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1981152221Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications Company 1981. Final Draft script for the season 7 episode 13 "And the Doorknobs Shined Like Diamonds" of the acclaimed television sitcom which aired on February 1 1981 on CBS. Dialogue and character annotations in holograph pencil on several pages.<br/><br/>Broadcast on CBS for eleven seasons from 1975 to 1985 "The Jeffersons" created by Norman Lear was a spin-off of his watershed sitcom "All in the Family" and was one of the longest running series in television history the second-longest featuring a primarily African American cast and the first television series which prominently featured a married interracial couple. Sherman Hemsley stars as the irascible George Jefferson a successful African American entrepreneur who with the Emmy Award winning Isabel Sanford as his kind and level-headed wife Louise Weezy move to an ritzy Manhattan apartment with their college age son and wise-cracking maid. <br/><br/>Upon finding out the house she grew up in is being demolished Louise visits reminiscing on her childhood and events with her mother and sister.<br/><br/>Yellow self-wrappers integral with title page noted as Final Draft on the front wrapper dated January 26 1981 with credits for screenwriter Michael G. Moye and director Bob Lally. 45 leaves with last page of text numbered 41. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with one yellow revision page dated 126/81. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine unbound secured at top with metal clip. T.A.T Communications Company unknown books
1967147882Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1967. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1967 film. <br/><br/>A South African DeLuxe Color remake of William A. Wellman's 1948 film "Yellow Sky" based on W.R. Burnett's unpublished novel which was loosely based on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest."<br/><br/>Prospector Oupa Decker Vincent Price and his granddaughter Diana Ivarson are targeted by bandits led by 'Stretch' Hawkins Robert Gunner.<br/><br/>Set in South Africa shot on location in Australia and South Africa. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1999137207Santa Monica: Home Box Office HBO 1999. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the HBO television movie "The Jack Bull." <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1810 novella "Michael Kolhaas" by Heinrich von Kleist. A tale of revenge following a rancher who refuses to sell his ranch to a greedy land baron. The landowner slowly eats away at Cusack's livelihood charging tolls abusing his horses and later killing his wife.<br/><br/>Set in Wyoming just prior to its statehood shot on location in Alberta. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. Home Box Office [HBO] unknown books
1969144541Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. <br/><br/>One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny complex and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make a quintessentially British film with as fine an ending as one could ask for. <br/><br/>13 x 9 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Lee The Heist Film. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1948149732N.p.: N.p. 1948. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1948 film showing actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. <br/><br/>Based on the real experiences of Ivor Gouzenko a Communist code-breaker assigned to the Soviet Embassy in wartime Canada who defected from the USSR after the war. Subject to controversy upon release with liberals protesting the film's depiction of the Soviet cause and conservatives protesting the liberal picketers. <br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Ottawa Ontario Canada.<br/><br/>10 x 12.75 inches. Very Good lightly creased to the edges. N.p. unknown books
1949132130London: British Lion Film Corporation 1949. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1949 UK film. <br/><br/>A man on a train pulls the communication cord and subsequently puts into motion a train wreck a murder and a man hunt. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and several tiny closed tears. British Lion Film Corporation unknown books
1963141423Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience particularly through World War II told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. <br/><br/>Yellow titled perfect bound wrappers. Title page present. 156 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown books
1963143469Tokyo: Nikkatsu 1963. Draft post-production script for the 1963 film. Round robin copy SIGNED by director Shohei Imamura and six members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper including Sachiko Hidari Kazuo Kitamura Shoichi Ozawa Jitsuko Yoshimura and composer Toshiro Mayuzumi with signatures dated in the mid-1990s. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience particularly through World War II told through the perspective of a woman named Tome born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her. <br/><br/>White titled perfect bound wrappers with holograph signatures to the front wrappers. Title page present. 83 leaves with last page of text numbered 10-6. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 473. Eureka 22. Nikkatsu unknown books
