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1965132217Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1965. Collection of 8 vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1965 US film. <br/><br/>Based on the book by Fulton Oursler about the life of Jesus Christ. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light corner creases else Near Fine. United Artists unknown books
1972138499Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1972. Vintage one-sheet poster for the 1972 film featuring vignette artwork by the renowned Bob Peak. <br/><br/>Based on the life of composer Johann Strauss and his family and a remake of Julien Duvivier's 1938 musical. <br/><br/>27 x 41 inches folded. Very Good plus with a few tiny tears and rubber stamps and annotations on the verso in holograph ink. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1939140631Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Draft script for the 1939 film. <br/><br/>A musical drama that follows the romantic and professional arc of two performers. Louise Hall abandons her humble beginnings to become a singer in New York City where she meets and falls in love with John Ramsey the star of Victor Herbert's operas. Ramsey takes her under his wing introducing her to New York's musical society. Their relationship is tested however when Louise's career begins to eclipse her husband's. Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Cinematography. <br/><br/>Shot on location in California. <br/><br/>Titled white self wrappers dated July 11 1939 and July 14 1939. Title page present with credits for the entire cast. 147 leaves with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Two small chips to the top margin of the front wrapper. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1978132763Beverly Hills CA: United Artists 1978. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 UK film. Cropping annotations on the versos. <br/><br/>Based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's 1975 novel about two men and their plot to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. Fans of the heist genre need look no further. <br/><br/>A story set in England shot on location in Ireland. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A couple of moderate creases to 1 still else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. United Artists unknown books
1953137487Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1953. Revised final script for the 1953 film "The Great Sioux Uprising" seen here as "Sioux Uprising." <br/><br/>Though very loosely based on true events surrounding the two-year Red Cloud's War during which a Cheyenne Native American chief repeatedly attacked US forces in an effort to stem the flow of White settlers this film centers around a white man who attempts to help a Sioux tribe retrieve a large number of stolen horses white attempting to convince them to join up with the Union soldiers instead of the Confederates. Shot on location in Oregon with a cast partly comprised of local Native Americans. <br/><br/>Tan titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper dated September 3 1952. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Levy and Gill. 138 leaves with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeograph duplication with pink and blue revision pages throughout dated 9/22/52 and 9/15/52. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1978WRCLIT63902Los Angeles: Bing Crosby Productions 1978. 11341 leaves. Quarto. Mechanically reproduced typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in plain wrappers. Wrappers lightly sunned title lettered on spine a few isolated smudges and pen strikes else near fine. A "Revised Final Draft" of this adaptation of the screen of Conroy's 1976 novel. Carlino directed the 1979 release starring Robert Duvall Blythe Danner Michael O'Keefe et al. Duvall and O'Keefe were both nominated for Oscars for their roles. Bing Crosby Productions unknown books
1977WRCLIT63901Los Angeles: Bing Crosby Productions 1977. 1143 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in production company wrappers with diecut window. Wrappers lightly sunned title lettered on spine near fine. A "Final Draft" of this adaptation to the screen of Conroy's 1976 novel. Carlino directed the 1979 release starring Robert Duvall Blythe Danner Michael O'Keefe et al. Duvall and O'Keefe were both nominated for Oscars for their roles. This "final" draft was subject to even further revisions in coming months. Bing Crosby Productions unknown books
1977WRCLIT63899Los Angeles: Bing Crosby Productions 1977. 1142 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only bradbound in plain wrappers. Lower corners toward end bumped a few corners turned otherwise very good. A "First Draft" of this adaptation of the screen of Conroy's 1976 novel but with a span of dated revises on salmon paper dated in August. Carlino directed the 1979 release starring Robert Duvall Blythe Danner Michael O'Keefe et al. Duvall and O'Keefe were both nominated for Oscars for their roles. While we have handled several copies of late drafts over the years this is the only copy of the first draft we recall. Bing Crosby Productions unknown books
1965132873London: Warner-Pathe Distributors 1965. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. <br/><br/>A professional daredevil convinces auto makers that a race from New York to Paris will help to promote automobile sales. A rival vows to win the race in a car of his own invention. <br/><br/>Shot on location in Austria and throughout California. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light rubbing else Near Fine. Warner-Pathe Distributors unknown books
