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1970ref. 141508N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. The times and trials of a Hollywood diner and its patrons and employees who all want to be famous in motion pictures. Set in Hollywood. White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lillian Kreiger Burton. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1978ref. 155782N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph showing Lina Wertmüller directing actors Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini on the set of the 1978 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An American photographer falls in love with a chauvinistic Italian journalist while visiting a small Italian village. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown
ref. 148354Rome: Solaris Cinematografica 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes. Text in Italian. Missing page 98 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1995 novel by Maria Orsini Natale. A noblewoman's adopted daughter falls in love with her foster brother causing great rifts between mother and daughter and exposing older family secrets. Set and shot on location in Naples Italy. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5 OTTOBRE 2000 with credits for director and screenwriter Lina Wertmuller screenwriter Elvio Porta and novelist Mario Orsini Natale. 196 leaves with last page of text numbered 186. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver brads. Solaris Cinematografica unknown
ref. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown
ref. 148354Rome: Solaris Cinematografica 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes. Text in Italian. Missing page 98 likely as used or issued. Based on the 1995 novel by Maria Orsini Natale. A noblewoman's adopted daughter falls in love with her foster brother causing great rifts between mother and daughter and exposing older family secrets. Set and shot on location in Naples Italy. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated 5 OTTOBRE 2000 with credits for director and screenwriter Lina Wertmuller screenwriter Elvio Porta and novelist Mario Orsini Natale. 196 leaves with last page of text numbered 186. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light soil and edgewear bound with two silver brads. Solaris Cinematografica unknown books
1978ref. 155782N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph showing Lina Wertmüller directing actors Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini on the set of the 1978 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An American photographer falls in love with a chauvinistic Italian journalist while visiting a small Italian village. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian. Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. Set and shot on location in Bologna. Script: Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads. List of scenes: Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown books
ref. 148341London: Lord Grade 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film here under the working title "Titoli di Testa." Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Text in Italian. In 1920s Sicily a capitalist and a socialist vie for the affections of a grief-stricken woman whose husband was killed by a fascist mafioso. The follow-up to director Lina Wertmuller's Oscar-nominated 1976 film "Seven Beauties" and a lyrical formidable film in its own right. Set and shot on location in Sicily. Script: Black faux-leather untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Lina Wertmuller. 326 leaves with last page of text numbered 301. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white undated revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good with some revision pages lightly worn and toned to the edges wrapper Very Good lightly edgeworn with several tape repairs to the spine with perfect binding. List of scenes: 10 leaves with last page numbered 10. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Lord Grade unknown books
1970ref. 144003Simi Valley: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. An underground pool hall and poker club is the site of a potential swindle. Local poker sharks con men and politicians clash as the stakes grow and all parties suspect the others are telling lies and cheating. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lincoln Demyan. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 89. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with velo binding. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 138153Simi Valley CA: Self published 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. Set in post WWII West Virginia where Stosh and his buddies gamble on billiards games. Stosh's father is interred at a sanitarium with a black man named Catfish a friend to Stosh. The young pool hustler gets involved with the law smuggling moonshine and fist-fights with his friends. Untitled tan wrappers with a label for the Paul Kohner Agency on the front wrapper and the title page. Title page present undated noted as Registered: WGAw with a credit for Demyan. Last leaf of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine green velo binding. Self published unknown
1970ref. 144003Simi Valley: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. An underground pool hall and poker club is the site of a potential swindle. Local poker sharks con men and politicians clash as the stakes grow and all parties suspect the others are telling lies and cheating. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lincoln Demyan. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 89. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 138153Simi Valley CA: Self published 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley" "The Great Impostor" 1961 "Man's Favorite Sport" 1964 "The Brass Bottle" 1964 and "White Lightning" 1973. Set in post WWII West Virginia where Stosh and his buddies gamble on billiards games. Stosh's father is interred at a sanitarium with a black man named Catfish a friend to Stosh. The young pool hustler gets involved with the law smuggling moonshine and fist-fights with his friends. Untitled tan wrappers with a label for the Paul Kohner Agency on the front wrapper and the title page. Title page present undated noted as Registered: WGAw with a credit for Demyan. Last leaf of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication with photocopied punch holes. Pages and wrapper Near Fine green velo binding. Self published unknown books
