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1968ref. 162572N.p.: GGP 1968. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1965 Italian/French/Spanish film here under the alternate release title "Weekend Wives." With provenance stamps on the versos of each. Enrico Maria Salerno stars as Enrico Marletti who spends a chaotic and terribly unpleasant weekend with his wife at the seaside and only wishes to return to quiet of his home in Rome. Shot on location in Marche Emilia-Romagna and Rome. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with a chip at the bottom left corner see image. GGP unknown
1986ref. 163842N.p.: N.p. 1986. Archive of three scripts for the 1987 prison film including two very early internally duplicated development scripts dated April 14 1980 and July 21 1980 and a Draft script dated July 16 1986. A suicidal inmate at San Quentin State Prison attends a production of "Waiting for Godot" and regains both his inspiration and his will to live ultimately organizing his own successful acting troupe in the prison. Shot on location in Wilmington Lillington and Durham North Carolina. Script dated April 14 1980: Yellow wrappers with title noted in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and a label with credits for director and screenwriter John Hancock and actor Robert De Niro although the latter did not appear in the film. Title page present dated April 14 1980 with credits for Hancock and screenwriter Dorothy Tristan. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Script dated July 21 1980: Blue front wrapper with a die-cut title window lacking rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 21 1980 with credits for Hancock and Tristan. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Script dated July 16 1986: Lacking front wrapper with brown rear wrapper. Title page present dated July 16 1986 with credits for Hancock and Tristan. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 158770N.p.: Cinépix Film Properties 1972. Collection including four vintage studio still photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film. Based on the play written by screenwriter and director William Fruet. A young girl is raped by her brother's friend and discovers she is pregnant shortly thereafter. Her parents quickly attempt to marry her off to an older man. Shot on location in Toronto Ontario. Four photographs 10 x 8 inches one photograph 9.75 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Cinépix Film Properties unknown
1972ref. 158776N.p.: Cinépix Film Properties 1972. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs and three vintage reference photographs from the 1972 film. Based on the play written by screenwriter and director William Fruet. A young girl is raped by her brother's friend and discovers she is pregnant shortly thereafter. Her parents quickly attempt to marry her off to an older man. Shot on location in Toronto Ontario. Eight photographs 10 x 8 inches two photographs 8 x 10 inches three photographs 10 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. Cinépix Film Properties unknown
1962ref. 164225N.p.: Contempora Productions 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 Cold War documentary film. Rare in this format. A feature length anti-Communist documentary comprised of still photographs and newsreel footage tracing the history of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx to the construction of the Berlin wall. The title was taken from the phrase famously used by Nikita Khruschchev while addressing Western ambassadors in 1956.which some modern translators have suggested was misinterpreted. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light creasing faint soiling a small chip to the bottom right corner and a seven inch closed tear to the center top repaired with cello-tape on the verso. Contempora Productions unknown
1949ref. 159895Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1949. Vintage reference photograph of director John Huston talking with actors Jennifer Jones and Walter Huston on the set of the 1949 film. Printed mimeo snipe provenance label and date stamp on the verso. Loosely based on Robert Sylvester's 1948 novel "China Valdez" about a group of Cuban revolutionaries as they attempt to overthrow Gerardo Machado's government. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased and worn at the corners. Columbia Pictures unknown
1986ref. 162587Rome and Los Angeles: Scalera Studios / Angelika Films 1986. Three vintage postcard photographs from the 1942 Italian film and four vintage studio still photographs from the 1986 restoration and re-release of the film. Of particular note among the studio still photographs is an image of writer Ayn Rand taken by Leonard McCombe capturing Rand waiting to testify on communism in Hollywood to the House Un-American Affairs Committee on October 20 1947. "We the Living" was Rand's first published statement against communism and its faithful adaptation by director Goffredo Alessandrini released as two separate films caused a predictable stir all over Europe. The initial release never left the continent and was shuttered in a vault for over 25 years. It was then rescued by Rand herself in the late 1960s released in a new restoration and made its US premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in 1986. Studio still photographs: 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Postcard photographs: 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Near Fine. All materials housed together in a white glassine sleeve. Scalera Studios / Angelika Films unknown
