New York: Dial, 1966. First Edition. Basis for the Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 directorial debut, which he co-scripted with McMurtry. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winner for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman, who beat out co-stars Jeff Bridges and Ellen Burstyn in the Supporting Actor categories. Fine and unread in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket...
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. First Edition. First issue, with "Cantry" at the spine title of the book's backstrip. Basis for the 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons. One of Lewis' most popular novels, and one that created an uproar among the religious evangelical communities that it satirizes. It stands among "Main Street," "Babbitt," and "Arrowsmith" as Lewis' lasting...
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. The author's first book, basis for the classic 1963 film, "Hud," directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Melvyn Douglas, the latter two in Oscar-winning performances. Easily Near Fine in a Near Fine. price-clipped dust jacket. A strip of offsetting to the front endpaper, and just a touch...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First Edition. The author's second novel, basis for the classic film starring John Wayne, Glen Campbell and Kim Darby, and the 2010 remake by the Coen Brothers, starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, with none of the usual fading to the backstrip or the jacket spine, and...
New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "For David Nottman / Larry McMurtry." Jacket is bright and clean but for some light soil to the rear panel, and has the publisher's $4.95 price rubber stamped in red at the bottom of the front flap. Basis for the 1974 film Lovin' Molly...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Revised Temporary Script for the 1944 film. Based on the 1941 novel by A.J. Cronin. Gregory Peck stars as pioneering Catholic priest Father Francis Chisholm. Told in flashback, young Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish where he faces hostility and distrust. Over the span of many years and through serious...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was the most expensive and one of the most ambitious productions of it's time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound diving suit, a specially built...
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. One of the best unheralded revenge thrillers of the 1970s, with William Devane taking an unusual turn as a sympathetic character, though forced to be quite cold-blooded. Playing a Vietnam veteran with absolutely nothing left to lose, Devane beats a warpath from Texas to Mexico in pursuit...
N.p. N.p., 1978. Two vintage promotional bumper stickers for Devo's 1978 debut album, with each sticker printed with one part of the album's title, "Q: Are We Not Men? and A: We Are Devo! respectively. Each sticker 9 x 1.5 inches (23 x 4 cm). Backing unpeeled. Near Fine with a touch of rubbing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition, originally published in Brazil by Livraria Jose Olympio Editora in 1956 as "Grande Sertao: Veredas." Scarce in and out of jacket. One of the landmark works of South American literature, and perhaps the greatest Brazilian novel, written using a mix of both colloquial and archaic language, as well as neologisms, lending...
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to horror cult icon Ingrid Pitt, who assumed the role of the titular character, with her extensive holograph ink notations on nearly every page (and many page versos), including her blocking notes and detailed character analyses in both Polish and English. Loosely based on the apocryphal legend of...
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Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 1988. Special Effects Storyboards for the 1989 film, here under the working title "Teeny Weenies." Included is a partially bound set of storyboards with holograph ink and pencil notations throughout. One image shown. Additional images can be sent on request. A wacky scientist accidentally shrinks his children and his neighbor's children down to a quarter of an...
Hollywood: California Department of Employment, 1945. Identification Card for Luis Bunuel, issued on November 26, 1945 by United States Employment Service, California Department of Employment. Signed and annotated with Social Security number by Bunuel in holograph ink on recto, continuing on the verso with Name, Address, Year of Birth, Sex, Height, Work for which you qualify and Code Number, also...
N.p. Filmes Cinematografica, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1976 film. Grazia Neri stamps on the verso. Jancso's "Private Vices, Public Pleasures" is loosely based on the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, believed having killed himself after shooting his lover in a suicide pact in 1882. Jancso's film presents Rudolf (Lajos Balazsovits) as a pan-sexual...
Burbank, CA: The Malpaso Company, 1971. Vintage borderless photograph of Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel on set from the 1971 film. With a rubber stamp crediting photographer Andre Marinie on the verso. Based on Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel, set during the American Civil War, about an injured Yankee soldier (Eastwood), who is rescued by a teenage girl from a Southern...
