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1922ref. 172059N.p.: N.p. 1922. Vintage reference photograph from the 1922 silent film showing Marion Davies watching Pedro de Cordoba in his laboratory. Received stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1918 novel by Marie Corelli about a young woman who undergoes a surgical procedure to regain her beauty and youth at the cost of her sympathy. Davies' 14th film appearance. Currently considered lost. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 172052N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage reference photograph from the 1973 film showing one of the eponymous "prison babies" with a promotional illustration for the film at the left margin. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a tiny bruise to the left portion of the recto. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 152790N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage oversize matte-finish reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actors Glenn Ford and Angie Dickinson. Based on the 1966 novel "Pistolero's Progress" by John Sherry. A former gunslinger turned sheriff of a sleepy western town must fight a spitfire youngster who wants to prove his merit as the fastest draw in the territory. Shot on location in Arizona. 15 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with moderate soil and wear to the edges. Pitts 2185. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 152788N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage test photograph from the 1965 film showing actress Carroll Baker in costume as Jean Harlow. The rise to fame and troubled life of starlet Jean Harlow before her death from kidney failure at 26. Not to be confused with the 1965 film of the same name directed by Alex Segal and starring Carol Lynley. Set in Hollywood. 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus faintly creased at the top edge. Olive Films 247. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 171794N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage borderless oversize reference photograph from the 1972 French film showing Jean-Paul Belmondo and Daniel Ivernel ogling a nude Laura Antonelli. Based on Hubert Monteilhet's 1969 novel "Murder at Leisure" about a womanizing doctor who begins drugging his wife in order to continue his affair with her younger sister. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1978ref. 141100N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. The travels of John Slade a transient hard-fighting and hard-drinking man. Told over two films Slade is followed through childhood and into adulthood when he is employed as the muscle behind a frequently attacked stage coach operation in the Old West. Set in American West. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriter Christopher Swider. 309 leaves with last page of text numbered 306. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 155070N.p.: N.p. 1960. Collection of eleven vintage reference photographs from the 1960 film. One photograph with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. After nearly being lynched as a result of falsely being accused of sexual assault a Black jazz musician flees to a small game preserve off the Carolina coast where he befriends a teenage girl under the control of a predatory abusive game warden. A complex portrait of race in postwar America written by noted blacklisted screenwriter Hugo Butler and now considered one of director Luis Buñuel's most underrated films. Shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 172361N.p.: N.p. 1947. Vintage reference photographs from the 1947 film noir. The sole survivor of his family's massacre a man is taken in by an older woman whose family wants to kill him. Set in and shot on location in New Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Olive Films 44. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 172913N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Gene Kelly from the 1956 film. With one provenance stamp on the verso. An anthology of three stories told through dance including one where a genie grants a man's wish to be inside a story book. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 035925Universal City CA: Universal Studios 1982. Complete Universal Studios Press Kit for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" by Cameron Crowe author & screenwriter Amy Heckerling director and Starring Sean Penn Jennifer Jason Leigh Judge Reinhold Phoebe Cates Robert Romanus Ray Walston Brian Backer Nicolas Cage Eric Stolz and Forrest Whitaker. Single folder with two pockets. One pocket contains 12 - 8 x 10 black & white press photographs from the film. The other pocket contains biographical information on actors Sean Penn Jennifer Jason Leigh Judge Reinhold Phoebe Cates Robert Romanus Ray Walston and Brian Backer. Biographical information on Cameron Crowe Amy Heckerling and producers Art Linson & Irving Azoff. Also credits and final production notes. Overall condition of the packet is good with faint slight staining and some foxing to the folder. There is rusting to staples. The twelve photographs are in very good condition. Rare. White folder. #035925. First Edition. Folder. Good. 4to. Movie Press Kit Teen Cult. Universal Studios
1977ref. 115615Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film. Based on the 1977 novel by Earl Mac Rauch. Tan wrappers with white designed titles bearing the name of the production company ICM International Creative Management. Title page present with a date of April 14 1976 and screenwriter credit for Earl Mac Rauch. 159 leaves mechanical duplication title printed in block letters on the spine in black ink. Pages and wrappers Near Fine wrapper showing a few small stains. Hirschhorn p. 407. United Artists unknown
1960ref. 147350N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced three-act play. With a few editorial manuscript ink annotations throughout. Based on Marcel Pagnol's 1934 script "Le premier amour" about the first true love between a man and woman leading the pair to defy the practices of polygamy common to their tribes and set out to make a new life together. Intended for production many times over two decades in 1946 1947 and 1969 but ultimately never realized. Set in the Stone Age. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-12. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 168477N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1960 film showing Lee Remick and Montgomery Clift. Based on Borden Deal's 1957 novel "Dunbar's Cove" and on William Bradford Huie's 1942 novel "Mud on the Stars." In 1937 the head of the Tennessee Valley Authority's land purchasing office faces off against powerful generations-old landowners who refuse to sell their properties. Set and shot on location throughout Tennessee in Cleveland Bradley County and Charleston and on Coon Denton Island on the Hiwassee River. