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1964ref. 151602Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Vintage press kit for the 1964 film here called an "editor's portfolio." Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 20 black and white photographs and one gathering of promotional reading material. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1961 play. An alcoholic former priest finds himself caught between the attentions of three women while leading a failing tour of Puerto Vallarta. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one. Set and shot on location in Mismaloya and Puerto Vallarta Mexico the latter of which became a popular tourist destination after the film's release. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1979ref. 151554Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed outer folder containing 13 black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and 13 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on F.W. Murnau's 1922 film. The third collaboration between director Werner Herzog and the infamously ill-tempered Klaus Kinski who starred as Count Dracula. Herzog lauded Murnau's classic horror tale as the greatest picture Germany every produced and fittingly many shots from Herzog's adaptation directly replicate shots from the 1922 film. Shot on location in Mexico the Czech Republic the Netherlands and Germany. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. BFI 2030. Ebert IV. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1960ref. 147644Paris: Films sans Frontieres 1960. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Seven black and white and two in color. Loosely based on the biblical story of Esther a Jewish woman who helps the king of Persia combat the suppression of Jews promoted by the nefarious minister Haman. Set in Persia. 8 x 10 inches. Five Near Fine with light wear to the corners Four Very Good plus with light creasing and faint soil to the top edge and verso. Films sans Frontieres unknown books
1979ref. 151527Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Black-and-white illustrated pocketed folder containing 21 black and white photographs and 16 gatherings of promotional reading material. Based on Richard Condon's 1974 novel. A pitch-black satire following the half-brother of fictional US President Kegan closely modeled on John F. Kennedy as he begins to uncover the circumstances which led to Kegan's assassination 19 years prior. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1990ref. 168504N.p.: N.p. 1990. Four vintage color transparencies from the 1990 film. Spike Lee's fourth feature film written on the set of "Do the Right Thing" 1989 about a talented jazz trumpeter whose selfishness leads to a decline in his professional and personal relationships. Shot on location throughout New York. 5 x 4 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 168503Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1969. Vintage transparency from the 1969 film showing Sidney Poitier on the set. Loosely based on F.L. Green's 1945 novel "Odd Man Out." A Black militant intends to rob a factory payroll in order to aid his imprisoned revolutionaries but through an unexpected turn of events he is forced to rely on a young social worker to help pull off the heist. 5 x 4 inches. Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 147591Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1954. Six vintage studio still color photographs from the 1954 film. With a stamp reading "Bought in Phila. / FEB 9 1954" to the verso. A farm family facing poverty is forced to sell daughter Donna's pet horse the eponymous Gypsy Colt unaware that the horse itself is prepared to resist the new sale crossing deserts and mountains in order to return to Donna. Loosely based on Eric Knight's 1940 novel "Lassie Comes Home." Set in the American West and shot in Colorado and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with small strips of adhesive to the top center edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1959ref. 147595Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Three vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1959 film. With a stamp for The Silver Screen Archives stamp and separate mimeo snipe to the verso. A comedy about an Air Force sergeant who meets a beautiful model at a raffle for a new car. After a whirlwind romance he marries her before shipping off to Spain. When the new wife promises him in a letter "the most wonderful surprise that could happen to two people" he naturally assumes that she's pregnant. To his surprise it turns out to be the new car the prototype Lincoln Futura that eventually became the "Batmobile" for the 1966 television series causing the new couple problems with the military local populace and IRS. Set and partially shot on location in Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with some faint soil and light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1915ref. 151537Los Angeles: Fox Film 1915. Vintage lobby card for the 1915 silent film. Based on the 1908 play by Walter C. Hackett and Owen Frawley Kildare in turn based on Kildare's 1903 memoir "My Mamie Rose." A poor Irish-American orphan rises into power as a mob leader but decides to cut his criminal ties when he falls in love with a beautiful social worker. One of the first full-length gangster films presumed to be lost until the 1970s and now preserved at the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film. Set in New York. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good moderately toned and edgeworn with pinholes to the corners. National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Fox Film unknown books
