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1969144708Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. <br/><br/>Liza Minnelli gives a strong non-musical performance as a woman who has been disfigured by a vengeful boyfriend and who finds comfort in a friendship with two other social outcasts. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Massachusetts and California. <br/><br/>Illustrated titled card wrappers with a credit for director/producer Otto Preminger. Title page present dated May 1 1969 with credits for screenwriter and novelist Marjorie Kellogg. 185 leaves with last page of text numbered 184 mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internal prong binding. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948139636Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1948. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1948 film. Featuring Eleanor Parker standing next to Sydney Greenstreet with Gig Young kneeling at the feet of Alexis Smith in front of the pair. From the private collection of Eleanor Parker. Photographer Bob Palmer's rubber stamp to the verso. Based on the 1859 Wilkie Collins novel. <br/><br/>An artist Gig Young hired to teach a wealthy woman Eleanor Parker uncovers a plot to erode her sanity. He becomes involved with one of Parker's cousins and together the pair attempt to save her and the family fortune from her conniving invalid uncle and new husband. Set on an English estate. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine condition. <br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown books
1969140903Italy: San Marco / Les Films Number One / Janus Film und Ferneshen 1969. Vintage oversize borderless color photograph from the 1969 film. Based on the Greek myth the film is opera legend Maria Callas' only feature film role one in which she did not sing. <br/><br/>11.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>BFI 1088. San Marco / Les Films Number One / Janus Film und Ferneshen unknown books
1963149379N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Orson Welles from the 1963 film. Italian "ROGOPAG / LA RIOTTA" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>An anthology film of four short films titled after the names of the four directors: "Illibatezza" directed by Roberto Rossellini "Il Nuovo Mondo" directed by Jean-Luc Godard "La Ricotta" directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and "Il Pollo Ruspante" directed by Ugo Gregoretti <br/><br/>Pasolini's scathing comic rebuke on social inequality and religious hypocrisy wherein a lavish film production of the crucifixion of Christ in a poor region outside Rome finds the extra playing the "good thief" Stracci Mario Cipriani quite literally starving during the production trying everything to get some food all while being berated by the bombastic insufferable director Orson Welles.<br/><br/>The film resulted in Pasolini being convicted of blasphemy and the film being banned in Italy. Pasolini was sentenced to a four month prison term which he avoided by paying a fine.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Criterion Collection 236. N.p. unknown books
1948135654Berlin: Nero AG 1948. Vintage black-and-white photograph of director Preston Sturges and actors Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison on the set of the 1948 film. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches 20.5 x 25.5 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 292. Nero AG unknown books
1966145971Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1966. Draft script for the 1967 British spy film. With producer Richard Zanuck's name written on the front wrapper in holograph ink though not in his hand.<br/><br/>Based on an unpublished novel by Larry Forrester. An American skydiver in Spain is enlisted by a Scottish secret agent to recover the detonator for an H-bomb that has fallen into the hands of hostile enemy agents. One of three 1967 Twentieth Century-Fox films about female spies that functioned primarily as star vehicles for their leading ladies the other two being "Caprice" with Doris Day and "Come Spy with Me" with Andrea Dromm.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Andalucia Spain. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers rubber-stamped production No. 4192. Title page present noted as copy No. 14 in holograph ink dated 15th August 1966 with a credit for screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two silver brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1962139131France Italy: Cineriz 1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material like shooting schedules and synopses a cinema magazine reviewing the film and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin Martres a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations in holograph ink throughout. More than 150 leaves of correspondence and notes. <br/><br/>A glimpse inside the behind-the-scenes process of French press and the attention paid to prolific French figures of cinema notably Rene Clair. Maryse Martin whose film credits include "The Happy Road" 1957 "Bonjour Tristesse 1958 and several films each for directors Jacqueline Audry Maurice Labro and Jean Gourguet was a popular "B" actress who played supporting roles in over 40 films. She presumably worked for a press agency involved in publication of film reviews press kits photographs and more. Several letters are represented addressed to and from Maryse from persons like Gay-Lussac Gordon Reid A. Sergio Berrocal George L. George Monsieur Bergougnous Monsieur Lourau J.D. van Leeuwen Edmundo Duran members of UniFrance Film Alessandro Ferrau R. Betmalle Clare Simpson Pierre Lazareff Francois Timmory I. Dally and even Rene Clair's secretary. <br/><br/>A businessman Noiret wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to sell the water from the village fountain purportedly a fountain of youth. Shot on location throughout France. <br/><br/>All material Very Good overall housed in Martin's file folder with the film title in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. Cineriz unknown books
