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1966ref. 150448Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Monica Vitti's leg emblazoned with a tattooed scorpion a trademark of the titular character. With the stamp of Pedro Lima archive on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations identifying Vitti director Joseph Losey and the film title. Based on the British comic strip which originally appeared in 1963. Modesty Blaise a former criminal mastermind occasionally employed by the Secret Service must protect a shipment of diamonds en route to a small Middle Eastern kingdom from a crime syndicate. Monica Vitti's first English-speaking role. Shot on location throughout Italy the Netherlands and England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1931ref. 150958Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing actress Estelle Taylor. Based on Elmer Rice's 1929 play a light romance which takes place over twenty-four hours in a small community of immigrants in Hell's Kitchen. Set in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with a few splashes to the image faint toning overall and pinholes to the corners. Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
1962ref. 150414Rome: Cineriz 1962. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and actors Monica Vitti and Alain Delon during a cafe scene on the set of the 1962 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamps of Keystone Photo and Publifoto and a stamp noting No. 8710. A woman's newfound relationship with a power-hungry stockbroker gradually erodes as she becomes dissatisfied with his shallow interests. The final film in Antonioni's modernity trilogy all starring Vitti preceded by "L'avventura" 1960 and "La notte" 1961. Awarded the Jury Special Prize and nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Rome and Verona Italy. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 278. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Cineriz unknown books
1957ref. 150435N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing actress Jayne Mansfield leaning over to get a bottle of ginger ale from the refrigerator. With a manuscript pencil annotation identifying Mansfield and the film title on the verso. Based on the 1955 Broadway play which also starred Jayne Mansfield. A satirical take on mid-century Hollywood following an ad man who hires a famous actress to promote a new line of lipstick but must pretend to be the actress' lover in exchange in order to make her real boyfriend jealous. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1924ref. 151017N.p.: N.p. 1924. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Virginia Valli from the 1924 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso along with the stamp of King Features Syndicate. Based on the 1920 novel "Belonging" by Olive Wadsley. Considered a lost film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 152529London: Scotia-Barber Distributors 1971. Vintage pressbook for the 1971 film. At his home on the North Cornish coast a demented sculptor murders a young woman in order to cast a bronze sculpture of her form. Shot on location in Cornwall and London. Bi-fold. 6.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Scotia-Barber Distributors unknown books
1945ref. 150438Paris: Pathe 1945. Two vintage oversize double weight borderless studio still photographs from the 1945 French film one showing actress Arletty in costume as the courtesan Garance reclining on a couch the other showing the interior of the Grand Theatre where actor Pierre Brasseur is performing. An influential classic of French cinema following a courtesan in nineteenth century Paris who finds her attentions torn between four possible suitors-a mime an actor a thief and an aristocrat. Set and shot on location in France. 11 x 9 inches. Very Good plus one with pinholes and brief wear to the corners and one with a small closed tear to the top left corner. Criterion Collection 141. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. Pathe unknown books
1949ref. 157066Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Second Revised Temporary script for the 1949 film seen here under the working title "Always Sweethearts." An Irish horse trainer and his niece take a liking to a young Kentucky thoroughbred named Seabiscuit deciding to convince the horse's owner to let them train the horse for races. A loosely fictionalized account of prizewinning racehorse Seabiscuit incorporating black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in several races including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap and the 1938 race against War Admiral. Set in Kentucky shot on location in Los Angeles and Arcadia. Beige titled wrappers noted as 2nd Rev. Temp. on the front wrapper dated Feb. 28 1949. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter John Taintor Foote. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1957ref. 150851Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1957 British film one showing actress Mai Zetterling the other showing Zetterling tending to actor Tyrone Power. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures. 20 survivors of a sunken luxury liner find themselves crowded onto a lifeboat fitted for 9 people causing no small consternation as their food and water run out and a hurricane approaches. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with manuscript ink annotations on the right edge of the recto. Both photos with a serrated edge at the left margin from where they were once attached to a keybook tab. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 150852N.p.: Trans-Lux 1954. Vintage black and white studio still photograph from the 1954 British film. A prima ballerina suffers a devastating car crash as a result of her husband's exploitative behavior and is forced to learn how to use her legs again with the help of a kind doctor. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Trans-Lux unknown books
1950ref. 157110Hollywood: Ventura Pictures 1950. Draft script for the 1950 film seen here under the working title "Blaze of Glory." Working copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his annotations in manuscript pencil throughout amending dialogue and noting deletions. Laid in with the script is a 15 page master schedule and a document relating to rent regulations. A jockey dreams of being a sportswriter while falling in love with a woman who paints portraits of horses. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated noted as copy No. 27 with credits for screenwriter Otto Englander. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 89. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with undated yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Ventura Pictures unknown books
