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1961ref. 144660Paris: Cinedis 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in manuscript pencil on the versos 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot 18 with his name stamped on the verso and each notebook page with corresponding numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Also included is a vintage Cinedis manila mailing envelope. Limot's action photographs are poignantly interlaced with on-the-set images including tender exchanged between actors Bourvil Annie Fratellini and Colette Castel herself seen in striking authority behind a handheld camera. A few feature Black musicians in the background surrounded by paparazzi and a few photos are slightly more candid with subjects hamming for the camera. A businessman wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. 747 photos are 3.5 x 4.5 inches or slightly smaller with small white borders at the foot and 2 photos are 5 x 7 inches. Light curling and most with tape ghosts and discoloration else Near Fine. Envelope and notebooks Very Good overall. Cinedis unknown
1961ref. 144105Nice: Gaumont-Palace 1961. Vintage French program and two invitations for the 1961 film here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1 1961 generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot a Southwest France commune with the Lot River running through the middle. The invitee's RSVP is unsigned. The two remaining pieces are from a slightly later November 15 1961 showing at the Gaumont-Palace in Nice in the Southeast of France the Riviera. A folding invitation stamped in blind with the theatre's coat of arms credits the president of the Societe Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont Jean Le Duc suggests formal wear and the invitee has inscribed in manuscript blue ink in French "one chair." A large program accompanies printed by Havas for the Gaumont-Palace showing details film credits and synopsis greetings from the Gaumont and advertisements for businesses in Nice. Formal programs often omitted still images from the film like this example opting for candor instead of promotion. The film echoes director's Clair's early silent films interweaving separate themes of comedy and fantasy involving a well with supernatural powers that lengthens life expectancy. Cyrano invitation 4 x 5.25 inches Gaumont invitation 4 x 8.25 inches the program 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Light rubbing and foxing overall and a vertical crease to the Gaumont invitation else Near Fine. Gaumont-Palace unknown
1961ref. 144266France: Limot 1961. Archive of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots pinup images of actress Castel Bourvil mending fences and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes gunfights in the town square and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of Clair's final films. Nearly all are rubber-stamped on the verso crediting photographer Limot and all with numerical annotations in manuscript pencil. Housed in an original French Kodak photo paper box. One photograph shown. Please inquire for others. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos 5 x 7 inches with a few trimmed slightly smaller and box slightly larger. Photos Near Fine with light curling and faint foxing and box Very Good Plus two splits to the lid. Limot unknown
1961ref. 140159France: N.p. 1961. Archive of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director René Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans giving a speech signing autographs conducting a recorded interview and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel Alfred Adam and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem to take place in a large music hall with musicians and traditional instruments appearing in a few photos. Bourvil is also present in two contact prints seen traveling cavorting with Clair getting a shave and playing bocce. Several with brief numerical annotations in manuscript pencil and a few double weight photographs with rubberstamps crediting photographer Martin on the versos. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. Photos range from 4.5 x 7 inches to 8 x 10.5 inches most are 7.25 x 9.25 inches with 87 frames on 35mm and medium-format negative strips. Very Good plus overall with light curling and foxing negatives lightly rubbed. N.p. unknown
1962ref. 139131France Italy: Cineriz 1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material like shooting schedules and synopses a cinema magazine reviewing the film and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin Martres a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations in manuscript ink throughout. More than 150 leaves of correspondence and notes. A glimpse inside the behind-the-scenes process of French press and the attention paid to prolific French figures of cinema notably René Clair. Maryse Martin whose film credits include "The Happy Road" 1957 "Bonjour Tristesse 1958 and several films each for directors Jacqueline Audry Maurice Labro and Jean Gourguet was a popular "B" actress who played supporting roles in over 40 films. She presumably worked for a press agency involved in publication of film reviews press kits photographs and more. Several letters are represented addressed to and from Maryse from persons like Gay-Lussac Gordon Reid A. Sergio Berrocal George L. George Monsieur Bergougnous Monsieur Lourau J.D. van Leeuwen Edmundo Duran members of UniFrance Film Alessandro Ferrau R. Betmalle Clare Simpson Pierre Lazareff Francois Timmory I. Dally and even René Clair's secretary. A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. All material Very Good overall housed in Martin's file folder with the film title in manuscript ink. Cineriz unknown
1967ref. 164229Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage 30" x 40" poster for the US release of the 1967 British anthology horror film. The second Horror anthology or "portmanteau" film from Amicus Productions following the 1965 film "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors" also directed by Freddie Francis a trademark of producer Milton Subotsky and written by "Psycho" screenwriter Robert Bloch who adapted his own work for the screenplay. A group of visitors to Dr. Diablo's Burgess Meredith sideshow are each shown their futures in the sideshow's "blow-off" which includes cannibal cats haunted pianos and the reincarnation of Edgar Allan Poe. 27 x 41 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and edgewear and closed tears to the center right margin. Columbia Pictures unknown
