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1956ref. 152154Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 111th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on April 4 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. A driven executive discovers that she is being slowly poisoned and begins to suspect everyone around her of the crime including her own husband. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Robert Esson. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Mimeograph duplication on yellow and white stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1956ref. 152150Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 198th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on August 7 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his personal stamp to the first two leaves and his manuscript pencil annotations throughout regarding substantive revisions and deletions. Incomplete as issued. An elderly man's family forces him to find a new romantic interest as a means of distraction from his horse betting addiction. Brown wrappers with a handwritten title label affixed to the front wrapper dated 7 Aug. 1956. Title page present undated noted as REVISED in manuscript pencil annotation with credits for screenwriter B.M. Atkinson Jr. 72 leaves with last page of text numbered III-18. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1956ref. 147226N.p.: N.p. 1956. Draft script for the ninth episode of the third season of the anthology series "Matinee Theatre" originally aired on September 12 1957 on NBC. With two manuscript pencil annotations to the title page. During the Korean War a young Korean boy whose family has been killed in a recent bombing is informally adopted by a US military outfit. When an important map goes missing the commanding officers jump at the chance to blame the boy forcing the soldiers to debate whether his ethnicity alone is enough to condemn him. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" 1960 and for his prolific work in Western films such as "Outlaw Gold" 1950 "Whistling Hills" 1951 and "Black Eagle of Santa Fe" 1965. Set in Korea. Orange titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Jack Lewis. 67 leaves with last page of text numbered 66. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1958ref. 158445Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 89th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology televison series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name on the title page in manuscript ink and his annotations throughout. Embittered after being fired by his brother-in-law a man takes out his anger on his wife by not allowing her to adopt a child. Originally aired on February 4 1958 on NBC. Housed in a brown card folder with a label noting the script title affixed to the front. Self wrappers. Title page present undated noted as production No. 4710 with credit for screenwriter Anthony Spinner. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 81. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1958ref. 158446Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 134th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a carbon typescript rehearsal schedule dated 4/24/58 with Crawford's name circled. An old woman living alone believes that her adult son has forgotten her unaware that she has been sending letters and greeting cards to the wrong address for years. Originally aired on April 24 1958 on NBC. Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Greer Johnson. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-10. Mimeograph duplication on yellow and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound at the top left corner with a single staple. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1958ref. 158443Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1958. Draft script for the 117th episode of season three of the 1955-1958 anthology television series. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his annotations throughout. In her last years of life a dying mother tries to show her stern husband that he must change for the sake of their two children. Originally aired on March 25 1958 on NBC. Self wrappers. Title page present undated. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered IV-7. Mimeograph duplication on yellow and white stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus partially bound at the top left corner with a single staple. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1956ref. 152150Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 198th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on August 7 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his personal stamp to the first two leaves and his manuscript pencil annotations throughout regarding substantive revisions and deletions. Incomplete as issued. An elderly man's family forces him to find a new romantic interest as a means of distraction from his horse betting addiction. Brown wrappers with a handwritten title label affixed to the front wrapper dated 7 Aug. 1956. Title page present undated noted as REVISED in manuscript pencil annotation with credits for screenwriter B.M. Atkinson Jr. 72 leaves with last page of text numbered III-18. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1956ref. 152154Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1956. Draft script for the 111th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on April 4 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. A driven executive discovers that she is being slowly poisoned and begins to suspect everyone around her of the crime including her own husband. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Robert Esson. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered III-21. Mimeograph duplication on yellow and white stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1955ref. 152157Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1955. Draft script for the 159th episode of season one of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on June 12 1956 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. An opportunistic newspaper reporter captures a photograph of a little boy with his head stuck in a garbage can and proceeds to use the image in a piece about child neglect-to the embarrassment and anger of the boy's parents. Brown titled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter B.M. Atkinson Jr. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered III-25. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1957ref. 152104Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1957. Draft script for the Season 2 Episode 182 of the 1955-1958 television series originally aired on June 21 on NBC. Copy belonging to actor Johnny Crawford with his name to the title page in manuscript ink and his manuscript ink and pencil annotations throughout. A New York executive vacationing in the country with his family undergoes a mid-life crisis deciding to stay at the vacation home and live a carefree life as a painter. Brown titled card wrappers dated June 1957. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Charles Allen. 74 leaves with last page of text numbered III-17. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1976ref. 135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1976ref. 135943Los Angeles: Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures AIP 1976. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on Paul Gallico's 1970 novel. Bernie Bonnelli Gould is a small-time talent agent down on his luck who discovers a boxing kangaroo named Matilda. Hoping to gain recognition and income he schedules a fight between the kangaroo and the boxing heavyweight champion of the world. The fight attracts the attention of the local mob boss who wants total control of the marsupial and the attention of animal activists looking to stop cruelty to animals. Set in New York shot on location in California New York and Nevada. Illustrated titled wrappers with glassine cover on the front wrapper. Title page present dated March 15 1976 with credits for novelist Gallico and screenwriter Galfas. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. Albert S. Ruddy Productions / American International Pictures [AIP] unknown
