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1963148710Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. <br/><br/>Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan." Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa considered one of the director's masterpieces following a small-town doctor and his new intern a highly educated arrogant young man. <br/><br/>Set in the Edo district of Koishikawa.<br/><br/>White titled wrappers with a blue titled dust jacket. Title page present dated 1963. 65 leaves with last page of text numbered g-17. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the rear wrapper with perfect binding. Jacket is Very Good plus with light foxing to the fore-edges and rear panel. Kurosawa Production Co unknown books
1944147297Los Angeles: Vanguard Films 1944. Temporary Shooting script for the 1945 film here under the working title "The House of Dr. Edwards." <br/><br/>Based on the 1927 novel "The House of Dr. Edwardes" by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Producer David O. Selznick wanted to make a "psychiatric" story for the screen and Alfred Hitchcock persuaded Selznick to buy the rights to the novel which Hitchcock and his wife were adapting. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Michael Chekhov winning one. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated June 14 1944 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. Distribution page present rubber-stamped copy No. 1620 with receipt removed. 176 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>In a custom cloth covered clamshell box with black leather spine label and titles and decoration in gilt.<br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Vanguard Films unknown books
1939147517Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures 1939. Two early treatments for the 1940 film consisting of 1 a Synopsis by Franclien Macconnell dated October 10 1938 and 2 a Chapter Breakdown by Mary Bowie dated May 10 1939. Both issued for the studio's review of the novel's content prior to it having been green-lit for adaptation to film. <br/><br/>Macconnel was "one of the best 'readers' from Val Lewton's story department" at Selznick's studios according to Steve Wilson's 2014 The Making of Gone with the Wind as well as an assistant story editor for the studio. <br/>A note on first page of synopsis states: "Throughout the book no hint is given as to the heroine's name . For synopsis purposes I am giving her the name of the authoress: Daphne. This unnamed character in the novel would for the film as in du Maurier's novel be given only the name of her husband <br/>Mrs. de Winter.<br/><br/>Bowie was also a writer working at Val Lewton's story department at Selznick studios.<br/><br/>Alfred Hitchcock's first American project the elegant dreamlike adaptation of du Maurier's novel of the same name about a young woman who marries a mysterious aristocratic widower and must contend with the spectral influence of the former mistress of the house the eponymous Rebecca. The film was the start of Hitchcock's work in Hollywood under contract with producer David O. Selznick a collaboration which produced six films in total including "Spellbound" 1945 "The Paradine Case" 1947 and "Under Capricorn" 1949. Although Selznick initially argued for "Rebecca" to remain fully faithful to the plot of the novel the Production Code Administration forbade murder to go unpunished and as a result the film's ending differed from du Maurier's-a change which purportedly angered Selznick so strongly that he considered releasing the film without code approval. Upon its release the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards winning two for Best Picture and Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>Set on the French Riviera and southwest England shot partially on location in Big Sur Palos Verdes and Point Lobos State Natural Reserve California.<br/><br/>Together in a custom quarter leather clamshell box.<br/><br/>Synopsis:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Synopsis on the front wrapper dated October 10 1938 with credits for novelist Daphne du Maurier and screenwriter Franclien Macconnell. Distribution page present with receipt intact dated October 10 1938 and rubber stamped Script "A 2036.". 39 leaves with last page of text numbered 38. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/> Chapter Breakdown of the Novel:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Chapter Breakdown of the Novel on the front wrapper dated May 10 1939 with credits for screenwriter Mary Bowie. Distribution page present with receipt intact dated May 10 1939 and rubber stamped script " A 2123." 49 leaves with last page of text numbered 48. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with 2" closed tear at the lower left edge and 1/2" chip and small closed tear at the lower right edge bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Quarter leather clamshell box Fine.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 135. Grant US. Penzler 101. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US. Spicer US. Selznick International Pictures unknown books