N.p. Brandywine Productions, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph of Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver on the set of the 1979 film. One of the greatest science fiction/horror films ever made, based on an original story by screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, and the auspicious debut of Ridley Scott. Ridley's franchise is so rich in themes and expandability that it has...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert Blake and Scott Wilson from the 1967 film. Crop notations in holograph pencil and Michel Ciment stamp on the verso. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book, and remains one of the great meditations on violence in...
N.p. Haworth Productions Ltd., 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of Anthony Harvey and Katherine Hepburn on the set of the 1968 film. Photographic paper imprinted with French "Associated Press Photo" on the verso. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn), Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score, and nominated for another four, including Best Picture and Best Director. Set...
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Preminger's noir-ish courtroom drama that enlightened mainstream cinema with its frank discussion of rape and promiscuity, topics that were to that point only portrayed in B-movies. Nominated for several Academy Awards, and placed in...
N.p. Andy Warhol Films, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of Joe Dallesandro and Tom Hompertz from the 1968 film. Hilarious and tedious, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey's satirical take on Hollywood Westerns features five gay cowboys (including Dallesandro and Hompertz), ranch lady Romana D'Alvarez (Viva) and her stoned nurse (Taylor Mead), handsome drifter Julian (Tom Hompertz) and a drag costume-obsessed transvestite Sheriff...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage photograph of Lon Chaney Jr. (as the mummy) and Turhan Bey from the 1942 film. The first of 3 sequels to Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940), "The Mummy's Tomb" was followed by "The Mummy's Ghost" (1944) and "The Mummy's Curse" (1944). This was Lon Chaney Jr.'s first appearance as the mummy, a role he...
Paris: Films A2, 1987. Collection of 3 vintage oversize studio photographs from the 1987 film. Co-directed by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank (his only feature length fiction film) and acclaimed wirter Rudy Wurlitzer, who wrote the screenplay, "Candy Mountain" is a musician's road movie, heavily influenced by the lives of Frank and Wurlitzer. Cast full of notable musicians such...
Los Angeles: Act III Productions, Circa 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film. With two holograph ink notations marking revision pages of note. A old New York safecracker takes on a bumbling young crook as his lookout and apprentice. The American directorial debut of Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth. Set and shot on location in Portland, Oregon. Yellow untitled wrappers. Title page present...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1947. American Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1947 film. With holograph ink notations throughout. US mimeograph reproduction of the British post-production script (so noted on the title page), with the annotations mostly having to do with deleted scenes. An interesting document showing direct evidence of the edits made for American distribution of the film...
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Marina Del Rey, CA: Kings Road Productions, Circa 1982. Draft script for the 1982 film. With a small newspaper clipping promoting the film laid in. Based on the 1976 novel. A small New England town is stalked by a demonic figure who attacks and sexually assaults women. While filming, director John Hough and actor John Cassavetes decided to disregard Sandor Stern's...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Final Draft script for the 1961 Western film. Copy belonging to unknown crew member dealing with costumes and wardrobe, with 20 leaves detailing costume changes for each character preceding the script, and holograph ink notations throughout. A Texas Ranger returning a runaway gambler to Louisiana in order for the man to face prosecution finds their...
Culver City, CA: MGM, 1933. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1924 play. An aging socialite tries to recapture her youth through affairs with younger men. Meanwhile, the announcement of her drug-addicted son's engagement raises family tensions to a breaking point. The play was Noel Coward's first commercial success. Set in England. Blue titled wrappers, rubber-stamped file No. 0423...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. A pacifist professor of physics at a southern university is convicted of manslaughter and incarcerated. Screenwriter James Dickey was best known for his prolific work as a poet, as well as for the 1970 novel "Deliverance" and its subsequent adaptation for the 1972 film. "The Sentence" was inspired by Dickey's 1975...
Beverly Hills, CA: MGM, 1940. Temporary Complete script for the 1940 film. Copy belonging to the MGM Legal Department, as marked on the front wrapper. With holograph pencil notations throughout. A cocky rookie flyer joins the famous Hellcats Squadron, where a series of miscommunications and mistakes lead to problems with his fellow Navy pilots. The first Hollywood film glorifying the US...
