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1962138739Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films 1962. Vintage borderless black-and-white still photograph from the 1962 French film. Cleo is shown being helped into a white robe in a large bedroom. Light pencil and blue ink annotations to the verso. <br/><br/>Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br/><br/>Varda was nominated for the Palme d'Or for "Cleo from 5 to 7" her second feature film about a female pop singer whose spends two adventurous and winsome hours on her own and talking to friends while awaiting the results of a biopsy. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>7 x 9.25 inches. About Fine. Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films unknown books
1962132899Paris: Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films 1962. Collection of four vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1962 French film. <br/><br/>Agnes Varda is an important and influential French director writer and artist whose work uses both documentary style realism and experimental film techniques to explore issues of feminism and social justice. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work including this film prefigures stylistically the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br/><br/>Varda was nominated for the Palme d'Or for "Cleo from 5 to 7" her second feature film about a female pop singer whose spends two adventurous and winsome hours on her own and talking to friends while awaiting the results of a biopsy. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Edges slightly toned. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Cine Tamaris / Rome Paris Films unknown books
1962146923Paris: Cine Tamaris 1962. Vintage oversize double weight single photograph of four studio still images from the 1962 film. "CINE VOG FILMS S.A." and "CLEO DE 5 A 7" stamps on the verso. <br/><br/>Told more or less in real time the story of a pop singer trying to distract herself from worry while awaiting the results of a biopsy. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Paris. <br/><br/>9.25 x 11.75 inches. Very Good plus some creasing and curling pinholes primarily in corners repaired with paper tape on the verso.<br/><br/><br/>Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert IV. Criterion Collection 73. Cine Tamaris unknown books
1963134356Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1963. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs two studio stills one reference still from the 1963 film. This film featured Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in their first pairing beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. <br/><br/>Based on the histories written by Plutarch Suetonius and Appian and also based on the Carlo Maria Franzero book and set in 48 B.C. in Egypt. Winner of several Academy Awards Best Cinematography Art Direction Costume Design Effects. <br/><br/>Set in Egypt shot on location in Spain Italy England and the USA. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus corner creases to all studio stills toned short closed tears and a few tiny chips. The reference still has two larger tears at the right edge. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1963151376N.p.: N.p. 1963. Collection of two vintage oversize borderless black and white set design reference photographs and one original charcoal pencil storyboard from the 1963 film. Photographs and illustration mounted on heavyweight cardboard with holograph pencil annotations on the verso.<br/><br/>Based on Carlo Maria Franzero's 1957 book "The Life and Times of Cleopatra." Twentieth Century-Fox's ambitious bank-breaking venture the most expensive production ever made at the time and the first film to pair Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton beginning their tumultuous love-hate relationship. <br/><br/>Set in Egypt and Rome and shot on location in Spain and Italy.<br/><br/>One photograph 10 x 14 inches one photograph 13.5 x 10 inches illustration 13.75 x 8.25 inches. Generally Very Good plus lightly toned and edgeworn. N.p. unknown books
1993WRCLIT61301Np: The Author 1993. 1138 leaves. Quarto. Photomechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in plain red stiff wrappers. Title lettered on lower edge and spine otherwise near fine. Facetiously denoted the "One Millionth" draft of Price's own film adaptation of his 1992 novel. This draft differs considerably from subsequent drafts that involved Spike Lee as co-writer. The Author unknown books
1985119986London: Canal / Image UK 1985. British Script for the 1986 British film comedy based on an original screenplay by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn. <br/><br/>Monty Python alumnus Cleese exploits to perfection his talent for portraying a composed British gentleman unraveling toward complete collapse and novelist-playwright Frayn in one of his few forays onto the screen delivers a nearly perfect script. <br/><br/>Blue British-style titled wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present with a credit for screnwriter Frayn a holograph ink notation of copy No. 160 and a date of March 1985. 126 leaves mechanical duplication rectos only. Pages about Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with some curling at the corners internally bound with two silver brads. Canal / Image UK unknown books
