Beverly Hills, CA: VEB DEFA-Studio fur Spielfilme [DDDE] / Crown International Pictures, 1960. Vintage borderless still photograph from the 1960 East German film "First Spaceship on Venus." Based on the 1951 Stanislaw Lem novel "The Astronauts." DEFA production company rubber stamp to the verso. Featuring an image of Yoko Tani patching up an injury on her shipmate Julius Ongewe. An.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1971. Two vintage borderless reference photographs of author-playwright Kurt Vonnegut, actors Susannah York and Rod Steiger, and director Mark Robson on the set of the 1971 film. The first is a candid photo of Vonnegut and York, and the second is a photo showing York, Steiger, and Robson at work on the set, the first.....

Los Altos, CA: Trimark Pictures, 1998. Vintage photograph from the 1998 film, showing James Wood and Larry Clark on the set. Based on the 1997 novel by Eddie Little. A greatly underrated and blunt thriller, building on Larry Clark's earlier work but adopting the crime genre for a landscape. A teen runaway falls in with a pair of drug addicted.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1954. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1954 film, showing actors Mary Murphy, Bruno VeSota, Will Wright, and others looking on as Robert Keith and Robert Osterloh restrain a wounded Marlon Brando. Based on Frank Rooney's 1951 short story "The Cyclists' Raid." Two rival motorcycle gangs raise hell in a small town, disrupting local racing events, stealing.....

Los Angeles: Lawrence Schiller Productions, 1982. Original borderless photograph of director Lawrence Schiller consulting with novelist Norman Mailer regarding the script for the 1982 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso.Based on the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Mailer, who adapted his own book for the screen, about the final years in the life of convicted.....

Beverly Hills, CA: H.B.L. Productions, Circa 1972. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout.Based on the 1969 heist novel by Lawrence Block about a burnt-out former Green Beret who gets a tip-off about a valuable shipment of tactical nuclear weapons, which he intends to steal with the help of a trained.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1955. Vintage full-color British front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1955 US film. Based on the Hans Ruesch novel, "The Racer" (1953), about an Italian bus driver (Douglas) who dreams of winning the Grand Prix. Dedicated to the philosophy of "winning is the only thing," he alienates his fellow racers and everyone else. 8.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage oversize, double weight, borderless photograph from the set of the 1962 film, showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera (with legendary script supervisor Connie Willis to his right) while actor France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the.....

Moscow: Mosfilm, 1964. Two vintage photographs from the four-fim series, released between 1966 and 1967, showing director Sergey Bondarchuk on a large outdoor battle set. With Italian mimeo snipes, and stamps of a magazine archive dated August 19, 1964 on the verso. An epic production, based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel, at the time the most expensive film ever made.....

N.p. N.p., 1957. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink on front wrapper, noting title, screenwriter Leonardo Bercovici, and a story based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1860 novel. Bercovici's screenwriting credits include; "The Bishop's Wife" in 1947, starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven, and "Portrait of Jennie," in 1949, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. His other films.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film. Carbon typescript, with brief annotations throughout in holograph pencil. Noted as "Cockle Script" on the front wrapper. Leslie Charteris wrote the original screen story (but not the screenplay) for this film, and subsequently published the story as a novel in conjunction with the film's release. A light.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1948. Post-Production Superimposed Spotted List and Combined Dialogue script for the 1948 film. Single holograph notation in pen to the front wrapper.Based on the 1947 novel. In 1890s London, the widow of a missionary falls for an amoral grifter who lodges at her boarding house. He soon drags her into his nefarious schemes, eventually manipulating her into.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white borderless still photographs from the 1966 UK film. Press photos, with cropping annotations in the British style (millimeters) on the verso of one still, and a stamp on the verso of the other still. Based on Naughton's 1966 play, about a young man from the working classes of sexy, swinging 1960s London, Alfie.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on Alan Burgess' 1960 novel "Seven Men at Daybreak," which was in turn loosely based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid," the assassination of a top general in the Nazi RSHA by two Czech spies.Set in Germany and shot on location in Prague.Green titled wrappers.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Collection of six vintage contact sheets featuring 54 images from the set of the 1962 film. The images show Brando in costume on the set, posing with co-star Tarita Teriipaia, who he would later marry, cast and crew filming a boat landing, and many images of relaxing locals in traditional garb, preparing for their.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1958. Final Shooting script for the first half of the 1958 film, thus incomplete as issued, dated April 9, 1958. With lead actor Sal Mineo’s name in holograph ink on two revision leaves, and his character’s name in pencil on the front wrapper. Laid in is a small leaf with holograph ink notations including the.....