1965150160N.p.: N.p. 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1965 film showing actor Jack Lemmon in costume as Professor Fate in turn in disguise as Crown Prince Fredrich Hapnick covered in cake and pie. With the stamp of Globe Photos dated 14 April 1965 two Italian agency stamps and a stamp noting No. 7053 on the verso. <br/><br/>Loosely based on the 1908 race from New York to Paris billed as the "Greatest Auto Race" of its time. An homage to slapstick farces and silent film comedies following two competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century: handsome courteous hero The Great Leslie Tony Curtis and his nemesis the dastardly Professor Fate Lemmon.<br/><br/>Set and shot on location in Austria Paris and Kentucky Oregon and California in the United States. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968WRCLIT41889Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. 1162 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Wrappers a bit sunned and marked with a couple short edge tears at overlap else very good. A "first draft" of this original screenplay to the best of our knowledge unproduced. Over a span of two decades Boehm wrote or co- wrote the scripts for some thirty films including THE BIG HEAT 1953 dir. by Fritz Lang ROGUE COP 1954 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE 1951 and HELL ON FRISCO BAY 1955. His last credited film was ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO released the year prior to his writing this script. From the papers of George C. Scott and Colleen Dewhurst. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1940148508Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of Preston Sturges and Muriel Angelus on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe and "Paramount Photo by G.E. Richardson" stamp on verso. <br/><br/>Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s and with his screenplay for "The Biography of a Bum" wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie Chaplin the notion of an established studio writer directing a film was nearly unheard of in Hollywood where writers were typically not even allowed on the set. Only the irresistible cheapness of Sturges' offer made it possible for the film to get made. <br/><br/>Over the six year period during which the script remained unproduced the title changed to "The Vagrant" then "Down with McGinty" then finally just prior to production to "The Great McGinty." It was not only a success but won Sturges an Oscar for Best Screenplay. More importantly he was allowed to continue as a writer-director with a magnificent career that included one classic after another including "Sullivan's Travels" "The Lady Eve" "Unfaithfully Yours" "The Palm Beach Story" and "Hail the Conquering Hero."<br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear and faint creasing else Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1939151485Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1939. Master File script for the 1940 film "The Great McGinty" seen here under the working title "Down Went McGinty" corrected in red pencil to "The Great McGinty." This revision contains an appropriately unusual and rather whimsical foreword by Sturges with two earlier titles "Biography of a Bum" and "The Vagrant" cited on the second and fourth leaves respectively. <br/><br/>Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s and with his screenplay for "The Biography of a Bum" wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie Chaplin the notion of an established studio writer directing a film was nearly unheard of in Hollywood where writers were typically not even allowed on the set. Only the irresistible cheapness of Sturges' offer made it possible for the film to get made. <br/><br/>Over the six year period during which the script remained unproduced the title changed to "The Vagrant" then "Down with McGinty" then finally just prior to production to "The Great McGinty." It was not only a success but won Sturges an Oscar for Best Screenwriter. More importantly he was allowed to continue as a writer-director with a magnificent career that included one classic after another including "Sullivan's Travels" "The Lady Eve" "Unfaithfully Yours" "The Palm Beach Story" and "Hail the Conquering Hero."<br/><br/>Tall cream colored titled self wrappers rubber-stamped Production No. 672 MASTER FILE FILE COPY PRODUCED and PLEASE RETURN TO THE STORY DEPARTMENT / PARAMOUNT STUDIO - HOLLYWOOD. Dated April 28 1939. Title page present dated 1933 with credits for screenwriter Sturges and Sturges' name written in holograph pencil just above. 109 leaves mimeograph on cream colored stock. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus. Side stapled. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1939138289Culver City CA: RKO Radio Pictures 1939. Bound presentation script for the 1939 film based on the 1933 short story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman originally published in "American Magazine." SIGNED by members of the cast and crew including stars John Barrymore Peter Holden Virginia Weidler and Donald McBride director Garson Kanin screenwriter John Twist and producers Cliff Reid and Pandro S. Berman. Presented to newspaper film critic Karl Krug with his name in gilt on the front board. <br/><br/>One of John Barrymore's final films where he plays a terminally ill man who has to cast the deciding vote in a town's mayoral election. <br/><br/>6.75 x 9 inches. Mimeograph duplication bound in flexible leather boards with gilt stamping. Very Good plus with a small dampstain to the front page edge. RKO Radio Pictures unknown books
