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1977ref. 171038N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 film showing André Dussollier and Anémone covered in wires. A slapstick satire of modernism and government control about a French couple who are chosen by the Ministry of the Future to be the country's "model couple" and used as test subjects for the creation of a new updated city by the year 2000. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus moderately toned. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 171039N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Alfred Hitchcock sitting in his director's chair on the tarmac at the Paris airport Orly Val-de-Marne France. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Leon Uris about a French agent who helps the United States uncover the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 171040N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Dalton Trumbo on the set of the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud. A poor Jewish man assumes the identity of a gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken prejudiced man. When the man is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Nominated for an Academy Award for Alan Bates. Set in Czarist Russia shot on location in Hungary 9 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 166216London: Weyland Film Productions 1960. Draft script for the 1961 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations throughout and rough pencil sketches on the versos of four pages. Seven pages with paste-ups of goldenrod revision pages with many pages cut horizontally separating scenes and many pages creased vertically as is common with working scripts. Provenance available upon request. Laid in are 43 carbon typescript leaves detailing construction costs dating from August 1960 through January 1961 a carbon typescript copy set list a carbon typescript copy construction staff requirements page a penciled layout of an October 31 to December 2 Shop Building and Shooting Stage schedule and staff requirements and a pencil layout of an Art Department construction form. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1954 novel by Michael Croft. Max Bygraves stars as an idealistic teacher fresh from training college who begins work at a tough East London secondary school of badly-behaved impoverished students and fellow teachers who believe corporal punishment is the most effective way of controlling the students. Shot on location in Clarendon Crescent and Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School in London. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British fasion. Title page present dated 24th October 1960 with credits for screenwriter John Cresswell and author Michael Croft. 162 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 3.11.60 and undated and undated goldenrod revision paste-ups on seven pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Weyland Film Productions unknown books
1959ref. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown books
1956ref. 166264London: London Independent Producers 1956. Third Draft script for the 1957 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with his name written on the titled label on the front wrapper with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout including rough pencil prop and set sketches on the versos of eight pages. Here under the working title "A Novel Affair" which was used as the title for the US release of the film. Laid in are over 30 production documents including: 17 pages of handwritten Prop Lists eleven dated from May to July 1956. Two pages of rough pencil sketches including several story boards with two film clippings attached by paperclip each containing 3 full frames. Three letters to Provis two autograph letters signed dating from May and June 1956 and one typed letter signed from February 1956. As well as Shooting Schedules Set Lists Locations lists and additional Prop Lists. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Novelist Judith Wynter Margaret Leighton gets inspiration for her new novel when her wheelchair-bound husband Ralph Richardson hires a new Italian chauffeur CarloCarlo Giustini. When Carlo reads her lurid tale of adultery and murder the husband mistakenly concludes that she is actually madly in love with Carlo. Green generic file wrappers with a title label noted as 3rd Draft Screenplay on the title label dated 23-4-1956. Title page present noted as Third Draft of Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Muriel and Sydney Box. 97 leaves with last page of text numbered 96. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a prong binding. London Independent Producers unknown books
1975ref. 166618N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised Second Draft script for the 1976 film here under the working title "Invitation to Death." Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout amending dialog and underlining his character "Steve." Bound in following the script are two pages of extensive handwritten notes in pencil elaborating on the actions and motivations of the character "Steve" in specific scenes likely written by screenwriter and director Howard Avedis. Laid in is a 24 page schedule with manuscript pencil annotations underlining the character "Steve" throughout with the manuscript marker annotation of Dimitri's name along the top edge of the first leaf. Connie Stevens stars as a sexy and horny federal narcotics agent who goes undercover to investigate heroin smuggler Cesare Danova. Director and screenwriter Howard Avedis' exploitation take on William Fiedkin's 1971 classic "The French Connection" with a female cop in the lead including an outrageous chase scene involving Ms. Stevens in a dunebuggy. A cult classic. Set in and shot on location in Seattle King County and Kirkland Washington and Portland Oregon. Burgundy untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 6 1975 noted as Second Draft Revised with credits for screenwriter Hikmet Avedis. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 168115Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1980. Vintage publicity photograph from a television re-release of the 1980 film. A country boy whose marriage is nearly torn apart by his violent temper and jealousy wins his wife's love back by triumphing at a mechanical bull-riding competition at a local bar. Set in Houston Texas shot on location throughout Texas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a diagonal crease at the bottom right corner. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 168112Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1985. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1985 film showing actor John Travolta. Loosely based on a series of articles that appeared in "Rolling Stone" in the late 1970s discussing the success of health clubs in Los Angeles as cruising spots for single young people. Shot on location in Jersey City and Santa Monica. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1989ref. 168111Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1989. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1989 film. First film in the successful "Look Who's Talking" series spawning two sequels in 1990 and 1993 and a television spin-off series "Baby Talk" 1991-1992. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown books
