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1969ref. 151671Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1969. Vintage press kit for the US release of the 1969 French film for use by distributors and the press containing four black and white photographs one pressbook a promotional pamphlet and a one sheet poster for the film. Based on the 1938 novel by Cecil Day-Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake. A man seduces a young actress as part of his plan to avenge the hit-and-run death of his son. The second of four films Claude Chabrol made with actor Jean Yanne following "Line of Demarcation" 1966 and preceding "Le Boucher" 1970 and "Madame Bovary" 1991. Shot on location in Finistere Brittany and Paris. Poster photographs and promotional material Very Good plus. Grant France. Allied Artists unknown
1978ref. 144817France: Filmel 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet from the 1978 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Jean-Marie Fitere which tells the true story of Violette Noziere Isabelle Huppert a French teenager who in the 1930s worked as a prostitute while living with her parents who she poisoned killing her father after they found out from her doctor that she had syphilis. Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in Paris. 9.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Filmel unknown
1961ref. 161868N.p.: Times Films 1961. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1959 French film "À double tour" here under the US release title "Leda" also released in the US as "Web of Passion." Each photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel "The Key to Nicholas Street" by Stanley Ellin. Monsieur Marcoux patriarch of a grand family estate and living with his wife and grown children has an affair with the beautiful Italian artist Leda. Leda is found murdered and police suspect the milk man but Marcoux' daughter's fiancé suspects someone else. Director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol's third feature film his first in color and first psychological thriller the genre that would define his career for the next five decades. Shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with faint creasing. Times Films unknown
1970ref. 150810N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Adapted by Arnold Federbush a film and sound editor who also wrote two science fiction novels in the 1970s "The Man Who Lived in Inner Space" 1973 and "Ice!" 1978. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted near the binding bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown books
1970ref. 150810N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Adapted by Arnold Federbush a film and sound editor who also wrote two science fiction novels in the 1970s "The Man Who Lived in Inner Space" 1973 and "Ice!" 1978. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 130. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted near the binding bound with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
1982ref. 160561N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1982 film showing a half-nude profile of actress Véronique Genest. A dramatization of the final few months in the life of famed French writer Guy de Maupassant characterized by overwhelming sorrow and paranoia. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 160561N.p.: N.p. 1982. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1982 film showing a half-nude profile of actress Véronique Genest. A dramatization of the final few months in the life of famed French writer Guy de Maupassant characterized by overwhelming sorrow and paranoia. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 161867N.p.: Peppercorn-Wormser 1973. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 French film. Claude a married man and father of two decides to transform his bookstore into a sex shop. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Peppercorn-Wormser unknown books
1972ref. 157321N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 French film. One photograph with a printed label affixed to the verso crediting a Dutch photo archive. A Parisian bookseller goes through a mid-life crisis and decides to convert his store into a sex shop in order to spice up his marriage and make more money. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 143838Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton 1966. Draft script carbon typescript and scenario offset printing for the 1966 French film here under the working title "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" 1968. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the material with the working title in manuscript red ink on the flap. Based on Gautier's titular novel 1966. Jean-Claude Thibon Aznavour is a postman in Paris who accepts a position in the army during the Indochina War. He is wounded in combat and sent to the hospital where he falls in love with Vang Maria Minh a young Vietnamese nurse. Shot on location in Cambodia. Title page present integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Bernard-Aubert novelist Gautier and dialogue writer Accursi. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 212. Carbon typescript. Very Good plus bound with two silver binder clips. Scenario: title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for Bernard-Aubert and Gautier 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11 offset printing perfect-bound Near Fine. Complete collation upon request. Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton unknown books
1981ref. 156015N.p.: N.p. 1981. Five vintage matte-finish borderless reference photographs from the 1981 French adult film. A young woman is sent by her mother to join a community of sexual fetishists led by an outgoing wealthy libertine in his isolated country manor. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 140. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 143838Paris: Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton 1966. Draft script carbon typescript and scenario offset printing for the 1966 French film here under the working title "Convoi pour Dien-Bien-Phu." Released in the US as "The Postman Goes to War" 1968. Numerical notation in manuscript pencil on one page. Also included is the original manila folder used to house the material with the working title in manuscript red ink on the flap. Based on Gautier's titular novel 1966. Jean-Claude Thibon Aznavour is a postman in Paris who accepts a position in the army during the Indochina War. He is wounded in combat and sent to the hospital where he falls in love with Vang Maria Minh a young Vietnamese nurse. Shot on location in Cambodia. Title page present integral with front wrapper undated with credits for director Bernard-Aubert novelist Gautier and dialogue writer Accursi. 197 leaves with last page of text numbered 212. Carbon typescript. Very Good plus bound with two silver binder clips. Scenario: title page integral with front wrapper undated with credits for Bernard-Aubert and Gautier 12 leaves with last page of text numbered 11 offset printing perfect-bound Near Fine. Complete collation upon request. Les Productions Alcinter and Andre Cotton unknown
1973ref. 161867N.p.: Peppercorn-Wormser 1973. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 French film. Claude a married man and father of two decides to transform his bookstore into a sex shop. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Peppercorn-Wormser unknown
