Circa 1990. Draft script for the 1990 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese, with the introductory leaf for each of the film's dream sequences in a separate, bright color. A vibrant anthology based entirely on director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams, addressing themes of childhood, spirituality, art, war, and disaster. Shot on location in Nagano, Shizuoka, Hokkaido, and Kanagawa. White titled.....
![Red Beard [Akahige] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film). Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni Masato...](/pictures/thumb/148710.jpg?v=1591673665)
Tokyo: Kurosawa Production Co., 1963. Draft script for the 1965 Japanese film, preceding the release by nearly two years. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Shugoro Yamamoto's short story collection "Akahige Shinryotan". Toshiro Mifune's final film with director Akira Kurosawa, considered one of the director's masterpieces, following a small-town doctor and his new intern, a highly educated, arrogant young.....
Los Angeles: Daniel Waters, 1987. Revised Second Draft script for the 1987 film. A very darkly comedic take on the popular John Hughes teen angst comedies of the 1980s which became an instant cult classic. Veronica (Winona Ryder) is tiring of being part of the popular mean clique of "Heathers" when she meets the new rebellious student J.D. (Christian Slater), who.....
![Ride, Kelly, Ride [Corncob Kelly's Benefit] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film). Norman...](/pictures/thumb/148708.jpg?v=1591673662)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Corncob Kelly's Benefit." Production No. 301 and copy No. 105 rubber stamped on front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation, in holograph pencil, of two names on verso of page 119. Eight blue revision pages follow.....
![High and Low [Tengoku to Jigoku] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film). Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzo...](/pictures/thumb/148706.jpg?v=1591673662)
1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text and titles in Japanese. A legendary Japanese noir, based on American author Ed McBain's 1959 novel "King's Ransom." A wealthy industrialist is contacted by a gang of crooks who inform him that they have kidnapped his son, and are holding him hostage in exchange for an enormous ransom. The industrialist soon realizes, however.....
![Don Juan Quilligan [Two-Faced Quilligan] (Original screenplay for the 1945 film). Frank Tuttle,...](/pictures/thumb/148705.jpg?v=1591673660)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film, here under the working title "Two-Faced Quilligan." Production No. 911 and copy No. 6 rubber stamped on the front wrapper, with SHOOTING FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation in the script, in holograph pencil, noting three names, on the verso of last.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Second Revised / First Draft Continuity script for the 1949 film. Production No. 143 and copy No. 7, SECOND REVISED, and RIRST DRAFT CONTINUITY all rubber stamped on front wrapper. Single annotation in script, in holograph pencil, on the verso of page 70 listing three names. Whaling ship captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) takes his grandson.....
![Right to the Heart [You Can't Always Tell] (Original screenplay for the 1942 film). Eugene Forde,...](/pictures/thumb/148690.jpg?v=1591673656)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Production No. 690 and copy No. 140 both rubber stamped on the front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. John T. Bromley (Joseph Allen), a young man from high society, is physically humiliated by a prizefighter (William Haade) before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian.....
New York: Random House, 1941. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "Ivanka dear / Love and best wishes always / Maritta." The author's first book. Basis for the 1946 film noir directed by Leonide Moguy and starring George Raft and Ava Gardner. Near Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. Faint offsetting to the endpapers. Jacket.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First Edition, in the rare dust jacket. Jazz Age novel, a moral tale of an ill-fated love affair between an idealistic young woman from Connecticut and a rambling snake oil salesman. In the rather modern plot, the two travel from Connecticut to New York, where they open a coffee house, while "the wolves of the.....
N.p. Percy Main Productions, 1995. Revised Final Draft script for the 1996 film. Three copied annotations on two pages, consisting of one dialogue change and two revision date changes. Based on the 1962 book "The Last Voyage of the Albatross" by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton about the sinking of the brigantine Albatross on May 2, 1961. All American boy Chuck.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Basis for the 1931 film directed by John M. Stahl. Included with the book is an extraordinary original bi-fold program for the April 17, 1931 Hollywood premiere of Stahl's film at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles, printed in black and gold on lavender cardstock, styled to emulate the novel's dust jacket.....
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 300 copies (this being No. 177) numbered in silver marker on the rear panel. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry Fool" (1997), and.....
