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1933131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in manuscript ink above it. <br /> <br /> Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. <br /> <br /> Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown
1969159025Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1969. Four vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film including three single weight and one double weight. All four show director Gordon Parks on the set. Three with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on director Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Kansas. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Warner Brothers unknown
1938151968Paris: Paris Film 1938. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the 1938 film showing actors Jean Gabin and Julien Carette.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1890 social realist novel by Emile Zola. Director Jean Renoir's film remains true to the proletarian source material while grafting on elements of film noir and his own humanist philosophy. One of the director's biggest commercial successes with a powerful lead performance by Jean Gabin. Remade in the US by Fritz Lang in 1954 as "Human Desire."<br /> <br /> 15.75 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with creasing to far bottom corners with a small bruise on right side small crease to top right and a very small closed tear in top margin.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 324. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Paris Film unknown
167971N.p.: N.p. 1994. Early Draft script for the 1995 film dated 2/21/94 nearly eight months before the beginning of the production. Manuscript post-it note in an unknown hand affixed to the front wrapper apparently from a script reader detailing themes and concepts gleaned from a first review of the script. <br /> <br /> In the late 19th century a mild-mannered accountant goes on the run after killing a man later befriending a Native American who believes he is the reincarnation of poet William Blake. Jim Jarmusch's sixth film a dreamlike black-and-white Western described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as an "acid Western." Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Arizona Nevada Oregon Washington and California. <br /> <br /> Clear plastic front wrapper with a black rear wrapper. Title page present dated 2/21/94 noted as copy No. 19 in manuscript ink with a credit for Jarmusch. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 115. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus moderately foxed on the first and last leaves and page edges wrapper Very Good bound internally with three silver brads. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 919. Pitts 992. Rosenbaum 1000. N.p. unknown
1957161410N.p.: Jerry Wald Productions 1957. Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film here under the working title "Down Payment." Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. All photographs except for two cast photographs with text in margin struck at the production company Twentieth Century Fox and title "Down Payment" with correction stamps of "Jerry Wald" and "No Down Payment" adjacent.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1957 novel by John McPartland. An examination of the intertwined lives of four married couples in a newly constructed suburban Los Angeles community and the issues they harbor such as alcoholism marital infidelity racism and religion. Script written by uncredited and blacklisted screenwriter Ben Maddow and fronted by Philip Yordan.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather finding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. 154 leaves with last page of text numbered 143. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/17/57 and 6/17/57. Pages Near Fine binding Near FIne.<br /> <br /> Selby US. Spicer US. Jerry Wald Productions unknown
143238Tokyo/Kyoto: Daiei Studios 1970. Final script for the 1970 Japanese film seen here under the alternate title "Zatochi: The Killer's Song." Single folded leaf with a xerographically duplicated character list laid in with single manuscript ink notation. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> The longest-running action series in Japanese history and one of the screen's great heroes the character of Zatoichi a blind masseur and swordmaster was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa first appearing on film in 1962. A total of 26 films were made from 1962 to 1989. "Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival" is the 21st film of the series where Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. <br /> <br /> Set in the Japanese Edo period. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered c-50. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine with mild foxing on papers edge wrapper Very Good plus title on spine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 679. Daiei Studios unknown
1950141467Tokyo: Shintoho Film 1950. Two Draft scripts for the 1950 film. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> Based on a novel by Selichi Funabashi . A young servant girl Hamako has recently begun working for her hero Madame Yuki who quickly disillusioned her to her dream when she is presented with a list of the Madame's personal problems. <br /> <br /> First draft:<br /> <br /> White illustrated titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 116 leaves with last page of text numbered 36. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. <br /> <br /> Second draft:<br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 15 leaves with last page of text numbered 15. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus. Shintoho Film unknown
1956141466Kanagawa Japan: Daiei Studios 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in manuscript ink. <br /> <br /> Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill told through the perspective of several different women who work in the business for various reasons. <br /> <br /> Set in Tokyo and shot on location there. <br /> <br /> White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 13. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two staples. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection Eclipse 13. Eureka Masters of Cinema. Daiei Studios unknown
1948168105London: Two Cities / The Rank Organization 1948. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1948 British film. Includes ten newspaper clippings 13 publicity photographs 12 with Victory Films stamps on the verso and one with a printed mimeo snipe and J. Arthur Rank stamp on the same and a mimeograph summary of the film. Clippings and summary in French.<br /> <br /> The second of three Shakespeare adaptations by Laurence Olivier considered not only the best of the trio but also one of the most inspired adaptations of the Bard's work. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor. <br /> <br /> Two-color bi-fold measuring 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Photographs 8 x 10 inches. Bi-fold and clippings Very Good plus moderately edgeworn photographs and summary Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 82. Two Cities / The Rank Organization unknown
