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1999142242Malibu CA: Word of Mouth Productions 1999. Draft script for the 1999 film. Laid in are a collection of documents two autographed letters from screenwriter and director Tom Lazarus to Jack Murphy dated February 26 March 5 and March 29 1991 urging him to please read and consider producing his film. Finally there is a typed biography of Lazarus with his phone number sans area code in manuscript ink. <br /> <br /> Torri Larranga is a prostitute at the top of her game charging high prices for exquisite services. Her reputation precedes her as a documentarian approaches her asking to film a feature look into her life. <br /> <br /> The first directorial effort of Tom Lazarus who later went to on to direct "Stigmata" 1999 and write "Just You and Me Kid" 1979. <br /> <br /> Red titled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter Tom Lazarus. 102 leaves with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Word of Mouth Productions unknown
197699595<p>Switzerland July 5th 1976. 1976. Fine. - Over 275 words typed on his personal 11-1/2 inch high by 8-1/4 inch wide stationery with his Swiss address centered at the top. Norman Krasna writes to Jean Dalrymple about his latest play "Hold the presses." he says having rethought the ending. "I had a long searching session with the muse and also a critique from a friend and the three of us have come to the conclusion that the ending is not right." Feeling that his original ending seemed to imply that the girl settled for marriage "as she hasn't got the ability to be a star". "People don't go to the theatre to accept resignation. I prefer the girl on her way to be a star and have the marriage too." Signed "Norman". An apparent phone number is penned at top left of the letter and another spelled out in French at top right. The letter is further briefly annotated on the verso. The top edge of the page is slightly creased and the letter is folded for mailing. Near fine.</p><p>The American screenwriter playwirth producer and film director Norman Krasna 1909-1984 was known for his screwball comedies based on a case of mistaken identity. He wrote several successful Broadway plays including "Dear Ruth" and "John Loves Mary" and directed 3 films "The Ambassador's Daughter" "The Big Hangover" and "Princess O'Rourke" all of which he also wrote and was nominated 4 times for screenwriting Academy Awards winning once for "Princess O'Rourke".</p><p>The recipient Jean Dalrymple 1902-1998 was the dynamic producer and director of theater and light-opera at Manhattan's City Center. Dalrymple began her career in Vaudeville appearing with James Cagney and Carey Grant in the early 1930s. She was a founding member of the American Theatre Wing the theatre service organization. She worked over the years as a personal manager for the likes of Leopold Stokowski Mary Martin Jos Iturbi Andre Kostalanetz Nathan Milstein and Lily Pons. She began her work at City Center with its founding in 1943 serving as a board member and publicist. Her productions there from the 1940s through the 1960s were a revitalizing influence on the whole New York theatre scene. In 1951 Jean Dalrymple married Major-General Philip deWitt Ginder commander of the Thunderbirds in Korea. She was a friend to Presidents and entertainment personalities throughout the world.</p> Switzerland, July 5th, 1976.
1997138625Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. <br /> <br /> Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp Douglas teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh struggles writing his second novel and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him and he is having an affair with the Chancellor of the university McDormand. Grady's editor Downey Jr. inquires about the novel but becomes interested in a book by one of Grady's students Maguire as well as having other more intimate intentions. <br /> <br /> Shot on location throughout Pennsylvania. Bob Dylan won an Academy Award for his original song "Things Have Changed" and the film was nominated for two more. <br /> <br /> Blue wrappers noted as MASTER W/ SCENE NUMBERS on the front wrapper. Title page present dated December 1997 with credits for novelist Chabon and screenwriter Kloves. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Paramount Pictures unknown
1971165085N.p.: N.p. 1971. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1971 film both showing actress Candy Darling. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos.<br /> <br /> A satire of the women's liberation movement starring Warhol superstars Darling Jackie Curtis and Holly Woodlawn about three New York women who join a militant feminist group Politically Involved Girls P.I.G. in an attempt to find happiness apart from men. The last film to use footage filmed directly by Andy Warhol himself.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in New York. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus one with faint discoloration on the center right of the verso. N.p. unknown
1969149514Beverly Hills CA: Brandywine Productions 1969. Nine vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso of 7 of the photos.<br /> <br /> Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel following two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends bringing conflict between the two couples as their romances take them in different directions. An apt examination of changes in sexual mores both at the time of the novel's publication and the film's 1969 release. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Glenda Jackson.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Derbyshire and London and Kanton Wallis Switzerland.<br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Complete collation available on request. Brandywine Productions unknown
1969158482N.p.: N.p. 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 British film including one double weight showing Alan Bates and Jennie Linden and one single-weight showing Linden and Glenda Jackson. <br /> <br /> Based on D.H. Lawrence's 1920 novel following two freethinking sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends bringing conflict between the two couples as their romances take them in different directions. An apt examination of changes in sexual mores both at the time of the novel's publication and the film's 1969 release. Nominated for four Academy Awards winning one for Best Actress for Glenda Jackson.<br /> <br /> Set and shot on location in Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Derbyshire and London and Kanton Wallis Switzerland.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> BFI 1254. Criterion Collection 916. N.p. unknown