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 173039Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Five vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1957 film. Based on Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel about an American soldier stationed in Italy whose romance with a Red Cross nurse becomes his only joy amidst the horrors of war. The second film adaptation of Hemingway's novel and the final film produced by David O. Selznick. Set in Italy and Switzerland shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 153171N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. After being sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend and his friends a girl teams up with a bloodthirsty monster to take her revenge. Set in Biloxi Mississippi. White untitled Paul Kohner agency wrappers with the name of reader Ilse Lahn in manuscript ink annotation to the bottom of the front wrapper. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Donald L. Gold and story credits to Lester Wm. Berke. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a few splashes and light edgewear on the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 170830N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph of Sammy Davis Jr. behind bars from the 1962 film. Provenance sticker and stamp on the verso. A fictionalized version of John Resko's 1959 autobiography "Reprieve" about a convict played by Ben Gazzara whose death sentence is commuted to life in prison and with the aid of a humane prison guard is rehabilitated and becomes a successful painter. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1983ref. 169928N.p.: N.p. 1983. First Draft script for Season 2 Episode 10 of the 1982-1990 television series. SIGNED by actor Bob Newhart in manuscript ink to the front wrapper with a non-personalized salutation: "All the Best / Bob Newhart." Included with the script is a brief Typed Noted Signed from Newhart to a fan enclosing the script and an original hand-addressed manila mailing envelope. The series follows a married couple from New York who move to a small town in rural Vermont to run a historic inn. In this episode cafe owner Kirk begins dating a woman but struggles to accept her profession as a clown. Orange titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated October 11 1983 and production No. 3109. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Emily Marshall dated Ocrober sic 11 1983 and noted as First Draft. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 50. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 167883N.p.: N.p. 1965. Three vintage single-photo assemblages of publicity and reference images from the 1965 British film musical. A musical comedy about a love triangle between a pub owner's daughter a popular model and an aspiring Australian singer. The film debut of Suzy Kendall. Shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Stapled at the top left corner. Good only with dampstaining on the bottom corners. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 170545N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 British documentary film showing actress Julie Christie stretching out in a rattan chair. Provenance label on the verso. Considered by many to be the definitive portrayal of Swinging London at its peak incorporating concert footage street scenes art events film premieres and more. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 170550N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 film showing Julie Christie leaning in the doorway of a cable car. Provenance stamp and label on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase about an unhappy newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1928ref. 170988Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1928. Vintage French pressbook for the lost 1927 silent film. Two competitive collegiate brothers Jim and Ralph Treadway James Hall and Richard Arlen are both in love with the vivacious Carol Fleming played by Louise Brooks. Rare. Two years after the release of "Rolled Stockings" frustrated with the middling roles she was receiving in Hollywood Brooks left for Germany and starred in the three feature films that launched her to international stardom "Pandora's Box" 1929 "Diary of a Lost Girl" 1929 and "Miss Europe" 1930. 8.75 x 12.5 inches. 6 pages. Very Good. Top edge of front wrapper unevenly cut as issued. Original string binding now missing faint evidence of a glue repair pages now separating at the spine. Tiny spot of soil to the front panel. See images. Paramount Pictures unknown
1968ref. 171042N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage vernacular color photograph of Dean Martin director Andrew V. McLaglen and uncredited camera operator Al Meyers on the set of the 1968 film. Photograph belonging to uncredited camera operator Myers with pencil annotations in Myers' hand on the verso noting the title McLaglen and Martin and "with Bill Clothier 19" William H. Clothier was the director of photography who Myers worked under. British born Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a camera operator and camera crew member in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s. He is credited in 30 films from 1927 to 1978 and assuredly worked on many more films uncredited during that time. His credits include "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Two brothers are pursued by a posse after robbing a bank and taking a widow as hostage but accidentally flee into a territory controlled by a gang of violent Mexican bandoleros. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona Texas and Utah. 8 x 10 inches mounted to a heavy stock paper. Very Good plus with faint spotting and light edgewear see image. Pitts 237. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 171057N.p.: N.p. 1957. Two vintage photographs one of director Karl Malden and uncredited camera operator Albert Myers and a vernacular photograph of Malden Myers and cinematographer Sam Leavitt from the set of the 1957 film. Photographs belonging to uncredited camera operator Myers one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. British born Albert Myers usually credited as Al Myers was a camera operator and camera crew member in Hollywood for over 50 years beginning in the late 1920s. He is credited in 30 films from 1927 to 1978 and assuredly worked on many more films uncredited during that time. His credits include "The Virginian" 1946 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 and "The Defiant Ones" 1958. Based on the 1956 Broadway play by Ralph Berkey and screenwriter Henry Denker. Richard Widmark stars an Army Colonel investigating the case of a Major played by Richard Basehart who is accused of and admits to collaborating with the enemy as a POW during the Korean War but the Colonel doubts the Major's guilt. Malden's only directing credit. Shot on location in Agoura California and Governors Island New York. 8 x 10 inches and 5 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown
2000ref. 163294N.p.: N.p. 2000. Writer's First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 2000 television series. In this one season procedural a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode a man's wife goes missing and he suspects she has been having an affair. Set in Manhattan Arizona. White titled self-wrappers noted as Writer's First Draft on the front wrapper dated June 26 2000 with credits for screenwriter Lorraine Vos. Title page integral with front wrapper. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with damp staining to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
