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126974Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures. Draft script for the 1978 film. Early agency script produced prior to the film's gaining distribution. <br/><br/>Blue agency wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for screenwriter Mayes. 152 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. AVCO Embassy Pictures unknown books
1942145119Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1942. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wells Root and actor Dan Dailey on the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe holograph annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on a series of short stories by Jennie Harris Olver published in the 1930s. <br/>Mokey Robert Blake an eight year old boy who recently lost his mother struggles to adapt to his new household. His father is largely absent and his stepmother doesn't care to understand him and is quick to become angry when he acts out. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947144819Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso.<br/><br/>Janet Ames Rosalind Russell seeks out five soldiers who her husband sacrificed his life for during World War II. After suffering a serious injury she meets Smithfield "Smitty" Cobb Melvyn Douglas who helps her find the men her husband saved though he does not tell her he is one of them. He tries to help her reconcile her pain and guilt while he treats his own pain from the war with heavy drinking. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1941129168N.p.: N.p. 1941. Story Outline for an unproduced film called "CinCUS" written for screen by Lieutenants Victor F. Blakeslee and Hartley E. How and Welbourn Kelley who was a witness in the Pearl Harbor Attack investigations 1945-1946. <br/><br/>A story about the CinCUS a naval term for Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet. Admiral Todd Emery leads his Navy crew to battle "somewhere in the Atlantic" his story told in flashback of his days as a boy in Illinois in 1899 his journey to the Naval Academy in Maryland and his time spent as a soldier in WWI. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Story Outline on the front wrapper dated October 6 1941 with credits for screenwriters Blakeslee Howe and Kelley. 20 leaves with last page of text numbered 20. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two small gold brads. N.p. unknown books
WRCLIT84859Culver City: Selznick Company nd. 17 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in mimeographed wrapper. Fine. A proposal and treatment for an unproduced bio-pic about Eva Peron by the long-time Selznick story editor and historical novelist. One of a small stack of duplicates from the Selznick archives. Selznick Company unknown books
1933131380Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1933. Second Script for the 1933 film. Rubber-stamped on the front wrapper "FILE COPY / RETURN TO SCRIPT DEPT. / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD" and "1837 / MASTER FILE." The film's original title "Don't Call Me Madam" is present on the front wrapper crossed through with the new title "Tillie and Gus" written in holograph ink above it. <br/><br/>Based on a short story entitled "Don't Call Me Madame" by Rupert Hughes about Tillie and Gus Winterbottom Alisone Skipworth and W. C. Fields and their tribulations involving a deceased family member's inheritance. Even with the ensuing events including a riverboat race and a baby-toting bathtub that floats downstream reminiscent of Moses in a basket the film is remembered as one of Fields' "sleepers" one less punchy than others. "Tillie and Gus" was one of three pairings of Skipworth and Fields the others being "Six of a Kind" 1934 and "If I Had a Million" 1932. <br/><br/>Tall side stapled salmon self wrappers noted as SECOND SCRIPT on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy production No. 1837 dated March 10 1933 with credits for screenwriters Jones McNutt and Harris. Title page integral with the first page of the script. 137 leaves mimeograph on salmon colored stock. Pages about Near Fine rear wrapper detached but present else wrappers Very Good plus. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1951133769New York: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1951. Revised script for the 1951 radio program "Nightbeat" a National Broadcasting Company NBC radio drama series that aired from February 6 1950 to September 25 1952 sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Wheaties cereal starring Frank Lovejoy. This script for this episode is untitled. <br/><br/>"Nightbeat" came during the competition for audiences between radio and television and at the tail-end of "radio noir" a style of program that aired during the heyday of film noir. Edmond O'Brien "D.O.A." 1950 and several key noirs was slated to be the lead role and his narration coupled with William Rousseau's direction and Larry Marcus' script proved too edgy for NBC executives and potential sponsors. The producers ordered a second audition this time bringing in Frank Lovejoy 1912-1962 who had starred in "The Blue Beetle" radio show in 1940. Lovejoy's reworking of the hard-boiled script added a human element that of a passionate crusading reporter for the Chicago Star who covered the night beat known as "Randy Stone." Stone looked for interesting and strange stories encountering criminals and troubled souls some he was able to help. Lovejoy's grasp and delivery of hard-boiled phrases like "painted little dames with their brassy laughter" gave the show the edge it needed to compete with a burgeoning television audience and an elegant sendoff for radio noir. <br/><br/>The announcer for the program was Don Rickles and supporting performers included Joan Banks William Conrad Paul Frees Peter Leeds Lurene Tuttle and Ben Wright among others. Lovejoy would reprise his role as the tough guy with a heart of gold in "Search in the Night" 1953 an episode of the 1953-1956 television series "Four Star Playhouse."