Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Debi Mazar (starring); Rod Daniel (director); Len Blum (screenwriter)Biblio.com
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1993163367Universal City: Universal City Studios 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film.<br /> <br /> Sequel to the successful 1992 family comedy film "Beethoven" about the adventures of the titular St. Bernard dog and his suburban family.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 3 1993 noted as Rev. with credit for screenwriter Len Blum. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout variously dated 5/6/93 and 5/7/93. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Universal City Studios unknown
1951161404Los Angeles: RKO Studios Inc 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1951 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald with his name in gilt on the spine. Seven reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages each with an RKO photographer stamp for Rod Tolmie on the verso. Original wrapper bound in with manuscript ink and wax pencil annotations of "Files" to the top right and "Changes" Retakes" and "Inserts" each followed by one to three dates center. Script followed by eight pages of "Retakes . After credits."<br /> <br /> Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films including "Mildred Pierce" 1945 "Humoresque" 1946 "Key Largo" 1948 and "Flamingo Road" 1949. In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" 1957 "Peyton Place" 1957 and "Sons and Lovers" 1960. <br /> <br /> Farley Granger stars as a mild mannered accountant whose wife played by Shelley Winters mistakes a small dog who follows him home-and is wanted by the mob-as a forgotten anniversary gift. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Bound in light green cloth with dark green quarter leather binding with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated March 9 1951 noted as REVISED FINAL SCRIPT with credits for screenwriter George Beck. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 8. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 3/16/51 and 4/21/51. Pages Near Fine binding Very Good plus with light rubbing to the crown and corners. RKO Studios, Inc unknown
1950168509N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage eleven-page ribbon copy typescript short story circa 1940s-1950s subsequently serving as the basis for the 1972 adult film. Rare.<br /> <br /> An iteration of an explicit short story penned by an anonymous author sometime before or during World War II circulated underground in retyped typescript or carbon typescript copies during the 1940s and after.<br /> <br /> "Behind the Green Door" is notable as one of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. <br /> <br /> Eleven leaves last page of text not numbered. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Good or better bound with two staples on the top edges. N.p. unknown
1972170776N.p.: N.p. 1972. Eight vintage borderless reference photographs from the seminal 1972 hardcore film.<br /> <br /> Based on the anonymous short story of the same title circulated throughout the US in the 1950s and 1960s by means of carbon copy. One of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. <br /> <br /> 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
1998159108Los Angeles: Propaganda Films 1998. Final Draft script for the 1999 film. <br /> <br /> Director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ended the 1990s and introduced themselves to the world with this highly original film which took the literary concept of metafiction into the realm of popular entertainment and opened many new doors in terms of storytelling in cinema. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and Pasadena California and in Jersey City.<br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present noted as Final Version with credit for screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. 54 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Xerographic duplication printed on rectos and versos. Pages Fine bound with two gold brads. Propaganda Films unknown
1979167522Los Angeles: Lorimar 1979. Production script for the 1980 film created for internal use just prior to the commencement of shooting with Lorimar Studios wrappers but also with copied punch holes throughout see images. Annotation in manuscript ink on the title page noting copy No. 22. Laid in with the script is a three-page synopsis internal reading "NOT FOR PUBLICATION" with an annotation in manuscript ink on the first page noting "File." <br /> <br /> Based on the 1970 novel by screenwriter Jerzy Kosinski. Peter Sellers' final film and the last unqualified success of director Hal Ashby's all too brief career. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Melvyn Douglas with Sellers receiving a Best Actor nomination. <br /> <br /> White generic Lorimar wrappers. Title page present dated January 10 1979 with credits for Kosinski and screenwriter Robert C. Jones. 107 leaves with last page of text numbered 106. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 864. Ebert II. Lorimar unknown