1958144477Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1958. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1958 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on the 1957 biography of Gladys Aylward by Alan Burgess titled "The Small Woman." Gladys Aylward Ingrid Bergman was born in 1902 in England. After being denied the opportunity to become a missionary due to her lack of education she paid her way to China and helped start a mission in Shansi Privince in 1930. In 1938 she guided over 100 orphans to safety over a mountain pass as Japanese forces invaded the area. According to the AFI catalog Aylward denounced the film and stated that the romance between her and a Chinese colonel depicted in the film was false. Nominated for an Academy Award. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Wales UK. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1935146988Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1935. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1935 film. <br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for Victor McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>11 x 14 inches with irregular margins. Near Fine. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1934144598Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.<br/><br/>The second of two films based on Liam O'Flaherty's 1925 novel the first being Arthur Robison's 1929 British feature about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence who turns in one of his comrades to the British in order to use the bounty money to book passage to America for himself and his girlfriend who has been forced into prostitution. <br/><br/>Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay Best Director and Best Actor for McLaglen nominated for two others including Best Picture. Screenwriter Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Academy Award when his refused his Oscar due to an ongoing dispute between the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy though he would eventually claim it three years later. <br/><br/>Detached green wrappers noting the title screenwriter and director on the spine in holograph ink. Title page integral with first page of text with credits for screenwriter Nichols and novelist O'Flaherty. 105 leaves with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good side-stapled. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1957137255Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. Collection of four striking vintage photographs from the 1957 US film. The stills demonstrate the practical effects and extraordinary sets constructed in order to make the picture-at a time when the special effects needed to visualize the world of a man reduced to being only a few inches were essentially nonexistent. <br/><br/>A landmark science fiction film adapted by Richard Matheson from his own 1956 novel about a man who begins shrinking after being exposed to a strange mist. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Fine condition with scene descriptions tipped on to the verso of eight of the nine stills. <br/><br/>National Film Registry. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Universal Pictures unknown books
1971140432Los Angeles: Harlequin Pictures 1971. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1971 film. <br/><br/>A twist on the Frenkenstein mad-scientist scenario in which Bruce Dern plays the crazed scientist who transplants a murder's head onto a mentally handicapped young man - next to the boy's own head! <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Holograph ink notation to the verso else Near Fine. Harlequin Pictures unknown books
1943146470Universal City: Universal Pictures 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. With a few small holograph pencil annotations throughout noting the name of an unknown crew member.<br/><br/>A condemned murderer escapes from jail when Nazis bomb the French prison where he is being held. Encountering the body of a dead French soldier he steals the man's identification papers and uniform and escapes to Africa joining the Resistance Movement and in doing so finding new purpose and a sense of patriotism to France.<br/><br/>Set in France and French Equatorial Africa.<br/><br/>Beige titled wrappers noted as REVISED on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 7126 dated AUGUST 4 1943 with credits for director JULIEN DUVIVIER. Title page integral with the front wrapper as issued. 140 leaves with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeographed rectos only with blue and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 8/12/43 and 10/4/43. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached from binding bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1961134255Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1961. Original pressbooks two variants for 1961 re-releases of the 1959 film. Featured are the two most commonly seen layouts used for publicity: the full-color illustrated "hat" variant and the other with Mr. Teas surrounded by a bevy of well-developed women the female leads of the film from left to right: Ann Peters Michele Roberts Dawn Danielle and Marilyn Wesley. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>Both pressbooks 11 x 17 inches folded horizontally. "Hat" variant includes a 9 x 12 ad mat dated "Fri. Aug. 18 1961." Light rubbing overall rubber stamps from "Sack Amusement Enterprises" in Dallas Texas and a few light creases and tiny closed tears else Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1959134256Los Angeles: Pad-Ram Enterprises 1959. A collection of 8 vintage still photographs from the 1959 film. Included are 4 stills from the US release and 4 stills from the UK release under the title "Mr. Teas and His Playthings." From a cursory glance one can immediately see the differences with regard to nudity paid by both US and UK publicists the UK stills decidedly more liberal with regard to the "forbidden flesh."<br/><br/>The US stills were taken directly from scenes of the film and the UK stills appear to be from either a deleted scene or a mock setup designed for foreign publicity with Mr. Teas seen in a bathhouse with the "Buxom Bath House Beauties" Baby Dahl Chicky Fricase Frenchie Tost Teri Clawthe that were not seen in the final cut. The UK stills purport "Monstrous Murder!" and "Sizzling Suspense!" taglines however the final cut features neither murder nor suspense. <br/><br/>The story finds the shy Mr. Teas played by William Ellis Teas a door-to-door dental appliance salesman who has a chemical reaction with an anesthetic that allows him to have X-ray vision as in "seeing through women's clothes." He also overcomes all of his inhibitions leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse his therapist his secretary a girl in a bar etc. <br/><br/>Russ Meyer's first feature produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie and the film that basically launched the lighthearted "nudie" pictures of the early 1960s. The film was immediately touted as "ribald" and "Frenchy" with regard to the "genuinely sexy sequences with generous expanses of attractive flesh" that used to be seen strictly in foreign films. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television Meyer and DeCenzie who spent years on the burlesque and night club circuits released an independent naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films. The bigger productions companies would never have made a film as far overboard on sex. <br/><br/>For his debut Russ Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24000 ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "nudist" film with a "French" sensibility but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known including large bosoms insane plots a somewhat feminist perspective campy dialogue and guerilla cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in various California destinations including Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Meyer even shot various scenes at his beach-front home in Los Angeles. <br/><br/>All stills 8 x 10 inches some differ slightly in size. Two US stills Very Good plus others Near Fine. UK stills Near Fine. Pad-Ram Enterprises unknown books
1978WRCLIT67134N.p.: OPT / Universal 1978. 5239 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of blue paper. Bradbound in plain wrappers. Very good to near fine. A production draft of this adaptation to television of Howard Fast's 1977 novel. The 1979 release directed by Alvin J. Levi was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best TV Movie. The length of the script reflects the 240 minute running time and according to info on the title-leaf this draft incorporates revisions made within the first week of the scheduled start of shooting. An interesting juxtaposition: while Fast was a notably uncooperative witness before the HUAC and suffered from the blacklist Collins disavowed his earlier associations and followed a different path. OPT / Universal] unknown books
1978WRCLIT67142N.p.: OPT / Universal 1978. 7239 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only of salmon paper. Bradbound in plain wrappers. Very good to near fine. A production draft of this adaptation to television of Howard Fast's 1977 novel. The 1979 release directed by Alvin J. Levi was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best TV Movie. The length of the script reflects the 240 minute running time and according to info on the title-leaf this draft incorporates revisions made four days prior to the scheduled start of shooting. An interesting juxtaposition: while Fast was a notably uncooperative witness before the HUAC and suffered from the blacklist Collins disavowed his earlier associations and followed a different path. OPT / Universal] unknown books
1992132054London: Magraw Publicity 1992. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1992 UK film. Mimeograph snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>A Western couple visits a fertility shrine in Karachi hoping to conceive but setting off a cultural clash. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Magraw Publicity unknown books
1969141817Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts / SKM 1969. Vintage advertising herald for the 1969 film. INSCRIBED by Ray Bradbury on the front wrapper: "Tim! / Ray Bradbury." <br/><br/>Based on three short stories from Bradbury's acclaimed collection "The Veldt" "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World." <br/><br/>7 x 10.5 inches. Folded. Two pages. Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts / SKM unknown books
