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1952148479Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film.<br /> <br /> The only feature film written by Geisel Dr. Seuss who wrote the story co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. <br /> <br /> A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy Rettig who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher Dr. Terwilliker Hans Conried forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense it takes 500 children to play it.<br /> <br /> Nominated for one Academy Award.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Rosenbaum 1000. Columbia Pictures unknown
1958148889N.p.: N.p. 1958. Three vintage contact sheets from the 1958 film each containing twelve images. Two contact sheets with layout annotations in blue manuscript wax pencil to five images.<br /> <br /> Based on the unpublished story "Queen of the Universe" by Ben Hecht. Sci-fi comedy portraying an epic battle of the sexes. Talleah Zsa Zsa Gabor is from the planet Venus assigned to destroy four Earth men at the behest of her queen Yilana Laurie Mitchell who secretly yearns for interstellar peace. Sets costumes and special effects borrowed from "Forbidden Planet" 1956 "Flight to Mars" 1951 and "World Without End" 1956. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1956148402N.p.: Golden State Productions 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film belonging to actress Adele Jergens with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper and printed title inked over both in manuscript ink. Annotations throughout striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny played by Jergens in manuscript ink and pencil. Jergens; paper clips all along the top page edges still in place with many pages dog-eared.<br /> <br /> Jergens' career began after being named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair after which she briefly worked as a Rockette being named the Number One Showgirl in New York City and was understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1942 Broadway show "Star and Garter." In 1944 she landed a contract with Columbia Pictures and went on to act in over 50 films over the next twelve years. Jergins did two films following "Girls in Prison" George Blair's "Fighting Trouble" 1956 and Edward L. Cahn's "Runaway Daughters" 1956 before retiring from acting in late 1956.<br /> <br /> Anne Carson Joan Taylor convicted of being an accomplice to a bank robbery she claims she's innocent of finds herself in prison with three cellmates the hardened Jenny Jergens boss of the other inmates the mentally delusional Dorothy Phyllis Coates and sweet-talking Melanee Helen Gilbert.<br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Lou Rusoff producer Alex Gordon and director Edward L. Cahn. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 2/21/56. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with slight toning at the edges and small dampstain on right center bound internally with three gold brads. Golden State Productions unknown
1979144562Los Angeles: Essex Productions 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. <br/><br/>Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Idyllwild California. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated September 28th 1979 noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriter and director Edwin Scott Brown. 101 leaves with last page of text numbered 98. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages dated Oct. 7th and white undated revision pages. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine clip binding.<br/><br/>Thrower Nightmare USA. Essex Productions unknown books
1946132009Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Revised Final script for the 1947 film "Boomerang." Brief secretarial notation in holograph pencil on the verso of the last leaf.<br/><br/>Based on a Reader's Digest article 1945 by Fulton Oursler as Anthony Abbot in turn based on an actual incident involving a Catholic priest and a mentally unstable homeless man. Henry L. Harvey Andrews is a public attorney hired to defend a strange out-of-towner accused of murdering a priest. <br/><br/>Producer Louis De Rochemont's innovative documentary-style filmmaking is perhaps at it's best in this film drawing heavily from his previous film the 1945 Henry Hathaway noir "The House on 92nd Street."<br/><br/>Set in Connecticut shot on location there and in New York. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper dated September 6 1946 noted as REVISED Final Script with credits for screenwriter Murphy and writer Oursler as Abbot. 162 leaves with the last leaf of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 9/18/46 and 9/25/46. Near Fine overall bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby Canon. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1969151549N.p.: Produzione Europee Associate PEA 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph with left margin of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome in a series of gloriously decadent extravagant and grotesque episodes following the pan-sexual scholar Encolpius Potter and his insatiable friend Ascyltus Hiram Keller. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Rome Italy. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling at top and 1.5 inch crease at bottom. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA) unknown
