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1970ref. 149801Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Archive of five vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1970 film four of which are borderless. One photograph SIGNED and dated 1969 by photographer Alan Pappe on the verso all photographs with his stamp. All five photographs feature legendary Italian director Federico Fellini in his cameo role as himself with one showing the director on the set with a clapboard and crew members in front of him while a second features a manuscript pencil annotation describing Fellini and actor Donald Sutherland discussing a scene with an out-of-frame director Paul Mazursky. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years photographing a who's who of film and music stars including iconic images of Sharon Tate Jimi Hendrix and Liza Minnelli as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. A young filmmaker struggles to come up with ideas for new film after his previous commercial and critical success while ruminating on his past present and possible futures. One photograph 11 x 11 inches four photographs roughly 14 x 11 or 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1939ref. 148444Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional shallow egotists the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany Italy Spain and the USSR and later Nazi occupied France. Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint diagonal crease to lower right. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 149449Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente Harvey Evans Susan Oakes Bert Michaels Tommy Abbott and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno. Set in New York's West Side shot on location in New York and California. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with light wear and creasing to the corners. United Artists / Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1945ref. 149678Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1945. Vintage reference photograph of director Michael Curtiz wielding a megaphone on location for an suburban exterior shot for the 1945 film. With a printed mimeo snipe on the verso providing detail regarding same. Based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel which follows a newly divorced woman as she begins a career as a baker to provide for her family to the shame of her spoiled ungrateful firstborn daughter. A career-reviving role for Joan Crawford who won an Academy Award for her performance following her 1943 departure from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Shot on location in Glendale Los Angeles and Malibu California. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Very Good with light dryness and cracking to the finish and light wear to the bottom corners. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 860. Selby US Canon. Grant US. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969ref. 149363N.p.: Aetos 1969. Four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 Italian film. With the stamps of photographer Angelo Frontoni and Cinemondial on the verso along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Over the course of several days a mysterious visitor seduces each member of a bourgeois Milanese family. The second film in director Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mythical Cycle preceded by "Oedipus Rex" 1967 and followed by "Porcile" and "Medea" both 1969. Set and shot on location in Rome and Milan. 9 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with light dampstaining to the versos. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du cinema. BFI 1166. Aetos unknown books
1930ref. 148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout. Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1938ref. 148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1955ref. 149093Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Vintage double weight photograph of Robert Taylor and Kay Kendall on the set of the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp dated "May 4 1955" on verso. Based on the 1923 novel by Sir Walter Scott about the penniless son of a Scottish nobleman dispatched to propose to a French countess on behalf of his aging uncle but who then falls madly in love with her. The third film in an unofficial trilogy made by director Richard Thorpe and producer Pandro S. Berman and starring Robert Taylor the two preceding films being "Ivanhoe" 1952 and "Knights of the Round Table" 1953. Set in 15th century France shot on location in France and England. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1935ref. 149372Marseille: Les Films Marcel Pagnol 1935. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1935 film showing director Jean Renoir and actors Charles Blavette and Celia Montalvan on location during filming of the 1935 film. With the stamps of photographer Roger Corbeau and Cinemonde to the verso. Renoir's seventh sound film and an early example of the director's influence on both the French Left Bank and Italian neorealist movements. Renoir cast primarily non-professional actors and shot on location to craft the story of a group of immigrants working in a small town in Provence. Set and shot on location in the south of France. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine lightly and evenly toned. Les Films Marcel Pagnol unknown books
