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1993146214N.p.: N.p. 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. Copy belonging to art director Michael Lamont with his name in holograph ink on the verso of the front wrapper and to the top edges of several leaves.<br/><br/>Based on the 1985 play. The true story of the doomed autumn romance of novelist and theologian C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Gresham based on the play by William Nicholson. Nominated for two Academy Awards including one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nicholson. <br/><br/>Set and shot in England. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present dated April 5th 1993 with credits for screenwriter William Nicholson. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Manually reproduced rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 21 April 93 and 10 JUNE 93. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling bound internally with two silver brads. N.p. unknown books
1972140225Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Jay Grobart Reynolds kills a man who raped and murdered his wife Cat Dancing. He is arrested but soon after is released and goes on a crime spree. He then meets Catherine Miles who is escaping her abusive husband and finds an unlikely mate.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Arizona and Utah USA. <br/><br/>Blue wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated October 31 1972 with credits for screenwriter Eleanor Perry and novelist Marilyn Durham. 159 leaves with last page of text numbered 158. Xerographically duplicated with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between November 6 1972 and November 7 1972. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968150474N.p.: N.p. 1968. Vntage borderless double weight reference photograph of Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim on the set of the 1968 film. Photographer Alfonso Avincola stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Based on the adult comic book by Jean-Claude Forest and published in the French magazine V in 1962 and 1964.<br/><br/>Jane Fonda's classic role in "Barbarella" an adult SciFi Alice in an out-of-this-world Wonderland remains likely the most campy space-opera sex comedy in film history. Though not popular upon its release it was re-released to greater acclaim in 1977 and is now so iconic that it has taken Fonda decades to live down the role. "Barbarella" has since influenced countless fashion designers films and musicians including Duran Duran whose name is a play on that of the main villain. <br/><br/>Set in outer space and shot in Rome. <br/><br/>8 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. N.p. unknown books
1962143952Paris: Films Polski 1962. Collection of eight vintage French photographs from the 1962 Polish film. Starring actors and images of the sailboat are seen including a few candid moments and a full-length portrait of actor Anna Ciepielewska. Nearly all with numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos. Also included is an original French language press packet for the film detailing synopsis and star biographies. Housed in a white envelope with annotations in holograph ink including French film title and a "Pictorial Service" rubber-stamp. <br/><br/>Polanski's directorial debut and his only Polish language film. A couple on a sailing trip picks up a hitchhiker just for kicks. The sexual tension mounts in dramatic film noir fashion. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. <br/><br/>Seven photos 5 x 7 inches borderless. <br/><br/>Ciepieleska photo 7 x 9.25 inches. <br/><br/>Envelope 10 x 12.5 inches. <br/><br/>Press packet ditto-style mimeograph on white stock five leaves corner-stapled. <br/><br/>Photos and packet Near Fine envelope Very Good overall. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 215. Grant France. Films Polski unknown books
1966138830Moscow: Mosfilm 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. <br/><br/>A stunning set of battle scene photos including one three-part panoramic shot demonstrating the massive scale of the film shot on location in Dorogobuzh a region in the Smolensk province of Russia. <br/><br/>An epic film over seven hours long and slavishly faithful to Tolstoy's novel that was for many years the most expensive European movie every made. The lengthy graphic battle scenes which killed a number of horses led to the film being boycotted in many American cities. <br/><br/>Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Mosfilm unknown books
1927151470Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1927. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1927 silent comedy short film. <br/><br/>Stan and Ollie help a wealthy oil tycoon escape a trio of blackmailers after his money. One the last films released prior to the duo becoming officially billed as Laurel and Hardy. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a scratch to the negative filled in with holograph black marker else about Near Fine with light curling and some minor edgewear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1979148558N.p.: N.p. 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film likely a first draft. <br/><br/>Based on James Crumley's 1978 gritty masterwork of crime fiction featuring Crumley's recurring detective C.W. Sughrue scouring America's sleazy underbelly in search of a girl gone missing from Haight-Ashbury a decade earlier.<br/><br/>After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" 1979 and the critical success of "The Long Riders" 1980 he focused his energies on adapting "The Last Good Kiss" in which he was hoping to cast Nick Nolte. Unfortunately the project was shelved and Hill went on to make "Southern Comfort" a critical success but commercial failure. Hill continued to shop "The Last Good Kiss" over the next decade without success. <br/><br/>Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter and director Walter Hill author James Crumley and producer Sidney Beckerman. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimograph duplicaton rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with faint creasing bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1969152346N.p.: N.p. 1969. Collection of six vintage borderless satin-finish photographs from the 1969 film. <br/><br/>Woody Allen's directorial debut the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell a terribly inept bank robber whose life is told documentary-style with an FBI voiceover as well as interviews with his family and friends. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in San Francisco and inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison. <br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1941130830Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. <br/><br/>A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy much to the annoyance of his lovely wife who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. <br/><br/>Lacking front wrapper rear wrapper is goldenrod as used by Van Heflin. 138 leaves mimeograph duplication with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6-25-41 and 7-8-41. Pages Near Fine rear wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Byrge and Miller The Screwball Comedy. Warner Archive. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975139641Paris: Albina Productions 1975. Vintage photograph of Romy Schneider dressed as Marlene Dietrich in a scene from the 1975 film. With the stamp of photographer Giancarlo Botti on the verso as well as printed mimeo snipes in both English and French. <br/><br/>Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who is starring in cheap softcore films. Falling for her he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III" and give her a role but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. <br/><br/>6.75 x 9.5 inches. Fine. Albina Productions unknown books
1958146914N.p.: Leland Hayward Productions 1958. Vintage photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Spencer Tracy on the set of the 1958 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1952. Winner of an Academy Award and nominated for two more including Best Actor for Spencer Tracy one of nine nominations he would receive during his career. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine very light creasing. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Leland Hayward Productions unknown books
1959144110Paris: Cinedis 1959. Collection of 269 vintage black-and-white photographs for the 1959 French film. <br/><br/>The collection consists of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a film still keybook with 68 contact prints of small format negatives most with 12 images per print amounting to over 800 images captured. Nearly all images with series number bordering the image and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Cinedis film title and photographer Rosselle housed in a 2-ring paper binder with original French titles. The other piece is nearly 170 smaller photographs elegantly presented mounted with cello tape on thick stock in a "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Series numbers and small "x" annotations in holograph ink on the pages several with small white borders and several with series number on the verso in holograph pencil. Photos without borders also have series number at the edges etched in the original film negative before photo development as on the keybook prints. Nearly all photographs have numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos a few smaller photographs have rubber-stamps on the versos crediting Richard Pierre film titles director Bastia and costars Alfred Adam and Noel Roquevart. Also included are 27 loose photographs a few with rubber-stamps on the verso crediting starring actors and French film titles and a small press packet from Cinedis detailing film credits synopsis and star biographies. <br/><br/>Starring actors Richard and Pierre are amply represented in the collection and seen in nearly every image mostly in their official uniforms. Actress Zuber is equally present in striking high-contrast images cuddling bunnies fishing at a river and wielding a rifle. The notebook depicts images seen in the film while the keybook depicts on-the-set sequences test shots candid moments and images of the crew; the loose photos show both candid and action shots. <br/><br/>An expansive perspective of a little seen comedy about a gendarme who travels to a small town looking for a disappeared woman a town known for its distrust of police officers. Director Bastia was an assistant director in the 1940s and 1950s when he worked almost exclusively with director Jean Boyer until his debut with "Nous autres à Champignol" 1957 the first in this series involving gendarmes and Champignol followed by this film and finally "The Boss of Champignol" 1966. <br/><br/>Photographs in large quarto notebook 3.5 x 4.75 inches keybook contact prints 8.25 x 10.5 inches 2-hole punched several trimmed and loose photos range from 4.75 x 6.75 inches to 7 x 9.25 inches. Photographs about Near Fine with light curling a handful with short creases press packet Near Fine notebook Near Fine and binder Very Good. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Cinedis unknown books
1964144840Paris: Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of actors Sami Frey Anna Karina and Claude Brasseur rehearsing the 1964 film's iconic dance sequence which they did daily for a month prior to shooting. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>An outrageous and comical crime film which Godard himself described as "'Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka." Based on Dolores Hitchens' 1958 novel "Fools' Gold."<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1243. Criterion Collection 174. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Films / Anouchka Films / Orsay Films unknown books