1968133278N.p.: Sigma III Corporation 1968. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1968 US release of the 1966 Czechoslovakian film. <br/><br/>Based on Bohumil Hrabal's 1965 novel about a young man working at a German-occupied train station in Czechoslovakia during WWII. A key entry in Czechoslovak New Wave film poignantly asserting that the Czech people were part of an oppressive system during the war hitting the mark with sly wit and a peculiar innocence. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few light creases else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collections 131. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Sigma III Corporation unknown books
1956140428France / Italy: Les Films Ariane 1956. Collection of over 80 vintage borderless single weight candid and glamor photographs and film negatives black-and-white and color and color transparencies for the 1956 French-Italian film. Most of the images are glamour portraits of the film's leading women: Dany Carrel Nicole Courcel Giorgia Moll and Beatrice Altariba. Several color transparencies show Brigitte Bardot whose sister Mijanou starred in the film leaving a small airplane with her male companion. Several photos rubber-stamped with various photographer names and agencies including Esther Kiss Rene Hollinger and L. Markine. Housed in a vintage French Crumiere brand photo paper box. <br/><br/>A remake of Jacques Deval's 1936 film of the same name about a women's boarding house and the group of women forced to band together because of a housing shortage. Released during the heyday of American exploitation films about women's prisons all-girl boarding schools and girl gangs. <br/><br/>Photographs range from 7.25 x 9.25 inches to 3 x 4 inches with most being smaller developed photos from medium-format transparencies negatives and transparencies include 15 frames on 35mm strips 6 mounted medium format color transparencies 5 medium format color transparencies and 39 medium format negatives. Negatives with light rubbing. Very Good plus overall. Box split at corners foxing Good. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1980147907Universal City: Universal Pictures 1980. Vintage photograph of Levon Helm who played Loretta Lynn's father coal miner Ted Webb from the 1980 film. <br/><br/>Based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter co-written by George Vecsey. <br/><br/>Biography of Loretta Lynn from her poverty-striken upbringing in Butcher Hollow Kentucky to a Country Music superstar.<br/><br/>Nominated for one Academy Award.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1983143040Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1983. Revised First Draft script for the 1985 film.<br/><br/>A group of senior citizens become rejuvenated after swimming in a neighborhood pool that has been infused with energy by visiting aliens. A pre-"Back to the Future" Roger Zemeckis was originally slated to direct but ironically the studio thought he wasn't a sure enough commercial bet and replaced him with Ron Howard. Winner of two Academy Awards including a Best Supporting Actor statue for Don Ameche. <br/><br/>Set in and shot on location in St. Petersburg Florida and New Providence Island Bahamas. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated July 22 1983. Title page present dated July 22 1983 noted as Revised First Draft with credits for screenwriter Tom Benedek and based on the novel by author David Saperstein. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 108. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1970144148N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. With occasional holograph annotations in blue ink throughout. <br/><br/>Adapted for the screen from Alan Morris' 1970 novel "The Tale Of The Lazy Dog." A ragtag group consisting of an Irish journalist a French woman married to a man in the CIA a mercenary pilot and a shameless adventurer are amuck in the war torn region of Laos Cambodia and Vietnam attempting to extort one and a half billion dollars. <br/><br/>Set in Laos Cambodia and Vietnam. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers. Title page present noted as with credits for screenwriter Dursley Berkeley and novelist Alan Williams. 112 with last page of text numbered 114. Mechanical duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
140712Palos Verdes Peninsula CA: Capitol International Pictures. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few annotations in holograph ink throughout. <br/><br/>Alex the playwright daughter of a famous actress is taking her mother's body to her homeland of Greece to bury her when she meets Kristo a married man whose wife is pregnant with his brother's child. They begin a serendipitous romance in Athens starting completely anew until everything starts to fall apart with Kristo's university friend trying to sleep with Alex until he reveals he is actually a homosexual the death of Kristo's brother and Alex's husband running into all of them at a party. <br/><br/>Set in Athens. <br/><br/>White titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Walter Anton White. 165 leaves with last page of text numbered 164. Mechanical duplication Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Capitol International Pictures unknown books
1970138038Switzerland: Intermovie 1970. First Draft script for the 1970 film "Cold Sweat" here under the working title "The Visitors of the Night." Brief annotations in holograph ink on a few pages. <br/><br/>Based on Richard Matheson's 1959 novel "Ride the Nightmare." Joe Bronson is a US Army sergeant imprisoned in Germany during the Korean War. During his prison stay he meets a few men and they decide to escape one of the men killing a German police officer along the way. Joe disgusted abandons his fellows and leaves them to be recaptured. Years later they track Joe down and use him and his boat rental company to smuggle drugs holding his wife and daughter hostage unless he agrees to offer assistance. <br/><br/>Shot on location in France. <br/><br/>Printed tan titled wrappers. Title page present undated noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Eisinger and Bennett. 118 leaves with last page of text numbered 117. Mechanical duplication on white stock with green pages throughout. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong brad. Intermovie unknown books
1960WRCLIT76533Los Angeles: MGM 1960. Twenty-one high quality 8x10" black & white stills. A few annotations on versos otherwise very near fine. An excellent lot of stills of scenes and character shots associated with the 1943 Vincennte Minnelli film based on a screenplay by Joseph Schrank sourced from Lynn Root's 1940 musical play. The film starred Lena Horne Ethel Waters Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Rex Ingram and Louis Armstrong all but the latter featured prominently in one or more of these stills. These are quite high quality prints probably associated with distribution of the film by the studio for television in the 1960s and not second generation copy prints. MGM unknown books
1986WRCLIT80588Np: Universal Pictures 1986. Seven 14 x 11" images printed on stiff card with renderings of prospective artwork and copy four with dated labels. Near fine. A group of what would appear to be test renderings of design work for the one-sheet for the forthcoming film with notations indicating the designs were "tested" on dates as early as June and July well in advance of the December premiere. Six of the seven designs are composed largely of photographic sources and vary chiefly in the caption texts describing the film and include the design finally adopted. The seventh features entirely different artwork rough draft pencil drawing dated in August and features a somewhat suggestive theme Eugene under the dining room table looking up the skirt of a female character while recovering a dropped napkin. The lot is accompanied by three pieces of minor post-release promotional material. Universal Pictures unknown books
1964134845Various cities: Various studios 1964. Collection of 49 vintage still photographs from various film adaptations of Tennessee Williams plays. <br/><br/>All stills are black and white and US issue unless otherwise noted. Included are:<br/><br/>A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 Elia Kazan<br/><br/>1 press photograph of Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter with TCF stamp and press annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>THE ROSE TATTOO 1955 Daniel Mann. <br/><br/>14 US studio photographs<br/><br/>THE LONG HOT SUMMER 1958 Martin Ritt<br/><br/>Collection of 8 British front of house cards. Front-of-house cards are the equivalent of US lobby cards but the same size as US color stills and typically have images that do not appear on US lobby cards and stills. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very minor wear at the extremities about Near Fine overall. <br/><br/>A film based on several literary sources including William Faulkner's "The Hamlet" Faulkner short stories "Barn Burning" and "Spotted Horses" as well as Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."<br/><br/>SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz<br/><br/>1 press photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift with press annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>6 British front of house cards with the rating of "X" then in use in Great Britain. <br/><br/>SUMMER AND SMOKE 1961 Peter Glenville<br/><br/>12 studio still photographs 2 with press annotations on the verso and 1 on the recto at the margin. <br/><br/>SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH 1962 Richard Brooks. <br/><br/>1 still photograph of Paul Newman and Geraldine Page with a mimeo ditto-style snipe describing the scene printed on the verso. <br/><br/>NIGHT OF THE IGUANA 1964 John Huston<br/><br/>1 still photograph of Richard Burton grabbing a long blade. Various studios unknown books
1953WRCLIT40372Hollywood: ZIV Television Programs Inc. 1953. 552 leaves with many revises on colored papers. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in mimeographed wrappers. Very extensively annotated in pencil and colored pencils see below light soiling and wear wrappers else very good. A "Final Master Script" though evidencing a blizzard of revisions of Robert Yale Libott's adaptation of Honore de Balzac's story prepared as #21B of the MY FAVORITE STORY series. Evidently the former property of one of the show's script supervisors bearing very very extensive annotations relating to camera angles revisions in dialogue and stage directions etc. The versos of the majority of the leaves bear annotations pertaining to camera p.o.v. and similar data keyed to the facing recto. Uncommon thus. ZIV Television Programs, Inc. unknown books
1985146382Hungary: MA-Film 1985. Film treatment for the 1985 film here seen under the working title "Oberst Redl: The Spy of the Century." <br/><br/>Loosely based on John Osborne's 1965 play "A Patriot for Me." A dramatization of the life of Alfred Redl a former peasant and closeted gay man who climbs the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian military eventually becoming Chief of Military Intelligence. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Austria Hungary and Croatia. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for director-screenwriter Istvan Szabo and screenwriter Peter Dobai and playwright John Osborne. 16 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light soil to the rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. MA-Film unknown books
1988147472Beverly Hills CA: Orion Pictures 1988. Vintage borderless candid photograph of director Dennis Hopper and actor Robert Duvall on the set of the 1988 film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso dated 1988. <br/><br/>The film which brought Hopper back onto the map as a director for the first time since "Easy Rider" 1969 about a seasoned cop and his rookie partner struggling against gang violence in East Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Los Angeles.<br/><br/>9.5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Orion Pictures unknown books
1939146098N.p.: N.p. 1939. Draft script for an unproduced film by Rafael Sabatini. A fine leatherbound copy with gilt lettering and decorated endpapers.<br/><br/>One of prolific screenwriter Rafael Sabatini's final projects. A romanticized swashbuckling account of the adventures and loves of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus here re-imagined as the Spanish "Cristobal Colon" from Castile. Delays in the production of the film led Sabatini to turn his early screenplay into a novel first published by Hutchinson in 1941. Although interest was again raised in a Columbus film in the late 1940s-leading to the British "Christopher Columbus" 1949 starring Fredric March-Sabatini's script was ultimately rewritten for the film.<br/><br/>Set in Spain.<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Rafael Sabatini. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 259 leaves with last page of text numbered 256. Carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with wear at the extremities. N.p. unknown books
1961WRCLIT67565Hollywood: Rosser's Film Continuity Service for Selznick Studio / Vanguard Films 1961. 75 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stapled at top with stencil printed coversheet on green paper. Very good or better. A late Combined Continuity script of the 1944 Selznick production directed by William Dieterle and starring Ginger Rogers Shirley Temple Joseph Cotten Chill Wills et al. The screenplay adaptation of Martin's play was written by Marion Parsonnet. In 1961 the then owners' of the rights for various Selznick films many had passed through several hands to United Artists commissioned new 16mm combined continuity scripts for many of the titles rationale unknown to posterity. This is such an example and preserves a literal record of the film. Duplicate from the Selznick archive. Rosser's Film Continuity Service for] Selznick Studio / Vanguard Films unknown books
1961WRCLIT67561Hollywood: Rosser's Film Continuity Service for Vanguard Films / Selznick Studio 1961. 62 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Stapled at top with pink stencil-printed coversheet. Relevant ink notation on cover sheet else fine. A very late post-production continuity script for Selznick's 1939 remake of the 1936 original based on O'Neil's adaptation of Gösta Stevens's Swedish original and starring Ingrid Bergman reprising her role for English-language audiences and Leslie Howard. While not on the level of preproduction or production scripts this script which may have been prepared for restoration or format conversion records in extreme detail the final form of the film. Rosser's Film Continuity Service for] Vanguard Films / Selznick Studio unknown books
1961WRCLIT67363Culver City: Vanguard Films / Selznick International Studios 1961. Foliated in reel format. Legal format. Mimeograph typescript printed on rectos only stapled at top margin. Upper forecorner of cover leaf creased last leaf neatly detached from staples; very good. A very late post-production script for this key Hitchcock film based on a screenplay by Ben Hecht which was in turn based on Angus MacPhail's adaptation of a novel THE HOUSE OF DR. EDWARDES by Hilary Saunders and John "Francis Beeding" Palmer. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck starred and Salvador Dali contributed designs to the dream sequences. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and won one for Miklós Rózsa's musical score. While not on the level of preproduction or production scripts this script which may have been prepared for restoration or format conversion records in extreme detail the final form of the film. Vanguard Films / Selznick International Studios unknown books
1961WRCLIT67564Hollywood: Rosser's Film Continuity Service for Selznick / RKO 1961. 85 leaves. Legal format. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectors only. Stapled at top with stencil printed coversheet on green paper. Last leaf neatly detached from staples but very good or better. A late Combined Continuity script of the 1945 RKO/Selznick production directed by Robert Siodmak starring Dorothy McGuire George Brent Ethel Barrymore nominated for an Oscar Rhonda Fleming Elsa Lanchester et al. The screenplay adaptation of White's novel was by Mel Dinelli. In 1961 the then owners of the rights for various Selznick films many had passed through several hands to United Artists commissioned new 16mm combined continuity scripts for many of the titles rationale unknown to posterity. This is such an example and preserves a literal record of the film. Duplicate from the Selznick archive. Rosser's Film Continuity Service for] Selznick / RKO unknown books
