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1983ref. 153831N.p.: N.p. 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typescript letter from screenwriter Les White to talent agent Walter Kohner introducing the script. A comedy following the stunted entry into maturity of several young adults who have decided for various reasons to move back in with their parents indefinitely. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Les White. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1980ref. 141462Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect bound wrappers rubber stamped production number 133 dated 1980. Title page present. 201 leaves with last page of text numbered 192. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Imamura Productions unknown books
ref. 141462Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect-bound wrappers rubber stamped production number 133 dated 1980. Title page present. 201 leaves with last page of text numbered 192. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Imamura Productions unknown
1960ref. 133274Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1960. Original black-and-white pressbook from the 1960 US film unique oblong format. Dottie Manson Paget commits a murder for which club singer Lois King Moore is accused and sentenced to death. Twang guitar king Duane Eddy contributes the title song and both Paget and Moore deliver the visual goods. 12 pages saddle-stapled 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus with a horizontal fold to the middle toning and a few tiny chips and tears to the spine. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1981ref. 139097Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1981. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 film. Featuring actor Richard Dreyfus in a black coat and sweater being embraced by actress Janet Eilber though she has been largely airbrushed out of the photo. Based on the 1975 play by Brian Clark first adapted into a 1972 television movie directed by Richard Everitt and adapted for this iteration by Clark with the aid of Reginald Rose. Richard Dreyfus is at his bitter best as an artist who becomes paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident and who sues for the right to end his own life. Released over a decade before Jack Kevorkian brought the issue to larger public eye "Whose Life Is It Anyway" touches on the sensitive subject with a tactful humorous kindness. Shot on location in Boston. 8 x 10 inches mounted on 10 x 15 inch mat board and overlaid with clear acetate. Fine condition. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1981ref. 132743Beverly Hills CA: National Screen Service / MGM 1981. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1981 US film. Based on a play by Brian Clark about a sculpture artist paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. He maintains the ability to talk but he feels worthless and wants to die. In the hospital he make friends who support him during his court hearing to be allowed to die. Shot on location in Boston Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. National Screen Service / MGM unknown books
1962ref. 138563Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1962. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe once affixed to the verso detached but present. Featured is Nita Talbot who played "Saturday Knight" in the film. Based on Alexander Rose's 1960 novel "Four Horse Players Are Missing." Steve Martin is a horse-race better whose habits get the better of him so his wife Melanie Turner becomes his bookie. 8 x 10 inches. Brief corner creases tape ghosts to the verso else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965ref. 143355Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Vintage press photograph on the set of the 1966 film giving a boom mic's view of a camera crew and director Mike Nichols filming a scene with stars Richard Burton and Sandy Dennis. Directorial debut of Mike Nichols and winner of five Academy Awards including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress and nominated for eight more. Based on the 1963 Tony Award winning play by Edward Albee. 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown books
1965ref. 171121Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Chenault 1965. Final script for the 1966 film. Lacking the final page of narrative text as either used or issued. Based on the 1963 Tony Award-winning play by Edward Albee which follows one bitter night of domestic unrest between an emotionally scarred college professor and his hard-drinking wife. Nichols' directorial debut and the first film to be given the MPAA tag "No one under 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by an adult" challenging the Production Code Office and essentially leading to its demise. Nominated for 13 Academy Awards and winning five including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis respectively. Set on the campus of a small New England college and shot on location in Northampton Southampton and Cambridge Massachusetts. OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows 2 holdings. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 69 dated July 30 1965. Distribution page present same dates with receipt intact. Title page present dated July 30 1965 with credits for screenwriter Ernest Lehman. 155 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Mimeograph duplication rectos only all pages eye-rest green excepting distribution page which is white and dated 7/30/65. Corner chip to the "Cast of Characters" page else pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with yapping at the top and bottom as usually found bound internally with two gold brads. National Film Registry. Warner Brothers / Chenault unknown
