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1990ref. 168024Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1990. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1990 neo-noir film showing actor Kevin Costner. Based on a 1979 novella by Jim Harrison who also co-wrote the screenplay. A retired naval pilot starts an affair with a married woman in Mexico only to face the wrath of her husband a powerful businessman. Shot on location throughout Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
2017ref. 163941N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2018-present television series one undated and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Kayce continues to battle the tribal police while John attempts to keep Kayce and Monica at the ranch. Originally aired on July 25 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as episode No. 105 with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. 8/12/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 105 and Production Draft with credit for Sheridan. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
2017ref. 163937N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Revised Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 2018-present television series one dated 8/9/17 and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode the Dutton family attempts to recover from the deaths of the eldest son and a brother-in-law. Originally aired on June 27 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. 8/9/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/9/17 noted as episode No. 102 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revised Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 102 and Pink Revised Pages with credit for Sheridan. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
2017ref. 163942N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 6 of the 2018-present television series including one Production Draft and one Network Draft. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Chief Rainwater and developer Dan Jenkins team up threatening John's hold over the Yellowstone ranch. Originally aired on August 1 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Network Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 106 and NETWORK DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Production Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/7/17 noted as episode No. 106 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
1994ref. 149993N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film. Seeking money for drugs an African American man breaks into an ER surgeon's apartment leading her to kill him in self-defense. The man's grieving brother seeks revenge for what he sees as his brother's unwarranted racially motivated death beginning a bitter cycle of violence and retribution. Set in Chicago. Gray HBO Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated January 11 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 149993N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film. Seeking money for drugs an African American man breaks into an ER surgeon's apartment leading her to kill him in self-defense. The man's grieving brother seeks revenge for what he sees as his brother's unwarranted racially motivated death beginning a bitter cycle of violence and retribution. Set in Chicago. Gray HBO Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated January 11 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 167225N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film seen here under the working title "To Protect and Serve" and under the release title. A merciless satire in the vein of Robert Altman's "The Player" 1992 about a recent film school graduate whose dreams of making it in Hollywood are gradually ground down by his new boss a tyrannical studio mogul. Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1994ref. 167225N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film seen here under the working title "To Protect and Serve" and under the release title. A merciless satire in the vein of Robert Altman's "The Player" 1992 about a recent film school graduate whose dreams of making it in Hollywood are gradually ground down by his new boss a tyrannical studio mogul. Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 170201Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1978. Draft script for the 1978 television movie "Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold" seen here under the working title "Centerfold" which aired October 23 1978 on NBC. Copy belonging to unknown crew member Irwin Draper with his name in manuscript in on the front wrapper. One of Kim Basinger's earliest film roles and the film that would begin to transition her reputation away from being a model to that of a respected screen actress. Here she plays a Texas beauty queen who moves to Hollywood to seek her fame only to wind up posing for a centerfold. Set in Texas and California. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 25 1978 with credits for screenwriters Nancy Audley and Howard Chesley and producers Robert Greenwald and Frank von Zerneck. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication. Pages and wrapper Fine bound with two copper brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1978ref. 170201Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1978. Draft script for the 1978 television movie "Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold" seen here under the working title "Centerfold" which aired October 23 1978 on NBC. Copy belonging to unknown crew member Irwin Draper with his name in manuscript in on the front wrapper. One of Kim Basinger's earliest film roles and the film that would begin to transition her reputation away from being a model to that of a respected screen actress. Here she plays a Texas beauty queen who moves to Hollywood to seek her fame only to wind up posing for a centerfold. Set in Texas and California. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 25 1978 with credits for screenwriters Nancy Audley and Howard Chesley and producers Robert Greenwald and Frank von Zerneck. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication. Pages and wrapper Fine bound with two copper brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1964ref. 152144Hollywood: World Wide Pictures 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout. With an eight-page shooting schedule bound in before the script. The rebellious son of two television reporters forces his parents to examine their own lives leading to their conversion to born-again Christianity. Green titled wrappers noted as production No. 197. Title page present with credit for screenwriter James Collier. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and tan revision pages throughout dated Nov. 19 1964. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong. Housed in blue wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper dated 1964. World Wide Pictures unknown
1964ref. 152144Hollywood: World Wide Pictures 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations in ink and pencil throughout. With an eight-page shooting schedule bound in before the script. The rebellious son of two television reporters forces his parents to examine their own lives leading to their conversion to born-again Christianity. Green titled wrappers noted as production No. 197. Title page present with credit for screenwriter James Collier. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and tan revision pages throughout dated Nov. 19 1964. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong. Housed in blue wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper dated 1964. World Wide Pictures unknown books
2001ref. 171225N.p.: N.p. 2001. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 for the 2001-2002 television series. Originally aired October 9 2001 on ABC. A one-season legal drama following the cases taken on by a small law firm run a by a divorced single mother. In this episode the divorced couple fight about their child's poor behavior at school and his recently arrested grandfather. Set in Philadelphia. White titled self wrapper production No. D103 dated July 31 2001 with credits for director Peter Werner and screenwriter Jonathan R. Hiatt. Title page integral with front wrapper. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Xerographic duplication rectos only with revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/6/01 and 8/16/01. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
