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ref. 163898Los Angeles: Gramercy Pictures / Propaganda Films / Fleece Films / Volcanic Films 1997. Draft script for the 1998 film seen here under the working title "The Fine Art of Living." Working copy belonging to director Neil LaBute with his extensive annotations throughout noting deletions and revisions to dialogue. Bound in a three-ring binder with numerous production documents including contact sheets scene breakdowns memos legal documents shooting and post-production schedules location and vendor lists and edits of promotional material. LaBute's second feature following "In the Company of Men" 1997 about two middle-class couples who lie and cheat in their struggles to find satisfaction in their empty relationships. Title page present dated 9/19/97 with credit for LaBute. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine binder about Near Fine. Gramercy Pictures / Propaganda Films / Fleece Films / Volcanic Films unknown
1954ref. 152836Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Copy belonging to script supervisor Helen McCaffrey with her manuscript pencil annotations on virtually every page and many versos and her name in manuscript ink annotation on the top right corner of the front wrapper. A dramatization of the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg based on a short story by Stephen Crane. Brown titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 12 1954 with credits for screenwriter Ellis Marcus and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 48 leaves with last page of text numbered 47. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4-14-54. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
1954ref. 152838Los Angeles: ZIV Television Programs 1954. Final Master script for the 1954 television episode. Script supervisor's copy with their manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and virtually every page. A farm girl hides her brother from the police when he is framed for murder. Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL MASTER SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated April 13 1954 with credits for screenwriter Leonard St. Clair and story credits to Stephen Crane. Title page integral with the front wrapper. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 4/26/54. Wrapper and pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. ZIV Television Programs unknown
1963ref. 135122Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1963. Final script for the 1964 film. Based on Herman Wouk's 1962 novel. Youngblood Hawke Franciscus is a Kentucky truck driver who comes to New York City to start a career as a writer. He meets editor Jeanne Green Pleshette who falls for him while putting together a book deal. Throughout his first three books his hops from woman to woman and book deal to book deal including a Broadway adaptation and an affair with a woman whose jealous husband intends to destroy Hawke. He returns to Kentucky to work on writing contracts pneumonia and realizes that Jeanne was the only woman he truly loved. Set in Kentucky and New York shot on location in New York. Self wrappers noted as FINAl on the front wrapper dated February 15 1963 with credits for screenwriter Daves and novelist Wouk. Title page integral with front wrapper DATE. 160 leaves with last page of text numbered 157. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1957ref. 132691London: Miracle Films 1957. Collection of 7 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1957 UK release of the 1957 French film. Distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Based on James Hadley Chase's novel "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" 1941 banned in the UK upon publication due to its graphic sexual passages involving prostitutes and lost women. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Miracle Films unknown
1974ref. 169578N.p.: N.p. 1974. Seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1974 film. Widely considered Mel Brooks' finest comedy and surely the peak of his powers as a director. One of the few modern film comedies in the National Film Registry joined by two of Brooks' other masterpieces "The Producers" 1968 and "Blazing Saddles" 1974. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine to Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 168007Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1974. Vintage reference photograph from the 1974 film showing Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle as Dr. Frankenstein and his monster respectively during the famous "Puttin' on the Ritz" dance sequence. Widely considered Mel Brooks' finest comedy and surely the peak of his powers as a director. One of the few modern film comedies in the National Film Registry joined by two of Brooks' other masterpieces "The Producers" 1968 and "Blazing Saddles" 1974. Nominated for two Academy Awards. 10 x 8 inches. Fine. National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1965ref. 145917Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy." Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey John Cassidy Taylor in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland a young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. John Ford was originally slated to direct but fell ill early in the shooting. Set in and shot on location in Ireland and England. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good Plus some light corner creasing and edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1965ref. 170551Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1965. Vintage reference photograph from the 1965 film showing Julie Christie smiling. Mimeo snipe and provenance label on the verso. A biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey about a young laborer who becomes a playwright combatting the regime with his artistic practice. John Ford was originally slated to direct but fell ill early in the shooting. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1931ref. 154507N.p.: N.p. 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film showing actors Will Rogers and Fifi D'Orsay. A French singer helps an older serious-minded businessman loosen up but his sons decide to intervene afraid that she is taking advantage of his largesse. Set in Chicago. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1931ref. 135170Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When he turns the tables evading his work responsibilities and traveling around with a French singer they fear that the singer is out to blackmail him. Pale blue studio wrappers dated April 27 1931 noting footage of 7000 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Very Good plus condition. Fox Film Corporation unknown
1950ref. 149951N.p.: N.p. 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Walter D. Edmonds' 1942 novel which follows a young man who moves to New York in the early 19th century where he seeks employment in an importing/exporting business. Screenwriter Leonard Lee was best known for his espionage crime and action films in the 1940s and 1950s including "Whispering City" 1947 "Spy Hunt" and "Wyoming Mail" 1950 "Smuggler's Island" 1951 and "The Glass Web" 1953. Green textured faux-leather wrappers with a label affixed to the front wrapper with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Leonard Lee and novelist Walter D. Edmonds. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
