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1977163694Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. First Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel. In 1970s London a young antiques dealer comes into possession of a number of items uncovered at a construction site-including the coffin of a long dormant highly amorous vampire. Roger Vadim is better known for his earlier foray into the world of vampires in the 1960 film "Blood and Roses" an adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla." <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 22nd July 1977 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Ray Connolly. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Warner Brothers unknown
2001133189Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for four others including Best Picture. <br /> <br /> Set in Warsaw shot on location in Brandenberg and Berlin and Warsaw. <br /> <br /> 9.5 x 12 inches. Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame archivally mounted with UV glass. Jean-Louis Seigner unknown
1982167103Paris: Sygma 1982. Five vintage oversize reference photographs from the 1982 film including several photographs of actress Romy Schneider director Jacques Rouffio and others on the set. Mimeo snipes and provenance stamps on the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1936 novel by Joseph Kessel. Schneider's poor physical health after a kidney operation and mental health after the death of her fourteen-year-old son the previous year delayed production and this film was ultimately her final performance before her death in May of 1982. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Berlin and Paris. <br /> <br /> 12 x 8 inches. Very Good Plus to Near Fine. Sygma unknown
1976162553Paris: Sygma 1976. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1976 film showing Jane Birkin raising her skirt to reveal that she is not wearing underwear. Mimeo snipe and Sygma stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> A tomboyish waitress at a truck stop develops a crush on a gay garbage truck driver and in spite of all odds they begin a relationship. Serge Gainsbourg's directorial debut. <br /> <br /> 8 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn at the corners. Sygma unknown
1949157066Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1949. Second Revised Temporary script for the 1949 film seen here under the working title "Always Sweethearts."<br /> <br /> An Irish horse trainer and his niece take a liking to a young Kentucky thoroughbred named Seabiscuit deciding to convince the horse's owner to let them train the horse for races. A loosely fictionalized account of prizewinning racehorse Seabiscuit incorporating black-and-white footage of Seabiscuit in several races including the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap and the 1938 race against War Admiral. <br /> <br /> Set in Kentucky shot on location in Los Angeles and Arcadia. <br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers noted as 2nd Rev. Temp. on the front wrapper dated Feb. 28 1949. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter John Taintor Foote. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1987141451Tokyo: Imamura Productions 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in Japanese. <br /> <br /> The greatest pimp in all of Japanese history Iheji Muraoka also known as Zegen or the "Boss of the South Seas" grew in power as Japan grew. Not only were his achievements contributing to his mantle of success but he believed they advanced the global ambitions of his nation promoting patriotic interests. <br /> <br /> Blue titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 149 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Imamura Productions unknown
1998159108Los Angeles: Propaganda Films 1998. Final Draft script for the 1999 film. <br /> <br /> Director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ended the 1990s and introduced themselves to the world with this highly original film which took the literary concept of metafiction into the realm of popular entertainment and opened many new doors in terms of storytelling in cinema. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and Pasadena California and in Jersey City.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as Final Version with credit for screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine bound with two gold brads. Propaganda Films unknown
1930151436Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1930. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1930 comedy short film. Notable as the first short by the duo where Hardy says to Laurel "Well here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"<br /> <br /> A parody of the 1927 silent film "The Cat and the Canary" with Stan and Ollie spending the night in a mansion of a deceased relative of Stan's only to be embroiled in suspected foul play.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. One photograph with a brief stray ink annotation to the recto else About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1971152002Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Collection of ten vintage double weight oversize photographs from the French release of the 1971 film. Each with gold foil promotional label at the bottom right corner of the recto as issued.<br /> <br /> Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic voyeuristic catapult into the world of teenage delinquent Alex DeLarge who forcibly undergoes experimental treatment developed by the government to cure him of his affinity for violence. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in London.<br /> <br /> 15.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and toned with tiny punch holes at the corners as issued.<br /> <br /> Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Warner Brothers unknown
1970134464Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1970. Draft British script for the 1971 UK film. Working copy belonging to actress Billie Whitelaw SIGNED by Whitelaw on the front wrapper with her manuscript annotations throughout in pencil and red and blue ink. Included are four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the film. <br /> <br /> Director Stephen Frear's debut feature film and the first film to feature an original musical score by Andrew Lloyd Weber. <br /> <br /> A whodunit verging on spoof Albert Finney plays a standup comedian and aspiring private detective. When he advertises his detective services in the local newspaper he may actually have to solve a real mystery. Set in Liverpool and London and shot there on location. <br /> <br /> Tall orange studio wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 1st October 1970 with credits for screenwriter Neville Smith. 123 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Good bound internally with three silver brads. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Indicator 37. Columbia Pictures unknown
