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1966ref. 150731Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1966. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1966 film. Based on Jack Finney's 1959 novel. A group of adventurers pull up a World War II submarine and plan to use it to rob the RMS Queen Mary a large cruise liner. Set in the Bahamas. 10 x 8 inches. One with light wear and pinholes to the corners else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1970ref. 147267Munich: Roxy Film 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in English. Based on the 1971 novel "Don't Ask Me if I Love" by Israeli film director and writer Amos Kollek. The son of a wealthy military arms manufacturer intends to pursue a life as a writer after serving in the Israeli Army in spite of his father's wishes that he become a politician. Set in Israel. Housed in a gray envelope. Title page present with credits for director Wolfgang Petersen screenwriter Manfred Purzer and novelist Amos Kollek. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good with a light tide mark to the left edge unbound. Roxy Film unknown books
1961ref. 148730New York: Janus Films 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director preceded by "Pokolenie" 1955 and "Kanal" 1957. A strong anti-war statement framed in the personae of two men given orders - from the part of the resistance that opposes the new Communist regime and on the last day of World War II in Poland - to murder a leading communist. One of Wajda's favorite performers and a friend Zbigniew Cybulski plays the man who eventually pulls the trigger and kills the communist leader with unexpected results. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 282. Janus Films unknown books
1979ref. 132907Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1979. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 UK release of the 1979 French film. Based on Alberto Vasquez-Figueroa's novel "Ebano" starring Michael Caine as Dr. Linderby whose wife is kidnapped on a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. A story set in Africa shot on location in Israel Italy and Kenya. 8 x 10 inches with no borders as issued. Ink annotations on the versos and rectos else Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1973ref. 132733Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 US film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. Taylor stars as a woman attempting to save her marriage by opting to surgically alter her face so she sets off for Switzerland to have the operation. Her husband seems uninterested after all but she still hopes to salvage their relationship even in light of all the young men now finding her new looks quite tempting. A story set in Switzerland shot in Italy. 8 x 9.5 inches. Faint foxing on the verso else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1985ref. 146958N.p.: N.p. 1985. Final Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on Winston Groom's 1980 novel. In the late 1950s an elderly Black woman fights to keep the land she was given by the former owner of the plantation where she worked for years. Set in southern Louisiana shot on location in Valdosta Georgia. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated FEBRUARY 28 1985 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Jeff Andrus. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good lightly dampstained on the front wrapper bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1980ref. 164140N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced television series with manuscript marker annotations on one page. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s most memorably for the television series "Alice" 1976-1985 and "The Jeffersons" 1975-1985. Sustarsic was also one of the creators of the children's animated series "The Wild Thornberrys" 1998-2004. An outrageous satire of a soap opera wherein a half dozen characters fall in and out of love with each other and cheat on each other. Front wrapper integral with goldenrod title page with credits for screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 19. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 142191Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1966 film. A compendium of four short films from the master French comedian a contemporary and collaborator with legends such as Jacques Tati and Jerry Lewis who legacy was threatened with obscurity when ongoing legal disputes kept his work from being available for almost 40 years. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown books
1966ref. 135640Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1966. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the Spanish release of the 1966 film. With a few contemporary annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Pictured are Etaix and actress Sabine Sun the former courting the latter. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown books
1966ref. 135639Paris: C.A.P.A.C. 1966. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With reference information in manual type on the verso of each photograph. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 655. C.A.P.A.C. unknown books
1983ref. 149305Rome: 2T Produzione Film 1983. Vintage grande French poster for the 1983 erotic film. Inspired by Ovid's 2 AD collection of poems "Ars Amatoria" "The Art of Love". Set in ancient Rome the poet Ovid teaches courses in the art of love. One of his students sets out to test his newfound skill on a woman whose husband has gone to war. 47 x 63 inches. One panel. Folded as issued. Near Fine. Bier 96. 2T Produzione Film unknown books
1953ref. 152724N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage oversize borderless matte-finish double weight photograph of Charlton Heston receiving a massage on the set of the 1953 film. With the stamp of photographer Bill Avery on the verso. A Chief of Scouts mistrusts the Apache tribe after the chief refuses to sign a peace treaty but his concerns are disregarded by the US Army. Bill Avery worked as a photographer at Columbia Pictures in the early twentieth century with a brief interlude working as a combat cameraman during World War II. He also worked at MGM under noted photographer C.S. Bill and occasionally worked as a freelance publicity photographer shooting iconic images of Elvis Presley Jack Lemmon Katharine and Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine among many others. Shot on location in Texas. 9 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 166. N.p. unknown books
1966ref. 161479New York: Cambist Films 1966. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 late noir sexploitation film. One photograph with two provenance stamps on the verso one on a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp. A sex maniac is killing prostitutes in Manhattan and it's up to a rogue cop to catch him before he kills again. Set in and shot on location in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Cambist Films unknown books
