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1970ref. 134169Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944 where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam decides to lead the boys on the mission instead. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. 143 leaves mimeograph duplication. Scrip bent at the foredge else pages about Fine in Very Good plus wrappers bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 134169Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944 where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam decides to lead the boys on the mission instead. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Schweitzer and Colbert. 143 leaves mimeograph duplication. Scrip bent at the foredge else pages about Fine in Very Good plus wrappers bound with three gold brads. United Artists unknown
1968ref. 146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English. After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. Set in Italy. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1968ref. 146530N.p.: N.p. 1968. Draft script for the 1968 film here under the working title "Tenderly." With a business card clipped to the first leaf. Laid in with the script is a typed two-page overview of director Franco Brusati's prior screenwriting and directorial credits. Text in English. After 15 years apart a neurotic doctor reconnects with his childhood sweetheart a free-spirited young woman. Set in Italy. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters FRANCO BRUSATI and ENNIO DE CONCINI and translator John Francis Lane. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus internally side stapled our first encounter with this practice and bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 157842Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1984. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast following the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become involved in the dealings of local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion unknown books
1969ref. 149918N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film one showing director Francis Ford Coppola and the other showing Coppola and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Shirley Knight and James Caan. After discovering she is pregnant a young housewife takes off on a spontaneous road trip across the United States to reevaluate her life path. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus slightly rubbed. N.p. unknown books
1981ref. 168974N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Francis Ford Coppola Nastassja Kinski and Frederic Forrest on the set of the 1981 film with a French snipe printed on the verso. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 Vietnam masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Screenwriter Bernstein had originally planned the story to be set in Chicago but the setting moved to Las Vegas at Coppola's insistence viewing the western city as a more romantic atmosphere. Hank Forrest and Franny Garr live on the outskirts of Las Vegas but after five years their relationship has deteriorated and they both yearn for new love. Hank meets Leila Kinski a beautiful high-wire artist and Franny meets Ray Julia a dashing actor-waiter. Throughout their separation Hank and Franny still love each other and their search for romance brings them back to each other. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits received an Oscar nomination for his original score performed with country singer Crystal Gayle. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 154934London: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage British program for the 1972 film with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning three for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba and shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled in illustrated card wrappers. Very Good plus. Wrappers with light rubbing overall light horizontal creasing at spine fold and a bump to the top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader 16. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1975ref. 161263Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1984ref. 147764Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures Corporation 1984. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. Inspired by James Haskins' 1977 photo history book about the famed Harlem club. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast the film follows the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become embroiled with various local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures Corporation unknown books
1969ref. 148517Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Collection of twelve vintage oversize publicity photographs from the 1969 film eight of which are shots from the film two promotional headshots one of James Caan and one of Robert Duvall one on the set photograph of Francis Ford Coppola behind the camera and one group photograph of the entire cast and crew. Natalie Ravenna Shirley Knight upon discovering she's pregnant takes off on a road trip to California in a family station wagon to reevaluate her life decisions. After picking up the handsome hitchhiker Killer James Caan and revealing that she's pregnant when the two strike up a romance she tells him she only picked him up for a one-night affair further complicating to whom and how much she is responsible to those around her. Shot on location in Chatanooga Tennessee a significant parade sequence in the film West Virginia New York Colorado Virginia Nebraska and Pennsylvania. 4 13.25 x 10.5 inches 3 13.25 x 10.75 3 10.25 x 13.5 2 13.25 x 11. Light edge and corner wear else Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1962ref. 161534N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. A re-edited version of the 1958 German film "The Sin Began with Eva" by Fritz Umgelter with additional nude scenes featuring Playboy model June Wilkinson shot by a young Francis Ford Coppola then still a film student. A bellboy aspiring to be a private eye spies on the suspicious activities of women in the hotel who turn out to be representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. Shot on location in Bavaria and San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
