Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Broadway stage musical. Working copy of an unknown cast member, with his profuse holograph pencil annotations throughout. "Can-Can" was one of the most successful musicals of the early 1950s. It ran at New York's Shubert Theatre, opening on May 7, 1953 and closing on June 25, 1955, for a total.....

Tokyo: Toho, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 Japanese film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the rear wrapper and throughout the text. Included with the script is a mimeographed shooting schedule. Text and titles in Japanese. Annotations relate to the following: (a) names of the chosen cast members, (b) set rehearsals and camera rehearsals, (c) times for.....

N.p. Amicus Productions, 1969. Revised Draft script for the 1970 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Charles Eric Maine, and one of the classics from Amicus Productions in the 1960s. A man has been in a coma since birth, and awakens for the first time at the age of 30 with the mind of an infant. Set in London.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Draft script for the 1945 film, with an additional seven page addendum on pink stock with alternate endings written out in a treatment form. In addition to containing an alternate ending, the date on the script coincides with the takeover of the project by RKO from original producer David O. Selznick in July.....

Los Angeles: Four Star Productions, 1965. Vintage photographic title cards and title design sketches for the seminal 1965 television series, notable for having utilized these photographs rather than filmed performances for its title sequence. Included are ten double weight photographs, several signed by the series' star, Anne Francis, and four title design sketches that were ultimately made into overlays ("Starring.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Vintage oversize borderless black and white photograph of actor Omar Sharif playfully clicking his heels in the air between takes while filming on location in Austria for the 1964 film. With holograph pencil and ink annotations on the verso, along with a PIX Agency stamp crediting photographer Denis Cameron. From the archive of the PIX Agency.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Vintage borderless oversize satin-finish black and white photograph of actor Anthony Perkins juggling small gourds on the set of the 1957 film. With the stamps of photographer Bill Avery and editor Bud Fraker on the verso, along with holograph pencil cropping annotations. A veteran bounty hunter and former lawman aids a newly appointed, inexperienced sheriff in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1969 film. Included are: (1) a shot of Arlo Guthrie on a motorcycle next to Michael McLanahan, (2) a shot of director Arthur Penn, producer Hillard Elkins and another crew member on motorcycles, (3) a shot of McLanahan, Penn, and actress.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1944 film. The second of Universal's Technicolor fantasy adventures (after "Arabian Nights," 1942, and "White Savage," 1943), loosely based on the classic Arabian Nights tales, with a fitting score by Edward Ward to match Lubin's directorial flair. A fun, but often overlooked, desert romp. Gray titled wrappers, noted as.....

N.p. N.p., Circa early 1940s. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of four women workers at a Buick plant, posing on an in-process Buick on the assembly line, circa 1940s.As with many manufacturers, General Motors would convert a large percentage of their production lines to manufacture munitions for the military as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt's establishment of the War Production.....

Berlin: Jovis Verlag / Arte Editions, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by Werner Herzog on the title page. A wonderful compendium of still photographs in both color and black-and-white, taken over the years on the sets of Werner Herzog's films. With text throughout in English, French, and German by Herzog and a few others, including fellow filmmaker Volker Schlondorff and actress.....

Los Angeles: Maverick International, 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film. Copy belonging to producer Cassius Weathersby, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, and holograph annotations on nearly every page. Also included is an extensive archive of material relating to the production, including contracts, budgets, cast and crew lists, call sheets, script supervisor.....

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1954. Shooting script for the 1955 film noir, here under the working title "Code 3," with the working title crossed through on the front wrapper and "Dial Red O" written above it twice, once in holograph pencil and once in holograph ink. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with annotations throughout in red pencil, primarily.....

London: Anglo-EMI, 1970. Collection of three vintage black-and-white borderless double weight reference photographs Julie Ege, taken as test shots for the 1971 film. Ege is shown sitting in cloth folding chair with her name on it, in various positions designed to hide her breasts as unsuccessfully as possible. Ege, an actress and model, is best known for this film, where.....

N.p. N.p., 1965. Early Draft script for the 1965 British comedy film. Based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne.In 1818, the parents of 20 boys establish a tontine, a fund to go to the last surviving boy. It is now 1882 and only 2 elderly brothers are left, Joseph (Ralph Richardson), protected by his nephews.....