1968149896New York: Andy Warhol Film 1968. Vintage poster for the 1967 film. The film originally screened at the Hudson Theater in New York in a 99-minute version. In early 1968 a 110-minute cut played at the Cinematheque 16 in Los Angeles. This poster which mentions the Los Angeles screenings and contains a blurb from the likely corresponds to the latter version. <br/><br/>A final 95-minute cut was completed later in 1968 and is the version available today.<br/>Andy Warhol's first attempt to make a "commercial" sexploitation film eight unconnected scenes in which actor Tom Baker attempts to convince various women to have sex with him. Originally intended to star The Doors' Jim Morrison and unsimulated sex the finished film contains neither.<br/><br/>19 x 25 inches rolled on archival linen with minor professional repair and restoration. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Murphy The Black Hole of the Camera. Warholstars. Andy Warhol Film unknown books
1929121976Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1929. Early Treatment script for the 1929 film the first Sherlock Holmes film to have been produced with sound and the first to include the Holmes utterance "Elementary my dear Watson" a phrase never used by Doyle though that statement regrettably does not appear in this draft. <br/><br/>The first known treatment was written by Oliver P. Garrett followed by this one scripted by F. Hugh Herbert and the final writing credits went to Garrett Fort and director Basil Dean. This treatment differs substantially from the finished film and is more faithful to Doyle's source material. A rare surviving artifact from the great detective's earliest days on the screen. <br/><br/>Tall side-stapled self wrappers noted as an "Outline Treatment" on the front wrapper rubber-stamped project No. 1491 and MASTER FILE dated May 21 1929 with a credit for screenwriter Herbert. 52 leaves mixed original and carbon typescript on yellow stock with a few holograph pencil annotations on the first leaf including "1st Rough Draft." Very Good condition with some wear to the first leaf at the bottom stitch. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1957152173London: Attica Film Company 1957. Archive of material from the 1957 British film including a Draft production script a post-production Release script and a reference photograph inscribed by director Charlie Chaplin to production manager Mickey Delamar: "To Mickey / Thanks for a wonderful job / Charlie Chaplin / July 30th." <br/><br/>Also included are a presumably complete set of nine soundtrack LPs made for use with film projection all in their original mailing box and sealed with the label of the Master Sound System Company in the UK. <br/><br/>Lastly included are approximately 100 vintage photographs all with the stamp of Eric Gray the film's still photographer on the verso. Photographs all have a significant horizontal curl but are all separate and otherwise supple and clean. This segment of the archive is offered as is.<br/><br/>Chaplin's final starring role about a dethroned and penniless king from a fictional European nation living in New York where he inadvertently becomes the target of a HUAC investigation after meeting a politically minded youngster played by Chaplin's son Michael whose parents have been jailed as communist sympathizers. A pointed satire of McCarthyism American consumerism and celebrity culture the film was produced in Europe due to Chaplin's own exile from the United States as a result of his leftist political beliefs and did not receive an US release until 1973. <br/><br/>Mickey 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 Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966 and Terence Young's "Mayerling" 1968.<br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in London. <br/><br/>Draft script:<br/><br/>Tall red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Charles Chaplin. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 163. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Post-Production Release script:<br/><br/>Tall self wrappers. Title page present dated 7th March 1957 noted as RELEASE SCRIPT. Approximately 135 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two silver brads.<br/><br/>Presentation photograph:<br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned. <br/><br/>Soundtrack LP set:<br/><br/>LPs well used and scratched but not cracked untested. Outer mailing box Very Good.<br/><br/>Reference photograph set:<br/><br/>All photographs extensively curled and though not examined carefully apparently not stuck together in any way. Very Good. Attica Film Company unknown books