Munich: Filmverlag der Autoren, 1976. First Edition. Introductory text in English and German. A photobook that tells the story of the film in sequence with no narrative accompaniment, and including at the rear the full script in English, along with several pages of interviews with cast and crew members, illustrated with photographs from the set of the film. Noted auteur Wim.....
Stockholm: Libraryman, 2010. First Edition. One of 15 unnumbered copies with a chromogenic print SIGNED by director Hal Hartley affixed to the last leaf. A collection of selected film still photographs from the noted independent filmmaker's oeuvre, beginning with his 1988 debut "The Unbelievable Truth" up to the 2011 film "Meanwhile", with stills from "Amateur" (1994), "Flirt" (1995), and "Henry.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1996. Sixth Revised Draft script for the 1996 science fiction film. Based on characters created for the cult trading card series originally released in 1962, and an open homage to campy 1950s science fiction movies. Earth is invaded by powerful, unstoppable Martians with high-tech weapons and a bloody sense of humor. Set on planet Earth, shot on.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1981. Final Draft script for the 1982 film. Housed in a brown quarter-leather custom clamshell box. A coming-of-age tale set in 1959, following a group of four friends in their early twenties struggling to adapt to life as adults. Set and shot on location in Baltimore. Goldenrod titled wrappers, dated January 12, 1981, noted as FINAL DRAFT, rubber-stamped.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 2004. Revised Draft script for the 2004 film. Copy belonging to assistant location manager Hannah Kozak, SIGNED by actors Ben Stiller, Barbra Streisand, and Dustin Hoffman on the title page. Housed in a green quarter-leather clamshell box. Sequel to "Meet the Parents" (2000). Chaos ensues when the uptight, conservative Byrnes family meets their daughter's fiance's extremely liberal.....
Culver City, CA: TriStar, 1996. Shooting Script for the 1997 film. SIGNED on the title page by director-screenwriter James L. Brooks. Housed in a quarter leather clamshell slipcase, red cloth with blue leather spine. A misanthropic novelist uses sarcasm and animosity to mask his extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, but finds his highly regimented world begins to unravel when he is forced to.....
Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture, 1939. Vintage oversize double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative in white along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E. S. Blake Dec 15.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Vintage photograph of director Michael Curtiz with Wayne Morris, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Veda Ann Borg on the set of the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the short story by Francis Wallace published in 1936 in the Saturday Evening Post. When bellhop Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) knocks out.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film, likely a first draft. Based on the acclaimed 1978 novel by James Crumley. After Walter Hill's critical and commercial success with "Warriors" (1979), and the critical success of "The Long Riders" (1980), he focused his energies on adapting "The Last Good Kiss," in which he was hoping to cast Nick Nolte.....
![Street Smart [Streets of New York] (Original screenplay for the 1987 film). Jerry Schatzberg,...](/pictures/thumb/148556.jpg?v=1592872093)
N.p. International Creative Management [ICM], 1980. Early Revised Draft script for the 1987 film, here under the working title "Streets of New York." Magazine reporter Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) fabricates a story about a New York pimp after he is unsuccessful getting information on the streets. But the police, the district attorney, and a real pimp and police suspect, Fast.....
New York: Dial, 1943. First Edition. The author's unaccountably scarce fifth novel. By the author of the 1934 novel, "Brain Guy." A prescient work for 1943 that, like much of the author's fiction, is crime fiction from a politically radical perspective that addresses the presence of fascism in a "democratic" society. In a style that is realistic rather than theoretical, a......
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931. First American Edition, preceded by the UK edition published by John Lane, The Bodley Head the previous year. Scarce in or out of dust jacket. Very Good plus in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to the bottom page edges, with a lightly toned spine and the top corner of the front board fore.....
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED in Swedish by director and author Ingmar Bergman on the front endpaper, and rare thus. Remainder spray to bottom page edges, else Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly soiled boards and endpapers. Jacket is soiled at the verso, otherwise with light wear at the spine ends.
N.p. N.p., 1959. Shooting script for the 1960 film. Title annotated on the right edge of the front wrapper in holograph pencil and copy number "36" annotated on title page above title in holograph ink. Based on the 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence. An excellent and beautifully filmed adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's semi-autobiographical novel wherein the young Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell).....