1937ref. 165066Universal City: Universal Pictures 1937. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Cesar Romero and Irving Pichel from the 1937 film with two stamps and a mimeo snipe on the verso one studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones and one dated Advertising Advisory Council stamp. 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. Robert Wilcox stars as a detective who goes undercover to expose a group of hijackers. 10 x 8 inches. A small crease to the bottom right corner else Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1991ref. 153730N.p.: N.p. 1991. First Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a xerographically duplicated design for the film title and a typed list of editorial notes on the script dated 7/24/91 with a manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner noting "Viacom's list." Loosely based on the nonfiction writings of Tom Clancy about the members of a special deep cover military unit as they attempt to manage a volatile hostage situation. Set in Tampa Florida and Washington DC. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 7/17/91 noted as First Draft with credits for screenwriter Michael Ahnemann. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1948ref. 164601Universal City: Universal-International 1948. Two vintage publicity photographs from the 1948 film musical one showing actor Lew Parker pointing at actress Pat Dane the other showing actress Olga San Juan in Chinese-inspired garb. Printed mimeo snipe and provenance stamps on the versos. Based on the 1945 Broadway musical in turn based on George Malcolm-Smith's 1941 novel "Slightly Perfect." A young insurance salesman quits his job and joins a traveling circus thereby discovering his ability to tap-dance and sing. 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. 8 x 10 inches. One Very Good plus the other Very Good with pinholes at the corners. Universal-International unknown books
1932ref. 137089Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1932. Vintage reference photograph with snipe printed on the verso identifying director Harry Beaumont on the set with actresses Anita Page and Joan Marsh in the 1932 film based on the 1932 J.P. McEvoy novel of the same name. With an additional stamp on the verso reading "Country of origin USA." Left jobless and about to be kicked out of his apartment by the Great Depression a former radio writer accidentally kills his wife. Going on the run with his mistress he comes on a radio show hosted by his former boss to protest his innocence and lead a manhunt for the "killer." 10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine with some light creasing to the corners and light soil. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1960ref. 153710N.p.: N.p. 1960. Archive of loose typescript materials for four unproduced television series. Two pages signed by screenwriter Larry Cohen and many pages with manuscript ink and pencil annotations by him noting editorial and substantive revisions. Included in the collection are treatment drafts and draft script pages for four television series: one show called "Play Ball" a quiz show based on baseball trivia one show called "The Adventures of the Dude" about a New York police officer who moves west to become a cowboy one show called "The Producer" about the early days of Hollywood and one show called "Cannonball" an adventure series about two truckers. Four unproduced early ventures by screenwriter Larry Cohen best known for his Blaxploitation films "Bone" 1972 "Black Caesar" 1973 and "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 as well as several popular horror and science fiction films including "It's Alive" 1974 "God Told Me To" 1976 and "The Stuff" 1985. Approximately 65 pages in total. Pages generally loose some partially bound with a single staple. Housed in a manila envelope with manuscript ink annotations to the recto noting "Old Treatments by Larry Cohen". Pages and envelope Near Fine. Pagination available upon request. N.p. unknown books
1995ref. 162669N.p.: N.p. 1995. Archive of vintage treatments and proposals for 16 unproduced sitcom television series. All material housed together in a generic three-ring binder with a manuscript label on the binder spine noting "1995 Pilot Pitches" in the hand of screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic. Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s most memorably for the television series "Alice" 1976-1985 and "The Jeffersons" 1975-1985. Sustarsic was also one of the creators of the children's animated series "The Wild Thornberrys" 1998-2004. Lacking title page presumably as issued. Approximately 150 leaves. Pages Very Good plus with light discoloration on the bottom edge of the first leaf and faint foxing on the page edges. Binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1994ref. 162973New York: MTV 1994. Four draft scripts 6 treatment scripts and some ephemera related to an unproduced pilot episode of a television series set to air on MTV. Set to star former MTV VJ Ed Marqus this series would have followed a laid-back Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who takes a job teaching a journalism class at a stuffy private high school. Set in Chapel Hill North Carolina. Fourth Draft script: White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as FOURTH DRAFT on the front wrapper dated March 1 1994 with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 53 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound in binder. Third Draft script: White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper noted as THIRD DRAFT on the front wrapper dated February 20 1994 with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 56 leaves with last page of text numbered 56. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound in binder. Draft script 1: White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper dated January 12 1994 with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 52 leaves with last page of text numbered 52. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound in binder. Draft script 2: White titled self wrappers lacking rear wrapper dated January 5 1994 with credits for screenwriters David Silverman and Stephen Sustarsic. Title page integral with front wrapper. 51 leaves with last page of text numbered 51. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound in binder. Treatment script 1: Lacking wrappers. 4 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine unbound. With manuscript ink annotations to each page. Treatment script 2: Lacking wrappers. 2 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine bound with staple at top left corner. Treatment script 3: Lacking wrappers. 3 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near fine bound with staple at top left corner. With manuscript ink annotation to each page. Treatment script 4: Lacking wrappers. 8 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine bound with paperclip at top left corner. Treatment script 5: Lacking wrappers. 13 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only printed on gray stock. Near Fine unbound. Treatment script 6: Lacking wrappers. 8 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Very Good plus bound with paperclip at top left corner. 1 Deal proposal to screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic: 2 leaves Near Fine. Housed in a Major Clients Agency envelope Very Good plus with some tearing from opening and with manuscript ink annotation on the verso. 1 set of handwritten notes: 11 leaves rectos only unbound. Very Good plus. All materials housed in a generic three-ring binder. MTV unknown books
