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1943ref. 166020Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Vintage keybook set design photograph from the 1943 film showing the exterior of a nightclub advertising a one-night-only performance by Duke Ellington and his band. Property Department stamp and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1940 Broadway musical. A compulsive gambler killed in a nightclub shooting is visited by God and the Devil who agree to give him six months to atone for his earthly misdeeds and decide the fate of his eternal soul. A star-studded affair featuring jazz great Louis Armstrong as one of Satan's minions and a showcase musical number by Ellington and his orchestra. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1972ref. 162216N.p.: N.p. 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actors Fritz Wepper and Marisa Berenson. French release stamps on the verso. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera" which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye to Berlin." A decadent beautiful story of cabaret life desperation and love all under the increasingly deadly presence of the Nazi Party in Weimar-era Berlin. Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning eight including Best Picture Best Director Best Cinematography Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actress for Minnelli and Best Supporting Actor for Joel Grey. Set in Berlin and shot on location throughout Germany. 8 x 10 inches with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1972ref. 152128Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film showing actress Marisa Berenson. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera" which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye to Berlin." A decadent beautiful story of cabaret life desperation and love all under the increasingly deadly presence of the Nazi Party in Weimar-era Berlin. Nominated for ten Academy Awards and winning eight including Best Picture Best Director Best Cinematography Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actress for Liza Minnelli and Best Supporting Actor for Joel Grey. Set in Berlin and shot on location throughout Germany. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Allied Artists unknown
1998ref. 157392Pasadena: Madison Avenue Productions 1998. Shooting script for the 1998 television film with annotations in manuscript highlighter on pages 8-9. Laid in is a Crew Call Sheet with copied annotations ten reduced copies of ten pages of the script with copied annotations and a copy of a map for the crew to the Metropolitan Baptist Church with the copied date of 6/6/98. Bound in following the script is a nine page Crew List a June 2 1998 Memorandum and a two page shooting schedule. The television film aired on CBS on November 29 1998. Based on a true story of a Pasadena cab driver who picks up an elderly woman en route to a funeral who ends up insisting the driver take her on a cross-county trip ending in Vancouver. Shot on location in Los Angeles. Front wrapper integral with the title page dated 4/27/98 noted as SHOOTING SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter Dalene Young and story by Beth Polson. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated 5/5/98 and 5/15/98. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Crew Call Sheet 6 x 9 inches stapled to the reduced script pages. Near Fine. Ten Reduced Script Pages 5.75 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine Map 14 x 8.5 inches. With a single vertical fold else Near Fine. Madison Avenue Productions unknown
1970ref. 166463Los Angeles: Rogallian Productions 1970. Fourth Draft script for the 1970 film seen here under the working title "C.C. Ryder and Company." Bound in with the script is a two-page call sheet. A biker falls in with the "Heads Company" a notorious biker gang and must save a young woman and defeat the gang's leader in a motorcycle race. Set and shot on location in Arizona. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated April 3 1970 noted as FOURTH DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Roger Smith. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good with foxing and chipping and closed tears at the extremities bound with two gold brads. Rogallian Productions unknown
1978ref. 155852Paris: Roissy Films 1978. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film. Manuscript ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A darkly comic dystopian fantasy set in New York about a lonely French electrician who attempts to raise a baby chimpanzee. Shot on location in New York City. 9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Roissy Films unknown
1978ref. 144304Paris: Roissy Films 1978. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph of Gerard Depardieu and the star chimpanzee from the 1978 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. An Italian-French production about a man who lives in a New York City basement and works as a jack of all trades for the owner of a wax museum and a feminist theater group. He finds an abandoned chimpanzee on the beach who he attempts to raise. A bleak and desolate depiction of New York City. Filmed in English and released dubbed in both French and Italian. Shot on location in New York City. 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus. Roissy Films unknown
1963ref. 168067Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph of actors Ann-Margret and Jesse Pearson with director George Sidney and script supervisor Marshall Wolins on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures stamp on the verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award-winning stage musical of the same name about an unsuccessful pop songwriter who becomes convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high-school girlfriend goodbye. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1963ref. 146931Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs of Janet Leigh and Dick Van Dyke rehearsing on the set of the 1963 film. Mimeo snipe "ORIGINAL A RENDRE PARIMAGE" "COPYRIGHT CAMERA PRESS LTD." and a struck through with manuscript pencil "Holmes-Lebel" stamps on the verso. One contains an "impress" sticker on verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. Unsuccessful songwriter Albert Peterson Van Dyke is convinced he can make his fortune and marry girlfriend Rosie Leigh if he can get recently drafted Rock and Roll star Conrad Birdie Jessie Pearson on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss high school girl Kim MacAfee Ann Margret goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 1 - 9 x 12 inches 1 - 10 x 12 inches. Very Good plus edgewear and creasing to far corners. Godard Histoires du cinema. Columbia Pictures unknown
