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2000ref. 163706Los Angeles: Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment 2000. Draft script for the 2001 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with two manuscript leaves bound in after the title page listing special effects and audio elements of the film and annotations in manuscript pencil throughout the script underlining the same. Loosely based on Guy Elmes' 1957 film "Across the Bridge" based in turn on the 1938 short story by Graham Greene. After he is attacked by members of a Mexican drug cartel for flagging a transaction as illegal an investment banker decides to swap identities with a fast-talking con man. Set in New York Texas and Mexico and shot on location in New York City Los Angeles CA and Needles CA. Self wrappers. Title page present dated 2/17/00 with credit for director and screenwriter George Gallo. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 95. Xerographic duplication rectos only with a single white revision page dated 2/18/00. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Permut Presentations / Rat Entertainment unknown
1977ref. 162549Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Three vintage reference photographs from the American release of the 1977 Italian film all three showing actress Ursula Andress in the bath. A police commissioner teams up with a political activist to solve the murder of a prince. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1977ref. 162549Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. Three vintage reference photographs from the American release of the 1977 Italian film all three showing actress Ursula Andress in the bath. A police commissioner teams up with a political activist to solve the murder of a prince. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1944ref. 171768Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1944. Vintage studio still photograph from the classic 1944 film noir showing Tom Powers on the train tracks. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Director Billy Wilder making the right decision at the right time as usual decided it was time to bring in lauded hard-boiled crime fiction author Raymond Chandler to work on a great crime drama using James Cain's seminal hard-boiled novella. Wilder and Chandler worked on the script for several weeks together and at one point Cain was even brought in to resolve some questions. The result was a film that set the standard for all that would follow in what came to be known as the noir style using a cut-up time structure Barbara Stanwyck in a blonde wig Fred MacMurray as a soulless sucker and Edward G. Robinson as the straight man who brings pathos to the proceedings. Nominated for seven Academy Awards a rare feat for a genre picture including Best Picture Best Director Best Screenwriter Best Cinematography and Best Actress. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Spicer US. Paramount Pictures unknown
1988ref. 151216Sherman Oaks CA: The New Ingot Company 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on location in Lafourche Parish Louisiana. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 9 1988 noted as Revised Turner Preproduction Draft with credits for screenwriters Marjorie David and Vicki Goldberg. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The New Ingot Company unknown books
1988ref. 151216Sherman Oaks CA: The New Ingot Company 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on location in Lafourche Parish Louisiana. White untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August 9 1988 noted as Revised Turner Preproduction Draft with credits for screenwriters Marjorie David and Vicki Goldberg. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. The New Ingot Company unknown
1974ref. 141659N.p.: N.p. 1974. Bound collection of research materials for an unproduced film. A collection of quotes stories accounts of life-changing accounts reviews and a discography of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington who passed away the same year this archive was assembled. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August/September 1974 noted as Research File with credits for research Michael Barlow. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 141659N.p.: N.p. 1974. Bound collection of research materials for an unproduced film. A collection of quotes stories accounts of life-changing accounts reviews and a discography of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington who passed away the same year this archive was assembled. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated August/September 1974 noted as Research File with credits for research Michael Barlow. 54 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 53. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1970ref. 150194N.p.: N.p. 1970. Reference still photograph of Jean Marais and Francoise Arnould from the 1953 film struck circa 1970s. "Gala Film Distributors" stamp on verso. Based on the 1952 French novel "18 Fantomes" by Stanislas-Andre Steeman. Detective Marco Marais investigates the murder of girl found bound in her bed at a respectable boarding school. 8 x 10.25 inches. Very Good plus with light edgewear and small crease in top right corner margin. N.p. unknown books
1997ref. 171672Culver City CA: Columbia TriStar Films 1997. Two vintage composite studio still photographs from the 1997 film. Based on the 1988 book "Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia" by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley. An undercover FBI agent is unwittingly pulled into the Bonanno crime family and begins to rise in the family's ranks angering the older hitman who brought him in. Set and shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Columbia TriStar Films unknown books
ref. 150845Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault with numerous references to Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Upon the deathbed of his beautiful wife the Blue Queen the Blue King promises he would only marry someone more beautiful than her and the only woman lovelier in the kingdom is their daughter the Blue Princess. With the help of her wise godmother the Fairy of the Lilac the Blue Princess escapes to a nearby village wearing the foul skin of the king's prize donkey. Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. unknown books
ref. 150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie. Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown books
ref. 150990N.p.: N.p. 1970. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1970 film including eight borderless and one with narrow margins and wide bottom margin. Two bear provenance stamps on the verso and one bears the stamp of photographer Andre Marinie. Three in the collection are on the set photographs featuring director Jacques Demy. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault and loosely based on Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. Photographs range in size from 7 x 5 inches to 10.5 x 7 inches. Generally about Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. N.p. unknown