1963161531N.p.: Griffith Productions 1963. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film two with provenance stamps on the versos. Early sexploitation film directed and shot by Herschell Gordon Lewis who would become better known a year later with the release of "Two Thousand Maniacs" and many other Z-budget blood-soaked horror films.<br /> <br /> A young millionaire is obsessed by a woman appearing in a dream. After an investigation he discovers burlesque performer Gina Adair and searches for her at her favorite nudist camp.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Miami Florida. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Griffith Productions unknown
1923164284Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1923 silent film showing director actress Pola Negri and George Fitzmaurice between takes together consulting a copy of Robert Hichens' source novel. Mimeo snipe provenance stamp and Famous Players-Lasky stamp on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name which was based in turn on Hichens' 1909 novel about the titular seductress and the men who fall into her love trap. Early noir antecedent.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a two-inch flaw in the finish affecting the bottom left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown
1923166685Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1923. Vintage publicity photograph of Pola Negri in profile taken to promote her appearance in the 1923 film. Paramount stamps and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name which was based in turn on Hichens' 1909 novel about the titular seductress and the men who fall into her love trap. Early noir antecedent.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus moderately age toned. Paramount Pictures unknown
1968148783Glendale CA: Allied Artists 1968. Eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 French film. <br /> <br /> Buñuel's first color film about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. <br /> <br /> Set in and shot on location in Paris. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Godard Histoires du cinema. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 593. Allied Artists unknown
1967135078Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution 1967. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph of Catherine Deneuve and director Luis Buñuel on the set of the 1967 film. With the French producer's stamp on the verso "Robert et Raymond Hakim" and a printed list of credits in French. <br /> <br /> Buñuel's first color film about a young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. <br /> <br /> 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection. Ebert I. Godard Histoires du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Vogel Film as a Subversive Art. Robert et Raymond Hakim / Sud-Films Distribution unknown
1980149461N.p.: Aberdeen 1980. Three vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the 1980 film.<br /> <br /> Based on Rosalyn Drexler's 1972 novel "To Smithereens." A scrappy sports arena waitress is scouted by a wrestling promoter who believes she has what it takes to become a champion.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with faint wear at the corners. Aberdeen unknown
1959149374Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Charlton Heston and his son in a chariot on the set of the 1959 film. With the stamps of Time Press and Dalmas press agency on the verso along with a numbered stamp reading 008818.<br /> <br /> Based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will Ben-Hur endures hard labor and slavery in prison and once released vows revenge on Messala. The most expensive film ever made at the time of its release with a 15 million dollar budget and a massive elaborate set. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winning 11 including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Italy and California.<br /> <br /> 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus slightly wavy with light edgewear. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1959156001Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1959. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler on the set of the 1959 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace. Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will Ben-Hur endures hard labor and slavery in prison and once released vows revenge on Messala. The most expensive film ever made at the time of its release with a 15 million dollar budget and a massive elaborate set. Nominated for 12 Academy Awards and winning 11 including Best Picture Best Director and Best Actor.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Italy and California.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1927160884N.p.: N.p. 1927. Vintage photograph album containing 65 photographs compiled by cellist Carl Steppi between 1926 and 1927 documenting a tour with an orchestra in support of the 1925 film. A unique collection of vernacular photographs many with manuscript captions in English and German. Steppi is identified in contemporary newspaper articles as having been a cellist for the St. Louis Symphony in the early 1920s.