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1981ref. 127382Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1981. Vintage one sheet poster for US release of the French-Canadian film. An aging smalltime mobster and his aspiring croupier neighbor become entangled with the big leagues of the mob when the neighbor's estranged husband shows up with a large cache of stolen cocaine. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Atlantic City New Jersey. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing. National Film Registry. Ebert III. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1970ref. 141267N.p.: Kings Road Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Irving A. Greenfield about early man and his struggles. Named for the one of the many gods worshipped by the people living in the Mesopotamian Valley. Set in the Mesopotamian Valley. Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Paul Young and author Irving A. Greenfield. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Kings Road Productions unknown
1966ref. 135039Beverly Hills CA: Oakmont Productions / United Artists 1966. Draft script for the UK film. Copy belonging to Lloyd Bridges presumed with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper verso. Based on a story by John Champion. Major Wilson Bridges is readying his troops for the journey across the English channel to invade Normandy with memories of disastrous previous missions haunting him. Captain Franklin Keir a British officer opposes the plan and has a personal vendetta against Wilson. The two are brought together when Franklin is slated to command the mine sweepers that transport Wilson's troops. Set in France shot on location in London. Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 3 dated November 29 1966. Title page present dated November 29 1966 with credits for screenwriter Hoffman and story writer Champion. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Davenport p. 17. Oakmont Productions / United Artists unknown
1956ref. 153068Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of director Robert Aldrich on the set of the 1956 film one of only a handful of war films made in the noir style during the classic era. One of Aldrich's finest efforts a noirish take on the evils of war with a interesting focus on nepotism. Unpopular on release due to a grim ending and a cynical tone much the opposite of a flag-waving World War II film. Set in Belgium. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Selby US. United Artists unknown
1970ref. 161504N.p.: Audubon Films 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1969 Italian film here under the US release title "The Artful Penetration of Barbara." One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A married British woman explores the English psychedelic youth scene and is attracted to an African American man. Featuring music by Freedom a group formed by Bobby Harrison and Ray Royer formerly of Procol Harum. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a few faint creases. Audubon Films unknown
1966ref. 148322N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage French lobby card from the 1966 film. Revered as one of the masterpieces of cinema Robert Bresson follows a donkey Balthazar through his life as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. 11.75 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and creasing to corners. Criterion Collection 297. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert II. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 145916N.p.: Alfa Film 1961. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 film including three photographs showing Louis Armstrong performing and one taken on the set showing Armstrong with a fan. A little-known German comedy featuring Armstrong and His All Stars performing four songs. Set and shot on location in West Germany. Two photographs 6.75 x 5 inches and two photographs 5 x 6.75 inches. Near Fine. Alfa Film unknown
1975ref. 83473New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1975. First Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. John Swope Photographs Nigel Cooke Photographs. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. xi 1 176 2 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Ruth Prawer Jahbvala on the title page. DJ is in a plastic sleeve and has wear tears soiling and chips. Includes Acknowledgments Foreword Glossary and Photo Credits. Chapters cover From Warrior to Sybarite: A Portrait Gallery 1870-1900; Dazzling Rulers and their Dazzled Guests: The 1920' and 1930's; Deposed and Dispossessed; The Land of Death; Palaces as Sets: Alwar and Bikaner; Autobiography of a Princess; and Sets for a film to Come. Also includes Glossary; and Photo Credits. James Francis Ivory born June 7 1928 is an American film director producer and screenwriter. For many years he worked extensively with Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant his domestic as well as professional partner and with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. All three were principals in Merchant Ivory Productions whose films have won seven Academy Awards; Ivory himself has been nominated for four Oscars winning one. Ivory's directorial work includes A Room with a View 1985 Maurice 1987 Howards End 1992 and The Remains of the Day 1993. For his work on Call Me by Your Name 2017 which he wrote and produced Ivory won awards for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy Awards British Academy of Film and Television Arts Writers Guild of America the Critics' Choice Awards and the Scripter Awards among others. Upon winning the Oscar and BAFTA at the age of 89 Ivory became the oldest-ever winner in any category for both awards. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala CBE 7 May 1927 - 3 April 2013 was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions made up of director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. After meeting Cyrus Jhabvala in England she married him and moved to India in 1951; Jhabvala was an Indian-Parsi architect. The couple lived in New Delhi and had three daughters. Jhabvala began then to elaborate her experiences in India and wrote novels and tales on Indian subjects. She wrote a dozen novels 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was made a CBE in 1998 and granted a joint fellowship by BAFTA in 2002 with Ivory and Merchant. She is the only person to have won both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. John Swope August 23 1908 - May 11 1979 was a photographer for Life and a commercial pilot who trained United States Army Air Force pilots during World War II. His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936. Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly he co-founded Southwest Airways no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War. He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death on May 11 1979. This book is a film maker's response in print and not on celluloid to what is called Royal India--land of Maharajas. It contains the overflow from the author's films in which Royal India appears. It is a collection of photographs anecdotes and other items which the author believes are worth saving. When India became independent in 1947 the princeses were guaranteed their titles properties and certain privileges. But more and more their special status came to be seen as an anachronism and it has now been legally abolished. For the princes it was like the French Revolution except that none of them went to the guillotine; they merely became private citizens. Many of these former rulers are still doing very well. Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
