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1983ref. 163380Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Final script for the 1984 film. An aspiring country music star bets the owner of a nightclub that she can turn an ill-mannered New York cab driver into a singer. Set in New York and Tennessee shot on location in Santa Clarita and Piru California and in Leipers Fork Tennessee. Gray titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated September 22 1983 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated September 22 1983 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriters Sylvester Stallone and Phil Alden Robinson. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/28/83 and 1/24/84. Pages about Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968ref. 161478Hollywood: Mirisch Productions / Dramatic Features 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film seen here under the working title "The One with the Fuzz." A bank teller in Manhattan develops a rash from a bee sting and decides to grow a beard to mask the ailment. His new facial hair causes him to be fired from his job although his coworkers stand behind him. Shot on location in Manhattan Los Angeles and Pasadena. Red titled wrappers dated April 8 1968 stamped copy No. 92. Title page present dated April 8 1968 with credit for screenwriter Garson Kanin. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with dampstains affecting the left edge of the front wrapper and bottom right corners of the first six leaves and front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Mirisch Productions / Dramatic Features unknown books
1993ref. 163367Universal City: Universal City Studios 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Sequel to the successful 1992 family comedy film "Beethoven" about the adventures of the titular St. Bernard dog and his suburban family. Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 3 1993 noted as Rev. with credit for screenwriter Len Blum. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout variously dated 5/6/93 and 5/7/93. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown books
1985ref. 162764Wembley: Lee International Film Studios 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 television movie originally aired on December 2 1985 on NBC and seen here under the working title "Imagine: John and Yoko." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting "Final Script" and copied annotations on three leaves. A dramatization of the relationship between John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their first meeting in 1966 to Lennon's murder by Mark David Chapman in 1980. Shot on location in London and New York. Gray generic Carson Productions Group wrappers. Title page present dated 11th July 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for director-screenwriter Sandor Stern. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Lee International Film Studios unknown books
1981ref. 141750Long Beach CA: Premiere Pictures 1981. Production budget for an unproduced film. A Hitchcockian thriller about a murderer who seduces and kills a photographer's model. The photographer gets curious and begins her own investigation despite the obvious dangers involved. Set in Los Angeles. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present. 17 leaves with last page of text numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine spiral bound. Pagination available upon request. Premiere Pictures unknown books
ref. 147316N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A gubernatorial candidate faces the unexpected exposure of his private life when his ex-wife declares her intentions to release his early love letters to her in the local newspaper. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter GINA KAUS and translator Albert Julian. 34 leaves with last page of text numbered 33. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly soiled bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 163355Beverly Hills CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions 1973. Revised Draft script for the 1974 film. Noted as copy No. 118 in manuscript ink on the title page. Loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel. A successful Harvard-educated literature professor finds himself in deep debt as his gambling addiction begins to spiral out of control. The first American film made by Czech-British filmmaker Karel Reisz. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Tucson and New York. Mustard titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated July 26 1973 noted as Revised with credits for director Karel Reisz and screenwriter James Toback. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled and edgeworn bound with two gold screw brads. Grant US. Imprint 49. Chartoff-Winkler Productions unknown books
1970ref. 141739London: Jud Kinberg and Stanley Mann 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Alan Scholefield's 1967 novel "Great Elephant" about a white settler family and their experiences in 19th century South Africa. Oversized yellow wrappers with title window die cut in the British style. Title page present dated June 8 1970 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter and author Alan Scholefield. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. Jud Kinberg and Stanley Mann unknown books
1984ref. 163349Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1984. Revised Estimating Draft script for the 1986 film seen here under both the release title and the working title "Jocks." Another early working title was "First and Goal." A divorced high school track coach lands a position as a college football coach in spite of her lack of experience and is tasked with working the team's players into shape. Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present dated December 21 1984 noted as REV. ESTIMATED DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Ezra Sacks and Michael Leeson. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only with yellow pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/11/85 and 3/7/85. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1970ref. 163450Hollywood: Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures 1970. Revised Final Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the title page and three leaves of the script. While waiting for the results from a pregnancy test a precocious high school senior decides to leave her family older lover and boyfriend behind and hitchhike to Big Sur California with her best friend. Red titled wrappers noted as copy No. 23 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present undated noted as Revised Final Draft with credit for screenwriter David Allen Dixon. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Tempo Enterprises / Crown Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 162142Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1971. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1970 French film including three from the American release and one from the Spanish release. One with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso along with a date stamp reading MAY 1971. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The penultimate film in François Truffaut's five-film series about the character Antoine Doinel. In this entry Doinel and his wife are expecting their first child when he has an affair with a woman he meets in a business meeting at his new job. Shot on location in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 187. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 162442N.p.: Sherpix 1968. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's satirical take on Hollywood Westerns features five gay cowboys a rowdy ranch lady and her stoned nurse handsome drifter Julian and a drag queen sheriff. Set and shot on location in Arizona. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the edges else about Near Fine. Sherpix unknown books