1944139807Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1944. Final Shooting script from the 1945 film. With credit on the title page for screenwriter Anita Loos who would go uncredited in the final film. <br/><br/>Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay and James Dunn won for Best Supporting Actor. Peggy Ann Garner was also awarded a special Academy Juvenile Award for her lead performance. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as Shooting Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 944 dated May 1 1944. Title page present dated May 1 1944 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriters Tess Slesinger and Frank Davis and "contributions by" Anita Loos. 176 leaves with last page of text numbered 178. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 5/23/44 and 7/6/44. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1924143516Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Vintage herald or broadside for the 1924 film. A clever and excessively rare bit of advertisement designed as a "Wanted" poster pulling together the main character from Frank Norris' novel John "Doc" McTeague a photo of "McTeague" Gibson Gowland and mention of a specific screening at San Francisco's Imperial Theatre on Market Street today the Market Street Cinema. <br/><br/>The first cut of Stroheim's "Greed" was a mammoth 9.5-hour presentation. All that survives today is a restored slightly choppy but coherent 240-minute version supplanted with still photographs that conveys to the viewer the unimaginable grandeur of the original. Very little paper advertisement has survived. The only poster that has ever surfaced is a disappointing window card showing none of the characters and this remarkable broadside the only example we have ever encountered. <br/><br/>13 x 6 inches. Near Fine with a couple of tiny internal tears overall extremely clean and with no paper loss. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1941137464Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film here under the working title "The Great Man" with holograph annotations on nearly every page. W.C. Fields' last starring film before his death in 1946. <br/><br/>Told as a "real life" film starring Fields as himself "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" is an off-beat and slightly bizarre spoof on the Hollywood and filmmaking industry of Fields' time. The film doesn't quite follow a storyline and is instead intentionally riddled with inconsistencies forgotten characters and wacky plot holes. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers. Title page integral with the first page of text with credits for screenwriters John T. Neville Prescott Chaplin and Fred Cribblecobbis W.C. Fields pseudonym. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 156. Typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1938137535Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1939 film. Director George Marshall's working copy with his profuse substantive annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Ne'er-do-well circus owner Larsen E. Whipsnade W.C. Fields struggles to keep his performers and carnival business just a few steps ahead of the law in order to avoid foreclosure. Meanwhile Whipsnade's co-ed daughter Vicky attempts to navigate her equally confounding romantic entanglements in light of her father's financial trouble. <br/><br/>Also starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as fictitious versions of themselves likely in an attempt to drawn attention to the duo's famous "radio feud" with Fields. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers noted as REVISED SCRIPT on the front wrapper. Title page integral with the first page of text dated 10/31/38 noted as REVISED SCRIPT. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Typescript on onionskin stock with light green pink and gray revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine front wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Lacking rear wrapper. Universal Pictures unknown books
1959139477Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. <br/><br/>Truffaut's auspicious debut winner of Best Director at Cannes nominated for the Palme d'Or and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. <br/><br/>47 x 62 inches27 x 41. Linen backed and rolled. Bright and Fine. <br/><br/>Capitaine 207. Warren Vol. 1 p. 159. Les Films du Carrosse unknown books
1991139828Manhattan Beach CA: Lightstorm Entertainment 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film dated February 19 1991. Script pages watermarked "T20029" and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron's production company Lightstorm Entertainment as called for. With an alternate ending to the film which was shot but ultimately cut before release. <br/><br/>Included is a set of pencil sketches featuring concept art as well as shooting schedules props lists and other production documents. <br/><br/>The second film in what has become an ongoing multi-media franchise incorporating six feature films a television series video games comic books novels toys and even an amusement park ride. Winner of four Academy Awards and nominated for two more including Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>While the first film is arguably the most profitable low budget film ever made the sequel was the first with a production budget of over 100 million dollars featuring groundbreaking CGI and visual effects and jaw dropping action sequences becoming one of the highest grossing R rated films of all time. <br/><br/>Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California and in Santa Fe New Mexico. <br/><br/>Black untitled wrappers. Title page noted as Revised script dated February 19 1991 with credits for screenwriters Cameron and Wisher. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographically duplicated with white blue green pink goldenrod and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/10/90 and 2/19/91. Near Fine overall bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Newman US. Lightstorm Entertainment unknown books
