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1929151068N.p.: N.p. 1929. Seven vintage oversize double weight reference photographs four of William Dieterle and Lien Deyers two of Dieterle and one of Dieterle and Nikolai Malikoff from the 1929 German silent film-made prior to Dieterle fleeing Germany.<br /> <br /> Viola von Birkenfeld Deyers falls madly in love with the young Friedrich von Bornim Dieterle while he cares for her grandfather after an accident. Upon finding out Friedrich is married her grandfather seeks retribution for breaking his granddaughter's heart. <br /> <br /> 15.5 x 12 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1953150545N.p.: N.p. 1953. Vintage reference photograph of Rita Hayworth and Stewart Granger with director William Dieterle and crew from the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. <br /> <br /> Columbia Pictures highly fictionalized and flamboyant Technicolor Biblical epic now considered a camp classic wherein Princess Salome Hayworth daughter of King Herod a deliciously lecherous Charles Laughton returns home from banishment and falls in love with Roman Commander Claudius Granger but is maliciously used by her evil mother Queen Herodias Judith Anderson to insure the execution of her critic John the Baptist Alan Badel.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Israel. <br /> <br /> 10.25 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with creasing and two small closed tears to right margin. N.p. unknown
1918143521US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying holograph notation on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd about a young socialite and a millionaire who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand respectively. No known prints of the film survive and it is considered lost. <br/><br/>8.75 x 7.75 inches irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge. Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company unknown books
1918143521US: Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company 1918. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1918 film. With an identifying manuscript notation on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1917 novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd about a young socialite and a millionaire who meet and fall in love while pretending to be a cook and a hired hand respectively. No known prints of the film survive and it is considered lost. <br /> <br /> 8.75 x 7.75 inches irregularly trimmed. Very Good plus. Diagonal crease to the top corner with a short closed horizontal tear to one edge. Artcraft Pictures / Mary Pickford Company unknown
1963150651Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1963. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Stamped production No. 63-213 on the verso. <br/><br/>Several teenage daughters of diplomats help an intelligence agent uncover an international plot to sabotage the US. <br/><br/>Set in Switzerland shot on location in San Bernardino California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned to the edges and one with a light crease to the center of the photograph. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1951139726Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1951. Collection of four vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1951 film. <br/><br/>The story centers around a long unsolved murder case from the silent movie era. A young producer decides to make a film about the case and subsequently becomes tangled up in the once dormant mystery. <br/><br/>Set in Hollywood shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a small closed tear to the top margin of image 1660-26AD. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961161215N.p.: William Castle Productions 1961. Vintage 40 x 60 inch poster for the 1961 film. Rare in this size format.<br /> <br /> A mysterious woman offers a bellboy $2000 to marry her only to brutally murder the justice of the peace during the ceremony before fleeing. Widely regarded as one of the best films of director and B-movie maestro William Castle and undeniably influenced by Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" released the year prior. Castle well known for his utilization of promotional gimmicks implemented a "Fright Break" for "Homicidal;" a 45-second timer which overlays the impending climax with Castle's voice-over advising the audience they could leave the theater and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the ending of the film audience members who chose to leave however would have to wait in a yellow cardboard booth entitled the "Coward's Corner" manned by a nurse with a blood pressure cuff.<br /> <br /> 40 x 60 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and minor edgewear else bright and unfaded. See image. William Castle Productions unknown
1949146230Universal City: Universal Pictures 1949. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1949 film noir.<br /> <br /> A career criminal agrees to help the federal agent who put him behind bars in infiltrating a drug smuggling syndicate. An early film appearance as a mute murderous henchman by Tony Curtis here credited as "Anthony Curtis."<br /> <br /> Partially shot on location in California Arizona and Sonora Mexico. <br /> <br /> White titled self wrappers noted as CONTINUITY & DIALOGUE on the front wrapper production No. 1606 dated JUNE 28 1949 with credits for director William Castle actors Howard Duff Shelley Winters Dan Duryea and other cast members. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with light soiling on the front wrapper bound with two gold brads at the top edge.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1966164220Universal City: Universal Pictures 1966. Vintage banner poster for the 1966 film printed in black and a bold fluorescent orange. Rare in this format.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1963 novel by Rohan O'Grady pen name of Canadian author June Margaret O'Grady Skinner. Director and producer William Castle's black comedy wherein a twelve-year-old boy inherits a fortune and is trapped on an island with his ex-British Intelligence uncle who uses hypnotism sharks fire and poisonous mushrooms to try and kill the boy.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Bermuda.<br /> <br /> 82 x 24 inches. Very Good plus with light overall creasing and rubbing. Bright and unfaded. Note: The fluorescent orange color cannot be reproduced in a photograph and is a much brighter than what is depicted in the image. Universal Pictures unknown
