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1966ref. 144543Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage photograph from the 1966 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Rooks' first film a semi-autobiographical account of a man who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. With cameos by a virtual who's-who of counterculture figures of the time including Allen Ginsberg as "Messiah" William S. Burroughs as "Opium Jones" Ravi Shankar as "Sun God" Moondog as "The Prophet" and Ornette Coleman as a peyote eater. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown
1934ref. 144598Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. Detached green wrappers noting the title screenwriter and director on the spine in manuscript ink. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled. National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1953ref. 144185Beverly Hills CA: MGM 1953. Vintage borderless photograph of Ava Gardner with the camera-crew on the set of the 1953 film. With mimeo snipe press agency stamps and manuscript annotations in blue ink. The remake of the 1932 MGM film Red Dust adapted from the play of the same name. Victor Marswell Clark Gable owns and operates a safari guide company. Eloise Kelly Ava Gardner is there to meet the former owner of the company and in his absence she falls for Victor. Linda Nordley Grace Kelly is the wife of Marswells client an anthropologist who wishes to travel deep into the jungle. Eloise goes along with them and quickly tensions run high as both Linda and Eloise are attracted to Victor. Shot on location in Kenya Uganda Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo. 10 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. MGM unknown
1967ref. 144377Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage photograph of Mary Linda Rapelye on the set of the 1967 film. Manuscript annotations in pencil and press agency stamps on the verso. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 781. Ebert II. Penzler 101. Columbia Pictures unknown
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 manuscript 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 manuscript 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
1981ref. 144334Paris: Studio Canal 1981. Vintage borderless photograph of Catherine Deneuve Patrick Dewaere and Etienne Chicot on the set of the 1981 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout and photographer Tony Frank's name typed on the verso. Helene Catherine Deneuve an anesthetist depressed and mourning her recently drowned lover almost crashes her car into Gilles Patrick Dewaere a young working class man who lives at his mother's hotel. The two fall into a difficult relationship that brings up their painful past histories. Shot on location in France. 10.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Studio Canal unknown
1957ref. 144227Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage photograph of Carroll Baker Jack Garfein Paul Richards and Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1957 film. With mimeo snipe manuscript annotations in pencil and a press agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1947 novel and stage play by Calder Willingham "End As a Man" and with much of the same cast as the stage production. Set at a southern military college Jocko de Paris Ben Gazzara is a sadistic cadet leader well known to be violent and power-hungry. In a particularly malicious act of hazing he sets up the expulsion of the son of the school's headmaster and subsequently manipulates his social circle into silence until they can no longer take it. Shot on location in Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1975ref. 144464Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation CFDC 1975. Three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With manuscript annotations on the versos. A high-rise apartment building is infected by a parasite that turns its victims into sex-crazed maniacs that can infect with the slightest touch. Shot on location in Montreal Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation Complete. Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC] unknown
1960ref. 144417Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Charles Aznavour and Michele Mercier from the 1960 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Aznavour spends half his time playing saloon piano and half his time on the run in this early Truffaut masterpiece one of the great French noirs based on the 1956 hard-boiled novel "Down There" by American pulp author David Goodis. Criterion notes: "François Truffaut is drunk on the possibilities of cinema in this his most playful film. Part thriller part comedy part tragedy Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered piano player Charlie Charles Aznavour in a triumph of hangdog deadpan as he stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair. Loaded with gags guns clowns and thugs this razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure nouvelle vague." 11.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection. Grant France. Les Films de la Pleiade unknown
ref. 144510Burbank CA: Walt Disney Pictures 1988. Revised First Draft script for the 1991 film. Based on the 1982 graphic novel by Dave Stevens. In 1930s Hollywood a stunt pilot comes into possession of a jet-pack after getting caught in the crossfire between FBI agents and a group of gangsters. He subsequently becoming the target of both FBI and Nazi agents who are after the jet-pack. An early entry in the superhero movie canon following the success of 1989's "Batman" and a cult classic in its own right. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 11 1988 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Danny Bilson Paul De Meo William Dear and graphic novelist Dave Stevens. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Photocopy rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Walt Disney Pictures unknown