London: ITC, Circa 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting and consultant work on the television series "The Avengers" from 1965 to 1968. Levene did not receive screen.....
![Deadlier Than the Male [Female of the Species] (Original screenplay for the 1967 film). Ralph...](/pictures/thumb/148529.jpg?v=1592872091)
London: National Film Corporation, 1965. Second Draft script for the 1967 film, here under the working title "Female of the Species." Based on the adventurer character Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, which appeared in 24 novels and short stories, beginning with "Bull-Dog Drummond" (1920), created by H. C. McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper, and continued after his death, from 1937 to 1954.....
London: Hammer Film Productions, 1960. Draft script for the 1961 Hammer film, with name of editor John Pomeroy written in holograph ink and struck over with holograph pencil, with copy No. 51 noted in holograph pencil, all at the top margin of the front wrapper. Three pages of the script have annotations in holograph ink, highlighting a section of dialogue.....
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.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1953. Vintage photograph of director Budd Boetticher and Julie Adams relaxing in a tree, from the 1953 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. An early Technicolor Western from seminal American director Budd Boetticher. Gringo miner Gallager (Van Heflin) is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-1911 when corrupt administrator Ruiz (George Dolenz) appropriates his mine. Gallager.....
N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 play, which premiered on May 3 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the subtlety and accuracy of its indictments. Set in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers, with.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Three vintage photographs of Patricia Neal applying makeup on the set of the 1949 film. Adapted to the screen by Ayn Rand from her novel, one of only three screenplays she wrote during her brief tenure in Hollywood. In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work, King Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of director Preston Sturges about to cane his assistant director (uncredited) George Templeton on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe and "Paramount Photo by Talmage Morrison" stamp on the verso. Based on Preston Sturges' 1931 play "A Cup of Coffee." Sturges' second film as writer-director. Office clerk Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell).....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 199. Early Draft script for the 1993 film. Laid in with the script is a five page production document pertaining to casting, with holograph ink annotations to the verso of the final page, noting a to-do list and brief timetable. Based on Edwin Torres' 1975 novel "Carlito's Way" and its 1979 sequel "After Hours", following a Puerto.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage photograph of Lillian Gish and Charles Laughton on the set of the 1955 film. Annotations in holograph pencil, "Library Dell Publishing," "Life Story 1953," and four overlapping "Everett Collection" stamps, all on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by David Grubb. Charles Laughton's only directorial credit, with tremendous performances throughout, led by a......
![Blazing Saddles [Black Bart] (Original screenplay for the 1974 film). Mel Brooks, Andrew Bergman...](/pictures/thumb/148474.jpg?v=1592872090)
N.p. N.p., 1972. Early Draft script for the 1974 film, here under the working title "Black Bart," dated November 3, 1972. Director Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western, in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town, and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A witty satire on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 film, with annotation in holograph pencil on front wrapper, "To 8/24/72," under script date of August 16, 1972. Scene number annotations in holograph ink on right side of pages [1] through 99, with the exception of revision page 10. Final thirteen pages have introductory page, dated "8/24/72," making note.....
New York: Vanguard, 1937. Advance Reading Copy in wrappers, preceding the First Edition. Owner name in holograph ink on the half-title page. Rare, this being the only example we have ever encountered. The second novel in the author's Williamsburg Trilogy, also later collected as "The Brooklyn Novels." The first two depicted Jewish life in Williamsburg, and this final one, in Brighton.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper: "7/10/71 / To Douglas Jones / With all good wishes, / Daniel Fuchs." Fuchs' fourth novel. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Lightly rubbed boards, with a tiny stain at the fore-edge of the front endpaper. Jacket is lightly toned along the.....