Los Angeles: Silver Pictures, 1992. Revised First Draft script for the 1994 film. After the president of a large manufacturing corporation commits suicide, the board of directors hires a friendly but incompetent mailroom clerk to replace him in order to secretly gain control of the company through a stock scam. A visual paean to Frank Capra and Preston Sturges films...
Universal City: Universal City Studios, Circa 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. With holograph notations in pencil and ink throughout, presumably by actor Chet Stratton, as the notations are all related to the character "Benji" played by him in the film. A young man returns from three years in the Navy only to find himself jobless and abandoned by...
N.p. John Boorman Productions, 1974. Vintage borderless double weight photograph from the 1974 film. Rubber stamp crediting Michel Ciment on the verso. After the critical and commercial success of 1972's "Deliverance," director John Boorman was given almost total creative freedom for his next film. He responded by costuming Sean Connery (in only his second post-Bond film) in red briefs and...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." An American naval officer purchases, marries, and...
N.p. Bel-Air Productions, 1957. Vintage studio photograph from the 1957 film. Bel-Air Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the story "Wanton Murder" by Peter Godfrey and shot under the working title "Black Stockings," Howard W. Koch's B movie noir "The Girl in Black Stockings," despite it being a low-budget, "second feature" film, is surprisingly enjoyable, mostly due to it's...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Gene Kelly and Oscar Levant from the 1951 film. Inspired by George Gerswin's jazz-influenced orchestral work "An American in Paris," Minnelli's "An American in Paris" stars Kelly as American ex G.I. Jerry Mulligan, a struggling painter living in Paris. He's discovered by Milo Roberts (Nina Foch,) a wealthy American heiress, who...
Beverly Hills, CA: James B. Harris Productions, Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film, here under the working title "Never Call It Loving." Copy belonging to the props master, with holograph ink notations throughout. Based on John Collier's 1938 short story. A woman drugged and kept asleep for years as a carnival attraction is bought and awakened by a....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Vintage studio photograph of Ann Miller chatting with Cole Porter on the set of the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate" is a musical within a musical - altogether appropriate, since its source material, Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," was a play within a play. Howard Keel...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Jane Powell and Musical Director Johnny Green on the set of the 1951 film. Mimeo snipe, French notations in holograph ink and crop marks on the verso. Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London...
N.p. George Stevens Productions, 1959. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1959 film revealing the house interior set design. Based on Anne Frank's diary and Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 stage play that was adapted from it. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and for 8 Academy Awards, winner of 3, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelly Winters. 8...
West Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1982. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1982 film. French "Still Photo" label on verso. Based on the novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Like Stanley Kubrick's "2001" in 1968, and building on the claustrophobic, dystopian vision Scott had already developed in "Alien" (1979), "Blade Runner" set a standard for science fiction...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage borderless publicity photograph from the 1971 film. Nostalgic screenplay about a teenager during the war years who becomes infatuated with an older war widow. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Score, and nominated for three others. Set in Nantucket Island, shot on location in California and Ontario. 8 x 10 inches (21 x....
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1937. Vintage studio photograph on the set of Busby Berkley's finale, from the 1937 film. Two mimeo snipes and Warner Brothers Photo by Longworth stamp on verso. College students rebel when their professor doesn't allow Swing music in their varsity show. They enlist the help of an alumni, a big Broadway star (Dick Powell), not knowing his...
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "Honor Bright." With holograph pencil notations to the front wrapper. In an attempt to go straight, a con man and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with his deceased wife's wealthy family. One of Shirley Temple's earliest starring roles, and...
N.p. Sumar Productions, 1956. Vintage studio photograph of Gloria Grahame on location, from the 1956 film. Mimeo snipe and French 20th Century Fox Stamp on verso. Based on Ewen Montagu's 1954 book, based on a true story about a British attempt to trick their German enemies, using the name and credentials of a dead man as bait. The real intelligence...