1957163596N.p.: N.p. 1957. Draft script for the 1958 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member with their annotations in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper and two leaves regarding lighting. <br /> <br /> Based on Theo Durant's 1951 novel "The Marble Forest." A small-town doctor must race to find his daughter after she is kidnapped and buried alive with only hours to go until she suffocates. Director William Castle known for his promotional gimmicks provided each member of the audience with an official life certificate to insure them for $1000 against death by fright. Despite the superficial hijinks a key film in the classic string of films made by the director in the 1940s and 1950s.<br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 28 1957 with credit for screenwriter Robb White. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1980153888N.p.: N.p. 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Manuscript ink annotations to the title page and page 82. <br /> <br /> A teen comedy about a serious young girl who moves with her widowed father from Toronto to California where she quickly becomes immersed in her high school classmates' hijinks. <br /> <br /> Set in Toronto and California. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter William Byron Hillman. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with first leaf separated from the binding bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1950138527Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1950. Vintage US insert poster for the 1950 film. Copy No. 50/306 rubber-stamped in red on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Alex Raymond and Don Moore's 1934 comic strip and fourth in the series. The first three films featuring "Jim" are "Jungle Jim" 1948 "The Lost Tribe" 1949 and "Mark of the Gorilla 1950 all starring Weismuller who would go on to star in 12 more films of the series. <br/><br/>Jungle Jim Weissmuller fights a treasure hunter and a witch doctor while trying to save the lovely Joan Lhoest who has a pet tiger. <br/><br/>14 x 36 inches folded. Very Good with holograph pencil annotations on the verso pinholes a few tiny edge tears and two non-issue horizontal folds. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1925140352Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. <br/><br/>Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He begins to day dream about a better life and a less cowardly self. Footage from William Beaudine's 1925 film is believed to be lost. In the still we see a wide shot of the newspaper office in which Baxter works. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pin holes toning overall and two holograph pencil annotations to the verso. Warner Brothers unknown books
1953138531California: Elliott-Shelton Films 1953. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1953 film. <br/><br/>A young boy Courtney is befriended by a horse trainer Woods who has the boy train a new horse for an upcoming albeit fixed race. <br/><br/>Written for screen by Adele Buffington a major proponent of using original screenplays during the silent film era whose credits extend to over 100 Hollywood films. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. A tiny tear else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Pitts 470. Elliott-Shelton Films unknown books
1965158305N.p.: N.p. 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film here under the working title "Billy." Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page amending the title to "Original Dracula Meets Billy the Kid." Copy likely belonging to screenwriter Carl K. Hittleman with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on virtually every page amending dialogue and scene numbers with two unnumbered pages bound in created on a different typewriter.<br /> <br /> Dracula travels to the American West intent on making the fiancée of the now reformed Billy the Kid his next victim. One of director William Beaudine's final films originally released on a double bill with Beaudine's other Western horror picture "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter." <br /> <br /> Front wrapper integral with title page with credits for screenwriter Carl K. Hittleman. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine with cello tape repair and reinforcement to final page bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1925140352Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1925. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1925 silent film. <br /> <br /> Bumbling newspaper clerk Henry Baxter is helplessly in love with a coworker in this silent-era comedy. The subject of his longing barely acknowledges his existence. His unrequited love coupled with his manager's devious daily taunts makes work tortuous for the poor clerk. He begins to day dream about a better life and a less cowardly self. Footage from William Beaudine's 1925 film is believed to be lost. In the still we see a wide shot of the newspaper office in which Baxter works. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pin holes toning overall and two manuscript pencil annotations to the verso. Warner Brothers unknown
1949160941Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1949. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1949 film. <br /> <br /> Troubled young adolescent Johnny Holiday is sent to a reform school in Indiana where he must choose between his criminally minded friends and the caring tutelage of Sgt. Walker played by William Bendix.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Indiana.<br /> <br /> 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities. United Artists unknown