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1947. Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint holograph pencil annotations, and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout.Based on the 1946 Broadway play, and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden, Alabama, the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film.Based on the 1944 comedic mystery novel by Craig Rice, about the children of a widowed mystery novelist attempting to solve a murder in their neighborhood with the help of a handsome police lieutenant.Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped copy No. 66 and production No. 100, dated MARCH 2.....

England: ITC Entertainment, 1975. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1975 British-Canadian film. Based on Tom Ardies' 1974 novel, "Kosygin Is Coming." Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Shaver (Segal) is ensnared in a KGB assassination plot to kill a visiting Soviet Premier. 11 x 14 inches. Light corner bumps, else Near Fine. Scarce.

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1932 novel by Zane Grey. George O'Brien plays an itinerant cowboy named Jim Wall who agrees to take part in a cattle rustling scheme but backs out after developing feelings for the rancher's sister. Set in Arizona and shot there on location. Green titled wrappers.....

Paris: Nouvelles Editions de Films, 1958. French language draft script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1777 erotic novel "Point de Lendemain" by Dominique Vivant, released in the US as "The Lovers." Louis Malle's second film, about a wealthy woman who becomes bored with both her emotionally distant husband and her lover, and abruptly leaves them both to take.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Collection of four vintage matte-finish borderless candid photographs of Jeanne Moreau on the set of the 1958 French film noir.The film's new cinematic realism was both indebted and pivotal to the French New Wave, and skyrocketed the career of actress Jeanne Moreau, whose disaffected, makeup-less performance was the scandal of Paris for months following the film's.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Collection of 21 vintage borderless double weight photographs from the 1967 film. Many with the stamp of still photographer Vincent Rossel on the verso, one with the stamp of Globe Photos, and one with a provenance stamp.Based on the 1897 novel by Georges Darien. After his inheritance is stolen by his uncle, a young man embarks.....

France: Hermes-Films, Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced French film based on Maheux-Forcier's 1963 novel of lesbian love, "Amadou." Notations throughout in holograph ink, some noting cut scenes. French language. Opening scene translated: "It's dawn. The light is still undecided. In the fields, the first cries of insects, in the trees, songs of birds that awaken. The water of.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1963. Vintage photograph of director Luchino Visconti in conversation with actor Burt Lancaster on the set of the 1963 film. With a Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso.From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.Based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 novel. Visconti's classic, spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy.....

Rocca di San Casciano, Italy: Cappelli, 1963. First Edition. Text in Italian.The screenplay and affiliated commentary for the 1963 film, illustrated with film stills and production photographs.Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Vintage bookseller's labels to the front and rear pastedown, with faint toning at the crown and heel. Jacket lightly toned to the spine, with light.....

Rome: G.B. Poletto, 1962. Vintage press photograph showing director Luchino Visconti and stars Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale on the beach at Cannes to promote "The Leopard" with the aid of what is actually a cheetah, rather than the titular big cat. With the stamp of United Press International on the verso. Visconti's classic, spacious homage to the quiet death.....

Rome: Titanus, 1963. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1963 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Visconti's classic, spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century, one of the great films of the Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career, and one of a handful of examples of Burt.....

Paris: Athos Films / Istituto Luce, 1967. Original French grande poster for the 1967 Italian film. Based on Florence Montgomery's 1869 novel. John (Quayle) is the UK Consul in Florence, Italy, where he becomes a widower with two sons. Andrew (Colagrande) is the oldest, constantly assuming responsibility for his younger brother Miles' (Giannozzi) shenanigans, until one act that proves too.....

FranceSpain: Greenwich Film Productions / Les Films Galaxie / In-Cine Compania Industrial Cinematografica, 1977. Vintage borderless photograph showing director Luis Bunuel behind a camera on the set of the 1977 film. With identifying holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys, about the tempestuous relationship.....