1969144659New York: Jerome Hellman Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to the film's still photographer Ron Munkasci with this name in red holograph ink at the top right corner of the title page.<br/><br/>Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy about an unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema nominated for seven Academy Awards winning Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Picture. <br/><br/>Set in New York City shot on location in Miami Manhattan and Big Spring Texas. <br/><br/>Dark blue titled wrappers noted as DRAFT SCREENPLAY at the bottom right and with the logo for JEROME HELLMAN PRODUCTIONS at bottom center. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt novelist James Leo Herlihy producer Jerome Hellman and director John Schlesinger noted as "A JEROME HELLMAN-JOHN SCHLESINGER PRODUCTION." 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine with some offsetting to the title page due to a newspaper clipping still present laid in wrapper Very Good plus.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Jerome Hellman Productions unknown books
1964147167Los Angeles: Villa di Stefano Productions 1964. First Draft script for the 1964 television film which originally aired on CBS. With actor Martin Landau's copied annotations throughout. Included are a set of synopses for proposed episodes a shooting schedule a distributor's announcement booklet and various other documents related to production. <br/><br/>Also included is an original celluloid print of the film on a single reel in its original mailing case with cloth straps dated 2/18/65 addressed from director Joseph Stefano to Landau on the mailing label in holograph black ink and INSCRIBED by Stefano to Landau at the top left corner of the case in the same ink: "To Martin / Whose splendid brilliance and warmth put the special spark in this bright fire / Your grateful and admiring friend / Joe Stefano."<br/><br/>Fearful of being buried alive a woman installs a phone in the crypt in which she plans to be in case of emergencies. Months after her death the phone begins to ring presenting a new ghostly case for Landau's paranormal investigator. <br/><br/>The film was intended to be the pilot for a new paranormal thriller series tentatively titled "The Haunted" as titled on the front wrapper but the series wasn't picked up and the pilot was released as a television movie after additional footage was shot. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE. Title page present dated July 27 1964 noted as PILOT SCRIPT ONE with credits for director-screenwriter Joseph Stefano. 77 leaves with last page of text numbered 76. Early Xerox rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Film reel and film stock are unexamined. Villa di Stefano Productions unknown books
1961145470Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1961. Early Draft script for the 1970 film "Cromwell" seen here under the title "Oliver Cromwell." Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes with his annotations throughout. With 11 pages of reproductions from "The Commonweal" newspaper from August and September 1885 laid into the front of the script along with a drawing of how to add pages to the spring binder. <br/><br/>A biographical account of the 17th century political and religious struggles taking place in England under the reign of King Charles Alec Guinness. Likely one of the earliest screenplay drafts shelved for almost ten years due to an inability to find funding. Director Ken Hughes' favorite of his own films. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Costume Design and nominated for one other. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Spain and England. <br/><br/>Red leatherette spring binder with holograph felt ink titles on tape. Title page present dated 26th July 1961 noted as 2nd Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Ken Hughes. 279 leaves with last page of text numbered 279. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 26th July 1961 and 29th September 1961. Pages Near Fine spring binder Very Good plus. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1941149562Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1941. Early Draft script for the 1948 film dated June 13 1941 preceding its release by seven years.