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1928ref. 150743N.p.: N.p. 1928. Vintage portrait photograph of Erich von Stroheim from 1926 released as a publicity still for the 1928 film. Newspaper clipping of photograph with two "DEC 19 1934" stamps affixed to verso and an "Erich von Stroheim" stamp and "Erich von Stroheim Goldwyn director" printed on verso. Stroheim's runaway production was halted after nine months of shooting by producer Pat Powers having gone nearly $1 million over budget with an edited running time of over four hours. After a disastrous preview Paramount decided to release two films from the footage as was Stroheim's original intent with the second part entitled "The Honeymoon" now lost. Prince Nicki an impoverished aristocrat is in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter Mitzi but is forced to marry Cecilia the daughter of a wealthy factory owner. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two small chips one on top left corner and one on center right margin. National Film Registy. Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Movies. N.p. unknown books
1995ref. 150027Santa Monica CA: Steven Bochco Productions 1995. Draft script for the sixth episode of season three of the 1993-2005 television series originally aired on November 28 1995 on ABC. A wealthy Indian woman is discovered dead with many potential culprits. Meanwhile two detectives investigate a case involving a man left to die of an overdose. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated Sep. 26 1995 noted as Script No. 6 with credits for director Jim Charleston screenwriter Leonard Gardner and other crew members. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered 63. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 09/28/1995 and 10/04/1995. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. Steven Bochco Productions unknown books
1978ref. 150805Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton on the set of the 1978 film. Three adult sisters struggle to cope with the separation of their parents and their mother's subsequent mental decline. Director Woody Allen's first drama without comedic elements. Shot on location in New York City Southampton and Westchester County New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1974ref. 150774Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1974. Vintage borderless studio still photograph with bottom margin of Roman Polanski from the 1974 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. A definitive entry in the New Hollywood canon and a worthy rival to director Roman Polanski's 1968 masterpiece "Rosemary's Baby." Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning one for Best Original Screenplay for Robert Towne. Set in 1930s Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense. Schrader's Canon Fodder 43. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir US. Spicer Neo-Noir US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1962ref. 150812N.p.: N.p. 1962. Eight vintage borderless reference studio still photographs five with bottom margins from the 1962 film. One with cropping annotation in blue and red holigraph pencil and remainder of label since removed on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by Henri-Pierre Roche. One of the founding films of the French New Wave examining a long relationship between two men and an impulsive young woman before during and after the First World War. Shot on location throughout France. One photograph 9.25 x 7 inches the other seven photographs 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 281. Ebert II. Schrader Canon Fodder 27. N.p. unknown books
1951ref. 146057Hollywood: Tom Productions 1951. Draft script for the 1951 film here under the working title "Off We Go!" With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Desperate to leave his lowly post as a tailgunner an unskilled G.I. asks his girlfriend who owns a cafe on the air base to flirt with his commanding officer in order to get him a promotion. Instead of the better position he desires however the officer finds himself roped by the base special intelligence officer into impersonating the head saboteur of a spy ring. Gray titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 10 and noted as production No. 1067 dated May 5 1951. Title page present dated May 5 1951 with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with tide marks to the lower edge bound with three gold brads. Tom Productions unknown books
1995ref. 150028Santa Monica CA: Steven Bochco Productions 1995. Draft script for the Season 3 Episode 3 of the 1993-2005 television series originally aired on November 7 1995 on ABC. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout most noting deletions. A detective attempts to locate a suspect in a string of rapes across Manhattan while another officer's family's domestic abuse issues escalate. The popular television series ran for 12 seasons and followed the detective squad of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct. Set in Manhattan. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated Aug. 21 1995 noted as Script No. 3 with credits for director Michael M. Robin screenwriter Gardner Stern and other crew members. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 08/21/1995 and 08/30/1995. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. Steven Bochco Productions unknown books
1972ref. 150671Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1972. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. The idealistic son of a former California governor is persuaded to run for the US Senate. In the face of almost certain failure he decides to try to bring controversial leftist views into public view and campaign against the corrupt political system. Nominated for two Academy Awards winning one for Best Screenplay for Jeremy Larner. Set and shot on location throughout California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
ref. 150822Culver City CA: Culver City Studios 1973. Third Revision Draft script for the 1973 film with the name "Jim Woods" in manuscript ink on top right of front wrapper and page two of screenplay likely uncredited Set Painter James T. Woods with copy numbers "76" on top left of front wrapper and "13" on top right of title page in manuscript marker and on back wrapper are numeric entries in manuscript ink. Following script is a one page "APPENDIX A -- TV PLATE -- LUNA'S PARTY" featuring dialogue between a mother and child regarding a holiday party. Woody Allen is a health food store owner who is cryogenically frozen in 1973 only to be revived 200 years later to help lead a rebellion against an inept totalitarian government. Winner of a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Shot on location in Colorado and California. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 1 1973 noted as REVISION #3 with credits for screenwriters Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with yellow and blue revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of last 15 pages wrapper Very Good plus with silverfish damage to outer edge of back wrapper bound with two gold brads. Culver City Studios unknown books