1990161093Manhattan Beach CA: Carolco Pictures 1990. Draft screenplay for the 1991 film. <br /> <br /> Steve Martin's love letter to Los Angeles about a goofy meteorologist who receives messages from an electric freeway billboard encouraging him to pursue a romance with a British journalist. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page dated 2/23/90 with credit for screenwriter Steve Martin. 112 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Carolco Pictures unknown
1966140950N.p.: N.p. 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to crew member James H. Ware. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. <br /> <br /> Based on the short story "The Skedule" by Helen H. Wilson about a prim and proper English woman and an Aussie traveling together through the Outback where an African Queen-esque romance soon develops. A pet project of Australian actor Rod Taylor who struggled from 1964 until 1974 to get this film made though he was ultimately unsuccessful. <br /> <br /> Set in Australia. <br /> <br /> Green blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated July 1966 with credits for screenwriter Ted Willis and author Helen H. Wilson. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mechanical duplication with pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between September 24 1967 and September 26 1967. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1964134845Various cities: Various studios 1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. <br /> <br /> All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are:<br /> <br /> A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 Elia Kazan<br /> <br /> 1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter with TCF stamp and press annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> THE ROSE TATTOO 1955 Daniel Mann. <br /> <br /> 14 US studio photographs<br /> <br /> THE LONG HOT SUMMER 1958 Martin Ritt<br /> <br /> Eight British front of house cards. Front-of-house cards are the equivalent of US lobby cards but the same size as US color stills and typically have images that do not appear on US lobby cards and stills. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very minor wear at the extremities about Near Fine overall. <br /> <br /> A film based on several literary sources including William Faulkner's "The Hamlet" Faulkner short stories "Barn Burning" and "Spotted Horses" as well as Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."<br /> <br /> SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz<br /> <br /> 1 press photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift with press annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> 6 British front of house cards with the rating of "X" then in use in Great Britain. <br /> <br /> SUMMER AND SMOKE 1961 Peter Glenville<br /> <br /> 12 studio still photographs 2 with press annotations on the verso and 1 on the recto at the margin. <br /> <br /> SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH 1962 Richard Brooks. <br /> <br /> 1 still photograph of Paul Newman and Geraldine Page with a mimeo ditto-style snipe describing the scene printed on the verso. <br /> <br /> NIGHT OF THE IGUANA 1964 John Huston<br /> <br /> 1 still photograph of Richard Burton grabbing a long blade. Various studios unknown
1994167456Los Angeles: Miramax 1994. Vintage press kit for the 1994 film including 13 black-and-white studio still photographs and a 21-page gathering of promotional material issued by Miramax in conjunction with the film's release.<br /> <br /> Tarantino's masterful second film a noir-infused grouping of three stories told together in cutup style each with one violent narrative folding in on the next. Controversial winner of the Palme d'Or and winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar. Nominated for six more Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress for Uma Thurman Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson and Best Actor for John Travolta.<br /> <br /> Set in Los Angeles shot on location throughout California. <br /> <br /> Photographs: 10 x 8 inches. Fine.<br /> <br /> Promotional gathering: 21 leaves unnumbered. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Near Fine partially bound with a single staple at the top left corner. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Ebert I. Grant US. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Miramax unknown
1973149309Neuilly-sur-Seine: Argos Films 1973. Vintage grande French poster for the 1973 erotic film. <br /> <br /> Borowczyk's fourth feature length film a sexually explicit time-traveling romp ranging from the bloodthirsty exploits of Elizabeth Bathory to a nineteenth-century country girl masturbating to thoughts of Jesus Christ. <br /> <br /> 47 x 63 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Near Fine. Argos Films unknown
1940150392Universal City: Universal Pictures 1940. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1940 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> Egbert Souse a slovenly drunk finds himself in several different positions of employment through sheer luck and happenstance. After being hired on the spot to replace a film crew's no-show movie director Souse unintentionally thwarts a bank robbery and is immediately offered a job as a security guard. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly creased on the edges. Universal Pictures unknown
1996155767Burbank CA: New Line Cinema 1996. Revised Draft script for the 1998 film copy belonging to Master Lead Painter Charlie Palazzo with the annotations in manuscript ink of "Charli P. / Print Dept." and copy number "301" on the front wrapper. "Blue Rev.1" script on blue paper dated 12/11/96 with copy number "707" in manuscript ink on the top right corner of the title page.<br /> <br /> Based on the Marvel Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan. Followed by two sequels "Blade II" 2002 directed by Guillermo del Toro and "Blade: Trinity" 2004 directed by screenwriter David S. Goyer all starring Wesley Snipes. Snipes stars as the Dhampir Blade a half-man half-vampire protecting the human race from evil vampires.<br /> <br /> The beginning of Marvel Comic's success in film adaptations which still continues unabatedly two and a half decades later.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Long Beach Death Valley and Los Angeles California and London Moscow and Vancouver. <br /> <br /> White titled self wrappers noted as Production Draft on the front wrapper dated 9/19/96 with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. Title page present dated 12/11/96 noted as "Blue Rev. 1" with credits for screenwriter David S. Goyer. 109 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. New Line Cinema unknown