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1970 film. director Michael Wadleigh with an unidentified crew member. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an audience of more than 300,000 people. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and nominated for two more. Shot on location in...
Vintage photograph of the iconic "dance of death" scene from the 1957 film. Crop markings, notations in holograph ink and pencil on verso. Adapted by Bergman from his own play, "Wood Paintings," and the film that cemented both his international status and lasting reputation as a master. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and winner of the Jury Special Prize at Cannes...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Second Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film. Cast list with holograph ink and pencil notations tipped in, and distribution receipt signed by composer and lyricist George Marion Jr. laid in. An early uncredited role for Carole Lombard, who performs the song "You Appeal to Me." A young man is set to inherit a large sum...
N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1968. Vintage photographs from the 1968 absurdist comedy "The Man with the Balloons," also known as "Break Up," from the prolific Italian director Marco Ferreri. Marcello Mastroianni plays Mario Fuggetta, a wealthy industrialist, whose obsession with balloons derail his life and his relationship with his beautiful fiancee Giovanna (Catherine Spaak.) He'll drive himself mad trying to...
Paris: Paris Match, November 3, 1958. Vintage borderless photo of author Chester Himes, taken by Paris Match photographer Jean Tesseyre on November 3, 1958, during a visit to Paris on the occasion of the publication of his novel "The Queen of Apples," seated at a restaurant table with an unidentified woman. 7 x 9.25 inches (18 x 24 cm). Near Fine.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1948. Vintage studio photograph from the 1948 film. Mimeo snipe and Columbia Pictures Photo By Cronenweth stamp on verso. Publicity still of Rita Hayworth, her wardrobe woman Roselle Novello and hairdresser Flora Jaynes between takes, during the filming of Welles' classic film noir, "The Lady from Shanghai." 8.25 x 10 inches (21 x 26 cm). Very...
Burbank, CA: The Malapaso Company, 1971. Vintage borderless studio press photograph from the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut, after decades as an actor, a second career that would garner him two Best Director Oscars, for Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and two more nominations, for Mystic River (2003) and Letters...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy." Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey, John Cassidy (Taylor) in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland, a....
N.p. Alfa Film, 1961. Collection of four vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 film, three of Louie Armstrong performing and one from the set of Armstrong seated with fan. Little known German comedy featuring a terrific cameo of Louie Armstrong and His All Stars performing four songs. Set in and shot on location in West Germany. Two photographs 6.75 x 5 inches...
N.p. Superfilm, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1979 film. Mimeo snipe, notations in holograph pencil and Tony Crawley stamp on the verso. Vehicle for adult film star John Holmes starring Nancy Suiter, seen here. Nancy Suiter was a quickly rising star in the adult film industry who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Set in and shot on location in Los Angeles...
N.p. Capital Films Corporation, 1980. 3 vintage borderless photographs from the 1980 film. Based on Frank Wedekind's character Lulu from his two-play series "Erdgeist" and "Die Buschse der Pandora," Borowczyk's "Lulu" stars Anne Bennent as the enticing, opportunistic and ultimately tragic Lulu. G.W. Pabst's classic 1929 "Pandora's Box" starring Louise Brooks was based on the same character. 9.5 x 6.25 inches...
N.p. Laughlin, 1968. Vintage photograph from the 1968 film. Genevieve Waite in the unedited photo used in the ad campaign for the film. 17 year old art student Joanna (Genevieve Waite), arrives in Swinging London, meeting colorful characters and exploring casual sex. Includes an early performance from Donald Sutherland as the terminally ill Lord Sanderson. Nominated for the 1968 Palme d'Or...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First Edition. The author's first book, introducing her series protagonists, handsome but dimwitted press agent Jake Justus, rich party girl Helene Brand, and hard drinking lawyer John Joseph Malone. Very Good plus in a Very Good only example of the scarce dust jacket. Boards lightly soiled. Jacket spine lightly toned, with soil and rubbing...
10-16-31. Vintage photograph, 1931. Mimeo snipe and International News Photos stamp on verso. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York addressing spectators at the dedication of the Colonial National Monument at Yorktown during Virginia's Sesquicentennial Celebration of Cornwallis surrender. By the fall of 1931 Roosevelt was already being considered a likely candidate for the Democratic nominee for President in the...
