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1998ref. 157392Pasadena: Madison Avenue Productions 1998. Shooting script for the 1998 television film with annotations in manuscript highlighter on pages 8-9. Laid in is a Crew Call Sheet with copied annotations ten reduced copies of ten pages of the script with copied annotations and a copy of a map for the crew to the Metropolitan Baptist Church with the copied date of 6/6/98. Bound in following the script is a nine page Crew List a June 2 1998 Memorandum and a two page shooting schedule. The television film aired on CBS on November 29 1998. Based on a true story of a Pasadena cab driver who picks up an elderly woman en route to a funeral who ends up insisting the driver take her on a cross-county trip ending in Vancouver. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 4/27/98 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young and story by Beth Polson. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 5/5/98 and 5/15/98. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Crew Call Sheet 6 x 9 inches stapled to the reduced script pages. Near Fine. Ten Reduced Script Pages 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine Map 14 x 8.5 inches. With a single vertical fold else Near Fine. Madison Avenue Productions unknown
1941ref. 162231Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions and exploitation at the hands of the mine owners. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Wales shot on location in California. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated April 18 1941 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 240 with receipt removed. Title page present with credit for Philip Dunne noted as 2nd Revised Final and dated April 18 1941. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated 5/19/41 throughout. Pages Very Good plus slightly yapped with light tide marks along the bottom edges of the first five leaves wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1998ref. 157392Pasadena: Madison Avenue Productions 1998. Shooting script for the 1998 television film with annotations in manuscript highlighter on pages 8-9. Laid in is a Crew Call Sheet with copied annotations ten reduced copies of ten pages of the script with copied annotations and a copy of a map for the crew to the Metropolitan Baptist Church with the copied date of 6/6/98. Bound in following the script is a nine page Crew List a June 2 1998 Memorandum and a two page shooting schedule. The television film aired on CBS on November 29 1998. Based on a true story of a Pasadena cab driver who picks up an elderly woman en route to a funeral who ends up insisting the driver take her on a cross-county trip ending in Vancouver. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 4/27/98 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young and story by Beth Polson. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 5/5/98 and 5/15/98. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Crew Call Sheet 6 x 9 inches stapled to the reduced script pages. Near Fine. Ten Reduced Script Pages 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine Map 14 x 8.5 inches. With a single vertical fold else Near Fine. Madison Avenue Productions unknown books
1941ref. 162231Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions and exploitation at the hands of the mine owners. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in Wales shot on location in California. Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated April 18 1941 noted as SECOND REVISED FINAL. Distribution page present stamped copy No. 240 with receipt removed. Title page present with credit for Philip Dunne noted as 2nd Revised Final and dated April 18 1941. 167 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated 5/19/41 throughout. Pages Very Good plus slightly yapped with light tide marks along the bottom edges of the first five leaves wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1967ref. 162633N.p.: International Film Artists 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps on the verso. Originally released in France in 1963 as "La prostitution" directed by Maurice Boutel the film was released in the US in 1967 as "To Be a Woman" with portions removed and sex scenes shot in the US added by exploitation director Harvey Cort. A young girl from the provinces moves to Paris and finds herself trapped in the world of prostitution. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. International Film Artists unknown books
1958ref. 143132Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 419 vintage black-and-white photographs with original publicity ephemera from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured are over 300 smaller photographs elegantly presented in two "Lavis aquarelle" spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrappers and affixed paper title labels with 3 or 4 photographs to a page. One notebook bears a label on the front wrapper verso noting film lab Tele-Photo production company Sopro Film Cinedis film title and photographer P. Apoteker. Several larger photographs credit photographer Francois Pages with his rubber stamp on the versos featuring images of actress Demongeot as she models in fur coat for onlookers including costar Maurice Ronet and director Cazeneuve. Several photos feature cast and crew at a release party. Brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos two with rubber-stamped series number. Several photographs with annotations on the verso in manuscript ink and pencil several with layout annotations on the recto a few with rubber-stamped series number. Loose photographs ephemera and original envelopes are housed in the original French Kodak paper box with annotations on the box top in manuscript ink and film title affixed to the side. Noir thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photographs in large quarto notebooks 3.75 x 5 inches loose photographs range from 3.25 x 4 inches to 8 x 11.75 inches. Photographs Near Fine overall light curling a handful with short creases ephemera and notebooks Very Good plus box Very Good. Cinedis unknown
1958ref. 144082Paris: Cinedis 1958. 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets amounting to over 800 numbered images from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces with several sheets capturing a formal dinner with the cast and crew presumably the film's premiere. Most with 12 images per sheet a few with 6-frame strips of 35mm film each image with a series number and all sheets credit at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Apoteker. Housed in a red paper 2-ring binder with French titles printed on the front. Several with brief numerical annotations on the verso. Noirish crime thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photos 8.25 x 10.25 inches a few slightly variant sizes hole-punched and two with square cuts. Very Good plus overall with curling and light foxing creases to the binder. Cinedis unknown