2017ref. 170439N.p.: N.p. 2017. A small archive of approximately 70 leaves largely regarding casting and readings for Francis Ford Coppola's ongoing experimental film project "Distant Vision" belonging to Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos with the majority of the material written in Roos' hand 2013-2017. Found here under various working titles including "Coppola Project" "Dark Electric Vision" "Distant Vision" "D.V." "FFC" and "F. Coppola Project." Included in the archive are: Copious handwritten notes on casting considerations and recommendations from Roos including actor availability skill sets and reactions to meetings and readings. A four-page "'Men' For Discussion" and "'Women' For Discussion" on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 5 2013 listing actors and their ages. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 5 2013 listing "Godfather I II and III Actors for Discussion." A two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 7 2013 of "'Faith' For Discussion" listing actors for the role with pencil annotations in Roos' hand. Five listings on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors for readings which took place from March 16 2013 to August 1 2014 which included Kate Beckinsale Vincent D'Onofrio Elle Fanning Andy Garcia Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar Isaac Uma Thurman and Marisa Tomei among others. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 19 2013 listing actors for a proposed reading the following day with the actor's headshot their character's name and their contact information or agency with ink annotations in Roos' hand. Including actors Linda Cardellini Frank Grillo Dakota Johnson Max Minghella and Imogen Poots among others. A four page handwritten draft of a letter to Coppola in Roos' hand regarding an upcoming January 15 2014 table reading with thirteen questions for Coppola largely regarding casting and actor availability. Four pages from a Draft script with the ink annotation of "Fred's Notes on June 25 2014 Draft" with notes regarding the script in Roos' hand on two pages. A four-page "Cast of Characters" listing all the characters with brief descriptions for the following timelines in the script: "1922" "1928-30" "1939" "1947" "1952" "Flashback - 1890's" "1959" "1962" and "1969." A four-page list of "Cast of Characters" with ages depicted and detailed descriptions along with "Minor Characters" with brief descriptions. A three-page list of all the characters and the script pages on which the characters appear. And a two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors up for discussion dated August 22 2017. All material housed in a generic orange folder with post-its with marker annotations of "Distant Vision" affixed to the front panel and tab with cello tape. Conceived by Coppola as an experimental film project in the early 2000's "Distant Vision" depicts three generations of an Italian American family during the advent and omnipresence of television intended to be filmed as "live cinema" Coppola's experimental and potentially ground-breaking concept for a live production-film hybrid. Two different versions of a "proof of concept" production were broadcast to limited audiences in June 2015 from Oklahoma City Community College and in July 2016 from the UCLA School of Theater. Coppola had planned to film more sequences financed from his 2024 film "Megalopolis" but had been thus far put on hold following the film's disappointing box office returns. All material approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall housed in a Near Fine 8.5 x 11.5 generic orange folder. N.p. unknown books
ref. 150807San Francisco: Zoetrope 1981. Final Draft script for the 1981 musical film. Copy belonging to actress Lainie Kazan with her name on the title page in manuscript ink and her manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a single revision page with Kazan's manuscript pencil and ink annotations and an envelope for the Paradise Travel Agency covered with ink annotations regarding line changes containing a flight coupon signed by Kazan. Dreamy flaky Frannie leaves her down-to-earth unfaithful boyfriend Hank on their fifth anniversary. Over the course of 24 hours both have affairs with their ideal partners but eventually realize their paramours can't hold a candle to their love for each other. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Red Zoetrope Studios wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 032 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated January 1 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for director Francis Coppola sic and screenwriter Armyan Bernstein and music credits to Tom Waits. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Zoetrope unknown books
1975ref. 161263Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam taking Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown
2017ref. 170439N.p.: N.p. 2017. A small archive of approximately 70 leaves largely regarding casting and readings for Francis Ford Coppola's ongoing experimental film project "Distant Vision" belonging to Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos with the majority of the material written in Roos' hand 2013-2017. Found here under various working titles including "Coppola Project" "Dark Electric Vision" "Distant Vision" "D.V." "FFC" and "F. Coppola Project." Included in the archive are: Copious handwritten notes on casting considerations and recommendations from Roos including actor availability skill sets and reactions to meetings and readings. A four-page "'Men' For Discussion" and "'Women' For Discussion" on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 5 2013 listing actors and their ages. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 5 2013 listing "Godfather I II and III Actors for Discussion." A two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead dated March 7 2013 of "'Faith' For Discussion" listing actors for the role with pencil annotations in Roos' hand. Five listings on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors for readings which took place from March 16 2013 to August 1 2014 which included Kate Beckinsale Vincent D'Onofrio Elle Fanning Andy Garcia Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar Isaac Uma Thurman and Marisa Tomei among others. A three-page email printout from "Bright / Daniels Casting" dated March 19 2013 listing actors for a proposed reading the following day with the actor's headshot their character's name and their contact information or agency with ink annotations in Roos' hand. Including actors Linda Cardellini Frank Grillo Dakota Johnson Max Minghella and Imogen Poots among others. A four page handwritten draft of a letter to Coppola in Roos' hand regarding an upcoming January 15 2014 table reading with thirteen questions for Coppola largely regarding casting and actor availability. Four pages from a Draft script with the ink annotation of "Fred's Notes on June 25 2014 Draft" with notes regarding the script in Roos' hand on two pages. A four-page "Cast of Characters" listing all the characters with brief descriptions for the following timelines in the script: "1922" "1928-30" "1939" "1947" "1952" "Flashback - 1890's" "1959" "1962" and "1969." A four-page list of "Cast of Characters" with ages depicted and detailed descriptions along with "Minor Characters" with brief descriptions. A three-page list of all the characters and the script pages on which the characters appear. And a two-page list on "Bright / Daniels Casting" letterhead of actors up for discussion dated August 22 2017. All material housed in a generic orange folder with post-its with marker annotations of "Distant Vision" affixed to the front panel and tab with cello tape. Conceived by Coppola as an experimental film project in the early 2000's "Distant Vision" depicts three generations of an Italian American family during the advent and omnipresence of television intended to be filmed as "live cinema" Coppola's experimental and potentially ground-breaking concept for a live production-film hybrid. Two different versions of a "proof of concept" production were broadcast to limited audiences in June 2015 from Oklahoma City Community College and in July 2016 from the UCLA School of Theater. Coppola had planned to film more sequences financed from his 2024 film "Megalopolis" but had been thus far put on hold following the film's disappointing box office returns. All material approximately 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall housed in a Near Fine 8.5 x 11.5 generic orange folder. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 168974N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of Francis Ford Coppola Nastassja Kinski and Frederic Forrest on the set of the 1981 film with a French snipe printed on the verso. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 Vietnam masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Screenwriter Bernstein had originally planned the story to be set in Chicago but the setting moved to Las Vegas at Coppola's insistence viewing the western city as a more romantic atmosphere. Hank Forrest and Franny Garr live on the outskirts of Las Vegas but after five years their relationship has deteriorated and they both yearn for new love. Hank meets Leila Kinski a beautiful high-wire artist and Franny meets Ray Julia a dashing actor-waiter. Throughout their separation Hank and Franny still love each other and their search for romance brings them back to each other. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits received an Oscar nomination for his original score performed with country singer Crystal Gayle. 11.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 150807San Francisco: Zoetrope 1981. Final Draft script for the 1981 musical film. Copy belonging to actress Lainie Kazan with her name on the title page in manuscript ink and her manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a single revision page with Kazan's manuscript pencil and ink annotations and an envelope for the Paradise Travel Agency covered with ink annotations regarding line changes containing a flight coupon signed by Kazan. Dreamy flaky Frannie leaves her down-to-earth unfaithful boyfriend Hank on their fifth anniversary. Over the course of 24 hours both have affairs with their ideal partners but eventually realize their paramours can't hold a candle to their love for each other. Francis Ford Coppola's first directorial effort after his 1979 masterpiece "Apocalypse Now" shot on strikingly stylized sets at his newly opened Zoetrope Studios. Red Zoetrope Studios wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT and production No. 032 on the front wrapper. Title page present dated January 1 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for director Francis Coppola sic and screenwriter Armyan Bernstein and music credits to Tom Waits. 93 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Zoetrope unknown
1962ref. 161534N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film with a provenance stamp on the verso. A re-edited version of the 1958 German film "The Sin Began with Eva" by Fritz Umgelter with additional nude scenes featuring Playboy model June Wilkinson shot by a young Francis Ford Coppola then still a film student. A bellboy aspiring to be a private eye spies on the suspicious activities of women in the hotel who turn out to be representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. Shot on location in Bavaria and San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 157842Beverly Hills CA: Orion 1984. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1984 film. An extravagant production with a star-studded cast following the lives of musicians in the famed Jazz Age in Harlem who become involved in the dealings of local mobsters. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in New York City. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Orion unknown
1972ref. 154934London: Paramount Pictures 1972. Vintage British program for the 1972 film with black and white and color film still photographs throughout. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola. Widely considered one of the finest films ever made and an inescapable influence on the portrayal of organized crime in film and television. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning three for Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor for Brando. Set in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and Cuba and shot on location in New York New Jersey Los Angeles Las Vegas Sicily and the Dominican Republic. 8.5 x 11 inches. Side-stapled in illustrated card wrappers. Very Good plus. Wrappers with light rubbing overall light horizontal creasing at spine fold and a bump to the top right corner. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Penzler 101. Schrader 16. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969ref. 148517Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Collection of twelve vintage oversize publicity photographs from the 1969 film eight of which are shots from the film two promotional headshots one of James Caan and one of Robert Duvall one on the set photograph of Francis Ford Coppola behind the camera and one group photograph of the entire cast and crew. Natalie Ravenna Shirley Knight upon discovering she's pregnant takes off on a road trip to California in a family station wagon to reevaluate her life decisions. After picking up the handsome hitchhiker Killer James Caan and revealing that she's pregnant when the two strike up a romance she tells him she only picked him up for a one-night affair further complicating to whom and how much she is responsible to those around her. Shot on location in Chatanooga Tennessee a significant parade sequence in the film West Virginia New York Colorado Virginia Nebraska and Pennsylvania. 4 13.25 x 10.5 inches 3 13.25 x 10.75 3 10.25 x 13.5 2 13.25 x 11. Light edge and corner wear else Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown
1969ref. 149918N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film one showing director Francis Ford Coppola and the other showing Coppola and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Shirley Knight and James Caan. After discovering she is pregnant a young housewife takes off on a spontaneous road trip across the United States to reevaluate her life path. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus slightly rubbed. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 168227Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A major in the US Air Force is asked to join a team working on an experimental Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber although the first experiments with human test subjects prove dangerous. Based on a 1955 episode of the "Climax" anthology television series directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Charlton Heston. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the margins else Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1957ref. 168227Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. A major in the US Air Force is asked to join a team working on an experimental Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber although the first experiments with human test subjects prove dangerous. Based on a 1955 episode of the "Climax" anthology television series directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Charlton Heston. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly toned on the margins else Near Fine. United Artists unknown
