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1937ref. 159941Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1937. Vintage reference photograph of director Fritz Lang and a camera crew capturing a scene with actress Sylvia Sidney on the set of the 1937 film. National Film Archive stamp on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. One of Lang's greatest American films and an important film noir antecedent very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it notably "They Live By Night" 1948 "Gun Crazy" 1950 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1937ref. 158246Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1937. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1937 film "National Film Archive London" stamp on versos. One of Fritz Lang's greatest American films and an important film noir antecedent very much predicting the "crime spree" films that would follow it notably "They Live By Night" 1948 "Gun Crazy" 1950 and "Bonnie and Clyde" 1967. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
ref. 155122New York: Deathtrap Films 1986. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / copyright 1986 / Photo copyright R Kern" with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso. A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation the film was shot unscripted over two days and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother and the young East Village model Leg who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos starred as the lead daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table angrily proclaiming "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Deathtrap Films unknown books
1961ref. 148075Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Craig Hill Elaine Edwards and Willis Bouchey from the 1961 film. Dr. Frank Harlow Hill flees to another town and changes his name after witnessing a murder of a detective taking up lodging in a remote home of the wheelchair boound Colonel Maitland Bouchey and his daughter Laurie Edwards. 8 x 10 inches. Small circle in manuscript ink over the name of Craig Hill on text in margin otherwise Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1970ref. 142976Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. One of the more notable scripts from character actor and writer Leo Gordon whose Hollywood career began after his dishonorable discharge during WWll for robbing patrons at a bar. Throughout his 40 years as an actor art imitated life as the burly Gordon typically played an outlaw typecast predominately in Westerns. Peter Collinson fresh off "The Italian Job" was reportedly a brute force in addition to excruciating temperatures on a set that was 200 miles outside of Istanbul. The pairing of the leads was lauded as Charles Bronson was at the height of European fame alongside a well-established Tony Curtis. Set in 1922 Greco-Turkish War shot on location in Turkey. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Leo V. Gordon. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1938ref. 148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years. Set in New York City. 8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1972ref. 132505London: National Screen Service / London Screen Distributors 1972. Vintage British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1971 US film. A young American soldier wants to lose his virginity before he's shipped off to Vietnam and luck would have it as he meets a young woman with a dark secret who appears willing to help out. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases at the extremities else Near Fine. National Screen Service / London Screen Distributors unknown books
1999ref. 160097Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1999. For Your Consideration script for the 2000 film. Kenneth Lonergan's directorial debut about the complicated relationship between two orphaned adult siblings. Nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actress for Laura Linney and Best Screenplay for Lonergan. Set in the fictional Catskill towns of Scottsville and Auburn shot on location in Margaretville and Phoenicia New York. White titled Paramount Pictures wrappers undated with credit for director-screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. Title page present dated 1999 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credit for Lonergan. 99 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good with moderate dampstains affecting the top right corners and fore-edges bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938ref. 144158Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodds who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film. Each photo with a printed snipe on the verso a number annotated and circled in blue pencil 1 2 3 respectively and a stamp crediting Paramount Studios photographer Malcolm Bulloch. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. One photo with a faint vertical crease. Spicer p. 403. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1938ref. 136085Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Vintage studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 noir antecedent showing director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben and Paramount along with an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches with wide margins. Near Fine. Spicer US Precursor. Paramount Pictures unknown books
2000ref. 154465Universal City: MCA TV 2000. Vintage studio still photograph from the 2000 re-release of the 1938 film showing actors Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Two former convicts meet while working at a department store and fall in love but their relationship soon sours when one suspects the other of infidelity leading him to return to a life of crime. 10 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Noir. MCA TV unknown books
