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1938146054Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film.<br/><br/>Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of aviation by director and former WWI fighter pilot William A. Wellman best known for "Wings" 1927 the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.<br/><br/>White titled self wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 1156 and marked as production No. 1172 dated February 15 1938. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeographed rectos only with white and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-14-38 and 6-21-38. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada.<br/><br/>10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1933136691Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. <br/><br/>Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place a radical element even in a pre-Code film. <br/><br/>A film that has held up well in that it breaks the stereotype of hobos as nothing more than restless drifters and delves into what fueled the movement during the Great Depression. Many teenagers male and female were forced to leave their homes and ride the rails because their families were unable to provide support. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with some penciled annotations on the verso regarding another actress in the film Dorothy Coonan who would go on to marry the film's director William A. Wellman. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. First National Pictures unknown books
1950144959Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>U.S. Police officer Madeleine Haley Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Southern California. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with three holes punched in the left margin. <br/><br/>Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions unknown books
1976147460Studio City CA: EMI Television Programs 1976. Two Revised draft scripts Part I and Part II comprising the complete script for the 1977 television film which was broadcast in two parts on CBS on April 13 and 14 1977.<br/><br/>First script titled "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" on front wrapper and titled "'Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes' Part I" on first page of script has several annotations on front wrapper. In holograph ink on top left is written "Prod Thur 11/18/76" center right is the name "Tommy Lee Jones" with phone number below not in Jones' hand and an "I" immediately following title as well as a "9" in holograph pencil on upper right corner. Script contains two title pages of two revisions first yellow page has the underlined name "Norma" preceded by an asterisk as well as two underlines below the text "REVISED" on lower left in red holograph ink. The second pink title page has "33" on the upper left and a "Part I" on top center left in holograph pencil. Four pages contain strikes in holograph ink. Script contains a few copied annotations on the first 3 pages of script revision date some action changes and a strike with date "Tues 12/21/76."<br/><br/>Second script "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes Part II" has "33" on upper left of title page and "Part II" top center in holograph pencil. Three pages contain copied annotations revision date character direction and dialogue and a strike with date "Tues 12/21/76."<br/><br/>Based upon the 1972 Howard Hughes biography "Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" by Hughes' long-time associate Noah Dietrich and AP Hollywood correspondent Bob Thomas. The first of several film depictions of Howard Hughes as an young obsessive perfectionist and an elderly hypochondriac. An early break through role for Tommy Lee Jones.<br/><br/>"Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes" script:<br/>Tan titled wrappers. Two title pages present one dated November 26 1976 the other dated November 16 1976 both noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter John Gay and authors Noah Dietrich and Bob Thomas. 108 leaves with last page of text numbered 93. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink yellow and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/5/76 and 12-20-76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>"Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes Part II" script:<br/>Brown titled wrappers. Title page present dated November 16 1976 noted as REVISED with credits for screenwriter John Gay and authors Noah Dietrich and Bob Thomas. 121 leaves with last page of text numbered 117A. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 11/5/76 and 12/20/76. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. EMI Television Programs unknown books
1961143878Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television special. <br/><br/>A musical special in the form of a cultural forecast in anticipation of a changing world. The show addresses topics including: science technology politics entertainment and leisure. <br/><br/>Grey titled wrappers. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Mimeograph duplication with pink yellow and blue pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1950160944Universal City: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage mini-banner poster for the 1950 film noir. <br /> <br /> Police officer Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Southern California. <br /> <br /> 4.75 x 28 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing at the extremities.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1950144959Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br /> <br /> US Police officer Madeleine Haley Claire Trevor goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie Raymond Burr the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in Mexico. Just as she meets Ritchie she is kidnapped by Johnny Macklin Fred MacMurray who unbeknownst to her is an undercover federal agent. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Southern California. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with three holes punched in the left margin. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions unknown
1938146054Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film.<br /> <br /> Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of aviation by director and former WWI fighter pilot William A. Wellman best known for "Wings" 1927 the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.<br /> <br /> White titled self wrappers rubber-stamped copy No. 1156 and marked as production No. 1172 dated February 15 1938. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with white and blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 2-14-38 and 6-21-38. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown
1948149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. <br /> <br /> Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada.<br /> <br /> 10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown
1961143878Burbank CA: National Broadcasting Company NBC 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television special. <br /> <br /> A musical special in the form of a cultural forecast in anticipation of a changing world. The show addresses topics including: science technology politics entertainment and leisure. <br /> <br /> Grey titled wrappers. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 82. Mimeograph duplication with pink yellow and blue pages throughout. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown
1933136691Los Angeles: First National Pictures 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. <br /> <br /> Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place a radical element even in a pre-Code film. <br /> <br /> A film that has held up well in that it breaks the stereotype of hobos as nothing more than restless drifters and delves into what fueled the movement during the Great Depression. Many teenagers male and female were forced to leave their homes and ride the rails because their families were unable to provide support. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine with some penciled annotations on the verso regarding another actress in the film Dorothy Coonan who would go on to marry the film's director William A. Wellman. <br /> <br /> National Film Registry. First National Pictures unknown
1934156154N.p.: N.p. 1934. Vintage program for the 1934 Austrian film. Text and titles in German. <br /> <br /> A prominent surgeon's wife poses nude but masked for a portrait by a famous artist. The artist must quickly improvise when asked about the identity of the woman in the painting and accidentally implicates a real woman leading to a number of comic misunderstandings. Basis for the 1935 American film "Escapade" starring William Powell and Luise Rainer.<br /> <br /> 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Bifold. Very Good plus lightly age toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown
1984132525Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1984. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1984 US film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso and folded to the recto. <br/><br/>Based on Robert Grossbach's 1975 novel "Easy and Hard Ways Out" about<br/>a lazy engineer whose employer is on the verge of bankruptcy until a mysterious disk from another engineer who suddenly dies helps save his job and his life. <br/><br/>8 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968162456N.p.: Globe Pictures 1968. Six vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1966 German film. All photographs with provenance stamps on the versos two with labels obscuring previous provenance stamps. <br /> <br /> Attractive model Alexandra comes to Berlin to try and rekindle an old affair and becomes involved with her ex-lover as well as his employee.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Berlin. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall. Globe Pictures unknown
163381Universal City: Dreamworks 2003. Revised Shooting script for the 2004 film. <br /> <br /> In San Diego in the 1970s successful news anchor Ron Burgundy is forced to confront his prejudices when the station owners hire a woman anchor who promptly proceeds to climb her way to the top. Followed by a 2013 sequel "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues."<br /> <br /> Shot on location in San Diego Los Angeles Glendale and Long Beach.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated 06/09/03 noted as Shooting Script with credits for screenwriters Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered "112-113". Xerographic duplication on pink stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light splashes on the title page bound with two gold brads. Dreamworks unknown
1986167403Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1986. Third Draft script for the 1987 television film which aired on ABC on July 31 1987. Bound in following the script is a two page Staff and Crew List dated March 7 1986 a 19 page Shooting Schedule dated 3/7/86 a ten page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/9/86 an eight page Revised Shooting Schedule dated 3/21/86 and a second two page Staff and Crew List dated March 26 1986. Laid in is a Call Sheet dated March 11 1986.<br /> <br /> Not to be confused with the 2008 film directed by Frank Miller starring Gabriel Macht and Eva Mendes.<br /> <br /> Based on the comic book character created by Will Eisner in 1940. Created as a pilot for ABC's proposed 1986 Fall series the project was shelved after ABC changed ownership with the new management finding the pilot "too offbeat and morbid." ABC shelved the pilot without even arranging for test screenings and eventually released it too late for the possibility of a series pickup and with little to no promotion.<br /> <br /> Sam J. Jones stars as Denny Colt a Central City Police Department detective who after an assassination attempt in which he is believed to be dead by the general public becomes the Spirit a mysterious masked vigilante in a blue suit and fedora who is not bound by the rules of regular cops.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Title page present dated March 10 1986 noted as THIRD DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Steven E. de Souza. 131 leaves with last page of script numbered 84A. Xerographic duplication on yellow leaves rectos only with salmon and cherry revision pages throughout dated 03/19/86 and 03/24/86. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers Television unknown
1958153191Universal City: Universal 1958. Vintage photograph from the 1958 horror film. <br /> <br /> When an ancient box is unburied and opened the head of a man executed for sorcery 400 years earlier comes to life and begins telepathically controlling people in an attempt to reunite with his body and regain his full power. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Light diagonal creasing to the corners else Near Fine. Universal unknown
1937WRCLIT67662London 1937. 441 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit creased and nicked but very good. A summary and treatment of Welsh novelist Wilkins' then forthcoming historical novel prepared for consideration of optioning by David O. Selznick for a screen adaptation. No film eventuated. unknown books