1958ref. 144082Paris: Cinedis 1958. 71 vintage single weight keybook contact sheets amounting to over 800 numbered images from the 1958 French film. Much of the film is represented in minute detail along with test shots set design shots and many candid moments from the set. Dramatic high-contrast images of starring actors Demongeot answering telephones and in heated embraces with several sheets capturing a formal dinner with the cast and crew presumably the film's premiere. Most with 12 images per sheet a few with 6-frame strips of 35mm film each image with a series number and all sheets credit at the top the photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Apoteker. Housed in a red paper 2-ring binder with French titles printed on the front. Several with brief numerical annotations on the verso. Noirish crime thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photos 8.25 x 10.25 inches a few slightly variant sizes hole-punched and two with square cuts. Very Good plus overall with curling and light foxing creases to the binder. Cinedis unknown books
1958ref. 143132Paris: Cinedis 1958. Collection of 419 vintage black-and-white photographs with original publicity ephemera from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured are over 300 smaller photographs elegantly presented in two "Lavis aquarelle" spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrappers and affixed paper title labels with 3 or 4 photographs to a page. One notebook bears a label on the front wrapper verso noting film lab Tele-Photo production company Sopro Film Cinedis film title and photographer P. Apoteker. Several larger photographs credit photographer Francois Pages with his rubber stamp on the versos featuring images of actress Demongeot as she models in fur coat for onlookers including costar Maurice Ronet and director Cazeneuve. Several photos feature cast and crew at a release party. Brief annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos two with rubber-stamped series number. Several photographs with annotations on the verso in manuscript ink and pencil several with layout annotations on the recto a few with rubber-stamped series number. Loose photographs ephemera and original envelopes are housed in the original French Kodak paper box with annotations on the box top in manuscript ink and film title affixed to the side. Noir thriller based on Michel Lebrun's novel "Un Silence de Mort" 1957 starring Demongeot as Sylvie married to Jean Ronet an executive at a fashion magazine. Jean's boss André Servais obsesses over Sylvie whose demure femininity can be fatal. An early film credit for still photographer Paul Apoteker whose "Too Late for Love" 1959 is regarded as his first credited film. His dramatic execution would later be seen in Clouzot's "The Truth" 1960 Sautet's romance noir "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and Woody Allen's "Love and Death" 1975. Demongeot and Ronet are amply represented throughout the collection including a preliminary mockup of the poster art. Photographs in large quarto notebooks 3.75 x 5 inches loose photographs range from 3.25 x 4 inches to 8 x 11.75 inches. Photographs Near Fine overall light curling a handful with short creases ephemera and notebooks Very Good plus box Very Good. Cinedis unknown books
1958ref. 143147Paris: Francoise Pages 1958. Vintage black-and-white photograph from the set of the 1958 film "Night Heat" here under the original French title "Cette nuit la." Featured is actress Mylene Demongeot with costar Maurice Ronet. With over 70 films to her credit Demongeot 1935- began acting in the early 1950s her first film being Leonide Moguy's "Children of Love" 1953. Notable films would follow including Raymond Rouleau's "The Crucible" 1957 Otto Preminger's "Bonjour Tristesse" 1958 Marc Allegret's "Be Beautiful But Shut Up" 1958 Andre Hunebelle's "Fantomas" 1964 and several Marc Simenon films in the 1970s and 1980s a director she was married to for over thirty years. 3.25 x 4.25 inches small white borders "298H" rubberstamp on versos: 182. Very Good plus with curling and slight discoloration overall. Francoise Pages unknown books
1964ref. 139875Paris: Les Films de Mai 1964. Vintage borderless double weight studio still photographs from the 1964 French film. Featuring an image of two men boxing in front of a couple onlookers. A woman Madeline Robinson begins a relationship with a West Indian boxer Rene Lefevre twenty years her junior who wins the admiration of her young son until neighborhood drama forces the two apart. Set in Paris and shot there on location. 8 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Les Films de Mai unknown books
1956ref. 132194London: Independent Film Distributors / British Lion 1956. Vintage black-and-white British front-of-house card from the 1956 UK film. A well-received farce about a couple of dim-witted bookmakers who decide to fix a horse race. 8 x 9.75 inches. Very Good plus withand light stains and creases. Independent Film Distributors / British Lion unknown books
1952ref. 132396London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1952. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1951 US film. In 1858 France Emperor Napoleon sends military officers to Normandy in search of a group of rebels. They encounter a masked cavalier and his companions including an heiress to the fabled treasure of Monte Cristo. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
ref. 022613Maurice Hilero (1909-1975), scénariste, réalisateur, secrétaire général adjoint de la SNAC. L.S., Paris, 8 avril 1960, 1p in-4. A Jean-Armand Petit. Condoléances pour la mort de son frère, Georges Petit (1883-1960), compositeur, baryton. [554]
1985ref. 150497N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin Gerard Depardieu in one of his strongest performances investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend Sophie Marceau of one of the criminals. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1326. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 150497N.p.: N.p. 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Maurice Pialat on the set of the 1985 film. Brutish and jaded police detective Louis Mangin Gerard Depardieu in one of his strongest performances investigates a Tunisian drug gang and begins to fall for the girlfriend Sophie Marceau of one of the criminals. Set in and shot on location in Paris France. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 1326. Grant France. N.p. unknown books