1926ref. 171469Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1926. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1926 silent film: one showing Greta Garbo alone one showing Ricardo Cortez alone and one showing Garbo and Cortez in an embrace. Based on Vicente Blasco Ibàñez's 1900 novella "Entre naranjos." Garbo's second American film appearance and first starring role launching her Hollywood acting career and paving the way for her third American film "Flesh and the Devil" the movie that would make her an international star. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Very Good plus two lightly toned and one with a chip at one corner. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1964ref. 159348Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1964. Three vintage studio still photographs and one vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film. One photograph with mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1962 novel "The Light of Day" by Eric Ambler. Two ex-lovers plan to steal from Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. They hire a man to drive explosives for the burglary but when the police stop him they assume he is part of an assassination attempt. Winner of one Academy Award for Peter Ustinov as Best Actor. Set in Istanbul shot on location in Istanbul Turkey Kavala Greece Paris France and Hauts-de-Seine France. Two photographs 10 x 8 inches one photograph 7 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with one photograph with pins holes at the corner and a tear at the bottom right corner. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. United Artists unknown
1964ref. 143143Beverly Hills CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the film. 9 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Filmways Pictures / United Artists unknown
1969ref. 171039N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film showing Alfred Hitchcock sitting in his director's chair on the tarmac at the Paris airport Orly Val-de-Marne France. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Leon Uris about a French agent who helps the United States uncover the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 127087N.p.: Fanfare Films 1972. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1972 film. A Black cop tolerates his fellow white officers' disrespect and racism as well as disdain from his community for joining the force but is finally pushed over the edge after being passed over for a promotion. He goes on a violent personal crusade punctuated by psychedelic fever dreams including himself as a famous astronaut. Shot on location in Washington DC and Los Angeles. 27 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes to the corners dampstaining to the left side folds with two small accompanying chips and a closed tear to the center left margin. Fanfare Films unknown
1959ref. 166066London: Beaconsfield Films 1959. Draft script for the 1959 British film copy belonging to Art Director George Provis with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes prop requirements and original set drawings as well as a three-page Unit List three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927 in the 1930s. After the Second World War Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge Thomas MItchell hears a case of a 15 year-old girl Pauline Hehn caught with a 47 year-old man and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman Muriel Box and based on a play by a woman Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall. Beaconsfield Films unknown
1962ref. 162514N.p.: Rialto International Film Releasing 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of Brenda Denaut from the 1962 film. With a subhead reading "Starring the City of New York and a cast of New Faces from its stages." Notable for starring a young Taylor Mead. Director screenwriter and star Raymond Phelan best known as cinematographer for sexploitation impresario Doris Wishman originally began making "Too Young Too Immoral!" in 1957 about a brother reflecting on the tragically short life of his murdered addict brother. This early version was titled "Rebels Die Young." Unable to find distribution Phelan added what turned out to be some of the earliest known sexploitation scenes filmed in the US. It starred Brenda Denaut subject of this photograph the mother of Roseanne Patricia David and Alexis Arquette. as well as Andy Warhol mainstay Taylor Mead in his first film role. It wouldn't be until five years later after sexploitation films began to gain traction with US distributors that Phelan was able to get the film booked at the Rialto Theatre on Broadway. It played for four months there before getting limited US distribution. It re-emerged in 2017 when it was screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Featuring some of the most striking footage of New York City found in the late 1950s. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rialto International Film Releasing unknown
1940ref. 150548N.p.: N.p. 1940. Vintage reference photographs of director Wesley Ruggles on the set of the 1940 film by photographer Irving Lippman. Mimeo snipe and photographer "Irving Lippman" stamp on verso. Based on the 1919 play by W. Somerset Maugham which was based on the 1864 poem "Enoch Arden" by Alfred Tennyson. Soon after presumed window Vicky Jean Arthur marries her late husband's friend and business partner Henry Melvyn Douglas her first presumed dead husband Bill Fred MacMurray shows back up and now she's got one too many. Nominated for an Academy Award. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy Films A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 144588Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies most with 12 images per print amounting to over 1000 images captured nearly all images with series number etched in the original film negative before development and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Ulysse film title and photographer Apoteker housed in an oblong 2-ring paper binder with printed French titles on the front. Laid in is a small piece of graph paper addressed "Cher Christian" presumably filmmaker Christian-Jaque with brief slightly illegible note in French in manuscript ink. The remaining 273 photographs are single photos with similar etched series numbers mounted with cello tape on thick stock in two quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrapper printed French titles affixed to the front wrapper of one. Small "x" annotations in manuscript ink on several pages. All three keybooks capture the film and photographer Apoteker's sense of desperation in composed and candid moments. Michele Morgan and Gil Vidal dominate the imagery hamming for the camera and in action scenes with Vidal emerging from a car crash and rarely without a glass in-hand and stunning images of Morgan hula-hooping off-set and in several placid studio portraits. Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. Notebook photos 3.75 x 5 inches most pages with four mounted photos keybook photos to 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light foxing and curling and rubbing to the studio keybook a few photos with small edge tears. Ulysse Production / Cinedis unknown
