Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1961. Post-production 16mm Combined Continuity script for the 1947 film. Based on the Finnish play "Juurakon Hulda" by Hella Wuolijoki, under the pseudonym Juhani Tervapaa. Loretta Young gives a standout performance as a woman who initially leaves home to study nursing in Washington DC but ends up running for Congress through a convoluted series.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. Based on the short story "Private Pettigrew's Girl" by Dana Burnet, and published in "The Saturday Evening Post" on September 14, 1918. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with holograph pencil annotations throughout. Jimmy Stewart plays an idealistic soldier who convinces a Broadway star (Margaret Sullavan) to.....
N.p. Otto Preminger Films, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Otto Preminger's film marked one of the last black and white war epics, and the final black and white film starring John Wayne. Known also for its iconic poster, designed by Saul Bass. Bass' initial design proposals were, in general, too radical for film studios to consider.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1969 television movie. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A television-movie broadcast on NBC as a Hallmark Hall of Fame Easter special and set during Jesus' life. The film follows a Hebrew judge and his son, Jonathan, who interprets Jesus' message as a call to arms. Script as issued, without.....
N.p. Black Rhino Productions, 1983. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1983 film. A goofy comedy about a professor of comparative literature who inadvertently becomes a pimp and chief nemesis of "Mom," a gruff Chicago mob boss. The professor, played by Dan Aykroyd, must juggle teaching, grading, and protecting his "girls." Shot on location in California and Illinois. 8 x......
N.p. Regal Films, 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Based on Evan Hunter's novel of the same name. A romantic drama about two married neighbors who begin an affair, starring Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, and Barbara Rush. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a bruise and two holograph.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern costar in this understated film about estranged brothers, the more grounded of which is surprisingly played by Nicholson. It is a unique chance to see Nicholson play the straightman, reeling in his erratic irresponsible brother, all set to the backdrop of.....
Paris: Lynx, Circa 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of a bikini-clad Charlotte Rampling, off the Promenade de la Croisette, Cannes, France, May 15, 1965. "Lynx Agence Photographique de la Presse" stamp on verso. Rampling, nineteen at the time, was in Cannes to help promote the 1965 Richard Lester directed comedy "The Knack ... and How to Get It." Rampling was also photographed.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of actress Charlotte Rampling, barefoot in a mini-dress, posing in a doorframe, circa 1967. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamps of Parimage press agency, Camera Press Ltd., and photographer Ivan Nagy. 8 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus.
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. Two migrant workers.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1954. Vintage satin-finish reference photograph of actors James Dean and Ronald Reagan on the set of the twelfth episode of season three of "General Electric Theater," which originally aired on December 12, 1954 on CBS. A gangster (Dean) forces a doctor (Reagan) to remove a bullet from his partner in crime after a shootout. Dean's second appearance on.....
N.p. N.p., 1961. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1962 film, showing director Carol Reed and members of the crew in the ocean in Tahiti for a fishing scene. Mimeo snipes on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Previously filmed.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1982. Revised Draft script for the 1983 film. The third of four films pairing director Carl Reiner and comedian Steve Martin that established Martin's film career. Here he plays a quirky doctor who instigates a comedy of errors after operating on a woman whom he injures in a car accident. Though not as popular as their.....
![Fools for Luck [Quick Lunch] (Original screenplay for the 1928 film). Charles Reisner, George...](/pictures/thumb/141789.jpg?v=1503674228)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Famous Lasky Corporation, 1928. Final Draft script for the 1928 film, here under the working title "Quick Lunch." Included is a separately bound, 8-page sequence synopsis for the film. W.C. Fields' last silent film, but only the beginning of his fame. Wealthy Sam Hunter (Chester Conklin) is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead (Fields) about investing in.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Karel Reisz on the set of the 1968 film. With a mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and a library rubber stamp on the verso. A high spot for Vanessa Redgrave in the 1960s, a story that follows the life of the free spirited modern interpretive dancer Isadora.....