Paris: Robert et Raymond Hakim, Circa 1967. Vintage reference photograph of Catherine Deneuve and Genevieve Page from the 1967 film. "Property of The New York Public Library," and "DUPL NYPL" stamps on verso.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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1964 film, one showing actress Jeanne Moreau embracing director Luis Bunuel, the other showing Bunuel and Moreau in conversation between takes, with a camera crew in the background. With a provenance stamp on the verso, along with holograph pencil and ink annotations. Based on Octave Mirbeau's.....

France: Greenwich Film Productions, 1977. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1977 film. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys, about the tempestuous relationship between a wealthy, middle aged Frenchman and a poor, young Spanish dancer. The woman is played by both Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina.....

London: N.p., 1953. Original film script, an unofficial "without permission" adaptation of George Sidney's "Young Bess" (1953). Simpson's presentation copy, a maroon composition notebook with the script filling rectos of over 70 leaves in the author's own holograph ink, and a dedication on the front endpaper: "Everything I have to say, has already been said. I'll dedicate this, my first.....

Los Angeles: Famous Artists Productions, 1967. Vintage borderless black-and-white double weight press photograph from the set of the 1967 film comedy. With the stamp of photographer Pierluigi Praturlon on the verso. Born in Rome, Praturlon (better known simply as Pierluigi) embarked upon a career in photography in 1947. The young paparazzo got his first big story by snapping candid shots.....

N.p. N.p., 1959. Collection of eight vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1959 French film. A key film that captured the essence of an era, a music, and a place, namely the modern Carnival, bossa nova, and Brazil, as well as an important intersection of European and Brazilian viewpoints, merging the talents of French director Marcel Camus.....

N.p. Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Circa 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Mario Bava, John Phillip Law, and Marisa Mell on the set of the 1968 film. "A.L.A. Fotocine" stamp on verso. Based on the popular Italian comic strip "Diabolik," created in 1962 by Italian sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani. Remade as the internationally produced animated television series "Diabolik," a......

N.p. N.p., 1977. Fourth Draft script for the 1977 film. With a single holograph ink notation to the front wrapper's right top corner.Based on the 1977 novel by Colin Forbes about a defecting Russian general who collaborates with an American secret agent to expose KGB spies throughout Europe by luring them onto a train headed west. Director Mark Robson and.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1994. Vintage press photograph of director Mark Rydell and actors Sharon Stone and Martin Landau on the set of the 1994 film. A remake of the 1970 French film "Les Choses de La Vie" by Claude Sautet, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Paul Guimard. Vincent Eastman (Richard Gere) must decide to.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1960. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso, one with "SILVER SCREEN ARCHIVES" stamp on the verso. Based on Mark Twain's 1884 classic, the sixth adaptation for the screen and the first to be filmed in color, shot in CinemaScope and Technicolor. Set in and shot.....

Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1963. Revised Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped and noted in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Best on the best-selling 1958 novel by Burdick and Lederer, about Americans in Vietnam and the struggle for the US in combating the country's Communist politics. Brando plays a scholar named Harrison.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1978. Final Draft script for the season one, episode seven of the 1979 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 24, 1979 on ABC. Ribbon copy Master typescript, from which all other copies of this draft were made. In the final installment of this epic tale, Alex, along with his family gather in Henning, Tennessee.....

Beverly Hills, CA: William Morris Agency, 1983. Agency script for the 1982 play. William Morris Agency script dated 1983, likely used to shop for a film adaptation, and likely the script that ultimately resulted in the television film adaptation released by Aaron Spelling Productions in 1986, directed by Broadway director Tom Moore, starring Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. Jessie Cates.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1965. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Martin Ritt and a silhouetted Richard Burton on the set of the 1965 film. Cropping annotations in holograph ink on verso.Based on John le Carre's 1963 novel, the first ever adaptation of his works. A British agent refuses to leave his duties during the Cold War, taking on.....

Universal City: Universal Studios, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph of Dana Hill from the 1983 film. Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' 1942 memoir.Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) makes the abrupt decision to leave her husband and move to an isolated orange grove to concentrate on writing her novel "The Yearling." Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actor (Rip Torn) and.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original lobby card for the Quebecois release of the 1959 film "The Sound and the Fury," loosely based on the 1929 novel by William Faulkner. Seen here with the title painted over in black and rewritten in French: "Le Bruit et la Fureur," as was common practice at the time. Lobby card number eight in.....