London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph annotations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then again in the US at the ANTA Playhouse in New.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs of director Mark Robson and various cast and crew members on the set of the 1966 film, including two bordered and six borderless. Based on Jean Larteguy's 1960 novel "The Centurions." A French Army Colonel leads his platoon in the battles against Viet Minh communists and Algerian guerrilla fighters in.....

New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Edition. An exceptionally bright copy of a key Woolrich title normally found the worse for wear. Basis for the 1948 film noir written for the screen by Jonathan Latimer and starring Edward G. Robinson. Near Fine in an about Near Fine dust jacket without a trace of the usual fading to the spine.....

Los Angeles: The Filmgroup / National Screen Service, 1963. Original one sheet poster for the 1961 US film. A sailor on shore leave in Santa Monica suspects that a local sideshow worker might actually be a mermaid who kills during the cycle of the full moon. A moody, effective low-budget film, featuring Dennis Hopper in his first starring role. Shot.....

Los Angeles: Cinemation Industries, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, "Johnny Got His Gun," directed and adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Timothy Bottoms, Donald Sutherland, and Donald Barry. Based on the 1939 novel by Trumbo, about a horribly disabled World War I veteran, which the acclaimed screenwriter tried for most of his career to.....

N.p. Alfieri, 1969. Vintage oversize double weight color photograph of Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, at an outdoor press conference held in front of the Carlton Hotel at the Cannes Film Festival, where Hopper was awarded the Cannes First Film Prize. Shot by Marc Alfieri, and signed by him in black ink at the lower left margin: "Photo Alfieri /.....

N.p. N.p., 1972-1974. Archive of 1 color and 20 vintage black-and-white photographs of Central Valley, CA stock car racer Don Darling, 1972-1974. Five photographs loose, the remainder tipped onto black card stock leaves with masking tape. Occasional holograph ink annotations to the tape, identifying the years, as well as dirt tracks in Roseville and Maryville, CA. Included are images of.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1956. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer, Ross Hunter, bound in navy full calf with gilt titles on cover and spine, with Hunter's name on the front board. Based on the 1956 autobiography of the same name by Colonel Dean E. Hess, a real-life United States Air Force.....

Los Angeles: Self published, 1970. Second Edition. One of 3000 unnumbered copies printed in this second edition, after a first edition printing of only 400 copies. Near Fine in a Very Good plus original glassine dust jacket, as issued. Light soil to the bottom page edges, front wrapper lightly creased at the top corner. Jacket has a couple of short.....

London: DJM, 1970. Original UK promotional poster for the 1970 album. Elton John's third album, a breakthrough on every level. A concept album by a Brit based on American country and western and Americana themes—not something anyone would have expected to be a classic, and an album that didn't produce any of Elton's big singles. But it was the album.....

New York: Moffat Yard, 1908. First Edition. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication: "Dear Mrs. Whitin / I promised you these so long ago you have probably forgotten. All the same I send them with my love / Emily Post / 107 E. 34th St. / March 1908." A rare inscription from the author.Published fourteen years.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Final Draft script for the 1939 film. INSCRIBED in holograph ink on an inset page preceding the script by actor Gene Reynolds, who played a young Douglas Corrigan in the movie: "For Art / From Corrigan-as-a-boy / Gene Reynolds / Mar - 71." With blue and white revisions pages (including some detail for.....

N.p. N.p., 1957. Collection of six vintage photographs, five showing the exteriors of RKO Studios buildings, including the Administration Building, RKO-Pathe Studios, and the entryway gate in the 1930s and 1950s, and one showing a 1957 reception given for the new heads of RKO Pictures, Thomas O'Neil and Walter E. Branson. Four with archive stamps on the verso. All photos.....

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. First Edition. Rare in jacket. A pulp thriller about a criminal mastermind, known only as The Ghoul, who has plunged London into a crime wave. Basis for the 1933 film of the same name, directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff. The film added mystical elements to the story in order to capitalize on.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Third Revised Screenplay for the 1970 film. An important early effort for screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola, who would go on a few years later to direct some of the most important films of the 1970s . An epic and irreverently stylized film biography, focusing on General George S. Patton's career as a tank commander in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Revised Draft script for the 1941 film noir. Studio file copy, with rubber-stamps on the front wrapper. Brief annotations in holograph pencil on both sides of the front wrapper. Text ends with scene 392, as called for. Based on Francis de Croisset's 1932 play, "Il Etait Une Fois." Key film noir about a blackmailing.....