1963ref. 154839N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph of actress Janet Leigh in a brunette wig relaxing on the set of the 1963 film. Stamps of The Associated Press and Le Parisien on the verso. Based on the 1960 Tony Award winning stage musical of the same name with a book by Michael Stewart lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse. An unsuccessful pop songwriter is convinced he can make his fortune if he can get recently drafted rock and roll star Conrad Birdie on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss his high school girlfriend goodbye. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 147208N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film also noted under the working title "Tennessee Overdrive" though it should be noted that by the writing of this draft the locale for the intended film was changed from Tennessee to Texas. A ex-convict looking to pay his debts teams up with a hardened trucker determined to keep his small trucking operation in spite of violent intimidation tactics by a rival company. The two men make their way along a Texas trucking route culminating in a shootout just outside Austin. Screenwriters Michael Scheff and David Spector were best known for the disaster thriller "Airport '77" 1977. Yellow generic studio wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Michael Scheff and David Spector. 130 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with light tide marks to the top edges of the wrapper and leaves bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1979ref. 157103Universal City: Universal City Studios 1979. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film showing actor Richard Pryor behind the camera. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A cynical ex-convict is hired to drive a group of orphaned special needs children and their schoolteacher across the country from Philadelphia to Seattle growing closer to the group in the process and gaining a new outlook on life. Set in Philadelphia and Washington shot on location in Carnation Ellensburg and Snohomish Washington. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal City Studios unknown
ref. 158138Universal City: Universal City Studios 1979. Archive of three draft scripts for the 1981 film including a First Draft script a Final Draft script and a "Second Revised Final Draft Screenplay / Added Scenes and Retakes" partial script for the 1981 film dated between June 29 1979 and February 13 1981. The first two drafts are under the working title "Family Dream." Two of the three scripts show an annotation in manuscript ink amending the film's title on title page. A cynical ex-convict is hired to drive a group of orphaned special needs children and their schoolteacher across the country from Philadelphia to Seattle growing closer to the group in the process and gaining a new outlook on life. Set in Philadelphia and Washington shot on location in Carnation Ellensburg and Snohomish Washington. First Draft: Under the title "Family Dream." Green titled wrappers noted as First Draft on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 00545 dated June 29 1979. Title page present noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Roger L. Simon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Final Draft: Under the title "Family Dream." Red titled wrappers noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 00545 dated September 21 1979. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Roger L. Simon and Lonne Elder III. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. "Second Revised Final Draft Screenplay / Added Scenes and Retakes" partial script: Under the working title "Richard Pryor's New Movie Formerly: Family Dream." Salmon titled wrappers noted as Second Revised Final Draft Screenplay / Added Scenes and Retakes on the front wrapper dated February 13 1981. Title page present dated February 13 1981 noted as Second Revised Final Draft with credits for screenwriter Roger L. Simon and story by Richard Pryor. With pink and blue revision leaves throughout. 59 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated 2/13/81 and 2/18/81. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown
1956ref. 164217Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1956. Three vintage studio still photographs and three vintage reference photographs from the 1956 film all six showing actress Marilyn Monroe. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso and two with provenance stamps and labels on the same. Of particular note is a photograph of a large-scale bus advertisement for the film's premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre showing Monroe stretched across the top of a Metro Bus in Los Angeles. Based on the 1955 play by William Inge about a cowboy who attempts to force his romantic interest a saloon singer to marry him and live together in Montana. Shot on location in Arizona Idaho and California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good three with ink annotations on the recto margins. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1956ref. 155628N.p.: N.p. 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film showing director Joshua Logan with a handheld camera in the middle of a crowd of extras between takes while actress Marilyn Monroe calls to him from the far left. Provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1955 play by William Inge about a cowboy who attempts to force his romantic interest a saloon singer to marry him and live together in Montana. Shot on location in Arizona Idaho and California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 168321N.p.: N.p. 