1960144600Rome: Riama Film 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Fellini's most pivotal film if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching 7-day journey through 1960s Rome with Mastroianni a jaded journalist at the center of the story constantly surrounded by revelry beautiful women and a beautiful city but no semblance of happiness or love. Winner of the Palme d'Or at The Cannes Film Festival and The Academy Award for Best Costume.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Rome and Vatican City Italy. <br/><br/>12 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 733. Ebert I. Scorsese My Voyage to Italy. Riama Film unknown books
1969151549N.p.: Produzione Europee Associate PEA 1969. Vintage borderless double weight reference photograph with left margin of Federico Fellini on the set of the 1969 film. Three "Christophe L." provenance stamps on verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the late first century satire by Gaius Petronius. Fellini's dream-like depiction of first century imperial Rome in a series of gloriously decadent extravagant and grotesque episodes following the pan-sexual scholar Encolpius Potter and his insatiable friend Ascyltus Hiram Keller. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Rome Italy. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling at top and 1.5 inch crease at bottom. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 747. Eureka! Masters of Cinema 112. Produzione Europee Associate (PEA) unknown books
1964150499Paris: Les Films du Carrosse 1964. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the1964 French film showing director François Truffaut and cinematographer Raoul Coutard. With a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso along with a stamp noting No. 59. <br /> <br /> Truffaut's fourth film about a seemingly happily married literary scholar who begins an affair with an airline stewardess.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Portugal and France.<br /> <br /> 7 x 4.75 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 749. Rosenbaum 1000. Les Films du Carrosse unknown
1936150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe stamp of photographer Alfredo Valente filing stamp with annotations in manuscript pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann. A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown
1938148755N.p.: N.p. 1938. Vintage borderless double weight sepia photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1938 film. <br/><br/>Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1936 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart about an eccentric family living in a large house in New York City including their daughter who falls in love with a banker a decent and goodhearted man despite his snobbish elitist family. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for five more. Frank Capra's third Academy Award for Best Director in just five years.<br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Byrge & Miller The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography 1934-1942. N.p. unknown books
1936150710Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra by photographer Alfredo Valente to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe photographer "Alfredo Valente" stamp filing stamp with annotations in holograph pencil dated "6-25-36" and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp all on verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical directed by Charles Jarrott and starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann.<br/><br/>A British diplomat and his entourage crash in the Himalayas are rescued and taken to the mystical valley of Shangri-La. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Griffith Park Ojai Palms Springs Victorville and Sherwood Forest California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and crease in top right margin else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1939148444Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1939. Vintage double weight photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe stamp crediting photographer Al Schafer and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its accurate then and now depiction of the Senate as a group of dysfunctional shallow egotists the film was also banned in fascist countries Germany Italy Spain and the USSR and later Nazi occupied France. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Washington DC. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint diagonal crease to lower right. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1931141666Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier 1931. Vintage Austrian program for the 1931 German film. Lang's first sound film Peter Lorre's breakthrough role and the film Lang considered to be his masterpiece-an assertion that has found much agreement since. The only second piece of ephemera from the film we have ever offered. Text in German. <br /> <br /> Issue No. 262 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier" one of the oldest European film magazines which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart "Film-Kurier" each issue focused on a single film and used a gravure process to reproduce images from the film making for striking images and design. <br /> <br /> 6 x 9 inches. Six pages saddle stapled. Ink annotations throughout seemingly regarding layout affecting a bit of text but no images. Very Good plus with a faint horizontal crease and light toning to the wrappers. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 30. Grant Germany. Godard Histoires de cinema. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 9. Rosebaum 1000. Illustrierter Film-Kurier unknown