1964164248Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1964. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs and six vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and all with annotations in manuscript pencil on the same. <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 Harrison reprising his Broadway and West End role as Henry Higgins.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus overall. <br /> <br /> Ebert III. Warner Brothers unknown
1958171031Universal City: Universal Pictures 1958. Vintage press kit for the 1958 film. Includes a full-color pocketed folder with 17 black-and-white photographs from the film a French newspaper clipping about the film and a printed illustration of a soldier returning home. Three photographs with mimeo snipes affixed to the versos.<br /> <br /> Notable among the photographs are two showing cast and crew members on the set one of John Gavin holding his young children and a portrait of Liselotte Pulver that has been INSCRIBED by Pulver at the bottom left corner: "Cordialement Cordially / Liselotte Pulver."<br /> <br /> The pocket of the folder notes additional materials provided although these are missing from the kit.<br /> <br /> Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel set during World War II on the Eastern Front. A German soldier returns home to find his family's house bombed and his parents gone. He begins to struggle to keep his sanity and survives with the help of the daughter of a political prisoner. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Berlin. <br /> <br /> Folder Very Good or better with some wear to the folds photographs Very Good to Very Good plus with some wear curling and toning. <br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Universal Pictures unknown
1983167723N.p.: N.p. 1983. Nine vintage color transparencies from the 1983 French film. <br /> <br /> A woman on the verge of divorce takes a trip to the beach with her teenage niece where she rekindles an old flame. The third film in Éric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" film series following "The Aviator's Wife" 1981 and "Le Beau Mariage" 1981. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director. <br /> <br /> All transparencies 4 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1969150498N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph of director François Truffaut and actors Catherine Deneuve then Truffaut's wife and Jean-Paul Belmondo on location for the 1969 French neo-noir film. With the stamp of Cahiers du Cinema on the verso along with manuscript pencil and ink annotations.<br /> <br /> Based on Cornell Woolrich's 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness." A wealthy plantation owner on an island in the Indian Ocean anticipates the arrival of his bride-to-be but is surprised to discover the woman who arrives from France bears no resemblance to the woman in the photograph.<br /> <br /> Set on Reunion Island and Nice France.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Grant France. N.p. unknown
1998166262Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1998. Draft script for the 1999 film. Each page with a numeric watermark 2850. <br /> <br /> A black comedy about a gold heist executed by four American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the First Gulf War. Director David O. Russell's third feature film. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in the deserts of Casa Grande Arizona and in California and Mexico.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated July 17 1998 with credit for director and screenwriter David O. Russell and story writer John Ridley. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine with first page lightly worn and partially detached from the binding bound with three gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1962164225N.p.: Contempora Productions 1962. Vintage banner poster for the 1962 Cold War documentary film. Rare in this format.<br /> <br /> A feature length anti-Communist documentary comprised of still photographs and newsreel footage tracing the history of Communism from the birth of Karl Marx to the construction of the Berlin wall. The title was taken from the phrase famously used by Nikita Khruschchev while addressing Western ambassadors in 1956.which some modern translators have suggested was misinterpreted.<br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Very Good with light creasing faint soiling a small chip to the bottom right corner and a seven inch closed tear to the center top repaired with cello-tape on the verso. Contempora Productions unknown
1964164256N.p.: N.p. 1964. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film including one of director Jean-Luc Godard pushing longtime cinematographer Raoul Cotard seated in a wheelchair on the set. Layout annotations in ink and pencil on the versos and one with a Télérama stamp. <br /> <br /> Godard used a cameraman seated in a wheelchair instead of a camera dolly in several films including "Breathless" 1959.<br /> <br /> During a period of romantic tumult a woman discovers she is pregnant with two possible fathers. After premiering at the Venice Film Festival the film was briefly banned in France for its scandalous depiction of infidelity and was only passed by the censors after forcing Godard to make several small changes including changing the film's title from "The Married Woman" to the slightly less inflammatory "A Married Woman." <br /> <br /> Four photographs 7.25 x 9.5 inches one photograph 5 x 7 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Masters of Cinema 80. N.p. unknown
1955159873Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1955. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1955 film one showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz with actors Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye and wardrobe designer Irene Sharaff and the other showing Sharaff Mankiewicz and choreographer Michael Kidd. Mimeo snipes on the versos. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1950 Broadway musical in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br /> <br /> Set in New York and Havana.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one with three hole punches on the left edge. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