1977ref. 143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 143667N.p.: N.p. 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. With 19 pages of budget estimates laid in. A man returns to his small southern home town and finds that he is the heir to a Voodoo artifact and the ancient spirit that possesses it. Had the script been picked up by a studio it would have been J.S. Cardone's first screenwriting credit. Black titled leatherette wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Lincoln Kilpatrick and J.S. Cardone and story writers Lincoln Kilpatrick and Bill Nolan. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 149. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1996ref. 168116Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO / Max 1996. Vintage reference photograph from a HBO re-release of the 1995 neo-noir film. HBO label affixed to the verso. An assistant district attorney investigates the murder of a prominent businessman who is found skinned to death with an antique hatchet later uncovering incriminating photographs linking the man to a sex work ring. Shot on location in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Home Box Office [HBO] / Max unknown books
1995ref. 167992Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1995. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1995 neo-noir film. An assistant district attorney investigates the murder of a prominent businessman who is found skinned to death with an antique hatchet later uncovering incriminating photographs linking the man to a sex work ring. Shot on location in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 156218N.p.: N.p. 1975. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Linda Lovelace from the 1975 film. One with a provenance stamp and one with a mimeo snipe on the versos. Hot on the heels of Linda Lovelace's sudden fame resulting from "Deep Throat" 1972 about Lovelace's fictional campaign for presidency and the challenge it presents to the political establishment. 10 x 8 inches and 10 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 156218N.p.: N.p. 1975. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Linda Lovelace from the 1975 film. One with a provenance stamp and one with a mimeo snipe on the versos. Hot on the heels of Linda Lovelace's sudden fame resulting from "Deep Throat" 1972 about Lovelace's fictional campaign for presidency and the challenge it presents to the political establishment. 10 x 8 inches and 10 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1963ref. 127386N.p.: Continental Distributing 1963. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1963 British film. Based on the 1960 novel by screenwriter David Storey. One of the greatest films in British cinema and regarded by many to be Richard Harris' finest performance. A young and angry Yorkshire rugby footballer finds his romantic life to be as unsuccessful as his sporting life is rewarding. Lindsay Anderson's stunning feature film debut following years of documentary work. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palm d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Yorkshire England. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a pinhole to each corner and a tiny chip to the top right margin. Bright and unfaded. Criterion Collection 417. Continental Distributing unknown
1963ref. 127386N.p.: Continental Distributing 1963. Vintage one sheet poster for the US release of the 1963 British film. Based on the 1960 novel by screenwriter David Storey. One of the greatest films in British cinema and regarded by many to be Richard Harris' finest performance. A young and angry Yorkshire rugby footballer finds his romantic life to be as unsuccessful as his sporting life is rewarding. Lindsay Anderson's stunning feature film debut following years of documentary work. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palm d'Or. Set in and shot on location in Yorkshire England. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a pinhole to each corner and a tiny chip to the top right margin. Bright and unfaded. Criterion Collection 417. Continental Distributing unknown books
1933ref. 167804Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 film. Based on the 1926 novel by Lester Cohen who also wrote the screenplay. A widowed businessman hopes to bequeath his department store to his children after his death-only to realize that they are disinterested incompetent or simply unable to manage the business. Set in Chicago. 12 x 18 inches. Ten pages side-stapled. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1933ref. 167804Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 film. Based on the 1926 novel by Lester Cohen who also wrote the screenplay. A widowed businessman hopes to bequeath his department store to his children after his death-only to realize that they are disinterested incompetent or simply unable to manage the business. Set in Chicago. 12 x 18 inches. Ten pages side-stapled. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1971ref. 171979Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the American release of the 1971 Swedish film showing director Jan Troell on the set. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1949 novel by Vilhelm Moberg about a group of poor Swedish farmers who leave Småland and move to Minnesota in hopes of building a new life. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1972 and nominated for four more Academy Awards the following year including Best Picture and Best Director. Followed by a sequel "The New Land" in 1972. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus moderately curled. Warner Brothers unknown books
1976ref. 168166Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1976. Vintage reference photograph from the 1976 film showing Liza Minnelli and Fernando Rey. Based on Maurice Druon's 1955 novel "The Film of Memory" in turn loosely based on the exploits of real-life Italian heiress and socialite Luisa Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino. Druon's novel also served as the basis for a 1965 stage adaptation "La Contessa" starring Vivien Leigh. Shot on location in Rome and Venice. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