1930148510N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau cinematographer Floyd Crosby a sound engineer and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. <br /> <br /> Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia" based on a South Sea legend Flaherty had heard while working on W.S. Van Dyke's "White Shadows in the South Seas" 1928 which would later evolve into "Tabu." <br /> <br /> Two young lovers on the idyllic island of Bora Bora find themselves in danger when an old warrior declares the girl to be the Chosen Maid. Refusing the lovers run off to a "westernized" island were the boy earns a living as a pearl diver and lands in debt. When the old warrior discovers their location they plan another escape requiring the boy paying off his debts by pearl diving in shark-infested waters. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Tahiti and the Leeward Islands French Polynesia. <br /> <br /> 5.75 x 3.5 inches. Near Fine lightly faded. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard Histoires du Cinema. Eureka! 61. N.p. unknown
1973138363Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Pictures 1973. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1973 film. <br/><br/>A grim and violent cult classic that tells the story of an outbreak of a highly contagious and untreatable military-developed biological weapon that spreads through a rural Pennsylvania town after a plane transporting the disease crashes nearby. Remade by director Breck Eisner in 2010 starring Danielle Panabaker and Timothy Olyphant. Set in Pennsylvania shot there on location. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Near Fine condition. Pittsburgh Pictures unknown books
1959151411N.p.: N.p. 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series which originally aired on February 5 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper and his holograph ink annotations throughout noting deletions and substantive changes. <br/><br/>A kinescope of the program survived and is available for viewing only at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>Based on Michel del Castillo's autobiographical 1957 novel "Tanguy." A young Spanish-French refugee is captured by the Nazis and interned in a concentration camp but finds happiness in Spain after the war. An early effort from the great George Roy Hill who was best known in the ensuing years for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" 1969 and "The Sting" 1973. <br/><br/>Set in France and Germany. <br/><br/>Housed in an untitled black spring binder. Title page present dated 1-19-59 with credits for director George Roy Hill novelist Michel del Castillo and screenwriter Irving Gaynor Neiman. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/23/59 and 2-3-59. Pages Near Fine binder Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
1949WRCLIT67357Culver City: Selznick Releasing Organization 1949. Paginated in reel format: 212518202512 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Punched at top and bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. A few corner creases else about fine. A dialogue cutting continuity script corresponding to the US release of Greene's own reconception and adaptation to the screen of "The Basement Room." The film was released in the U.K. in September 1948 and in the US in November of 1949. It was directed by Carol Reed and starred Ralph Richardson Michele Morgan Sonia Dresdel Jack Hawkins et al. Greene's screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award and NBA award and won at the Venice Film Festival. Duplicate from the Selznick Archives. WOBBE D10. Selznick Releasing Organization] unknown books
1979132786Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions 1979. Three original draft title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1979 film. Based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The three sketches show different approaches to the title all distinct from the final lettering design used. <br/><br/>Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "The Magician of Lublin" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. <br/><br/>At the turn of the Twentieth century a Jewish stage magician and con man whose career has been ruined by womanizing gets one more shot at the big time by attempting to pull off a never before seen trick. <br/><br/>Two leaves. First leaf: 19 x 18 inches. About Near Fine with creasing to the edges. Two designs executed in black ink on white paper with a holograph notation to the side in blue pencil. Second leaf: 15.5 x 5.5 inches. Black ink on white paper. Near Fine with holograph annotations in blue pencil. Golan-Globus Productions unknown books
1937WRCLIT67807Culver City: Selznick International 1937. 1651 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow stencil-printed studio wrappers. A few stray smudges and minor marks to wrappers otherwise near fine. Denoted the "final shooting script" of Hecht's adaptation of a story idea by James H. Street but in fact an early draft in terms of the film's genesis. A number of notable script doctors were called in after Hecht disassociated himself from the production allegedly over Selznick's refusal to cast John Barrymore in the lead. Among those contributing to the film's final script were Moss Hart Sidney Howard George S. Kaufman Ring Lardner Jr. and Budd Schulberg. Carole Lombard in her only Technicolor film Frederic March and Charles Winninger starred under the direction of William Wellman. The film featured a score by Oscar Levant Max Steiner and others and employed then innovative use of color process effects montage and rear screen projection. Duplicate from the Selznick Archives. Selznick International unknown books
