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1957WRCLIT66792Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 4173 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos. Bradbound in bright orange production company wrappers. Large chips at crown and toe of wrapper otherwise very good internally fine. Copy #6 of this 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. The Selznick Studio unknown books
1957WRCLIT67360Culver City: The Selznick Studio 1957. 3191 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in canary yellow production company wrappers. Some minor spots of red offsetting to lower edge of upper wrapper otherwise very near fine. An unspecified but substantially preproduction draft of Hecht's adaptation of Hemingway's novel. It was the novel's second screen adaptation to reach production. This draft precedes John Huston's coming on board as director and of course his departure at which point Charles Vidor took over. This draft is nearly 20 leaves longer than several subsequent drafts. Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones starred. The Selznick Studio unknown books
1985148722Los Angeles: Blake Edwards Entertainment 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film here under the working title "The Music Box." <br/><br/>The second page of the script is a statement from Blake Edwards expressing his intent of utilizing "broad improvisation" and leaving the concise script with relatively minimal dialogue. Noted in the AFI Catalog.<br/><br/>Inspired by the classic and Academy Award winning Laurel & Hardy short "The Music Box" 1932 directed by James Parrott. Originally intended by Edwards to be a vehicle for Richard Pryor and Burt Reynolds.<br/><br/>Actor and gambler Spencer Holden Ted Danson overhears gangsters Binky and Turnip Stuart Margolin and Richard Mulligan at the racetrack talking about doping a horse to win the race. When the thugs find out they trail him and his restauranteur buddy Dennis Powel Howie Mandel to make sure they don't go to the authorities. <br/><br/>Untitled Blake Edwards Entertainment wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Blake Edwards. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two gold brads. Blake Edwards Entertainment unknown books
1948149885Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of director Billy Wilder and actress Marlene Dietrich inspecting a film strip on the set of the 1948 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman however the captain and the entertainer are engaged in an affair leading the captain to seduce the congresswoman in an attempt to hide his conflicting motives. Nominated for two Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Berlin. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly and evenly toned with light wear to the bottom left corner. <br/><br/>Selby US. Selby UK. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948149569Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1948 film showing director Billy Wilder demonstrating how to embrace actress Marlene Dietrich with actor John Lund looking on in the background. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with several holograph annotations regarding layout. <br/><br/>An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman however the captain and the entertainer are engaged in an affair leading the captain to seduce the congresswoman in an attempt to hide his conflicting motives. Nominated for two Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Berlin. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned with light creases to the corners.<br/><br/>Selby US. Selby UK. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1955152124London: Contemporary Films 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the UK release of the 1955 Polish film showing actors Tadeusz Lomnicki Urszula Modrzynska Tadeusz Janczar Ryszard Kotys and Roman Polanski. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on screenwriter Bohdan Czeszko's 1951 novel "Pokolenie." Andrzej Wajda's first film as director and the first entry in what would become known as his Three War Films trilogy set during World War II followed by "Kanal" 1956 and "Ashes and Diamonds" 1958. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Warsaw. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 283. Contemporary Films unknown books
1962144907Hollywood: Hal Wallis Productions / Paramount Pictures 1962. Vintage photograph of director John Sturges and actors Laurence Harvey Gary Merrill and Michael Wilding on the set of the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Ronald Kirkbride's 1959 novel also a 1960 paperback published by Monarch an early sleaze publishing house. A Eurasian photographer named Ivan Harvey pretends to be in love with numerous American ladies interested only in obtaining American citizenship. His latest prospect is Fay Wilson Hyer even though he is truly in love with a Japanese girl named Tamiko Nuyen. <br/><br/>Set in Japan. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Hal Wallis Productions / Paramount Pictures unknown books
1965132875London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1965. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1965 UK film. Mimeograph snipe and distributor rubber-stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on Richard Hughes' 1929 novel about children sent to England from Jamaica when their ship is boarded and commandeered by pirates. Chavez Anthony Quinn the pirate captain befriends one of the children to the chagrin of the other pirates. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Faint creases else Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1950142375N.p.: N.p. 1950. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript with type in black and red. <br/><br/>A family visits France and deals with all sorts of upper class conveniences and distractions including eating dinner and being invited for tea. Text partially in French language. <br/><br/>Set in France. <br/><br/>Unbound leaves. Title page integral with first page of text. 33 leaves with last leaf of text numbered 31. Ribbon copy typescript. Very Good with some faint evidence of dampstaining at the bottom edge of pages. N.p. unknown books
