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1976170429Los Angeles: Carl Gottlieb 1976. Original two-page typed letter signed to producer Fred Roos from screenwriter Carl Gottlieb on Gottlieb's letterhead dated May 12 1976.<br /> <br /> Gottlieb best known as the co-screenwriter along with author Peter Benchley for Steven Speilberg's "Jaws" 1975 writes cordially to Francis Ford Coppola's long-time producer Fred Roos on location in the Philippines working on "Apocalypse Now" regarding the "Coppola Company's" Zoetrope Studios sponsorship on Gottlieb's unproduced project "My Country" which Gottlieb notes has been shopped to the major studios without commitment.<br /> <br /> Gottlieb's letter also notes meeting Teri Garr and Richard Dreyfuss at Steven Speilberg's house "noodling" on the script for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" a week prior to the commencement of shooting in Wyoming and Alabama. <br /> <br /> An insightful look into the latter third of the New Hollywood Cinema era and the commencement of the "summer blockbuster" era.<br /> <br /> 7.25 x 10.5 inches. Near Fine bound with a single staple to the top left corner with two horizontal creases from mailing and a two-hole punch at the top margin. Carl Gottlieb unknown
23776Anstey's TLS on his Daily Telegraph Magazine letterhead and dated 20 March 1970. Hayden-Guest's article evidently written shortly before that date. A curious artefact indicating Garbo’s iconic status and an early example of a journalistic trend which has gained ground since the late 1960s. Hayden-Guest still active as a writer is the son of the diplomat Peter Haden-Guest 4th Baron Haden-Guest and brother of the 5th Baron Christopher who is won fame as ‘Nigel’ in the film ‘Spinal Tap’. Anstey who edited the Daily Telegraph magazine for twenty-two years from its inception in 1964 has been variously described as ‘the last of the great autocratic magazine editors’ ‘tyrannical’ and ‘completely terrifying’ with a habit of sending his employees ‘alarming memos on the eve of their summer holidays’. He ‘did not often meet his reporters personally instead he wrote notes and invited them once a year to the magazine’s Christmas party’. While grateful for the money John Betjeman found working for the magazine ‘hateful’. Gitta Sereny who contributed extensively to what she considered ‘the best of the weekend colour supplements’ found Anstey ‘difficult’ but ‘extraordinary’. Both are items in fair condition lightly aged and stapled together. ONE: Unsigned Carbon Typescript of article titled ‘GRETA GARBO - a Personal Memoir Anthony Haden-Guest’. 5pp long 8vo. Single-spaced on five leaves. As Item Two makes clear the article is a spoof of the ‘type of article’ which Anstey describes as the ‘anti-profile’: pretentious and implying in conspiratorial tones an implausible familiarity with the subject. It is the sort of writing which Martin Amis would begin by satirizing. The beginning sets the tone: ‘Some people just a few call her ‘Greta’ right to her face That face. Charlie Chaplin does to name but one. All the same most people who are so close that they could call her ‘Greta’ in fact call her ‘G. G.’. Acquaintances But wouldn’t that be enough call her “Miss Garbo†and a very few indulge her own conspiratorial urges and refer to her as “Miss Brownâ€. As indeed she sometimes does herself. I am indebted for this information to the writings of Mr Norman Zierold who does not say what he calls her or what she calls him. / Personally I like to call her simply “Greta Garboâ€.’ Further on comes a passage which like the rest of the article may or may not be a complete fiction: ‘Actually the first time that I was introduced to Greta Garbo was under pretty funny circumstances but Destiny as so many of her great motion pictures have pointed out gets up to some pretty funny things. Certainly it seemed funny to see Garbo at a party especially this sort of party a flourescent celebration of . . . Well not Garbo though she is incontestably the centre of it all. An acid/rock group is pounding nervily away into the statutory light-machine and a film is being projected onto a wall which is white and narrow - so narrow that most of the party is taking place without artistic licence in the movie.’ Towards the end Haden-Guest stretches the bounds of credulity with the following: ‘Great Garbo! Now she is looking at me . . . The ageing roue is nowhere to be seen. Her shoulders are working hugely and her throat and the face . . . planes shift as conflicting emotions do massive internal furniture removals but now Garbo looks so worried and she says it - She actually says it - “I want to be aloneâ€. / Yes she is really saying it and not just once because she repeats it - “I want to be aloneâ€. / Well yes. Great Garbo want to be alone -’. TWO: Typed Letter Signed ‘J A’ from John Anstey 20 March 1970 addressed to ‘Anthony Haden-Guest Esq. C/o Chateau Marmont Los Angeles California U.S.A.’ ‘c. c. Pat Kavanagh’ 1p 8vo. He begins: ‘Dear Anthony I read the Great Garbo article when it first came in. Last night I read it again. It is a difficult one. However I know that you have misgivings about it - and I fear that I have them too.’ Anstey’s opinion is that the piece ‘just does not work at the moment. ‘It does not come across as the sort of “anti-profile†we were thinking about. It starts off by being intriguing. But then one just gets confused and there is a danger of it seeming rather pretentious: which is one of the faults of the type of article which it should be satirizing.’ He suggests that they ‘look at it again’ when Haden-Guest gets back from America. ‘The formula is right at the moment but we must overcome the danger of pretentiousness and it must seem less pointless than it is at the moment. The last paragraph cleverly suggests that there is nothing more to know about Greta Garbo than we learn here: but somehow I think that we have got to say more.’ The letter ends: ‘How is California Can you let me know about the Hollywood idea as soon as possible.’ Not known if published in any form despite Googlebooks. Anstey's TLS on his Daily Telegraph Magazine letterhead, and dated 20 March 1970. Hayden-Guest's article evidently written short unknown
1931107054Paris, Baudinière 1931 In-12 18,5 x 12 cm. Broché, couverture illustréeen noir & blanc avec report du titre en rouge, 286 pp., table des matières. Exemplaire en bon état enrichi d’un envoi autographe et d’un dessin de l’auteur.
192722298ENew York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First Edition First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Dan Ryan on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: “To Ethel - In gratitude for sympathetic encouragement while laboring on this opus. And - To Jim In memory of an old friendship. Sincerely Dan Ryan Oct. 28 1927â€. A lightly handled copy with some minor edge wear minor rubbing to the cloth and a few tiny tears to the cloth without dust jacket. The novel relates the life of Los Angeles newspaper reporter Will Pence who finds his material in the life of both the lowly and the famous. In the novel is a very thinly veiled portrait of the great Hollywood director Erich Von Stroheim whom Ryan knew intimately and he played an officer in Von Stroheim’s The Merry Widow 1925 and appeared as the Archbishop in The Wedding March 1928. Ryan went on to write for Hollywood films from the 20s into the 1940s. The title of this novel refers to the elevated railroad in Los Angeles that traveled up and down one uphill city block and had the distinction of being the shortest railroad in the world. Boni & Liveright hardcover
71257No place UK 1956. Movie Memorabilia Large format / oversized press book for the United Artists' film Exodus adapted from the classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. Sole printing. 31 x 46cm. A ten-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. One vertical fold else fine. An epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven Cantinflas Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine produced by the Michael Todd Company. Featuring numerous cameo appearances including Noel Coward Marlene Dietrich Sir John Guilgud Trevor Howard Buster Keaton Peter Lorre Hermione Gingold John Mills and Frank Sinatra. One of the biggest film successes of 1957 the film won five Oscars and two Golden Globes. No place (UK), 1956 unknown
71255No place UK 1960. Movie Memorabilia Large format / oversized press book for the United Artists' film Exodus adapted from the bestselling novel by Leon Uris. Sole printing. 31 x 46cm. A twelve-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Together with original synopsis; a four-page brochure with separate 'Story' leaf inserted. Some gentle folds some minor spotting/toning. Synopsis is fine. An epic historical drama based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel about the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger featuring an ensemble cast including Paul Newman Eva Marie Saint Ralph Richardson Peter Lawford Lee J. Cobb Sal Mineo John Derek and George Maharis. Both a commercial and critical success the film received an Oscar a Grammy and a Golden Globe. The soundtrack inspired the 1977 LP 'Exodus' by Bob Marley. No place (UK), 1960 unknown
197016117New York: Film Culture 1970. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 84pp; illus. Mild overall dusting and wear; a few page-corners rolled; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Special double issue guest-edited by Gordon Hitchens devoted entirely to an examination of the 1950s Hollywood Red Scare. Contributors include Gordon Hitchens John Howard Lawson Dalton Trumbo Lew Irwin Joseph Losey many others. Film Culture unknown
