William Pene Dubois (illustrations); Terry Southern (author); William Rose (screenwriter, subject)ABAA
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1959ref. 135799N.p.: N.p. 1959. Original illustrated humorous essay by Terry Southern and William Pene Dubois satirizing the dress habits of their distinguished friend American screenwriter William Rose. Southern and Dubois met in the late 1950s both under the tutelage of William Styron while both of them were associated with The Paris Review. During this time William Rose wrote his most famous screenplay "The Ladykillers" 1955 as well as the British classic "The Maggie" 1954. He would go on to win an Academy Award for his original screenplay "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" 1967. 3 leaves 8 x 10 inches. Ink and colored pencil. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 137049Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1959. Carbon Draft script for the 1961 film. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. From the Richard Manney collection of film noir. Gangster biography with noir elements based on Harry Grey's 1958 novel a paperback original. Dutch Schultz Morrow is a mobster at the top of his game in the 1920s. He kills a man romances the man's daughter Parrish and turns a good cop bad. Red titled wrappers dated 9/24/59 with a credit for screenwriter Browne. Title page present identical to front wrapper. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Hardy The Gangster Film p. 213. Warner Brothers unknown books
1966ref. 137064Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators" written by novelist Norman Bogner and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in manuscript ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" 1967 screenwriter his only film "Emerald Soup" 1963 television series story editor the "Armchair" theatre television series 1965-1966 and "Seventh Avenue" 1977 television series based on his novel. Blue titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated November 30 1966. Title page present dated November 30 1966 noted as First Draft with a credit for screenwriter Bogner. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1966ref. 133029Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the US release of the 1966 film noir. An underrated key film for director Penn something of an intellectual thriller made between two better known films "Mickey One" 1965 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. Also very much an acting tour de force with early performances by Robert Duvall Jane Fonda and Robert Redford and an exceptional turn by Brando as a town sheriff facing painful choices. The film itself was the subject of am acrimonious struggle for creative control between the director and studio coincidentally making the production mirror the themes of upheaval of the social order and the fight for freedom within the film story. A story set in Texas shot partially on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1953ref. 132573Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1953. Eight vintage full-color front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1953 American-English film. Based on Victor Hugo's 1866 novel "Les travailleurs de la mer" about a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey who helps a beautiful woman to the French coast. The fisherman falls in love with the woman who is actually an English spy pretending to be an ally of Napoleon. 8 x 10 inches. A few brief corner creases and faint soil to the versos else Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 132691London: Miracle Films 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" 1941 banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Miracle Films unknown books
1966ref. 132612Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1966. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US film. Based on the 1965 novel by Norman Mailer about a talk show host who is suspected of killing his wife and is pursued by both the police and a a gang of criminals. 8 x 10 inches. A few stills with small stains on the rectos else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1967ref. 132863Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1967. Eight vintage full-color still photographs from the 1967 UK release of the 1967 US film. Josie Doris Day is a widowed sheep farmer in a cattle-farming town and her independence and strong ethics lead to disruption of the town's misogynist leaders when she convinces the local women to band together. An entertaining B-movie that with a strong women's liberation theme. A story set in the Southwest shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 134869Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of Rita Hayworth taken for the 1947 film by Columbia Pictures special photographer Robert Coburn. With Coburn's stamp on the verso. Robert Coburn was one of the most influential portrait photographers working in the major Hollywood movie studios from the 1930s to 1960s. His star subjects included Hayworth Joan Crawford Kim Novak Carole Lombard William Holden Glenn Ford and Orson Welles. Coburn's most famous portraits immortalized Hollywood's greatest icons and helped to define this era as the Golden Age of Cinema. In 1940 Coburn began a twenty-year career with Columbia Pictures as the head of the still production department and the studio's chief portrait photographer for many landmark films including "Picnic" "Gilda" and "The Big Heat". 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1933ref. 136691Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place a radical element even in a pre-Code film. A film that has held up well in that it breaks the stereotype of hobos as nothing more than restless drifters and delves into what fueled the movement during the Great Depression. Many teenagers male and female were forced to leave their homes and ride the rails because their families were unable to provide support. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with some penciled annotations on the verso regarding another actress in the film Dorothy Coonan who would go on to marry the film's director William A. Wellman. National Film Registry. First National Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 135604Paris: Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes 1975. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white press photographs from the set of the 1975 film. Three of the four photographs show Truffaut and his crew working on the set both in front of the camera and behind it and the fourth is a lovely shot of Truffaut in uniform next to Isabelle Adjani. Stamp of French press agency Les Artiests Associes on the verso of each print. Based on the diaries of the youngest daughter of author Victor Hugo about a woman whose romantic obsession with an indifferent military captain eventually leads to her despair and madness. Isabelle Adjani was nominated for an Academy award making her at age 20 the youngest Best Actress nominee of all time in 1975. Story set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Barbados Senegal and the Channel Islands. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Les Films du Carrosse / Les Productions Artistes Associes unknown books
