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1962ref. 167556Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Grant Williams from the 1962 film. A violent ex-con embarks on a murder spree using his court-ordered weekly therapy sessions as his alibi. Actor Onslow Stevens' final film appearance. Screenplay by noted horror and mystery writer Robert Bloch. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1966ref. 163888Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / Arena Productions 1966. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 20 of the 1966-1967 television series originally aired on February 7 1967 on NBC. A follow-up to the successful "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." 1964-1968 series "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." followed the international adventures of American secret agent April Dancer. In this episode Dancer and her British partner Mark Slate investigate a blackmail arrangement linked to an aging baroness. Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" 1959 although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels short stories radio cinema and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft Bloch received the Hugo Award the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970. Goldenrod titled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer front wrapper lacking rear wrapper noted as production No. 8605 and copy No. 124 on the front wrapper dated December 12 1966 with credits for screenwriters Robert Bloch and Richard DeRoy. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered 63. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / Arena Productions unknown
ref. 163887N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With Bloch's annotations throughout in manuscript ink noting changes to dialogue. A crime drama set in Mexico about an American woman who becomes involved with a controversial political revolutionary. Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" 1959 although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels short stories radio cinema and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft Bloch received the Hugo Award the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970. Beige card wrappers with the title and the name of actor John Ireland in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Title page present with credit for Bloch. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with leaves torn at the holes and laid into wrappers. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 137241London: Amicus Productions 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film featuring four different stories including vampires witchcraft wax ladies and eerie stranglers. In one story a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his latest novel; in another two friends are haunted by a wax figure that eerily resembles a woman they once knew; in the third story a widower is neglectful and abusive to his daughter; and in the final story an actor starring in a vampire film buys a cloak from a mysterious shopkeeper and finds that the cloak gives him vampiric powers. Ingrid Pitt has a supporting role as do Joss Ackland Jonathan Lynn and Joanna Lumley. Bloch wrote for several Amicus Productions film including "The Skull" 1965 "The Psychopath" 1966 "The Deadly Bees" 1966 and "Asylum" 1972. Shot on location in England. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with a credit for screenwriter Bloch. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. Muir 1970s. Amicus Productions unknown books
1962ref. 147773Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs two borderless from the 1962 film. Jane Lindstom's Glynis Johns car breaks down and she seeks assistance at the home of a man named Caligari Dan O'Herlihy where she soon finds herself prisoner and none of the other residents seem willing to help. Not a remake of the classic 1920 Robert Wiene film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" despite the similarity of the title though it does contain a similar plot twist. 7 - 8 x 10 inches 2 - 9.25 x 7 . Near Fine some faint creasing in margins and light edgewear. Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1973ref. 139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a holograph notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown books
1974ref. 139505Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1974. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1974 film based on the 1971 novel by Evelyn Anthony. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with holograph notation on the verso in his hand. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 11 x 14 inchescm. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1981ref. 139508Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1981. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1981 film. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 139540Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage oversize double weight color still photograph from the 1967 film based on the 1964 play by Murray Schisgal. Although not indicated shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with an agency stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13 x 19.25 inches mounted on board. About Near Fine with some soiling near the top edge and light edgewear overall. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 139510Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1970 film showing director David Lean as he imparts some advice to star Christopher Jones during a smoke break. Winner of two Academy Awards for cinematographer Freddie Young and supporting actor John Mills. Nominated for two more as well as ten BAFTA awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 9.25 x 13.25 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956ref. 141567Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1956. Vintage film still photograph from the 1956 film nominated for four Academy Awards and based on the 1948 novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. Paper snipe affixed to the verso. A graduating poetry teacher played with aplomb by Clift falls in love with a Southern woman Taylor but the woman's past and the Civil War begin to cause problems. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with black holograph ink annotations to the verso and hole punches to the margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1956ref. 141247Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1956. Vintage film still photograph from the 1956 film nominated for four Academy Awards and based on the 1948 novel by Ross Lockridge Jr. Paper snipe affixed to the verso. A graduating poetry teacher played with aplomb by Clift falls in love with a Southern woman Taylor but the woman's past and the Civil War begin to cause problems. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961ref. 139506Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 musical film based on both the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the 1957 novel by C.Y. Lee. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner. Hirschhorn p. 373. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 133200N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Gregory Peck and producer Sy Bartlett conferring on the set of "Cape Fear" in 1961 during the final scene in which Peck's character Sam Bowden fights in swamp water with Max Cady Robert Mitchum. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso in holograph ink: "Greg on set listens to producer Sy Bartlett." With Willoughby's ASMP rubber stamp with his Pacific Palisades address and a separate stamp with the address of the Lee Gross Agency in New York. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 13.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Silver Classic Noir. Selby US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 139538Burbank CA: American Broadcasting Company ABC 1971. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph of Walter Matthau and a fetching Deborah Winters from the 1971 film based on the 1965 novel by Katharine Topkins. Nominated four Academy Awards including a Best Actor nod for Matthau starring in his friend Jack Lemmon's first and only directorial effort. Although not indicated shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 9.25 x 13.5. Fine. American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1969ref. 133199N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage oversize double weight candid photograph of Alan Arkin Art Garfunkel and Martin Sheen on the set of Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969. Shot and struck by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. The photographer has written at the top of the verso in holograph pencil: "Candid during rehearsal / The boys break up in briefing room scene / Art Garfunkel Alan Arkin Martin Sheen." Also with Willoughby's ASMP rubber stamp for both his New York and Ireland addresses. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. 13.5 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 139533Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1958 film of a stone faced David Niven and smiling Deborah Kerr water skiiing on a break from filming on the French Riviera. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp and a lengthily holograph description of the scene on the verso. Full provenance available. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 14 x 9.5. Near Fine with light edgewear. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 133206Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg Otto Preminger David Niven and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Cote d'Azur France. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby. Willoughby's annotations regarding same present on the verso along with Willoughby's stamps and a stamp for the Sygma Agency in Paris. Full provenance available. In a subtle homage to early cinema Preminger took the uncommon approach of interspersing black-and-white sequences in what was primarily a color film and pitted the seasoned stalwart David Niven against young and unconventional Jean Seberg the latter fresh from her internationally acclaimed performance in Godard's "Breathless." After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 11 x 13.75 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1961ref. 139518Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 film. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1934 play about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school accused of being in a lesbian relationship by one of the students ruining the careers and personal lives of both. The play was previously adapted by William Wyler in 1936 as "These Three" though the Production Code forced Hellman to change the substance of the rumor from homosexuality to infidelity. The 1961 version restores the content of the child's lie and is overall incredibly faithful to the stage play. Nominated for five Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actress nomination for Fay Bainter. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.5 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1983ref. 131330Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / United Artists 1983. First Draft script for the 1984 film. Numerous annotations possibly belonging to Rob Lowe in holograph ink and in pencil on the front wrapper and throughout the script noting his character's emotions style and motivations. An American hustler targets a wealthy English woman and follows her to England. His only chance of engaging her is by joining the rowing team at Oxford University. One of the first "Brat Pack" films and a remake of the 1938 Jack Conway film "A Yank at Oxford." Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated October 13 1983 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Boris and producer Kastner. 125 leaves photocopied. Pages about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists unknown books
1966ref. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 150503N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Robert Bresson and still photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue on the set of the 1974 film with cinematographer Pasqualino de Santis just visible at the top left corner. With a provenance stamp on the verso along with manuscript ink annotations. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 150217N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson on the set of the 1974 film one of the film's jousting sequences. Jacques Henri Lartigue credit printed on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 11.75 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some creasing and wear to extremities. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 150864N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Robert Bresson and crew on the set of the 1974 film with two provenance stamps of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Bresson's bloody take on the King Arthur legend was an expansion of the aesthetic he had already developed where the violence that was once implied became a reality-though certainly still quite surreal. Shot on location in Noirmoutier-en-L'Ile France. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 152709Paris: Compagnie Francaise de Distribution Cinematographique CFDC 1967. Vintage French pressbook for the 1967 French film. In a rural French village a young girl named Mouchette or "Little Fly" lives a lonely difficult life supporting her alcoholic father sickly mother and infant brother and finds nothing but unkindness and despair in her daily interactions. One of Robert Bresson's greatest achievements at turns grim and graceful purportedly a favorite of Andrei Tarkovsky and Kelly Reichardt. Shot on location in Vaucluse France. Bi-fold 6.5 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine with a small crease to the bottom left corner. Criterion Collection 363. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Compagnie Francaise de Distribution Cinematographique [CFDC] unknown
