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1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown
1960ref. 144084Rome: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Collection of 64 vintage borderless single weight film still photographs for the 1960 Italian film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos five with Contino's rubberstamp and two are dupes made by the original developer. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. 7 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller. Very Good plus overall with curling and a few scattered creases. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1960ref. 144085Paris: Zebra Films / Cineriz 1960. Original oversize program for the 1960 Italian here under the original title. Illustrated in red with black-and-white stills from the film. Starring actress Signoret is prominently featured looking pensive or embracing costar Mastroianni and in stunning group images with her female costars. Also included is an original press packet detailing film credits a synopsis and brief star biographies. Based on an original screenplay about the 1958 Merlin Law making brothels illegal in Italy. Adua Signoret and her three friends are prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Adua convinces them to pool their savings to open a restaurant to generate a living instead of returning to prostitution. Their permit is rejected because of their lurid history but a former client agrees to buy the building and hire them to run a brothel fronting as a restaurant charging them rent. The restaurant is ironically successful and Adua even romances Piero Mastroianni but her landlord's excessive rent finally vanquishes her hopes for a brighter future. She holds her ground against the man but no moral deed is without consequences in the underworld and she is last seen as her destitute former self. Petrangeli also directed "She Wolf" 1953 Visconti's "Ossessione" 1943 assistant director and screenwriter and Rossellini's "Europe '51" 1952 second assistant director; he was a prolific filmmaker in the Commedia all'italiana and died while shooting his last film "How When and with Whom" 1969. Program 12.5 x 13.5 inches saddle-stapled 4 card stock leaves. Very Good with a heavy vertical crease and foxing. Press packet mimeograph on white stock corner-stapled 7 leaves Very Good plus. Zebra Films / Cineriz unknown books
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown
1974ref. 168008Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film showing Candice Bergen. A smalltime diamond merchant is blackmailed into carrying out a major heist aided by his heiress girlfriend. Set and shot on location in Buckinghamshire and London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974ref. 142572Beverly Hills CA: EK / United Artists 1974. Early Draft British script for the 1974 British heist film. Based on Gerald Browne's 1972 novel adapted by Charles Grodin. Howard Chesser Grodin is a diamond merchant supervising the cutting of a large and rare diamond. When the diamond is stolen he is blackmailed and pulled into a jewel heist at 11 Harrowhouse. Set in London shot there on location and in Warwickshire England. Burnt orange titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Bloom. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lee The Heist Film. EK / United Artists unknown books
1938ref. 141604Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company 1938. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1938 film. Archie Mayo's 1938 film depicts the adventures of Marco Polo starring Garry Cooper Sigrid Gurie and Basil Rathbone. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few faint creases see image. Manuscript pencil notation to the verso. Samuel Goldwyn Company unknown books
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1969ref. 160695Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film both showing Tina Chen and Arlo Guthrie. Based on Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1969ref. 149517Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: 1 a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan 2 a shot of director Arthur Penn producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles 3 a shot of McLanahan Penn and actress Patricia Quinn working on a scene 4 Guthrie with Quinn and 5 Guthrie with a donkey and members of the cast. Based on Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown
1969ref. 149517Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: 1 a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan 2 a shot of director Arthur Penn producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles 3 a shot of McLanahan Penn and actress Patricia Quinn working on a scene 4 Guthrie with Quinn and 5 Guthrie with a donkey and members of the cast. Based on Arlo Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1969ref. 160695Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1969. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film both showing Tina Chen and Arlo Guthrie. Based on Guthrie's 1967 folk protest song a narrative loosely based on Guthrie's own experiences being jailed for littering and later using the record of his arrest to escape the Vietnam draft. Set and shot on location in New York and Massachusetts. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
ref. 12702Huon de Bordeaux mélodrame féerique. Préface d’André THERIVE In 8 carré broché, couverture illustrée, faux-titre, frontispice gravé sur bois, titre illustré, XIV 114 pages, 1 page de table des matières, gravures à pleine page, bandeaux, culs de lampe et couverture de Guy DOLLIAN. 22 septembre 1927. Collection l’adolescence catholique
1970ref. 161465N.p.: Chevron Pictures 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A young fiancé travels to Yugoslavia with a an evil lesbian film critic and murderess leading to debauchery and degredation. Shot on location in Croatia and Yugoslavia. 8 x 10 inches. A light crease in the bottom right margin else Near Fine. Chevron Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 161509N.p.: Gaston Hakim Productions 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 Swedish sexploitation film with a provenance stamp on the verso Lars Ekborg and Sven Eric Gamble are bumbling criminals involved in a safe-cracking heist. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Gaston Hakim Productions unknown books
1966ref. 172992London: Gala Film Distributors 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 Swedish film. With a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. A film following a group of homeless children as they try to survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Copacabana Brazil. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1966ref. 172992London: Gala Film Distributors 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 Swedish film. With a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. A film following a group of homeless children as they try to survive on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Copacabana Brazil. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint emulsion irregularities. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1985ref. 163265N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a woman's ad for a new roommate is answered by a man who wants to use her apartment for a night to convince his visiting parents he is living with a woman. Salmon titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 1-013 dated 11/7/85 with credits for screenwriter Arnold Kane. Title page integral with front wrapper. 19 leaves with last page of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1985ref. 162581N.p.: N.p. 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1985-1986 television series. An updated version of the 1969-1974 television show "Love American Style" focused on love and relationships and following in the vignette style of the original. In this episode a prank loving pair of newlyweds has their honeymoon interrupted when one of them gets stuck in a suit of armor in their Medieval themed hotel room. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 12/09/85 with credits for screenwriter Arnold Kane. Title page integral with front wrapper. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1962ref. 162032N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1962 British film. A group of international beauty queens convert an English estate into a nudist colony. Shot on location in East Sussex and Dorset England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and some creasing at the far corners. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 162032N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1962 British film. A group of international beauty queens convert an English estate into a nudist colony. Shot on location in East Sussex and Dorset England. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and some creasing at the far corners. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 134797Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1958. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1958 film "Anna Lucasta" a remake of the 1949 film directed by Irving Rapper adapted from screenwriter Yordan's 1936 play. Lobby card number three in the set with the Quebec Censorship board's approval seal to the top right corner. An early Eartha Kitt film with a predominantly black cast in which Kitt plays a prostitute estranged from her family who reconciles with her father through marriage to a "respectable" college graduate. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus condition with cello tape to each corner. United Artists unknown books
1972ref. 147422N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. Escaping her recent divorce and the death of her child an American woman travels to India where she experiences a variety of mystical encounters and undergoes a liberating and terrifying journey of ego death and oneness. Set in Banhasa India. Green titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Arnold Schulman. Title page present dated January 1972 with credit for screenwriter Arnold Schulman. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 147422N.p.: N.p. 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. Escaping her recent divorce and the death of her child an American woman travels to India where she experiences a variety of mystical encounters and undergoes a liberating and terrifying journey of ego death and oneness. Set in Banhasa India. Green titled wrappers with credit for screenwriter Arnold Schulman. Title page present dated January 1972 with credit for screenwriter Arnold Schulman. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1999ref. 158401N.p.: N.p. 1999. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1999 film including three in color and one in black-and-white. Printed label of photographer Zade Rosenthal affixed to the versos. A New York policeman turned alcoholic security guard finds himself embroiled in a religious war culminating in Satan coming to Earth to find the woman who will bear his child the antichrist. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light adhesive residue on the versos. N.p. unknown books
