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1935ref. 159148N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actress Jean Harlow in a short-sleeve blouse and shorts surrounded by dancers. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A beautiful stage star is torn between the loves of a devoted wealthy fan and her agent. Loosely based on the real-life scandal of the marriage of torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly age toned else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1935ref. 158494N.p.: N.p. 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actress Jean Harlow in a short-sleeve blouse and shorts surrounded by dancers. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A beautiful stage star is torn between the loves of a devoted wealthy fan and her agent. Loosely based on the real-life scandal of the marriage of torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly age toned with a bruise on the top edge. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 160005N.p.: N.p. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Jean Genet's 1957 play about the madam of a brothel who is drawn into a political plot to help stop a revolution. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown books
1959ref. 158216N.p.: N.p. 1959. Six vintage contact sheets from the 1959 film all test shots of female actors. In the collection are five prints with four images each and one smaller print with a single image totaling six prints and 21 images. Based on Rene Lefevre's 1955 novel "Rue des Prairies." A prisoner of war returns home to find himself widowed and in charge of three children and resorts to heavy drinking to mute the trauma of his experiences. Shot in Paris Val-d'Oise and Saint-Denis France. Five prints 8.5 x 10.5 inches one 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1959ref. 158216N.p.: N.p. 1959. Six vintage contact sheets from the 1959 film all test shots of female actors. In the collection are five prints with four images each and one smaller print with a single image totaling six prints and 21 images. Based on Rene Lefevre's 1955 novel "Rue des Prairies." A prisoner of war returns home to find himself widowed and in charge of three children and resorts to heavy drinking to mute the trauma of his experiences. Shot in Paris Val-d'Oise and Saint-Denis France. Five prints 8.5 x 10.5 inches one 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown
1960ref. 140390France: Cinedis 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in manuscript pencil several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder similar to keybook photos. Also included is a press folder from the Cinedis agency in Paris with star biographies film credits and scenario on Cinedis parchment. Seen in the images is starring actor and screenwriter Buissieres including a large portrait actress Carrel several seductive in nature with shots of director Faurez and the film crew in action and images of composer Georges Van Parys and singer Colette Renard famous for her "Irma La Douce" musical roles presumably working on the film soundtrack. Several images in the contact sheets show scenes from the film taking place in an automobile repair shop directed scenes from high on a crane and candid photos of the starring performers. A few of the contact sheets bear credits for the Laboratoire Tele-Photo film title client Cinedis and photographer. ` Little known gangster drama about a woman and her child caught in the downward spiral of prostitution. Photos vary in size from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches with most being smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinedis unknown books
1960ref. 140390France: Cinedis 1960. Archive of 207 vintage borderless single weight still photographs and contact sheets from the 1960 French film. Numerical annotations on the verso of nearly all photos in manuscript pencil several cropped contact sheets mounted on larger sheets. Housed in a vintage French Kodak brand photo paper box with most contact sheets in a two-ring binder similar to keybook photos. Also included is a press folder from the Cinedis agency in Paris with star biographies film credits and scenario on Cinedis parchment. Seen in the images is starring actor and screenwriter Buissieres including a large portrait actress Carrel several seductive in nature with shots of director Faurez and the film crew in action and images of composer Georges Van Parys and singer Colette Renard famous for her "Irma La Douce" musical roles presumably working on the film soundtrack. Several images in the contact sheets show scenes from the film taking place in an automobile repair shop directed scenes from high on a crane and candid photos of the starring performers. A few of the contact sheets bear credits for the Laboratoire Tele-Photo film title client Cinedis and photographer. ` Little known gangster drama about a woman and her child caught in the downward spiral of prostitution. Photos vary in size from 3 x 4.5 inches to 9.25 x 11.75 inches with most being smaller. Very Good plus overall photos with moderate curling and photo box Very Good plus. Cinedis unknown
1958ref. 159350N.p.: Intermondia Films 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. With a two page press sheet detailing captions for photographs from the film. A serial killer has been targeting women. A detective suspects he may know who the killer is until a woman questions his reasoning. Shot on location in Paris France. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Grant France. Intermondia Films unknown books
1961ref. 140962Paris: G. de Boissiere 1961. Original French press kit for the 1961 French-Italian film "Le rendez-vous." Text in French. Resembling the star biography and film credit packets often seen with US press kits this material details film credits cast and crew biographies and a synopsis. The film was produced by Cinetel but here is credited to publicity manager G. de Boissiere with their cute cat logo. Unseen noir based on Patrick Quentin's 1955 novel "The Man with Two Wives" released in France as "La Verite du Mensonge." Pierre Pascal witnesses a murder while with his wife Madeleine Girardot the decease being a photographer who snapped some lurid photos of Pierre's sister-in-law Daphne Parisy. Pierre gives Daphne a false alibi and the police discover the photographer was Madeleine's lover. 22 leaves printed rectos a few corner-stapled on "DEB de Boissiere parchment mimeograph duplication. Housed in a DEB pocketed paper folder 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine overall. G. de Boissiere unknown books
1972ref. 132630California: National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates 1972. Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1970 French-Italian-German film. Title layovers affixed to the rectos over the original titles. Based on a novel by French writer Francis Ryck aka Yves Delville about a woman who kills her husband under the suspicion of infidelity when in reality the man was a secret agent. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases to the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates unknown books
1961ref. 160374Paris: Cinedis 1961. Vintage invitation from Cinedis for a private screening of the 1961 film. The event was held Sunday March 26 at 9:45 AM at the Marivaux theater in Paris. The invitation is indicated as only being good for two people. The Princess of Cleves develops feelings for a young Duke even though she is married. She tells her husband who becomes dangerously jealous. Shot on location at Chateau de Chambord and Montlouis-sur-Loire. 5.5 x 4.25 inches. Near Fine. Cinedis unknown books
1958ref. 159350N.p.: Intermondia Films 1958. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. With a two page press sheet detailing captions for photographs from the film. A serial killer has been targeting women. A detective suspects he may know who the killer is until a woman questions his reasoning. Shot on location in Paris France. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Grant France. Intermondia Films unknown