1974140435Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1974. Vintage borderless studio still photograph from the 1974 film. Snipe affixed to the image on the verso and folded around the front. Won two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Pictured in the still is actor Bruce Dern starring as Tom Buchanan Daisy's wealthy unfaithful husband. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola Jack Clayton's film has cemented its place in cinema history. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York England and Rhode Island. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good. Stain to the snipe and light wrinkling along the top margin. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1974142756Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. <br/><br/>The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola Jack Clayton's film has cemented its place in cinema history. Winner of two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Set in New York shot on location in Rhode Island New York and England. <br/><br/>12 x 9 inches. Twelve pages saddle stapled. Near Fine. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1974142784Hollywood: Paramount Pictures 1974. Six vintage promotional photographs from the 1974 film. Xerographically reproduced snipe tipped on to the verso of all but one photograph and with rubber stamp to the verso of three photos as well. <br/><br/>The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola Jack Clayton's film has cemented its place in cinema history. Winner of two Academy Awards. <br/><br/>Shot on location in New York England and Rhode Island. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. All photos in Near Fine or better condition with snipe unattached from the verso of two photos. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1969152375N.p.: N.p. 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1969 film showing Kim Novak topless mid-costume change aided by two wardrobe ladies. <br/><br/>Based on the 1961 novel. A genre-bending film combining heist comedy and Western genres in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. <br/><br/>7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969145480Burbank CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage photograph of science fiction author Ray Bradbury visiting with members of the cast and crew on the set of the 1969 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. <br/><br/>A genre-bending film combining heist comedy and Western genres in which multiple gangs converge on Friendly Texas in order to attempt to rob the most unrobbable bank in the West. <br/><br/>10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1957140968Universal City CA: Universal Pictures 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper and his annotations throughout in holograph pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" 1953 "Room at the Top" 1959 "Our Man in Havana" 1959 "Charade" 1963 and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" 1965. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 play of the same name by Margaret Vyner who also wrote the screenplay Victor and Hillary live in castle and get so down on their luck that they begin having tourists visit their castle. Millionaire Charles Delacro soon visits and takes a great liking to the home as well as to Hillary and a love triangle quickly develops. <br/><br/>Set in Hampshire England shot on location in Lacock and Surrey England. <br/><br/>Green titled wrappers. Title page present dated August 4 1957 noted as First Draft Screenplay with credits for screenwriters Hugh and Margaret Williams. 144 leaves with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph duplication with revision pages throughout dated August 12 1959 . Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three silver brads. <br/><br/>Olive Films 649. Universal Pictures unknown books
1955144602Paris: Cinedis 1955. Collection of 867 original keybook still photographs from the 1955 French film pasted on thick stock in three large quarto "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper and a paper title label affixed to the front wrapper. Nearly all photos numbered in holograph ink inside a small white border on the recto and all numbered in mimeograph on the verso. One notebook full of photos crediting photographer Beauvarlet on the rectos. <br/><br/>Director Rene's first color film based largely on his childhood experiences. Winner of two important French film awards the Prix Louis-Delluc and the Prix Melies. Screened out-of-competition at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. Still photographer Beauvarlet remains uncredited for the film perhaps overshadowed by the film's prolific cinematographer Robert Lefebvre. Beauvarlet stuck close to Bardot throughout her career snapping stills in "Her Bridal Night" 1956 "Naughty Girl" 1956 "La Parisienne" 1957 and "The Night Heaven Fell" 1958. His quick-draw style is amply captured here in candid images of the cast and crew a jovial celebrity signing and softer posed studio portraits. <br/><br/>Armand Philipe is a lieutenant in the French cavalry just before WWI a notorious womanizer and gambler who bets that he can seduce a woman in time for his company to being its summer maneuvers. The woman is Marie-Louise Morgan a divorcee who runs a milliner's shop and who is also being courted by Victor Desailly. A subplot involving Armand's friend Felix Yves Robert and Lucie Bardot a photographer's daughter. <br/><br/>Photos 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Very Good overall several with bruises from offsetting paste several are loose. Cinedis unknown books