<br/><br/>Based on Edward Anderson's 1937 novel "Thieves Like Us" about an escaped convict who falls in love with a woman who nurses him back to health after he is injured in a robbery. <br/><br/>In December 1936 RKO's considered Anderson's novel but rejected it prior to any adaptation being written. Writer-director Rowland Brown who by 1941 controlled the rights to the novel wrote the first attempted draft of a screenplay. This time around RKO accepted it and Brown sold the rights to them for $10000. When Brown's script was first submitted to the Breen Office in April 1941 director Joseph I. Breen deemed it "unacceptable" claiming that it contained too much criminal activity and "loose sex." Brown revised the first draft on June 13 1941 but it was again rejected by the Breen Office. <br/><br/>A revised script written by Robert D. Andrews was submitted in October 1941 and was rejected for the same reasons as Brown's drafts. RKO did not submit the script again until September 1944 when it was rejected for a fourth time. From Aug 1946 to May 1947 when Ray was working on the script the PCA rejected three more versions of the story stating each time that the adaptation dwelt too much on the characters' crimes and not enough on morality.<br/><br/>Script approval finally came in June 1947 after RKO executives met directly with Breen an incorporated his suggestions into the story. <br/><br/>Set in the American West shot on location throughout California including Canoga Park Newhall Arcadia Griffith Park Benedict Canyon the San Fernando Valley San Bernardino Mountains and the RKO Encino Ranch. <br/><br/>Gray titled wrappers noted as production No. 1243 dated June 13 1941 with a credit for Rowland Brown. Title page integral with first page of text with a credit for Rowland Brown. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 152. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads with washers. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1966152454Los Angeles: The Mirisch Corporation 1966. Revised First Draft script for the 1967 film. Laid in is a Call Sheet from the production dated Tuesday November 29 1966. <br/><br/>Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small bigoted Mississippi town. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rod Steiger nominated for two others. After the success of the film version the characters were developed further for a police procedural television series in 1988 developed by James Lee Barrett and starring Carroll O'Connor and Howard Rollins which aired on NBC then CBS from 1988 to 1995.<br/> <br/>Set in the fictional town of Sparta Mississippi and shot largely on location in Illinois. Poitier insisted the movie be filmed in the North because of a 1964 incident in Mississippi in which he and Harry Belafonte had been run off the road and almost killed by Klansmen while in the state to support the SNCC Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.<br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 84 dated July 1 1966. Title page present dated July 1 1966 noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stirliing Silliphant. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/27/66 and 8/10/66. Pages with damp stain on top right of last several pages else Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Call Sheet 8.5 x 14 inches folded horizontally. Near Fine<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 959. Penzler 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense. The Mirisch Corporation unknown books
1940138843Prague: Elektafilm 1940. Collection of 44 vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1940 film based on the 1897 novel by Vilem Mrstik. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album with a title page executed in holograph paint and tissue paper between each page. <br/><br/>The sweet and shy Helen daughter of a game warden lives with her father in a hunting lodge in the beautiful Moravian countryside. She meets a worldly ambitious young man who is studying law in Prague and in the course of their romance she becomes less innocent and he less cynical. <br/><br/>Filmed once prior to this adaptation in 1926 by Karl Anton under the auspices of the company Elektajournal which in 1933 became Elektafilm in the wake of its international success with Gustav Machaty's "Ecstasy."<br/><br/>Shot on location in and around the city of Dobris in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. <br/><br/>Photographs 11 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Photo album 15 x 11 inches bound with a string binding. Fraying to the edges else Near Fine. Elektafilm unknown books
1943133635Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release. Laid in is an 8-page shooting schedule on blue stock a 6-page revision to sequence "A" on yellow onionskin stock and 14 pages of "inter-office communication" on yellow studio stationery comments on scenes sequences and pages of the script. <br/><br/>Based on Rachel Field's 1942 novel about Emily Blair Loretta Young a wealthy deaf girl whose hometown is named for her family. Doctor Vance Ladd who grew up on the other side of town resents the Blair family but is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily and she is eventually cured. <br/><br/>One of only five screenplays written by Chandler this being the second following his script for the classic "Double Indemnity" 1944 based on James M. Cain's novel. <br/><br/>Chandler had a tumultuous career in Hollywood including a suspension in late 1945 from Paramount for "refusing to perform under a contract which is not a proper expression of my standing in the motion picture business" but his influence on film adaptation is nearly unmatched with scripts and stories that pushed the limits of the Production Code Administration. <br/><br/>Script:<br/><br/>White self wrappers production No. SF 8577 dated December 3 1943 with credits for screenwriters Partos and Chandler. Title page integral with front wrapper in the Paramount style. 