1998138757Denmark: Zentropa Entertainments 1998. Vintage press kit for the 1998 film. Includes eight page film program plus a single-fold pamphlet and six vintage borderless color film still photographs. From the Tele Cine Documentation archive originally known as the Collection Daniel Bouteiller with their sticker and a Zentropa Productions sticker to the verso. <br/><br/>A film in which the collective of main characters intentionally "spaz out" believing that emulating a person with a developmental disorder will relieve their inhibitions "The Idiots" understandably became the center of great controversy. The second Dogme 95 film a filmmaking philosophy spearheaded by von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in which the filmmakers strove to shoot only on location using on-site sounds and natural lighting. Von Trier later admitted to breaching a number of these rules while filming "The Idiots" by using a stand-in for a sex scene moving various light sources and using an off-camera harmonica player to introduce music to a scene. Nominated for the Cannes Palme d'Or. <br/><br/>Eight page film program side stapled with illustrated red die-cut wrappers. Photos 8.25 x 11.25 inches. Single-fold pamphlet 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Housed in a custom black and red envelope as issued. Envelope Fair materials about Fine. Zentropa Entertainments unknown books
1972WRCLIT70666New York: The Ely Landau Organization Inc. 1972. 1A-I208 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically duplicated typescript printed on rectos only of pale green stock. Bradbound in production company binder. Light soiling to fore-edge otherwise very good to fine. A "revised" draft of this adaptation for film of O'Neill's masterpiece undertaken as the first production of the innovative but short- lived American Film Theatre. The script is accompanied by a two page "Production Requirements" list dated 12 January 1973 and a "Staff and Crew List" dated 3 days earlier. John Frankenheimer directed the November 1973 release starring Lee Marvin Frederic March Robert Ryan Jeff Bridges Bradford Dillman et al. The 239 minute film does in the minds of many critics great honor to the sourcework and stands among the finest moments of the two seasons of the American Film Theatre. A substantially truncated version saw some distribution on television in later years but only recently has the original full-length version which required two intermissions been made available on DVD. Robert Ryan was the posthumous recipient of several awards for his role as Larry Slade and contrary to expectations Lee Marvin excelled in the role of Hickey a role virtually defined by Jason Robards. Legitimate examples of the scripts for the American Film Theatre productions are uncommon. The Ely Landau Organization, Inc. unknown books
1982142157Los Angeles: JF Productions 1982. First Draft script for the 1984 film. <br/><br/>Water is the most valuable resource in the distant future. In space opera fashioin two space pirates begin working for a princess in order to help find her father.<br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated June 11 1982 noted as FIRST DRAFT POLISH with credits for screenwriter Stewart Raffill. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographically reproduced. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. JF Productions unknown books
1953147929Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1953. Vintage studio still photograph of George Jessel in front of a photograph of performer Eva Tanguay from the opening sequence of the 1953 film. <br/><br/>Producer Jessel playing himself holds a story writing conference where debates surrounding the life of vaudeville star Eva Tanguay Mitzi Gaynor the subject of the upcoming film give way to conflicting stories told by her former partner Eddie McCoy David Wayne and piano player Charles Bennett Oscar Levant. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light creasing at corners. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request.<br/><br/>Hirschhorn The Hollywood Musical. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1989152234Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1989. Four sets of original storyboards for the 1990 film approximately 800 pages total. One set bound in script format with red wrappers noted in holograph ink annotation to the front wrappers as "Vol. I." the other set without wrappers.<br/><br/>Based on the popular 1984 novel. When the US government spots a massive high-tech Soviet submarine dead-set towards the Maine coastline officials must decide without any knowledge of its intentions whether they will allow the sub to reach American land or preemptively attack. Further complicating the situation is the uncooperative Russian government determined to overtake its rogue submarine but unwilling to reveal its true purpose. <br/><br/>Although the film rights to the novel were optioned before the book was published the complex plot and the prospectively huge cost of production led many studios to turn the project down. Nonetheless the film proved wildly successful and grossed over half its budget on the opening weekend alone paving the way for a number of Hollywood post-Cold War thrillers. Nominated for three Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Vol. 1:<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Approximately 350 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Vol. 2:<br/><br/>Red titled wrappers. Approximately 350 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrappers Near Fine bound internally with a silver prong.<br/><br/>Sets without wrappers:<br/><br/>One set approximately 60 leaves the other set approximately 40 leaves. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine partially bound with a single gold brad. Paramount Pictures unknown books