2001ref. 171225N.p.: N.p. 2001. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 3 for the 2001-2002 television series. Originally aired October 9 2001 on ABC. A one-season legal drama following the cases taken on by a small law firm run a by a divorced single mother. In this episode the divorced couple fight about their child's poor behavior at school and his recently arrested grandfather. Set in Philadelphia. White titled self wrapper production No. D103 dated July 31 2001 with credits for director Peter Werner and screenwriter Jonathan R. Hiatt. Title page integral with front wrapper. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 64. Xerographic duplication rectos only with revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/6/01 and 8/16/01. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 172544N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage reference photograph of actress Kim Novak from the 1958 film. With a National Film Archive stamp and cropping annotations on the verso. Based on the 1950 play of the same name by John Van Druten about a witch who casts a love spell on her new neighbor. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in Greenwich Village shot on location in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Twilight Time. Weldon 1996. N.p. unknown books
1946ref. 159853Culver City CA: Selznick International 1946. Two vintage borderless reference photographs and two vintage bordered reference photographs of director King Vidor on the set of the 1946 Western film. Three linen-backed with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel. Two brothers fight over their love for a young relative while their father attempts to sway railroad builders from constructing a new line on his land. A lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. Two 9.5 x 7.25 inches two 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus with light creasing and wear on the edges. Hardy p. 152. Pitts 1187. Selznick International unknown
1941ref. 151324N.p.: N.p. 1941. Vintage photograph of director King Vidor his wife and screenwriter Elizabeth Hill and actors Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young taken to publicize the 1941 film. With provenance stamps on the verso along with a stamp noting No. 81-422. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John P. Marquand's 1941 novel. A married businessman locked in a monotonous life recalls his passionate relationship with a beautiful independent young woman twenty years prior. Lamarr's second film with Vidor following "Comrade X" in 1940. Set in Boston. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light soil to the top edge. N.p. unknown
1929ref. 152722Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 film. The first African American musical and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood studio with arguably more depth than its predecessor Paul Sloane's "Hearts in Dixie" the first all-Black Hollywood film released earlier the same year. Although director King Vidor expressed his intent to honestly portray rural African American life in the south the film still clearly advanced racial stereotypes of the era-but did however depict authentic African American spiritual music from the period a feat which no other film at that point had achieved. Shot on location in Tennessee and Arkansas. One 8 x 10 inches six 10 x 8 inches. One Very Good plus with soil to the top right portion of the recto and a short closed tear to the bottom edge else Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1940ref. 145378Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Three vintage photographs of director King Vidor two on the set and one with his wife contributing writer Elizabeth Hill after a day of shooting the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe manuscript annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso of each. Loosely based on Kenneth Roberts' 1937 novel of the same name. The film gives a partially fictionalized account of the St. Francis Raid a violent attack on a settlement of the Abenakis tribe seen by the perpetrators as an act of vengeance for the Abenakis many attacks on British settlers. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1952ref. 135628Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage black-and-white linen-backed keybook still photograph from the 1952 film. Ownership rubber stamp Christopher C. Geest on the verso. Two hole punches at the top margin as issued. Pictured is Jennifer Jones cold-cocking Charlton Heston at the beach. Jennifer Jones offers a virtual reprise of her sultry performance in "Duel in the Sun" as the titular heroine of this film. Born into a poor-white-trash Southern family Ruby intends to improve her lot by marrying into wealth. Her casual beau Boake Tackman Heston considers Ruby unfit for marriage but prosperous businessman Jim Gentry Malden is eager and willing to make her his wife. Jim Gentry dies in an accident and the consensus of opinion is that he was killed by the covetous Ruby. For some reason this ignites a passion in Boake and he renews his torrid romance with the widow Gentry. Ruby's crazed brother Jewel James Anderson puts an end to this affair with a shotgun provoking a violent response from Ruby and a "Lady or the Tiger"-esque ending. Shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10.75 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1931ref. 160653London: National Film Archive 1931. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1931 film showing director King Vidor. National Film Archive stamp and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Archive unknown
1928ref. 167295Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Vintage reference photograph from the 1928 silent film showing the infamous "office set" with dozens of identical desks in a largely windowless room. Provenance label mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A bleak populist film heavily influenced by German cinema and nominated for several awards at the very first Academy Awards ceremony including Best Director for King Vidor. Shot on location throughout New York and in Los Angeles. 10 x 7.25 inches. Very Good moderately edgeworn with old cello tape at the corners and center bottom edge. National Film Registry. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 44. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1949ref. 148507Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its characters' philosophies motives and ambitions. Unusual choices included modernist cinematography expressionistic set designs and wardrobe and having Ms. Rand herself adapt her own screenplay. Two photographs 7.5 x 9.25 inches. One photograph 7.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown
1949ref. 148507Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its characters' philosophies motives and ambitions. Unusual choices included modernist cinematography expressionistic set designs and wardrobe and having Ms. Rand herself adapt her own screenplay. Two photographs 7.5 x 9.25 inches. One photograph 7.75 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear. Warner Brothers unknown books
1946ref. 159853Culver City CA: Selznick International 1946. Two vintage borderless reference photographs and two vintage bordered reference photographs of director King Vidor on the set of the 1946 Western film. Three linen-backed with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Niven Busch's 1944 novel. Two brothers fight over their love for a young relative while their father attempts to sway railroad builders from constructing a new line on his land. A lavish "epic" Western from Selznick who saw the film as a definite successor to his monumental "Gone With the Wind" 1939. Set in Texas shot on location in Arizona and California. Two 9.5 x 7.25 inches two 10 x 8 inches. Generally Very Good plus with light creasing and wear on the edges. Hardy p. 152. Pitts 1187. Selznick International unknown books