1930ref. 151540Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1930. Vintage program for the 1930 pre-Code musical film. Based on the 1927 musical by Vincent Youmans in turn based on the 1922 play "Shore Leave" by Hubert Osborne. A young woman decides to sell her valuable heirloom necklace in order to buy a boat for for her US Navy sweetheart. Considered a lost film. 9 x 12 inches. Eight pages with illustrated wrappers. About Near Fine with light toning to the top and left edges. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1959ref. 147596Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Three with mimeo snipes to the verso. A comedy about an Air Force sergeant who meets a beautiful model at a raffle for a new car. After a whirlwind romance he marries her before shipping off to Spain. When the new wife promises him in a letter "the most wonderful surprise that could happen to two people" he naturally assumes that she's pregnant. To his surprise it turns out to be the new car the prototype Lincoln Futura that eventually became the "Batmobile" for the 1966 television series causing the new couple problems with the military local populace and IRS. Set and partially shot on location in Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Four Very Good plus with light creasing and light edgewear one Very Good with a light diagonal crease running from bottom left to top right. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1972ref. 151604Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Vintage press kit for the 1972 film here called an "editor's portfolio." Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing 12 black and white photographs and one gathering of promotional reading material. A dramatization of the life and work of French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. Much of the content was taken from letters sent between Henri and his older emotionally detached lover Polish writer Sophie Brzeska. Shot on location in England. Folder photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970ref. 148337N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of 12 vintage French color lobby cards from the 1970 film. Housed in original labeled paper envelope. Based on the 1967 novel "Intersections" by Paul Guimard who also worked on the screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and remade in 1994 as "Intersection" directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich. Shot on location in Paris La Rochelle and Thoiry France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 169932Pine Bush New York: Abandon Pictures 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Agency copy in ICM Agency wrappers with a copied annotation on the title page noting "Please copy return." A retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in suburban Pennsylvania in the 1970s following ambitious hamburger stand worker Joe McBeth. Shot on location in Halifax. White generic ICM agency wrappers. Title page present dated 02/08/00 noted as Production Draft with credit for director and screenwriter Billy Morrissette. 58 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Abandon Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 160196N.p.: N.p. 1965. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A planned sequel to "Christmas on Earth" an absurd Beat-era stream-of-consciousness narrative following the Snow Queen and a group of fairies as they attempt to save Jean Genet playing himself from life as a Bowery Bum. Filmmaker Barbara Rubin was a figure of almost mythical importance in the New York underground. Rubin introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground was friends with Bob Dylan and a former lover of Allen Ginsberg and helped Jonas Mekas organize the Film-Makers' Cooperative all before converting to Orthodox Judaism at 24 and moving to France with her husband and children. Rubin is today best remembered for her transgressive 1963 masterpiece "Christmas on Earth" a 16mm film so sexually explicit it sent ripples through the New York film scene and was subject to multiple censorship efforts by the police made when Rubin was only 18 years old. Self wrappers. Title page present copyrighted 1965 with credit for screenwriter Barbara Rubin. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 31. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light rust marks along the binding bound with three staples. N.p. unknown books
1953ref. 169939New York: Kagran Corporation 1953. Revised script for Season 2 Episode 2 of the 1953-1954 ABC television series. Screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith's working copy with his substantive annotations in manuscript ink throughout marking deletions editorial notes and revisions. The "Johnny Jupiter" program appeared in two iterations throughout 1953 and 1954: the first aired on the DuMont Television Network from March to June of 1953 and the second aired on ABC and aired between September 5 1953 and May 29 1954. Both series featured 30-minute episodes blended hand puppetry and live action and featured a shop employee interacting with aliens through a magical television set but the second series was geared toward adults while the first was geared toward children. The ABC series followed a young television shop employee as he fielded interactions with his human colleagues his boss and his boss' daughter and the Jovian aliens from Jupiter the titular Johnny Jupiter and two robots. In this episode the Frisby general store is paid a visit by the chief scoutmaster of the Frontier Scouts of America throwing Duckweather Horatio and Katherine into a tizzy and causing the Jovians to intervene in an unwanted attempt to help. Self wrappers. Title page present with credit for series writer Jerome Coopersmith noted as "Script #1" and "'Frontier Scout Story'". 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus first and last leaves detached from the binding partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. Kagran Corporation unknown books