<br/><br/>Noted as PROGRAM NUMBER 57 on the first page dated September 7 1951 5:30-6:00 PM EST with credits for program manager Home Canfield actor Frank Lovejoy producer-director Warren Lewis writer Herb Purdum and others. 32 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus with dampstains and tiny creases corner-stapled. <br/><br/>Dunning 1998 p. 507-508. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1980150116N.p.: N.p. 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. <br/><br/>Director screenwriter and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards winning three for Best Director Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography.<br/><br/>16 pages housed in a clear blue plastic folder. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1978147639Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1978. Vintage studio still photograph of Buck Henry from the 1978 film. Mimeograph snipe on the verso on Claire Harrison Associates Inc. letterhead and second mimeo snipe folded over bottom on Paramount Pictures letterhead. <br/><br/>Warren Beatty stars as an NFL quarterback on his way to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. On his way to Heaven he is informed that he wasn't ready to die but that his body has been cremated. He must find a new body and luckily one turns up: that of a recently murdered millionaire. <br/><br/>Nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Writing Best Cinematography and Best Music. <br/><br/>A story set and shot in and around Los Angeles California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948WRCLIT70302Np: Robert Rossen Productions Inc. 1948. 294pp. only. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound with mimeographed production company upper wrapper. Pencil notes on upper wrapper some corner creases shallow nicks to fore-edge of last leaf; good but incomplete. An incomplete copy of this version of the "Revised Final Draft" of Rossen's adaptation of Warren's novel. Rossen also directed the multi award-winning November 1949 release starring Broderick Crawford John Ireland Mercedes McCambridge John Derek and many others. A special prefatory leaf notes that as of 19 November the character name 'Floyd Covington' will be changed to 'Floyd McEvoy." It is difficult to assess precisely how many leaves were not included in this copy sent to "Mr. Bernstein" according to the pencil note on the upper wrapper but a copy of the "3rd Revised Final Shooting Script" dated 1 March 1949 included a total of 140 leaves. Scripts for this film are surprisingly uncommon and although the current example is hobbled at best a preliminary examination of early sequences shows it differs significantly from the final film. Robert Rossen Productions, Inc. unknown books
1962132151Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1962. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the UK release of the 1962 US film. <br/><br/>A relatively unknown low-budget jungle film the only film credit for director Jack Warner Jr. son of the then-head of Warner Bros. Studios. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with one with pinholes at the corners one with a short closed tear. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968142320N.p.: Amicus Productions 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film. Typed Letter Signed in holograph ink laid in three pages total dated August 21 1968. Based on the 1965 novel "The Millstone" by Margaret Drabble and adapted by her to the screen. <br/><br/>Produced by Amicus Productions a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into another genre the studio produced this drama that follows Rosamund Stacey Dennis a bookish doctoral candidate who is perpetually dodging the sexual advances of the men in her life. This comes to an end when she meets George Matthews McKellen. The film was not a box office success on its release but is today viewed as one of the best films made by the studio. <br/><br/>Set in London shot on location there. <br/><br/>Green untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Margaret Drabble. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Amicus Productions unknown books
1969139764N.p.: Amicus Productions 1969. Collection of three vintage British front-of-house cards from the 1969 British film. Based on Margaret Drabble's 1965 novel "The Millstone."<br/><br/>Produced by Amicus Productions a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into another genre the studio produced this drama that follows Rosamund Stacey Sandy Dennis a bookish doctoral candidate who is perpetually dodging the sexual advances of the men in her life. This comes to an end when she meets George Matthews Ian McKellen. The film was not a box office success but ironically been called the best film produced by Amicus. <br/><br/>Set in London shot on location in England. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Fine. Amicus Productions unknown books