1956ref. 140212London: Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists 1956. Vintage front-of-house card for the 1956 British film noir tinted green as issued. Pictured are the busty Diana Dors and Yvonne Mitchell in the midst of having a party. Released in the US as "Blonde Sinner." 11 x 14 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Kentwood Productions / Allied Artists unknown books
1940ref. 130425Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1940. Final script for the 1940 film. The AFI Catalog notes: "According to a Twentieth Century- Fox press release this was the first writing effort for Fox sound man William Brent. After his story was bought Brent was made a writer at the studio. Also the first screenwriter assignment for Irving Cummings Jr. and William Conselman Jr. Both men were "second generation Hollywood" as Cummings' father was a director and Conselman's a screenwriter. "According to Twentieth Century-Fox press releases the football sequences were shot at the Los Angeles Olympic Stadium and at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Despite a summer heat wave the extras were required to wear heavy winter coats. As such large wind machines behind huge cakes of ice were used to cool off the fields. Thirty-four college football players from local universities were used as extras in this film. They included USC's Ambrose Schindler Bill Howard Red Morgan Tony Tonelli Ollie Day and Owen Hansen and UCLA's Billy Bob Williams Bill Overlin and Bill Radovich. Location filming was done at the Inglewood Railway Station as the station received little use. Because only two freight trains used the station each day movie extras were the only passengers ever to use the station. The press release also reported that the rental cost of a four-car train at the station was $150 per day. HR reported that Fox borrowed Lewis Howard from Universal Pictures for this film." A Fox programmer about a doctor reflecting on his college days how he was lured onto the football team and away from his studies a flirtation with a widow and meeting his true love. A strong early vehicle for actor Robert Sterling and featuring two notable women from the serial film era Jean Rogers Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 149 and production No. 518 dated June 24 1940. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated June 24 1940 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Conselman Jr. and Cummings Jr. 135 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/25/40 and 7/1/40. Pages Near Fine wrapper Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968ref. 162617N.p.: Cannon Releasing Corporation 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film also released in the US under the title "To Ingrid My Love Lisa." Provenance stamp on the verso. Lisa a successful Stockholm fashion designer meets the beautiful 17-year old Ingrid during a country vacation and takes her back to Stockholm to be a model leading to a sapphic May-December relationship. Shot on location in Stockholm Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Cannon Releasing Corporation unknown books
1968ref. 133277N.p.: Cannon Films 1968. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1968 Swedish film. Sexploitation pioneer Joe Sarno's lesser known coming-of-age tale about a young girl who is introduced to the ways of lesbian love. One of few sexploitation auteurs to receive critical acclaim in with the likes of Radley Metzger and the indefatigable Russ Meyer. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall else Near Fine. Cannon Films unknown books
1925ref. 166083N.p.: N.p. 1925. Vintage reference photograph of director Earle Rodney with a camera crew on the set of the 1925 short film setting up a shot with actors Bobby Vernon and Frances Lee. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. An American infantryman attempts to reunite with his sweetheart in Paris but instead finds himself the object of affection of the "Darling of Paris"-and the object of ire of her boyfriend. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a small bruise at the center top margin. N.p. unknown books
2017ref. 163942N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 6 of the 2018-present television series including one Production Draft and one Network Draft. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Chief Rainwater and developer Dan Jenkins team up threatening John's hold over the Yellowstone ranch. Originally aired on August 1 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Network Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 106 and NETWORK DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Production Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 9/7/17 noted as episode No. 106 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for Sheridan. 47 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
2017ref. 163937N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Revised Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 2 of the 2018-present television series one dated 8/9/17 and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode the Dutton family attempts to recover from the deaths of the eldest son and a brother-in-law. Originally aired on June 27 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. 8/9/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/9/17 noted as episode No. 102 and PRODUCTION DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 64 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Revised Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 102 and Pink Revised Pages with credit for Sheridan. 63 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