1973161100N.p.: N.p. 1973. Two vintage borderless oversize color reference photographs from the 1973 film one showing two prisoners fighting the other showing two prisoners locked in a passionate embrace. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso.<br /> <br /> A woman goes to prison in order to save her father who has been wrongly accused by a powerful drug cartel of stealing twenty kilos of heroin. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly curled. N.p. unknown
1970162502New Orleans LA: Howco Productions 1970. Draft script for the 1970 sexploitation film seen here under the working title "His Wife's Habit." Laid in with the script is a five-page shooting schedule. <br /> <br /> A promiscuous married woman finds herself unable to resist sleeping with every man she meets leading to a savage attack by a motel parking attendant and his crony. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New Orleans.<br /> <br /> Black generic card wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Joy N. Houck Jr. Albert J. Salzer and Robert A. Weaver. 98 leaves with last page of text numbered 97. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good moderately faded on the edges bound internally with three silver brads. Howco Productions unknown
1954130751Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1954. Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy with blue revision pages throughout and with Heflin's substantial annotations in manuscript pencil on five pages see images. <br /> <br /> Clifton Webb plays Earnest Gifford the CEO of a car company tasked with replacing one of his managers after the incumbent dies. In a bit of a twist the CEO decides to observe the wives of his top three candidates hoping to tease out useful information and character traits via their choice of spouses. <br /> <br /> Title page present dated April 20 1954 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Lindsay Crouse and Binyon. 128 leaves Multilith duplication with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 4-22-54 and 5-11-54. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1967135367Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 film. Press stamps on the versos. <br /> <br /> A seven-part anthology ranging from comedy to drama starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Paris.<br /> <br /> 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Generally Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown
1950136048Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1950 film noir showing the crew retrieving the waterlogged car used in the climactic scene. <br /> <br /> An heiress inherits her father's steel mill and then must extricate herself from a marriage to the mill's general manager who means to kill her in order to own the mill. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light rippling near one extremity. <br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby US. Silver & Ward US. Spicer US. Universal Pictures unknown
1919152865N.p.: N.p. 1919. Vintage album housing 49 vintage reference photographs from the 1919 silent film most showing noted early film star William Farnum. Of particular note in the album is a photograph of Farnum on the set with actors Lamar Johnstone and Charles Clary holding bouquets of flowers ostensibly at the end of the shoot. <br /> <br /> Laid in with the album is a small newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Evening Herald showing a photograph of Farnum with his wife and stepson and noting Farnum's adoption of his stepson with a small manuscript ink annotation presumably made by Farnum at the top of the clipping: "It was raining I wore all my old duds-darn it I wasn't ready."<br /> <br /> A wealthy married mining engineer suffers amnesia after being injured in a mining explosion planned by his business rivals and is forced to seek shelter with a Chilean shepherd and the shepherd's daughter with whom he falls in love. Now considered a lost film. <br /> <br /> At the peak of his success Farnum was one of the highest-paid actors of the silent film age but was forced into an early semi-retirement after being injured on the set of the 1924 film "The Man Who Fights Alone." He appeared sporadically in character roles throughout the late 1920s 1930s and 1940s and enjoyed a successful career on Broadway.<br /> <br /> Photographs generally 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. <br /> <br /> Album 12 x 8.25 inches. Very Good plus lightly soiled and creased. N.p. unknown
26920No place or date given. Photograph Signed 20 x 25Cms good condition. See Image. No place or date given. unknown
1950142371N.p.: N.p. 1950. Archive of screenplays for an unproduced films all by the same screenwriter from the screenwriter's estate. <br /> <br /> Collection of unproduced screenplays by screenwriter G.E. Moore including "The Wittering Alp" "Portrait of Catherine" "The Trojan Story" "The Nine Days' Wonder" and "The Choice Spirit." <br /> <br /> Title page present with credits for screenwriter Moore. 150 leaves with last page of text numbered 43. Mixed ribbon copy typescript carbon typescript and mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good wrapper Very Good plus housed in a black spring binder. Binder is Good only significantly dampstained but has done its job and the internal leaves are unaffected. N.p. unknown
1957157894Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1957. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1957 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1953 play by Agatha Christie about the trial of a man accused of murder. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director Best Actor for Charles Laughton and Best Supporting Actress for Elsa Lanchester. <br /> <br /> Set in London.<br /> <br /> 28 x 22 inches. Folded twice as issued Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Penzler 101. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown
1946146146Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1946. Vintage studio photograph of Mervyn LeRoy and Louella Parsons rehearsing on the set of the 1946 film. <br /> <br /> Based on the obscure 1946 pulp novel by Jane Allen and Mae Livingston about a best selling novelist who meets Marine who she thinks is perfect for the lead in an upcoming film adaptation although he doesn't her book. An abundance of Hollywood cameos with columnist Louella Parsons playing herself.<br /> <br /> 8.25 x 10 inches. Near Fine with some light creasing. RKO Radio Pictures unknown
1969162601N.p.: Tonylyn Productions 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Two with provenance stamps on the versos and one with a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp on the verso. <br /> <br /> Based on the 1966 Norwegian novel "Uten en tråd" by Jens Bjørneboe. A high school girl unable to achieve orgasm visits a doctor who advises her to keep a diary of her sexual encounters. She follows his suggestion and soon finds herself caught up in an increasingly wild series of intimate experiences. IMDB<br /> <br /> Shot on location in Copenhagen Denmark Hamburg Germany and Paris France. <br /> <br /> 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a wax pencil cropping annotation in the lower margins else Near Fine. Tonylyn Productions unknown
1994149993N.p.: N.p. 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film.<br /> <br /> Seeking money for drugs an African American man breaks into an ER surgeon's apartment leading her to kill him in self-defense. The man's grieving brother seeks revenge for what he sees as his brother's unwarranted racially motivated death beginning a bitter cycle of violence and retribution. <br /> <br /> Set in Chicago.<br /> <br /> Gray HBO Pictures wrappers. Title page present dated January 11 1994 with credits for screenwriter Kevin Rodney Sullivan. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Fine wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.<br /> <br /> Full provenance available. N.p. unknown
1987162290London: Atlantic Releasing 1987. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1987 British film. <br /> <br /> From the collection of artist and author Duncan Hannah.<br /> <br /> Duncan Hannah was a key figure in the burgeoning New York underground arts scene befriending Andy Warhol and his superstars Lou Reed Allen Ginsberg Patti Smith Salvador Dali and many others. A graduate of the Parsons School of Design his paintings were exhibited in the influential 1980 Times Square Show alongside work by Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and several of his paintings are held in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br /> <br /> A feisty young girl grows up in a small English coastal town in the years after WWII eventually becoming pregnant by an acquaintance of her widowed father.<br /> <br /> Shot on location in West Sussex. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine one with an annotation in manuscript ink amending a caption on the recto. Atlantic Releasing unknown
1970141382N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text and titles in German.<br /> <br /> White untitled wrappers. Title page present with credit for screenwriter Janusz Henryk Kryst. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine with a Very Good black Velo binding. N.p. unknown
1970144149N.p.: N.p. 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. <br /> <br /> Marisa immigrates to Los Angeles from Guatemala to go to a university for the deaf. <br /> She struggles to find work without a green card and as she is forced into increasingly precarious situations she must defend herself from violent and predatory men. <br /> <br /> Set in Guatemala and Los Angeles California. <br /> <br /> Green titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter Larry Davis. 110 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown
1963156277Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Collection of 15 vintage double weight oversize reference photographs from the 1963 Swedish film. Stamps of DLS-Film Holland on the versos and several with layout annotations in manuscript ink and pencil. Embossed censor blindstamp at the upper right corner of each photograph. <br /> <br /> The second entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> 9.25 x 11.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus some with pinholes and small closed tears. <br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 210. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1962171100Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri SF 1962. Draft script for the 1963 Swedish film. Copy belonging to actor Bertha Sånnell with her name in manuscript ink on a label affixed to the front wrapper her annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on two script pages and on a sheet of lined paper bound in at the rear of the script.<br /> <br /> The second entry in Ingmar Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched an important phase in the director's career. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> Red untitled wrappers. Title page present undated with credit for Bergman. 135 leaves with last page of text numbered 133. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Good perfect-bound with the spine of the wrapper and the first two leaves detached from the text block.<br /> <br /> Criterion Collection 210. Ebert III. Svensk Filmindustri [SF] unknown
1963130176Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish illustrated poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. <br /> <br /> "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.5 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
1963130145Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri 1963. Original Swedish photographic style poster for the 1963 film. The second entry in Bergman's legendary and highly personal "Faith" trilogy a series of films that launched a new and important phase in the director's career. <br /> <br /> "Winter Light" takes place in entirely within a three-hour period on a Sunday afternoon in November mixing the affections and repulsions of a pastor a parishioner who is a schoolteacher and a fisherman. A quiet relentless meditation on the nature of faith imperfection and beauty. <br /> <br /> 27.5 x 39.25 inches. Lightly restored linen-backed and rolled. Near Fine. Svensk Filmindustri unknown
