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1974ref. 147341N.p.: N.p. 1974. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With extensive annotations in manuscript ink throughout noting substantive revisions. Based on Bill Pronzini's 1974 novel wherein a small town's entire population is cut off from the outside world by a massive blizzard unaware that three professional killers are trapped in their midst. Set in the Sierra Nevadas. White non-standard titled front wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated October 11 1974 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Christopher Knopf and director Peter Yates. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly soiled bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1999ref. 149053Beverly Hills CA: Imagine Entertainment 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going Sabrina Grdevich Carlos Jacott Heidi Schanz and Eric Stoltz. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. An early darkly comic screenwriting effort from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach best known for "Kicking and Screaming" 1995 "The Squid and the Whale" 2005 and "Marriage Story" 2019 following a group of friends struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL DRAFT dated 4/29/99 with credits for screenwriter Noah Baumbach and director Thomas Schlamme. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 55. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only with one white revision page dated 4/23/99. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Imagine Entertainment unknown books
1968ref. 149124N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow in front of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Ave New York City during the filming of the 1968 film. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film one of the best genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director established producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and Hollywood veteran John Cassavetes. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Ruth Gordon and nominated for Best Screenplay. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine National Film Registy. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Criterion Collection 630. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown books
1937ref. 148516Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1938 film musical showing actor Buddy Ebsen dressed as a jockey astride a horse. With an ink stamp to the verso identifying the film by its working title "Broadway Melody of 1937" along with the reference number 988-14B. A backstage musical revue most notable for featuring a young Judy Garland in an unexpectedly popular singing role which would eventually lead to her casting in "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939. Set in New York. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1942ref. 148429Burbank CA: Warner Brothers - First National 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film. Two migrant workers attempt to organize farmers against monopolistic packing plant owner with the help of a dancer at a local club. Set in the fictional town of Cat Tail Florida shot on location in Florida. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear two uniformly faded one with four pinholes to far left two with small closed tears and one with one inch closed tear with cello tape repair on verso. Press Flyer 8.5 x 11 inches Near Fine. Warner Brothers - First National unknown books
1942ref. 149117Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1942. Vintage photograph of Preston Sturges adjusting Claudette Colbert's outfit made of men's pajamas and a pullman blanket on the set of the 1942 film. Studio label affixed to bottom margin of recto with ambiguous initials and "May 30" written in manuscript ink. Mimeo snipe on verso. In the minds of some critics Sturges closed out the screwball comedy era with a bang in this breakneck venture which had dialogue flying back and forth at a speed that was radical even by Sturges' standards. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good with some creasing and edgewear. Criterion Collection 742. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 146703N.p.: Bryna Productions 1957. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film. Marshal Tate Rory Calhoun finds himself caught in a conflict between a bigoted town led by the racist and cowardly Cavalryman Cpt. George Lloyd Bridges and Cheyenne out for revenge when one of Cpt. George's men kill Chief Yellow Wolf Frank DeKova. Featuring Joanne Gilbert as Pretty Willow Chief Yellow Wolf's daughter and Tate's love interest and Gloria Grahame as Amy Porter a widow in love with Tate. Set in the Dakotas shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. 1 Near Fine others Very Good to Very Good plus mostly light creasing 3 with open tears at corners 4 with uniform fading. Pitts 3432. Bryna Productions unknown books
1989ref. 148501N.p.: N.p. 1989. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1997 movie of the same name. After his father's death a young man travels to the small town of Anaconda to uncover the secrets of his father's past which seem to include a long-lost half-sister. Set in Pennsylvania Ohio and Montana. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated 9/89 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriters Laurie Taylor-Williams and Merce Williams. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light foxing and several partial ring stains on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 148498Universal City: Universal Pictures 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of James Taylor and director Monte Hellman on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. After cutting his teeth under the tutelage of guerilla filmmaker Roger Corman Monte Hellman made two landmark and still rarely screened existential Westerns with Jack Nicholson as producer and star. But it was with "Two-Lane Blacktop" the first screenplay by noted novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer that maverick director Monte Hellman helmed his first masterpiece and a cornerstone of the New Hollywood movement. Shot on location in Arizona Tennessee Oklahoma California Arkansas and New Mexico. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 414. Eureka MOC 26. Universal Pictures unknown books