1960ref. 161076Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1960. Vintage reference photograph from the 1960 film showing director George Sidney inspecting a chorus line of women's legs. Columbia Pictures stamp specific to the Dutch release on the verso. Based on Norman Krasna's 1958 Broadway play "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With" A mild-mannered chemistry professor falsely claims to be an undercover FBI agent in order to get back into his wife's good graces capturing the attention of the FBI the CIA and the KGB in the process. Set and shot on location in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 151299N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Dustin Hoffman in character standing next to a blow-up print of a TIME Magazine issue with his face on the cover. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A wealthy pop songwriter writes most of his songs about love but has no luck with romance in his personal life. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1971ref. 151299N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actor Dustin Hoffman in character standing next to a blow-up print of a TIME Magazine issue with his face on the cover. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A wealthy pop songwriter writes most of his songs about love but has no luck with romance in his personal life. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 149378N.p.: Delpire 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. Both with the stamp of Tele-Magazine on the verso. An anarchic satire of the fashion industry directed by a true insider Vogue magazine's longtime fashion photographer William Klein. Dorothy McGowan in her first and only film appearance stars as young model Polly Maggoo who becomes the subject of a television documentary news episode over the course of Paris Fashion Week. Set and shot on location in Paris. One photograph 10 x 8 inches two photographs 10 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Delpire unknown books
1966ref. 149378N.p.: Delpire 1966. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. With the stamp of Tele-Magazine on the verso. An anarchic satire of the fashion industry directed by a true insider "Vogue" magazine's longtime photographer William Klein. Dorothy McGowan in her first and only film appearance stars as young model Polly Maggoo who becomes the subject of a television documentary news episode over the course of Paris Fashion Week. Set and shot on location in Paris. One photograph 10 x 8 inches two photographs 10 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. Delpire unknown
1958ref. 152074Burbank CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 film. A nature documentary about animal life in the North American Arctic. Most notable for its infamous scene featuring a pack of lemmings jumping off a cliff into the Arctic Ocean supposedly to migrate-a scene that was in reality staged by the filmmakers who threw about a dozen lemmings into the Bow River near downtown Calgary for the sequence. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Shot on location in Canada. 19 pages saddle stitched 12 x 15 inches. Near Fine. Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions unknown
1995ref. 148684N.p.: Percy Main Productions 1995. Revised Final Draft script for the 1996 film. Three copied annotations on two pages consisting of one dialogue change and two revision date changes. Based on the 1962 book "The Last Voyage of the Albatross" by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton about the sinking of the brigantine Albatross on May 2 1961. All American boy Chuck Gieg Scott Wolf narrates this coming-of-age story set in 1960 about a group of teenage boys setting out for a year-long voyage aboard the brigantine school ship Albatross commanded by Dr. Christopher B. Shelton Jeff Bridges only to face the ultimate challenge of surviving a deadly white squall storm. Shot on location in South Carolina Georgia Bermuda Grenada London Malta South Africa St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. White untitled Lasher McManus & Robinson production company wrappers. Title page present dated March 18 1995 noted as Revised Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Todd Robinson. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages labeled "Blue" throughout dated variously between 3/27/95 and 5/15/95. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Percy Main Productions unknown books
1995ref. 148684N.p.: Percy Main Productions 1995. Revised Final Draft script for the 1996 film. Three copied annotations on two pages consisting of one dialogue change and two revision date changes. Based on the 1962 book "The Last Voyage of the Albatross" by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton about the sinking of the brigantine Albatross on May 2 1961. All American boy Chuck Gieg Scott Wolf narrates this coming-of-age story set in 1960 about a group of teenage boys setting out for a year-long voyage aboard the brigantine school ship Albatross commanded by Dr. Christopher B. Shelton Jeff Bridges only to face the ultimate challenge of surviving a deadly white squall storm. Shot on location in South Carolina Georgia Bermuda Grenada London Malta South Africa St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines. White generic Lasher McManus & Robinson production company wrappers. Title page present dated March 18 1995 noted as Revised Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Todd Robinson. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only with white revision pages labeled "Blue" throughout dated variously between 3/27/95 and 5/15/95. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Percy Main Productions unknown
