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1992ref. 158402N.p.: N.p. 1992. Vintage reference photograph from the 1992 film. Based upon the 1982 novel by William Wharton. In December 1945 the members of an American intelligence squad decide to negotiate with a small group of German soldiers who wish to surrender rather than die in one final offensive. Shot on location in Utah. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. N.p. unknown books
1992ref. 158397Overland Park KS: InterStar 1992. Vintage press kit for the 1992 film. Two-color illustrated pocketed folder containing five black and white photographs in the original glassine sleeve and a gathering of promotional reading material. Based upon the 1982 novel by William Wharton. In December 1945 the members of an American intelligence squad decide to negotiate with a small group of German soldiers who wish to surrender rather than die in one final offensive. Shot on location in Utah. Folder photographs and promotional material about Near Fine. InterStar unknown books
1960ref. 143236Paris: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 11 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade director Molinaro in white straw hat and images of starring actress Petit including a striking portrait image of her under an elegant sconce and with Auclair reading scripts. All but one photograph with annotations in the verso in manuscript ink film title names of persons pictured and all but two photographs with numerical annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Based on a novel presumed by screenwriter Clavel. Philippe Auclair is an unsung artist with a mistress he does not love. He spends leisurely vacations at Paule's Presle in the Riviera where he meets Manette Petit a poor girl whom he befriends and lusts for to the chagrin of Manette herself under the romantic allure of Philippe. Late in the canon of cinematographer Jean Bourgoin whose credits include some of Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s Orson Welles' film noir "Confidential Report" 1955 and Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" 1958. 1 photograph 3.25 x 4.25 inches remaining photographs 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Filmsonor unknown
1960ref. 162165N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless lobby card for the German release of the 1960 French film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Maurice Clavel's 1955 novel about a little-known artist's summer relationship with a beautiful poor young woman. 9.25 x 11.5 inches. Very Good with two hole punches at the left and right sides closed with paper tape on the verso. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 162165N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage borderless lobby card for the German release of the 1960 French film. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on Maurice Clavel's 1955 novel about a little-known artist's summer relationship with a beautiful poor young woman. 9.25 x 11.5 inches. Very Good with two hole punches at the left and right sides closed with paper tape on the verso. N.p. unknown books
1960ref. 143236Paris: Filmsonor 1960. Collection of 11 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the set of the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Une fille pour l'été." Featured are several images of the cast and crew on the waterfront basking in the shade director Molinaro in white straw hat and images of starring actress Petit including a striking portrait image of her under an elegant sconce and with Auclair reading scripts. All but one photograph with annotations in the verso in manuscript ink film title names of persons pictured and all but two photographs with numerical annotations on the verso in manuscript pencil. Based on a novel presumed by screenwriter Clavel. Philippe Auclair is an unsung artist with a mistress he does not love. He spends leisurely vacations at Paule's Presle in the Riviera where he meets Manette Petit a poor girl whom he befriends and lusts for to the chagrin of Manette herself under the romantic allure of Philippe. Late in the canon of cinematographer Jean Bourgoin whose credits include some of Jean Renoir's films in the 1930s Orson Welles' film noir "Confidential Report" 1955 and Jacques Tati's "Mon Oncle" 1958. 1 photograph 3.25 x 4.25 inches remaining photographs 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus overall. Filmsonor unknown books
1970ref. 141057N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An ambitious young man heads to Hollywood to make his fortune. There he falls in love with a prostitute and begins hustling in order to get her off the streets. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ellis St. Joseph. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 141057N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An ambitious young man heads to Hollywood to make his fortune. There he falls in love with a prostitute and begins hustling in order to get her off the streets. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ellis St. Joseph. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. N.p. unknown books
1973ref. 139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown
1973ref. 139507Boca Raton FL: Penthouse 1973. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1973 film based on the 1947 novel by Andrew Lytle. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with a manuscript notation in his hand on the verso. Full provenance available. Culp and Eggar romp in a bed that is the middle of the woods for some reason while the haunted house that will exert a corrupting influence on the couple looms in the background. An image that does not appear in the so-bad-its-nearly-avant garde film but one that nevertheless captures its aura of surreal eroticism quite well. Set in the countryside of Southern California shot on location in British Columbia Indian Arm and Vancouver. After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. 13.25 x 9 inches. Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Penthouse unknown books
1968ref. 140637Moore Park Australia: Embassy Pictures 1968. Draft UK script for the 1969 film. With several annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Based on Anne Piper's 1959 novel "Marry at Leisure" about Candida Ferris who goes to live with her relatives after the death of her father. Bored with life she leaves for Paris where she meets a young student and becomes pregnant but keeps the baby a secret from her family. Bored yet again with life she leaves for Italy where she meets an American and is soon pregnant again. As she leaves Italy a woman gives her baby to Candida at the train station. So with two babies and one on the way her life is unraveling quickly and her only confidant is Savage Andrews the caretaker of her late father. Set in London and Paris shot on location there as well as Venice. Pink blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 1968 with credits for screenwriter and author Anne Piper and novelist Desmond Davis. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a pink ribbon. Embassy Pictures unknown