1992ref. 168113Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1992. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1992 film showing actor Gene Hackman. Clint Eastwood's best-loved directorial effort about a long-retired killer who having lost his wife agrees to work with a bounty hunter to find a group of lawmen responsible for disfiguring a prostitute and placing a town under corrupt rule. Nominated for nine Academy Awards winning four including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Hackman. Set in Big Whiskey Wyoming and Hodgeman County Kansas and shot on location in Alberta Canada. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine lightly worn at the bottom right edge. National Film Registry. Ebert II. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1996ref. 168116Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO / Max 1996. Vintage reference photograph from a HBO re-release of the 1995 neo-noir film. HBO label affixed to the verso. An assistant district attorney investigates the murder of a prominent businessman who is found skinned to death with an antique hatchet later uncovering incriminating photographs linking the man to a sex work ring. Shot on location in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Home Box Office [HBO] / Max unknown books
1980ref. 168136Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1980. Two vintage studio still photographs from a television re-release of the 1950 film musical. Loosely based on the 1925 stage musical "No No Nanette" by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel about a would-be Broadway thespian who makes a bet with her wealthy uncle that she can say "no" to any question asked of her for an entire day. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1975ref. 168134Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Vintage borderless color studio still photograph from the 1975 film. The fourth entry in the "Pink Panther" series and Peter Sellers' return to the series after declining to appear in "Inspector Clousseau" 1968. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1979ref. 168133Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1979. Vintage reference photograph from the 1979 film showing actor Christopher Plummer. During the Second World War a nurse falls in love with a handsome American pilot who is stationed in England although she is secretly married to a charming but dull British spy. Shot on location in Hertfordshire Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974ref. 168123N.p.: Golden Films 1974. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film seen here under the working title "Evil in the Deep." A crew of maritime adventurers search for a long-lost sunken Spanish Galleon carrying a massive amount of treasure. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Golden Films unknown books
1984ref. 168117Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / United Artists 1984. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1984 film showing actress Mary Crosby as Princess Karina. In a future in which water is a scarce commodity space pirates are caught stealing ice and are sold to a princess searching for her long-lost father. The second major Hollywood film for both Crosby and actor Ron Perlman. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists unknown books
1990ref. 167901Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures / Cinemax 1990. Two vintage reference photographs from the US release of the 1988 French film including one showing a camera crew on the set capturing a scene with Bart a trained Kodiak bear. One photo with a Cinemax label affixed to the verso. Based on James Oliver Curwood's 1916 novella "The Grizzly King" about an orphaned bear cub who befriends an adult Kodiak bear in the wild. Shot on location in the Italian and Austrian regions of the Dolomites using both live animals and animatronics created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Columbia Pictures / Cinemax unknown books
1981ref. 168110Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures / Filmways 1981. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1981 film both showing actor John Travolta. Based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film "Blow Up" with an audio recording replacing a photograph early 1980s Philadelphia replacing Swinging London and a tight political thriller plot replacing the looser and less immediate one in the original. Shot on location in Philadelphia. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 562. Grant US. Spicer Neo-Noir. Columbia Pictures / Filmways unknown books
1991ref. 167891Culver City CA: Tri-Star TriStar Pictures 1991. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1991 film including four compilation photographs. A dramatization of the doomed love affair between famed mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and his moll Virginia Hill. Nominated for ten Academy Awards winning two. Shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 167893Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1978 film. An aging newspaper reporter falls in love with his neighbor a beautiful but sickly ballerina. Anne Ditchburn who had no prior acting experience was chosen from a pool of 400 applicants for the part. A dancer and choreographer she choreographed some of her own routines in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus one Very Good. United Artists unknown books
1945ref. 161348N.p.: N.p. 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film seen here under the working title "This Love of Ours." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. Based on Roger Butterfield's 1944 book detailing the heroic actions of US Marine Al Schmid during World War II and his rehabilitation after being blinded in battle. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Philadelphia and San Diego. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present undated with credits for Wald director Delmer Daves screenwriter Albert Maltz and biographer Roger Butterfield. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 159. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 12/8/44 and 2/21/45. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with moderate wear on the leather and front board lightly soiled. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 167890Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1983. Eight vintage publicity photographs from the 1983 film including two compilation photographs. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos of seven photographs. Based on Erich Segal's 1980 novel about a family man confronted with an illegitimate child from a long-since-past affair. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 168142Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1973. Two vintage reference photographs from a 1973 re-release of the 1971 television movie showing Shelley Fabares James Caan and Billy Dee Williams. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on Gale Sayers' 1970 autobiography "I Am Third" documenting his groundbreaking interracial friendship with Chicago Bears teammate Brian Piccolo who would die of cancer at the age of 26. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 167900Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1975. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1976 film. A beach lifeguard is forced to confront his priorities and consider changing professions when he rekindles a flame with his old high school girlfriend who is now divorced with a five-year-old son. Shot on Torrance Beach California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