Berlin: Film-Kurier, 1929. Original program for the legendary 1929 silent film. Replete with beautiful gravure-printed production photographs, many unique to this publication. Film-Kurier was the first German film journal, published daily beginning in 1919. Film-Kurier's classic era lasted until 1933, when its publisher, Alfred Weiner, had to flee Germany because of his Jewish origins. The issues from this era remain.....

London: The Rank Organization, 1957. Original British quad poster for the 1957 British film noirA low budget British film noir that brought Rod Steiger across the ocean in order to put his formidable character acting skills into what became a critically praised film. Shot in Spain (but represented as Mexico), "Across the Bridge" expands on Graham Greene's short story, bringing.....

N.p. N.p., 1924-1932. Archive of original letters, photographs, and other ephemera relating to "West Virginia Bluebeard" serial killer Harm Drenth, the real-life basis for the character of Harry Powell in Davis Grubb's seminal 1953 novel, "Night of the Hunter," famously portrayed in the 1955 film version by Robert Mitchum. A substantial archive, including an autograph template letter in ink, signed.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1962. Original Pacific Title hand painted artwork for the original trailer advertising the classic 1962 film. In the final trailer, Gregory Peck's name as the lead actor preceded this card, making this a slightly alternate draft of the design. 14 x 20 inches. White gouache on stiff black illustration board. Very Good plus overall, with.....

Paris: Robert and Raymond Hakim / Paris Film, circa 1936. Draft script for the 1937 French film. An English-language version of the text issued by the Hakim brothers for use in the US. James M. Cain and John Howard Lawson adapted the story for a US film version in 1938, titled "Algiers," directed by John Cromwell and starring Charles Boyer.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition.....

Paris: Parc Film, Circa 1964. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs, three reference photographs featuring Jacques Demy on the set (two with Catherine Deneuve), one of Demy and composer Michel Legand, and one reference photograph of Catherine Deneuve, from the 1964 film. Three with "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" stamps, and one with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1950. Vintage oversize photograph of actor James Stewart in a seersucker suit and straw hat, reading a note in what appears to be his trailer, circa 1950s. 11 x 14 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. One of the best action films of the 1990s, which launched the career of Sandra Bullock, turned Keanu Reeves into a star, and Dennis Hopper into a catchphrase. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went uncredited as the film's script doctor, and screenwriter Graham Yost went on to create.....

Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs, and various ephemera, from the 1961 film, here under the original French title. The photographs, numbered on the versos in holograph pencil, detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat," costumes displayed at tge.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1948. Draft carbon typescript screenplay for an unproduced film.Screenwriter Eliot Gibbons worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Republic Studios for most of his career. He was best known for his aviation pictures, most notably "Storm Over the Andes" (1935), "Flight at Midnight" (1939), and "Sky Raiders" (1941). While hiding out from his wife and business associates at a seedy.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Two vintage borderless black and white photographs from the 1967 French avant-garde performance. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Dalmas agency and a stamp noting No. 6710271. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as.....

Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1967. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1967 French film. All but one with a stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso.A day in the life of suburban housewife Juliette Jeanson (Vlady), who intersperses her daily routine of housework, cleaning, and shopping with appointments as a call girl. One of director.....

London: American International Productions, 1973. Working Draft script for the 1974 film, belonging to uncredited crew member Dennis Maddison, with name and phone numbers in holograph ink on top margin of title page, here under the working titles, "Dr. Death," visible through die-cut window, hand written in holograph marker on partial page, affixed, with what appears to be gauze bandages.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Faces Music, 1976. Original poster for the 1976 film, this being the Ben Gazzara style, with Gazzara in a "puffy shirt." One of eight known one sheet styles (no priority) issued by Faces Distribution for the film. Faces was a company as radical as the director himself, and made small runs of posters in a wide variety.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.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.....