1958ref. 144613Paris: Cinedis 1958. Four original single weight black-and-white press photographs from a premiere of the 1958 French-Italiam film. Starring actor Toto is seen with mistress and colleague Franca Faldini cavorting with fans and Toto with the host of the event. Photographer Traverso's rubberstamp numerical notation in manuscript pencil and film title in manuscript ink on the verso. Housed in an original Cinedis manila envelope with French film title in manuscript pencil on the front. In an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France a French customs agent Fernandel watches every move of an Italian smuggler Toto who eventually discovers that the agent is Italian not French. Faldini did not appear in this film but collaborated with Toto on eight earlier films including "Toto and the Women" 1952 and "Dov'e la liberta." 1954. Shot on location in Italy. Entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival in 1958. 5 x 7 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Cinedis unknown
1969ref. 144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With manuscript annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. 13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown
1956ref. 144496Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the 1956 French film. Agency stamps on the verso. A romantic-comedy set in 1890 Paris starring Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowskaa Polish princess who has a reputation for bringing good luck to her lovers. While scheduled to be married to a wealthy family friend with plans to bring new money to the family's dwindling fortune she meets Count de Chevincourt Mel Ferrer the aide to General Rollan Jean Marais. Both men are taken by her charm and find themselves in a romantic knot with repercussions for all of France. Shot on location in and around Paris. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine with single bottom margin. 244 Criterion Collection. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Warner Brothers unknown
1959ref. 144588Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies most with 12 images per print amounting to over 1000 images captured nearly all images with series number etched in the original film negative before development and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Ulysse film title and photographer Apoteker housed in an oblong 2-ring paper binder with printed French titles on the front. Laid in is a small piece of graph paper addressed "Cher Christian" presumably filmmaker Christian-Jaque with brief slightly illegible note in French in manuscript ink. The remaining 273 photographs are single photos with similar etched series numbers mounted with cello tape on thick stock in two quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrapper printed French titles affixed to the front wrapper of one. Small "x" annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. All three keybooks capture the film and photographer Apoteker's sense of desperation in composed and candid moments. Michele Morgan and Gil Vidal dominate the imagery hamming for the camera and in action scenes with Vidal emerging from a car crash and rarely without a glass in-hand and stunning images of Morgan hula-hooping off-set and in several placid studio portraits. Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. Notebook photos 3.75 x 5 inches most pages with four mounted photos keybook photos to 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light foxing and curling and rubbing to the studio keybook a few photos with small edge tears. Ulysse Production / Cinedis unknown
1968ref. 144349N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless photographs from the set of the 1968 French experimental film mixing documentary with surreal imagery and fictitious characters. With mimeo snipe on one and manuscript annotations on the other. From the last scene of the film featuring "Eve Democracy" a graffiti artist played by Anne Wiazemsky who is followed by a film crew on the beach as she totes a rifle dressed in all white. "One Plus One" alternates documentary segments of The Rolling Stones creating the song "Sympathy for the Devil" in the studio during the band's last days with Brian Jones with surreal commentary about anarchy and revolution making references to Amiri Baraka Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panthers pornography "Mein Kampf" and the Nazi movement. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 144629Paris: Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 4 original black-and-white single weight still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Featuring Jean Gabin dancing gaily in a pub with costar Doll all photos with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Gabin plays a sophisticated tramp who lives during summer in an abandoned construction site. As winter draws near he devises a plan that will surely have him incarcerated and thus in warmer climates. To do so he chooses a bar to demolish but the crime only lands him a week in jail. Freedom proves too chilling and he vows to return. Grangier worked with Gabin on several films notably "The Night Affair" 1958 "The Counterfeiters of Paris" 1961 "Speaking of Murder" 1957 and "Maigret Sees Red" 1963 as did photographer Dole who was consistent if anything a regular fixture in films by Denys de La Patelliere Jean Delannoy. Photos 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus overall with light curling discoloration. Intermondia Films / Pretoria / Cinedis unknown