1969147253N.p.: Amicus Productions 1969. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 British film. Based on Margaret Drabble's 1965 novel "The Millstone."<br/><br/>Produced by Amicus Productions a company typically known for its blood-drenched horror films. Venturing into another genre the studio produced this drama that follows Rosamund Stacey Sandy Dennis a bookish doctoral candidate who is perpetually dodging the sexual advances of the men in her life. This comes to an end when she meets George Matthews Ian McKellen. The film was not a box office success but ironically been called the best film produced by Amicus. <br/><br/>Set in London shot on location in England. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Amicus Productions unknown books
1972139070London: Anglo-EMI 1972. Original British quad poster for the 1972 UK film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew. <br/><br/>Film adaptation of the 1970 six-part television miniseries "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." <br/>King Henry VIII Mitchell reminisces about his past marriages and their demise. Henry's wives were Catherine Parr Barbara Leigh-Hunt Catherine Howard Lynne Frederick Anne of Cleves Jenny Bos Jane Seymour Asher Anne Boleyn Rampling and Catherine of Aragon Frances Cuka. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Spain and Turkey. <br/><br/>30 x 40 inches folded as issued. Light fold stress else Near Fine. Scarce. Anglo-EMI unknown books
1981WRCLIT71145Universal City: Universal Studios Inc. 1981. Two volumes: 1129;127 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript bradbound in studio wrappers. Ink name effaced from upper wrapper of second volume occasional minor corner creasing title hand-lettered on spines; very good. Respectively first and final drafts of the original screenplay for this sequel to the 1973 multi-award winning original for which Ward also wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay. This not quite so successful 1983 release was directed by Jeremy Kagan and starred Jackie Gleason Mac Davis Karl Malden Teri Garr and Oliver Reed among others. Universal Studios, Inc. unknown books
1980140580New York: IFC Films 1980. Early unused Draft script for the 2012 film. <br/><br/>Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights for Jack Kerouac's seminal generation-defining novel in 1980 for $95000. Coppola then struggled to find a screenwriter to adapt the book as well as find a director. Eventually he settled on screenwriter Jose Rivera. Before that however he had drafts written under his direction from Michael Herr Barry Gifford Russell Banks and even one himself with son Roman. This draft is one of the first attempts of Coppola to adapt the novel which would not be made into a film until 2012 using Rivera's script under the direction of Walter Salles and produced by Coppola. The film version was first proposed in 1957 by Kerouac himself who wrote a one page appeal to actor Marlon Brando asking Brando to play the part of Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would play Sal Paradise. He never received a response from Brando. <br/><br/>After his father is buried Sal Paradise becomes acquainted with Dean Moriarty and along with his friend Carlo Marx decides to experience America from behind the wheel of a car rather than in the dusty classrooms of Columbia University. <br/><br/>Set in America shot on location in Canada America and Mexico. <br/><br/>Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present noted as Second Draft with credits for screenwriters Francis Coppola and Michael Herr. 176 leaves with last page of text numbered 174. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. IFC Films unknown books
1936139842N.p.: London Film Productions 1936. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1936 film. <br/><br/>A British film in which a secretary sacrifices her career to rewrite her employer's scathing review of an "Othello" production. The main actor's wife pleads with her to save her husband's career leading the Ann the secretary to change the review right before it goes to press. She then attends the play with the newly confident lead and falls in love with him much to the dismay of his wife. <br/><br/>Shot on location in England. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good with light wear and toning overall and soiling to the verso. London Film Productions unknown books