1965146364New York: Challenger Productions 1965. Ribbon copy typescript of a Preliminary Treatment script for an unproduced film. The manuscript does not name the author however we can reasonably presume this is Robert Newman's known treatment for Isak Dinesen's "Seven Gothic Tales" under the title "The Gothic Tales" which we have offered once in the past with that copy having a stated credit for Newman and also 53 pages; and also "Challenger Productions" as stated on title page as well as documented in Boston University's Robert Newman Collection. Contains several proofreading annotations in holograph ink throughout.<br/><br/>Based on the 1934 collection of short stories "Seven Gothic Tales" by Danish author Karen Blixen working under her more commonly recognized pseudonym Isak Dinesen Newman's screenplay is a series of vignettes taking place in 19th century Europe told from the perspective of the author.<br/><br/>Dinesen is also the author of the 1937 memoir "Out of Africa" which was made into Sydney Pollack's Academy Award winning 1985 film of the same name as well as the short story "Babette's Feast" from her 1958 collection "Anecdotes of Destiny" made into Gabriel Axel's Academy Award winning 1987 film of the same name.<br/><br/>In the late 1960s Orson Welles had the intention of creating an anthology of films adapted from Dinesen's stories. Only one was completed Welles' 1968 "The Immortal Story" starring Jeanne Moreau based on the short story of the same name from the 1958 collection "Anecdotes of Destiny." In the early 1980s Welles attempted to film "The Dreamers" based on the short story of the same name from "Seven Gothic Tales" and "Echoes" from the 1957 collection "Last Tales" but only completed a few scenes and abandoned the project after a lack of financing.<br/><br/>In 1982 Italian director Emidio Greco directed "Ehrengard" based upon Dinesen's novel of the same name but was not released until 2002 due to financial complications.<br/><br/>Set in Europe. <br/><br/>Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present dated JU 2 6195 presumably 1965 noted as Preliminary Treatment with credits for novelist Dinesen. 55 leaves with last page of text numbered 53. Ribbon copy typescript rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good Plus bound with two gold brads. Challenger Productions unknown books
1988140791Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1988. Second Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. <br/><br/>After one too many liabilities Joe is demoted from sports writer to gossip columnist at a New York newspaper especially after the former columnist entered rehab and does not plan to leave. His befriends Samantha Worthington who gives him the goods on the dirt around the city as she struggles to find a rich husband after her rich father told her he is cutting her off financially. From hating each other to tormenting each other's lives to loving each other Samantha finds a wealthy Hungarian count to marry and breaks it off in the eleventh hour for Joe who she has loved this whole time. <br/><br/>Set in New York City. <br/><br/>Pink titled wrappers dated November 1 1988. Title page present dated November 1 1988 noted as Second Revised Draft with credits for screenwriter Kathy Cohen. 119 leaves with last page of text numbered 118. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964150329N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Enrique Irazoqui in foreground with Pier Paolo Pasolini and camera behind on the set of the 1964 film. Cropping annotations in holograph pencil marker and pen Italian title stamp photographer Angelo Novi stamp and "24 MAR 1969" stamp all on verso. <br/><br/>Pasolini's neorealist biblical drama of the Gospel of Matthew from Nativity through Resurrection with all dialogue taken directly from the text. Typically offbeat Pasolini touches included having Satan disguise himself as a Catholic priest and the casting of the director's own mother as the Virgin Mary. The music selected is from a variety of sources from Bach to American spirituals. Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo" was released in the US as "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" much to the discomfort of Pasolini who didn't want Matthew designated as a saint.<br/><br/>Nominated for two Academy Awards.<br/><br/>Shot on location in Apulia Basilicata Calabria Lazio and Sicily Italy and Ouarzazate Morocco. <br/><br/>9.5 x 7.25 inches. Near Fine. <br/><br/>Ebert II. Godard Histoires du Cinema. N.p. unknown books
1972147376N.p.: N.p. 1972. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by Anthony Shaffer with several holograph annotations in both marker and pencil striking changing or adjusting dialogue and setting.<br/><br/>From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye" Robert Altman 1973 "The Missouri Breaks" Arthur Penn 1976 and "Heat" Michael Mann 1996.<br/><br/>Novelist and playwright Anthony Shaffer scripted Hitchcock's 1972 "Frenzy" his second screenplay before adapting his 1970 play "Sleuth" for the successful 1972 Joseph Mankiewicz production starring Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine. Shaffer announced plans to adapt Derek Robinson's 1971 dark and humorous take on the horrors of war "Goshawk Squadron" after the production and before the release of his adaptation of David Pinner's 1967 novel "Ritual" Robin Hardy's 1973 horror classic "The Wicker Man." Unfortunately "The Goshawk Squadron" never made it beyond pre-production.<br/><br/>Based on Derek Robinson's 1971 novel about front-line squadron of British pilots nearing the end of World War I and their cynical hardened commander Major Woolley face a blood bath from the final German offensive and Woolley's impenetrability is tested.<br/><br/>Gray untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present noted as 2ND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Anthony Shaffer. 129 leaves with last page of text numbered 126. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near FIne wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two flat metal brads. N.p. unknown books
