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1984ref. 140989New York: Rick Leed 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble to John Huston of the Paul Kohner Agency. Based on Humble's 1984 play based in turn on a true event in Irish history wherein the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell fled Ireland with 90 of their followers to escape British rule and establish an army to invade Ireland a venture which failed and ultimately brought Protestant rule to Northern Ireland. Set in Ireland. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1984 with credit for screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. Rick Leed unknown books
1984ref. 140989New York: Rick Leed 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble to John Huston of the Paul Kohner Agency. Based on Humble's 1984 play based in turn on a true event in Irish history wherein the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell fled Ireland with 90 of their followers to escape British rule and establish an army to invade Ireland a venture which failed and ultimately brought Protestant rule to Northern Ireland. Set in Ireland. White titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1984 with credit for screenwriter and playwright Christopher Humble. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a black Velo binding. Rick Leed unknown
1965ref. 132451Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. First Draft script for the 1965 film. Included are production notes dated November 1965 laid in and an architectural sketch of the "sky truck" noted as "REVISED / APR. 22. '65" As deluxe a script for this film as we have seen and a highspot for noted director Robert Aldrich. One of the great adventure films of the twentieth century wherein a cargo plane with fewer than a dozen men goes down in the Sahara in a sandstorm. One of the men is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before food and water are depleted. Black titled wrappers noted as 2ND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated April 6th. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Heller and novelist Trevor. 178 leaves mechanical duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/15/65 and 4/27/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine with a small fingernail-size bruise at the top left corner of the front wrapper. Bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1991ref. 143062Italy: MMD 1991. Vintage borderless double weight photograph from the 1991 film. With a stamp on the verso identifying the film and photographer. A black comedy in which a divorced man falls for a beautiful woman who uses magic to turn him into a sex slave. He doesn't seem to mind until she gets bored and wants to leave him and the things take a darker turn. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. 11.75 x 7.5 inches. Light creasing to the corners else Near Fine. MMD unknown books
1991ref. 143062Italy: MMD 1991. Vintage borderless double weight photograph from the 1991 film. With a stamp on the verso identifying the film and photographer. A black comedy in which a divorced man falls for a beautiful woman who uses magic to turn him into a sex slave. He doesn't seem to mind until she gets bored and wants to leave him and the things take a darker turn. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. 11.75 x 7.5 inches. Light creasing to the corners else Near Fine. MMD unknown
1947ref. 150905Hollywood: Republic Pictures 1947. Vintage studio still publicity portrait photograph of actress Blanche Yurka from the 1947 film noir. A young man concocts a plan to murder his wealthy half-brother Barry with the help of his girlfriend but is unprepared for the consequences when his girlfriend falls in love with Barry. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Republic Pictures unknown books
1941ref. 164378Universal City: Universal Pictures 1941. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1941 film showing actor Mischa Auer. Date stamp photographer's stamp and provenance stamp on the verso. In 1841 New Orleans a young woman seeks the fortune of a wealthy banker through marriage while romancing a handsome but poor sailor. 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. 8 x 10 inches. Slightly wavy else about Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1963ref. 161726N.p.: Alexander Beck Presentation 1963. Two vintage photographs one a borderless reference photo and one a studio still from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A day in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris who work as nude models in an art school to make money. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with pinholes in the margins. Alexander Beck Presentation unknown books
1963ref. 161726N.p.: Alexander Beck Presentation 1963. Two vintage photographs one a borderless reference photo and one a studio still from the US release of the 1963 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A day in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris who work as nude models in an art school to make money. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with pinholes in the margins. Alexander Beck Presentation unknown