1958WRCLIT70859Los Angeles: Paramount Films 1958. Vintage original 41 x 27" 104 x 69" one sheet poster. Stapleholes from display closed tear at right edge leading to a snag in the printed area otherwise very good. A pictorial one sheet promoting this screen adaptation by John Michael Hayes of Thornton Wilder's 1955 play itself a rewrite of his earlier MERCHANT OF YONKERS. Directed by Joseph Anthony the film starred Shirley Booth Anthony Perkins Shirley MacLaine Paul Ford and Robert Morse et al. This property attracted wider public attention when translated into the musical HELLO DOLLY! Paramount Films unknown books
WRCLIT67560Culver City: Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films. 22pp. Quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with photographs. Wrappers a trifle rubbed but a good copy. The theatre souvenir program for Selznick's 1944 multi-award nominated film adaptation of and elaboration on Wilder's epistolary novel about the Home Front SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: LETTERS TO A SOLDIER FROM HIS WIFE. The film was directed by John Cromwell and Selznick and starred Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Shirley Temple Monty Woolley Lionel Barrymore and an enormous supporting cast. At the time the film was the longest and most expensive Selznick production since GWTW a project that he took as a personal contribution to the war effort. Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films unknown books
1949WRCLIT67555Culver City: Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films 1949. Nine volumes. Quarto. Eight items mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only one item pictorial wrappers. Modest use to a few wrappers a bit of rust to a few brads but generally very good to near fine. An interesting lot of material relating to Selznick's 1944 multi-award nominated film adaptation of and elaboration on Wilder's epistolary novel about the Home Front SINCE YOU WENT AWAY: LETTERS TO A SOLDIER FROM HIS WIFE. The film was directed by John Cromwell and Selznick and starred Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Shirley Temple Monty Woolley Lionel Barrymore and an enormous supporting cast. As originally released in 1944 the film had a running time of 172 minutes; it was recut and re-released in 1949 with a running time of 130 minutes. This archive traces both the original version and the abbreviated version and includes the following items: a SINCE YOU WENT AWAY PART II. 9 April 1943 82 leaves a portion of an abstract or synopsis of the book evidently for use by the writer; b a "Narrative Synopsis of Screenplay" 7 September 1943 158 leaves; c a doorstop of a "Final Shooting Script" 9 September 1943 - January 1944 credited to Jeffrey Daniel - a nome de plume for Selznick which he finally rejected in favor of "By the Producer" - an astonishing 2290 leaves plus lettered inserts and exhibiting a rainbow of mimeo carbon and original typescript dated revises on colored stocks at a virtual 1:1 ratio to unrevised leaves; d 28 leaves of "Retakes / Added Scenes / Wild Lines" 12 April 1944; e & f "Cutting Continuity" and "Dialogue Continuity" for "Foreign Version both 20 September 1946 foliated in reel format; g a "Dialogue & Cutting Continuity" March 1949 clearly the recut version; h a "Spotting List for Recut Version" 22 August 1949 262 leaves; and finally i a copy of the illustrated souvenir program for the original release. At the time the film was the longest and most expensive Selznick production since GWTW a project that he took on as a personal contribution to the war effort. Selznick International Picture / Vanguard Films unknown books
1947WRCLIT68402Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox 1947. Six highly colorful 11 x 14" lobby cards. One card with wedge-shaped closed tear in upper right margin the remaining five a bit dusty at margins some soft creases else very good or better. A good representation of the lobby cards issued to promote the U.S. release of Lajos Biró's screen adaptation of Wilde's 1895 satirical play regarding politics character finances and perception. Alexander Korda directed and Paulette Goddard Michael Wilding Diana Wynyard Hugh Williams played the leads. Cecil Beaton designed the costumes for the Technicolor production. Thea von Harbou wrote the screenplay for the previous 1935 German language adaptation starring Brigitte Helm which was released in the U.S. a decade earlier. After a long career as screenwriter for top market costume pictures Biró died in 1947. 20th Century Fox unknown books
1944WRCLIT60346Culver City: Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1944. 135 leaves amended by lettered and spanning leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only of white and pink stock. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers paper label. Some mild creasing label chipped along lower edge some relevant pencil and colored pencil annotations and notes on wrappers "Hold for Legal Research" lower wrapper torn and chipped but a good copy internally very good. An unspecified but very heavily revised pre- production draft of this screenplay loosely based on Oscar Wilde's 1887 story with a portion of the narrative transposed to a contemporary WWII setting. More than half of the text in this draft is on pink paper as dated revises spanning the five month period noted above and it differs markedly from the earlier drafts offered above. The film was directed by Jules Dassin starred Charles Laughton Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien and was released in July of 1944. The wrapper bears stamps indicating this is a "Complete" draft retained as a "File Copy" as well as the characteristic wartime conservation directives. Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures unknown books
1943WRCLIT60345Culver City: Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1943. 135 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil printed wrappers paper label. Some mild creasing label chipped along lower edge some relevant pencil and colored pencil annotations and notes on wrappers "Hold for Legal Research" but a good copy internally very good. Department routing slip paper-clipped to upper wrapper. An unspecified but early revised pre- production draft of this screenplay loosely based on Oscar Wilde's 1887 story with a portion of the narrative transposed to a contemporary WWII setting. The film was directed by Jules Dassin starred Charles Laughton Robert Young and Margaret O'Brien and was released in July of 1944. The wrapper bears stamps indicating this is a "Temporary Complete" draft retained as a "File Copy" as well as the characteristic wartime conservation directives. The script went through further revisions well into the third quarter of 1943 and likely beyond. Loew's Incorporated / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures unknown books