1930ref. 148510N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau cinematographer Floyd Crosby a sound engineer and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia" based on a South Sea legend Flaherty had heard while working on W.S. Van Dyke's "White Shadows in the South Seas" 1928 which would later evolve into "Tabu." Two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora find themselves in danger when an old warrior declares the girl to be the Chosen Maid. Refusing the lovers run off to a "westernized" island were the boy earns a living as a pearl diver and lands in debt. When the old warrior discovers their location they plan another escape requiring the boy paying off his debts by pearl diving in shark-infested waters. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Shot on location in Tahiti and the Leeward Islands French Polynesia. 5.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine lightly faded. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Eureka! 61. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 146744Beverly Hills CA: H.B.L. Productions 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript pencil and ink annotations throughout. Based on the 1969 heist novel by Lawrence Block about a burnt-out former Green Beret who gets a tip-off about a valuable shipment of tactical nuclear weapons which he intends to steal with the help of a trained killer. Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. was known for his action and thriller films including "Daddy's Gone A-Hunting" 1969 "Papillon" 1973 and "Never Say Never Again" 1983. Set in the Florida Keys and Washington DC Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter LORENZO SEMPLE JR. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. H.B.L. Productions unknown books
1941ref. 149234Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego California. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL rubber-stamped copy No. 37 and production No. 701 dated OCTOBER 29 1941. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 29 1941 noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 161. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1947ref. 149135Universal City: Universal Pictures 1947. Vintage reference photograph of Agnes Moorehead being made to look 105 by makeup artist Bud Westmore on the set of the 1947 film noir. Mimeo snipe on verso. Loosely based on Henry James' 1888 novella "The Aspern Papers." A young publisher Robert Cummings attempts to obtain a famous writer's long-lost love letters which are kept hidden by the poet's former mistress Agnes Moorehead now an elderly recluse living in a decaying Venetian mansion. The old woman's niece Susan Hayward who acts as her live-in caretaker agrees to help the publisher find the poems discovering in the process the house holds far darker secrets. The first and only film directed by Martin Gabel. Set in Venice. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1942ref. 149132Los Angeles: Walt Disney Productions 1942. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph on the set of the 1942 film. "Photograph by Coburn" stamp and "Bison Archives" stamp on verso. Based on the 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. The stunning Technicolor live-action version of the classic Kipling stories made by the Hungarian born filmmaking team the Korda brothers director Zoltan Korda producer Alexander Korda and art director Vincent Korda which brilliantly utilized live exotic animals on huge lush sets and featured Indian born actor Sabu as Mowgli the boy raised by wolves who can communicate with the animals of the jungle. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. Set in a village in India shot on location in Sherwood Forest California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 30. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1980ref. 146709N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script and Second Rough Draft for an unproduced English-language film circa 1960s and 1980s about the life of St. Martin de Porres. Laid in one of the scripts is a typed note identifying Martin as the subject of the script and noting the date of his canonization. Although the scripts appear to have been written at different times and there are significant differences between them there are also enough textual similarities to confidently suggest they were both written by Raymond Ferrante despite the early script containing no credits. The titular character was born to a Spanish father and a woman of African and Native American Heritage He is the patron saint of mixed-race peoples and those seeking racial harmony as well as barbers innkeepers and public health workers. He was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1962 roughly corresponding with the first script on offer. First script: Yellow titled wrappers. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with a dampstain to the rear wrapper and about half the pages bound with two gold brads. Second script: Red titled wrappers noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Raymond Ferrante. Title page present noted as SECOND ROUGH DRAFT with credits for Ferrante. 175 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 174. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 149300Spain: Internacional Films 1967. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1967 film. With a dealer stamp on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations regarding layout. Based on Orson Welles' early play "Five Kings" which condensed Shakespeare's War of the Roses cycle into one story. The film was the last of Welles' three legendary Shakespearean adaptations following "Macbeth" 1948 and "Othello" 1951. As with nearly all of Welles' efforts as a director the film was plagued by financial and logistical problems shot with nearly no budget and received no promotion and a very limited release-but is now rightfully regarded as his final masterpiece. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and winner of two other awards at Cannes in 1966. Shot on location in Spain. One photograph 11.75 x 9.5 inches one photograph 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light creases and scratches. Internacional Films unknown books
