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1970ref. 142128New York: Moerae Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American sailor is sent to Scotland to inspect and perhaps purchase a new fleet of ships for a Greek crew based in America. Set in Scotland. Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Moerae Productions unknown
1970ref. 141473New York: Moerae Productions 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. An American sailor is sent to Scotland to inspect and perhaps purchase a new fleet of ships for a Greek crew based in America. Set in Scotland. Teal titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Moerae Productions unknown
1971ref. 166092N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 French film. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Jean Rollin's third vampire film following "Le viol du vampire" 1968 and "La vampire nue" 1970. 7 x 9.5 inches with a wide right margin. Near Fine. Hinds 76. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 161011Los Angeles: A.I.P. Productions 1988. Draft script for the 1990 film copy belonging to actor Aldo Ray with the manuscript ink annotation of his signature on the title page and copied annotations on one page. A group of outcast US Army soldiers who care more about partying than soldiering are chosen to represent their base for annual war games and pit off against a group of sultry female soldiers and the Red Vipers a vicious group of elite solders with the brass all betting against them including General Makepeace played by Aldo Ray. Shot on location in Corona California. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 1988 with credits for screenwriters Jeff Mandel Michael Bogert and Peter Yuval. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soiling to the first and last leaves bound with three gold brads. A.I.P. Productions unknown
1940ref. 148233Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1940. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1940 film one with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" stamp on the verso. Based on the 1937 play "Parfumerie." Klara Novak Margaret Sullavan is the new employee at the Matuschek and Company store and Alfred Kralik James Stewart their best salesman can't stand each other unaware they're falling in love through the post as anonymous pen pals. Selected for the National Film Registry in 1999. Set in Budapest. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at corners one with two small pieces of paper tape at top pinholes on verso. Rosenbaum 1000. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1965ref. 151593N.p.: Prominent Films 1965. Vintage press kit for the US release of the classic 1965 Czechoslovakian film for use by distributors and the press containing 24 black and white photographs three pressbooks and a poster for the film all housed in a white paper envelope with the film's logo on the recto. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. One of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. Poster photographs and pressbooks Near Fine. Criterion Collection 130. Prominent Films unknown
1965ref. 138323Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street" with four image from the film and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the Czech language. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film with an additional nomination for Ida Kraminska for Best Actress. A Slovak man is given a sewing notions shop owned by an elderly Jewish woman as part of the government's Aryanization program. He doesn't have the heart to tell her and pretends to be her new employee. The two form a bond which is tested when the authorities begin rounding up the town's Jewish population. 6.5 x 4.5 inches accordion folded opens to 37.5 x 4.5 inches. Fine. Criterion Collection 130. Filmove studio Barrandov unknown
1938ref. 140293Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star Margaret Sullavan to pretend they're dating in order to impress his other soldier friends. Meanwhile Sullivan's manager Walter Pidgeon has always been in love with her and objects to the pair's closeness even as they decide to get married before Stewart is shipped out to France. Stewart and Sullivan pull off surprisingly believable roles for a plot of such sickly sweetness in this their second on-screen pairing. The third film based on Burnet's "Saturday Evening Post" story the first two being the 1919 George Melford silent film "Pettigrew's Girl" and Richard Wallace's part-talkie "The Shopworn Angel" 1928 starring Gary Cooper. Set in New York. Goldenrod titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2268 and production No. 25077 dated 3/16/38 with credits for producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz and screenwriter Waldo Salt. Distribution receipt laid into the script. Title page integral with the first page of the text as issued. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1955ref. 164729Universal City: Universal Pictures 1955. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1955 film showing actors June Allyson and José Ferrer. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Joseph Kramm about a successful stage director who is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering vengeful wife. Ferrer reprised his role from the stage production. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s. Shot on location in New York City around Times Square and in Bellevue Hospital. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Universal Pictures unknown
1978ref. 140768Los Angeles: H. N. Swanson 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With three pages of synopsis laid-in. Peter Conrad is a successful American defense attorney and he is on a tour of Europe revisiting places he had seen during World War II places where his friends died. He ends up in Sicily where he hopes to reconnect with a young woman he met during the war. He finds her but she has been promised to another and amidst a backdrop of Mafia activity he vows to win her over and prove his true Sicilian heritage. Set in Sicily. Black titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter David Chantler. Title page present with credits for screenwriter David T. Chantler. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. H. N. Swanson unknown
