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1972ref. 162401Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 British film variously showing actresses Elizabeth Taylor Michael Caine and Susannah York on the set. An upper-class couple's turbulent marriage seems to finally be at an end when the husband falls in love with a beautiful mysterious younger widow. Set in London. 9.75 x 8 inches 9.25 x 8 inches and 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 167790N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing Elizabeth Taylor as the titular pharaoh taking a bath. Newspaper clipping with date stamp annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance label on the verso. Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 162526N.p.: N.p. 1958. Two vintage reference photographs of director Richard Brooks on the set of the 1958 film one showing Brooks talking with Elizabeth Taylor the other showing Brooks with Paul Newman. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos along with the printed labels of Stillphoto in Amsterdam. Based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams about the deeply dysfunctional family of a dying plantation owner on the Mississippi Delta. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Shot on location in Long Island New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 153217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage reference photograph of director Joseph Losey in conversation with actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow between takes on the set of the 1968 film. To the left is script supervisor Pamela Davies giving instruction. Stamp of photographer Barrie Pattison on the verso. An impoverished woman meets a young girl who claims to be her long-lost daughter believed to have died in a drowning accident years before. Set and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two short closed tears to the right edge. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown books
1995ref. 167753N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1995 film showing Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi onstage in her early days at Cheetah's Gentleman's Club mid-striptease. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. One of the most hotly contested films of the 1990s. Largely panned at the time of its release it has since gained enormous cult status and has even been reevaluated by critics and filmmakers such as Jonathan Rosenbaum Jim Hoberman Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette who defend the film as a serious satire something actor Kyle MacLachlan dismisses describing the film as ".horrible. Horrible!" and noting that "it just gets worse" as it progresses. John Waters may have described it best: "'Showgirls' is funny stupid dirty and filled with cinematic cliches; in other words perfect." Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 172049Los Angeles: Carolco 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. One of the most hotly contested films of the 1990s. Largely panned at the time of its release it has since gained enormous cult status and has even been reevaluated by critics and filmmakers such as Jonathan Rosenbaum Jim Hoberman Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette who defend the film as a serious satire something actor Kyle MacLachlan dismisses describing the film as ".horrible. Horrible!" and noting that "it just gets worse" as it progresses. John Waters may have described it best: "'Showgirls' is funny stupid dirty and filled with cinematic cliches; in other words perfect." Shot on location in Las Vegas Nevada. Silver generic Carolco wrappers. Title page present dated June 1994 with credit for screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Carolco unknown books
1958ref. 162526N.p.: N.p. 1958. Two vintage reference photographs of director Richard Brooks on the set of the 1958 film one showing Brooks talking with Elizabeth Taylor the other showing Brooks with Paul Newman. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos along with the printed labels of Stillphoto in Amsterdam. Based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams about the deeply dysfunctional family of a dying plantation owner on the Mississippi Delta. Nominated for six Academy Awards. Shot on location in Long Island New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 167790N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film showing Elizabeth Taylor as the titular pharaoh taking a bath. Newspaper clipping with date stamp annotations in manuscript pencil and provenance label on the verso. Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Taylor with Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 153217Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage reference photograph of director Joseph Losey in conversation with actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Mia Farrow between takes on the set of the 1968 film. To the left is script supervisor Pamela Davies giving instruction. Stamp of photographer Barrie Pattison on the verso. An impoverished woman meets a young girl who claims to be her long-lost daughter believed to have died in a drowning accident years before. Set and shot on location in London. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with two short closed tears to the right edge. Grant US. Universal Pictures unknown
1994ref. 172049Los Angeles: Carolco 1994. Draft script for the 1995 film. One of the most hotly contested films of the 1990s. Largely panned at the time of its release it has since gained enormous cult status and has even been reevaluated by critics and filmmakers such as Jonathan Rosenbaum Jim Hoberman Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette who defend the film as a serious satire something actor Kyle MacLachlan dismisses describing the film as ".horrible. Horrible!" and noting that "it just gets worse" as it progresses. John Waters may have described it best: "'Showgirls' is funny stupid dirty and filled with cinematic cliches; in other words perfect." Shot on location in Las Vegas Nevada. Silver generic Carolco wrappers. Title page present dated June 1994 with credit for screenwriter Joe Eszterhas. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Carolco unknown
1995ref. 167753N.p.: N.p. 1995. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1995 film showing Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi onstage in her early days at Cheetah's Gentleman's Club mid-striptease. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. One of the most hotly contested films of the 1990s. Largely panned at the time of its release it has since gained enormous cult status and has even been reevaluated by critics and filmmakers such as Jonathan Rosenbaum Jim Hoberman Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Rivette who defend the film as a serious satire something actor Kyle MacLachlan dismisses describing the film as ".horrible. Horrible!" and noting that "it just gets worse" as it progresses. John Waters may have described it best: "'Showgirls' is funny stupid dirty and filled with cinematic cliches; in other words perfect." Set and shot on location in Las Vegas Nevada. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 171121Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Chenault 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Lacking the final page of narrative text as either used or issued. Based on the 1963 Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee which follows one bitter night of domestic unrest between an emotionally scarred college professor and his hard-drinking wife. Nichols' directorial debut and the first film to be given the MPAA tag "No one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by an adult" challenging the Production Code Office and essentially leading to its demise. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winning five including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis respectively. Set on the campus of a small New England college and shot on location in Northampton Southampton and Cambridge Massachusetts. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows 2 holdings. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 69 dated July 30 1965. Distribution page present same dates with receipt intact. Title page present dated July 30 1965 with credits for screenwriter Ernest Lehman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication rectos only all pages eye-rest green excepting distribution page which is white and dated 7/30/65. Corner chip to the "Cast of Characters" page else pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with yapping at the top and bottom as usually found bound internally with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers / Chenault unknown
