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1968144427Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1968. Two vintage candid photographs from the 1968 film. With holograph annotations on the verso of each. <br/><br/>A seminal horror film one of the finest genre pictures ever made from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema bringing together Hollywood newcomer Roman Polanski old-time producer William Castle young star Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 630. Rosenbaum 1000. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1933131892Munich / Paris: UFA / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne 1933. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original French release of the 1933 film. With the UFA logo at the lower left corner of each. Each still mounted on UFA / ACE boards as issued with credit for both studios and text in French. <br/><br/>A late attempt by UFA to reach a broader European market this joint production was filmed in French shot in Spain and Germany and released to the French market. Featuring an early supporting appearance by Simone Simon shown in a still here with Jean Gabin with whom she would go on to co-star in Jean Renoir's classic "La Bete Humaine." <br/><br/>Both photographs 10.5 x 8.5 inches Near Fine with some faint scratching. Boards 15.75 x 13.25 inches Very Good condition with multiple pinholes a few brief dampstains and minor chipping. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. UFA / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne unknown books
1974144624New York: Janus Films 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film.<br/><br/>A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock with about half of the film comprised of archival footage of British training missions and the London Blitz borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London director Stuart Cooper had originally intended to create a documentary though his aims changed as his research expanded. An underappreciated film with no distribution in the US until Janus re-released the film in 2006. Restored and released by the Criterion Collection in 2014.<br/><br/>Set in England and France shot on location in England. <br/><br/>Tall dark green wrappers with a die cut title window. Title page present dated 1974 with credits for screenwriters Stuart Cooper and Christopher Hudson. 61 leaves with last page of text numbered 60. Mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.<br/><br/>Criterion Collection 382. Janus Films unknown books
1972144513Los Angeles: American International Pictures AIP 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. With actor Betty Anne Rees' first name and phone number in holograph ink on the front wrapper.<br/><br/>Karen Claudia Jennings quits her job at a cannery and joins a roller derby team. She quickly clashes with Mickey Betty Anne Rees the star skater and stirs jealousy amongst the whole team as she dominates the rink. Following in the wake of the successful roller derby film "Kansas City Bomber" released earlier the same year starring Raquel Welch. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Howard R. Cohen and Vernon Zimmerman. 100 leaves with last page of text numbered 92. Mechanical duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 9/17. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1966146489Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1966. Collection of 108 vintage contact sheets from the 1966 film with approximately 1100 images. Stills as well as on the set shots.<br/><br/>The only film in which Walt Disney received a story credit as "Retlaw Yensid." Disney's take on Daniel Dafoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe" features Dick Van Dyke as Naval Lieutenant Robin "Rob" Crusoe who after ejecting from his airplane finds himself castaway on a tropical island with a marooned NASA chimp named Floyd and a beautiful island girl Wednesday Nancy Kwan. <br/><br/>Shot on location in San Diego and Kauai Hawaii. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine light curling some light creasing one with open tear on left edge. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
1962WRCLIT52737Np: Paman Productions Inc. - Paramount Pictures Corp. 1962. 1197 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in titled stiff paper binder. Binder sunned and lightly used at overlap edges a few related pencil notes on verso of last leaf fore-margin of one leaf a bit tanned and frayed extreme upper fore- corner of another leaf torn away but very good. A preproduction draft of this important adaptation to the screen of two Pulitzer- winning literary properties Agee's 1957 novel and Mosel's 1960 adaptation of the novel to the stage. While the specific draft which the script in hand reflects is not identified its length which would translate into a film considerably longer than the eventual release length of 97 minutes suggests further revision lay ahead before shooting. The film under the direction of Alex Segal starred Jean Simmons Robert Preston John Henry Faulk Pat Hingle et al. Paman Productions Inc. - Paramount Pictures Corp. unknown books