148351Rome: Reteitalia 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film which originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi with her extensive manuscript annotations on nearly every page and many page versos regarding camera shots takes timing and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes and several handwritten pages of Invernizzi's notes. Laid in with the script are three carbon typescript revision pages and several documents relating to production. Text in Italian.<br /> <br /> Based on Giovanni Guareschi's 1982 short story. After moving to Bologna to start a new life an impoverished widow decides to hide the existence of her nine children from her landlady in order to avoid higher rent prices. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Bologna.<br /> <br /> Script:<br /> <br /> Brown quarter leather spring binder housing the script. Script in yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present dated Ottobre 1987 with credits for director Lina Wertmuller and novelist Giovanni Guareschi. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear overall and tape reinforcements to the spine bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> List of scenes:<br /> <br /> Seven leaves with last page numbered 7. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light edgewear. Reteitalia unknown
165393London: HandMade Films 1982. Archive of material from the 1982 British film including two screenplays and multiple production documents as well as a manuscript costume design book with fabric samples and notes regarding costuming. Archive belonging to assistant costume designer Jane Hamilton with her name in manuscript ink on the title page of one script. <br /> <br /> Archive includes several production documents including a list of revisions to the script call sheets a directory and location contact sheet a map a shooting schedule and production memos. <br /> <br /> After a decade of missionary work in Africa an Anglican priest returns to London and attempts to adjust to his new assignment: ministering to the city's prostitutes. <br /> <br /> Set in turn-of-the-century London and shot on location in London Hampshire and Surrey England.<br /> <br /> Script dated 2nd February 1982:<br /> <br /> Script housed in a three-ring binder. Purple untitled wrappers with die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 2nd February 1982 with credit for screenwriter Michael Palin. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Script dated 22nd February 1982:<br /> <br /> Script housed in a titled three-ring binder. Title page present dated 22nd February 1982 with credit for Palin. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white revision pages throughout dated variously between March 8 and 9 1982. Pages Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Costume design book and production documents generally Very Good plus to Near Fine. Costume design book has several fabric samples detached from leaves having been originally attached with cello tape. HandMade Films unknown
1969136883N.p.: N.p. 1969. Original ribbon copy typescript for Tay Garnett's screenplay adaptation of Mickey Spillane's 1967 novel. Profusely annotated by Garnett in blue and red ink on every page and with a annotations by him at the top right corner of the first leaf: "First Draft Work Copy" "Screenplay by Tay Garnett" and "From Mickey Spillane's novel."<br /> <br /> Raoul Walsh eventually worked with Garnett on the script but this draft precedes his involvement. The film was released on May 15 1970 and starred Yvette Mimieux Christopher George and Yvonne De Carlo. <br /> <br /> 182 leaves rectos only. Leaves supple Very Good plus overall. N.p. unknown
143729N.p.: Mafilm 1977. Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film "Allegro Barbaro." <br /> <br /> The second of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hungary. <br /> <br /> Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 122. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Mafilm unknown
143728N.p.: Objektiv Film 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. <br /> <br /> The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary from the turn of the century to World War II as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Hungary. <br /> <br /> Gray titled wrappers dated 1977. Title page not present presumably as issued. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus side stapled. Objektiv Film unknown
1933159022Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1933. Vintage linen-backed keybook reference photograph from the 1933 film showing actor Paul Robeson. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1920 play following a cunning railway porter who gradually manipulates his way into control of a small Caribbean island. Actor Paul Robeson's first sound feature a breakthrough role which secured the actor's status as one of the first African American leading actors of mainstream cinema. <br /> <br /> Set throughout the American south and in the Caribbean Islands shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light wear along the top edge image unaffected. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 370. United Artists unknown
1955144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Archive of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed on the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in manuscript ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. <br /> <br /> Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. <br /> <br /> Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. <br /> <br /> Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown
155122New York: Deathtrap Films 1986. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Lung Leg from the 1985 short film. INSCRIBED on the verso in director Richard Kern's hand "Lung Leg / in / "You Killed Me First" / A R. Kern Movie / copyright 1986 / Photo copyright R Kern" with two "R. Kern Photographs" stamps and a "Deathtrap Films" stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> A landmark work in the Cinema of Transgression. Conceived by Kern and artist David Wojnarowicz as both a film and a multi-media art installation the film was shot unscripted over two days and was largely based on Wojnarowicz's childhood specifically the scenes concerning the terrifying and abusive father played by Wojnarowicz. Performance artist Karen Finley starred as the subservient mother and the young East Village model Leg who would go on to star in several more of Kern's films and music videos starred as the lead daughter Elisabeth/Cassandra. The film premiered at Wojnarowicz's "You Killed Me First Installation #8" at the Ground Zero Gallery in December 1985. <br /> <br /> A seemingly normal family sits down for Thanksgiving dinner and after a series of disturbing flashbacks revealing previous family traumas the daughter shoots her family at the dinner table angrily proclaiming "You killed me first!" A scathing and darkly humorous indictment of petit-bourgeois conservatism and religiosity.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Deathtrap Films unknown