198729036<p>New York::: Simon & Schuster 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of 21 essays on movies movie-making and hollywood contains the best of McMurtry's magazine work from American Film Magazine. In "Film Flam " McMurtry takes a funny original and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls fads flops and box-office hits. With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- "Terms of Endearment The Last Picture Show Lonesome Dove " and "Hud" -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter cuts a clean often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western the disappearance of love in the movies and the quality of the stars themselves.</p> Simon & Schuster,, hardcover
71259No place UK 1969. Movie Memorabilia Large format press book for the United Artists' film The Guns of the Magnificent Seven directed by Paul Wendkos. Sole printing. 37 x 25cm. An eight-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Fine condition. The third film in The Magnificent Seven quartet starring George Kennedy James Whitmore Reni Santoni Frank Silvera Bernie Casey and Joe Don Baker. No place (UK), 1969 unknown
71256No place UK 1967. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the Twentieth Century Fox film Hombre adapted from the bestselling novel by Elmore Leonard. Sole printing. 24 x 31cm. A four-page brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Together with original synopsis; a two-page flyer with campaign art to one side. separate 'Story' leaf inserted. Some gentle wear and creases very good. A revisionist western film directed by Martin Ritt starring Paul Newman Fredric March Richard Boone and Diane Cilento. This was the sixth and final time Ritt directed Newman. The film was a commercial success becoming one of the biggest movies of 1967. No place (UK), 1967 unknown
71265No place UK 1967. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the Twentieth Century Fox film In Like Flint produced by Saul David. Sole printing. 24 x 31cm. A six-page brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Together with colour synopsis flyer showing campaign art. Lightly handled near fine condition. Te second Flint film a James Bond spy-fi parody directed by Gordon Douglas starring James Coburn. The film is set in Jamaica like many of the 007 movies and the poster artwork was illustrated by Bob Peak who worked on several James Bond film campaigns and concepts. From the espionage collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1967 unknown
71263No place UK 1965. Movie Memorabilia Large format press book for the Columbia Pictures film King Rat adapted from the novel by James Clavell. Sole printing. 24 x 33cm. An eight-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Together with four-page synopsis. Fine condition throughout. Singapore Prisoner-of-War drama directed by Bryan Forbes starring George Segal Tom Courtenay James Fox Denholm Elliott and John Mills. Clavell's acclaimed first adventure novel was well regarded by the James Bond novelist Ian Fleming who provided a favourable supporting blurb for the publisher Gilbert D29. The soundtrack to the film was by the Bond film composer John Barry. From the collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1965 unknown
1950128139The Central News Agency 1950s. Very Good. First Editions printing stapled softcover 12mo about 50pp color wrappers various issues. Vintage magazines featuring pinup and cheesecake photography mostly of US actresses coverage of London society women's sports cartoons and illustrations. A broad scope of eye-catching editorials/models from the title's middle period of output. Very Good overall light foxing rubbing toning a few creases stains or tears. Early issues are scarce. Included: 1/1947 Hebblethwaite illus. centerfold 1/1949 1 cut pg41 10/1949 5/1950 11/1952 1/1953 10/1955 8/1956. The Central News Agency paperback
71274Printed by L.F De Vos Anvers Antwerp 1956. Film promotion / advertising An original Belgian mid-size / window card style poster for the 1956 film 'The Animal Kingdom' produced written and directed by Irwin Allen. 21 x 14 inches approx together with five original British lobby cards. Some wear and creases rubs to folds linen-backed. Very good. Cards are fine. Will be despatched rolled in a substantial card tube. Documentary film with a groundbreaking ten-minute stop motion animated sequence about dinosaurs produced by special effects artist Ray Harryhausen. Printed by L.F De Vos, Anvers [Antwerp], 1956 unknown
71195No place UK 1965. Movie Memorabilia Press book for Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest 1965 re-release.Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. An eight-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Fine condition. The classic North By Northwest is a 1959 spy thriller starring Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint and James Mason regarded as one of the greatest films made. It was influential on the James Bond franchise and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. series where Leo G. Carroll played a similar role as head of a top secret intelligence agency. The story of an ad-man mistaken for a fictitious agent was inspired by the wartime Operation Mincemeat where Naval Intelligence including Commander Ian Fleming obtained a dead body and invented a military courier furnished with misleading documents. Upon discovery by the Germans off the Spanish coast Hitler fell for the deception countered accordingly and the course of the war changed irrevoccably. The film garnered thre Oscar nominations won an Edgar Award Best Screenplay and a Silver Shell Best Director San Sebastian Festival. From the espionage collection of Ian Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1965 unknown