1969ref. 146156N.p.: Les Productions Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Henri Verneuil and Lino Ventura on the set of the 1969 film. French "Le Clan Des Siciliens" stamp and crop annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commission. With a film score by the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Shot on location in Rome Italy and Paris. 9.25 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus transparent manuscript marker to corners light creasing and faint scratches to the recto from annotations on the verso. Les Productions Fox Europa unknown
1969ref. 144739Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean Gabin and Alain Delon from the 1969 neo-noir film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commission. With a film score by the great Italian composer Ennio Morricone. Shot on location in Rome Italy and Paris. 12 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Grant Worldwide. Fox Europa unknown
1969ref. 149633Paris: Fox Europa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 French film showing director Henri Verneuil actor Alain Delon and other members of the cast and crew on a constructed set used for the airplane flight sequence in the film. With two provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commissioner. Set and shot on location in Rome New York and Paris. 9 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased throughout. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Fox Europa unknown
1964ref. 148813New York: Janus Films 1964. Collection of thirteen vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Three with mimeo snipe and "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on the verso. The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of faith and redemption preceded by "Through A Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light"1963. A stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by subtle performances from Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. Ester Thulin a translator and intellectual suffering from a terminal disease is traveling home with her younger resentful sister Anna Linblom and Anna's son Johan Jorgen Lindstrom when they stop in the town of Timoka in a fictional European county on the brink of war with an unknown dialect. After they check into a nearly empty hotel with the exception of a group of Spanish dwarves in a traveling show Anna leaves and has an affair with a waiter as Johan wanders the hallways. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day. 8 x 10 inches. Three with faint even fading one with pinholes to corners one with a small closed tear in top margin else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Janus Films unknown
1963ref. 149582London: Gala Film Distributors 1963. Eight vintage series contact print photographs from the 1963 film. Three images per print amounting to 24 complete images. Two estranged sisters Ester and Anna and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to an unnamed Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka. The third in a series of thematically related films by Bergman following "Through a Glass Darkly" 1961 and "Winter Light" 1963. Set and shot on location in Dalarnas Ian Sweden. 3.75 x 8.75 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 211. Ebert III. Gala Film Distributors unknown
1949ref. 163331N.p.: N.p. 1949. Vintage reference photograph from the 1949 film showing director Jean-Pierre Melville and a camera crew capturing a scene with Nicole Stéphane and Jean-Marie Robain. Provenance stamp and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Based on the 1949 novel by Jean Bruller writing as Vercors. In occupied France a young woman and her uncle are forced to give shelter to a German lieutenant and silently agree to endure the man's presence by refusing to acknowledge him for the duration of his stay. Melville's feature film debut. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a light crease at the bottom left corner reinforced with paper tape on the verso. Criterion Collection 755. Grant France. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 141905N.p.: N.p. 1985. Draft script for an unproduced film. A Black man and his son struggle to survive in Apartheid-era South Africa where they find themselves constantly at odds with white society whether at the hands of questioning police the disrespect Mogane faces when he is promoted to foreman at his job and his son struggling to earn respect and money for hard work out on the streets. Set in South Africa. White titled self wrappers dated August 19 1985. Title page present dated August 19 1985 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Adam Rodman. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Xerographic duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 151136London: J. Arthur Rank 1960. Shooting script for the 1961 film. Laid in with the script is a 36-leaf gathering of revision pages on pink stock bound with a single staple on the top left corner dated 5.4.60. Based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop. A Catholic priest is sent to establish a parish in a rural Mexican town under the control of a ruthless but educated bandit. Set in Mexico shot on location in Spain. Blue titled wrappers noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated 15-3-60. Title page present noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT dated 18th March 1960 with credits for screenwriter Nigel Balchin. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with a silver prong. J. Arthur Rank unknown