1995ref. 149323Universal City: Universal Pictures 1995. Two truly striking vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1995 film each demonstrating the film's true aspect ratio. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations regarding layout and the printed label of the film's still photographer Phillip V. Caruso to the verso. Shown in the two photographs are Scorsese working with actors and crew on the expansive casino floor set. Also shown are Robert De Niro Don Rickles Billy Crystal and others. Based on screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi's 1995 nonfiction book "Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas." Martin Scorsese's fifteenth film one of his finest a fast-paced bloody tale following a low-level mobster and gambling expert who climbs to power at the Mafia-run Tangiers Casino in the 1970s. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas with casino scenes shot at the Riviera. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Universal Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 146438Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a note typed on casting agent Paul Kohner's office letterhead introducing the screenplay addressed to actor Charles Bronson. The note is paper-clipped to a four page typed synopsis of the unproduced film "The Last Jump" which is also mentioned in the note. Based on noted South Carolinian humorist William Price Fox's 1967 novel following a pair of mischievous teenage boys trying to scrape together enough money to buy a car-encountering bootleggers revivalist preachers loan sharks and other figureheads of southern life in the 20th century along the way. Set in Columbia South Carolina. Blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 109 dated April 22 1968 with credits for screenwriter Everett Freeman and novelist William Price Fox. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1983ref. 149305Rome: 2T Produzione Film 1983. Vintage grande French poster for the 1983 erotic film. Inspired by Ovid's 2 AD collection of poems "Ars Amatoria" "The Art of Love". Set in ancient Rome the poet Ovid teaches courses in the art of love. One of his students sets out to test his newfound skill on a woman whose husband has gone to war. 47 x 63 inches. One panel. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Bier 96. 2T Produzione Film unknown books
1974ref. 146512Rome: Aquila Cinematografica 1974. Draft script for the first episode Episode 1 of an unproduced television miniseries. Based on the short story "The Virgin Orsola" from Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1902 collection "De Novelle Della Pescara." A chaste schoolteacher in a convent survives a life-threatening illness but soon after is violently sexually assaulted beaten and left for dead. Set in Italy. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for novelist GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO and screenwriter PASQUALE PRUNAS. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 103. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light dampstaining on the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. Aquila Cinematografica unknown books
1955ref. 149955Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures 1955. Vintage reference photograph of Virginia Mayo and Allan Dwan on the set of the 1955 film. Rita Mayo and Bully David Farrar convince her ex Dan Dennis Morgan to join them in an expedition to steal rare black pearls from the natives of a South Pacific island. Shot on location in Hawaii. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and small crease on upper right edge else Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 149849N.p.: N.p. 1976. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schlondorff cinematographer Igor Luther and other crew members on the set of the 1976 film. Based on the 1939 novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Young left-wing aristocrat Sophie von Reval von Trotta sides with the Bolsheviks after being rejected by a young German soldier Matthias Habich preparing to fight the Red Army. The third and final collaboration between husband and wife team Schlondorff and von Trotta von Trotta here co-writing and starring before von Trotta would branch off into her own esteemed career as a director. Previously they worked together on "The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" 1971 which von Tratt starred in and co-wrote with director Schlondorff and the New German Cinema masterwork "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" 1975 which they co-wrote and co-directed together. Set in 1919 Latvia during the Russian Civil War. 12 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing at far corners. Criterion Collection 192. N.p. unknown books
1954ref. 149976N.p.: N.p. 1954. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Cosetta Greco from the 1954 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on bottom left margin "Georges Sadoul" and "Foto Civirani" stamps on verso. Based on the acclaimed 1947 Italian novel by Vasco Pratolini.Carlo Lizzani's Neo-Realist portrait of Fascist Italy wherein young typographer Mario Gabriele Tinti after moving to via del Corno to be near his girlfriend and befriending his anti-fascist landlord Maciste Marcello Mastroianni is beaten by the fascists. Set in Via del Corno Florence Italy shot on location in Tuscany Italy. 9.5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and small closed tear on right. N.p. unknown books
ref. 149870France: Les Films du Jeudi / Gaumont 1974. Two vintage oversize borderless reference photographs one double weight of Jane Birkin from the 1974 film. A liquor salesman Jean Carmet makes up stories to obscure his pathetic life in order to succeed at both business and with women until he meets Jane Birkin. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and wear at the extremities. Les Films du Jeudi / Gaumont unknown books