1972ref. 162401Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 British film variously showing actresses Elizabeth Taylor Michael Caine and Susannah York on the set. An upper-class couple's turbulent marriage seems to finally be at an end when the husband falls in love with a beautiful mysterious younger widow. Set in London. 9.75 x 8 inches 9.25 x 8 inches and 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970ref. 162523N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actress Florinda Bolkan talking on the phone and smoking in the bath. Annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping on the verso. A Kafkaesque satire about corruption in policing about a high-ranking police inspector who kills his mistress and proceeds to cover up his involvement in the crime. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10.25 inches. Lightly worn at the corners else about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 682. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 161899Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1971 Italian film here under the US release title "Lulu the Tool." Provenance stamp on the verso. Director Elio Petri's socio-political drama wherein a hard working factory worker Ludovico Lulu loses a finger in a working accident and joins a faction of workers calling for a strike only to fired for agitational behavior after the workers reach an agreement with the management. Winner of the Palm d'Or. Shot on location in Piedmont Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing and a wax pencil annotation on the top right of the recto. New Line Cinema unknown books
1965ref. 148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso. An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively. The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another. A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012. Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. 2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 162523N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1970 film showing actress Florinda Bolkan talking on the phone and smoking in the bath. Annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping on the verso. A Kafkaesque satire about corruption in policing about a high-ranking police inspector who kills his mistress and proceeds to cover up his involvement in the crime. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Rome. 8 x 10.25 inches. Lightly worn at the corners else about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 682. Grant Italy. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 148894N.p.: N.p. 1965. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1965 film. Two studio still photographs of Ursula Andress on production designer Piero Poletto's striking minimalist set and two compilation fashion photographs of Andress in costume bookending Costume Designer Giulio Coltellacci's concept drawings. Two photographs with "La Decima Victima" stamp on verso. An international cult classic based on the 1953 short story "Seventh Victim" by Robert Sheckley. Sheckley wrote the novelization of the film in 1956 and two sequels "Victim Prime" and "Victim" in 1987 and 1988 respectively. The worldwide officially sanctioned "Big Hunt" is the world's most popular television show giving those inclined to violence and those in search of celebrity a chance to act as "hunter" and "victim." The games top two assassins Caroline Meredith Andress and Macello Poletti Marcello Mastrianni who may be in love are pitted against each another. A descendant of Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game" 1924 and the first of the televised death game films such as "The Gladiators" 1969 "Death Race 2000" 1975 "The Running Man" 1987 and "The Hunger Games" 2012. Shot on location in New York Rome Geneva and Vatican City. 2 - 9.5 x 7.25 inches 2- 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 161899Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1971 Italian film here under the US release title "Lulu the Tool." Provenance stamp on the verso. Director Elio Petri's socio-political drama wherein a hard working factory worker Ludovico Lulu loses a finger in a working accident and joins a faction of workers calling for a strike only to fired for agitational behavior after the workers reach an agreement with the management. Winner of the Palm d'Or. Shot on location in Piedmont Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing and a wax pencil annotation on the top right of the recto. New Line Cinema unknown
2000ref. 146395N.p.: N.p. 2000. Draft script for an unproduced film. A group of kids from Anaheim come of age in the counterculture of the swinging sixties leaving behind the gang violence of their hometown in favor of becoming drug-smuggling hippies. Set in California. White lacking wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Elias Cecil. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
2000ref. 146395N.p.: N.p. 2000. Draft script for an unproduced film. A group of kids from Anaheim come of age in the counterculture of the swinging sixties leaving behind the gang violence of their hometown in favor of becoming drug-smuggling hippies. Set in California. White lacking wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Elias Cecil. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 143365Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some manuscript pencil annotations including the film title on the verso. Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel based on the life of his uncle about a young Greek man living in 19th century Ottoman Turkey and his long and poverty stricken journey to emigrate to America. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for Best Picture Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Shot on location in Turkey and Greece. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969ref. 145742Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage double weight matte photograph of Elia Kazan on the location at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York for shooting of the 1969 film. With manuscript annotations and mimeo snipe on the verso. Adapted by Kazan from his own 1967 novel about a suicidal advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown dealing with his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1969ref. 143372Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage photograph on director Elia Kazan conferring with a lounging Kirk Douglas holding a prop baby doll and Faye Dunaway during an outdoor shoot on the set of the 1969 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Adapted by Kazan from his own 1967 novel about a suicidal advertising executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown dealing with his unhappy wife younger mistress and dying father. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1949ref. 148820Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing actors Jeanne Crain Nina Mae McKinney and Frederick O'Neal. Based on Cid Ricketts Sumner's 1946 novel "Quality." A light-skinned young African-American woman Jeanne Crain lives in the north where she can easily pass for white but is forced to return to her home town in the Souh to visit her elderly grandmother. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