1938ref. 136085Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 noir antecedent showing director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben and Paramount along with an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. Spicer US Precursor. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 135458Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from 1972 film. Based on the 1970 novel by Donald Westlake. Featuring images of Robert Redford George Segal Ron Leibman and more. One of the most engaging and hilarious crime films of the early 1970s a cat-and-mouse heist film in which Redfield played the foil to Redford. A bright gathering of the New Hollywood Cinema's finest including Robert Redford director Peter Yates novelist Donald Westlake and screenwriter William Goldman. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Picture. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964ref. 135474Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1964. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1964 film. The second of the "Pink Panther" films based on the 1962 book by Harry Kurnitz which in turn was adapted from Marcel Achard's play "L'Idiote." Probably one of five funniest films of the 1960s and the defining installment in the well-loved Pink Panther series. While "A Shot in the Dark" was ably preceded by "The Pink Panther" in 1963 it was the first to feature the series' underrated maestro Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. United Artists unknown books
1965ref. 135614Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie SNC 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of director Jean-Luc Godard behind the camera on the set of the 1965 film. Shot by photographer Georges Dudognon in the summer of 1965 with his stamp on the verso. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 9 x 12 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 421. Godard Histoires de cinema. Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie [SNC] unknown books
1965ref. 135450Culver City CA: Florin / Columbia Pictures 1965. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Featuring images of Warren Beatty and Alexandra Stewart. Some say that the New Hollywood era began with "Bonnie and Clyde" in 1967 others say "Mickey One" in 1965. Either way you look at it the director was Arthur Penn. Beatty was not only the muse for Penn's avant-garde tale of a comic who runs afoul of the mob but also the crazed youngster who would get Penn assigned to Bonnie and Clyde and initiate the second golden age of cinema. Stan Getz laid improvisations onto the progressive and somewhat classical score for the film against the backdrop of a full orchestra. Set in Chicago and shot on location there. 8 x 10 inches. CONDITION. Florin / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1947ref. 135591Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage press photograph of Rita Hayworth Orson Welles and the film's still photographer Robert Coburn on the set of 1947 film noir. Mimeograph snipe on the verso notes that here Welles and Coburn are discussing the Jean Louis clothing designs for the film with Ms. Hayworth. Shot by Van Pelt with his stamp on the verso. 8 x 10 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1966ref. 136089Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1966. Five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction including scenes in a bedroom on a football field in a cemetery and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1978ref. 135472N.p.: Carolco 1978. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Carolco unknown books
1975ref. 135469Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1975 film "Smile" a biting satire on the American beauty pageant. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 135317Beverly Hills CA: Twentieth Century-Fox 1970. Draft script for the 1972 film. An early example of the film's script still slated to be a Twentieth Century-Fox production with their imprint on the front wrapper. The fourth Roth novel after "Goodbye Columbus" in 1972 to be adapted to the screen and the sole directorial effort for noted screenwriter Ernest Lehman "North by Northwest" "The Sweet Smell of Success" "Sabrina" "West Side Story" The Sound of Music" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". Alexander Portnoy Benjamin sees a therapist and goes on one long tirade after another about his family his childhood his sexual fantasies and desires his problems with women and his obsession with his own Judaism. Set in New York. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 3 1970 with credits for screenwriter Lehman and novelist Roth. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1932ref. 137137Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1970ref. 135612Culver City CA: Faces Music / Columbia Pictures 1970. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Ben Gazzara on the set of the 1970 film. 9.25 x 12.25 inches. In an archival mat. Near Fine. Faces Music / Columbia Pictures unknown books
1978ref. 137031New York: Interstar 1978. Revised Shooting script for the 1980 film. Vigilante crime drama focuses on a Vietnam vet who wreaks revenge on the streets of New York for his wartime friend who was mugged and subsequently crippled. In the vein of "Death Wish" 1974 but with more exterminating. A cult classic. Shot on location in New York and Ventura County California. Red Studio Duplicating wrappers with a credit for screenwriter Glickenhaus on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 8/9/79 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with a credit for screenwriter Glickenhaus. 173 leaves with last page of text numbered 170. Mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/24/79 and 8/27/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Arrow 554. Hardy The Gangster Film. Interstar unknown books
1943ref. 135506Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1943. Vintage black-and-white studio photograph from the 1943 film noir. Based on the 1942 novel "Black Alibi" by Cornell Woolrich. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good condition with edge creasing and a few closed tears and with two cello tape repairs to the verso. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Rosenbaum 1000. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