2001ref. 164026N.p.: N.p. 2001. Rainbow Revision Shooting Draft script for the 2002 film with six gatherings of revision pages. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher. The six gatherings of revision pages include: Six buff revision ages dated 5/03/01. Twelve buff revision pages dated May 3 2001 with a label on the title page for uncredited crew member "Steve Martinez / Construction Department." Eleven cherry revision pages dated May 6 2001. Four tan revision pages dated May 16 2001 with a label on the title page for "Construction Department" with the name struck. Two pages of 2nd white revision pages dated May 21 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department" Vanover had the uncredited position of Key Greensman on the film. And seven 2nd yellow revision pages dated June 11 2001 with a label on the title page for "Jason Vanover / Construction Department." Based on the 1999 bestselling novel by Janet Fitch. Fifteen-year old Astrid finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home after her free-spirited mother with borderline personality disorder is imprisoned after poisoning her lover. 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. Front wrapper integral with title page dated March 21 2001 noted as Shooting Draft with credits for screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerograhic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow green and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/21/01 and 4/21/01. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revision Pages with each grouping affixed by a single staple to the top left. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 147575Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1985. Two vintage color double weight studio still photographs one of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines dancing the other of Hines and Isabella Rossellini from the 1985 film. Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko Mikhail Baryshnikov is an expatriate Soviet dancer whose plane is forced to land on Soviet territory and prohibited from leaving. Forced to live with the American defector tap dancer Raymond Greenwood Hines and his wife Rossellini he must plan an escape but doesn't know who to trust. Rossellini's screen debut. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song and nominated for one other. Shot on location in Russia England Finland Scotland and Portugal. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 147576Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1985. Collection of seven vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1985 film. Nikolai 'Kolya' Rodchenko Mikhail Baryshnikov is an expatriate Soviet dancer whose plane is forced to land on Soviet territory and prohibited from leaving. Forced to live with the American defector tap dancer Raymond Greenwood Gregory Hines and his wife Isabella Rossellini he must plan an escape but doesn't know who to trust. Rossellini's screen debut. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Song and nominated for one other. Shot on location in Russia England Finland Scotland and Portugal. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1957ref. 150862N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Luchino Visconti cinematogrpher Giuseppe Rotunno and Maria Schell on the set of the 1957 film. Loosely based on the 1848 short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Remade in 2008 as "Two Lovers" directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. A young man Marcello Mastroianni new to the city meets a girl Schell crying on bridge for a lover who may not return striking up a tentative romance. 6.75 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine with light wear and creasing at extremities. Criterion Collection 296. N.p. unknown
1995ref. 163974N.p.: N.p. 1995. Draft script for the 1995 film. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her numeric annotation in manuscript ink on page 2 and her annotations in manuscript pencil regarding props on the rear wrapper. In an alternate America where the social and economic positions of white and Black Americans are reversed a white factory worker kidnaps the factory owner as revenge for an unjust firing. 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. Red untitled wrappers. Lacking title page presumably as issued. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 132369Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1973. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 film. Features Burt Reynolds with mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos and cropping annotations to the verso of one. An ex-con helps the local government break up a moonshine operation. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases to the extremities and a tape ghost to the recto of one. Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1992ref. 146403N.p.: N.p. 1992. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the title page noting the name and phone numbers of storywriter Rick Orr. A homeless man obsessed with Western movies from his childhood attempts to save his favorite theater the Corral from the nefarious businessmen who seek to build a high-rise in its place. Set in Hollywood. White lacking titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1992 with credits for screenwriter Sean McCulley and story credit to Ric Orr sic. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light soil overall bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 142833N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1981 US pornographic film. Directed by the notorious Zebedy Colt under a pseudonym the same year he performed in Tom Stoppard's "Travesties" on the New York stage. Colt is considered one of the innovators of "queer cabaret" in the late 1960s. Vanessa Johnson Lisa Marks discovers her boyfriend is having an affair and retreats to Maine in order to have a mental breakdown. Shot on location in Manhattan and possibly in Maine. 27 x 41 inches. Fine folded as issued. N.p. unknown books