1981ref. 156015N.p.: N.p. 1981. Five vintage matte-finish borderless reference photographs from the 1981 French adult film. A young woman is sent by her mother to join a community of sexual fetishists led by an outgoing wealthy libertine in his isolated country manor. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Bier 140. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 157321N.p.: N.p. 1972. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 French film. One photograph with a printed label affixed to the verso crediting a Dutch photo archive. A Parisian bookseller goes through a mid-life crisis and decides to convert his store into a sex shop in order to spice up his marriage and make more money. Set and shot on location in Paris. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 020434Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S. + enveloppe, 15 septembre 1977, 2p in-8. Belle lettre à madame Canestrier, notamment autour de son film Gloria, le dernier qu'il réalisera : « Vous verrez [Gloria] : c'est, du moins je le crois, un joli film, tendre, sensible (à l'excès même mais sans mièvrerie) qui ne met en scène. ni voyous, ni truands, ni flics, ni drogués, ni homosexuels, ni violences, ni hold-up, ni brutalités, ni intellectualisme hermétique incompréhensible, ni contestation sociale agressive. etc. enfin aussi totalement à contre-courant de tout ce qui s'étale si affreusement et si complaisamment sur tous les écrans actuels et que les directeurs de salles accueillent hélas avec tant d'empressement.! Un film normal pour des gens normaux ». Il est étonné qu'on lui ait permis de faire un tel film. Très belle lettre, préfigurant son engagement politique. [492]
ref. 020435Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S., 12 janvier 1981, 2p in-8. Belle lettre amicale à madame Canestrier, dans laquelle il regrette notamment que le dernier film qu'il a réalisé, Gloria, n'ait eut aucun succès. « c'est - je crois - un joli film, sensible et, surtout bien fait, avec ce qui est rare, des moyens (de l'argent) pour les reconstitutions, ce qui coûte très cher. Mais, hélas, ce film ne correspond plus à l'époque. Il n'a eu aucun succès - sauf d'estime. ce qui ne suffit pas : mon producteur, richissime. un vrai Crésus, m'a, aussitôt après, laisser tomber. Il en pardonne pas l'insuccès - et l'estime, ils s'en foutent bien. Marcel Dassault, car c'était lui, engage d'autres réalisateurs. et cette merveilleuse "CHARTREUSE DE PARME", qu'il m'avait, pourtant, juré - par écrit - de me financer. ce qui était, pour lui, facile. il m'a lâchement abandonné. Grossièrement même, car il m'a écrit que Gloria était un film "admirable", mais qu'il ne ferait "pas un sou". donc : adieu ! Plus mufle on ne l'est pas ». Il oeuvre aussi à l'écriture d'un livre. Peut-être son autobiographie, La Rage dans le coeur, parue en 1984. Et il se rappelle de sa monteuse, Madeleine Gug morte en 1971 (et enterré avec la famille Autant-Lara). On joint une enveloppe d'un autre courrier. Belle lettre dans laquelle on sent toute la tristesse et l'amertume d'Autant-Lara qui sait qu'il ne pourra pas faire sa Chartreuse de Parme. [492]
ref. 020436Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S. + enveloppe, 24 février 1971, 1p in-4. Amusante lettre à madame Canestrier : « Que vous dire, sinon que Paris, ville folle et ville de fous où j'exerce - dans un métier de fous ! - devient de jour en jour plus "invivable". Mais qu'y faire ? Ce monte est entrainé dans une ronde non moins folle. et absurde ? ». Il est ensuite question d'un autre film qu'il qualifie de folie et qui ne verra peut-être pas le jour, de Madeleine Gug qui travaille à « un film de fou », de son fils Le Diable au corps qui semble projeté sans autorisation d'Autant Lara, des séquelles de son accident de 1970 (il boite. Madeleine Gug, qui était avec lui, mourra des conséquences de cet accident). On joint la copie d'une lettre d'Autant-Lara à la même, du 10 septembre 1970, peu après l'accident et une photo de la tombe de la famille Autant-Lara après 1971 : Madeleine Gug est enterrée dans cette tombe. Jolie lettre. [492]
ref. 020437Claude Autant-Lara (1901-2000), réalisateur, acteur, scénariste, homme politique. L.A.S. + enveloppe, 2 décembre 1970, 2p in-4. Longue lettre donnant des nouvelles, notamment de sa jambe après son accident. Il boite encore et a des difficultés à travailler correctement. Sa santé est toujours bonne et « l'activité reprend peu à peu, dans un Paris de plus en plus affreux à habiter et à vivre, malodorant, bruyant, frénétique et compliqué. Je regrette le Midi. terriblement ». Belle lettre. [492]
1988ref. 132528N.p.: Media Home Entertainment 1988. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1988 videocassette release of the 1988 US film. An action-packed thriller about of drug-related murders in Saigon and the ex-Green Beret who must find the culprits. 8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Media Home Entertainment unknown books
1939ref. 161601Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1939. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1939 film. One photograph with a stamp on the verso identifying the film and actors Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel. The legendary adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel about the headstrong daughter of an affluent confederate plantation owner whose family is brought low during the Civil War. Nominated for fifteen Academy Awards winning ten including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress making actress Hattie McDaniel the first African American to be nominated for and win an Oscar. Set in Georgia on the fictional cotton plantation Tara and shot throughout California as well as Little Rock Arkansas. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1937ref. 159946Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1937. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1937 film showing actor Clark Gable. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A dramatization of the life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell focusing on his relationship with a married woman which complicates his struggle to secure Home Rule for Ireland. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1934ref. 164247N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage reference photograph from the 1934 film showing actors Clark Gable and Joan Crawford canoodling while Robert Montgomery looks on. French mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. Based on the 1933 Broadway play by Edward Barry Roberts and Frank Morgan Cavett about a years-long love triangle between three friends. Crawford's first of nine collaborations with screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1935ref. 163775Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actors Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil mimeo snipe and provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1930 novel by Crosbie Garstin about a ship captain who must fend off pirates while also juggling two romantic interests aboard his ship. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1935ref. 161609Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1935. Vintage reference photograph from the 1935 film showing actors Clark Gable Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery. Stamp specific to the film's release on the verso. Based on the 1930 novel by Crosbie Garstin about a ship captain who must fend off pirates while also juggling two romantic interests aboard his ship. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