1968ref. 140637Moore Park Australia: Embassy Pictures 1968. Draft UK script for the 1969 film. With several annotations in manuscript ink throughout. Based on Anne Piper's 1959 novel "Marry at Leisure" about Candida Ferris who goes to live with her relatives after the death of her father. Bored with life she leaves for Paris where she meets a young student and becomes pregnant but keeps the baby a secret from her family. Bored yet again with life she leaves for Italy where she meets an American and is soon pregnant again. As she leaves Italy a woman gives her baby to Candida at the train station. So with two babies and one on the way her life is unraveling quickly and her only confidant is Savage Andrews the caretaker of her late father. Set in London and Paris shot on location there as well as Venice. Pink blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 1968 with credits for screenwriter and author Anne Piper and novelist Desmond Davis. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a pink ribbon. Embassy Pictures unknown books
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
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
1978ref. 155782N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph showing Lina Wertmüller directing actors Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini on the set of the 1978 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An American photographer falls in love with a chauvinistic Italian journalist while visiting a small Italian village. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 155782N.p.: N.p. 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph showing Lina Wertmüller directing actors Candice Bergen and Giancarlo Giannini on the set of the 1978 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An American photographer falls in love with a chauvinistic Italian journalist while visiting a small Italian village. Set and shot on location in San Francisco and Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 125081London: The Rank Organization 1958. Vintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama "A Night to Remember" here under its French title "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees." Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible with no added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians compared to the more melodramatic and big-budget take by James Cameron in 1997. Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society that had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk." 34 x 52 inches on archival linen Fine condition. Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51. The Rank Organization unknown
1958ref. 125081London: The Rank Organization 1958. Vintage French theatrical release poster for the seminal 1958 British docudrama "A Night to Remember" here under its French title "Atlantique Latitude 41 Degrees." Probably the most distinctive poster produced for the film. Novelist Ambler and director Baker set out to make a film that depicted the sinking of the Titanic as accurately as possible with no added fictional subplots. In addition to being massively entertaining the film is today held in high regard by "Titanic" historians compared to the more melodramatic and big-budget take by James Cameron in 1997. Director Baker noted in a 1991 interview "The whole purpose of making the film was to show a society that had persuaded itself that you could make a ship which could never to be sunk." 34 x 52 inches on archival linen Fine condition. Criterion Collection 7. McFarlane p. 51. The Rank Organization unknown books
1931ref. 149474N.p.: Films Sonores Tobis 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 French film showing the exterior of the phonograph factory where the film's protagonist Louis begins to find prosperity. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso. Director René Clair's third sound film a lyrical proletarian satire about friendship wealth and the price of success. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 160. Films Sonores Tobis unknown
1931ref. 149474N.p.: Films Sonores Tobis 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 French film showing the exterior of the phonograph factory where the film's protagonist Louis begins to find prosperity. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations to the verso. Director René Clair's third sound film a lyrical proletarian satire about friendship wealth and the price of success. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 160. Films Sonores Tobis unknown books
1966ref. 141007N.p.: N.p. 1966. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Stapled to the title page is a letter dated 3-2-66 declaring a lack of interest in producing the program. The story of a fraternity house at a state college in Southern California where all the brothers come from different racial and class backgrounds and must learn to live together as well as with all the other fraternities and sororities at their college. Set in Southern California. Lacking wrappers. Title page present. Six leaves with last leaf of text numbered five. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper bound with a staple. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 141007N.p.: N.p. 1966. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Stapled to the title page is a letter dated 3-2-66 declaring a lack of interest in producing the program. The story of a fraternity house at a state college in Southern California where all the brothers come from different racial and class backgrounds and must learn to live together as well as with all the other fraternities and sororities at their college. Set in Southern California. Lacking wrappers. Title page present. Six leaves with last leaf of text numbered five. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine lacking wrapper bound with a staple. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 146001Culver City CA: Lorimar 1980. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. A woman dying from a blood disease who needs a bone marrow transplant contacts the daughter she gave up for adoption at birth in the hopes that they might be a match. Set in California. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 920102 dated February 5 1980. Title page present dated February 5 1980 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter John Sayles. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 116. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Lorimar unknown
1979ref. 135438Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Nine vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. A 1979 romantic comedy about a an older man and his young earth-mama musical girlfriend. The role of Marta Heflin was originally written for Sandy Dennis but due to a costar's cat allergies coupled with Dennis' pension for bring cats to script readings the role was recast with Sheila Shea. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1979ref. 135438Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Nine vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1979 film. A 1979 romantic comedy about a an older man and his young earth-mama musical girlfriend. The role of Marta Heflin was originally written for Sandy Dennis but due to a costar's cat allergies coupled with Dennis' pension for bring cats to script readings the role was recast with Sheila Shea. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine condition. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