ref. 049457Istanbul. Soft cover. Very Good. Original autograph letter signed as 'Sadi' sent to Vasfi Riza Zobu. 1 p. In Ottoman script. Letterhead 'Ferah: Sinema-varyete-tiyaro'. Dated 31-12-1929 Istanbul. It starts as 'Muhterem Vasfi Riza bey'. Used black ink with fountain pen. It's a letter of appeal. Vasfi Riza Zobu was born on December 5 1902 in Constantinople Ottoman Empire. He was an actor known for Karim beni aldatirsa 1933 Ankara postasi 1928 and Milyon avcilari 1934. He died on November 23 1992 in Istanbul Turkey. Aktör Sadi started his art career as a theater actor. He appeared on the stage at school along with Muvahhit actor husband of paintress Bedia Muvahhit writer Refik Halit Karay and Refi 'Cevat Ulunay. After the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy he started the professional theater company which was founded by Resat Ridvanand the playwright Ibnürrefik Ahmet Nuri Sekizinci. Bican Efendi series in which he played the title role after the WW 1 was accepted from the first comedy of Turkish cinema history. paperback
1971ref. 141228N.p.: N.p. 1971. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. Selected vignettes on the history of luxury cars and automobile racing. One vignette of note involves the creator of the Bugatti. Clear untitled front wrapper and red rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1971 with credit for screenwriter Robert J. Koster. 22 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 20. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1978ref. 146943Berlin: Personafilm 1978. Post-production script for the 1978 film. Incomplete as issued. Text in English. A troubled pianist travels to Norway to visit her estranged neglected daughter. Actor Ingrid Bergman's final film role and director Ingmar Bergman's final film for theatrical distribution. Set in Sweden and Norway shot on location in Norway. White lacking wrappers and a title page with material from each reel of film bound separately. Approximately 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 6-5. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good. Personafilm unknown
1979ref. 151152Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder containing eight black and white photographs housed in a brown paper envelope and ten gatherings of promotional reading material. A defecting Russian general collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making the film a final effort for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1977ref. 146208N.p.: N.p. 1977. Fourth Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single manuscript ink notation on the front wrapper's right top corner. Based on the 1977 novel by Colin Forbes about a defecting Russian general who collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died of unrelated heart attacks within months of the film's release making "Avalanche Express" a final film for both. Set and shot on location in Germany England Ireland Italy and the US. Tan titled wrappers noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper dated December 30 1977 with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. Title page present dated December 30 1977 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with tearing on the front wrapper binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 140601N.p.: Aaron Spelling Productions 1979. First Draft script for Episode 8 from the sole season of the 1980 television series. Two former race car drivers join the LAPD as part of the B.A.D. C.A.T. squad Burglary Auto Detail Commercial Auto Thefts. The men often end up running the burglars off the road rather than taking them in for questioning a method quietly encouraged by their superior Captain Nathan. Michelle Pfeiffer costarred as Samantha "Sunshine" Jensen another B.A.D. Cat. Orange titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper dated 12/20/79 with credits for Aaron Spelling Productions. Title page present dated 12/20/79 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriters Larry Alexander and Richard Carr executive producers Aaron Spelling and Douglas S. Cramer supervising producer E. Duke Vincent and producer Everett Chambers. 60 leaves mechanical duplication with last page of text numbered 56. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. Aaron Spelling Productions unknown
1948ref. 139693Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1948. Three vintage vintage black-and-white double weight matte finish studio still reference photographs from the 1948 film. From the collection of actor Van Heflin who played Thomas Brett in the film in his personal tabbed file folder. Numerical rubber stamps on the versos. Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton" because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Stanwyck is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom Heflin who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1947ref. 130829Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1947. Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Actor Van Heflin. Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton" because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly Stanwyck is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom Heflin who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. Nominated for an Academy Award. Lacks front studio wrapper and title page rear wrapper is gray. 131 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 9-10-47 and 9-30-47. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1979ref. 166713Universal City: Universal Studios 1979. Two Draft scripts for the third episode of the first season both copies belonging to actress Christina Cummings who played the character Nancy Duvall. The episode aired on NBC on May 10 1979. Laid in is a gathering of 20 green revision pages dated 2/15/79 four xerographically duplicated revision pages dated 2/17/79 and an eight-page xerographically duplicated shooting schedule. The first of the two Draft scripts printed on pink leaves with blue revision pages has Cummings' name written on the top of the title page and manuscript marker annotations on six dog-eared pages including her name adjacent to her character's circled name on the cast page here as "Kathy Duvall." The second of the Draft scripts is printed on yellow leaves with manuscript marker and ink annotations on six dog-eared pages with her character's name here changed to "Nancy Duvall." Produced at the height of the CB radio and trucking craze of the late 1970's "B.J. and the Bear" was created by Glean A. Larson and Christopher Crow and starred Greg Evigan as Billie Joe "B.J." McKay a freelance trucker who travels the highways of the US with his pet chimpanzee Bear. The series premiered on October 4 1978 and aired for three seasons and 46 episodes ending on May 9 1981. In this episode B.J. and the Bear drive two coffins from Transylvania to Los Angeles from San Francisco as a publicity stunt for a movie during a dangerously stormy night and encounter a strange caretaker played by John Carradine. Featuring Danny Glover in his television debut. Pink Draft script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 5 1979 with credits for screenwriter Michael Sloan. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 2/8/79. Pages Very Good plus with the title page detached bound with two gold brads. Yellow Draft script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 5 1978 with credits for screenwriter Michael Sloan. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 66. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good bound with two gold brads. Universal Studios unknown
1971ref. 162505N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing a nude JoAnna Cameron. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. A young television producer has an affair with his man-eating boss and her teenage daughter. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 158265Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 film showing Elia Kazan astride a rocking horse directing actor Eli Wallach. Warner Brothers stamp on the verso crediting photographer Floyd McCarty. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. Set in the fictional county of Tiger Tail Mississippi and shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear along the left edge. Warner Brothers unknown
1956ref. 149458N.p.: Newtown Productions 1956. Vintage reference photograph of actress Carroll Baker on the set of the 1956 film. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. Set in the fictional Tiger Tail County Mississippi shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall. Newtown Productions unknown
1956ref. 171014Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of Marilyn Monroe dressed as an "usherette" and a group of photographers at the 1956 film premiere held at the Victoria Theater in New York in benefit of the Actors Studio. Monroe was a longtime supporter of the Actors Studio. She and her then-husband Arthur Williams were both in attendance at the premiere. Based on Tennessee Williams' 1946 one-act plays "27 Wagons Full of Cotton" and "The Unsatisfactory Supper." A spoiled virginal teenage girl is caught between the unfulfilled passions of her middle-aged husband and his amorous business rival a Sicilian with a monopoly on local cotton plantations. Set in the fictional county of Tiger Tail Mississippi and shot on location in Benoit Mississippi and Stockton California. 10 x 8 inches. Nick at the bottom edge else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1980ref. 166246Shepperton: CWJ Associates / CCTV 1980. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Not to be confused with the 1969 British film directed by Alastair Reid and starring Diana Dors. A wealthy Jewish doctor and his wife who cannot have children decide to pretend that the wife is pregnant while secretly hiring a surrogate but bump up against trouble when they realize the child will not be born Jewish. Gray tall wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Barbara Jago noted as First Draft undated. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. CWJ Associates / CCTV unknown
1961ref. 150030Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Tuesday Weld from the 1961 film. "BACHELOR FLAT Fox" printed near the top edge of the verso. Loosely based on the 1959 play "Libby" by screenwriter Budd Grossman and a reworking of director Frank Tashlin's earlier romantic comedy "Susan Slept Here" 1954 starring Dick Powell and Debbie Reynolds. Professor Bruce Patterson Terry-Thomas is the apple of all the girls eyes on campus. When he decides to stay at his out-of-town fiance's beach house to avoid the co-eds Libby Weld Helen's daughter he knew nothing of arrives and all matter of shenanigans ensue. Shot on location in Malibu California. 7 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus with some faint creasing. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1974ref. 137795Rome: Ultra Film S. p. A. 1974. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1973 Italian film" Baciamo le mani" here under the English title "The Family." Released internationally as "I Kiss the Hand" "Family Killer" and "Kiss My Hand" and re-released in the US as "Sin City Confidential." Brief annotations in manuscript ink on the first page noting the role of Luca played by Spiros Focas and on a few other pages. Rubber-stamped on the title page as an Ultra Film production however Aquila Cinematografica would receive final credit. Based on Schiraldi's 1972 titular novel. Stefano Ferrante Joshua Sinclair the son of a Mafia boss Kennedy is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone Saxon because he refused to sell a piece of land. Eventually Ardizzone becomes the new Don and the prior is soon killed by some indifferent construction workers. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Schiraldo and translator Denis Hall. 208 leaves with last page of text numbered 207. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Ultra Film S. p. A. unknown
1950ref. 159601Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film noir. At the end of World War II a veteran wakes up from an important surgery to discover his friend is missing-and suspected of murder. He follows a trail of clues to find his friend and more importantly find out if the man is guilty. Set in California shot on location in Los Angeles and Glendale California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