1968ref. 144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1957ref. 144612Paris: N.p. 1957. Two original single weight black-and-white press photographs from an anniversary showing of the 1937 French film circa 1957. Director Renoir is seen with actress Mylene Demongeot and an image of a neighboring Champs-Elysees drugstore. Renoir's film about soldiers during WWI is widely regarded as a masterpiece and one of Orson Welles' favorite films. 5 x 7 inches. Light curling else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 1. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 144229N.p.: Gloria Films 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1972 film showing Richard Burton and Raquel Welch in an eerie moment before a kiss. With manuscript annotations in black marker and pencil and three press agency stamps on the verso. Another addition to the many renditions of the Bluebeard tale in which the wealthy Baron von Sepper Richard Burton repeatedly murders and stores the bodies of his dead wives. This time his spouse and potential victim is Anne Joey Heatherton an American woman who must find a way to save herself after finding a freezer full of women in his castle. Shot on location in Budapest Hungary and Rome Italy. 10.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Gloria Films unknown
1987ref. 144497Paris: Gaumont 1987. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Jean-Luc Godard from the 1987 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. An experimental film that irreverently mixes genres twisting together a broad range of references to literature film comedy and the history of cinema. Starring Godard himself as a filmmaker thus blurring the fictional category from the outset. Made the same year as Godard's production of "King Lear." 12 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 327. Gaumont unknown
1957ref. 144375Universal City: Universal City Studios 1957. Vintage photograph of makeup artist Maurice Seiderman and Orson Welles on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations in pencil and rubber stamp on the verso. Virgil Renchler Orson Welles owns the majority of a small western town's assets. Some of his employees kill a young migrant laborer stirring major controversy when the newly elected sheriff goes to great lengths to bring them to justice. Shot on location in Conejo Velley California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby UK. Spicer US. Spicer UK. Universal City Studios unknown
1955ref. 144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive 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 manuscript 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
1970ref. 144319Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless still photograph of Ali MacGraw Ryan O'Neal and Arthur Hiller on the set of the 1970 film. With typed identifying description manuscript annotations regarding layout and press agency stamps on the verso. Based on screenwriter Erich Segal's novel of the same name. Oliver Barrett IV Ryan O'Neal a wealthy Harvard Law student and Jennifer Cavilleri Ali MacGraw a working class music student fall in love despite their class differences. As their love grows into a serious relationship and eventually marriage they face the disapproval of the Oliver's father despite Jenny's attempts to find common ground. Winner of the 1971 Academy Award for Best Original Score and nominated for six others. Shot on location in California New York China Massachusetts and England. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1956ref. 140198Strasbourg France: Jean Jungmann 1956. Archive of 38 vintage black-and-white press photographs of actress Francoise Arnoul at a release party for the 1956 French-Italian film at the Cinema des Arcades. All photos with annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Photographed by Jean Jungmann and developed in his Strasbourg photography store Portrait d'Art with his imprint in the lower right of the photos and all inside an original envelope from the story. Arnoul is seen signing autographs gracefully smoking a cigarette and accepting flowers on stage as well as cavorting with costars of the film including French-Armenian director Verneuil. Fracoise Arnoul is a hotel employee smitten with a valet named Gerard Risso and may or may not be related to wealthy businessman Henri Boyer Gerard's boss. Arnoul's last collaboration with director Verneuil the others being "Forbidden Fruit" 1952 "The Sheep Has Five Legs" 1954 "The Lovers of Lisbon" 1955 and "People of No importance" 1956. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall with moderate curling. Envelope Good. Jean Jungmann unknown
1970ref. 144248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1970. Vintage photograph from the 1970 film showing actors Stella Stevens and Jason Robards taking direction from Sam Peckinpah on the set. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. A charming surreal revisionist Western comedy an unusual move for Peckinpah as it was released on the heels of "The Wild Bunch" 1969 and just prior to "Straw Dogs" 1971 both famed for being the high spots of the director's famed odes to violence and male madness. Certainly though Jason Robards-in what many consider to be his finest performance-is as lost as any of Peckinpah's characters but viewed from a different more relaxed perspective. Set in Arizona shot on location in Nevada Arizona and New Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