N.p. The Mirisch Corporation, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1968 film. Blake Edwards, clearly gleeful, directing the soap sud storm at the ending of "The Party." Edwards' most outrageous collaboration with Peter Sellers, their only collaboration that wasn't a "Pink Panther" film. Sellers, in a role that today would be considered racially insensitive, plays Hrundi V. Bakshi, an.....
N.p. N.p., 1989. Ninth Draft script for the 1990 film, a 172-page draft representing a film about twice as long as the one ultimately released. With a holograph notation in red ink on the front wrapper indicating copy number 82, and holograph notations in red ink on two pages of the text indicating changed scene numbers. A scientist seeking to create...
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Burbank, CA: Walt Disney, 1986. Revised Draft script for the 1989 film, here under the working title "The Teeny-Weenies." Single holograph notation in pen on title page. A wacky scientist accidentally shrinks his children and his neighbor's children down to a quarter of an an inch. Both Chevy Chase and John Candy were considered for the role of the scientist, which...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage press photograph from 1934. Verso with typescript snipe, press engraving order, "10/4/34" holograph notation in ink and holograph notations in pencil. Holograph notations in pencil, ink and paint on recto regarding layout. Paramount Pictures press photo of Parker and Campbell, shortly after being signed, Parker as a screenwriter and Campbell as a screenwriter and...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Interscope, 1990. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, here under the working title "Bill and Ted Go to Hell." The sequel to the 1989 film. Rock heroes Bill and Ted must fight evil robot clone versions of themselves in order to save the world, enlisting the help of Death and an alien named Station. Black generic Interscope...
1967. Collection of 5 vintage borderless photographs and 3 typescript essays from photographer Jerry Bauer, from 1967. Jerry Bauer was an American photographer best known for his portraits of writers (his portraits of Samuel Beckett are held in particular high regard.) His work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The photographs correspond to the topics of the essays. The first...
N.p. N.p., 1954. Vintage press photograph of Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh Hemingway upon learning Ernest Hemingway was chosen the 1954 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Folded mimeograph snipe on the verso dated 10-28-54. 5 x 7 inches (13 x 18 cm). Very Good plus, some light creasing.
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1983. Revised Seventh Draft script for the 1984 film. Single notation in holograph ink. Hole shadows but with script and revision leaves watermarked GREM00104 throughout, a standard practice for Amblin Entertainment productions in the 1980s. The story of a family besieged by small, troublemaking creatures that wreak havoc on their town. The criticism that the film's blend...
N.p. N.p., 1970. Vintage borderless press photograph of Muhammad Ali. With the stamp of photographer Paul Slade, French magazine Paris Match / Tele 7 Jours / Marie Claire, and date stamped 28 Oct. 1970 on the verso. Two days prior to the photograph being taken Ali returned to the boxing ring for the first time after being stripped of his...
circa 1940. Original photograph of Django Reinhardt, circa 1940. Django Reinhardt publicity photo, re-struck from the original negative in 1997. Michael Ochs Archives sticker and PPCM sticker on verso. Legendary gypsy jazz guitarist and composer, Django Reinhardt was the first, and one of the most significant jazz musicians to emerge from Europe. 8 x 10 inches. (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine, very light wear on corners.
New York: Martin Davidson-Eric Till, 1970. Final Draft script for the 1972 film. Based on Frederick Exley's classic 1968 novel about a middle-aged alcoholic writer who suffers a mental breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. Shot on location in New York and Toronto. Crimson titled wrappers. Title page present, dated SEPT. 1970, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits...
circa 1946. Original photograph of Charles Mingus, circa 1946. An early publicity photo, re-struck from the original negative, circa 1990. Michael Ochs Archives sticker and PPCM sticker on verso. Legendary jazz performer, composer, and bandleader, Charles Mingus' career spanned 4 decades and left a legacy universally lauded. A virtuosic double bassist and a proficient pianist and cellist, Mingus spanned a huge...