1943ref. 157113Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Final script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his name on the front wrapper and his notations throughout. A propagandistic musical revolving around the romantic and comic goings-on at the Stage Door Canteen a real recreational center in New York created for for American and Allied servicemen during World War II. The actual Stage Door Canteen was a basement nightclub located in the 44th Street Theatre and was too busy to be used for filming. As a result the canteen was recreated at the Fox Movietone Studio and RKO Pathe Studios in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers stamped FINAL SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 42 dated November 25 1942 with credits for screenwriter Delmer Daves. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page integral with the front wrapper. X leaves with last page of text numbered X. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/21/42 and 1/4/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1950ref. 157111Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Archive of material from the 1951 film belonging to actor Lon McCallister including a Final Draft script with McCallister's annotations throughout an eleven-page shooting schedule four reference photographs and three poster mock-ups for the film. Additionally laid in with the script are two loose leaves one with notes in McCallister's hand noting lines of dialogue. A group of green army recruits nicknamed the "peach fuzz brigade" become hardened over the course of the Korean War facing violent raids and attacks by snipers. Script: Green titled Columbia Pictures wrappers noting the working title "Rookie in Korea" noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper and production No. 8031 dated Oct. 17 1950. Title page present dated October 17 1950 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter William Sackheim. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with yellow revision pages throughout dated October 24 1950. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 157617N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Pascal Audret and her prisoner from the 1969 French-Italian film. Photographer stamp and Asa Press stamp on the verso. Based on Rene Barjavel's 1969 novel. A young Parisian man travels to Nepal to find his deadbeat father only to fall in with a group of drug-loving hippies. Set in Paris and Nepal. 12 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 157621N.p.: Abrams and Parish 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. A sexploitation melodrama about the cruelties and perversities of a group of politicians in the days leading up to an election. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Abrams and Parish unknown books
1976ref. 157637N.p.: N.p. 1976. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs of Tania Busselier and Eva Khris from the 1976 French film. One with the stamp of photographer Hubert Toyot on the verso. JJean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil more commonly known as Jean Rollin had gained notoriety and some scandal with his early French vampire films "Le Viol du Vampire" 1968 "La Vampier Nue" 1970 "Le Frisson des Vampires" 1970 and "Requiem pour un Vampire" 1971. When beginning production on his first non-vampire film "La Rose de Fer" 1973 he found himself in need of funding and began making adult sex films which he continued to direct under a variety of pseudonyms through the mid-1980s. Two photographs 7 x 5 inches five photographs 9.25 x 7 inches. Very Good plus. Hinds 222. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 157622N.p.: N.p. 1970. Five vintage reference photographs from the 1970 Danish film. Based on the 1956 novel by Henry Miller about two womanizing men-one American one European-who share an apartment in Paris. Filmed in Paris at the same time as another Henry Miller adaptation "Tropic of Cancer" directed by Joseph Strick and starring Rip Torn and Ellen Burstyn. Set and shot on location in Paris and Luxembourg. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Blue Underground. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 157624Hollywood: General Film 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of Cynthia Denny from the 1970 film. A freewheeling eighteen-year-old girl leaves behind her family to try to make it in California but finds herself in increasingly exploitative and unpleasant situations. Shot on location in Van Nuys. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a light crease on the bottom right corner. General Film unknown books
1976ref. 157620N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1976 film showing actress Bulle Ogier topless in bed. Stamp of photographer Roswitha Hecke on the verso along with layout annotations in manuscript ink. A collection of four stories dealing with erotic obsession. The first film directed by Werner Schroeter to feature Ogier followed by "Weiße Reise" 1980 "Two" 2002 and "This Night" 2008. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 157623Los Angeles: R.A.C. Films 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Con women steal one million dollars from two mob money couriers forcing the men to find and recover the money before their employers discover the theft. Versatile and prolific cross-genre filmmaker Lee Frost was best known for his string of often radical exploitation and adult films throughout the 1960s and 1970s most notably including "The Animal" 1968 "Chain Gang Women" 1971 and "Policewomen" 1974. Shot on location in Las Vegas. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with a light crease on the bottom right corner. R.A.C. Films unknown books
1970ref. 157629Munich: Romano Film 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Rosemarie Lindt and Ingeborg Steinbach from the 1970 German film. Stamp of Romano Film on the verso. A man tries to set his daughter up with a suitable son-in-law a prospect so repulsive that it causes the daughter to flee to southern Germany. Shot on location in Baden. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Romano Film unknown books
1964ref. 157639N.p.: Cambist Films 1964. Three vintage studio still photographs of Libertad Leblanc from the 1964 film. A young would-be nightclub singer discovers that her new performing contract is controlled by a violent drug baron. Set and shot on location in Buenos Aires and Venezuela. 10 x 8 inches. NEear Fine. Cambist Films unknown books
1966ref. 157627Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1966. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Japanese film. Stamps of Nikkatsu Productions on the verso along with annotations in manuscript ink. A disillusioned pornographer tries to stay out of the clutches of the local mob while taking care of his ailing landlady and her children secretly spending time with his mistress and lusting after his teenage stepdaughter. 6 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 207. Nikkatsu unknown books
1946ref. 157114Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Shooting Final script for the 1947 film seen here under the working title "Bob Son of Battle." Copy belonging to actor Lon McCallister with his annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Included is a photograph of the cast and crew having a meal on the set with Peggy Ann Garner at the center of attention. Based on the 1898 novel "Owd Bob" by Alfred Ollivant. An aging crotchety shepherd fights his son in a collie dog sheepherding contest. Set in Scotland shot on location in Kanab Utah. Beige titled wrappers noted as Shooting Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 27 and production No. 113 dated June 25 1946. Title page present dated June 25 1946 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Jerome Cady. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated between 7/5/46 and 10/31/46. Pages Very Good plus with faint foxing on the fore-edge of the title page wrapper Very Good with script laid into wrapper partially bound with a single gold brad. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968ref. 156781Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Second Revised Final script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and title page. After the Civil War a Union officer and a Confederate officer are forced to band together in order to defend their respective traveling parties against bandits and revolutionaries. Shot on location in Sonora and Zacatecas Mexico and in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Cream titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper and production No. 175 dated December 3 1968. Title page present dated December 3 1968 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL with a credit for screenwriter James Lee Barrett and story credits for Stanley Hough. 168 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus slightly yapped at the fore-edges bound internally with three gold brads. Housed in a custom brown quarter-leather clamshell box. Pitts 4638. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