1962131486Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film "The V.I.P.'s" seen here as "Very Important Persons" which has been struck through with "The V.I.P.'s" written above in holograph pencil. Rubber-stamped FILE COPY and number 5974 on the front wrapper. Notations to dialogue throughout in holograph pencil red pencil and blue and black ink. <br/><br/>A star-studded drama based loosely on screenwriter Rattigan's friend actress Vivien Leigh and her attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier. In a New York airport at the V.I.P. lounge Frances Andros Taylor is seen off by her husband Paul Burton who is unaware that she plans to leave him for an aging international playboy named Marc Champselle Louis Jourdan. Several other persons are stuck in the lounge due to foggy weather including an Australian businessman and his secretary a filmmaker and his young starlet and a duchess. <br/><br/>Taylor's jewelry in the film came mostly from her own collection and this is Taylor's and Burton's second film together "Cleopatra" was released in the US before "The V.I.P.s" but was released after it in the UK . Margaret Rutherford won an Academy Award for her supporting role. <br/><br/>Set in New York and shot on location in England. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 5974 dated November 20th 1962 with credits for producer de Grunwald and screenwriter Rattigan. Title page not present. 186 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink blue white yellow orange and brown revision pages throughout dated variously between 20.11.62 and 8.4.63. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1969128885Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Final Draft script for the 1970 film. Here under its slightly different hyphenated working title. <br/><br/>A seminal New York comedy and an Arthur Hiller high spot shot on location in the city in early 1970. A document of the times it captures the city's lovable insanity in countless ways from airports to garbage strikes to Central Park muggers to hotels. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York City Long Island and Boston. <br/><br/>Blue green titled wrappers with die-cut window. Title page present dated March 6 1969 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Simon producer Nathan and director Hiller. 138 leaves mimeograph duplication with the last leaf of text numbered 137. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1922151342N.p.: N.p. 1922. Collection of 15 vintage reference photographs from the 1922 Scandinavian silent film.<br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. <br/><br/>A documentary-style horror anthology film charting the history of witchcraft in the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century intersected with dramatized horror segments loosely based on the Malleus Maleficarum a fifteenth century German guide for religious inquisitors. The most expensive Scandinavian silent film ever made banned in the US and heavily censored in other countries for its graphic sexual and violent content. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 134. Godard Histoires du cinema. N.p. unknown books
1957143037Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design with Hunter's name on the front board. <br/><br/>Veteran actor Curd Jurgens begins to have feelings for a young woman Debbie Reynolds much to the chagrin of his romantic partner Alexis Smith. Ultimately Reynolds chooses his younger neighbor John Saxon and Jurgens happily returns to Smith. Winner of a Golden Globe. <br/><br/>Set in Connecticut. <br/><br/>Title page present noted as Revised Final with credits for screenwriter Blake Edwards. 142 leaves with last page of text numbered "135-A and 136." Mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7/12/57 and 9/24/57. Pages Fine presentation binding about Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1973131474London: AVCO Embassy Pictures 1973. Draft script for the 1974 film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Rainbow copy with blue pink and white leaves. Included are six vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the film. <br/><br/>Bob Willoughby 1927-2009 studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" and as a set photographer for every major studio documenting some of most important films of the era and creating intimate portraits of some of Hollywood's greatest celebrities. <br/><br/>Willoughby moved his family to County Cork Ireland in 1972 working on only a handful of films through the late 1970s and early 1980s this was one of his final films though he would continue to photograph exhibit and publish books for the remainder of his life. <br/><br/>Based on Evelyn Anthony's 1971 novel about a woman on holiday in the Caribbean who meets a handsome Russian. Judith Farrow Andrews meets Feodor Sverdlov Sharif and together they visit all the beautiful spots on the island but Judith's ties to the British government and Feodor's to the Russian government cause problems for their romance. An underrated but serious look at espionage in the Cold War. <br/><br/>Set in Barbardos and shot on location there and in London and Paris. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers marked copy No. 122. Title page present dated April 1973 with credits for screenwriter Edwards. 127 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and blue undated revision pages throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two silver brads. Stills Near Fine. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1953148513Universal City: Universal Pictures 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br/><br/>An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager Van Heflin is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz George Dolenz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel Adams then finds there's a price on his head.<br/><br/>Set in Mexico shot on location in the Simi Hills and the Ray Corrigan Ranch Simi Valley California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing near the edges. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1960WRCLIT62998Culver City: Selznick International 1960. 198 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow typescript wrappers. Light use to wrappers otherwise near fine. Denoted the "Final Shooting Script" for this adaptation to the screen of Clemens' novel. The February 1938 release was directed by Norman Taurog with uncredited retakes by George Cukor and others and starred Tommy Kelly Jackie Moran May Robson Walter Brennan Victor Jory et al. The physical aspect of this script suggests it was rerun from new stencils at a later date and in support of that inference it is accompanied by a Combined Cutting & Dialogue Continuity Script based on a 1957 print 82 leaves legal format and the same for a 1961 16mm re-release 82 leaves legal format for a total of three volumes. This was at least the fourth adaptation of the novel to the screen the earliest having appeared in 1907. Selznick International unknown books
1960WRCLIT67384Culver City: Selznick International 1960. 198 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow typescript wrappers. Light use to wrappers short marginal tear in one leaf of associated item otherwise near fine. Denoted the "Final Shooting Script" for this adaptation to the screen of Clemens' novel. The February 1938 release was directed by Norman Taurog with uncredited retakes by George Cukor and others and starred Tommy Kelly Jackie Moran May Robson Walter Brennan Victor Jory et al. The physical aspect of this script suggests it was rerun from new stencils at a later date and in support of that inference it is accompanied by a Combined Cutting & Dialogue Continuity Script based on a 1957 print 82 leaves legal format and the same for a 1961 16mm re-release 82 leaves legal format for a total of three volumes. This was at least the fourth adaptation of the novel to the screen the earliest having appeared in 1907. A duplicate from the Selznick Archive. Selznick International unknown books
1972WRCLIT47693Np 1972. 2124 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of a variety of colored papers. Bradbound in stenciled wrappers with title revision in manuscript and title lettered on spine. A "Second revised draft" of this very early original screenplay by Crichton incorporating many leaves of revises spanning the period noted above. The film was released in 1973 as EXTREME CLOSE UP under the direction of Jeannot Szwarc but garnered little notice even under the alternate rerelease title SEX THROUGH A WINDOW. This film was released in the same year as WESTWORLD the other film with a claim to being the first based on a Crichton script; precedence is unknown to this cataloguer. A little known undertaking from early in Crichton's Hollywood career and a much less common script than that for its better known contemporary. unknown books
1967129429Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. <br/><br/>Set in Czarist Russia Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev in order to secure a job working for a drunken anti-Semite. When Bok is wrongfully accused of murder he must go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. <br/><br/>Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. By 1960 the blacklisted Trumbo one of the Hollywood Ten began to receive credit for his work in Hollywood after serving time in a federal penitentiary for his conviction in the House Un-American Committee hearings to impugn possible Communists in the US. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hungary. <br/><br/>Light blue titled wrappers dated September 7 1967 with a credit for screenwriter Trumbo. 138 leaves with least leaf of text numbered 129. Mechanically and xerographically duplicated dated variously between 9/6/67 and 9/7/67 with a revision page dated 8/7/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Rear wrapper now encapsulated in mylar. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
WRCLIT60277Los Angeles: Universal Pictures 1946. 1182015161720 leaves paginated by reel. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Punched at top and bradbound. Occasional slight creases or marginal fraying title leaf chipped around brads and with creased tear in right margin; generally very good. A post-production continuity script of this important adaptation of the Holmes/Watson characters to the screen. The screenplay was written by novelist Frank Gruber and was his sixth credited screenplay. The film directed by Roy William Neill starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and was the penultimate film in the sequence of twelve Universal films in which the duo set high marks for their portrayal of Holmes and Watson. DE WAAL 5158. Universal Pictures] unknown books
1957152372N.p.: N.p. 1957. Vintage reference photograph from the 1957 film showing Elvis Presley getting whipped by prison guard Bill Hickman. <br/><br/>A handsome young man named Vince Everett is sent to prison for manslaughter and begins a musical career with the help of his cellmate a washed-up country singer. Presley's third film appearance and first film with MGM.<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning along the top edge. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. N.p. unknown books
