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130855Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. <br/><br/>Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this standard wartime drama. Some of his better-known films The Spy Who Came In from the Cold Norma Rae also deal with the question of social and ethical choices in the face of pressure. In this story the savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women played by Silvana Mangano Vera Miles Barbara Bel Geddes Jeanne Moreau and Carla Gravina have their heads shaved in order to brand them as traitors. Eleanor Mannikka AllMovie<br/><br/>Filmed on location in Italy and Austria. <br/><br/>Orange untitled wrappers with the Dino De Laurentiis stamp and numerous annotations. Title page present noted as Final Draft with credits for screenwriters Michael and Achilles for screenwriter Pirro and for director Ritt. 153 leaves mimeograph duplication with annotations throughout. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1964150639Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1964. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the 1964 film. <br/><br/>Based on Charles G. Finney's 1935 fantasy novel "The Circus of Dr. Lao." A magical circus arrives in a small western town whose inhabitants see themselves reflected in its assemblage of mystical performers and animals. <br/><br/>Set in the American west. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Six Near Fine two Very Good plus with small nicks and brief accompanying creasing to the edges.<br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Pitts 3783. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1962141357Burbank CA: Warner Brothers Television 1962. Revised Draft script for the Episode 41 of Season 4 of the television series. Copy belonging to Sammy Davis Jr who played the cashier and Kid Pepper in this episode with his signature on the first page and annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. <br/><br/>Two private investigators work on the south side of the Sunset Strip next to Dean Martin's actual nightclub Dino's Lodge. Each episode was an hour long and featured two hardboiled detectives and an aspiring PI working next door as a valet. The actor's first appearance in a show that hewed so closely to his "Rat Pack" persona though he had appeared in a few other television dramas and Westerns as early as 1952. <br/><br/>Set in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Bound in a homemade sewn binding with a card wrapper black endpapers and binding sealed with tan paper tape. Title page present dated March 1 1962 noted as Revised. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 71. Mechanical duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between February 20 1962 and March 1 1962. Pages Very Good plus lacking wrapper perfect bound. Warner Brothers Television unknown books
1963132981London: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Rank Organisation 1963. Collection of 91 vintage black-and-white and 1 double weight still photographs from the 1963 UK film. Daily Express rubber stamp on the verso of the double weight still. Includes several candid shots on the set. <br/><br/>Richard Johnson stars as a doctor who arrives in the city of Bath where a smallpox epidemic has begun. Dealing with the virus would be more than enough but he also finds himself contending with a failing marriage. <br/><br/>Story set in Somerset England shot on location. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches some slightly smaller or larger with no borders as issued. About Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors / Rank Organisation unknown books
1987140708Culver City CA: Brooksfilms 1987. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1987 film. <br/><br/>Two antiquarian booksellers strike up a long distance friendship during the late years of WWII. Starring Anne Bancroft Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench. <br/><br/>Shot on location in England and New York City. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Brooksfilms unknown books
1999151180Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1999. Vintage satin-finish reference photograph of Joel Schumacher on the set of the 1999 film. <br/><br/>In one of Schumacher'r most unapologetically dark films private Investigator Tom Welles is hired by a wealthy widow to investigate a film seemingly of a young girl brutally murdered found in her deceased husband's safe. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Destroy All Movies The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Grant US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1960WRCLIT41864New York: Film Projects Inc./ Ric Eyrich 1960. 196 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bolt-bound in gilt-stamped stiff- card steno binder with small production logo label at lower corner of upper wrapper. Wrappers somewhat creased and used at overlap edges internally very good or better. Denoted a "Revised" draft. An original and evidently unproduced screenplay about life among working stiffs street-people and hustlers in New York. Flender wrote the 1957 novel PARIS BLUES that served as the basis for the superb 1961 Martin Ritt film starring Paul Newman Joanne Woodward and Sidney Poitier and it's possible this script dates from the period following the success of that film. In later years Flender turned to works on the Holocaust and life in Israel beginning with RESCUE IN DENMARK 1963 and a book chronicling the late '60s drug culture. Film Projects Inc./ Ric Eyrich unknown books
