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1942ref. 129351Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Story synopsis basis for the 1943 film "Claudia" based on a story by Franken that appeared in Redbook magazine between July 1941 and October 1942. McGuire and Young are memorable in their portrayal of a young innocent couple struggling to break from the ties of their respective families as well as the pressure of distant relocation. Followed by a sequel "Claudia and David" in 1946 and basis for a radio play. Sky blue titled wrappers with credit for writer Franken. Distribution page present with receipt intact. 18 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1977ref. 164698N.p.: N.p. 1977. Set of seven color studio still photographs from the 1977 film each machine-numbered at the bottom left corner: 1 2 3 4 5 6 8. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1977ref. 157687N.p.: N.p. 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 film showing director and actor Woody Allen. A romantic comedy about the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian and his quirky girlfriend. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenplay Best Actress and Best Actor. Shot on location in California and New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Ebert II. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1937ref. 130740Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1937. Revised Final Draft script for the 1937 film. Copy belonging to Van Heflin with his manuscript annotations throughout. A romantic drama set to the back drop of the Annapolis Naval Academy. Bill Martin a young midshipman must chose between his love for Julia and his commitment to the navy in this 1937 film. Mint green titled wrappers rubber-stamped as Revised Final script on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 70 dated May 18 1937 with credits for writers Cabanne and Twist. Distribution page present with receipt removed. 140 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1965ref. 161466N.p.: SRO Film Distributors 1965. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Each with provenance stamps on the versos one with a label obscuring an older provenance stamp. Anna a divorced dance instructor begins a relationship with Erik one of her students. Set in Gothenburg Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one with a wax pencil annotation in the top left margin. SRO Film Distributors unknown
1948ref. 152186N.p.: N.p. 1948. Draft script for the 1948 British film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript pencil to the title page and his manuscript annotations throughout. With revision pages laid in throughout the script along with a distribution receipt signed by Delamar and with a reference photograph from the film showing actors Vivien Leigh and Ralph Richardson. Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966 and Terence Young's "Mayerling" 1968. Based on the classic 1877 novel by Leo Tolstoy about how all happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Set in St. Petersburg. Black titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for novelist Tolstoy and screenwriters Jean Anouilh Julien Duvivier and Guy Morgan. 190 leaves with last page of text numbered 165. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white undated revision pages throughout. Housed in a navy spring binder as originally used. Pages supple but Very Good only overall with curling at the edges. Photograph about Very Good with moderate soil and toning. Binder Good with soil overall. N.p. unknown
1948ref. 161537Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1948 British film. Based on Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel wherein a young woman's loveless marriage leads her to begin an affair with a dashing Czarist officer. Set in St. Petersburg. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes and some creasing at the corners as well as two chips along the top edge. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1933ref. 167824New York: Columbia Pictures 1933. Vintage pressbook for the 1933 pre-Code film. A lawyer embarks on a promising career while her husband's football career begins to fade causing discord and resentment between the two. When he is wrongly accused of murdering another woman she comes to his defense. 12 x 17.75 inches. 12 pages side-stapled. Very Good plus moderately rubbed. Columbia Pictures unknown
1980ref. 172931N.p.: Barber Rose Film 1980. Nine vintage reference photographs from the 1980 film. All photographs with a mimeo snipe attached to the verso. Follows the first ever animal Olympics where animals compete in winter and summer Olympic sports under continental teams. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Barber Rose Film unknown
1978ref. 160953New York: Harvey Hutter & Co. Inc 1978. Vintage "US Senator Blutarsky" poster used as an ultimately little known bizarre futuristic advertisement for the 1978 film. National Lampoon was a huge success as an alternative magazine in the early 1970s and irrevocably altered its future in 1978 with the production of this film an irreverent sharp and now classic comedy. A production company was launched making over half a dozen films between 1978-2002 and as a result today's generation associates "National Lampoon" almost completely with its films rather than its pulp origins. And importantly this was the film that catapulted Harold Ramis and Belushi from television into the movies where they would both flourish. Nominated by the Writer's Guild of America for Best Comedy Screenplay in 1979. 24 x 30 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear including several small closed tears at the extremities and a small chip to the upper right side and light creasing overall. National Film Registry. McPadden Teen Movie Hell. Harvey Hutter & Co., Inc unknown
1951ref. 156116New York: Joseph Brenner 1951. Vintage pressbook for the US release of the 1951 German film. The doctor of an invalid heiress marries her out of pity not expecting her to live more than a few years after their marriage but begins to fall in love with her. Shot in Rome and Naples Italy and in Bavaria Germany. Single leaf bi-fold 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear. Joseph Brenner unknown
1974ref. 150799N.p.: Calneva International 1974. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 adult film mounted as issued by the distributor on a presentation card. Cards 10 x 8 inches. Presentation card 14 x 11 inches. Lobby cards and presentation cards Very Good plus. Calneva International unknown