<br /> <br /> The tour was apparently by rail as the archive includes several photographs of the assembled musicians outside train cars and one photograph of the musicians in a passenger car. The dates of the tour are noted on the album's first blank leaf captioned with "On the Road with the Picture 'Ben Hur' Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation / September 1926." The album's last leaf bears a photograph of presumably Steppi's wife and child captioned "Und endlich Kam die ersehnte Heimhehr! And finally the longed-for Homecoming! / Brooklyn N.Y. / Back in: April 24 1927." <br /> <br /> The many locations captioned in the photographs are: Illinois Dixon Rochelle and Rock Island Iowa Anamosa Cedar Rapids Clinton Davenport Des Moines Grinnell and Muskatine Kansas Wichita Missouri Kansas City and Hannibal Ohio Zanesville Texas Austin Dallas and Gainesville and West Virginia Charleston and Huntington with Gainesville incorrectly noted as being in Oklahoma.<br /> <br /> Jewish prince Ben-Hur is sent to prison at the behest of his childhood friend Messala as a result of a mishap during a Roman parade. Through sheer will the prince endures prison and once released vows revenge on his childhood friend. The most expensive silent film made with a budget of $3.9 million. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Italy and California.<br /> <br /> Album: 10 x 6.75 inches 30 pages. Very Good with paper tape repairs to the front and rear partially detached wrappers and with light chipping overall to the album leaves with eight leaves detached.<br /> <br /> Photographs: approximately 3 x 2 to 6 x 4 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> National Film Registry. Godard Histoires de cinema. N.p. unknown
1970141478Los Angeles: Cattani Films 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> An evil underground organization is bent on stopping a reluctant soldier of fortune and martial arts expert who has been pressed into service against his own will. <br /> <br /> Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Rico Cattani. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 123. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. Cattani Films unknown
1954164815Universal City: Universal-International 1954. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1954 film showing actress Ursula Thiess. Printed mimeo snipe and annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.<br /> <br /> Based on Hall Hunter's 1953 novel "Bengal Tiger." In British India in 1857 a military captain faces punishment and the dissolution of his reputation after disobeying orders to retreat. <br /> <br /> From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1 1901 Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935 where he worked well into the 1950s.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Universal-International unknown
1943136398Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 film "Bermuda Mystery" here under the working title "Murder in Bermuda." <br /> <br /> A comedic mystery based on a story by John Larkin. Constance Martin Rutherford is convinced that her uncle's death in Bermuda was a murder. The authorities in Bermuda declare he died of natural causes so Connie travels to New York to inform her uncles WWI buddies who have all cashed in their collective "death pool." In New York Connie hires Steve Carramond Foster to help her investigate the death despite the fact he's set to get married the next day. <br /> <br /> Set briefly in Bermuda mostly in New York. <br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 8 and production No. 997 dated Dec. 16 1943. Distribution page present with receipt intact. Title page present dated December 16 1943 noted as Final Script with a credit for screenwriter Darling. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mimeograph duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated 12/17/43. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1981138137Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1981. Final Draft script for "Daniel's First Love" an episode Season 1 Episode 9 of the 1981-1982 television comedy Western series "Best of the West." <br /> <br /> The sitcom aired on ABC September 1981 to August 1982 as an Old West spoof featuring Sam Best Higgins a Civil War veteran who becomes a bumbling gunfighter named the Calico Kid. He has a wife named Elvira Watkins and a son named Daniel Peluce. The series was canceled after one season due to Joel Higgins leaving to star in "Silver Spoons" on NBC. Notable guests included Andy Griffith Al Lewis Christopher Lloyd Slim Pickens and the great Betty White. <br /> <br /> "Daniel's First Love" features Daniel meeting his first love a romance starting with a few kisses and ending with a shotgun wedding. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers noted as FINAL DRAFT on the front wrapper production No. 60171-003 dated January 9 1981. Title page present dated January 9 1981 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter-creator-developer Pomerantz. #PAGES leaves with last leaf of text being a xerographically duplicated Script Requisition dated 1/8/81. Mechanical duplication on yellow stock. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1986159757N.p.: N.p. 1986. Draft script for the 1987 here under the working title "Hard Cover" SIGNED and titled with the release title by screenwriter Larry Cohen twice on both the front wrapper and the title page with an annotation in manuscript marker of the working title on the top of the front wrapper.<br /> <br /> Screenwriter producer and director Larry Cohen is best known as the screenwriter of horror science fiction and Blaxploitation films during the 1970s and 1980s including "Bone" 1972 "Black Ceasar" 1973 "Hell Up in Harlem" 1973 "It's Alive" 1974 "The Stuff" 1985 A Return to Salem''s Lot" 1987 and "Phone Booth" 2002.<br /> <br /> A hit man James Woods coerces a detective Brian Dennehy into writing a book about the assassin's lucrative career secretly working for a prominent politician. The two men travel around the country gathering statements and evidence while attempting to stay clear of the politician's cronies who will stop at nothing to keep the story from unfolding.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Manhattan and Los Angeles. <br /> <br /> Beige untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Larry Cohen. 125 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with a tiny amount of silverfish damage to the very bottom of the front wrapper and title page bound with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Olive Films. Silver and Ward US. Spicer US. N.p. unknown
