with two gold brads. Selby US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1972ref. 152995Hollywood: Marimark 1972. Revised Final Shooting Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "Supergirl." Copy belonging to story writer John Burrows with his name in manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. An attractive free-spirited flight attendant with boyfriends in New York Miami and Los Angeles unwittingly becomes involved in an in-flight robbery. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated 10/5/72 noted as Revised Final Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Gary Crutcher. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 10/20/72. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Marimark unknown
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 152231Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1984. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on iconic leading lady Lana Turner's 1982 autobiography following Turner's humble beginnings and rise to fame and the alcoholism and relationship troubles which clouded her later years. Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated February 29 1984 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter James Lee. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 175. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1970ref. 147686Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1970. Collection of 20 vintage black and white reference photographs from the 1970 film. A cautionary tale following a suburban couple who discover their teenage daughter is addicted to LSD and cocaine. Set in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown
1963ref. 151019N.p.: N.p. 1963. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film two borderless photographs of Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann and one photograph of Jacques Demy and Moreau on the set of the film. One with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. A young bank employee Jean encouraged by his friend to try gambling decides to vacation in Nice where he meets and begins an affair with the beautiful Jackie a gambling addict whose addiction masks an emptiness and despair. Set in and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and Monte Carlo Monaco. 2 8.75 x 7 inches 1 8 x 10 inches. One with faint creasing else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 149933Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage linen-backed reference photograph of director Joseph Pevney and a camera crew aboard the Albatross while on location for the 1958 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A ship's captain decides to make an emergency stop in Hawaii to repair a quickly flooding hull against the wishes of a woman passenger wanted for murder in Honolulu. Set and shot on location in Hawaii. 9.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1963ref. 147574Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1963. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French playwright Alexandre Breffort's 1956 stage musical about the torrid romance between a French policeman and a prickly popular street prostitute. Actor Shirley MacLaine who traveled with Jack Lemmon to real Paris brothels to research their roles was nominated for an Academy Award and the film won an Academy Award for Best Music. Set in Paris. One photo borderless the others with a standard white margin. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. United Artists unknown
1962ref. 147622Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Collection of 18 vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film. With a mimeo snipe and the stamp of The Silver Screen Archives to the verso. A physician newly released from prison for mercy killing her terminally ill married lover cannot find work especially without her medical license. To her surprise the only person who will employ her is the prosecutor from her trial who wants her to care for his mentally ill wife-a job which soon leads her to suspect his foul intentions. Set and shot on location in England and Ireland. 8 x 10 inches. Ten Very Good plus with light edgewear and creasing and eight Very Good with light soil and a few small chips and tears to the edges. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 150357Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Truman Capote with child actor Michael Kearney who played Buddy based on the young Capote on the set of the 1968 television film. "The Thanksgiving Visitor" aired Thanksgiving night November 28 1968 on ABC. Mimeo snipe and "NOV 25 1968" stamp on verso. Based on Capote's 1967 autobiographical short story based on his childhood in Alabama published in the November 1967 issue of McCall's magazine later published by Random House in 1968. A sequel to Capote's 1956 autobiographical short story "A Christmas Memory" which was also the basis for an ABC television movie also directed by Frank Perry written by Truman Capote and Eleanor Perry and starring Geraldine Page which aired on December 21 1966. Geraldine Page reprises her role as the quirky Aunt Sook helping nine-year-old Buddy deal with a bully on Thanksgiving. Page won a second Emmy Award following 1966's "A Christmas Memory" for her lauded portrayal of Capote's Aunt Sook. Set in Alabama shot on location in Pike Road Alabama. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown
1966ref. 151846Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the collection of noted British film producer John Palmer. A cool disaffected criminal James Coburn recruits a group of con men to pull off a heist at a bank located in the Los Angeles International Airport. A wry take on the usual heist film. Shot on location in Boston and Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. Lee The Heist Film. Columbia Pictures unknown
1982ref. 151015N.p.: N.p. 1982. Three vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1982 film one of Jacques Demy and Dominique Sanda and two of Demy and crew with camera. One with with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. Although similar to Demy's 1964 "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" in that it is an operettta-musical in which all the dialogue is sung here Demy is much more explicitly political and possibly even more tragic. Set during the Nantes worker's strike in 1955 shipyard worker Francois Guilbaud a strikers falls in love with his upper-class landlady's married daughter Edith. Set in and shot on location in Nantes France. 1 9.5 x 6 inches 2 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 719. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
ref. 152444N.p.: N.p. 1994. Collection of 17 vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film by photographer Shade Rupe. Variously featured are director Abel Ferrara actress Lili Taylor cinematographer Ken Kelsch screenwriter Nicholas St. John and other cast and crew members all photographed over the course of a single evening near Manhattan's Puck Building Lafayette Street an alley off Jersey Street NYU and Keith Haring's Pop Shop on Lafayette Street. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives these being the only existing prints. Full provenance available with letter from Rupe stating "no other prints have ever or will ever be struck." Stamp on verso of each photo crediting Rupe as photographer. A conceptual black-and-white reimagining of the vampire movie about a philosophy graduate student who is forced to reconsider the nature of evil and humanity after succumbing to a vampire and developing an addiction to human blood. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 12 x 9 inches. Fine. Arrow 1769. Spicer US Neo-Noir. N.p. unknown
ref. 154562N.p.: N.p. 1988. Draft script for the third and final segment of the 1989 anthology film copy belonging to Woody Allen with the annotations in Allen's hand of his name and "NYSS" New York Short Stories in black manuscript marker on top left of title page. An anthology film featuring three of American cinema's foremost auteurs with each unconnected segment united by their New York setting. The first Martin Scorsese's "Life Lessons" stars Nick Nolte as a frustrated painter infatuated with his assistant and ex-lover played by Rosanna Arquette. The second Francis Ford Coppola's "Life Without Zoe" co-written with his daughter Sofia Coppola is a whimsical updated remake of Kay Thompson's "Eloise" character about a poor little rich girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel starring Heather McComb and Talia Shire. The final segment Woody Allen's "Oedipus Wrecks" is a highspot comedy for Allen among many wherein he plays Sheldon a neurotic Jewish New York lawyer with a ridiculing overbearing mother. When Sheldon his shiksa fiancee and her children take his mother to a magic show she actually disappears to Sheldon's ultimate relief but then reappears in the sky over the New York hounding and nagging Sheldon and his fiancee while the whole city watches. Set and shot on location in New York City. Self wrappers with front wrapper integral with untitled leaf dated 3/1/88. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 44. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carlson Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
