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1979ref. 78850Century City California: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. Wraps. Very good. Third Revised Draft dated May 1 1979 of the script for the 1980 Stuart Rosenberg film starring Robert Redford as a newly arrived prison warden who attempts to clean up a corrupt and violent penal system. It was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 1981 Academy Awards. This is Jack Hirshberg’s copy with the iconic film publicist’s signature or printed name on the first page of some of the revisions. Quarto: 292 pp. A rainbow script photomechanically reproduced on the recto of standard pink green white yellow and blue stock. The printed green paper front wrapper and plain blue rear wrapper are bound with two brass brads. Short closed tear to the left edge of the front wrapper just above the top brad; otherwise very good. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1970ref. 152555Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film here under the working title "Kane." Copy belonging to actor Bradford Dillman with his stamp to the title page and his manuscript ink annotations throughout. Laid in with the script are two manuscript pages with Dillman's notes on blocking for various scenes and two gatherings of cast and crew contact information. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. Blue titled wrappers dated January 30 1970 noted as production No. 8981. Title page present dated January 30 1970 with credits for director James Goldstone and screenwriter Ernest Kinoy. 141 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between February 11 1970 and March 4 1970. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown
1971ref. 157331N.p.: N.p. 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director James Goldstone with a camera on the set of the 1971 film. A mysterious African American man returns to his hometown for a funeral and is suspected by the police and district attorney of being a union organizer. His aging family doctor however knows the man holds a larger more meaningful purpose in the world. Set in Alabama shot on location in Marysville California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1998ref. 171263Santa Monica: Steven Bochco Productions 1998. Vintage Draft script for Season 1 Episode 17 of the 1997-1998 television series. Originally aired March 9 1998 on CBS. This short-lived procedural followed the uniformed police officers at a Brooklyn precinct. In this episode tensions are high at the precinct following one of the officers acting as an informant for Internal Affairs. Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for its Pilot episode. Set in Brooklyn. White titled self-wrappers lacking rear wrapper production No. C117 dated February 9 1998 with credits for screenwriters Doug Palau and Nicholas Wootton and director Marc Buckland. Title page integral with front wrapper. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Steven Bochco Productions unknown
1998ref. 171538N.p.: N.p. 1998. Draft script for Season 1 Episode 18 of the 1997-1998 television series. Originally aired March 16 1998 on CBS. With production document bound into the script preceding front self wrapper. This short-lived procedural followed the uniformed police officers at a Brooklyn precinct. In this episode two officers try to help a woman being abused by her husband until they find him dead. Winner of an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for its Pilot episode. Set in Brooklyn. White titled self wrapper lacking rear wrapper production No. C118 dated February 24 1998 with credits for director Michael Watkins and screenwriters Scott A. Williams Edward Allen Bernero and Matt Olmstead. Title page integral with front wrapper. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1919ref. 171466N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1919 film showing Lillian Gish in a patterned shawl and straw hat sitting on a coil of rope. A tragedy based on a short story by Thomas Burke about a young girl who is abused by her father an alcoholic ex-prizefighter and is taken in by a kindly Chinese man. Set in London. 6.75 x 8.5 inches trimmed irregularly with margins on two sides. Very Good plus with a crease to the bottom right corner. National Film Registry. N.p. unknown
1938ref. 148844Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn Howard Hawks and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10 1937. Zoologist David Huxley Grant develops a wary interest in the niece of dowager Mrs. Carelton Random Hepburn which as in all great screwball comedies is not finalized as a romance until about the last ten seconds of the film. But what makes this film singular is that the story is built around the maintenance aspects of raising a pet leopard creating a rapid-fire blur of events and dialogue that doesn't let up for the entire 102-minute running time. The film bombed upon release causing RKO to drop both of the stars but today ranks as one of the best films made by either. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1967ref. 141006N.p.: N.p. 1967. Three Draft scripts for an unproduced film. During the Korean War a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a widowed Korean woman and her child. Chaos descends as the soldiers find their radio is broken they are running out of supplies and they are slowly being picked off by snipers. Set in Korea. Script 1: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Twelve leaves with last page of text numbered twelve. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 2: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. Script 3: Self wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 99. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrappers unbound. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 140880N.p.: N.p. 1967. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter dated February 16 1967 from Elizabeth Leeson secretary of Leon Mirelli returning the screenplay to Ilse Lahn as well as 15 on-set photographs housed in an envelope. During the Korean War a group of marines are pinned down behind enemy lines in a remote village where the only survivor is a widowed Korean woman and her child. Chaos descends as the soldiers find their radio is broken they are running out of supplies and they are slowly being picked off by snipers. Set in Korea. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Ribbon copy typescript. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1957ref. 1901200426Finland: Films Lutétia/S.L.P.F. 1957. No Binding. Fine. An unusual pairing: an original Finnish tour poster for Cette Sacrée Gamine Naughty Girl 1956 the French comedy starring Brigitte Bardot combined with a postcard-sized photographic print hand-signed by Bardot. The poster measures approximately 15.25 × 23.5 inches. Unused no pinholes no tape residue no notable edge wear. Superb condition ideal for display or a serious Bardot collection. Tour poster format; no printer information noted. The hand-signed photograph is a postcard-sized photographic image bearing Bardot's signature. An attractive combined lot for collectors of French cinema memorabilia or Bardot ephemera. Films Lutétia/S.L.P.F. unknown
1967ref. 161561N.p.: N.p. 1967. Two vintage still photographs from the 1967 film both with provenance stamps on the versos. Brigitta is a sexually repressed bank teller who meets the mysterious and charming Bize releasing her appetites for all things erotic. Shot on location in Munich Germany. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear faint creasing and one pinhole. N.p. unknown
1953ref. 134790Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1953. Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road" based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run" written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. 14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes about Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1945ref. 154826N.p.: N.p. 1945. Vintage reference photograph from the 1945 British film showing actress Celia Johnson leaning against a door. Based on Noel Coward's 1936 play "Still Life" about a suburban housewife who enters into a passionate extramarital affair with a married stranger she meets at a railway station. Winner of the Palme d'Or and nominated for three Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Lancashire Cumbria and London. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 76. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1973ref. 155086N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1973 film. Printed provenance label affixed to the verso. An affection-starved underage hippie falls into an unlikely romance with a depressed older businessman. Clint Eastwood's first directorial credit for a film in which he did not also star as well as an excellent example of the manic pixie dream girl trope. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown
1981ref. 141480N.p.: N.p. 1981. First Draft script for an unproduced film. David a constant disappointment is floundering coming up with new ways to make money. A doctor friend of his asks him to donate some sperm for an artificial insemination experiment and the First Lady is destined to give birth to his child. Set in New York. Clear untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1981 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael K. Lange. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine housed in a black binder. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 166554N.p.: Bing Crosby Productions 1963. Revised Final Draft script for the nineteenth episode of the 1963-1964 ABC television series printed on blue leaves which aired on January 27 1964. A spin-off of the 1961-1966 ABC television series "Ben Casey." Created by producer Meta Rosenberg "Breaking Point" starred Paul Richards as a resident in psychiatry at York Hospital in Los Angeles and Eduard Franz as the hospital's psychiatric clinical director and focused on the problems of individual patients seeking help at the clinic. The Emmy Award-nominated series premiered on ABC on September 16 1963 and aired for 30 episodes with the final episode airing on April 27 1964. In this episode a fashion designer Eleanor Parker who compulsively seeks out liaisons with strange men sets her sights on seducing Dr. Thompson Richards. Front wrapper integral with title page dated November 26 1963 noted as REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter George Bellak. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with loverall edgewear and light foxing on the front and rear leaves bound with two gold brads. Bing Crosby Productions unknown