1957125414Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage pressbook for the 1957 film. <br/><br/>Betty Garrett plays a woman being held hostage by three thugs who have just killed her employer and whose son shocked catatonic by seeing his mother being terrorized helps lead her husband and the police to find her. <br/><br/>Eight pages saddle stapled 12 x 16 inches. Near Fine with a holograph ink notation to the front wrapper. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1962151288Beverly Hills CA: Chrislaw Productions 1962. Archive of two Draft scripts one unbound a partial "last half of script" an 83-page "Scene Breakdown" four collections of revision pages two of which have annotations and a contact sheet of eleven images from the 1963 film. <br/><br/>The bound script is undated and without revisions likely a first draft. The unbound script largely yellow and blue revision pages dated 7/16 through 8/3 1962 is predominantly a carbon typescript with several ribbon typescript pages both on onionskin and 27 mimeograph duplication pages with a single dialogue annotation on page 26-A and page and scene number annotations on all mimeograph pages in holograph ink. The partial script dated 8/7 through 8/14 is a carbon typescript on on pink onionskin with a typed note "Last Half of Script sent to uncredited producer or crewmember Joe Wiseman" attached to the first page by a clip.<br/><br/>The "Scene Breakdown" is an undated 83 page carbon typescript on onionskin with a single dialogue annotation in holograph pencil likely screenwriter Joseph Landon's initial but extensive treatment. <br/><br/>The collections of revision pages include an eight page carbon typescript "Giordano Mountain Meeting" scene dated 7-18-62 on yellow onionskin. Three copies of a four page carbon typescript on pink onionskin "Notes on Five Victims" dated 8/7 with a handwritten note on purple paper attached by paper clip of "8/7 - Notes on Five Victims Third Rewrite." 46 pages of revisions ranging from page 3 through page 47-A dated 8/17 all on pink paper except for one mimeographed white page 28 of which are on pink onionskin with 36 pages carbon typescript nine ribbon typescript with annotations regarding dialogue motivation plot and strikes in holograph pencil and ink on 17 of the pages. The last collection of revision pages are 29 pink pages all but one are mimeograph duplication dated 10/10/62 five of which are page 124-A including the first page which is carbon typescript on onionskin noted as "Added Scene" by director "Bill Asher" with annotations in holograph pencil and ink the remainder are eight copies of pages 124 125 and 125A. <br/><br/>Lastly is a contact sheet of eleven images with top left image removed five of director William Asher on set three with Henry Silva with the remaining six of a bearded and heavily made-up Silva on the set.<br/><br/>Based on the 1959 Gold Medal paperback crime novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland about an exiled American mobster who sends an Italian outlaw to the US to assassinate his enemies. <br/><br/>Set in Italy New York City and Hollywood shot on location in Southern California. <br/><br/>Bound Script:<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Joseph Landon. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.<br/><br/>8/3/62 Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/3/62 178 leaves with last page of text numbered 162. Largely carbon typescript duplication with several ribbon typescript pages and several mimeograph duplication pages rectos only with blue and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-16-62 and 8/3/62. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge unbound<br/><br/>8/14/62 Partial Script:<br/><br/>Self-wrappers untitled with latest revisions dated 8/14/62. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 187. Carbon typescript duplication rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/7 and 8/14. Pages Near Fine overall with first page Very Good plus with chipping creasing and closed tears to right edge bound with metal clip to top left corner.<br/><br/>Revision Pages Very Good plus to Near Fine with some light edgewear.<br/><br/>Contact Sheet 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Selby Master List US. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. Chrislaw Productions unknown books
1962167095Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1962. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1963 film noir showing a semi-nude Elizabeth Montgomery. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1959 novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland about an exiled American in Rome who recruits a hit man to return to the US and take revenge on the people who forced him to flee. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York City Las Vegas and Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. <br /> <br /> Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. United Artists unknown
1962170352N.p.: N.p. 1962. Vintage reference photograph from the 1962 film showing a crew member holding a script for Elizabeth Montgomery on the set. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1959 novel "The Kingdom of Johnny Cool" by John McPartland about an exiled American in Rome who recruits a hit man to return to the US and take revenge on the people who forced him to flee. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York City Las Vegas and Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Selby US. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
1957125414Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage pressbook for the 1957 film. <br /> <br /> Betty Garrett plays a woman being held hostage by three thugs who have just killed her employer and whose son shocked catatonic by seeing his mother being terrorized helps lead her husband and the police to find her. <br /> <br /> Eight pages saddle stapled 12 x 16 inches. Near Fine with a manuscript ink notation on the front wrapper. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown
1970129692New York: Delia Productions 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. <br/><br/>A verse play retelling of the Greek myth in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. <br/><br/>Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Delia Productions unknown books
1970129692New York: Delia Productions 1970. Mimeograph play reproduction of William Alfred's 1954 play "Agamemnon" for an unproduced film based on the play. <br /> <br /> A verse play retelling of the Greek myth in which King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife upon his return to Mycenae after the Trojan War. <br /> <br /> Navy wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Alfred. 102 leaves mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with three silver brads. Delia Productions unknown
1973161563N.p.: Entertainment Ventures 1973. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1973 film. <br /> <br /> The bass player for an amateur rock band The Group goes on a killing spree while travelling with his band on the road.<br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Thrower Nightmare USA. Entertainment Ventures unknown