137 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and light blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/11/43 possibly a typo and 3/30/44 other leaves dated variously between 12/3/43 and 12/5/44 possibly a typo. Pages Near Fine wrapper now encapsulated in mylar with cello tape and spine label remnants bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Shooting Schedule:<br/><br/>Corner-stapled blue stock noted as 4TH TENTATIVE BLUE / BASED ON A-B-C-D-E PART SEQUENCES dated 12/13/43 start and 2/9/44 close with credits for director Pichel assistant director O. Oscar Rudolph and businessmanager B. Bernard McEveety. 8 pages folded horizontally rust to the staple else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Revision:<br/><br/>Yellow onionskin stock loose but bound with a paperclip. Holograph annotations in pencil to the last leaf recto and verso detailing a few scene changes. 6 pages folded horizontally paperclip indentation and rust to the clip else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Inter-Office Communication:<br/><br/>Corner-stapled yellow studio stationery dated variously between 2/15/43 and 1/3/44. The earliest dated page contains notes on the script noting Talbot Jennings as the screenwriter. 14 pages hole punches at the top edges rust to the staples else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Luhr Raymond Chandler and Film US. MacShane US. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1925140430Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1925. Draft script for the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" seen here under the working title "The Mocking Bird." <br/><br/>Lon Chaney again serves as a versatile "man of a thousand faces" here playing the role of high-profile thief The Blackbird who lives a double-life as a beloved local bishop. He falls in love with a vaudeville starlet who's already being courted by another wealthy thief. The Blackbird attempts to use his Bishop persona to break up the pair and fails becoming crippled and nearly being caught by the police in the process. <br/><br/>Set in the Limehouse district in London. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 2 and production No. 1537 dated October 10 1925 with credits for screenwriter Waldemar Young. Title page integral with the first page of the text with credits for screenwriters Tod Browning and Waldemar Young. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 119. Ditto style mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1924137520Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1924. Continuity Draft script for the 1925 film. Studio File Copy rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief notation on one page in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on Tod Robbins' 1917 novel a classic of horror fiction about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus open a curiosity shop and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Robbins would see another of his short stories "Spurs" adapted by Browning as the classic 1932 film "Freaks."<br/><br/>This is the first of two adaptations being a silent starring Lon Chaney as Professor Echo the ventriloquist Victor McLaglen as Hercules the strongman and Harry Earles as Tweedledee the dwarf. The second version was directed by Jack Conway in 1930 as a talkie with Chaney and Earles reprising their roles and Ivan Linow as Hercules. <br/><br/>Set in New York. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as copy No. 2 in holograph ink and production No. 1505 dated 12/20/24 with credits for screenwriter Young. Title page present undated with credits for writer Robbins and screenwriter Young. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Multilith reproduction. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz US. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968147232Paris: Les Films Marceau 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. <br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone who previously adapted Winston Graham's 1967 novel "The Walking Stick" for the 1968 Eric Till film with copied annotations throughout striking adding and adjusting dialogue.<br/><br/>The second is a Second draft script dated 1st April 1968 by novelist playwright and screenwriter Derek Marlow with copied annotations striking scenes or pages on nearly every page. Marlow said in an interview that he was asked by director Tony Richardson which book he'd like to adapt for a screenplay and Marlow suggested Nabakov's "Laughter in the Dark." Two or three months afterward Marlow received a call from Richardson asking him to write the adaptation. <br/><br/>At the time Richard Burton was to star alongside Marianne Faithfull. Marlow then went to the U.S. to promote his 1968 novel "Memoirs of a Venus Lackey" and upon his return to the UK found out a new screenplay by Edward Bond had been written and Burton and Faithfull had been replaced.