1956135945Florida: Three Arts Productions 1956. Draft script for an unproduced play called "Rope" adapted for stage by Walter Lawrence from Arthur Laurents' screenplay for the 1948 film which in turn was based on the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member who played Phillip with annotations in holograph pencil and ink at his inclusions. <br/><br/>Hamilton's play opened in England in 1929 and opened on Broadway the same year retitled "Rope's End." It was then adapted by Hume Cronyn with Arthur Laurents writing the screenplay for Hitchcock's classic 1948 thriller starring Dick Hogan John Dall Farley Granger and James Stewart. Several television movies were produced notably a 1939 Dallas Bower film a 1947 British production starring Dirk Bogarde and a 1957 Australian production. A few Off-Broadway productions occurred throughout the 1950s and 1960s and this script is presumed to have been used during that time. <br/><br/>A story set in New York a change from the setting of England in the original play loosely inspired by the Leopold-Loeb case where two friends kill a third friend just for the thrill. They hide the body in an antique chest throw a party and use the chest as a table and boast about a recent murder in town. An old professor at the party eventually wises to their scheme. <br/><br/>Salmon wrappers dated September 24 1956 with credits for playwrights Hamilton and Lawrence and screenwriter Laurents. Title page present identical to front wrapper. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Three Arts Productions unknown books
1946140135Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1946. Shooting Final script for the 1947 film. With some annotations in holograph pencil. Laid in are two drawings in holograph pencil. <br/><br/>Based on the 1944 autobiographical novel by Miriam Young a young woman Grable decides to marry a vaudeville performer instead of attending business school in San <br/>Francisco. She eventually has two daughters and retires but returns to the stage years later at the behest of her husband. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for an additional two. <br/><br/>Set in Oakland California. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as Shooting Final on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 91 and production No. 116 dated October 15 1946. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated October 15 1946 noted as Shooting Final with credits for screenwriter Lamar Trotti. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Green US. Hirschhorn US. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1942148689Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1942. Final Draft script for the 1942 film here under the working title "The Magnificent Jerk." Production No. 647 and copy No.1 stamped on the front wrapper with FINAL printedd at the top right corner of same. Single annotation on title page amending title with "Dope" in holograph pencil. Laid in is a credit sequence page with credits divided horizontally from letters "a" to "h."<br/><br/>Don Ameche runs a Dale Carnegie-esque "success school" that isn't terribly successful and at the suggestion of his secretary decides to pursue a promotion where the company makes a success out of the "laziest man in America" who turns out to be Henry Fonda. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 1 and production No. 647 dated FEB. 14 1942. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated February 14 1942 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter George Seaton. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/18/42 and 3/30/42. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with one two and a half inch closed tear on front wrapper and several small closed tears bound internally with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Credit Sequence 8.5 x 11 inches. Very Good plus with center crease open tears at top and bottom hole punch and very small chip on top right. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1947147751Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1947. Final Draft script for the 1948 film with "Received" and "Permanent Legal Records" stamps and two holograph annotations in pencil on front wrapper and annotation of names on verso of final page in holograph pencil.<br/><br/>Harry and Tracey King Robert Young Maureen O'Hara put an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter which is answered by Lynn Belvedere Clifton Webb who turns out not only to be a man but a most eccentric man at that and one with a mysterious past.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Clifton Webb.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 5 and production No. 206 dated SEPT. 16 1947. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated September 16 1947 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriter F. Hugh Herbert. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox 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
1981135468Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1981. Collection of five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1981 film. Featuring photographs of Keith Carradine director Walter Hill and others. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1976147023N.p.: Constantin-Film 1976. Vintage French-Canadian poster for the 1974 German film "Magdalena vom Teufel besessen" released in the US as "Beyond the Darkness" "Magdalena Possessed by the Devil" and "The Devil's Female." With the latter title tipped on to the poster demonstrating the ad hoc distribution process for grindhouse and exploitation films which often saw titles change at a moment's notice to better catch the public's attention and sometimes trick them into seeing a film they've already seen.<br/><br/>German sexploitation knock-off of William Friedkin's 1973 horror classic "The Exorcist" about a student at a girl's boarding school who is possessed by a demon.<br/><br/>22 x 34 inches folded as issued. Very Good with some light edgewear several small closed tears to right edge pinholes to corners and light rubbing to center text but still bright and unfaded. Constantin-Film unknown books