2000ref. 149989N.p.: N.p. 2000. Third Draft script for the pilot episode of the 2002 television series originally aired on July 17 on the Bravo Network. A one-season drama following the team members of a fictional 24-hour cable news television network named "I-24." Set in Milwaukee and shot on location in Vancouver British Columbia. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated February 15 2000 noted as Third Draft with credits for screenwriter Gardner Stern. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 63. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1988ref. 161423Los Angeles: Act III Productions 1988. Draft script for the 1989 film. Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto with his annotations in manuscript ink on the title page and his name in manuscript ink on a single revision page. A old New York safecracker takes on a bumbling young crook as his lookout and apprentice. The American directorial debut of Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth. Set and shot on location in Portland Oregon. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director Bill Forsyth and screenwriter John Sayles. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout most undated with one dated June 15 1988. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good moderately soiled bound with three silver brads. Act III Productions unknown
1980ref. 152392N.p.: Warner Columbia Film 1980. Archive of material from the screening of the 1980 British film at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival including three borderless reference photographs one pressbook and one xerographically reproduced competition sheet. All text in French. A young punk singer from London rises to stardom but discovers that fame comes at the expense of her friends and integrity. The directorial debut of Brian Gibson who would go on to direct a plethora of films focusing on rock musicians most notably "What's Love Got to Do with It" 1993 and "Still Crazy" 1998. Set and shot on location in London. Photographs 9.5 x 7 inches. Pressbook 8.25 x 11.5 inches 15 leaves. All materials Near Fine. Carlson and Connolly Destroy All Movies. Olive Films 309. Warner Columbia Film unknown
1966ref. 160459New York: CBS Television Network 1966. Vintage photograph of Patricia Neal from the 1961 film struck in 1966 for airing on the "CBS Thursday Night Movies" October 6 1966. CBS mimeo snipe attached to the verso and folded over the recto. Based on the 1958 novella by Truman Capote about a naive cafe society girl in New York who falls in love with a struggling writer. 7 x 9 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. CBS Television Network unknown
1985ref. 144247Universal City: Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph of director Terry Gilliam on the set of the 1985 film. With manuscript annotations regarding layout on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Universal Pictures unknown
1985ref. 140818Universal City CA: Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures 1985. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1985 film showing director Gilliam and crew during a quiet moment between takes. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. Gilliam's masterpiece about a man trying to escape a bureaucratic authoritarian government in a dystopian future. Nominated for two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 51. Embassy Pictures / Universal Pictures unknown
1981ref. 159605N.p.: N.p. 1981. Three vintage color reference photographs from the 1981 French film all showing actress Valérie Kaprisky in various states of undress. One borderless two with borders. An exploration into the lives of five wealthy women leading glamorous lives alongside their powerful husbands and companions. Borderless photograph 7 x 10.5 inches bordered photographs 7 x 9 and 7 x 7.5 inches. Fine. N.p. unknown
1985ref. 147081N.p.: N.p. 1985. Treatment script for an unproduced Western film. An ex-convict returns from Central America to Texas determined to confront his former business partner a power-hungry cattleman. Set in Texas near the Mexican border. White titled self wrappers with title page integral with the front wrapper as issued dated 1985 with credits for screenwriter Robert Henderson. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus overall partially bound with one staple. N.p. unknown
1965ref. 167080N.p.: Paramount Studios 1965. Draft script for the 33rd episode of the second season of the 1965-1966 NBC Western television series which aired on January 9 1966. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri who played the character "Young Hawk" with marker and ink annotations of his name his character's name and "Office" on the front wrapper with manuscript marker annotations of actor's names adjacent to the character's names on the Cast page. Created by Larry Cohen his first series as creator and producer the series was originally intended as an allegory about blacklisting during McCarthyism which according to Cohen lead to him being fired from the series after mistakenly telling its right-wing star Chuck Connors. Following star Connors' popular 1958-1963 Western series "The Rifleman" Connors stars as Jason McCord a former US cavalry captain who was court-martialed after being unjustly accused of cowardice. The series premiered on January 24 1965 and aired for two seasons and 48 episodes ending on April 24 1966. In this episode Connors comes upon a bound white Indian woman who says three wolfer brothers kidnapped and attacked her who he decides he needs to find and kill while returning her to her people. Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Frank Paris. 31 leaves with last page of text numbered 28. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with two blue revision pages dated 11/4/65. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light toning and foxing to the extremities bound with two gold brads. Paramount Studios unknown