1959144588Paris: Ulysse Production / Cinedis 1959. Collection of 370 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French film consisting of two unique and complimentary pieces one being a studio film still keybook with 97 contact prints of small format transparencies most with 12 images per print amounting to over 1000 images captured nearly all images with series number etched in the original film negative before development and credits at the top for photo laboratory Tele-Photo film studio Ulysse film title and photographer Apoteker housed in an oblong 2-ring paper binder with printed French titles on the front. Laid in is a small piece of graph paper addressed "Cher Christian" presumably filmmaker Christian-Jaque with brief slightly illegible note in French in holograph ink. The remaining 273 photographs are single photos with similar etched series numbers mounted with cello tape on thick stock in two quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebooks with maroon faux leather front wrapper printed French titles affixed to the front wrapper of one. Small "x" annotations in holograph ink on several pages. <br/><br/>All three keybooks capture the film and photographer Apoteker's sense of desperation in composed and candid moments. Michele Morgan and Gil Vidal dominate the imagery hamming for the camera and in action scenes with Vidal emerging from a car crash and rarely without a glass in-hand and stunning images of Morgan hula-hooping off-set and in several placid studio portraits. <br/><br/>Catherine Morgan is an alcoholic lawyer who enlists the help of reporter Walter Vidal to spy on a nefarious wine supplier who may have contributed to the killing of a young man's father. Morgan dominated French cinema for decades and even won the Best Actress Award at the first Cannes festival 1946. <br/><br/>Photographer Apoteker's debut film followed by successful crime noirs notably "Classe Tous Risques" 1960 and later worked on "Love and Death" 1975 and the futuristic "cinema du look" film "Le prix du danger" 1983. Fourth film of noted costume designer Autré whose other credits include "Love on a Pillow" 1962 "Contempt" 1963 "Lost Command" 1966 and "The Game is Over" 1966. <br/><br/>Notebook photos 3.75 x 5 inches most pages with four mounted photos keybook photos to 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Very Good plus overall with light foxing and curling and rubbing to the studio keybook a few photos with small edge tears. Ulysse Production / Cinedis unknown books
1972160117Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1972. Second Draft script for the 1973 television movie which originally aired on March 18 1973 on NBC. Working copy belonging to screenwriter Ron Bishop with an annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page noting "Bishop only" and 18 manuscript revision pages in Bishop's hand laid in. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1937 novella by John Steinbeck filmed once before by Lewis Milestone in 1949. Winner of two Primetime Emmy awards and nominated for seven more. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Sonora California. <br /> <br /> Beige generic agency wrappers. Title page present undated noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriter Ron Bishop and novelist John Steinbeck. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 124. Xerographic duplication rectos only with 18 undated manuscript revision pages laid in. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Omnibus Productions Inc. / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1976156769Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Revised Final script for the 1977 film.<br /> <br /> A portrait of the second wave of feminism at its turning point in the late 1970s about two former dancers whose lives have gone separate ways one having become a professional dancer the other a housewife and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Oklahoma City. <br /> <br /> Green titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers dated July 2 1976. Title page present dated July 2 1976 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1976129783Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Presumed estimating script with "Budgeting" in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Notations in holograph blue and black ink throughout. <br/><br/>A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late 1960s in which MacLaine and Bancroft portray former dance colleagues whose lives have gone separate ways one becomes a professional dancer the other a settled domestic woman and whose unexpected reunion yields dramatic consequences. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>Mustard titled wrappers noted as "Budgeting" on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 3/2/76 with a credit for screenwriter Laurents. 116 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Grant US. Hardy The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1961166734N.p.: N.p. 1961. First Draft script for the 1962 film. <br /> <br /> Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and optimism win him the affection of the entire crew except the abusive master-at-arms who eventually wrongly accuses the seaman of conspiracy to mutiny. The feature film debut of Terence Stamp who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance.<br /> <br /> Yellow wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated March 21 1961 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Peter Ustinov. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between May 5 and August 22 1961. Title page lightly toned else pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound internally with three silver brads. N.p. unknown