ref. 169944Chanhassen MN: Graffiti Bridge Inc 1990. Archive of two original scripts and over 100 pages of production documents from the 1990 film all belonging to Sound Mixer and Playback Operator Matthew Quast. The archive consists of: A Fourth Draft script dated February 1 1990 with manuscript ink annotations on the versos of two pages and the recto of a third housed in a large generic blue three-ring binder with the labels "Graffiti Bridge" on the spine and "Sound Mixer / M. Quast" on the front board. Bound in preceding the script are: 40 pages of song lyrics with manuscript ink and highlighter annotations noting timing of stanzas on nearly every page. Seven pages of employment applications agreements and memos. Sixteen pages of crew contact information. And thirteen pages of One-Line Schedules dated February 8 20 and 26 1990. An undated Revised Draft script lacking the first seven pages and title page housed in a narrow generic red three-ring binder. Bound in following the script is a six-page "Contact Suppliers List" an eight-page "Area Info" and four pages of maps and directions to Prince's Paisley Park studio. Laid in with the scripts are: Copies of Prince's wardrobe sketches on three pages and one half leaf. A four page Music List dated January 26 1990. Four Call Sheets dated 3/13/90 3/26/90 3/27/90 and 3/28/90 with a memo dated March 27 1990 stapled to the last call sheet. A three page One-Line Schedule dated March 20 1990. A copy of a handwritten page listing six scenes for "Thursday 3/8/90." And six "Graffiti Bridge" film reel labels and a blank Avalon Entertainment employee time and reimbursement submission form with the attached carbon copy. Prince's standalone sequel to his hit 1984 movie "Purple Rain" and his third and final film role following "Purple Rain" and the 1986 film "Under the Cherry Moon" Prince's directorial debut. Prince returns as "The Kid" now a club owner in a "West Side Story" style rivalry with competing club owner Morris Morris Day and puts his club on the line with a bet with Morris over who can write the best song. Set and shot on location in Eden Prairie and Minneapolis Minnesota. Fourth Draft script: Housed in a large blue generic three-ring binder. Title page present dated February 1 1990 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Prince. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 66. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/7/90 and 3/9/90. Pages Near Fine bound in a Very Good plus three-binder. Revised Draft script: Housed in a thin red generic three-ring binder. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages. Pages Near Fine bound in a Very Good plus three-ring binder. Other production documents 8.5 x 11 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches. Near Fine overall. Graffiti Bridge Inc unknown books
2000ref. 169959N.p.: N.p. 2000. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film an internally duplicated copy with copied hole punches as issued housed in a red inkjet paper box with the title "Hedwig" in manuscript marker to the lid of the box. Based on the 1998 stage musical by director John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. Hedwig a genderqueer punk rock singer from East Berlin tours the US with her band the Angry Inch shadowing the tour of arena rock star Tommy Gnosis her former lover and protégé who stole her songs. As she travels she tells the story of her life culminating in a botched sex reassignment surgery to escape East Berlin with Tommy immediately before the Berlin Wall fell and Tommy left her. Shot on location in Toronto. Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter John Cameron Mitchell. Title page present dated 1/3/00 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter John Cameron Mitchell and Song Lyrics by Stephen Trask. 80 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the bottom right of the front wrapper and first three leaves bound with a prong binding. Criterion Collection 982. N.p. unknown books
1998ref. 169960N.p.: N.p. 1998. Revised Draft script for the 2001 film. An agency copy printed on the rectos and versos written seven months prior to the commencement of the production with the marker annotation of "O" on the front wrapper. A modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's "Othello" set in a US high school wherein Odin James Mekhi Phifer the only black student at Palmetto Grove Academy who is the star basketball player and dating the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi Julia Stiles is the envy of his troubled friend Hugo Josh Hartnett who plots a deadly scheme to sow mistrust between Desi and Odin. Shot on location in Charleston South Carolina. Untitled International Creative Management wrappers. Title page present dated 08/12/98 noted as Revision with credits for screenwriter Brad Kaaya. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication on the rectos and versos. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with dampstaining to the rear board bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1993ref. 169975N.p.: Wife N' Kids Productions 1993. Fifth Draft script for the 1993 film. With extensive manuscript marker and ink annotations to the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations to six pages. After his grandmother is murdered a nerdy repairman with a knack for invention stumbles onto a method to make his clothes bulletproof and decides to become the low budget superhero "Blankman" to help defend his neighborhood from crime. Set in New York City filmed on location in Chicago Illinois. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated July 20 1993 noted as 5th DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Damon Wayons "based on revisions" by Wayons J.F. Lawton and Chris Matheson and "Revised by" Wayons and Lawton. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Wife N' Kids Productions unknown books