1965ref. 149858N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pierre Etaix and Claudine Auger from the 1965 film. After losing everything in the stock market crash of 1929 a millionaire Etaix finds happiness his lost love Auger and the son he never knew he had by joining the circus. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Morbihan Bas-Rhin and Yvelines France. 9 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 149604Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film a highlight of early New Hollywood cinema. One shows actor Harold Blankenship the other with actors Robert Forster Peter Bonerz and Janet Langhart. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Paramount Pictures the other with the stamp of Israel Film Archive on the verso. A hardened and dubiously ethical television cameraman finds out he is being watched by the FBI amidst the tumultuous protests taking place around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Highly influential for its groundbreaking use of factual historical events interspersed with fictional narrative. Featuring early music by Frank Zappa's band Mothers of Invention and addressing underlying social issues of race gender and poverty the film frankly depicted much of the growing countercultural movement of the late 1960s even going so far as to use real-life footage of civil disobedience occurring in 1968 Chicago. Due to its startlingly political narrative as well as nudity and language the film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA though by 1970 this would be downgraded to an R. One photograph 10 x 8 inches one photograph 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 658. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1982ref. 149977Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Vintage borderless reference studio still photograph from the 1982 film. "1982 20th Century-Fox" stamp on verso. Based on the 1978 Frank De Felitta novel about a real case of an alleged haunting. In 1974 Culver City Doris Bither claimed the ghosts of three men were raping her. De Felitta was present during the investigation with lead researcher and parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff who served as technical advisor on "The Entity" as well as being represented in the film by the character Gene Kraft. "The Entity" is one of the few possession films that ends with White Science and Black Magic in a draw. Critics of the time dismissed the film but it still became something of a cult classic that evoked "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist." Martin Scorsese considers "The Entity" as one of the greatest horror films of all time. In a Halloween themed contribution to the website "The Daily Beast" 2013 "The Entity" scored fourth place in Scorsese's list. Shot on location in El Segundo and Santa Monica California. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Scorcese The Dark Eleven. Clover Men Women and Chainsaws. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1985ref. 149992N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting copy No. 356. Missing five pages likely as used or issued. A young librarian poses as a police officer for a one-time charity dance event but attempts to maintain the ruse when he catches the attentions of a young attractive policewoman. Light blue illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 12 1985 with credits for director Michael Dinner and screenwriter Mark Medoff. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/20/85 and 7/16/85. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1976ref. 147259N.p.: N.p. 1976. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the true story of Padre Pio an Italian friar and mystic who was later venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Screenwriter Giampaolo Lomi was best known for "Tropic of Cancer" 1972 and "The Barons" 1975. Set in Italy. Mustard cloth covered titled boards. Title page present dated 1976 with credits for screenwriter GIANMPAOLO LOMI sic. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and boards Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 149591Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1951. Vintage studio still photograph of director Jean Renoir and screenwriter Rumer Godden on the set of the 1951 film. Based on Godden's 1946 novel. Renoir's first feature length film in color following an adolescent girl coming of age in British colonial India. Shot on location in West Bengal India. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Ebert III. BFI 619. Criterion Collection 276. United Artists unknown books
1960ref. 150525N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage reference photograph of Elia Kazan Warren Beatty and four other female cast members on the set of the 1961 film. Warren Beatty's film debut. Natalie Wood was nominated for Best Actress Academy Award and William Inge won for Best Screenplay his first original screenplay after a career as a playwright. Family and societal pressures on Deanie Wood and Bud's Beatty heated teen romance threaten their romance and their sanity. 10.25 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1987ref. 149579N.p.: Xanadu 1987. Six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 film. With the label of Xanadu Film on the verso. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank his only feature-length fiction film and experimental novelist Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the screenplay. A musician's road movie heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer and featuring a cast full of notable musicians such as Tom Waits Leon Redbone Dr. John Joe Strummer Arto Lindsay and David Johansen. Set in and shot on location in New York and Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Shot on location in New York and Nova Scotia Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Xanadu unknown books