1983ref. 162428N.p.: N.p. 1983. Third Draft script for the 1984 film seen here under the working title "The Texas Picture." Single annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 39. During the Great Depression a recently widowed mother fights to defend her family farm from repossession. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning two including Best Actress for Sally Field and Best Screenplay. Set in Waxahachie Texas and shot on location in Waxahachie and Five Points Texas. Red titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present dated August 12 1983 noted as Third Draft with credit for screenwriter Robert Benton. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold screw brads. N.p. unknown books
1961ref. 140160France: N.p. 1961. Collection of 32 vintage borderless reference photographs of director René Clair with members of the cast and crew at a release party for the 1961 film. Approximately half the photographs bear the stamp of photographer Walter Limot on the verso. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs presumably conducting a radio interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini The festivities were located perhaps at a music hall with several musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but harbors a secret desire to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. About Very Good plus or better lightly curled with some faint foxing on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 161546N.p.: MDA Film 1971. Six studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Five photographs with provenance stamps on the versos one of which is on a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. After an artist's suicide friends and lovers share their memories of him most of whom are convinced he would never have killed himself and that one of them had something to do with his demise. Set in and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. MDA Film unknown books
1968ref. 161456New York: Morris Kaplan 1968. Three vintage still photographs from the 1968 film. All three photographs with provenance stamps on the verso two with labels on the versos obscuring previous provenance stamps. Henning an ambitious fashion photographer begins a series of erotic nudes with his favorite model Leslie until the mysterious model Joyce arrives and threatens to disrupt the studio and Henning's plans. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Vinegar Syndrome 147. Nilsen Warped and Faded. Morris Kaplan unknown books
1951ref. 162338N.p.: N.p. 1951. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1951 film including three showing Gene Kelly dancing with Leslie Caron and one showing a dejected Kelly with four military officers. Inspired by George Gershwin's 1928 jazz-influenced orchestral composition and featuring a show-stopping 17-minute ballet choreographed to the piece as well as a number of other Gershwin tunes including the classics "Embraceable You" "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "I Got Rhythm." Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Picture and nominated for two others including Best Director. Also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light age toning on a few margins. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Schrader 34. N.p. unknown books
1975ref. 162359N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Richard Brooks talking with actress Candice Bergen on the set of the 1975 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. In 1906 fifteen contestants compete in a 700-mile cross-country horse race with a cash prize of $2000. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in New Mexico and Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Pitts 348. N.p. unknown books
2005ref. 162341N.p.: Reverse Angle Productions 2005. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 2005 film one showing actors Sarah Polley and Gabriel Mann the other showing Mann and Fairuza Balk. An aging Western actor flees from his latest film set deciding to travel into his past starting with a trip home to visit his long-estranged mother in Elko Nevada. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Moab Salt Lake City and Arches National Park Utah and in Butte Wendover and Elko Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Reverse Angle Productions unknown books
1987ref. 162362N.p.: N.p. 1987. Two vintage borderless oversize color reference photographs from the 1987 film both showing director Wim Wenders on the set. Wenders' masterpiece a love letter to West Berlin told through the experiences of an angel who yearns to be human. The director dedicated the film to his cinematic predecessors Yasujiro Ozu François Truffaut and Andrei Tarkovsky whose influences shine throughout his oeuvre. Set and shot on location in West Berlin. 11.75 x 8.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 490. Ebert I. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 162324N.p.: N.p. 1960. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film all four showing actress Anita Ekberg. Federico Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three others including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 162351N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 French film showing actor and producer Raoul Lévy with actress Marina Vlady. French title stamp on the verso. A day in the life of a seemingly normal suburban housewife who intersperses her daily routine of housework cleaning and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director Godard's most highly regarded and stylistically innovative films released the same year as "Weekend" and "La chinoise." Set and shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 482. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 162331N.p.: N.p. 1980. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1980 Italian film showing director Dario Argento talking with actress Eleonora Giorgi between takes while crew members adjust her makeup. The second installment in Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy preceded by "Suspiria" 1977 and followed by "Mother of Tears" 2007. Partially derived from Thomas De Quincey's 1845 prose poetry essay collection "Suspiria de Profundis" the trilogy was inspired by De Quincey's concept of three "Ladies of Sorrow": an all-powerful triumvirate of ancient witches and Satanists. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown books
1986ref. 162368Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1986. Collection of twelve vintage color slides from the 1986 film. Five with annotations in manuscript ink on the cardboard sleeves and a printed Dutch photo agency label affixed to the plastic sleeve holding the slides. A series of vignettes about the goings-on in the fictional Texan town of Virgil whose inhabitants are preparing for a large celebration in honor of the 150th anniversary of Texas' independence. A passion project for David Byrne poorly received at the time of its release but today considered a cult classic largely funded on the strength of Jonathan Demme's successful 1984 concert film "Stop Making Sense" with much of the film's soundtrack supplied by Talking Heads. Shot on location throughout Texas in Dallas Mesquite Midlothian Red Oak Allen and McKinney. Slides 1.25 x 1 inches in cardboard sleeves measuring 2 x 2 inches. About Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973ref. 162342N.p.: N.p. 1973. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 Australian softcore film. In therapy a waterbed salesman ponders his irresistibility to women. Shot on location in Victoria Australia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