1939ref. 156293Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1939 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the verso. The only feature film written by Langston Hughes in collaboration with African American actor Clarence Muse who also appeared in the film in the role of Uncle Caton. While Hughes and Muse intended to create a story about antebellum Louisiana with a more accurate portrayal of African Americans' role during the period studio interference inevitably compromised their initial vision. Set in Louisiana shot on location in Calabasas and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 169980N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith with the maker annotation of "H.J. Smith" and a telephone number on the top left corner of the front wrapper. Script with four carbon typescript pages the final three pages and a second title page with the alternative title "The Last American" found preceding the title page matching the front wrapper. The title page with the title matching the front wrapper with a manuscript marker annotation striking second screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas. Nathan E. Douglas was the pseudonym of blacklisted screenwriter Nedrick Young with whom Smith co-wrote the Academy Award winning script for the 1958 film "The Defiant Ones" as well as the acclaimed 1960 film "Inherit the Wind." For generations Joshua Cable's family have lived on their farm in the Appalachia Mountains. After strip mining has left everyone but the coal companies destitute and all the farms poisoned with coal dust Cable desperately gathers the help of other impoverished men to steal equipment from the coal company and mine his farmland for coal in spite of having sold the mineral rights to his land to the coal company years ago. Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one with credits for screenwriter Harold Jacob Smith and one for screenwriters Harold Jacob Smith and Nathan E. Douglas with Douglas' name stuck. 37 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Mimeograph duplication with four pages carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 169977N.p.: N.p. 1978. Archive of 180 pages of post-production documents including Italian and English dialogue-only scripts regarding English translations and subtitles for the 1975 Italian film here under the working English title "Young Dracula." Included in the archive are: 68-page dialogue-only script in Italian with manuscript ink annotations on 28 pages checking dialog and occasionally noting timing. Attached is a carbon typescript letter signed from distributor Robert M. Phillips to a "Mr. Finder" at Titra Film Laboratories in New York regarding the English subtitling for the film dated December 18 1978. Xerographic duplication. 46-page dialogue-only script in English with manuscript ink annotations on every page noting timing and checking dialogue. 40-page carbon typescript "English Copy Superimposed Spotted List" on "Spottted and Edited by Nat and Robert Hoffberg" onionskin forms with manuscript ink annotations on nine pages regarding dialogue and timing. 15-page carbon typescript of "Revised text" on onionskin stock with ink annotations on every page checking and noting dialogue. Four ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock of "Changes For Spotting List" and "Additional Changes for Young Dracula." Three ribbon copy typescript pages on onionskin stock comprised of two trailer spotting list pages and a one page "Changes for Trailer Spotting List." Three-page Xerographic copy of "Trailer Dialogue" with manuscript ink annotations throughout noting timing and checking dialogue. Typed letter signed on onionskin stock from Phillips to Robert Hoffberg dated January 19 1979 regarding discrepancies in dialogue translations. Giallo director Lucio Fulco's vampire comedy wherein a boorish quick-tempered toothpaste factor owner finds himself thirsty for blood and re-examining his life after a curse from a gypsy aunt and a business trip to Romania where he shared a bed with a suave vampire. Shot on location in Rome Italy. Italian dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with cover letter. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 68. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine letter Very Good plus unbound with a large paper clip to the top left corner. English dialogue-only script: Front wrapper integral with first leaf. 46 leaves with the last page of text numbered 46. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine unbound with a binder clip to the top left corner. Letter dated January 19 1979 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good with a small closed tear to the right side and a large closed tear to the top left and light edgewear and creasing. All other documents 8.5 x 11 inches to 8.5 x 14 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 169954New York: Cates Films 1983. Revised script for an unproduced film. A drama about a psychology professor who gets involved with a sexual abuse case against a respected therapist. Playwright Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii Five-O" 1968-1980 and the 1974 Christmas television special "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" but also contributed episodes for "Armstrong Circle Theater" "The Streets of San Francisco" "Combat!" "Spenser for Hire" and others. In 1965 he received a Tony nomination for the Sherlock Holmes Broadway musical "Baker Street" and wrote and co-wrote a number of off-Broadway plays including "Eleanor" 1967 about the early life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Coopersmith and Cates Films would work together in 2004 on the television movie adaptation of the 1980 Mary Higgins Clark novel "The Cradle Will Fall." Untitled William Morris Agency wrappers with clear front wrapper and navy rear wrapper. Title page present noted as Revised dated November 1983 with credit for Coopersmith. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Cates Films unknown books
1974ref. 169951Los Angeles: Rankin/Bass Productions 1974. Draft script for the 1974 animated Christmas television special originally aired on CBS on December 8 1974. From the archive of screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. A children's Christmas tale loosely based on Clement Moore's classic 1823 poem. Although produced in the US the special was animated in Japan by Topcraft an animation studio later linked to Studio Ghibli. Topcraft would collaborate numerous times with Rankin/Bass throughout the 1970s and 1980s most notably on "The Hobbit" 1977 and "The Last Unicorn" 1982. Script housed in a mylar folder with a navy blue binding. Pink titled William Morris Agency wrappers. Title page present dated 3-12-74 with credits for Moore and screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Rankin/Bass Productions unknown books