N.p. Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Vintage photograph with wide bottom margin from the set of the 1961 film showing Louis Armstrong performing in the midst of a listening audience. Two American Jazz musicians, Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier), are living in Paris and fall in love with two vacationing young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie (Diahann...
Hollywood: M. J. Frankovich Productions, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. With a single holograph notation on the title page. Quintessential New Hollywood comedy-drama about two West Coast couples as they navigate the changing social and sexual climate of the late 1960s. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Set and shot on location in Nevada and California. Yellow.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Two original vintage borderless photographs of model and actress Caroline Munro, circa 1974. A successful career as a major model and cover girl quickly led Munro to small film roles in the late 1960's, such as "Casino Royale" and "Where's Jack?." By the early 1970's Munro was on contract to Hammer Films and became a full time.....
N.p. Famous Artists Productions, 1962. Vintage photograph of a 25-year-old Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. German Columbia Film stamp and faint Swedish Columbia Film stamp on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown into chaos when one of the women's former lover comes...
Burbank, CA: Eden Productions, 1965. Revision Final script for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Natalie Masters, who played Mrs. Stribling, with her name and role in the film in holograph ink on the front wrapper, and extensive holograph notations throughout. A hapless woman enters into a poker game in order to save her family's earnings from her wayward husband's...
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Paris: Films Albatros, 1936. Vintage oversize double weight studio still photograph from the 1937 film. Notations listing other French films in holographic ink on verso, and with a negative-printed credit for photographer Roger Forster at the bottom right corner of the recto. Winner of 1936's Louis Delluc Prize (the first year the prize was awarded,) Renoir's "Les Bas-fonds," is based on...
Paris: Societe Francaise de Production (SFP), 1978. Vintage borderless photograph of Joseph Losey and Yves Montand from the set of the 1978 film. Mimeo snipe, Agencia EFE stamp and Agence Le Lynx stamp on verso. A sequel to Alain Resnais' 1966 film "The War is Over." It is 1975 and fascist dictator Francisco Franco is dying. Montand plays Jean, an...
Burbank, CA: Palomar Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Woody Allen's mug shot, from the 1969 film. Woody Allen's first film as a director, one of the great American comedies, the film that set the template for Allen's 1970s work. A massive archive documenting the birth of an utterly new and unique voice in cinema, one that would...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1964 novel by Ian Fleming, about a down-on-his-luck inventor who transforms an old race car into a magical machine and sets off with his children on an adventure. Set in and shot on location in England and France. 10...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1976. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster on the set of the 1976 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, and one that has...
N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1962 film, Natalie Wood consulting, from the stage, with Mervyn LeRoy. Based on the Broadway hit musical comedy "Gypsy," about the career of burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee (Wood) and her aggressive stage mother Moma Rose (Russell). 9.5 x 7.25 inches (24 x 18 cm). Near Fine, light edge wear.
Gadd Productions Corp. 1971. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1971 film. Al Pacino's first starring feature role. Schatzberg's bleak and stark portrayal of heroin addiction on the streets of New York City is told through the love story between Bobby (Pacino), an addict and drug dealer and Helen (Winn), who is drawn into heroin use through her relationship with Bobby. Nominated...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1938. Vintage studio press photograph of an animator painting a transparency of the character of Snow White from the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. An instant classic upon release, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was Walt Disney's first full length animated feature. "Disney's Folly," skeptics at the time had called the concept...
Paris: Pierre Grise Productions, 1991. Collection of 5 vintage borderless photographs from the 1991 film including one of Jacques Rivette and Emmanuelle Beart on the set. Inspired by Balzac's novella "Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu," Jacques Rivette's "La Belle Noiseuse" ("The Beautiful Troublemaker") is a masterful 4 hour study of the creative process and the emotional tolls taken on artist, model and...
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' followup to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups it's predecessor with the addition of Dracula (John Carradine), a mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature (the fourth actor to play the part) with Chaney Jr. reprising...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1968 film, with a "Columbia FIlm" stamp on the verso. Barbra Streisand's film debut, reprising her Broadway role as Fanny Brice, famed comedienne, actress and performer, and her tumultuous relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein, played by Sharif. Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, winner for Best Actress. Set in New York...