New York: Methuen, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the front endpaper to film historian Gabriel Miller and his wife: "For Gabriel & Kathie / affectionately, Dan." A collection of short stories and personal essays. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
New York: Vanguard, 1936. First Edition. INSCRIBED by author Daniel Fuchs on the half-title page, in an early hand: "With best wishes / Daniel Fuchs." Fuchs' second novel, and the second book in his Williamsburg trilogy. Very Good plus in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Some darkening at the gutters as always found. Jacket is lightly toned overall, with small.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1939. Vintage double weight still photograph of James Stewart and Jean Arthur from the 1939 film. Mimeo snipe, "Please Credit A. L. Schafer" stamp, and very faint "Approved" stamp on the verso. Controversial among the political American establishment at the time for its (accurate, then and now) depiction of the Senate as a group of.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers - First National, 1942. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1942 film. One with a mimeo snipe on verso, one with "National Screen Service Corp" and "227- 42" stamps on verso, and two with a "Photograph by Madison Lacy" stamp on versos. Included is a two-color press flyer for the film. Danny (Richard Whorf).....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 musical, for the character of Tommy, with the character name on lower right and "5." on upper right, presumably Tommy being the fifth character in the play. A very unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the part and the lines of a single character, and.....
![Crimes and Misdemeanors [Brothers] (Original screenplay for the 1989 film belonging to actor...](/pictures/thumb/148416.jpg?v=1589614221)
N.p. Untitled Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film, belonging to and heavily annotated throughout by actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "Brothers." Bound in a spring binder with "Kraft Music Hall" and Landau's name in gilt on front ("The Kraft Music Hall" was the revival of the NBC variety television show with various hosts and performers.....
Hollywood: CBS Radio, 1955. Vintage contact sheet, cut into three strips. A total of twelve images, four of which are duplicated and enlarged on a single print, of Louis Armstrong and Gary Crosby from the September 18, 1955 "Gary Crosby Show" radio show, recorded and photographed on 8/7/55. Mimeo snipe from CBS Radio, partially detached, with remainder on verso of.....
New York: King Features Syndicate, 1949. Vintage photograph of Burt Lancaster and Corinne Calvert on the set from the 1949 film noir. "Inside Hollywood by Nat Dallinger" mimeo snipe and "Mar 18 1949" stamp on the verso. A noirish adventure about Paul Vogel (Paul Henreid), a sadistic police inspector stationed somewhere in Africa, where he hopes to find a legendary.....
![Journey to Italy [Viaggio in Italia] (Original photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto...](/pictures/thumb/148411.jpg?v=1592277546)
New York: International News Photos, 1953. Vintage photograph of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe, dated May 17, 1953, "International News Photos" and "Return to: Chronicle Files" stamps on verso. The International News Photos snipe addresses the movie as "New Wine." While we could not verify that working title, Rossellini and co-screenwriter.....
N.p. Associated Press, 1944. Vintage press photograph with bottom margin, of Zachary Scott studying a script, early in his film career. Mimeo snipe on verso dated 1944, with "NOTICE Wide World Photo" stamp, "Drama" stamp and a much later "Spokesman-Review" stamp below snipe on verso. Photograph release was to accompany a "Rosalind Shaffer Hollywood AP NEWSFEATURES story on" Scott, to.....
N.p. N.p., 1972. Revised Version Draft script for the 1972 film, belonging to actor Martin Landau. Annotation of copy number "27" on top right of title page. Twenty pages of script contain annotations, eighteen of which are every time Landau's character Capelli appears, with Capelli's name circled, top of page x'd, with locations and actions underlined and blocked in holograph.....
N.p. N.p., 1972. Treatment script for 1972 television film which aired on November 21, 1972 on CBS. Ribbon copy script, with illustrated front wrapper with annotation on top in holograph ink. Anthropologist Dr. Mercer Boley (Cornel Wilde) and his daughter Diana (Jennifer Salt) receive word of a mysterious skeleton unearthed in the desert and decide to excavate it for further study.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film by screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Phil Rapp, dated 10/16/46. First page of carbon typescript treatment is a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., signed and dated by Fuchs in holograph ink, with date illegible. Daniel Fuchs began his writing career in his mid-twenties with the novels "Summer in.....
N.p. Golden State Productions, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film, belonging to actress Adele Jergens, with her signature prominently written on center of front wrapper, and printed title inked over, both in holograph ink. Annotations throughout, striking and adjusting dialogue and circling the character of Jenny, played by Jergens, in holograph ink and pencil. Jergen's paper clips, all along.....
![The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond [The Life and Death of Legs Diamond] (Original screenplay for...](/pictures/thumb/148398.jpg?v=1589614218)
N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations including the director's name and phone number, time to.....
