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1942ref. 131997Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Single lobby card for the 1942 film. Based on Raymond Chandler's 1942 novel "The High Window" here re-imagined as the seventh and final entry in Twentieth Century-Fox's series of films featuring detective Michael Shayne created by Brett Halliday. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with two pinholes to the center of the card a tiny closed tear to the top edge and a small chip to the lower left corner. Grant p. 651. Spicer p 420. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1940ref. 130425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. The AFI Catalog notes: "According to a Twentieth Century- Fox press release this was the first writing effort for Fox sound man William Brent. After his story was bought Brent was made a writer at the studio. Also the first screenwriter assignment for Irving Cummings Jr. and William Conselman Jr. Both men were "second generation Hollywood" as Cummings' father was a director and Conselman's a screenwriter. "According to Twentieth Century-Fox press releases the football sequences were shot at the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium and at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Despite a summer heat wave the extras were required to wear heavy winter coats. As such large wind machines behind huge cakes of ice were used to cool off the fields. Thirty-four college football players from local universities were used as extras in this film. They included USC's Ambrose Schindler Bill Howard Red Morgan Tony Tonelli Ollie Day and Owen Hansen and UCLA's Billy Bob Williams Bill Overlin and Bill Radovich. Location filming was done at the Inglewood Railway Station as the station received little use. Because only two freight trains used the station each day movie extras were the only passengers ever to use the station. The press release also reported that the rental cost of a four-car train at the station was $150 per day. HR reported that Fox borrowed Lewis Howard from Universal Pictures for this film." A Fox programmer about a doctor reflecting on his college days how he was lured onto the football team and away from his studies a flirtation with a widow and meeting his true love. A strong early vehicle for actor Robert Sterling and featuring two notable women from the serial film era Jean Rogers Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 149 and production No. 518 dated June 24 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 24 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Conselman Jr. and Cummings Jr. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/25/40 and 7/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1940ref. 129749N.p.: N.p. 1940. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money but the men in her life secretly protect her. Although it disturbs her when she finds out she's been watched over she eventually forgives them both and then must choose one to marry of course. Though similar in title to the 1944 King Vidor film "An American Romance" also written by Herbert Dalmas this script bears little to no resemblance in plot to that film and we must assume that this was an earlier less effective screenplay of Dalmas'. Pale yellow wrappers with credits for screenwriter Dalmas. 177 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 129749N.p.: N.p. 1940. Draft script for an unproduced film. The daughter of a wealthy New York City businessman struggles over her position in life when she can't seem to choose between a wealthy British suitor and a middle class New York City police detective. She attempts to strike out on her own and work for her own money but the men in her life secretly protect her. Although it disturbs her when she finds out she's been watched over she eventually forgives them both and then must choose one to marry of course. Though similar in title to the 1944 King Vidor film "An American Romance" also written by Herbert Dalmas this script bears little to no resemblance in plot to that film and we must assume that this was an earlier less effective screenplay of Dalmas'. Pale yellow wrappers with credits for screenwriter Dalmas. 177 leaves carbon typescript. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 153806N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting copy No. 19. A quirky woman copes with her arranged marriage to a wealthy Middle Eastern eunuch while enjoying a romance with a young man at a ski resort. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Herbert Burkholz. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine with a red Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 153806N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting copy No. 19. A quirky woman copes with her arranged marriage to a wealthy Middle Eastern eunuch while enjoying a romance with a young man at a ski resort. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Herbert Burkholz. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages and wrapper Near Fine with a red Velo binding. N.p. unknown
ref. 146830N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A jazz cornet player finally finds love but when his wife dies giving birth to their first child the musician's life is changed forever. Set in New Orleans New Jersey New York and Chicago. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Herbert Baker. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light offsetting on the front wrapper bound with a single gold brad. N.p. unknown books
ref. 146830N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A jazz cornet player finally finds love but when his wife dies giving birth to their first child the musician's life is changed forever. Set in New Orleans New Jersey New York and Chicago. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Herbert Baker. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light offsetting on the front wrapper bound with a single gold brad. N.p. unknown
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 142292n.p.: N.p. 1950. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman credited for adding additional dialogue manuscript pencil signature on front wrapper. Manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. Based on the true story of John Wesley Powell's dangerous inaugural navigation of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Creator of the Cosmos Club second director of the US Geological Survey and proponent of land preservation he was championed as an explorer and a great man notwithstanding his belief that the Native Americans were primitives with no civilized societal structure of course. Written by "Lone Ranger" screenwriter Herb Meadow. Set in Arizona. Yellow titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated December 29 1949. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present noted as FIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY with credits for screenwriters Meadow and Colman and author John Wesley Powell. 157 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated variously between November 23 1949 and January 4 1950. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 168185Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1978. Vintage borderless compilation photograph from the 1978 film. A charismatic but misguided out-of-work actor resorts to wrestling to make ends meet although he is unskilled at the sport leading him to begin staging fights. Shot on location in New York and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1979ref. 147425N.p.: N.p. 1979. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1987 film starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams. After his brother-a hotshot country singer secretly overloaded with debt-commits suicide a Wyoming rancher travels to LA to help unravel the mystery of his brother's death. Set in Wyoming and Los Angeles. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 19 1979 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Henry Rosenbaum and revision credits to Leslie Stevens. 252 leaves with last page of text numbered 250. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1979ref. 147425N.p.: N.p. 1979. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1987 film starring Robert Carradine and Billy Dee Williams. After his brother-a hotshot country singer secretly overloaded with debt-commits suicide a Wyoming rancher travels to LA to help unravel the mystery of his brother's death. Set in Wyoming and Los Angeles. Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated October 19 1979 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Henry Rosenbaum and revision credits to Leslie Stevens. 252 leaves with last page of text numbered 250. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 140899Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the German release of the 1970 US film based on the 1934 autobiographical novel by Henry Miller. In this image Miller who also had a cameo role converses with Rip Torn who portrays him in the film. With a German mimeo snipe and the stamp Cinema International on the verso. Set and shot in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 163714N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1970 film showing writer Henry Miller sitting on a balustrade with director Joseph Strick. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Henry Miller's 1934 novel a book initially banned in the US. A broke writer travels from New York to Paris living on the generosity of his expatriate American friends and spending any money he can get on alcohol and women. Rated X in the US upon release a rating that was changed to NC-17 in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 139851Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris a book initially banned in the US. Miller Torn and his wife Ellen Burstyn dally in France's finer things while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon takes a boy to a bordello and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with small central holes faint creases. Uncommon. Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions unknown books
1970ref. 163714N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1970 film showing writer Henry Miller sitting on a balustrade with director Joseph Strick. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on Henry Miller's 1934 novel a book initially banned in the US. A broke writer travels from New York to Paris living on the generosity of his expatriate American friends and spending any money he can get on alcohol and women. Rated X in the US upon release a rating that was changed to NC-17 in 1992. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 140899Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1970. Vintage borderless photograph from the German release of the 1970 US film based on the 1934 autobiographical novel by Henry Miller. In this image Miller who also had a cameo role converses with Rip Torn who portrays him in the film. With a German mimeo snipe and the stamp Cinema International on the verso. Set and shot in Paris. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 139851Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions 1970. Original US one sheet poster for the 1970 X-rated film. Based on Miller's 1934 groundbreaking novel of life and love in Paris a book initially banned in the US. Miller Torn and his wife Ellen Burstyn dally in France's finer things while he tries teaching English at a school in Dijon takes a boy to a bordello and aids his asylum-bound friend who's in love with a prostitute. 27 x 41 inches folded. Studio stamp on the verso. Very Good plus with small central holes faint creases. Uncommon. Paramount Pictures / Tropic Film Productions unknown
ref. 2130149 Grains Road Delph Oldham Lancashire. 18 September 1986. 1p 8vo. In good condition lightly aged folded twice. He does not have a copy of his book 'Flying Eggs' but intends 'to order a few. Since computerization ordering is a longwinded business but there's reasonable hope they'd arrive before the Christmas post.' He gives instruction concerning payment and postage. He makes a suggestion if McPherson should 'at any point in the future be tempted to buy my first book of short stories PENNINE TALES' go for the paperback which is cheaper and 'much better edited'. The letter ends: 'One thing about the new computerized typesetting you can correct an error or an author's gaffe with a touch of the button instead of having to reset the whole page for one typo.' Livings' comments on modern printing developments gain interest in the light of his 1964 play satirising the future of employment 'Eh' and the film it spawned 'Work is a Four-Letter Word' 1968. 49 Grains Road, Delph, Oldham [Lancashire]. 18 September 1986. paperback
1957ref. 146091Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. First Draft script for the 1958 film with single "" notation in manuscript pencil. Good-guy Max Tom Ewell and mooch Gus Mickey Rooney are horse-race loving pals whose lives are going nowhere. Desperate they turn to bank robbery and actually pull it off. Using the money to buy a race horse their bookie pal Rocky Mickey Shaughnessy wants in. When they loose their bank roll after their horse is disqualified they figured they'd rob a bank again. Blue titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper and production No. 767 dated October 9 1957. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 9 1957 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Sydney Boehm. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1959ref. 132206London: National Screen Service 1959. Eight vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1959 US film. A high-budget comedy with low-budget results about an older couple chasing their daughters through South America while they search for love. 8 x 10 inches. Pinholes to one still and brief light creases overall else Near Fine. National Screen Service unknown books
1959ref. 146808Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Collection of 41 vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Based on the 1952 play by Liam O'Brien. Set in early 1900s Pennsylvania where a freethinking man Mr. Horace Pennypacker Clifton Webb turns out to secretly have had a second family with a total of 17 children between the two. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine light curling nearly half uniformly faded some faint creasing a few with small closed tears in margins. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1957ref. 156259Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Vintage post-production Synopsis for the 1957 film. Based on the 1941 novel "Phantom Filly" by George Agnew Chamberlain. Troubled teen Nick Pat Boone is forced to live and work on his uncle's Kentucky farm where he falls in love in their pretty neighbor Liz Shirley Jones. Set in and shot on location in Lexington Kentucky. Self-wrappers integral with title page noted as Synopsis. Four leaves with last page of text numbered 6. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing and edgewear bound with single staple in upper left corner. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1958ref. 132726London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Seven vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1958 UK release of the 1957 US film. Based on George Agnew Chamberlain's 1941 novel "The Phantom Filly" about a juvenile delinquent and his stay at a run down Kentucky ranch. Eventually he gains an interest in all things mechanical including the hot sports car owned by a neighboring young woman. A story set and shot in Kentucky. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creasing overall else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