1959ref. 142889Paris: Cinedis 1959. Collection of 11 original black-and-white photographs from the 1959 French film. Most feature starring actress Morgan and a few show other actors including Vidal. Three on-the-set photographs of Morgan being fitted by a female crew member possibly costume designer Tanine Autré and eleven still photographs with Morgan and Blanche at a bar even an image of kids gathered in a junkyard. On the versos of the three on-the-set are French film title and "M. Morgan" in manuscript ink and rubber stamps for photographer Paul Apoteker numerical annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos of the still photographs. Housed in a French Kodak photo box with French film title label on the lid. Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. Photos range from 3.75 x 5.25 inches to 7 x 9.25 inches most stills with a 2-inch border at the bottom. Slight curling else Near Fine. Box Very Good overall. Complete collation upon request. Cinedis unknown
1959ref. 160052Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont / Ulysse Productions 1959. Four items including three vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film. A small-town reporter helps a lawyer incriminate a wine-selling company revealing how the merchants target poor people and youth in their advertising campaigns. Shot on location in Paris and Yvelines France. One photograph 9.5 x 7.25 two photographs 7 x 5 inches one photograph 5.25 x 4 inches. Very good plus with some curling at the edges and one photograph with some foxing on the verso. Gaumont / Ulysse Productions unknown
1948ref. 159336Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1949 film. With a blindstamp for the National Screen Service on the bottom right corner. A suitcase full of money is thrown into the back seat of a moving car owned by a married couple. The couple fights about if they should keep the money or not while being pursued by its intended recipient Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good. Flicker Alley 46. Grant US. Selby US Canon. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1961ref. 163761N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1961 film showing director John Cassavetes working with actors Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. A struggling jazz musician pursues a romantic relationship with a beautiful singer to the detriment of both parties' careers. Cassavetes' second directorial effort following "Shadows" 1958 and his first film made for a Hollywood studio. Shot on location in California. 7.25 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine. Olive Films 391. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 151262N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director John Cassavetes in conversation with actors Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript pencil layout annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Struggling jazz musician John "Ghost" Wakefield Bobby Darin pursues a romantic relationship with beautiful singer Jess Polanski Stella Stevens to the detriment of both parties' careers. John Cassavetes' second directorial effort following "Shadows" 1958 and his first film made for a Hollywood studio. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus overall with a few nicks to the top left corner. Olive Films 391. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 146435Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film thus incomplete as issued dated April 9 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo's name in manuscript ink on two revision leaves and his character's name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with manuscript ink notations including the name of director Lou Foster actors Fess Parker and Jerome Courtland and characters White Bull and Captain Keogh. Parker was originally hired for the role of Keogh but refused second billing and was replaced by Philip Carey. Jerome Courtland played the role of Lieutenant Henry Nowlan in the film. Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon. Tan titled wrappers noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 112 and production No. 5812 dated APRIL 9 1958 with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. Title page present dated April 9 1958 noted as FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for director and screenwriter LEWIS FOSTER. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 69. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/10/58 and 5/15/58. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1958ref. 173029Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1958. Eight vintage hand-tinted British front-of-house cards from the 1958 Disney Western film. Based on David Appel's 1951 novel "Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse" about the bond between a young Sioux boy and the titular horse who end up on opposite sides of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Set in Montana Territory and shot on location in Oregon. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Walt Disney Productions unknown
1966ref. 170545N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 British documentary film showing actress Julie Christie stretching out in a rattan chair. Provenance label on the verso. Considered by many to be the definitive portrayal of Swinging London at its peak incorporating concert footage street scenes art events film premieres and more. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1935ref. 149372Marseille: Les Films Marcel Pagnol 1935. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1935 film showing director Jean Renoir and actors Charles Blavette and Celia Montalvan on location during filming of the 1935 film. With the stamps of photographer Roger Corbeau and Cinemonde to the verso. Renoir's seventh sound film and an early example of the director's influence on both the French Left Bank and Italian neorealist movements. Renoir cast primarily non-professional actors and shot on location to craft the story of a group of immigrants working in a small town in Provence. Set and shot on location in the south of France. 9 x 7 inches. Near Fine lightly and evenly toned. Les Films Marcel Pagnol unknown
1975ref. 153977London: Hemdale International Films 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Pete Townshend Keith Moon and John Entwistle performing onstage in the 1975 film. Printed mimeo label affixed to the verso. Based on the 1969 rock opera written by The Who about a deaf dumb and blind kid who sure plays a mean pinball and subsequently becomes the idol of a religious cult. The cast included among others every member of The Who Jack Nicholson Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. Shot on location in Cumbria Buckinghamshire and Hampshire England. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hemdale International Films unknown