1927ref. 148296Buffalo NY: Pathe Exchange 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film showing actress Eileen Percy. A nightclub dancer is suspected of killing a foreign spy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light wear and chipping to the margins image not affected and a light dampstain to the right edge. Pathe Exchange unknown books
1959ref. 149576Rome: Union Photos 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso. Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita" following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro Bolognini and screenwriter Pasolini who would of course go on to become a great and arguably better-known filmmaker in his own right preceded by "Marisa" 1957 and "Giovani mariti" 1958 and followed by "Bell' Antonio" 1960 and "From a Roman Balcony" 1960. Set and shot on location in Rome. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Union Photos unknown
1959ref. 149576Rome: Union Photos 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 Italian film showing actress Elsa Martinelli. With the stamps of Union Photos and Atlantic Press on the verso. Loosely based on Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1955 novel "Ragazzi di vita" following three amoral young men as they make their way through Rome's seedy criminal underworld. The third collaboration between director Mauro Bolognini and screenwriter Pasolini who would of course go on to become a great and arguably better-known filmmaker in his own right preceded by "Marisa" 1957 and "Giovani mariti" 1958 and followed by "Bell' Antonio" 1960 and "From a Roman Balcony" 1960. Set and shot on location in Rome. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Union Photos unknown books
1963ref. 164221Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Vintage banner poster for the 1963 film. Rare in this format. An architect and his wife survey an old mansion where the previous tenant an eccentric heiress has disappeared. Strange noises suspicious strangers and vanishing keys ensue. Inspired by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose California. Shot on location at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills California. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light soiling and faint rubbing overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1962ref. 126547Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" aliens use human beings as physical hosts and Val Lewton threat of a creature but creature is only implied not shown. An unusually heavy emphasis on dread atmosphere and characterization makes this one of the most overlooked "adult" science fiction films of the 1960s. Black three-ring binder noted as "DAY MARS INVADED EARTH" on the front wrapper with a credit for screenwriter Spalding as "Spaulding". Title page present with the title "SPACERAID 63" with a credit for screenwriter Spalding production No. 6277 dated June 22 1962. 96 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6/28/62. Pages Near Fine with a few small creases binder wrapper Near Fine with a bit of wrinkling on the front title label. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1963ref. 164221Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Vintage banner poster for the 1963 film. Rare in this format. An architect and his wife survey an old mansion where the previous tenant an eccentric heiress has disappeared. Strange noises suspicious strangers and vanishing keys ensue. Inspired by the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose California. Shot on location at the Greystone Park and Mansion in Beverly Hills California. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light soiling and faint rubbing overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1962ref. 126547Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. First Draft script for the 1963 film. A nuanced "invasion from Mars" film that borrows cleverly from both "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" aliens use human beings as physical hosts and Val Lewton threat of a creature but creature is only implied not shown. An unusually heavy emphasis on dread atmosphere and characterization makes this one of the most overlooked "adult" science fiction films of the 1960s. Black three-ring binder noted as "DAY MARS INVADED EARTH" on the front wrapper with a credit for screenwriter Spalding as "Spaulding". Title page present with the title "SPACERAID 63" with a credit for screenwriter Spalding production No. 6277 dated June 22 1962. 96 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 6/28/62. Pages Near Fine with a few small creases binder wrapper Near Fine with a bit of wrinkling on the front title label. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1995ref. 151599N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Shooting script for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to noted crime writer Mickey Spillane who appeared in a cameo in the film as a personal favor to director Max Allan Collins. With Spillane's name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and annotations highlighting lines to pages 56-59. A woman's increasingly psychotic obsession with her young daughter culminates in a string of gruesome murders. Collins' debut film following a lengthy career as a mystery novelist and comic writer. Followed by a sequel "Mommy 2: Mommy's Day" in 1997. Shot on location in Muscatine Iowa. White titled wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper with credits for director Max Allan Collins. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1995ref. 151599N.p.: N.p. 1995. Final Shooting script for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to noted crime writer Mickey Spillane who appeared in a cameo in the film as a personal favor to director Max Allan Collins. With Spillane's name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and annotations highlighting lines to pages 56-59. A woman's increasingly psychotic obsession with her young daughter culminates in a string of gruesome murders. Collins' debut film following a lengthy career as a mystery novelist and comic writer. Followed by a sequel "Mommy 2: Mommy's Day" in 1997. Shot on location in Muscatine Iowa. White titled wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper with credits for director Max Allan Collins. 79 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
