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1915ref. 171489Los Angeles: Jesse Lasky 1915. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1915 silent film showing Cleo Ridgely and Marjorie Daw. Based on the 1906 play by James Forbes. A chorus girl's attempts to keep her younger sister away from the depravities of show business fall flat when the sister is given a part in a stage play by a womanizing theatre patron. Currently considered lost. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus moderately toned. Jesse Lasky unknown
2007ref. 164068N.p.: Out of Nowhere Productions 2007. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 2010 film. Manuscript ink annotation of copy number "241" on the title page. Copy belonging to carpenter/estimator Chris Scher. Rob Schneider who directed and co-wrote the screenplay stars as a suicidal middle-aged car salesman who while preparing his third suicide attempt is interrupted by a tribe of Columbian shaman who traveled from South America believing he is The Chosen One. Shot in 2007 the film took three years before it was finally released direct to video in 2010 primarily due to confusion over marketing as it is primarily a dramatic film and was inaccurately marketed as a straightforward comedy. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Shot on location in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles California and Costa Rica. Front wrapper integral with title page dated June 15 2007 noted as Final with credits for screenwriters Rob Schneider and Boon Collins. 106 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout dated variously between June 20 2007 and August 17 2007. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Out of Nowhere Productions unknown
1964ref. 135038Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of 4 black and white stills photographs from the 1964 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1986ref. 130714Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1986. Combined Continuity script for the 1986 film. A young girl in Paleolithic Europe is separated from her tribe and subsequently attacked by a cave lion. When she is taken in by a clan of Neanderthals she must prove herself worthy of being a member of their community. Set in Europe shot on location in Canada. Tall white titled self-wrappers with back wrapper missing noted as Combined Continuity on the front wrapper with credits for director Michael Chapman. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine unbound. Warner Brothers unknown
1972ref. 159939Hollywood: SCA Distributors 1972. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 sexploitation film. Alumni renew old relationships-and start new ones-at a high school reunion held at a hotel. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. SCA Distributors unknown
1945ref. 156305Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1945 film. Printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. A soldier on 48-hour leave spends the day with a woman he meets in Pennsylvania Station gradually falling in love with her. Judy Garland's first dramatic role and her first starring film performance in which she did not sing. 13 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1960ref. 141062N.p.: N.p. 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page four. A young boy must save himself and a young woman from a dangerous cobra. Intended for child actor Sabu with his name throughout. Title page with credit for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Seven leaves with last leaf of text numbered seven. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a staple. N.p. unknown
ref. 160743N.p.: A-A Productions 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film here under the working title "The Hostesses." Copy belonging to actress Kathy Hilton with her annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and throughout. A softcore sexploitation film about a woman who decides to become a cocktail waitress in order to get closer to men and money-in that order. Screenwriter Ed Wood Jr.'s fifth collaboration with director Stephen Apostolof following "Orgy of the Dead" 1965 "The Class Reunion" 1972 "Drop-Out Wife" 1972 and "The Snow Bunnies" 1972. Beige titled wrappers undated noted as production No. 113 with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Edw. D. Wood Jr. 42 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Early xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper partially detached from the binding bound with two gold brads. A-A Productions unknown
1929ref. 150997Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1929. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1929 film showing actress Ruth Taylor posing in a backless gown. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Taylor was best known for her performance as Lorelei Lee in Malcom St. Clair's adaptation of Anita Loos' "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" alongside actors Alice White and Ford Sterling. Taylor also appeared in "Butter Fingers" 1925 "Flirty Four-Flushers" 1926 and "Just Married" 1928. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with a few nicks along the bottom edge. Columbia Pictures unknown
1967ref. 141626Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Vintage studio still photograph of Alec Guinness from the 1967 film. Snipe printed in blue ink on the verso. The film follows a sardonic hotel owner who witnesses the chaos in Haiti under the Papa Doc Duvalier regime. Starring Elizabeth Taylor in a role originally meant for Sophia Loren. Shot on location in Benin and France. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1964ref. 142333Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London shot on location there. Black untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Peter Yeldham and author Douglas Hayes. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. British Lion Film Corporation unknown
1991ref. 155648N.p.: N.p. 1991. Vintage reference photograph of director Alan Parker standing with the members of the band on the set of the beloved 1991 film. Based on the 1987 novel about a young man from Dublin who assembles a soul band composed of a group of working-class music fans. Set and shot on location in Dublin. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 160431N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage oversize borderless color reference photograph from the 1975 French film showing actress Isabelle Huppert lying nude out in the sun. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A middle-aged man on his annual family camping vacation rapes and murders the teenage daughter of his old friends then frames a group of Arab immigrant workers for the crime. 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased at three corners. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 163634Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1980. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1980 film Richard Dreyfuss stars a fading piano prodigy whose last chance is a piano competition against a beautiful newcomer played by Amy Irving. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles and San Francisco. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1962ref. 159186Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the verso and provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1959 play by Jean-Paul Sartre. A dying man invites his family to his home where they discover dark secrets about his past. Set in Germany shot on location in Hamburg Germany. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 153963N.p.: N.p. 1970. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film both attributed to the film's photographer Chris Marker. One photograph shows director Costa-Gavras the other a crew member with a clapboard. Based on the 1968 memoirs of Czechoslovak communist Artur London a defendant in the violent antisemitic show trial against 14 members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1952. Reference photographs taken by Costa-Gavras' friend and colleague Chris Marker who would go on to become an important figure in the French New Wave in his own right directing "A Grin Without a Cat" 1977 and "Sans Soleil" 1983. Shot on location in Nord Alpes-Maritimes and Pas-de-Calais France. 9 x 6.25 inches. About Fine. Criterion Collection 759. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 151976Rome: Mars Film 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli from the 1970 film. Stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on verso. An intricate and incisive examination of the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal." Marcello Clerici Trintignant a young and upper-middle class Italian joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism and his first assignment is to assassinate his former teacher a political dissident now residing in France with his attractive young wife. Under the guise of taking his new bride Gulia on a honeymoon Marcello travels to France to complete his mission. Lauded for its fantastic cinematography and expressionistic style often compared stylistically to early German Expressionist works such as Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" or Fritz Lang's "Metropolis." 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Arrow Academy 709. Schrader's Canon Fodder 14. Grant Italy. Mars Film unknown
1963ref. 142070Italy: Sancro Film 1963. Four vintage oversize borderless reference photographs from the 1963 Italian film. With the stamps of photographer Velio Cioni and two press agencies on the verso. Two of the photographs show crew members putting the finishing touches on a mannequin of Jesus while director Ferreri looks on. A satire of masculinity and chauvinism where a man marries a much younger woman the woman wanting nothing more than to have a child. The mental and physical strain of trying to please her drives the man to a heart attack and death. Nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes where Marina Vlady also won for Best Actress. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus. Sancro Film unknown
1982ref. 141646N.p.: N.p. 1982. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. With 17 pages of information about Polish screenwriter Witold Orzechowski laid in including a background on his film career on the other side of the Iron Curtain and about his affiliation with the Solidarity political party. Orzechowski directed the first Eastern European cinematic adaptation of Joseph Conrad with the television movie "Her Return" 1975. Background information addressed to producer Paul Kohner. An unproduced film adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1911 novel "Under Western Eyes" which many consider to be Conrad's response to Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" whom Conrad detested. The story generally deals with the life of an oft-downtrodden revolutionary told through the story of a language teacher living in Geneva. Set in St. Petersburg Russia and Geneva Switzerland. Red titled wrappers. Title page present noted as treatment with credits for screenwriter Witold Orzechowski and author Joseph Conrad. 19 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 18. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 146885Stockholm: Omega Film 1985. Draft script for the 2005 Swedish film. Text in English. A young man recalls the strange emotionally intense year he spent working as the sous chef in the claustrophobic galley of a ship headed for Cape Town. A very early draft of the script written twenty years before the film's release. Set and shot on location in Belgium Sweden Spain and South Africa. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1985 with credits for director Mats Arehn and screenwriter Rolf Borjlind. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good lightly soiled and toned along the edges side stapled with five staples. Omega Film unknown
ref. 150817The Hague: Allarts 1988. Draft script for the 1988 film. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class French restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit sexuality. Set in the UK. Red titled wrappers with credits for director Peter Greenaway on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1988 with credits for director Peter Greenaway. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 148. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with perfect binding. Allarts unknown
1989ref. 149674N.p.: N.p. 1989. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1989 film one showing director Peter Greenaway and actors Alan Howard the lover and Helen Mirren the wife the other showing Greenaway with actor Richard Bohringer the cook. Each photograph with a printed mimeo label describing it and with identifying numbers 1 and 5 respectively each affixed to the verso. Director Peter Greenaway's most successful and also most controversial film following a gangster's sophisticated wife as she begins a doomed affair with a patron of her husband's high-class restaurant aided by the genteel head cook. The film garnered attention at the time of its release for its stylish but graphic violence decadent cinematography which was as with many films in Greenaway's oeuvre inspired by Flemish Baroque painting and explicit depictions and notions of sexuality. Set in the UK. One photograph 8 x 10 inches one photograph 10 x 8 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 148665Denver CO: Wiseman Film Productions 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1963 film. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen in turn based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light toning to the border. National Film Registry. Wiseman Film Productions unknown
1963ref. 170477N.p.: Cinema V. 1963. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film both showing actor Hampton Clanton. Printed mimeo snipes and date stamps on the versos. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. National Film Registry. Cinema V. unknown
1963ref. 170476N.p.: Cinema V. 1963. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Provenance labels on the versos. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke following "The Connection" 1961. Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema verite and while appearing improvisational were in fact semi-documentaries with carefully scripted dialogue. Clarke aspired to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent in Hollywood "social issue" films. It was the first film to be produced by Frederick Wiseman who would go on to become a legendary documentary filmmaker and was scored by noted jazz composer and pianist Mal Waldron with performances by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. National Film Registry. Cinema V. unknown