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1967. Shooting script for the 1968 film, Edward G. Robinson's copy, with his name written boldly on top right of front wrapper, with the copy number "2," in holograph marker. Annotations to dialogue, primarily Robinson's character Joe, written in holograph blue and graphite pencil throughout. Laid in is a two page "Staff & Crew Sheet,".....
Hollywood: Berkshire Productions, Circa 1965. Draft script for the 1968 film, with titled written on front wrapper very boldly in holograph marker, script containing a few copied annotations, striking dialogue and altering actions. From an original story from producer and director Josef Shaftel. When no one will pay the ransom for the return of retired Mob Boss Cesare Celli (Vittorio De.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 2005. Draft script for the 2006 film. An intimate look at the British Royal family from May to September of 1997, following the death of Princess Diana on August 31, 1977, and the struggle between Queen Elizabeth's (Helen Mirren) desire to treat it as a private affair, and Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Sheen) and Prince Charles'.....
Rome: Solaris Cinematografica, 2000. Eighth Draft script for the 2001 television film, which originally aired on January 22 on Channel 5. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in after the script are six pages of Invernizzi's handwritten notes.....
![Il decimo clandestino [The Tenth One in Hiding] (Original screenplay for the 1989 television...](/pictures/thumb/148351.jpg?v=1592277525)
Rome: Reteitalia, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 television film, which originally aired on Video 80 on May 12. Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes, and several handwritten.....
![Blood Feud [Titoli di Testa] (Original screenplay for the 1978 film). Lina Wertmuller, Marcello...](/pictures/thumb/148341.jpg?v=1592277523)
London: Lord Grade, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film, here under the working title "Titoli di Testa". Copy belonging to script supervisor Franca Invernizzi, with her extensive holograph annotations on nearly every page (and many page versos) regarding camera shots, takes, timing, and dialogue. Bound in after the script is an annotated list of scenes, and several handwritten pages.....
![Simon, King of the Witches [Simon] (Original screenplay for the 1971 film). Bruce Kessler, Robert...](/pictures/thumb/148331.jpg?v=1589004417)
Los Angeles: Fanfare Films, 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film, here under the working title "Simon". With a holograph ink annotation noting the script as No. 24 along with the name of an unknown crew member to the front wrapper, and holograph pencil annotations to several pages, most regarding camera operation. One of the strangest films ever made, replete.....
Burbank, CA: United Productions of America, 1962. Revised Draft script for the 1962 animated television film, which originally aired on December 18 on NBC. With holograph pencil annotations throughout, both editorial and substantive in nature. A musical, animated version of Charles Dickens' classic 1843 Christmas story, featuring the diminutive, nearsighted Mr. Magoo as Ebenezer Scrooge. Set in New York and London. Black.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Vintage half sheet poster for the 1957 film. Based on Terence Rattigan's 1953 play "The Sleeping Prince," about the visiting prince of a small (fictional) Balkan nation who falls in love with an American showgirl while in London. A notoriously difficult production, which forms the basis for two behind-the-scenes memoirs by Marilyn Monroe's personal assistant.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Second Draft script for an unproduced film, with single holograph annotation at bottom of title page. Written by author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter Jeremy Larner, who won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Michael Ritchie's "The Candidate" starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle. Larner also co-wrote with Jack Nicholson the 1971 Nicholson film "Drive She Said,".....
![Hold On! [There's No Place Like Space] (Original screenplay for the 1966 film). Arthur Lubin,...](/pictures/thumb/148132.jpg?v=1588818635)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film, here under the working title "There's No Place Like Space," belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. A vehicle to promote the band Herman's Hermits in much the same vein as The Beatles in Richard Lester's.....
![When the Boys Meet the Girls [Girl Crazy] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film). Ganzer. Alvin,...](/pictures/thumb/148129.jpg?v=1590295365)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1965 film musical. Copy belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Laid in is a 17 page shooting schedule, under the title "Girl Crazy," dated 7-13-65. Based on the 1930 musical "Girl Crazy" by Guy Bolton and.....