1969151541London: United Artists 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers on the set of the 1968 film from the 1969 UK release of the film. British United Artists snipe and provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso.<br/><br/>Edwards' most outrageous collaboration with Sellers the only one that wasn't a "Pink Panther" film. Sellers in a role that today would be considered racially insensitive plays Hrundi V. Bakshi an Indian actor who inadvertently and ever-so courteously causes chaos and mayhem at a Hollywood party. Sellers' legendary and hilariously painful performance is assisted by an increasingly drunk waiter a wonderful performance by Steve Franken an adorable psychedelic-painted baby elephant and much more. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Faint creasing else Near Fine.<br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. United Artists unknown books
1957141710N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Copy belonging to Ben Colman after previously being owned by screenwriter Maxwell Shane with both of their names and addresses on the first page. <br/><br/>Based in part on an adventure story by Daniel Defoe. The film opens with a man trying to drown himself in the ocean as he reflects on his journey to this point of his life. Maxwell Shane began as a screenwriter and found his greatest recognition as a director of five key films noir in the 1940s and 1950s including "Fear in the Night" and "City Across the River."<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Maxwell Shane and author Daniel Defoe. 145 leaves with last page of text numbered 142. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1977145176Venice CA: Blum Group 1977. Third Draft script for the 1978 film. <br/><br/>A Hollywood agent has racked up huge gambling debt and needs to quickly pay back the bookie. He organizes a group of talented skateboarders and enters them into a major competition with a $20000 prize. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Lime green titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 10 1977 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Richard A. Wolf and George Gage on the title page along with a notation of copy No. 68 in holograph ink. 96 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Blum Group unknown books
1930148911Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1930. 16 page vintage program for the 1930 film announcing its showing at Broadway theaters in New York with abundant black and white photographs of actors aerial stunts and Howard Hughes throughout.<br/><br/>Hughes' most expensive and ambitious production a story about World War I combat pilots today still a dazzling work of blockbuster action and actual aerial biplane footage. Originally conceived as a silent film and then retooled as a talkie in the wake of "The Jazz Singer." Most of the film is shot in black and white but one sequence is in color-the only color footage ever released of actress Jean Harlow before her untimely death. <br/><br/>James Whale was hired by Hughes to direct the talking sequences Whale's first major effort in Hollywood but the overall production took so long that Whale's subsequent directorial effort "Journey's End" was released first.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>Card wrappers saddle stapled 5 x 6.5 inches. 16 pages. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1976143048Los Angeles: International Cinema 1976. Revised Treatment script for the 1980 disaster film. Partially erased holograph pencil notation "444" on front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1969 novel "The Day the World Ended" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts detailing the 1902 volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée on Martinique. The Master of Disaster Irwin Allen's final film which reunited Newman and Holden who had been in "The Towering Inferno" and reuniting Borgnine and Buttons from "The Poseidon Adventure." Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design Paul Zastupnevich. <br/><br/>Set in Kalaleu Polynesia with hotel scenes shot on location in Kailua-Kona Hawaii. <br/><br/>Yellow titled wrappers noted as Revised Treatment on the front wrapper dated September 1976 with credits for writer Carl Foreman and produced by Irwin Allen and Warner Bros. Title page present dated September 10 1976 noted as Final Revised with credits for writer Carl Foreman. 114 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 117. Xerographic duplication with revision pages throughout dated 9/8/76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. International Cinema unknown books
1968144528Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Directed by Frankenheimer based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo and starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm. Set in the era of 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 winds up having to go to prison to avoid stigmatizing the entire Jewish community. Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Bok. <br/><br/>Set in Russia shot on location in Hungary <br/><br/>8.5 x 6 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1975145527London: Signal Films 1975. Shooting Script for the 1975 film. Sequel to the 1966 film "Alfie" and based on the 1970 novel by Bill Naughton. Copy belonging to director/screenwriter Ken Hughes with his heavy annotations throughout. <br/><br/>Alan Price takes on the role previously played by Michael Caine of Alfie a womanizing truck driver who finally finds a woman he wants to settle down with with tragic results. <br/><br/>Set in France and England shot on location in France and England. <br/><br/>Goldenrod wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriter Ken Hughes and novelist Bill Naughton. 148 leaves with last page of text numbered 145. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock rectos only with pink and goldenrod revision pages throughout dated variously between August 25 1974 and September 18 1974. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Signal Films unknown books