1982ref. 149294Grunwald Germany: Concorde Film 1982. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the German release of the 1982 Italian film. With mimeo snipes on the verso. Antonioni's rarely discussed final feature and one of his greatest achievements. A recently divorced director pursues a new relationship with a younger woman who he imagines could play the leading role in his next film. She quickly vanishes and he embarks on a search to find her sparking up a series of romances with other women. Winner of the 35th Anniversary Prize at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Venice and Rome. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 585. Concorde Film unknown books
1963ref. 149379N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. An anthology film of four short films titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza" directed by Roberto Rossellini "Il Nuovo Mondo" directed by Jean-Luc Godard "La Ricotta" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and "Il Pollo Ruspante" directed by Ugo Gregoretti Pasolini's scathing comic rebuke on social inequality and religious hypocrisy wherein a lavish film production of the crucifixion of Christ in a poor region outside Rome finds the extra playing the "good thief" Stracci Mario Cipriani quite literally starving during the production trying everything to get some food all while being berated by the bombastic insufferable director Orson Welles. The film resulted in Pasolini being convicted of blasphemy and the film being banned in Italy. Pasolini was sentenced to a four month prison term which he avoided by paying a fine. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 236. N.p. unknown books
1993ref. 145759Universal City: Universal Pictures 1993. Vintage studio color still photograph of director John Woo and actor Jean Claude Van Damme on the set of the 1993 film. Natasha Binder Yancy Butler comes to New Orleans in search of her father. There she meets Chance Jean-Claude Van Damme a drifter who helps her uncover the terrifying story behind his disappearance. Shot on location in Alabama and Louisiana. 10 x 8.25 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Universal Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 145758Universal City: Universal Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Douglas Sirk and Lauren Bacall on the set of the 1956 film standing in the middle of stairway that endures much use in the course of the narrative. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1945 novel by Robert Wilder a fictionalized account of a real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband Zachary Smith Reynolds heir to a tobacco fortune. A rich playboy Robert Stack impulsively marries a secretary Bacall at his father's office unaware that his best friend Rock Hudson is in love with her with tragic results. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dorothy Malone nominated for two more including Best Supporting Actor for Stack. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 96. Ebert I. Godard Histoiries du Cinema. Universal Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 149310Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Collection of one vintage reference photograph and one contact sheet containing twelve test shots from the 1976 film all images publicity shots of actress Caroline Munro for the film. Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 fantasy novel the first in the Pellucidar series about adventures in the hollow earth. A British scientist and American adventurer drill through to a strange land where they lead a rebellion of Stone Age humans against their masters who happen to be intelligent flying reptiles with psychic powers. Set hundreds of miles underneath Wales. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1967ref. 149330Paris: Jolly Film 1967. Three vintage reference photographs one borderless from the 1967 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout to the verso and one with the stamp of Specta Films. A masterpiece of French cinema. Using his own money director Jacques Tati meticulously constructed a second "Paris" outside of Paris for the third-and most magnificent-of the four Hulot films following "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday" 1953 and "Mon Oncle" 1958. The third feature finds him in the much-modernized heart of the city with its complexities unfolding revolving deconstructing and reconstructing before his eyes. Set in Paris. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Jolly Film unknown books
1965ref. 149424Rome: Euro International Film 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing director Mario Monicelli and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Marcelo Mastroianni and Margaret Lee on the set of the 1965 Italian film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. An army officer romances his way through Europe with the caveat that he can only find romantic satisfaction in situations where his life is in danger. Set and shot on location throughout France Italy Switzerland Burma and Germany. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Euro International Film unknown books
1991ref. 149341Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1991. Vintage reference photograph of director-screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen and actor John Turturro having a conversation between takes on the set of the 1991 film. One of the more ambitious films in the Coen brothers' oeuvre a nuanced comedy about Hollywood success and the interaction between intellectuals and "the common man." Based largely on the experiences of playwright and erstwhile screenwriter Clifford Odets. Winner of the Palme d'Or Best Actor and Best Director awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival and nominated for three Academy Awards in 1992. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968ref. 149444Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Presse Parc Film 1968. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1968 French film. With a stamp specific to the French release for the film on the verso and one with a provenance stamp. After being released from the hospital following a suicide attempt a young man is scouted by a mysterious research group to participate in a time travel experiment. Alain Resnais' fifth film a brutal rumination on memory and the death of a relationship thematically and stylistically a precursor to Michel Gondry's 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Shot on location in Brussels Belgium. Three photographs 5 x 6.75 inches one photograph 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Presse Parc Film unknown books