N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, belonging to cinematographer Paul Vogel, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Script preceded by a thirteen page shooting schedule, dated 12-7-66, with holograph annotations in ink and pencil, including the name of lead actor Aldo Ray added to the character.....
New York: Lee Guber and Shelly Gross, Circa 1971. Draft script for an unproduced play by Bill Manhoff. "Sidney and the Werewolf's Widow" was to open on Broadway in March 1971, starring Geraldine Page and Telly Savalas, directed by Stanley Prager, but the project collapsed in the midst of pre-production. Manhoff is best known for writing the 1964 Broadway play "The.....
Houston: Major Studio Productions, 1973. Draft script of an unproduced play, with an annotation that reads "Hot Line to Heaven" along with an address and telephone number written in holograph ink on title page. With a Nahas-Braken Corporation business card stapled to title page. Clyde Benson and Sophie Bertolucci are two retirees in the 70s who counsel Sophie's visiting son-in-law when.....
New York: Melanie Herman, 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical comedy based on the 1911 short story by Saki. Clovis Sangrail, upon hearing the complacent middle-aged James Huddle complaining about his routine and resistance to change, makes the suggestion that he needs an "unrest cure," involving them in an "invented outrage." Set in 1904 England. Yellow Studio Duplicating Service titled wrappers.....
New York: Sheldon R. Lubliner/F. Wendell Minnick, Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 musical, which was to premiere at the Palace but closed during its out-of-town tryout, and played The National Theatre in Washington, DC from January 1, 1978 to February 4, 1978. Copy number "#34" written in holograph marker on top corner of title page. The story of fictional.....
![Booth is Back in Town [Mr. Booth] (Original script for the 1968 musical). Austin Pendleton,...](/pictures/thumb/148021.jpg?v=1592277516)
New York: Richard Fields, Circa 1968. Draft script for the musical which premiered in 1968 by the Lincoln Center Workshop at the Forum Theatre. Numeric holograph annotation in holograph pencil on verso of last leaf. One of two musical plays written by actor Austin Pendleton. "Booth is Back in Town!" was first performed, with music by Jim Massengale, by the Yale.....
New York: Lansbury-Duncan Productions, 1971. Draft script for 1972 play which premiered on April 5, 1972 at the Lyceum Theatre, for a short run of five performances, closing on April 8, 1972. Copy No. "22" noted in holograph marker on title page. Set in the late Sixteenth century, a touring company of Elizabethan players perform a bawdy, burlesque version of "Elizabeth.....
New York: Picket Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play which premiered at the Bjijou Theater in New York. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database, but an early performance was reviewed by Clive Barnes for the New York Times on March 27, 1973. Playwright N. Richard Nash is best known for "The Rainmaker" (1954), adapted to the screen by.....
New York: McCann and Nugent, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play which opened on October 20, 1977, at the Martin Beck Theatre, for a run of 925 performances, closing on January 6, 1980. Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 Gothic novel and written in 1924 by Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane, then revised by American writer John L. Balderston.....
New York: Wolsk and Azenberg, 1974. Third Revised script for the 1974 play which opened on December 11, 1974, at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, for a run of 119 performances, closing on March 23, 1975. "Copy 1" annotation on title page in holograph marker. Loosely based on the story of Job from the Old Testament, God-fearing tycoon Joe Benjamin (Vincent Gardenia).....
New York: NR Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play, which opened on March 26, 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database. Parishioners at St. Thomas's on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues. Set in Westwood, Connecticut. Orange Studio Duplicating Service titled.....
New York: David Merrick Arts Foundation, Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 US staging of this play, which premiered October 30, 1975 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, for a run of 156 performances, closing on March 13, 1976. Numeric annotation in holograph pencil on front wrapper, and copy No. 4 noted in holograph ink on title page. "Travesties" was first.....
New York: Richard Fields/Peter Flood, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play, which premiered on February 6, 1973, with a short run of 31 performances, closing on March 3, 1973. Minor annotations in holograph pencil on a few pages in second act of script, with two pages showing extensive annotations which have been partially erased but are mostly still plainly.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered March 2,1977, at the Little Theatre, for only 6 performances, closing on March 6, 1977. Copy belonging to director and producer Charles Grodin, whose name, address, and phone number are printed on the bottom of the title page. A comedy about a man who comes home to find his.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play. "The Gin Game" premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977, at the John Golden Theatre, directed by Mike Nichols. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Actor Hume Cronyn's copy, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page.....