1931ref. 151422Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film with annotations in manuscript pencil primarily in later half of script largely regarding dialogue but also setting and shots. A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe it was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful film. The pre-Code film was censored upon its reissue in 1936 which was the only version believed to exist until 2005 when an uncut French and Dutch subtitled version was screened at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. Set in 1917 Paris shot on location in Agoura California. Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski and M-G-M label dated "Copied May 4 1931." Title page present with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with six white revision pages dated June 5 1931. Pages Very Good plus with foxing and edgewear and stain to upper right of title page Wrapper Very Good with light soiling and chipping and closed tears to extremities and spine and upper right section cut from rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1964ref. 150307N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jeanne Moreau between takes. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of PRPresse. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Loosely based on the adventures of Dutch dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari who worked as a secret agent for the Germans during World War I. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1931ref. 151422Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1931. Draft script for the 1931 film with annotations in manuscript pencil primarily in later half of script largely regarding dialogue but also setting and shots. A largely fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by France for espionage during World War I. A sensation in the US and Europe it was Greta Garbo's most commercially successful film. The pre-Code film was censored upon its reissue in 1936 which was the only version believed to exist until 2005 when an uncut French and Dutch subtitled version was screened at the Cinematheque Royale de Belgique in Brussels. Set in 1917 Paris shot on location in Agoura California. Tan titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski and M-G-M label dated "Copied May 4 1931." Title page present with credits for screenwriters Benjamin Glazer and Leo Birinski. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 169. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with six white revision pages dated June 5 1931. Pages Very Good plus with foxing and edgewear and stain to upper right of title page Wrapper Very Good with light soiling and chipping and closed tears to extremities and spine and upper right section cut from rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1964ref. 150307N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1964 film showing actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jeanne Moreau between takes. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of PRPresse. From the archive of the PIX Agency a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. Loosely based on the adventures of Dutch dancer-turned-spy Mata Hari who worked as a secret agent for the Germans during World War I. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 11.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1963ref. 158981Glendale CA: Allied Artists Pictures 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the 1963 film. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A Russian nuclear scientist is hired by the British government but is soon arrested for passing information along to another spy posing as an employee. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Allied Artists Pictures unknown books
1972ref. 161921N.p.: Transatlantic-Merritt-White 1972. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 German film. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the versos. A French reporter in search of Sonya the perfect masseuse gets an assignment to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Transatlantic-Merritt-White unknown books
1972ref. 161921N.p.: Transatlantic-Merritt-White 1972. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1972 German film. Each photograph with a provenance stamp on the versos. A French reporter in search of Sonya the perfect masseuse gets an assignment to visit all of Munich's massage parlors. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Transatlantic-Merritt-White unknown
1968ref. 147870N.p.: American International Pictures AIP 1968. Vintage studio still photograph of George Hilton from the US release of the 1966 Italian film here under the title "The Brute and the Beast." "Film Buff's Center" stamp on the verso. Italian Spaghetti-Western starring Franco Nero early in his career as prospector Tom Corbett and Hilton as his drunkard half-brother Jeff Corbett who must defend their farm from the greedy gangster Mr. Scott and his psychotic son Junior Scott played by Giuseppe Addobbati and Nino Castelnuovo respectively. Set in Laramie Town Texas shot on location in Lazio Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with horizontal crease along bottom margin. Cox "10000 Ways to Die. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1934ref. 156154N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage program for the 1934 Austrian film. Text and titles in German. A prominent surgeon's wife poses nude but masked for a portrait by a famous artist. The artist must quickly improvise when asked about the identity of the woman in the painting and accidentally implicates a real woman leading to a number of comic misunderstandings. Basis for the 1935 American film "Escapade" starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1934ref. 156154N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage program for the 1934 Austrian film. Text and titles in German. A prominent surgeon's wife poses nude but masked for a portrait by a famous artist. The artist must quickly improvise when asked about the identity of the woman in the painting and accidentally implicates a real woman leading to a number of comic misunderstandings. Basis for the 1935 American film "Escapade" starring William Powell and Luise Rainer. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bi-fold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown
1984ref. 169090Universal City: Universal Pictures 1984. Third Draft Revised script for the 1985 film. Laid in is a Shooting Call sheet dated 5/7/84. Loosely based on the life of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis played by Eric Stoltz a boy with a rare skeletal disorder causing disfigurement and a shortened life expectancy who along with his mother Cher attempts to live a normal life regardless of people's preconceptions. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in southern California. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as THIRD DRAFT REVISED SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated April 19 1984. Title page present dated April 191984 noted as Third Draft Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Anna Hamilton Phelan. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on pale green leaves rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 4/27/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1984ref. 169090Universal City: Universal Pictures 1984. Third Draft Revised script for the 1985 film. Laid in is a Shooting Call sheet dated 5/7/84. Loosely based on the life of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis played by Eric Stoltz a boy with a rare skeletal disorder causing disfigurement and a shortened life expectancy who along with his mother Cher attempts to live a normal life regardless of people's preconceptions. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in southern California. Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as THIRD DRAFT REVISED SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated April 19 1984. Title page present dated April 191984 noted as Third Draft Revised Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Anna Hamilton Phelan. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication on pale green leaves rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 4/27/84. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown
1970ref. 162890Los Angeles: Twenty Pimlico Inc 1970. Vintage oversize publicity photograph of Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould from the 1970 film by photographer Lawrence Schiller. Photograph with a credit stamp on the verso stamped with the photographer name "Lawrence Schiller" for Twenty Pimlico Inc. with the annotations of Set No. "1072" and Print No. "5." Lawrence Julian Schiller is an award winning photographer film producer director screenwriter and bestselling author who has worked in film and television since the 1960s. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker and in turn the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS from 1972 to 1983. A film that kick-started a great decade of cinema and one that still defines it. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d'Or. 11 x14 inches with irregular margins archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply mat. Near Fine with a small emulsion blemish to the far right side obscured by the matting. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. National Film Registry. Twenty Pimlico, Inc unknown books