N.p. N.p., 1954. Original borderless photograph of director Jean Renoir, and actors Henri Vidal and Jean-Pierre Aumont on the set of the 1954 theatre production. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso. Staged for a single showing in the Roman Arena in Arles on the occasion of the 2000th anniversary of the foundation of the city by Julius.....
![Elena and Her Men [Elena et Les Hommes] (Original photograph from the 1956 film). Jean Renoir,...](/pictures/thumb/144496.jpg?v=1544116778)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1956. Vintage photograph of Jean Renoir and Ingrid Bergman on the set of the 1956 French film. Agency stamps on the verso. A romantic-comedy set in 1890, Paris, starring Ingrid Bergman as Elena Sokorowska,a Polish princess who has a reputation for bringing good luck to her lovers. While scheduled to be married to a wealthy family.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Levy-Garner-Laven, 1976. Draft script for the 1976 film. One of five films directed by and starring Burt Reynolds. Set deep in the Okefenokee Swamp, ex convict Gator McKlusky finds himself the unwitting pawn of federal agents in their plot to take down a corrupt politician. Shot on location in Georgia. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Laurence Olivier and Brenda de Banzie from the 1960 British film. Annotations in holograph pencil on the verso. Based on the 1957 play by John Osborne. Laurence Olivier portrays Archie Rice, an aging, second-rate star of the fading music halls, desperate for a big comeback to solve all of his problems, irregardless.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1979 film, showing director Martin Ritt discussing a scene with star Sally Field. With the stamps of photographer Jacques Moreau and Twentieth Century-Fox on the verso. Inspired by the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton, about a woman who fights to unionize a textile company. Field.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1990. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1990 film. Jane Fonda, a struggling widow and working mother, befriends the illiterate Robert De Niro and teaches him to read. During the production, the film was picketed by Vietnam veterans who disliked Jane Fonda's anti-war activities decades prior to the film. Shot on.....
![5 [Five] Branded Women [Jovanka and the Others] (Original screenplay for the 1960 film). Martin...](/pictures/thumb/130855.jpg?v=1469481312)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures. Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his name on the front wrapper and his holograph annotations throughout. Based on the novel "Jovanka e le altre" by Urgo Pirro. Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel branding of five women in this.....
N.p. Laugh or Die, 1978. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1978 film. A role reversal comedy about the first pregnant man written and directed by comedian Joan Rivers. 8 x 10 inches and 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with slight creasing to the recto. Complete collation details available on request...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Small archive of letters from the Hal Roach Studios archive, all relating to the promotion of the 1937 film. 11 letters in all, dated throughout 1937. Very nice content, 3 of which are address to the Hal Roach Studios, having to do with the promotion of Constance Bennett in the film. Noteworthy among these are letters.....
N.p. N.p., Various. Collection of nine vintage press photographs of actor Cliff Robertson, taken throughout his career. Two photographs with the sticker of a photography studio, one with a sticker from Connecticut newspaper "The Day" crediting photographer John Ligos, and one with the stamp of photographer David Gould. Robertson is best known for his Academy Award winning performance in the.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Two vintage press photographs of actor Cliff Roberston, circa 1960s. Robertson is best known for his Academy Award winning performance in the 1968 film "Charly," directed by Ralph Nelson. One photograph 9.75 x 7 inches, borderless. One photograph 8 x 10 inches. Both Very Good plus.