1928ref. 140906Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script here under the working title "Southern Skies" four vintage photographs each with a mimeo snipe on the verso one with a press stamp as well and a later 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film signed and dated by Blue with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack comprised of music and sound effects including most notably the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie" as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island shot on location in Tahiti at the time an ambitious endeavor to shoot a Hollywood film on location among native islanders using many of them as extras in the film. Carbon typescript draft: Cream colored titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 5046 and production No. 338 dated November 29 1927 with credits for screenwriter Jack Cunningham and adaptation writer Ray Doyle. Title page integral with the first page of the text dated November 161927 with credits for Cunningham and Doyle. 146 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 146. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Poor bound with two gold brads. 1921 copy of "White Shadows in the South Seas:" Early The Century edition from 1921 first edition was originally published by The Century in 1919. Very Good lacking jacket. Front hinge split with light rubbing to the cloth at the extremities. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1997ref. 138365N.p.: N.p. 1997. Archive of original and quite substantive correspondence ranging from personal to professional concerns between writer Larry Gelbart and director Robert Parrish all from the archive of Robert Parrish dating between 1979-1997. Archive includes: - Four Autograph Letters Signed from Gelbart to Parrish on Gelbart's personal debossed stationery. - Five Autograph Note Cards Signed from Gelbart to Parrish on Gelbart's personal stationery - One Printed Letter Signed from Gelbart to to Parrish on white office stock. - Two outgoing carbons and one printed letter from Parrish to Gelbart - One seven-page typescript of a humorous essay by Parrish essay titled "Beverly Hills Breakfast Briefing" featuring Gelbart and Parrish as the subjects. Also included are four pieces of vintage ephemera including: - Typescript of an address by Gelbart for the "New York Friars Club Tribute to Neil Simon" at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel's Grand Ballroom on April 25 1993. - Typescript of an address for "The Museum of Television and Radio Gala" at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel's Grand Ballroom on April 27 1993. - Typescript of an address for Joseph S. Kantor's Memorial Service on April 26 1993. - Typescript of an address for Jay Burton's Memorial Service on April 28 1993. - Photocopied excerpt from the Dramatists Guild Quarterly Spring 1992 issue an article regarding Gelbart Gelbart best known for having written "Tootsie" 1982 and for creating the television show "MASH" maintained a close friendship with director Robert Parrish "Body and Soul" "A Double Life" "All the King's Men" and his wife Kathleen as seen here via nearly twenty years of kind correspondence that touches upon the two men's writings careers and family lives. An uncommonly charming and frequently hilarious documentation of a close relationship both within and outside of the film industry. All material Very Good plus to Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 160034Hollywood: Paramount Television / Leda Productions 1974. Second Draft script for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 1975 television series. Copy belonging to an uncredited sound engineer with his name and title on the front wrapper in manuscript ink. The first adaptation to celluloid of hardboiled Southern California private eye Lew Archer a character originally created by novelist Ross Macdonald. In this episode Archer investigates a con man exploiting naive teenagers out of their parents' money. Originally aired on January 30 1975 on NBC. Orange titled wrappers noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper dated December 9 1974. Title page present noted as SECOND DRAFT dated December 9 1974 with credits for screenwriter David P. Harmon and novelist Ross Macdonald. 66 leaves with last page of text numbered 61. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/12/74. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Television / Leda Productions unknown books
1948ref. 146150N.p.: Enterprise Productions 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of Ingrid Bergman from the 1948 film. Manuscript annotations in ink on bottom border of recto. Crop annotations in manuscript pencil and stamp on the verso obscured by manuscript marker. Based on the 1945 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. A complex romantic film noir in which Dr. Ravic Boyer is a refugee doctor practicing illegally in Paris under a false name. He saves Joan Madou Bergman from committing suicide after the sudden death of her lover and helps her land a job singing in a nightclub. The two fall in love but he is deported. Joan finds herself another man's mistress while Dr. Ravic seeks revenge by hunting for the Nazi officer Ivon Haake Laughton. Set in Paris shot on location in New York and Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing and 2 small tears on bottom repaired with paper tape on verso. Selby US. Spicer US. Olive Films #809. Enterprise Productions unknown books
1966ref. 141237N.p.: N.p. 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Note laid in from agent Paul Kohner to Mel Tucker dated June 23 1966. A group of Nazis steal a truck of gold during the war eventually hiding it in a cave on the Portuguese coast. Years later a group of thieves begin looking for the loot. Set in Portugal. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Stephen Kandel. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 154. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with a portion neatly cut from bottom right corner of front wrapper clearly as issued to reveal a quote from Lewis Carroll on the first leaf see image. Bound internally with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