1966144953Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 Western showing director Richard Brooks and crew getting ready to shoot a close up of actor Lee Marvin letting loose with a machine gun. <br/><br/>Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan to rescue his wife from a Mexican revolutionary only to discover the job in not exactly what it seems. A sometimes overlooked and underrated entry into the Western canon despite being nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. <br/><br/>Set in Mexico and Texas shot on location in Mexico Arizona Nevada and California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962149573Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1962. Vintage reference photograph of actors Paul Newman and Shirley Knight examining film negatives with cinematographer Milton R. Krasner looking on. With a mimeo snipe on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on Tennessee Williams' 1959 play wherein a failed Hollywood actor and gigolo returns to his small hometown accompanied by an older faded movie star hoping to win back his former girlfriend. Nominated for three Academy Awards winning one for Best Supporting Actor for Ed Begley.<br/><br/>Set in St. Cloud Mississippi. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1967146012Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert Blake and Scott Wilson from the 1967 film. Crop annotations in holograph pencil and the stamp of photographer Michel Ciment stamp on the verso.<br/><br/>Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book and remains one of the great meditations on violence in America.<br/><br/>Nominated for four Academy Awards.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus some light creasing and edgewear.<br/><br/>National Film Registry. Ebert II. Criterion Collection 781. Penzler 101. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1974142679Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1974. Draft script for the 1979 film here under the working title "The Ravagers." Copy belonging to uncredited producer Walter Mirisch with his name in blue holograph ink on the title page and with a holograph note in the same blue ink paper-clipped to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Based on the 1966 novel "Path to Savagery" by Robert Edmond Alter. A grim "Mad Max" style film set post-World War III nuclear holocaust in which Richard Harris plays a man whose wife was raped and murdered by a brutal gang and who eventually seeks a home where he may live in peace. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Alabama. <br/><br/>Olive green titled wrappers dated October 14 1974. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Donald S. Sanford and novelist Robert Edmond Alter. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper about Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1965151229N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1965 film showing actresses Lucy Bartlett and Charlotte Rampling in between takes wearing matching wetsuits. <br/><br/>An awkward young man seeks out the help of his womanizing friend in learning how to seduce women but trouble arises when both men fall for the same woman a shy young country girl.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in London. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1979140955Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1979. First Draft script for the 1979 film SIGNED by the director Richard Lester. With three pages of synopsis laid in. <br/><br/>A former British major lands in Cuba to train the Cuban army to resist Castro where he encounters an old flame who is recently brushed off by her husband. Finally a strike and the overhaul by Castro causes the British and Americans to flee leaving his girlfriend crying and facing a new Communist government. <br/><br/>Set in Cuba shot on location in Spain. <br/><br/>Purple blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as a first draft screenplay with credits for screenwriter Charles Wood. 131 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads. United Artists unknown books
1973152368Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1973. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1973 film showing actor Lee Marvin to the far left with a camera crew capturing the shot to the right. With the stamps of Warner Brothers and still photographer Mac Julian to the verso.<br/><br/>Director Robert Aldrich's portrait of the hard-boiled men who made their reputations by way of the railroad during the Depression. One of the best and most underrated American films of the early 1970s. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Oregon. <br/><br/>9.5 x 4 inches with wide margins. Very Good plus with light wear to the corners. Warner Brothers unknown books
1978130194Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1978. Final Draft screenplay for the 1979 film "The Frisco Kid" seen here under the early working title "No-Knife." <br/><br/>Though first offered to John Wayne the part of "Tommy" went to Harrison Ford when Wayne declined having been offered less than his usual fee. Director Aldrich's second Comedy Western following his 1963 Frank Sinatra film "Four for Texas." Gene Wilder plays a Polish rabbi who ventures into the American West to lead a synagogue. Things don't go well on the way where he is nearly burned at the stake and killed by outlaws fortunately encountering Ford in the nick of time. <br/><br/>Set in the Old West largely on a desert road between Pennsylvania and San Francisco and shot on location in various locations in Colorado California and Arizona. <br/><br/>Pale blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper dated 10/16/78 Rev. 10/25/78. Title page present dated October 16 1978 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Elias and Shaw. #PAGES leaves mechanical duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated either 9/26/78 or 10/25/78. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown books
1974139505Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures 1974. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1974 film based on the 1971 novel by Evelyn Anthony. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with holograph notation on the verso in his hand. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inchescm. Near Fine. Embassy Pictures unknown books