1938140177Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1938. Temporary Complete script for the 1939 short film one of several classic shorts featuring the great Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley. <br/><br/>A stereotypically clueless husband is left in charge to show his apartment to a prospective subletting couple while his wife is at church and manages to botch the job in all the expectedly silly ways. "How to Sub-let" is the second-to-last of beloved Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley's "How to" shorts which included the 1935 Academy Award winning "How to Sleep" with his signature and untrue affinity for being lazy throughout the script. Set in an apartment in an unknown city. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as TEMPORARY COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 946 and production No. 89665 dated 11/1/38 with credits for comedian Robert Benchley. Title page integral with the second page of the text with credits for comedian Robert Benchley as issued. 13 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1938WRCLIT77073Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1938. 16pp. Sixteen original 8 x 10" b & w stills. One has reproduction scaling notes on verso and in margin as well as signs of mounting tabs and an agency stamp a few others bear pencil annotations on versos but otherwise very good to near fine. An unusually large and representative collection of the publicity stills released to promote the US release of the 1938 British film adaptation of Shaw's play starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller directed by Howard and Anthony Asquith. All but one have a printed descriptive squib either printed or mounted on the verso and the exception has lost its former squib. Shaw participated in the writing of the scenario which resulted in his receipt of an Oscar and his controversial response. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer unknown books
1929151442Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1929. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. <br/><br/>Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent but issued with synchronized music and sound effects to theatres equipped for sound. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with light curling and the occasional light crease. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1982140408Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions 1982. Collection of six vintage film still photographs three of which are borderless from the French release of the groundbreaking 1982 film. Featuring an image of Jeff Bridges and Cindy Morgan in their Grid bodysuits as well as various images of computer graphics that represent the Grid. <br/><br/>Jeff Bridges plays a game designer who ends up in the very game he's been programming and who must defeat the computer-generated image of his money-grubbing employer. The pinnacle of computer graphics technology at the time a hybrid of back-lit live action and computer-generated visuals "TRON" was one of the first of many films to reflect the burgeoning video game craze of the 1980s. The creation of these hybrid graphics took the work of at least four distinct graphics firms with over 550 people involved in post-production work. <br/><br/>While critically acclaimed for its flashy visual spectacle "TRON" fared more poorly at the box office than the studio expected though in time the film would escape its cult status and become the highly-lauded landmark in science fiction film history that it had always been. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>7 x 9.5 inches. Fine condition. Walt Disney Productions unknown books
197270572Los Angeles: Betnic Productions Inc 1972. Wraps. Very good. Revised Draft of this unproduced screenplay. Veteran producer Frank P. Rosenberg hired Ernest Tidyman 1928-84 to adapt Jeanne Rejaunier's best-selling novel which deals with the glamourous sometimes sleazy life of topflight New York fashion models. Tidyman began work on the project in 1970 immediately prior to writing the screenplays for Shaft 1971 based on his 1970 novel and French Connection 1971 which established him as one of the top screenwriters in the business. The production was ultimately abandoned. However this draft includes casting notes with potential candidates for each role listed in order of preference - for instance the actresses targeted for the role of Charlene include Eleanor Parker Bette Davis Joan Crawford Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Rita Hayworth Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury - as well as brief bios of the preferred producer Gordon Oliver director Gordon Douglas and production manager Nate Barrager. Green titled vinyl wrappers noted as "Revised Draft" on the title page which is dated November 8 1972 and includes credits for Tidyman Rejaunier and Betnic Productions. 169 mimeographed pages with the last page numbered 154. The contents are crisp and clean. Some very light edgewear to the wrappers which are bound with two brads with the remnants of a paper label to the spine; otherwise very good. Scarce OCLC locates no copies. Betnic Productions Inc unknown books