1930WRCLIT68063Hollywood: Warner Bros. Pictures Inc 1930. 192 leaves with variations due to revised leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in stencil-printed wrappers. Rather dog-eared creased and frayed pencil name on upper wrapper "James Hall" script-loan coupon clipped pencil checks and markouts throughout; fair but intact. An unspecified but evidently revised draft of this unattributed screenplay. The film is a bit of mystery and may not have been produced. There are press announcements of its having begun production and then the MPPDA Digital Archive indexes correspondence from Will Hays ca. June 1930 to Albert Harry and Jack Warner taking issue with the marketing in VARIETY of what is promoted as their "Sex-Appeal Sextette" of which this title was #3 coupled with the likes of DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS EX MISTRESS THE MATRIMONIAL BED A SOLDIER'S PLAYTHING and THE OFFICE WIFE. The tagline for this film was "A Modern Casanova who Believed One Wife was a Good Reason for Ten Sweethearts." Several of the other films in the series were completed even if now "lost' but this property seems to have disappeared without a trace. The authorship of the copy of the script in the Warner Bros. Script Archive at Princeton is not attributed. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc unknown books
1955152332N.p.: N.p. 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film showing Diana Dors and Vera Day bringing a pants presser to David Kossoff. With holograph pencil and ink annotations to the verso identifying the actors. <br/><br/>From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br/><br/>Based on the 1953 novel. A young boy growing up in a working class community buys what he believes to be a unicorn in reality a small deformed goat with the hope that it will bring luck to his friends and family.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in East London.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly worn to the corners. N.p. unknown books
1955149455London: London Film Productions 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 British film showing an aerial view of Whitechapel Road market in London. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.<br/><br/>Based on the 1953 novel. A young boy growing up in a working class community buys what he believes to be a unicorn in reality a small deformed goat with the hope that it will bring luck to his friends and family.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in East London.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with a small tear to the top left corner. London Film Productions unknown books
1957152173London: Attica Film Company 1957. Archive of material from the 1957 British film including a Draft production script a post-production Release script and a reference photograph inscribed by director Charlie Chaplin to production manager Mickey Delamar: "To Mickey / Thanks for a wonderful job / Charlie Chaplin / July 30th." <br/><br/>Also included are a presumably complete set of nine soundtrack LPs made for use with film projection all in their original mailing box and sealed with the label of the Master Sound System Company in the UK. <br/><br/>Lastly included are approximately 100 vintage photographs all with the stamp of Eric Gray the film's still photographer on the verso. Photographs all have a significant horizontal curl but are all separate and otherwise supple and clean. This segment of the archive is offered as is.<br/><br/>Chaplin's final starring role about a dethroned and penniless king from a fictional European nation living in New York where he inadvertently becomes the target of a HUAC investigation after meeting a politically minded youngster played by Chaplin's son Michael whose parents have been jailed as communist sympathizers. A pointed satire of McCarthyism American consumerism and celebrity culture the film was produced in Europe due to Chaplin's own exile from the United States as a result of his leftist political beliefs and did not receive an US release until 1973. <br/><br/>Mickey Delamar worked as a producer production manager and assistant director on over 30 films and was active in the film industry for four decades. His credits include Julien Duvivier's "Anna Karenina" 1948 Francois Truffaut's "Fahrenheit 451" 1966 and Terence Young's "Mayerling" 1968.<br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in London. <br/><br/>Draft script:<br/><br/>Tall red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credits for screenwriter Charles Chaplin. 163 leaves with last page of text numbered 163. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Post-Production Release script:<br/><br/>Tall self wrappers. Title page present dated 7th March 1957 noted as RELEASE SCRIPT. Approximately 135 leaves. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two silver brads.<br/><br/>Presentation photograph:<br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned. <br/><br/>Soundtrack LP set:<br/><br/>LPs well used and scratched but not cracked untested. Outer mailing box Very Good.<br/><br/>Reference photograph set:<br/><br/>All photographs extensively curled and though not examined carefully apparently not stuck together in any way. Very Good. Attica Film Company unknown books