2000152550Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System CBS 2000. Final Draft script for the tenth episode of season one of the 2000-2001 television series which originally aired on December 20 2000 on CBS. Copy belonging to actor Benjamin Lum with three callsheets dated November 3 and 4 2000 and two xerographically duplicated revision pages laid in. INSCRIBED by actress Bette Midler to Lum on the title page: "For Benjamin- / with aloha / Bette Midler."<br /> <br /> The series starred Midler playing a loosely fictionalized version of herself as she attempts to balance a successful singing career with her family life and personal needs. In this episode Bette tries to get publicity by faking a mental breakdown a tactic which works too well. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated November 2 2000 noted as FINAL DRAFT YELLOW with credits for director Andrew D. Weyman and screenwriter Gary Janetti. 60 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Xerographic duplication on yellow stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] unknown
1945142818Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1945. Collection of nice vintage concept art sketches for advertisements or posters for the 1945 film. Pencil and marker on tracing paper. <br /> <br /> The sixteenth and penultimate "Dr. Kildare" film the and the last of four films featuring Van Johnson as Dr. Randall "Red" Adams and the fifth of six films focusing on Lionel Barrymore's Dr. Gillespie after Dr. Kildare actor Lew Ayres was fired by MGM for declaring himself a conscientious objector when drafted during World War II. <br /> <br /> About Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1989167211Hollywood: Austin Enterprises 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film seen here under the working title "Beverly Hills Vampire." Copy belonging to makeup artist Richard Miranda with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. Laid in with the script is a five-day shooting schedule along with a call sheet dated May 24 1988. <br /> <br /> A straight-to-video comedy about three nerds who hook up with vampiric call girls during a trip to Hollywood.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Beverly Hills.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers. Missing title page. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper about Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Austin Enterprises unknown
1975140613N.p.: N.p. 1975. Revised script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Jim turns 18 years old and attends Beverly Hills High School where he begins fawning over Stephanie a model and fellow senior with an abusive mother. Stephanie is leading a double life concealing her lesbian inclinations while also losing her virginity to Jim which brings on the condemnation from her mother and Jim's parents. When everything becomes revealed and Stephanie and Jim confess their love for each other she must figure out a way out of Beverly Hills before her mother can have her committed to a mental asylum. <br /> <br /> Set in Beverly Hills. <br /> <br /> Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present dated January 15 1975 noted as Revised with credits for screenwriter Dean Kenneth Goodhill. 136 leaves with last page of text numbered 134. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown
1985167365Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1985. Second Revised Draft script for the 1985 television film which aired on CBS on October 5 1985. Laid in is a 36-page Shooting Schedule dated April 4 1985. <br /> <br /> A tough Wyoming Police detective Amanda Rider Lisa Hartman teams up with the laid back Beverly Hills Police detective Harry Wilde James Brolin in the search for a killer who murdered Rider's friend back in Wyoming. Featuring David Hemmings as the smarmy antagonist Ian Blaize who employs a cross-dressing kickboxer bodyguard.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Southern California Beverly Hills Malibu and Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> Beige titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 3 1985 noted as 2ND REVISED FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Rick Husky. 115 leaves with last page of text numbered 110. Xerographic duplication on blue stock rectos only with pink revision pages throughout dated 5/7/85. Pages Near FIne wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Shooting Schedule: Very Good plus with foxing and toning to the right edge of the first leaf bound with a staple to the top left corner. Paramount Pictures unknown