1938ref. 163880N.p.: N.p. 1938. James Hilton's typescript draft screenplay for the 1939 film an adaptation of his own 1937 novel the only such adaptation he ever completed. With the author's profuse manuscript ink annotations as well as many pages executed entirely in manuscript ink throughout. Included is a privately commissioned essay by Hilton scholar Kurt Kausler detailing both the history of Hilton's work on the film an analysis and a breakdown of the manuscript. Almost certainly Hilton's first corrected manuscript screenplay for the film. After Jack Warner raised concerns about the script being too long screenwriter Milton Krims was employed to clean up and shorten it-though in the end Hilton received sole credit as screenwriter. A man hires an Austrian governess and both are suspected of murder when his wife is discovered to be dead. 123 leaves a gathering demonstrating the author's method his attention to detail and his extreme frugality with the use of paper the last most likely due to wartime shortages. The script consists of a ribbon copy typescript leaves on both onionskin and paper stock with manuscript emendations on virtually every page in many cases both recto and verso with some leaves executed on the versos of unrelated previous work by Hilton b leaves consisting entirely of text executed in manuscript ink c hand-cut partial leaves and d a handful of later Xerographically duplicated facsimiles of Hilton's original annotated typescript leaves. Included is a very detailed analysis of the manuscript as well as the events surrounding its creation along with a detailed breakdown of the manuscript elements. Hilton's manuscript leaves Very Good to Fine quite supple and well preserved. Housed in a modern white three-ring binder. Leaves individually held in modern mylar page protectors. N.p. unknown
1968ref. 162568Hollywood: Great Empire Films 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. With a provenance stamp on the verso. Rare. Obscure sexploitation film from director and screenwriter Jean Van Hearn with the tag line "The Generation Gap that Exploded into a Love-In!" 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and faint creasing. Great Empire Films unknown
1987ref. 149949Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1987. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotations throughout most editorial in nature. Loosely based on Clifford D. Simak's 1963 novel which follows a Civil War veteran who is chosen by an alien to monitor an intergalactic way station in exchange for immortality. Set in Pennsylvania. Lavender titled wrappers. Title page present dated July 31 1987 noted as FIRST DRAFT REVISION with credits for director Joe Dante screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin and novelist Clifford D. Simak. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1939ref. 156293Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1939 film. One photograph with a mimeo snipe on the verso and one with a provenance stamp on the verso. The only feature film written by Langston Hughes in collaboration with African American actor Clarence Muse who also appeared in the film in the role of Uncle Caton. While Hughes and Muse intended to create a story about antebellum Louisiana with a more accurate portrayal of African Americans' role during the period studio interference inevitably compromised their initial vision. Set in Louisiana shot on location in Calabasas and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1945ref. 156296N.p.: Screencraft 1945. Four vintage studio still photographs from a circa 1945 re-release of the 1939 film. Two photographs with National Screen Service stamps on the verso. The only feature film written by Langston Hughes in collaboration with African American actor Clarence Muse who also appeared in the film in the role of Uncle Caton. While Hughes and Muse intended to create a story about antebellum Louisiana with a more accurate portrayal of African Americans' role during the period studio interference inevitably compromised their initial vision. Set in Louisiana shot on location in Calabasas and Santa Monica California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Screencraft unknown
1939ref. 156299Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Vintage lobby card from the 1939 film. Provenance stamp on the verso along with the stamp of Independent Poster Exchange. The only feature film written by Langston Hughes in collaboration with African American actor Clarence Muse who also appeared in the film in the role of Uncle Caton. While Hughes and Muse intended to create a story about antebellum Louisiana with a more accurate portrayal of African Americans' role during the period studio interference inevitably compromised their initial vision. Set in Louisiana shot on location in Calabasas and Santa Monica California. 14 x 11 inches. Lightly worn at the corners else about Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1959ref. 131673Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Collection of 12 vintage color British front-of-house cards from the 1959 film. Based on characters and concepts from the 1885 novel "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard and written for the screen by novelist James Clavell. Released as the "sequel" to the 1950 MGM film "King Solomon's Mines." Harry Quartermain George Montgomery is the son of Allan Quartermain who first set out on the quest for the source of Solomon's wealth and he is determined to succeed where his father failed. He goes to Africa with his good friend Rick Cobb David Farrar and as they continue on their journey Erica Neuler Taina Elg joins them. She is the daughter of a missionary who has been killed by a local tribe. Harry cannot hide his antagonism toward Erica. She is German and Harry's mother was killed at sea by Germans in World War I. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1967ref. 134381Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film written by Marvin H. Albert based on the 1960 Geoffrey Household novel about an ex-military man with a dark past that comes back to haunt him. "Frances Richardson" in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper but this person's role in the film is undetermined. An interesting script with several "storyboard" pages throughout detailing scenery. A story set in Middleburg Virginia circa 1869 just after the defeat of the Confederate Army and nearing the end of the Civil War. Blue studio wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper copy No. 120 dated January 19 1967. Title page present dated January 19 1967 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Albert and novelist Household. 148 leaves mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock with 5 storyboard leaves on white stock. Toning to the wrapper and storyboard leaves and a few light creases to the wrapper else pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1943ref. 171691N.p.: N.p. 1943. Two vintage working advertising proofs for the 1943 film both with copied layout annotations on the rectos. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1941 play. A German-born engineer and his family escape to the US after engaging in anti-Fascist activities in Europe. The screen rights for this World War II drama were attained by Jack L. Warner who saw its potential as a propaganda film. After a difficult production the film was released to positive reviews with Paul Lukas receiving the Academy Award for Best Actor. 9.75 x 22.25 inches and 7.5 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus with three horizontal creases to the larger proof and two small pieces of cello tape to the top corners of the smaller proof. N.p. unknown