ref. 155122New York: Deathtrap Films 1986. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / copyright 1986 / Photo copyright R Kern" with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso. A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation the film was shot unscripted over two days and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother and the young East Village model Leg who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos starred as the lead daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table angrily proclaiming "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Deathtrap Films unknown
1970ref. 142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1938ref. 148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1938ref. 144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown
1938ref. 136085Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 noir antecedent showing director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben and Paramount along with an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. Spicer US Precursor. Paramount Pictures unknown
1940ref. 130425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. The AFI Catalog notes: "According to a Twentieth Century- Fox press release this was the first writing effort for Fox sound man William Brent. After his story was bought Brent was made a writer at the studio. Also the first screenwriter assignment for Irving Cummings Jr. and William Conselman Jr. Both men were "second generation Hollywood" as Cummings' father was a director and Conselman's a screenwriter. "According to Twentieth Century-Fox press releases the football sequences were shot at the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium and at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Despite a summer heat wave the extras were required to wear heavy winter coats. As such large wind machines behind huge cakes of ice were used to cool off the fields. Thirty-four college football players from local universities were used as extras in this film. They included USC's Ambrose Schindler Bill Howard Red Morgan Tony Tonelli Ollie Day and Owen Hansen and UCLA's Billy Bob Williams Bill Overlin and Bill Radovich. Location filming was done at the Inglewood Railway Station as the station received little use. Because only two freight trains used the station each day movie extras were the only passengers ever to use the station. The press release also reported that the rental cost of a four-car train at the station was $150 per day. HR reported that Fox borrowed Lewis Howard from Universal Pictures for this film." A Fox programmer about a doctor reflecting on his college days how he was lured onto the football team and away from his studies a flirtation with a widow and meeting his true love. A strong early vehicle for actor Robert Sterling and featuring two notable women from the serial film era Jean Rogers Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 149 and production No. 518 dated June 24 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 24 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Conselman Jr. and Cummings Jr. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/25/40 and 7/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1968ref. 162617N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film also released in the US under the title "To Ingrid My Love Lisa." Provenance stamp on the verso. Lisa a successful Stockholm fashion designer meets the beautiful 17-year old Ingrid during a country vacation and takes her back to Stockholm to be a model leading to a sapphic May-December relationship. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown
1925ref. 166083N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph of director Earle Rodney with a camera crew on the set of the 1925 short film setting up a shot with actors Bobby Vernon and Frances Lee. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An American infantryman attempts to reunite with his sweetheart in Paris but instead finds himself the object of affection of the "Darling of Paris"-and the object of ire of her boyfriend. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a small bruise at the center top margin. N.p. unknown
2017ref. 163937N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Revised Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 2018-present television series one dated 8/9/17 and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode the Dutton family attempts to recover from the deaths of the eldest son and a brother-in-law. Originally aired on June 27 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. 8/9/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/9/17 noted as episode No. 102 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revised Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 102 and Pink Revised Pages with credit for Sheridan. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
2017ref. 163941N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2018-present television series one undated and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Kayce continues to battle the tribal police while John attempts to keep Kayce and Monica at the ranch. Originally aired on July 25 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as episode No. 105 with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. 8/12/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 105 and Production Draft with credit for Sheridan. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
2017ref. 163942N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 6 of the 2018-present television series including one Production Draft and one Network Draft. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Chief Rainwater and developer Dan Jenkins team up threatening John's hold over the Yellowstone ranch. Originally aired on August 1 2018 on Paramount Network. 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. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Network Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 106 and NETWORK DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Production Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/7/17 noted as episode No. 106 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown
1984ref. 162212N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage color borderless reference photograph from the 1984 French film showing a nude Valérie Kaprisky in the shower. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. While on holiday at Saint-Tropez a sexually adventurous teenage girl falls for an older man who himself is interested only in the girl's mother. 7 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
ref. 162611New York: Dino De Laurentiis 1984. Final Draft script for the 1985 neo-noir film. With annotations throughout highlighting dialogue related to Mickey Rourke's character Stanley White. From the collection of practical effects designer and miniatures specialist Greg Jein. Jein was gifted the script by fellow Chinese-American actor Dennis Dun who played Herbert Kwong in the film. Jein designed the award-winning miniatures in the film relating to director Michael Cimino's elaborate reproduction of New York's Chinatown reproduced entirely on a soundstage and so realistic that Stanley Kubrick-born in the Bronx-had to be convinced by Cimino after seeing the premiere that it was not shot on location. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Daley about a Vietnam veteran turned New York City police captain who dedicates himself to stopping organized crime in Chinatown. Blue generic wrappers. Title page present dated September 4 1984 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US. Carlson & Connolly Destroy All Movies. Dino De Laurentiis unknown