1980154257Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM / United Artists 1980. Vintage large format color negative produced circa 1981 showing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production logo with the studio's longtime motto "Ars Gratia Artis" replaced by the joint studio name "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists." <br /> <br /> From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.<br /> <br /> There have been eight different lions used for the MGM logo since its creation by designer Howard Dietz in 1924 beginning with Slats a lion born at the Dublin Zoo in 1919. <br /> <br /> United Artists was sold to Transamerica Corporation in 1967 who would sell the studio to Kirk Kerkorian the then-current owner of MGM in 1981. The MGM / UA mascot variant does not appear to have been widely used. <br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists unknown
1915146857Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball held February 13 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors directors producers and others and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce with only two copies in OCLC. <br /> <br /> The Photoplayer's Club was a short lived social club for both men and women that had members from throughout the motion picture industry including "actors directors camera men technical men owners manufacturers and managers" and sought the provide a space where they could meet "in 'clubby' equality" and "may talk shop may eat drink and make merry." <br /> <br /> As such the program provides a broad survey of both the major and minor players in the earliest days of the film industry as it established itself in Hollywood with each photograph identified with a caption and most actors and directors grouped with the studios or film production companies they were associated with. <br /> <br /> 12 x 9 inches in brown titled wrappers. About Very Good with loss and separation to the spine light chipping and few short closed tears with a brief dampstain to the lower corner of the page block. Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles unknown
71264No place UK 1966. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the Twentieth Century Fox film Our Man Flint produced by Saul David. Sole printing. 24 x 31cm. A six-page brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Lightly handled near fine condition. A result of the '60s spy fiction craze this James Bond parody is spy-fi comedy directed by Daniel Mann starring James Coburn. The film is littered with comic references to the Bond franchise; Flint is initially offered a Walther PPK and an attache case with a concealed throwing knife he brawls with agent 0008 enquires if SPECTRE are involved and there is a Sean Connery lookalike. The film poster artwork was illustrated by Bob Peak who worked on several James Bond film campaigns and concepts. From the espionage collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. No place (UK), 1966 unknown
1932104552Hollywood: Paramount. 1932. Folio original printed wraps with cloth spine 435 x 298 mm. Unpag 108 pp mainly printed in shades of red and black. Some light wear to wraps and edges lower corner of rear wrap creased. A mark to a Maurice Chevalier image some red in the margin last page otherwise very clean. Very good condition. Scarce. A large illustrated compendium advertising forthcoming Paramount films aimed at cinema exhibitors. The long roll call of films and stars includes Harold Lloyd the Marx Brothers Marlene Dietrich "Blonde Venus" the Ernst Lubitsch production "Not Married" now known as "Design for Living" Cecil B. DeMille's "The Sign of the Cross" Maurice Chevalier Gary Cooper Helen Hayes Talullah Bankhead "The Glass Key" "If I Had a Million" "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" "The Lusitania Secret" "The Song of Songs" "Girl Without a Room" "No Bed of Her Own" and many more. Other advertisements splash only the title and that the actors will be "chosen from" a given list of stars an artefact of the studio system of signing actors. The images are very striking: for example a full-page illustration of Marlene Dietrich signed Hans Flato for a film called "Promised" and an array of vampish women handsome men historical heroes and crime capers. Each advertisement is lavishly illustrated often with a double page colour spread. Interestingly some of the films announced appear to have never been made at least in that form: for example 'Blood and Sand' set in Spain and