1943ref. 140944Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1943. Collection of twelve vintage still photographs from the 1943 film. Two of these are linen-backed keybook photographs both test shots of Bette Davis. One is a third test shot single weight of Davis with some wax pencil annotations on the recto and a snipe on the verso. The remaining nine photographs are studio stills. Based on Lillian Hellman's 1941 play of the same name. A German-born Engineer and his family escape to the US after engaging in anti-Fascist activities in Europe. The screen rights for this World War II drama were attained by Jack L. Warner who saw its potential as a propaganda film. After a difficult production the film was released to positive reviews and received an Academy Award for Best Actor. 8 x 10 inches. Condition Very Good to Very Good plus. Some cello tape to the recto of some of the studio stills and some fading occasional pin holes to a few of same. Warner Brothers unknown
1980ref. 146822N.p.: N.p. 1980. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Included with the script are several copies of screenwriter Nikolas Janis' resume and a list dated 3/5/1980 in manuscript ink annotation noting film producers where Janis ostensibly dropped off his screenplays housed in a brown folder. A British teenage girl who fears ending up in a youth rehabilitation community joins a gang of criminal boys where she soon develops a polyamorous relationship with many of its members. Set in England. Generic report folder with plastic front wrapper teal card stock rear wrapper. Title page present dated 1980 with credits for screenwriters Damien Enright and Nikolas Janis. 33 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1960ref. 160049N.p.: Films Rive Gauche 1960. Six vintage press photographs for the 1960 film. Housed in a brown paper envelope presumably as issued. Envelope with manuscript ink annotation. Loosely based on the 1950 novel "Tomboy" by Hal Ellson. A teenage girl tomboy is the leader of a gang of other young people. The crimes they commit become more serious leading her and two other members to be ostracized and on the run. Set in the Paris suburbs. 7.25 x 5 inches. Good with foxing at the right and left side of the photographs and some wear to the finish. Films Rive Gauche unknown
1960ref. 143859N.p.: N.p. 1960. Collection of 30 vintage press photographs and contact sheets from promotional events for the 1960 French-Italian film here under the original French title "Terrain vague." All photographs housed in a large brown folder with the French title in manuscript ink on the flap. Based on Hal Ellson's groundbreaking 1950 cult novel "Tomboy." Dan Gaubert is a tough gang leader who dresses and fights like a man. She and two others including Babar Bras are ostracized due to their behavior and she falls in love with Lucky Cafarelli while Babar commits suicide. A late entry for film noir regular and poetic realist Carné whose notable credits include "Port of Shadows" 1938 "The Devil's Envoys" 1942 and "Children of Paradise" 1945. Set in Paris. Photos range in size from 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 9 x 11.25 inches. Very Good plus overall foxing to versos light curling and rubbing. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 161154N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1953 film showing director Byron Haskin and other crew members with a camera on a mount. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The first feature film adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic 1898 novel. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 153203Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1953. Five vintage reference photographs of flying saucer or other special effects from the classic 1953 science fiction film. Based on the 1898 novel by H.G. Wells. The first feature film adaptation. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for two more. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 1037. Paramount Pictures unknown
1966ref. 138830Moscow: Mosfilm 1966. Three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos including one three-part panoramic shot demonstrating the massive scale of the film shot on location in Dorogobuzh a region in the Smolensk province of Russia. An epic film over seven hours long and slavishly faithful to Tolstoy's novel that was for many years the most expensive European movie every made. The lengthy graphic battle scenes which killed a number of horses led to the film being boycotted in many American cities. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mosfilm unknown
1975ref. 137576Paris: Cite Films 1975. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph for the 1975 film as known as "Scar Tissue." With the label of the Paul Kohner agency on the verso. Maria Schneider stars as a young woman who must protect the son of her ex-lover when they are kidnapped while she is babysitting him. The final directorial effort of René Clément's long illustrious career. 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Cite Films unknown
ref. 159007N.p.: Dell Publishing 1970. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film. Both with Dell Publishing photograph library stamps on the verso. An unhappy apathetic housewife who has just left her husband decides to go on the run with a bank robber. Shot largely on location on a shoestring budget with much of its dialogue improvised the film was Barbara Loden's directorial debut. Set in eastern Pennsylvania and shot on location in Scranton and Carbondale Pennsylvania and Waterdale Connecticut. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with annotations in manuscript ink on the recto versos relating to cropping and publication. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 965. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Dell Publishing unknown