1968159850Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Revised First Draft script for the 1970 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member with their manuscript ink annotations on 19 pages underlining locations settings and props.<br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> 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. <br /> <br /> Orange titled wrappers noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 209 dated DECEMBER 11 1968. Title page present dated December 11 1969 noted as Revised First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. and author Richard Hooker. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1944156251Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1944. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Several photographs with provenance stamps and stickers on the verso and two with the printed label of Palace Theatre affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Director Robert Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and one of the finest in the canon. Based on Cornell Woolrich's first novel written under the William Irish pseudonym in 1942 about a secretary who searches for the titular lady to clear her boss' name before he is executed for murdering his wife. The first film produced by Joan Harrison a former Oscar nominated screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock "Rebecca" "Foreign Correspondent" and Universal's first female executive. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Very Good with light toning and edgewear. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1949131899Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures 1949. Oversize vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph of director Samuel Fuller with the cast and crew of the 1949 film dated Nov. 24 1948. One of what could only be a few copies ever struck and the only one we have ever seen.<br /> <br /> Fuller's auspicious directorial debut one of three films he made for independent producer Robert Lippert before moving to Hollywood studios. An intense portrait of guilt and psychological torment the film based on the life of Robert Ford displays many of the hallmarks of the iconoclastic director's subsequent career. <br /> <br /> 20 x 15 inches. Very Good plus with a couple of small closed tears to the bottom edge. <br /> <br /> Criterion Eclipse 5. Lippert Pictures unknown
1968152185N.p.: N.p. 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to production manager Mickey Delamar with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his manuscript annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay are several promotional materials for the film including two programs an edition of The Daily Cinema magazine featuring a cover story on "Mayerling" and a small flyer advertising a press showing of the film at Leicester Square. <br /> <br /> 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 Charlie Chaplin's "A King in New York" 1957 and Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1930 novel by Claude Anet and the 1967 book by Michael Arnold. A dramatization of the events that led to the murder-suicide of Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. 172 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 17.12.67 and 1.3.68. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus lightly rusted to the binding bound internally with a silver prong. N.p. unknown
165402Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Working copy belonging to camera operator Bob Smith with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout along with his vertical folds to script pages marking completed scenes.<br /> <br /> Director Otto Preminger's final film based on the 1978 novel by Graham Greene and written by noted playwright Tom Stoppard about a low-level bureaucrat in the British Secret Service who finds himself unknowingly used by the Soviets as he struggles between his love for his family and the ambiguity of his ethical responsibilities.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in the United Kingdom and Kenya. <br /> <br /> White illustrated titled wrappers. Title page present stamped copy No. 183 copyright year noted as 1978 with credits for Stoppard and Greene. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good bound internally with a silver prong. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
163381Universal City: Dreamworks 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. <br /> <br /> In San Diego in the 1970s successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Diego Los Angeles Glendale and Long Beach.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated 06/09/03 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered "112-113". Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light splashes on the title page bound with two gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
19591599671959. Vintage screenplay for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Annotations in manuscript pencil on several leaves noting revisions and amendments. <br /> <br /> A remake of the 1934 silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" also directed by Yasujiro Ozu. The leader of a traveling theatre troupe goes to visit his former mistress and their son who is unaware that the man is his father. Meanwhile the man's current lover jealous of his attentions to his former mistress schemes to shame him by convincing a young actress in the troupe to seduce his son. One of the final films the prolific Japanese director made before his death in 1963.<br /> <br /> Set on the Japanese coast.<br /> <br /> White titled wrappers. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered e-22. Mimeograph duplication rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with perfect binding.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 232. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 41. unknown
162762Universal City: Dreamworks 2007. Revised Draft script for the 2008 film. Rainbow revision copy belonging to production coordinator Eve Honthaner with her name in manuscript ink on the first leaf of the title page. Included with the script are numerous gatherings of production documents including shooting schedules call sheets maps of filming locations script supervisor breakdowns and travel logs and multiple revisions of the same.<br /> <br /> A group of narcissistic actors in the process of filming a Vietnam War movie are unaware that they are in real danger from a drug gang they believe to be extras in the film. Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Oscar-seeking method actor Kirk Lazarus a role that along with his franchise-starting turn in "Iron Man" the same year resurrected his career. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Santa Clarita California and in Kaua'i Hawaii.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 1 2007 with credits for screenwriters Etan sic Ethan Cohen Ben Stiller and Justin Theroux. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between July 3 and November 4 2007. Pages Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