1965ref. 151469Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Specially bound copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore bound in full red leather with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds on the verso of the first leaf in manuscript ink is "Juanita I Love you! You are the greatest! My deepest Thanks Love Debbie" the second on a the recto of a photograph of Reynolds and Moore from the film in manuscript marker and making reference to Reynold's character is "What feeling! What a face! What an actress! What a great Lady! Your Fan Sister Ann." A fanciful biography on the life of Belgian nun Jeanine Deckers who recorded the number one hit pop song "Dominique" in 1963. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in and shot on location in Gent Belgium. Red full leather binding with gilt titles and with actor Juanita Moore's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. Title page integral with first page dated 9-2-65. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered "130-135." Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink blue green and gray revision pages throughout dated variously between 11-4-65 and 11-24-65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1969ref. 160971N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of eleven vintage borderless color reference photographs from the 1969 Italian sexploitation film. Faced with a broken marriage a woman decides to try to rekindle her incestuous relationship with her younger sister who is herself happily married to a wealthy older man. 9.25 x 7 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1969ref. 146246N.p.: N.p. 1969. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink notation to page 21. Loosely based on the 1946 novel. A bleak retelling of the somewhat apocryphal failed 1212 "Children's Crusade"-a Christian campaign to regain Jerusalem from the Muslims led by a young boy who claimed to possess prophetic powers followed by thousands of children. In screenwriter Albert Band's version following Humphrey Slater's novel the tragedy plays out through the plight of three young children who take to the streets to hide from zealous Christian press gangs who seek to train them for the crusade sleeping in alleys and surviving on cats and stolen bread. In the mid- and late 1960s Band worked primarily in Italy producing several Euro Westerns and writing screenplays for "Massacro al Grande Canyon" 1964; "Gli uomini dal passo pesante" 1965 which he also directed; "I crudeli" 1967; and "Un minuto per pregare un instante per morire" 1968. Orange titled wrappers with a printer's stamp on the verso of the front wrapper reading "teena mayers s.r.l. / via marche 84 / 00187 roma / tel. 485785 - 482470." Title page present noted as REVISED dated November 1969 with credits for screenwriter Albert Band and novelist Humphrey Slate. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1987ref. 162929N.p.: N.p. 1987. Draft script for an unproduced television episode from the 1987-1988 television series. This one season television series follows a controversial sportswriter constantly on the brink of being fired from the newspaper he works for. In this episode the titular character must get a physical done and is scared when they find something out of the ordinary. Set in the American Southwest. White untitled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper with adhesive label for the Rosen/Turtle Group Inc. talent agency at bottom right corner of front wrapper and with credits for screenwriter Steve Cuden. Title page integral with front wrapper. 32 leaves with last page of text numbered 32. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 130302N.p.: N.p. 1981. First Draft script for an unproduced film. A witch has put a curse on a princess that will kill her on her 21st birthday but her court magician Merlin has invented a machine that sends her forward in time to 1981 Los Angeles. The witch and Merlin have also followed her and all three are lost and confused in California and must return to their own time after first adapting to the modern day. Set in England 1371 and Los Angeles 1981. Metallic silver titled wrappers. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credit for screenwriter Zindel. 116 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine with the upper right corner cut away internally bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1975ref. 161331Burbank CA: NBC 1975. Final Draft script for the twelfth episode of the thirteen episode 1975 comedy and variety show television series SIGNED on the front wrapper "Tom & Dick" by Tom and Dick Smothers with an inscription on the top left partially lost due to dampstaining "illegible Wishes from the Smothers Brothers." Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member David Carroll with manuscript marker and pencil annotations of his name or partial name "David C." on the top of the title page and two other pages with manuscript ink and marker annotations on 32 pages marking music cues. NBC's tamer and largely unsuccessful revival of CBS's 1967-1969 variety series "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" which aired for thirteen episodes January 13 through May 19 1975. The episode on offer here was the penultimate episode which was taped on March 28 1975 and aired on May 12 1975 featuring guests Florence Henderson and David Gates. Of note the script is labeled as "Production #011 / Air Sequence #11" with a manuscript marker annotation of "12" over the air date of "May 5 1975." The May 5 episode of the series featured guests Kris Kristofferson Rita Coolidge and Arlo Guthrie and the episode found here featuring Henderson and Gates was aired as the twelfth episode on May 12 1975. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 26 1975 noted as FINAL DRAFT. 90 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and green revision pages throughout undated. Pages Very Good with dampstaining throughout and silverfish damage to the extremities of the first three leaves. NBC unknown
1961ref. 143580Beverly Hills CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake" with the release title in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK the film was a US co-production and this is a US draft of the script noting the US production company Playstar Productions on the front wrapper. A doctor injects his pregnant wife with snake venom causing her to give birth to a snake woman who grows up to terrorize the local town. Set in Victorian England. Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Orville H. Hampton. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph Pages Fine. Front wrapper detached. Now encapsulated in mylar else Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. United Artists / Caralan Productions unknown