<br/><br/>The third is a draft script dated 24th June 1968 by Edward Bond. IMDB shows the filming date as starting June 1968 thus likely a draft used early in the production. The first half of the script to page 66 is on pink paper with the remainder on green paper with no revision date change.<br/><br/>Based on the 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov updating the original 1930s Berlin setting to 1960s swinging London about a wealthy art dealer who is seduced and swindled out of his fortune by a young woman and her lover.<br/><br/>Set in London and the Riviera shot on location in Spain France and the United Kingdom. <br/><br/>George Bluestone script:<br/><br/>Wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter George Bluestone and author Vladimir Nabokov. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Derek Marlowe script:<br/><br/>Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1st April 1968 obscured but visible through Winkast sticker noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Derek Marlowe and author Vladimir Nabokov. 137 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads<br/><br/>Edward Bond script:<br/><br/>Black wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 24th June 1968 with credits for screenwriter Edward Bond and author Vladimir Nabokov. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. Les Films Marceau unknown books
1966135616Paris: Club des Producteteurs 1966. Eight vintage oversize press photographs from the set of the 1965 film shot for the French magazine Cinema 66 and with their stamp and stamped reference number on the verso of each. All the shots are striking and quite candid several showing director William Klein working with actors Dorothy MacGowan and Sami Frey or setting up shots and others capturing the delirious and beautiful Ms. McGowan. <br/><br/>"After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer William Klein made this wild pseudoverite incursion into the world of Parisian haute couture. Elegant scathing humor ties together the various strands of this alternately glamorous and grotesque portrait of American in Paris Polly Maggoo Dorothy MacGowan an Alice in Wonderland supermodel who becomes the pinup plaything of media hounds and the fragmented fantasy of haunted Prince Igor Sami Frey. Klein's first fiction film is a daring deflation of cultural pretensions and institutions dressed up in brilliant black and white." The Criterion Collection<br/><br/>All photos 15.75 x 10.75 inches. Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Eclipse 9. Club des Producteteurs unknown books
1985149056New York: Greenwich Film Productions 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text titles and annotations in Japanese.<br/><br/>Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other as well as their father. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director for Kurosawa winning one. <br/><br/>Set in medieval Japan shot on location in Kumamoto Shizuoka Himeji Oita Aichi Yamagata and Tokyo Japan. <br/><br/>Bright blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 176. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with a lightly faded spine perfectly bound. Greenwich Film Productions unknown books
1968137925Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs a trade advertisement a film program and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III with images prominently featuring Ordway production designer Harry Lange Arthur C. Clarke Stanley Kubrick and others. One photograph has Ordway's name written on the recto in silver marker. All photographs mounted on matte board as issued. <br/><br/>Ordway and Clarke began working together on matters of science fact in 1951 and Clarke personally invited him to be the factual advisor on the film. <br/><br/>Kubrick's sprawling science fiction epic traces the evolution of human intelligence under the influence of an unspecified alien force. Along with "Blade Runner" Kubrick's masterpiece forever altered the standard for visual and conceptual sophistication in science fiction and genre films. The pre-production for the film set standards as well as Kubrick hired one of the greatest science fiction authors of the 1960s Arthur C. Clarke to be his screenwriter and hired over 20 scientists like Ordway to consult on every detail of the film. The film's high degree of scientific accuracy coupled with bleeding-edge special effects and minimal use of dialogue make "2001" universally recognized as one of the most influential films ever made. The development of the film was kept strictly under wraps and behind-the-scenes material of any kind is rare. <br/><br/>Winner of an Academy Award for Best Special Effects and nominated for three others including Best Director. Set in space shot on location in Scotland England Arizona and Utah. <br/><br/>Photographs 8 x 10 inches mounted on 11 x 14 inch matte board. Trade advertisement 9 x 12 inches full color creased. Souvenir booklet 7.25 x 16 inches full color 12 leaves saddle stapled folded. Program 5.5 x 8.5 inches black and white saddle stapled single leaf. Very Good to Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