1968ref. 171040N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Dalton Trumbo on the set of the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud. A poor Jewish man assumes the identity of a gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken prejudiced man. When the man is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Nominated for an Academy Award for Alan Bates. Set in Czarist Russia shot on location in Hungary 9 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Xerogaphic duplication dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 141612Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Light wear to the top margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968ref. 171040N.p.: N.p. 1968. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of Dalton Trumbo on the set of the 1968 film. Based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud. A poor Jewish man assumes the identity of a gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken prejudiced man. When the man is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Nominated for an Academy Award for Alan Bates. Set in Czarist Russia shot on location in Hungary 9 x 7 inches. About Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. Shot on location in Hungary. Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Xerogaphic duplication dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary 8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1968ref. 141612Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Snipe printed to the verso. A semi-biographical film based on Bernard Malamud's novel of the same name. The story of a Russian-Jew unjustly prisoned on accusations of blood libel. Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Light wear to the top margin. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1990ref. 172340N.p.: N.p. 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 film musical. A drama about the rise and fall of fictional rhythm and blues group The Five Heartbeats told through one of the group's members Donald "Duck" Matthews. Loosely based on the trajectories of several real-life musical groups including The Dells The Temptations Four Tops and others. Although received to mixed reviews the film has since been reconsidered as a cult classic. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/1/90 noted as Shooting Script and copy No. 222 with credits for screenwriters Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only title page on blue stock. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1990ref. 172340N.p.: N.p. 1990. Shooting script for the 1991 film musical. A drama about the rise and fall of fictional rhythm and blues group The Five Heartbeats told through one of the group's members Donald "Duck" Matthews. Loosely based on the trajectories of several real-life musical groups including The Dells The Temptations Four Tops and others. Although received to mixed reviews the film has since been reconsidered as a cult classic. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/1/90 noted as Shooting Script and copy No. 222 with credits for screenwriters Robert Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only title page on blue stock. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1940ref. 162233N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A drama about a young farm girl who years for an education after seeing several of her siblings die from poor medical treatment. Jan Fortune is today best remembered for penning several films in the 1930s and 1940s most notably "Dark Command" 1940 and "Mokey" 1942. Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper dated March 8 1940 with credit for Fortune. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good moderately edgeworn wrapper Good side stapled. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 150206London: Camera Press 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 television serial showing actors John Westbrook Roger Mutton and John Rapley. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A one-season television series dramatizing the lives of John Churchill the first Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah. The show originally aired in the UK on BBC on September 27 1969 and was aired two years later in the US on PBS' long-running Masterpiece Classic series. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Camera Press unknown books
1969ref. 150206London: Camera Press 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 television serial showing actors John Westbrook Roger Mutton and John Rapley. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. A one-season television series dramatizing the lives of John Churchill the first Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah. The show originally aired in the UK on BBC on September 27 1969 and was aired two years later in the US on PBS' long-running Masterpiece Classic series. 9.5 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Camera Press unknown
1940ref. 162233N.p.: N.p. 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A drama about a young farm girl who years for an education after seeing several of her siblings die from poor medical treatment. Jan Fortune is today best remembered for penning several films in the 1930s and 1940s most notably "Dark Command" 1940 and "Mokey" 1942. Blue titled front wrapper missing rear wrapper dated March 8 1940 with credit for Fortune. Title page integral with front wrapper as issued. 36 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good moderately edgeworn wrapper Good side stapled. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 151244London: Gala Film Distributors 1967. Seven vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 Czechoslovakian film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A volunteer fire department in a provincial town plans a ball in honor of the chief's retirement but the proceedings are marred with comic difficulty at every turn. The first color film directed by Milos Forman a hallmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave and the final film Forman directed in his native Czechoslovakia before relocating to the US in the late 1960s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1967ref. 151244London: Gala Film Distributors 1967. Seven vintage reference photographs from the UK release of the 1967 Czechoslovakian film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A volunteer fire department in a provincial town plans a ball in honor of the chief's retirement but the proceedings are marred with comic difficulty at every turn. The first color film directed by Milos Forman a hallmark of the Czechoslovak New Wave and the final film Forman directed in his native Czechoslovakia before relocating to the US in the late 1960s. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Gala Film Distributors unknown