1967149670N.p.: N.p. 1967. Collection of three vintage small format Polaroid color reference photographs and five negatives on a single strip from the 1967 French film all images showing actress Haydee Politoff. <br/><br/>A love triangle develops between two best friends and the beautiful sexually open young woman who interrupts their vacation on the Riviera. The third film in director Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series made quickly and with very little budget due to delays in starting production of what was to be the next film in the series "My Night at Maud's" 1969.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Cote d'Azur and Saint-Tropez France.<br/><br/>Photographs 5 x 3.5 inches negative strip 1.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1975117917N.p.: N.p. 1975. An unproduced British Draft script for the "Vile Bodies" based on the 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh and written for the screen by John Wells. Assembled mostly from mechanically-reproduced leaves with two leaves pp. 138-139 being ribbon copies. Written as a screenplay with dialogue and location information but lacking camera direction typical of a draft that is past the treatment stage but prior to the advanced draft screenplay stage. This would appear to have no relation to the later produced adaptation of the same novel director Stephen Fry's "Bright Young Things" 2003. <br/><br/>Pink wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present with a date of September 1975 and credits for novelist Waugh and screenwriter Wells. 167 leaves. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with light wear and yapping at the edges prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1967131264Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Rehearsal Script for the 1968 film. Notations in holograph ink on page 29 noting changes to dialogue for characters Buzz and Howard Ronald Colby Al Freeman Jr. as well as a faint pencil notation on the front wrapper presumably indicating a copy number. <br/><br/>Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947 but Harburg and Saidy were unwilling to tone down the racial satire to fit studio demands holding out until the option was about to expire and Warner agreed to a script with only minimal changes twenty years later. Coppola was an odd choice to direct with his realistic New Hollywood Cinema approach to filmmaking at odds with the fantastical nature of the material and the results were decidedly mixed despite a widely loved performance by Petula Clark. <br/><br/>The original Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theater on January 10 1947 ran for 725 performances and won the 1947 Tony Awards for the Best Actor David Wayne as well as Music Direction and Choreography. The film was nominated for Best Sound and Best Score. <br/><br/>Pale green titled wrappers noted as DRAFT on the front wrapper dated May 19 1967. Title page not present. 89 leaves mimeograph on eye-rest green stock with blue revision pages throughout dated 5/24/67. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good bound internally with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1942130849Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. <br/><br/>A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. <br/><br/>Script is lacking front cover and some early pages. Rear cover is goldenrod. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink revision pages throughout dated 3-23-42. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold pins. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 212. Warner Archive. Warner Brothers unknown books
1952135098Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1952. Collection of 3 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 film noir. One of the photos is a candid shot of a young Marilyn Monroe leaning against a camera track and talking to her male counterpart lead Keith Andes. The candid photo has a mimeo snipe describing the shot indicating clearly that Ms. Monroe was well on her way to being a superstar. The other two borderless shots are of Monroe and Andes in a romantic embrace and Robert Ryan and Barbara Stanwyck in an even more romantic embrace. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1964152336Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Vintage publicity photograph of art director Cecil Beaton on the set of the 1964 film. SIGNED by Beaton in holograph ink to the top left corner of the recto. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe itself adapted from George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Pygmalion." Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor for Rex Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins. <br/><br/>Noted photographer writer and interior designer Cecil Beaton served as art director for the film and received the Academy Award for Best Production Design for his work alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly edgeworn and wavy with faint soil to the corners. <br/><br/>Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown books
1979151347Beverly Hills CA: Warner Columbia Film 1979. Vintage press kit for the French release of the 1979 Australian film containing seven black and white photographs a ten-page booklet of promotional reading material and several promotional stickers.<br/><br/>An unhinged policeman seeks revenge for the murder of his wife and son by a violent motorcycle gang. An Australian New Wave classic the first film in the dystopian Mad Max series followed by "Mad Max 2" 1981 "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" 1985 and "Mad Max: Fury Road" 2015. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Melbourne Australia. <br/><br/>Folder photographs and promotional material Near Fine.<br/><br/>Harris Not Quite Hollywood. Warner Columbia Film unknown books