ref. 150830N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. A vintage script created for internal distribution four years prior to the film's release with copied manuscript annotations throughout noting deletions and editorial revisions copied punch holes and one manuscript pencil annotation noting the name "Morrison" on the title page. Based on Mark Medoff's Tony Award-winning 1979 play. A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the school's janitor a deaf woman who has resigned herself to a life of isolation and silence due to her reluctance to learn to communicate with the hearing. Nominated for five Academy Awards winning one for Best Leading Actress for Marlee Matlin making Matlin the first deaf recipient of an Academy Award. Set and shot on location in Saint John New Brunswick. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 4 1982 noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Mark Medoff. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication largely second generation rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
ref. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown books
1971ref. 150578Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1971. Two vintage color studio still photographs from the 1971 film. Noted as 6 and 8 on the bottom left corners. Loosely based on David Reuben's 1969 book. Seven comic vignettes centering different weird and wacky sexual proclivities including exhibitionism bestiality and sadism. 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus one Very Good edgeworn with vertical creasing across the center of the photograph. United Artists unknown books
1954ref. 150655Santa Monica CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1954. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. Seduction and betrayal erupts among the American employees of a traveling carnival in Munich. Set and shot on location in Munich. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1954ref. 150809N.p.: N.p. 1954. Treatment script for the 1955 film. Bound in after the outline are several sets of character descriptions and continuity notes. Santa Fe's first female doctor Greer Garson wants to introduce modern medical technology to the town but encounters resistance both from the local hospital which is run by a Catholic priest Walter Hampden and from the town's only other doctor Dana Andrews. Set in Boston Massachusetts and Santa Fe New Mexico shot on location in Tucson the Sonoran Desert and the Sierrita Mountains Arizona. Green titled wrappers with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy. Title page present dated 4/13/54 noted as Story Outline with credits for director Mervyn LeRoy and screenwriter Frank Butler. 193 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Pitts 4148. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 150573Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Seven vintage color studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall one with a few pinholes to the corners. Universal Pictures unknown books
1973ref. 150575New York: National General Pictures 1973. Three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1973 film. An erotic thriller following a television reporter who becomes increasingly obsessed with filming his neighbors' private lives. Noted author Michael Crichton's first original screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National General Pictures unknown books
1955ref. 150634Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1955. Complete set of ten vintage color studio still photographs from the 1955 film. Stamped production No. 63-71 on the versos and bottom right corner of the rectos. Based on Jack Trevor Story's 1950 novel. The dead body of a local man is discovered in the woods near a small New England town leading the townspeople to speculate on what should be done with the corpse and more importantly the identity of the culprit. One of director Alfred Hitchcock's few true comedies. Set and shot in Craftsbury Vermont. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 150709Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Collection of eleven vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 documentary film. A documentary capturing the first performance of an all-Black rodeo in Harlem and the varied audience reactions to seeing African Americans participating in what was widely considered a white sport. Featuring appearances by Muhammad Ali who rides a horse down 125th Street and noted Western actor Woody Strode. Set and shot on location in Harlem. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
1963ref. 150563N.p.: National Screen Service 1963. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1963 film. An exploration of unusual people and behaviors throughout the world narrated by George Sanders. Includes a performance artist who sticks long needles into his body footage of the Grand Guignol theatre in Paris reindeer castrations and many more. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown books
1972ref. 150707Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on J.E. Franklin's 1969 play. The youngest daughter in a working-class African American family dreams of becoming a dancer and is determined to avoid the fate of her mother and two older sisters who married and had children at a young age and who express dissatisfaction and frustration with their stagnant lives. One of the few blaxsploitation films of the 1970s to depict the everyday lives and dreams of blue collar Black women. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 97-98. Cinerama Releasing unknown books
1981ref. 150753N.p.: American Panorama 1981. Two vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1981 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the bottom right corner of the recto noting production No. 82-617. A British couple inadvertently release a demon from its ancestral home in a Mexican mine. Shot on location in California Nevada and Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Vinegar Syndrome 94. American Panorama unknown books
1975ref. 150626Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1975. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the US release of the 1974 Italian film. A convent's vicious power-hungry Mother Superior bullies and torments those who stand in her way but the arrival of an agnostic writer looking for new material threatens to challenge the nun's power. Shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976ref. 150675Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs for the 1976 film. The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Richard Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. Set and shot on location in Westlake Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several with pinholes to the corners. Universal Pictures unknown books
1976ref. 150676Universal City: Universal Pictures 1976. Seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1976 film. With mimeo snipes on the verso along with the stamp of a Canadian film distributor. The employees of a Los Angeles car wash encounter a variety of strange and humorous customers over the course of their daily work including a Muslim revolutionary Bill Duke a power-hungry evangelist Richard Pryor with a singing entourage The Pointer Sisters and a man posing a potential bomb threat Irwin Corey. Set and shot on location in Westlake Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1969ref. 150572Universal City: Universal Pictures 1969. Eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