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film. With the resume of screenwriter Shelley Berc bound in before the title page at the front of the script. An adaptation of an experimental stage play also written by Berc a musical about a New York fireman. Title page present copyright date noted as 1984 with credit for Berc. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound with a single paper clip at the top left corner. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 151201N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A lawyer investigates the wrongful detainment of his partner by the police who he suspects has been held due to his political activities during a recent social unrest. Screenwriter Michael Sarne is best known for his work as a director including "Joanna" 1968 and "Myra Breckinridge" 1970 and as an actor most notably in "Intimidade" 1975 and "Eastern Promises" 2007. Set in South America. Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Michael Sarne. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown
1964ref. 155082N.p.: Cinema Syndicate 1964. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Printed label crediting "Bunny Yeager Photography" affixed to photograph versos. A magazine hires photographer and erstwhile pinup model Bunny Yeager to shoot a pictorial on the showgirls of Las Vegas leading to a number of nude hijinks. Yeager was one of the first pinup photographers to work outdoors in natural light and subsequently became one of the most successful and prolific pinup photographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Yeager is perhaps best remembered today for her 1954 photographs of a then little-known Bettie Page shooting a number of images which ran in "Playboy" magazine and would lead to Page's later stardom. Set and shot on location in Las Vegas and at the Hoover Dam. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Cinema Syndicate unknown
1973ref. 161563N.p.: Entertainment Ventures 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. The bass player for an amateur rock band The Group goes on a killing spree while travelling with his band on the road. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Thrower Nightmare USA. Entertainment Ventures unknown
ref. BBS-2022623Robert Bloch. Very Good. From the files of Robert Bloch. Undated unproduced script by Bloch based on the novel by Spinrad and Patton. Harlan Ellison would also write an unproduced script treatment for the novel. 138 pages in a black folder with bookplates for the Witzer Rhodes & Small agency at front and inside front cover. Long metal clasp binding. Folder is very good with light edgewear; metal clasp is secure with slight rust formation. Binding sound. Pages lightly toned free of markings. Robert Bloch unknown
ref. 156574Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1975. Shooting script for the 1976 film. Copy belonging to title designer Dan Perri with his signature in black manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American West. Set in the American West shot on location in Alberta Canada. Tan titled wrappers. Title page present dated 7/17/75 noted as SHOOTING with credits for screenwriters Alan Rudolph and Robert Altman. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box. United Artists unknown
1976ref. 150769Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1976. Set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1976 western film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Based on the 1968 play "Indians" by Arthur Kopit. A revisionist look at the Buffalo Bill legend in which the buffoonish Bill hires Chief Sitting Bull to star in his Wild West Show but finds himself frequently butting heads with Sitting Bull's own vision of the American west. Shot on location in Alberta Canada. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 554. United Artists unknown
1979ref. 161805N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for an unproduced feature-length pilot episode of the 1979-1981 television series. Based on the 1925 comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan a science fiction and adventure series about a twentieth-century astronaut who wakes up 500 years in the future. "Bomber's Moon" was ultimately vetoed by show runner Glen A. Larson in favor of the pilot episode "Awakening" penned by Leslie Stevens. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Andrew J. Fenady. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1947ref. 150384Universal City: Universal-International 1947. Vintage reference photograph of actors Howard Duff Ella Raines and Burt Lancaster director Jules Dassin and producer Mark Hellinger on a lunch break on the set of the 1947 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Led by Burt Lancaster a group of prisoners at the strict Westgate Penitentiary plan an escape but fear their plans will be ruined by sadistic power-hungry guard Hume Croyn. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with three hole punch impressions along the left side. Criterion Collection 383. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Universal-International unknown
1947ref. 165437Universal City: Universal Pictures 1947. Vintage borderless reference photograph with a thin bottom margin from the 1947 film. 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. A group of prisoners at the strict Westgate Penitentiary plan an escape but fear their plans will be ruined by sadistic power-hungry guard Captain Munsey. Director Jules Dassin's important first film a key noir followed by several others notably "The Naked City" 1948 "Thieves' Highway" 1949 "Night and the City" 1950 and "Rififi" 1955. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. Light even toning else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 383. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Universal Pictures unknown