1961ref. 140962Paris: G. de Boissiere 1961. Original French press kit for the 1961 French-Italian film "Le rendez-vous." Text in French. Resembling the star biography and film credit packets often seen with US press kits this material details film credits cast and crew biographies and a synopsis. The film was produced by Cinetel but here is credited to publicity manager G. de Boissiere with their cute cat logo. Unseen noir based on Patrick Quentin's 1955 novel "The Man with Two Wives" released in France as "La Verite du Mensonge." Pierre Pascal witnesses a murder while with his wife Madeleine Girardot the decease being a photographer who snapped some lurid photos of Pierre's sister-in-law Daphne Parisy. Pierre gives Daphne a false alibi and the police discover the photographer was Madeleine's lover. 22 leaves printed rectos a few corner-stapled on "DEB de Boissiere parchment mimeograph duplication. Housed in a DEB pocketed paper folder 8.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine overall. G. de Boissiere unknown
1972ref. 132630California: National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates 1972. Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1970 French-Italian-German film. Title layovers affixed to the rectos over the original titles. Based on a novel by French writer Francis Ryck aka Yves Delville about a woman who kills her husband under the suspicion of infidelity when in reality the man was a secret agent. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases to the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / Gamalex Associates unknown
1965ref. 159827Paris: UniFrance Film 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Georges Franju on the set of the 1965 French film arranging the coat of actress Emmanuele Riva. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with the stamp of UniFrance Film. Based on the 1923 novel by Jean Cocteau about a teenager who is mistaken for the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy during World War I. Shot on location in Paris and Oise. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. UniFrance Film unknown books
1960ref. 170422Paris: Gok in Sipahio lu 1960. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from the set of the 1960 film showing Jean Cocteau with Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline Luis Miguel Dominguin Serge Lifar and Lucia Bose-all of whom appeared in cameos in the film. French mimeo snipe and stamp of Sipa Press founder Gök in Sipahio lu on the verso. The final film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given money to complete filming by François Truffaut who used the prize money he had won at Cannes for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" 1959. 11.75 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Gok in Sipahio lu unknown books
1958ref. 167441N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage ribbon copy typescript treatment for the 1960 French film. With substantive annotations in director Jean Cocteau's hand throughout noting deletions and amending dialogue. Full provenance available. The final film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. With cameos by Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguen and Yul Brynner. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given money to complete filming by François Truffaut who used the prize money he had won at Cannes for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" 1959. Unbound housed in a gray paper folder. Title and Cocteau's name in manuscript pencil on the front of the folder. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Fine unbound. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 151699N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jean Cocteau in conversation with actress Silvia Monfort while cinematographer Christian Matras looks on to the left. With the stamp of Le Parisien archive on the verso. Based on Cocteau's 1946 play. In nineteenth-century Europe a suicidal anarchist poet falls in love with the long-secluded queen who has been absent from the public eye for ten years due to her grief over her husband's death. Set in the fictional country of Krantz. 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 151573N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1950 film showing actress Maria Casares. With manuscript layout annotations on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Roger Corbeau. A variation on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice about a young poet in Paris whose despair after his wife's death leads him to the underworld where he begs for her return to the living. The second film in director Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and preceding "Testament of Orpheus" 1960. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 151573N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1950 film showing actress Maria Casares. With manuscript layout annotations on the verso along with the stamp of still photographer Roger Corbeau. A variation on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice about a young poet in Paris whose despair after his wife's death leads him to the underworld where he begs for her return to the living. The second film in director Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and preceding "Testament of Orpheus" 1960. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 170422Paris: Gok in Sipahio lu 1960. Vintage borderless oversize photograph from the set of the 1960 film showing Jean Cocteau with Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline Luis Miguel Dominguin Serge Lifar and Lucia Bose-all of whom appeared in cameos in the film. French mimeo snipe and stamp of Sipa Press founder Gök in Sipahio lu on the verso. The final film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given money to complete filming by François Truffaut who used the prize money he had won at Cannes for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" 1959. 11.75 x 8 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Gok in Sipahio lu unknown
1958ref. 167441N.p.: N.p. 1958. Vintage ribbon copy typescript treatment for the 1960 French film. With substantive annotations in director Jean Cocteau's hand throughout noting deletions and amending dialogue. Full provenance available. The final film in Cocteau's "Orphic" trilogy following "The Blood of a Poet" 1930 and "Orphee" 1950. The only film in the trilogy featuring Cocteau himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying as indeed he was his greatest desire being to experience rebirth so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. With cameos by Pablo Picasso Charles Aznavour bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguen and Yul Brynner. A few seconds of color are spliced in at one point a surreal effect used prior to this film in "Portrait of Jennie" 1948 and later in Samuel Fuller's "Shock Corridor" 1963. Having run out of funds in mid-production Cocteau was given money to complete filming by François Truffaut who used the prize money he had won at Cannes for "Les Quatre Cents Coups" 1959. Unbound housed in a gray paper folder. Title and Cocteau's name in manuscript pencil on the front of the folder. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Fine unbound. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 151699N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Jean Cocteau in conversation with actress Silvia Monfort while cinematographer Christian Matras looks on to the left. With the stamp of Le Parisien archive on the verso. Based on Cocteau's 1946 play. In nineteenth-century Europe a suicidal anarchist poet falls in love with the long-secluded queen who has been absent from the public eye for ten years due to her grief over her husband's death. Set in the fictional country of Krantz. 7 x 5.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown