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1936144877Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1936. Vintage press photograph from the set of the 1936 film. With a printed description and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Barry Benefield. After being run out of small southern town Carrie Snyder Gladys George takes in two children who are estranged from their families and starts a successful dry-cleaning business in New York to support them. Eventually her past comes back to haunt her. Gladys George was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.<br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1977168499Beverly Hills CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists 1977. Vintage reference photograph from the 1977 film showing Rudolf Nureyev sporting a Bacchic leaf-embellished thong and matching headband and posing with a cluster of grapes. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1975 book by Chaw Mank and Brad Steiger about the life of famed silent film actor Rudolph Valentino told mostly through flashbacks after his death in 1926 focusing on his many lovers and public speculation around his sexuality. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in England and Spain. <br /> <br /> 7.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus with archival repairs to the verso rear at each of the four corners see image. Recto front of the photo presents perfectly.<br /> <br /> BFI 1234. Chartoff-Winkler Productions / United Artists unknown
1979162754Beverly Hills CA: The Edward S. Feldman Company 1979. Draft script for the 1979 television movie originally aired on December 7 1979 on ABC.<br /> <br /> Two aging retirees fall in love after meeting at a retirement home in Venice California although their friends and families object due to their differing religions. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers dated February 21 1979 on the front wrapper with credits for screenwriters Merrit Malloy and Lee Philips. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Merrit Malloy and Lee Philips. 120 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between March 5 and 12 1979. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. The Edward S. Feldman Company unknown
20922No date or place. London 1940s. In the 1940s Guest wrote the lyrics to several songs by the American composer Manning Sherwin 1902-1974 several of them for his comedy 'I'll be your Sweetheart' 1945 but he is not known to have written any music himself. No record has been found of the present item but it presumably dates from the same period. It is 4pp. 4to. On bifolium of printed music paper. In good condition lightly aged and worn with central vertical fold. The title is on the cover: 'â€Swell†Lyrics and music by Val Guest'. There is an illegible name lightly written at top right in another hand. The music is neatly written out in ink. The lyrics are not present except for one phrase in pencil 'You sent me a note and beneath it you wrote it's been swell'. No date or place. [London, 1940s?] unknown
1985149739N.p.: N.p. 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1985 French film three showing director Agnes Varda and actress Sandrine Bonnaire one showing Varda and cinematographer Patrick Blossier and one showing Varda and a film crew inspecting Bonnaire as she poses as a dead body in a ditch. With the stamp of Cinemagence three with provenance stamps and one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.<br /> <br /> Varda's most successful and critically acclaimed film beginning with the discovery of a young migrant woman's body frozen in a ditch in northern France and retracing her life up until the time of her death.<br /> <br /> As an important and influential French director writer and artist Agnes Varda garnered praise as a filmmaker for her uncompromising documentary-style realism focusing on women and marginalized members of society as well as her experimental style. A colleague of Alain Resnais and other Rive Gauche filmmakers her early work stylistically prefigures the French New Wave and is today considered very much a part of it. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Gard Herault and Bouches-du-Rhone France.<br /> <br /> Four photographs 7 x 5 inches one photograph 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 74. N.p. unknown
1977163694Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1977. First Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel. In 1970s London a young antiques dealer comes into possession of a number of items uncovered at a construction site-including the coffin of a long dormant highly amorous vampire. Roger Vadim is better known for his earlier foray into the world of vampires in the 1960 film "Blood and Roses" an adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla." <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present dated 22nd July 1977 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credit for screenwriter Ray Connolly. 76 leaves with last page of text numbered 75. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages about Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound internally with two silver brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1971149566Spain / Puerto Rico: Argos SLPC / Producciones Dulzaides 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 Spanish / Puerto Rican co-production. <br/><br/>After her brother dies a woman must take care of her niece the result of an extramarital affair with a woman of color. <br/><br/>26 x 36.5 inches. Very Good plus. Pinholes to the corners and light chipping with some text affected. Argos SLPC / Producciones Dulzaides unknown books
146548N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper noting the film title and screenwriter's name. <br/><br/>A scientist accidentally creates a new strain of the influenza virus unaware that his coworkers intend to use the virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem by killing millions of people.<br/><br/>Orange titled card wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown books
146548N.p.: N.p. Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the film title and screenwriter's name. <br /> <br /> A scientist accidentally creates a new strain of the influenza virus unaware that his coworkers intend to use the virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem by killing millions of people.<br /> <br /> Orange titled card wrappers with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Ralph Stephens. 128 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with silver prong binding. N.p. unknown
1990147428Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1990. Second Draft script for the 1992 film. <br/><br/>A recently widowed Jewish woman finds love in her autumn years with a charming Italian playboy but faces criticism from her two unhappy daughters who believe she is moving forward too quickly.<br/><br/>Set in Queens New York.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers dated MARCH 2 1990. Title page present dated 3/2/90 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Todd Graff. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1990147428Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1990. Second Draft script for the 1992 film. <br /> <br /> A recently widowed Jewish woman finds love in her autumn years with a charming Italian playboy but faces criticism from her two unhappy daughters who believe she is moving forward too quickly.<br /> <br /> Set in Queens New York.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers dated MARCH 2 1990. Title page present dated 3/2/90 noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Todd Graff. 126 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1979136454Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. <br/><br/>A shining credit for John Travolta based on an article in Esquire magazine 1978 by Aaron Latham. A country boy moves to the city to take a job with his uncle meets a cowgirl and the two fall in love and eventually get married. Another man threatens their relationship but if Travolta can master a mechanical bull all will work out in the end. <br/><br/>Set in Houston Texas shot on location throughout Texas. <br/><br/>Black titled wrappers. Title page present dated May 7 1979 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriters Latham and Bridges. 133 leaves with last page of text numbered 127. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available upon request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1968164342N.p.: Marlukin Productions 1968. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1968 film.<br /> <br /> An overlooked and important film one of the first to deal with contemporary Black revolutionaries who rose in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Today considered a work that seeded the explosion of Blaxploitation films in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. The story's events surround the death of Martin Luther King framed as a remake of "The Informer" John Ford 1935 in turn based on the 1925 proletarian novel by Liam O'Flaherty. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in Cleveland the first US film for noted director Jules Dassin who had left the US at the height of the McCarthy hearings in nearly two decades. <br /> <br /> 26.75 x 41 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus. with starting at the center folds.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Olive Films 425. Marlukin Productions unknown
1965144489Paris: Les Films Ariane 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur Jean-Paul Belmondo who after a series of suicide attempts hires hit-men to kill him but after he meets Alexandrine Pinardel Ursula Andress he tries to cancel the hit.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Malaysia China Nepal India and France. <br/><br/>6.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown books
1965144489Paris: Les Films Ariane 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and manuscript annotations on the verso. <br /> <br /> Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur Jean-Paul Belmondo who after a series of suicide attempts hires hit-men to kill him but after he meets Alexandrine Pinardel Ursula Andress he tries to cancel the hit.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Malaysia China Nepal India and France. <br /> <br /> 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Les Films Ariane unknown
1967139427Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1967. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white double studio still photographs from the American release of the 1967 film. <br/><br/>A young naive graduate begins teaching at an underfunded inner city high school. She faces daily problems from unnecessary bureaucracy to unruly students and begins to question whether or not she is making a difference in her students' lives. Actress Sandy Dennis featured in many of the photographs previously was awarded an Academy Award for supporting actress in the film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"<br/><br/>Set in New York City shot on location in New York City. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pin holes in the margin corners of image 497-5 and holograph annotations on the rear. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Warner Brothers unknown books
1983170264N.p.: Arkoff International 1983. Final Shooting script for the 1984 comedy film seen here under the working title "Rafts." With rainbow revision pages throughout.<br /> <br /> Four undergraduates are blackmailed into competing in a collegiate raft race facing off against cheating Ivy League students military academy saboteurs and an amorous all-women team. <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers with the release title noted in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper. Title page present dated May 3 1983 noted as Final Shooting Script with credit for screenwriter Jim Kouf. 127 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between August 4 and 18 1983. Pages Very Good plus with moderate foxing throughout wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> McPadden Teen Movie Hell 335. Arkoff International unknown
1965167883N.p.: N.p. 1965. Three vintage single-photo assemblages of publicity and reference images from the 1965 British film musical. <br /> <br /> A musical comedy about a love triangle between a pub owner's daughter a popular model and an aspiring Australian singer. The film debut of Suzy Kendall. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in London.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Stapled at the top left corner. Good only with dampstaining on the bottom corners. N.p. unknown
1970139895N.p.: American International Pictures AIP 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. With an American International Pictures stamp to the verso alongside a cello-taped mimeograph snipe. Featuring a "black militant" being forcibly removed from the room by actor Larry Hagman while Harlene Jones and Judy Pace look on. <br/><br/>A lighthearted comedy in which a man Wes Stern who fails out of college attempts suicide only to be saved against his will by the university president Larry Hagman who flunked him. In grumpy retaliation Stern decides to bed the three women most important to the president: his mistress his wife and his daughter. Set against the backdrop of Civil Rights campus upheaval. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New Mexico. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. American International Pictures [AIP] unknown books
1931130935Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1931. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-Code film. Complete representing seven reels. <br/><br/>Brad-bound self wrappers. Mimeograph duplication. Long tear to the first leaf about 5.5 inches else Near Fine. Universal Pictures unknown books
1931130935Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1931. Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-code film. <br /> <br /> A man gets promoted from the printing room to working with the society editor at a newspaper. When he begins to develop feelings for the woman writing the society section he brawls with her lover who is also their boss. <br /> <br /> White titled self-wrappers noted as Continuity and Dialogue on the front wrapper production No. 117-1. 85 leaves with last page of text numbered 12. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good with a long tear to the front self-wrapper bound with two gold brads along the top edge. Universal Pictures unknown
1972WRCLIT67253Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1972. 131 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in studio wrappers. Working title added in pencil on upper wrapper and in ink on lower edge vertical crease in upper wrapper a handful of marginal spots and a few spots to lower wrapper still very good. A "revised draft" of the screenplay for this unproduced film in many ways evidently a return to Cain's novel THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE. Gordon Carroll is identified as the producer overseeing the project and was at the time involved as producer of Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. Although this project never came to fruition Giler and Carroll were associated with a number of future productions including films in the ALIEN series. The lead character's name in this version remains Frank Chambers but Cora and Nick Papadakis are renamed Sharon and Frank Flores. The setting is updated but the locale remains southern California. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer unknown books
1957159061Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe and one provenance stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1951 story by James A. Michener. During WWII three sisters fall in and out of love with the soldiers who are stationed in Christchurch though one sister is married. <br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New Zealand. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine with some small splashes at the top center. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1985159104Studio City CA: ITC Productions / Blue Andre Productions 1985. Revised Second Draft script for the 1986 television film which originally aired on November 10 1986 on NBC. <br /> <br /> Based on the true story of Maude DeVictor a Veterans Benefits Counselor for the Veterans Administration who worked to expose the government's coverup of the harmful effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans. <br /> <br /> White generic ITC wrappers with a die-cut title window. Title page present dated July 19 1985 noted as REVISED SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter John Sayles and story credits for Martin M. Goldstein Stephen Doran and Robert Jacobs. 113 leaves with last page of text numbered 112. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. ITC Productions / Blue Andre Productions unknown
1970158722London: Mediarts 1970. Revised Draft script for the 1971 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member with their annotations in manuscript ink on seven leaves noting deletions. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1958 radio drama by Giles Cooper about a boarding school teacher who begins to suspect his predecessor of having been murdered by the students. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates no holdings. AMPAS shows one holding. <br /> <br /> Set in Cornwall and shot on location in Llandudno Wales and in Sonning Berkshire. <br /> <br /> Missing front wrapper with pink rear wrapper. Title page present dated May 1970 noted as REVISED with credits for playwright Giles Cooper and screenwriter Simon Raven. 151 leaves with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue revision pages laid in throughout dated August 7 1970. Pages Poor wrapper Poor with moderate dampstaining affecting the last 60 leaves and rear wrapper bound with a silver prong. Mediarts unknown