starring Cary Grant and Tallulah Bankhead or "The West Pointer" starring "handsome he-man Cary Grant" as "a famous Indian ! athlete". These advertisements show a glimpse into an alternative history one for example with what would have been the first filmed adaptation of Karel Capek's play "R.U.R." about robots directed by Rouben Mamoulian or which would have given Dorothy Arzner an additional directing credit for "The Mirrors of Washington" never filmed. Apart from the advertisements there is also a section dedicated to photographs and a brief biography e.g. Marlene Dietrich Gary Cooper Carole Lombard Sylvia Sidney Miriam Hopkins Randolph Scott and Cary Grant. and section about the studio and highlighting promotions available to Paramount film exhibitors. An important and scarce slice of early movie history 1st Edition. Pictorial Wraps. Paramount paperback
71262No place UK 1969. Movie Memorabilia Large format press book for the United Artists' film Play Dirty directed by Andre de Toth. Sole printing. 37 x 25cm. A ten-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Fine condition. From the producer of the James Bond films Play Dirty is a British commando film inspired by the true and unorthodox exploits of raiding units such as the Long Range Desert Group Popski's Private Army and the S.A.S. during the North Africa campaign 1940-43. The film stars Michael Caine Nigel Davenport Nigel Green and Harry Andrews. Both Caine and Green had worked with Saltzman on The Ipcress File. From the Bond collection of bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil signature within. No place (UK), 1969 unknown
71260No place UK 1966. Movie Memorabilia Large format press book for the United Artists' film The Return of the Magnificent Seven directed by Paul Wendkos. Sole printing. 37 x 25cm. A ten-page stapled brochure providing cast and credits film story and advertising. Fine condition. The second film in The Magnificent Seven quartet starring Yul Brynner and Warren Oates. Composer Elmer Bernstein received an Academy Award nomination for his dramatic score. No place (UK), 1966 unknown
198212947JNew York: Delilah 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Hollywood actress Gwen Seager: “For Gwen - the golden girl of ‘the golden voice’ with thanks for being as lovely to be with. John Kobal.†Additionally signed with five signed presentation inscriptions from film director Bruce Martin and members of the crew of the documentary film Screen Dreams - The Hollywood Pinup based on this book of which Gwen Seager appeared in. Laid in is the original letter from the film production company asking her to appear with much information about the production as well as another thanking her for participating in the film. A superb collection of vintage black & white and color photographs of some of the most stunning women to grace the Hollywood screen. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Delilah unknown
1936157965N.p.: N.p. 1936. Collection of six vintage photographs of Hollywood studios circa 1936. Includes three double weight and three single-weight photographs. Two photographs with the stamp of Holly Photo Service on the verso. <br /> <br /> One photograph shows an aerial view of Warner Brothers First National and Cosmopolitan studios in Burbank. One photograph shows Columbia Studios with an annotation in manuscript pencil on the verso noting the year as 1936. One photograph shows Republic Studios. Finally three double weight photographs show aerial views of what appears to be the burgeoning Warner Brothers lot from different angles.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with pinholes at the corners. N.p. unknown
192863463New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1928. 8vo. 297 pp. plus 15 pp. publisher’s ads. Blue publisher’s cloth orange lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of his starlet wife Fania Marinoff 1890-1971 in leggy costume slight chipping head of spine couple minor closed tears still NF/VG copy. First Grosset edition of this screwball comedy polemic against the absurdity and overboard nature of Hollywood after a Broadway playwrite heads to Los Angeles and becomes involved with movie moguls Herbert Ringrose and Ben Griesheimer and screwball adventures with the splendid screen actress “Imperia Starling.†Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover
71206No place UK 1965. Movie Memorabilia Press book for the BLC Films production of The Chase produced by Sam Spiegal adapted from the book by Lilian Hellman. Sole printing. 32 x 24cm. A six-page fold out brochure providing cast and credits tie-in promotion for the soundtrack album ordering facilities for film stills and advert blocks. Fine condition. Topical American drama touching upon issues of racism sexual revolution small town corruption and excessive immorality starring Marlon Brando Jane Fonda Robert Redford James Fox Robert Duvall and Angie Dickinson. The score was by James Bond film composer John Barry. No place (UK), 1965 unknown