1973151351Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1973. Final Draft script for the 1974 film. <br/><br/>A satirical neo-noir following a professional hit man who is contracted by a local mob boss to take out the competition but soon finds himself the target of several personal attacks in retaliation. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Seattle Washington and Silver Springs Florida. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL and copy No. 332 on the front wrapper dated JUNE 8 1973. Title page present dated June 8 1973 noted as FINAL with credits for screenwriter Robert Dillon. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 129. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/1/73 and 9/10/73. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Spicer US Neo-Noir. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1953110846Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1953. Original pressbook for the 1953 film noir. <br/><br/>A former professional fighter John Payne is framed for the murder of his unfaithful wife Peggie Castle by her lover Brad Dexter. With the help of an aspiring actress Evelyn Keyes he must clear his name before the killer flees the country. <br/><br/>11 pages saddle stapled 11 x 17 inches. Faint horizontal fold crease at the center of the wrapper and pages. Near Fine condition starting only slight at the hinge fold. Laid in is four-page supplement on newsprint in Fine condition. A compelling and unusual film that has been rediscovered as one the late classics of the noir cycle. <br/><br/>Grant US. Lyons US. Silver Classic Noir. Selby Canon US. United Artists unknown books
1974147865Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1974. Vintage studio still photograph of Glenda Jackson and Margaret Leighton from the US release of the 1973 UK film. <br/><br/>Based on the 1970 play by Terence Rattigan. Released in the US under the title "The Nelson Affair."<br/><br/>Lord Nelson Peter Finch returning from battling Napoleon's navy resumes life with his mistress Lady Hamilton Jackson his family and beleaguered wife Margaret Leighton. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bath Somerset England. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1973132782Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 UK film. Cropping annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on a play by Terence Rattigan about Lord Nelson Peter Finch returning from battling Napoleon's navy resuming life with his mistress Lady Hamilton Glenda Jackson and his family and beleaguered wife Margaret Leighton. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Bath Somerset England. <br/><br/>8 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus with a partial label on the verso and a few moderate creases. Universal Pictures unknown books
1986140153Hong Kong: Cinema City 1986. Vintage French mini poster for the 1986 Hong Kong film. <br/><br/>John Woo's 1986 film had a profound impact on Hong Kong's film industry inspiring a number of proceeding pictures and setting the tone for the genre at large. It served as a breakout role for then little-known actor Chow Yun-fat who although not the lead captured the screen with his notable performance. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Hong Kong and Taiwan. <br/><br/>16 x 21 inches. Crease through the center else Near Fine. Cinema City unknown books
1965145855Burbank CA: Eden Productions 1965. Revision Final script for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Natalie Masters who played Mrs. Stribling with her name and role in the film in holograph ink on the front wrapper and extensive holograph annotations throughout.<br/><br/>A hapless woman enters into a poker game in order to save her family's earnings from her wayward husband's gambling debts. <br/><br/>Set in Laredo Texas. <br/><br/>Goldenrod titled wrappers noted as REV. FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 49 dated July 9 1965. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated 7/9/65 with credits for screenwriter Sidney Carroll. 134 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mimeographed rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 7/19/65. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br/><br/>Pitts 317. Eden Productions unknown books
1957130391Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1957. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film. Based on the 1921 play by Clemence Dane. <br/><br/>Katharine Hepburn's debut a role in which she plays the daughter of a mentally ill man whose wife has divorced him and now intends to marry someone else. When Hepburn realizes that the psychiatric problems are likely inherited she breaks from her fiance to ensure the genes are not passed to another generation and stays with her father instead. <br/><br/>Tall white titled wrappers dated March 3 1957 noting 4 reels and footage of 6195 feet. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1958132555London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1958 UK release of the 1958 US film. <br/><br/>Based on Francoise Sagan's 1956 novel about a law student Christine Carere at the Sorbonne engaged to a fellow classmate Bradford Dillman but more attracted to his philandering uncle. The two subsequently engage in a steamy affair. Johnny Mathis gives a stellar performance of "A Certain Smile" Dillman makes his film debut and Carere makes her US film debut. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing and faint creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1998143688Los Angeles: Freyda Rothstein Productions 1998. Draft script for the 1998 television film originally aired July 19 1998 on Lifetime Television. <br/><br/>Elaine Marshall Jean Smart catches her husband John Terry with his male lover in a hotel room. Their idyllic family life is turned upside down as they are forced to confront his long kept secret. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Portland Oregon. <br/><br/>Green titled self-wrappers dated 3/21/98 with credits for screen writers Aaron Mendelsohn Ken Carter and Annette Haywood-Carter. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Xerographic duplication with green blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/98 and 3/21/98. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Freyda Rothstein Productions unknown books
1962149127Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of producer Stanley Kramer and director John Cassavetes on the set of the 1962 film. <br/><br/>Kramer and Cassavetes clashed throught the production disagreeing on technique as well as the overall message of the film leading Kramer to fire Cassavetes during the editing of the film.<br/><br/>Dr. Matthew Clark Burt Lancaster the director of the Crawthorne State Mental Hospital for mentally handicapped and emotionally disturbed children clashes with newly arrived teacher Jean Hanson Judy Garland over the best methods in which to teach the children.<br/><br/>Many of the students in the film were portrayed by actual intellectually disabled children from Pacific State Hospital in Pomona California.<br/><br/>Shot on location at the Lanterman Development Center in Pomona California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with large bruise to upper right corner creasing on right side and two small closed tears on right margin repaired with paper tape on verso. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1971149596Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1971. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1971 film showing actors Malcolm McDowell Vivienne Chandler and Prudence Drage. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamp of Cine-Revue and holograph ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic voyeuristic catapult into the world of teenage delinquent Alex DeLarge who forcibly undergoes experimental treatment developed by the government to cure him of his affinity for violence. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in London.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.<br/><br/>Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Warner Brothers unknown books
1978147229N.p.: N.p. 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is an interdepartmental memo from an agent at the Paul Kohner/Michael Levin agency to Paul Kohner and a copied page noting additional contacts in New York.<br/><br/>Years after his twin sister's untimely death a troubled young man recalls their childhood together-a mostly unhappy one due to their neglectful parents' selfishness.<br/><br/>Set in New York City.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. Title page present dated 1978 with credits for screenwriters M. T. Wojciechowska and Oriana Rodman. 111 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus watermarked throughout wrapper Very Good with a silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
1959151991N.p.: Robert and Raymond Hakim 1959. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph with bottom margin of Antonella Lualdi from the 1959 film noir. "20" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Based on 1952 novel "The Key to Nicholas Street" by Stanley Ellin about a wealthy vintner finds it difficult to balance the demands of his wife his children his best friend and his recently murdered mistress. Director Claude Chabrol's first color film and his first psychological thriller a genre which would largely define Chabrol's long and prolific career. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Aix-en-Provence France. <br/><br/>11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with light creasing in far corners and foxing along the bottom margin.<br/><br/>Grant US. Robert and Raymond Hakim unknown books
1977142870Hollywood: Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company NBC 1977. Draft script for the 1978 television film originally aired on April 9 1978 on NBC. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine with Hunter's name on the front board. <br/><br/>An elderly married couple find themselves increasingly dependent on their grown children as their physical and mental health deteriorates. Fred Astaire won an Emmy Award as Best Actor and Helen Hayes received a nomination as Best Actress for her performance. Additional Emmy nominations included Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress Patty Duke Supporting Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Outstanding Cinematography in Entertainment Programming for a Special Joseph Biroc. <br/><br/>Green full calf binding with titled paper wrappers as issued with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Gerald Di Pego. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 104. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus presentation binding Near Fine. Paramount Television / National Broadcasting Company [NBC] unknown books
1957136403Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. In Selznick Studio wrappers with the insignia on the front wrapper. An original production script with a perforated distribution leaf preceding the title page. <br/><br/>The second film version of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick. Frederick Henry Hudson is an American serving in the Italian Army during WWI where he meets Catherine Barkley Jones a Red cross nurse. They have a torrid affair which results in pregnancy. The two gradually lose contact with one another. But Henry makes it to Switzerland where Barkley is hospitalized. The baby is stillborn and Barkley dies shortly afterward. <br/><br/>Set in Europe shot on location in Italy. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Hecht original director Vidor and producer Selznick. Title page present dated 1957 with a credit for screenwriter Hecht. 177 leaves with last page of text numbered 173. Mimeograph on eye-rest green stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. <br/><br/>Davenport p. 122. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970WRCLIT61276Np: Bart-Palevsky Productions 1970. 1132 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of blue stock. Bradbound in hot-stamped wrappers. Title hand- lettered on spine. Very good or better. An unspecified draft of this unproduced adaptation to the screen of Hemingway's novel. Petitclerc wrote the script for the 1977 adaptation of ISLANDS IN THE STREAM. Bart-Palevsky Productions unknown books
1957WRCLIT67361Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 4173 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos. Bradbound in white production company wrappers. About fine. An unspecified but very close to final draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft notes Charles Vidor as director after John Huston left over budget disagreements and includes prefatory material not included in earlier drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred. The Selznick Studio unknown books
1957WRCLIT67380Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 4173 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos. Bradbound in bright orange production company wrappers. Near fine. An unidentified preproduction draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft still designates John Huston as director but he left the project as a consequence of budget disputes a few months later and Charles Vidor took over. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred. Duplicate from the Selznick archive. The Selznick Studio unknown books