1957144615Nice: Studios de la Victorine 1957. Original black-and-white single weight still photograph from the 1957 French film here under the original title "Une manche et la belle." Vidal and Demongeot are seen sunbathing worriedly on marble. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil French film title and Demongeot's and Vidal's names in holograph ink on the versos. <br/><br/>Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. <br/><br/>7 x 9.25 inches small white border at the foot. Very Good plus with brief ink on the recto and faint creases.<br/><br/>Selby France. Studios de la Victorine unknown books
1957144445Nice: Studios de la Victorine 1957. Seven original black-and-white photographs from the 1957 French film here under the original French title "Une manche et la belle." Henri Vidal and Isa Miranda are seen in most and in two with Demongeot in the background. All with numerical annotations in holograph pencil three with blue rubber-stamps Victorine and one with French film titles in holograph pencil on the versos. Housed in a French Kodak photo paper box. <br/><br/>Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. <br/><br/>Photographs 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine with slight curling and light foxing box Very Good overall. Studios de la Victorine unknown books
1957143302Paris: Cinedis 1957. Three original black-and-white photographs of a televised outdoor interview featuring cast members from the film here under the original French title "Une manche et la bell." Starring actress Demongeot is seen having fun off-camera and in one photo with Henri Vidal director Verneuil Isa Miranda in white and an unidentified blonde male presumably hosting the promotional. On the versos are film title Demongeot's and Vidal's names in holograph ink numerical annotations in holograph pencil and rubber stamps for photographer Fausto Picedi notable for his images of Grace Kelley in Monte Carlo. <br/><br/>Noirish murder drama loosely based on Chase's novel "The Sucker Punch" 1954. Betty Farnwell Miranda is a rich widow living in Nice with a bewitching daughter Eva Demongeot. Betty marries Philippe Vidal a good-looking but self-interested man. Cue Eva. Philippe falls for the calculating femme fatale who has plans to marry someone else. Betty's life is in danger as Philippe struggles with his transgressions. <br/><br/>Photographs 5 x 7 inches. Slight curling and a few tiny creases else Near Fine. Cinedis unknown books
1966144479Paris: Les Films 13 1966. Collection of four vintage photographs from the 1966 film. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the versos. <br/><br/>Anne Gauthier Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Duroc Jean-Louis Trintignant meet as they drop their children off at boarding school. She works as a script supervisor and he as a race-car driver. They quickly become friends and as a romance starts to emerge they both reveal that each are widows still experiencing the grief of their losses. Winner of The Palme d'Or and the OCIC Award at the Cannes Film Festival also winner of two Academy Awards including Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Nominated for two more. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris Deauville and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer France. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Les Films 13 unknown books
1966150339N.p.: N.p. 1966. Vintage reference photograph of director Claude Lelouch who was also the cinematographer filming from the hood of Jean-Louis Duroc's Jean-Louis Tintignant mustang from the set of the 1966 film. <br/><br/>Anne Gauthier Anouk Aimee and Jean-Louis Duroc Trintignant meet as they drop their children off at boarding school and quickly become friends. As romance develops they each reveal that they have lost a spouse and are still grieving complicating the blossoming relationship. Winner of two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Best Screenplay nominated for Best Director and Best Actress. Winner of the Palm d'Or.<br/><br/>Lelouch would make a sequel "A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later" in 1986 as well as another follow up film "The Best Years of a Life" in 2019 both still starring Aimee and Trintignant.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Paris Deauville and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer France. <br/><br/>10.25 x 8 inches. Two pin holes in upper left corner else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. N.p. unknown books
1989129406Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / American Broadcasting Company ABC 1989. First Draft script for the season one episode eight of the 1989 television show originally broadcast March 25 1989 on ABC here under the working title "White Poison." Virgil Vogel credited here as Director but Harry Falk would receive final credit as Director of the episode. <br/><br/>"Hawk" was based on a character from the crime drama series "Spencer: For Hire" 1985-1988. Avery Brooks an African American actor reprising his role from the former series starred as the sharp-dressed streetwise sunglasses-wearing elongated Colt revolver-toting vigilante with a deep sense of being. <br/><br/>In this episode Hawk is tracking the source of heroin laced with strychnine but his task is constantly interrupted by a nosy reporter. <br/><br/>Orange titled wrappers noted as FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper dated January 27 1989. Title page present dated January 27 1989 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Parker and director Vogel as well as credits for executive producers producers associate producer and unit production manager. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers / American Broadcasting Company [ABC] unknown books
1956143336Neuilly-sur-Seine France: Gaumont 1956. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1956 film showing director Robert Bresson demonstrating a small action to the film's lead actor Francois Leterrier. With holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 memoir "A Man Condemned to Death has Escaped" by Andre Devigny about a French Resistance member's escape from the Nazi controlled prison of Montluc. Like Devigny Bresson himself was a French POW during the war. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. <br/><br/>6.5 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with shallow diagonal creasing to the corners. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 650. Ebert IV. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. Gaumont unknown books
1987139456Los Angeles: TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation 1987. British Draft script for the 1988 television film originally airing on December 21 1988 on TNT the first made-for-television movie produced for the fledging network. Brief annotations in holograph ink throughout. <br/><br/>Based on the 1960 Broadway play by Robert Bolt about Sir Thomas More's devotion to the Catholic Church during the English Reformation. Previously filmed in a 1966 Academy Award winning theatrical release directed by Fred Zimmerman and starring Paul Scofield Wendy Hiller and Leo McKern. <br/><br/>Tan blank wrappers with die-cut title window. Title page present dated November 16 1987 with a credit for screenwriter Bolt. 180 leaves with last page of text numbered 177. Xerographically reproduced. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. TNT / Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
1943129711N.p.: N.p. 1943. Treatment script by Elizabeth Meehan for an unproduced film. Meehan was a British screenwriter who worked in Hollywood and the UK in the 1920s 30s and 40s. Among the 29 credits she amassed she is best known for "The Great Gatsby" 1926 "Laugh Clown Laugh" 1928 and "Oliver Twist" 1933. <br/><br/>A romantic melodrama about women on the home front during World War II told through the lives of a group of female cab drivers and their correspondence with one particularly lonely soldier using numerous aliases to write them. With only one significant male role the soldier who only appears at the beginning and end of the story the main action of the film features women exclusively making it something of an unusual story for it's time. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for Elizabeth Meehan. 18 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1946118614London: The Archers / Eagle-Lion 1946. Original UK Program for the 1946 film released in the US as "Stairway to Heaven." SIGNED by director Michael Powell on page 12 just above the photo next to his biographical sketch. <br/><br/>While it is certainly arguable that the greatest Powell-Pressburger film is a 10-way tie for first place "A Matter of Life and Death" is probably the most philosophically ambitious of their masterpieces. David Niven is a British wartime aviator who unwittingly cheats death and must ultimately argue for his continued existence before a celestial court. In between these two events is a wildly imaginative and surreal tale told first in Technicolor on earth then in Dye-Monochrome black-and-white in heaven. <br/><br/>This oversize program book evokes the spirit of the film beautifully with clever use of two-color processes mostly pink and blue throughout. Includes biographies and large photos of the principal actors reviews an essay about the techniques used to shoot the film and credits for the cast and crew. The credits and promotion are specific to the UK rather than international or US distribution of the film through Eagle-Lion and General Distributors. <br/><br/>Self-wrappers 14.5 x 11.5 inches saddle-stapled. Very Good plus condition with fine shallow creasing at the wrapper extremities. The Archers / Eagle-Lion unknown books
1944WRCLIT60306Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1944. Two volumes each foliated in reel/page format as: 11097101110108 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Second item stapled at left margin first formerly stapled. Some corner creases "Master File Copy" and production number stamps on title leaf of first item pencil annotations name and ink file number on title leaf of second. Very good. Two late production states of the script for the 1945 film based on a story idea by Jack Wagner cowritten with John Steinbeck and adapted as a screenplay by Frank Butler. The release dialogue script records a print totaling 51 more feet than the censorship script. Irving Pichel directed and Dorothy Lamour J. Carrol Naish and Arturo de Cordova led the cast. Obviously little apart from Steinbeck's treatment for the film the Valentine collection included a carbon typescript may be easily identified as purely Steinbeck's work; however nothing relating to the script saw lifetime publication so even continuity scripts such as these take on some significance for Steinbeck scholars. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1945137348Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1945. Original pressbook for the 1945 film based on an original story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. The duo received an Academy Award nomination for their work. <br/><br/>12.25 x 15 inches. 28 pages saddle stapled. Light fading to the front edges lightly rubbed and soiled about Near Fine overall. Paramount Pictures unknown books