New York: Frissell and Macdonald Productions, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered on May 18, 1976 at the Little Theatre for a run of 396 performances, closing on October 30, 1978, copy number "#13" written in holograph marker on top right of title page. Inspired by the August 1907 murder of Sr. Mary Janina Mezek. Set in 1911.....
N.p. William Morris Agency, 1973. First Draft script from 1973, for the 1977 musical, which premiered at the Alvin Theatre on April 21, 1977 and ran for a remarkable 2,377 performances, closing on January 2, 1983, setting the record for the longest running show at the Alvin Theatre (surpassed in 1979 by "Hairspray"). William Morris Agency label affixed to bottom.....
New York: Theatre 28 Company, 1970. Draft script (noted as "Rehearsal Draft") for the short-lived play, the last work by MacLeish. The play only saw four performances at the St. James Theatre, from May 6, 1971 through May 8, 1971. Two annotations in holograph marker and pencil on title page, one being copy number "#30," and one annotation in holograph.....
New York: Elkins Productions International Corporation, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 musical, which premiered on October 19, 1970 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and ran for 507 performances, closing on January 1, 1972. Copy number "38" in holograph ink on title page. Based on Frederic Morton's 1962 book "The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait," the musical tells of the rise of the.....
New York: Chelsea-Candide Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of the play, noted on the title page as the "Playing Version."). "Candide" premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 10, 1974, playing for 740 performances, closing on January 4, 1976. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#13" on title page and several annotations in holograph pencil throughout.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5, 1974 for 177 performances, closing on October 5, 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page, and on cast page for "Ravenswood," the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits," listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act.....
New York: Philip Rose, 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered at the Longacre Theatre on January 4, 1977 and played for 70 performances, closing on March 5, 1977, with annotations on two pages in holograph pencil and marker highlighting dialogue. Professional race car driver Bobby Horvath returns to his hometown after eight years away and reminisces on his.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Draft script for the 1971 production at the Theatre by the Sea in Wakefield, Rhode Island, as stated in the copied annotations on title page and verified by the University of Rhode Island Library Special Collections and Archives. Copied annotations regarding staging directions on nearly every page. Laid in is a memo on "Black Girl" letterhead with.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Final Shooting script, 1965 souvenir printing made by Selznick International Studios, dated September 7, 1939 and stamped copy No. 107. Laid in is an 8 x 10 inch film still of Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine as Mr. and Mrs. Maxim de Winter. This souvenir script was issued by Selznick as part of the.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1940 film, with the name of uncredited screenwriter Leonard Lee in holograph pencil over date on lower left. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps and holograph annotation in pencil on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Paramount's 1940 Technicolor south seas adventure. Dea (Dorothy Lamour) is.....
New York: Coward McCann, 1946. First Edition. Basis for the 1947 film noir directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, and Constance Bennett. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with a short closed tear to the front panel, and a lightly faded spine. Still, rare in this condition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First Edition. Cain's second novel, considered by many to be his finest work. Basis for the classic 1945 film noir, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth as mean, mean daughter Vida. Definitively remade, with grace and intelligence, by director Todd Haynes for HBO in 2011, starring Kate Winslet, and.....
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film, here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash," with "Those Were the Days" written in holograph pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept .." and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha (William.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Harebrained comedy wherein international golf champion Richard "Ricky" Carrington Jr. (Ray Milland) returns home to New York with his new Parisian wife Julie (Olympe Bradna) only to find his.....
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Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Second Buff script for the 1939 film, here under the working title "Ruler of the Seas." Paramount "File Copy" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Inspired by the success of "Lloyds of London" (1936), Paramount made a series of million-dollar "spectacles" revolving around the history.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered on April 23 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Basis for the 1978 comedy film directed by Herbert Ross. A slapstick series of four disparate vignettes set in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on October 26 at the ANTA Playhouse. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Playwright William Inge's rewrite of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play "Picnic", about an attractive young drifter whose arrival into a small town inadvertently causes upheaval among its residents. Although "Summer Brave" was.....