2017ref. 163941N.p.: Fire and Ice Productions 2017. Two Draft scripts for Season 1 Episode 5 of the 2018-present television series one undated and one dated 8/12/17. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher with her name as a watermark throughout the scripts. The long-running neo-Western series follows the trials and tribulations of the family-owned Yellowstone Dutton Ranch the largest cattle ranch in Montana. In this episode Kayce continues to battle the tribal police while John attempts to keep Kayce and Monica at the ranch. Originally aired on July 25 2018 on Paramount Network. Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker construction accountant/estimator/buyer and carpenter on over 20 movies including "The Last Seduction" 1994 "Pulp Fiction" 1994 "From Dusk Till Dawn" 1994 "The Horse Whisperer 1998 "Joy Ride" 2001 and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas including "The Bridge" 2014 "Ozark" 2017 and "Yellowstone" 2018. Set in Montana and shot on location in Darby and Helena Montana and in Park City Woodland and Springville Utah. Undated Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present noted as episode No. 105 with credit for screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. 43 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. 8/12/17 Draft: Self wrappers. Title page present dated 8/12/17 noted as episode No. 105 and Production Draft with credit for Sheridan. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Fire and Ice Productions unknown books
1984ref. 162212N.p.: N.p. 1984. Vintage color borderless reference photograph from the 1984 French film showing a nude Valérie Kaprisky in the shower. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. While on holiday at Saint-Tropez a sexually adventurous teenage girl falls for an older man who himself is interested only in the girl's mother. 7 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
ref. 162611New York: Dino De Laurentiis 1984. Final Draft script for the 1985 neo-noir film. With annotations throughout highlighting dialogue related to Mickey Rourke's character Stanley White. From the collection of practical effects designer and miniatures specialist Greg Jein. Jein was gifted the script by fellow Chinese-American actor Dennis Dun who played Herbert Kwong in the film. Jein designed the award-winning miniatures in the film relating to director Michael Cimino's elaborate reproduction of New York's Chinatown reproduced entirely on a soundstage and so realistic that Stanley Kubrick-born in the Bronx-had to be convinced by Cimino after seeing the premiere that it was not shot on location. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Daley about a Vietnam veteran turned New York City police captain who dedicates himself to stopping organized crime in Chinatown. Blue generic wrappers. Title page present dated September 4 1984 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Oliver Stone and Michael Cimino. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with offsetting on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. Grant US. Spicer US. Carlson & Connolly Destroy All Movies. Dino De Laurentiis unknown books
1991ref. 151433N.p.: N.p. 1991. Fourth Draft script for the 1992 film here under the working title "The Year of the Comet." An international chase ensues in pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history bottled in the year of the Great Comet of 1811. Shot on location in France Scotland and England. Self front wrapper integral with title page dated February '91 noted as Fourth draft with credits for screenwriter William Goldman. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 120. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine back wrapper Very Good plus with light dampstains on bottom left bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 137980Hollywood: Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions 1980. Original "pre-production package and script" for an unproduced film called "Yaqui Fox and Mose" including a separate synopsis. Included in the "pre-production package" is character information: Fox half Choctaw Indian half Irish a loner in total control of his destiny; Yaqui an Indian at the end of his rope looking for redemption; and Mose half Black half Indian on the run for a crime he didn't commit. Also included: letters from various productions companies regarding possible crew members like director Ted Post cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Will Sampson as "Yaqui" Philip Michael Thomas as "Mose" producers Richard Kaye Jay Lovins and Carol Hughes music by Carlos Santana technical personnel stunt coordinator Bill Hart letter signed by Hart wrangle Dick Lundin letter signed by Lundin special effect director Johnny James letter signed by James. Letters are dated 1979 or 1980. Various photocopied advertisements images of scenery and animals to be used production data a shooting schedule budget detail promotional ideas and weather information where the film was to be shot is also present. Overall pre-production for the film went as far as it possibly could but for unknown reasons the film was never produced or released. Brown titled wrappers. Synopsis page with a credit for screenwriter Terri Crane. Xerographic duplication with a few full-color pages detailing scenes from the opening titles. Last leaf of text numbered 80. Very Good plus bound with a brown Vello binding. Terri Crane Productions / Sunfire Productions unknown books
1972ref. 162401Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1972 British film variously showing actresses Elizabeth Taylor Michael Caine and Susannah York on the set. An upper-class couple's turbulent marriage seems to finally be at an end when the husband falls in love with a beautiful mysterious younger widow. Set in London. 9.75 x 8 inches 9.25 x 8 inches and 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 162297Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1972. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1972 British film showing actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Susannah York. From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah. Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An upper-class couple's turbulent marriage seems to finally be at an end when the husband falls in love with a beautiful mysterious younger widow. Set in London. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