1968ref. 147011N.p.: N.p. 1968. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. An elite team of beautiful highly educated young women work in tandem with an international hotel chain to provide services for guests upon request-whether that be a dining date private hostess tennis partner interpreter or whatever "the busy traveler far away from home" needs. Red untitled card wrappers. Title page present dated 3/29/68 with credits for screenwriter MARCIA BORIE and story credits to CHARLES BRONSON. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 152363N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 Russian film showing actress Irma Raush. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th-century drama capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia shot on location in Moscow. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 34. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown
1966ref. 164231Paris: Télérama 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film showing actress Irma Raush. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th century drama capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia shot on location in Moscow. 7 x 5 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 34. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Télérama unknown
1979ref. 147030N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for an unproduced television film. After being paralyzed from the waist down by a car accident a young girl finds her spirit again with the help of a horse named Rainbow at a physical rehabilitation ranch for children. Set in Santa Cruz California. Orange untitled wrappers. Title page present dated November 1979 with credits for screenwriters Lawrence J. Serefine and Hal Price. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered 72. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
1944ref. 172390Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures 1944. Collection of 14 vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1944 film. With provenance stamps on the verso. Based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Rachel Field. A poor doctor is hired to cure a wealthy woman's deafness whose fiancé is having an affair with her sister. 8 x 10 inches. Generally Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown
1944ref. 132072Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Original US half sheet poster for the 1944 film based on the 1942 best seller by Rachel Field. Chandler's second screenwriting credit and the only non-crime screenplay of his career. 28 x 22 inches mounted on board. Near Fine with some minor professional restoration. Paramount Pictures unknown
1972ref. 135242Paris: Twentieth Century-Fox 1972. Two vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1972 French film "La course du lievre a travers les champs" release in the US as "And Hope to Die." Featured is a rare still of director Clement brandishing a rifle and a still of actor Trintignant contemplating the true value of a ten-dollar bill. Loosely based on David Goodis' 1954 seminal hardboiled novel "Black Friday" a paperback original. A French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of criminals in the midst of kidnapping the mentally-challenged daughter of a rival crimelord. The plan goes accordingly until the girl accidentally dies. Shot on location in Quebec Canada and Hauts-de-Seine France. Both stills 7 x 9.25 inches borderless as issued. Ink annotations on the versos else Near Fine overall. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1945ref. 159128Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1945 film showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra with then-child actor Dean Stockwell. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" 1949. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus evenly toned with light creasing at the corners. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1945ref. 155840Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help a would-be film star make it big. The first of three films to pair Sinatra and Kelly followed by "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On the Town" 1949. Set and shot on location in Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
ref. 163381Universal City: Dreamworks 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. In San Diego in the 1970s successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Shot on location in San Diego Los Angeles Glendale and Long Beach. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 06/09/03 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered "112-113". Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light splashes on the title page bound with two gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
1959ref. 159902Los Altos CA: Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures 1959. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1959 film one showing Duke Ellington working on the film score and the other showing Ellington laughing with Billy Strayhorn. Carlyle Productions stamps on the versos. The first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African American composer. Composed by Ellington and Strayhorn and performed by Ellington's Orchestra the score won three Grammy Awards in 1959. Based on the 1958 novel by judge John D. Voelker writing under the pseudonym Robert Traver based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man whom he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Michigan. One 8 x 10 inches the other 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Carlyle Productions / Columbia Pictures unknown
1959ref. 158510N.p.: N.p. 1959. Vintage photograph of Lee Remick and Duke Ellington on the set of the 1959 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African American composer. The jazz score composed by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn and performed by Ellington's Orchestra won three Grammy Awards in 1959. Based on the 1958 novel by judge John D. Voelker writing under the pseudonym Robert Traver based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man whom he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards. Set and shot on location in Michigan. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine lightly faded with a hint of creasing at the corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. N.p. unknown
1959ref. 146009Burbank CA: Otto Preminger Films 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker under the pseudonym Robert Traver which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Adapted Screenplay Best Actor for Jimmy Stewart and twice for Best Supporting Actor for George C. Scott and Arthur O'Connell. Set in and shot on location in Michigan. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light edgewear. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 600. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Grant US. Selby US. Otto Preminger Films unknown