1970139510Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1970. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1970 film showing director David Lean as he imparts some advice to star Christopher Jones during a smoke break. Winner of two Academy Awards for cinematographer Freddie Young and supporting actor John Mills. Nominated for two more as well as ten BAFTA awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>9.25 x 13.25 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961139506Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1961. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1961 musical film based on both the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and the 1957 novel by C.Y. Lee. Nominated for five Academy Awards. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>13.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine with a shallow diagonal crease to one corner. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 373. Universal Pictures unknown books
1958139533Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1958. Vintage oversize double weight borderless still photograph from the 1958 film of a stone faced David Niven and smiling Deborah Kerr water skiiing on a break from filming on the French Riviera. Based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan. Shot struck and mounted by the film's still photographer Bob Willoughby with his ASMP rubber stamp and a lengthily holograph description of the scene on the verso. Full provenance available. <br/><br/>After studying with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles photographer Robert Willoughby began working for magazines such as "Life" "Look" and "Harper's Bazaar" in the late 1940s. He spent the next 20-plus years as a set photographer for every major studio and magazine with his images seen in print literally every week of his career. Willoughby's photographs are in the permanent collections of ten museums including The National Portrait Galleries in Washington DC and London the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern. <br/><br/>14 x 9.5. Near Fine with light edgewear. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1956143336Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled prison of Montluc. Like Devigny Bresson himself was a French POW during the war. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. <br/><br/>6.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 650. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. Gaumont unknown books
1966151335London: Gala Film Distributors 1966. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1966 French film. With printed mimeo snipes specific to the film's UK release affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>A donkey named Balthazar is followed through his life in rural France as he is passed from owner to owner most treating him cruelly. Revered as one of the masterpieces of French cinema. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in Yvelines France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus several with faint soil on the edges. Gala Film Distributors unknown books
1959140945France: Compagnie Cinematographie de France 1959. Vintage borderless press photograph from the 1959 film showing director Robert Bresson on a Paris metro set going over a script while actor Martin LaSalle and crew look on. With the stamp of French photo agency Dalmas and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout and identifying the image on the verso. <br/><br/>Bresson's first wholly original screenplay as opposed to one adapted from existing material perhaps the finest of his many fine films and according to one of its greatest champions Paul Schrader "as close to perfect as a film can be."<br/><br/>5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 314. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosebaum 1000. Schrader 4. Compagnie Cinematographie de France unknown books
1969147017London: Columbia British Productions 1969. Draft script for the 1970 film. Ornamental Art Nouveau Mucha-esque imprinted front wrapper design. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in holograph ink on the title page as well as an encircled "71" in red holograph marker. <br/><br/>Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to find suitable romantic partners for each other. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in England Spain and Sweden. <br/><br/>Tall ornamental titled wrapper. Title page present dated 1969 with credits for screenwriter Peter Draper and novelist Janice Elliott. PAGES leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeographed rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three flat metal brads. Columbia British Productions unknown books
1965144183Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1965. Vintage photograph of star Natalie Wood in bed and surrounded by members of the crew on the set of the 1965 film. A superb example of what lies beyond the fourth wall mixing the intimate with the technical. Mimeo snipe and holograph annotations regarding layout on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on a 1963 novel of the same name by Gavin Lambert. Daisy Clover is a young girl seen as a tomboy who lives with her mother in Santa Monica. She submits an audition tape to a Hollywood studio and is picked up and made a star at the cost of the dramatic life of Hollywood fame. <br/> <br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Holograph ink annotations in the margins and light creasing in the bottom corner. Warner Brothers unknown books
1946143449Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband band leader Artie Shaw on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>A breakthrough role for Gardner as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the first 20 minutes then explores both what led to the killing and its aftermath. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with some light soil and shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. Arrow Academy 1024. Criterion Collection 176. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Penzler 101. Selby Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown books