Iver Heath, UK: Pinewood Studios, 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. The third in the series of James Bond movies starring Connery. 007 investigates gold magnate Auric Goldfinger (Frobe), only to uncover his plans to rob Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. Includes Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Harold Sakata as Oddjob with his...
N.p. H & J, 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film. Written and directed by acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, "Medium Cool" combines fact and fiction, feature film footage, stock footage and cinema verite documentary techniques. We follow Forster, as John Catselas, a television news cameraman, in the center of the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. Set in...
Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Catherine Deneuve from the 1968 film. With holograph notations regarding layout, and stamps of producers Robert & Raymond Hakim and Cine-Revue magazine. Bunuel's first color film, about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 musical Western film. After the Lerner and Loewe musical debuted on Broadway, Paramount put an estimated $20 million into the production, for which Lerner and Andre Previn wrote an additional five songs. Jean Seberg portrays a woman sold to Marvin and Eastwood by a Mormon. She subsequently demands equal...
Hollywood: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1981. Feature Draft script (television equivalent of a Shooting script) for the 1982 television film, which originally aired November 28, 1982 on NBC. Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Norman Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, following his release...
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph on the set of the 1970 film showing director Michael Wadleigh, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographer Richard Pearce and a young Martin Scorcese working in the editing room. With a French language Warner Brothers stamp on verso. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an...
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Rome: Ponti-De Laurentils Cinematografica, 1952. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman from the classic 1952 Italian neorealist film. With holograph notations regarding layout, mimeo snipe, and stamps of distributor Lux Films and "Cinemonde" magazine on the verso. Ingrid Bergman stars as Irene, a wealthy Rome socialite whose life is shattered following her son's suicide. Rossellini, taking inspiration in the life of...
N.p. N.p., circa 1956. Vintage script for the 1956 Broadway musical play, including a 3-page "prop inventory" bound in at the rear. A showcase for the talents of Sammy Davis Jr., "Mr. Wonderful" opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and had a successful run of 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. Based on a story...
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play belonging to performer and uncredited writer Bob Hoban. National Lampoon's Lemmings opened at the Village Gate / Downstairs on January 25, 1973 and was wildly successful, with a run of 350 performances that closed on November 25, 1973. In 1973 National Lampoon magazine was at its circulation peak when editor Tony...
N.p. N.p., 1977. Draft script for the Off-Broadway premiere production of the acclaimed 1978 Sam Shepard play. Later generation copy (consistent with late 1970s-era Xerox duplication), likely made during production, with photocopied annotations in at least two different hands throughout (neither is Shepard's, thus presumably made by actors), as well as a substantial amount of dialogue crossed through (also photocopy)...
Culver City, CA: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, August 12, 1983. Early draft script for the unfinished 1983 version of what would later be remade as the 1988 film. Paul Schrader's Third Revision script for Martin Scorcese's first attempt at making the film in 1983 through Paramount. Laid in typed letter signed attesting to the vintage and provenance of the script from David...
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London: N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for the 1969 film. An early version of the screenplay with the provisional title "A Kestrel for a Knave". "6x" in black holograph marker on top right of title page. The second film (and breakthrough) by esteemed British social realist filmmaker Ken Loach. Based upon the 1968 novel by Barry Hines "A Kestrel for a....
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1969. Original draft script for the 1970 film. Actress and star Ingrid Pitt's working script with signature in holograph ink on top right corner of title page with annotations through, including character motivations such as, "cynical attitude to guests - thinking of next feed!!." Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novella "Carmilla," this is the first of...
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, Circa 1985. Collection of 22 vintage still photographs from the 1985 film. An early mockumentary, following a documentary filmmaker's attempt to find out identity of a mysterious masked wrestler. A cult classic of the wrestling film genre, starring many stars of the wrestling world from its time, including Magic Schwarz, Stephen Cepello, Dick Murdoch, Wally...