ref. 150845Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jacques Demy on the set of the 1970 film. Based on the 1695 French fairytale in verse by Charles Perrault with numerous references to Jean Cocteau's 1946 "Beauty and the Beast." Upon the deathbed of his beautiful wife the Blue Queen the Blue King promises he would only marry someone more beautiful than her and the only woman lovelier in the kingdom is their daughter the Blue Princess. With the help of her wise godmother the Fairy of the Lilac the Blue Princess escapes to a nearby village wearing the foul skin of the king's prize donkey. Shot on location in Chambord Ecuille Gmabais Manche and Oise France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 718. unknown
1974ref. 144958Paris: Films sans Frontieres 1974. Vintage borderless press photograph showing director Marco Ferreri on the set of the 1974 French-Italian film with camera and crew behind him. With stamps of photographer Bernard Prim and French magazine "Paru dans le point" as well as manuscript annotations on the verso. A farcical reenactment of the events leading up to and including The Battle of Little Big Horn anachronistically set in a contemporary area of Paris slated for urban renewal. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Cox 10000 Ways to Die. Films sans Frontieres unknown books
1974ref. 144958Paris: Films sans Frontieres 1974. Vintage borderless press photograph showing director Marco Ferreri on the set of the 1974 French-Italian film with camera and crew behind him. With stamps of photographer Bernard Prim and French magazine "Paru dans le point" as well as manuscript annotations on the verso. A farcical reenactment of the events leading up to and including The Battle of Little Big Horn anachronistically set in a contemporary area of Paris slated for urban renewal. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine. Cox 10000 Ways to Die. Films sans Frontieres unknown
1982ref. 149773N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single copied manuscript annotation on the title page reading "Please return to: Pancho Kohner." A baby-crazy 35 year-old woman recruits a newly divorced stranger to impregnate her over the course of a no-strings-attached weekend but their time together takes a turn when they start to fall for each other. Screenwriter Carl Kleinschmitt was best known as a television writer including episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "MASH." Set in Santa Barbara California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated MARCH 29 1982 noted as 2nd REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter CARL KLEINSCHMITT. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1982ref. 149773N.p.: N.p. 1982. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single copied manuscript annotation on the title page reading "Please return to: Pancho Kohner." A baby-crazy 35 year-old woman recruits a newly divorced stranger to impregnate her over the course of a no-strings-attached weekend but their time together takes a turn when they start to fall for each other. Screenwriter Carl Kleinschmitt was best known as a television writer including episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "MASH." Set in Santa Barbara California. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated MARCH 29 1982 noted as 2nd REVISED DRAFT with credits for screenwriter CARL KLEINSCHMITT. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1967ref. 158669N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actress Claudia Cardinale. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Muscle Beach" by Ira Wallach about a beach tourist who becomes entangled in two romances. Set and shot on location in Southern California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1967ref. 158669N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film showing actress Claudia Cardinale. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Muscle Beach" by Ira Wallach about a beach tourist who becomes entangled in two romances. Set and shot on location in Southern California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956ref. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1956ref. 148868Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1956. Vintage studio still photograph of the American R&B and jump blues musical group The Treniers from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Corp. stamp on verso. Rock and Roll star Arnie Haines Alan Dale returns home to the town of Melondale which banned Rock and Roll music and with the help of disc Jockey Alan Freed as himself tries to convince the town that the music won't turn their children into delinquents. With notable lip-syncing performances from Bill Haley and His Comets Little Richard and The Treniers. A follow-up to the 1956 Rock and Roll film "Rock Around the Clock" also directed by Fred F. Sears and written by Robert E. Kent and also featuring Alan Freed and Bill Haley and His Comets. Set in the fictitious town of Melondale shot on location in Los Angeles California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown
1968ref. 147915Universal City: Universal Pictures 1968. Vintage oversize studio still photograph of Robert Wagner and Glynis Johns from the 1968 film. Based on Charles Williams' 1966 novel The Wrong Venus. Screenwriter Williams was one of the great and most popular hard-boiled writers in the Gold Medal stable. His screenplay Don't Just Stand There! for Universal was the first of two screenplays Williams wrote in Hollywood also a comedy. Robert Wagner is hired to finish a "sex" novel by a famous authoress in Europe Glynis Johns who has suddenly decided to stop writing. 8 x 10 inches. Very good plus with small pinholes. Universal Pictures unknown books
1967ref. 119761Universal City CA: Universal City Studios 1967. Final script for the 1968 film. Prop master C.S. Chrisman's copy with his trademark manuscript ink initial on the front wrapper and profuse manuscript annotations throughout the text regarding scenes that will require props. Based on the 1966 novel "The Wrong Venus" by Charles Williams. An author on a European cruise is slacking on finishing her newest novel when her publisher sends someone to check in on her progress. The first of two screenplays Williams wrote in Hollywood. Williams was one of the most popular hard-boiled authors in the Gold Medal stable. Beginning in the early 1960s he found work as a screenwriter adapting his novel "All the Way" first adapted in 1960 in the US as an obscure late film noir "The 3rd Voice" as a comedy for French director Marcel Ophuls. Set in Europe. Red titled wrappers noted as Final draft on the front wrapper production No. 02000 dated February 6 1967. Title page present noted as Final draft with credits for author and screenwriter Charles Williams. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown books