N.p. N.p., 1932. Vintage borderless photograph of Edward G. Robinson speaking to Los Angeles radio station KFWB at the premiere of the 1932 film "It's Tough to Be Famous," with his wife Gladys Lloyd standing aside, at the Hollywood Theatre in Los Angeles, April 9, 1932. Mimeo snipe on verso. "It's Tough to Be Famous" was a 1932 pre-Code comedy.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1974. Vintage studio still photograph of director Mark Robson and actress Ava Gardner on the set of the 1974 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A catastrophic earthquake destroys much of Los Angeles killing a huge number of citizens, and leaving the rest to struggle for their lives. The film was hugely successful at.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1974. Three studio still photographs from the set of the 1974 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso of each. A catastrophic earthquake destroys much of Los Angeles killing a huge number of citizens, and leaving the rest to struggle for their lives. The film was hugely successful at the box office, ranking as the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1942. Vintage double weight photograph of director Wells Root and actor Dan Dailey on the set of the 1942 film. Mimeo snipe, holograph annotations and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on a series of short stories by Jennie Harris Olver, published in the 1930's. Mokey (Robert Blake), an eight year old boy who.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Vintage photograph of director Herbert Ross and actor Shirley Maclaine on the set of the 1977 film. Holograph annotations on the verso. A film made at what was arguably the maturation point for the Women's Liberation movement that began in the mid-late 1960s, in which MacLaine and Bancroft play former dance colleagues whose lives have.....
![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.....
Italy / France: Produzioni Cinematografiche Associate / Franco London Films, 1954. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1954 film, showing Ingrid Bergman tied to the titular stake, with actor Tullio Carminati beside her, and director Roberto Rossellini in the foreground. With stamps identifying the film (under the English language title "Joan at the Stake") and the New York.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1950. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1950 Italian film, showing director Roberto Rossellini with the camera and lighting crews setting up a wide shot, with Ingrid Bergman and other actors in the distance. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso regarding layout and noting the film's title. After World War II, a......
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1950. Vintage photograph of actors Ingrid Bergman, Gian Paolo Callegari, and director Roberto Rosselini on the set of the 1950 Italian-American film. With a typed description and holograph annotations on the verso. Photographs from the set of this film, shot on the islands of Stromboli and Farfa in Italy, are rare. After World War II.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Margaret O'Brien, who at the age of 9 played Flavia Mills in the film, with her name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. After having been told her aunt's fiance has been traveling around the world, when in reality he has been completing a......
![These Wilder Years [All Our Yesterdays] (Original screenplay for the 1956 film). Roy Rowland,...](/pictures/thumb/142482.jpg?v=1506353593)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Draft script for the 1956 film "These Wilder Years," seen here under the title "All Our Yesterdays." A steel magnate, played by James Cagney, is lonely despite having everything he could want out of life, so he goes searching for the son he gave up for adoption twenty years earlier. Cagney and costar Barbara.....
Baltimore, MD: Royal Books, 2014. First Edition. An exhibition catalog accompanying the photography exhibition at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Culture Center from March 7 to May 26, 2014. A deluxe catalog featuring 50 vintage photographs of directors and actors from around the world at work behind the camera, including Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni.....
Santa Monica: Dick Clark Productions, 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. A deaf runaway hides out with a gang of hippies as she searches fro her long-lost brother is 1960s San Francisco. With a relatively early appearance from Jack Nicholson, who plays the aptly named hippie, "Stoney." Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage press photograph of actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Claude Brialy congratulating fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent on the release of his 1968 spring and summer collection. With a mimeo snipe on the verso from United Press International, dated January 30, 1968, along with later UPI and date stamps. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. About Near Fine.
![Cesar and Rosalie [Cesar et Rosalie] (Original photograph of Romy Schneider, Yves Montand, and...](/pictures/thumb/151979.jpg?v=1614207200)
N.p. Fildebroc, 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Sami Frey, Romy Schneider, and Yves Montand on the set of the 1972 film. Two "Le Spectacle du Monde" stamps, and a "NOV 1972" stamp on verso. Cesar (Montand) is desperate to win the affections of Rosalie (Schneider) only, to be complicated by the arrival of her old flame David (Frey). Set.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946. Draft script for the 1947 film. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his holograph signature to the front wrapper and his annotations throughout. A miscommunication leads to an ill-fated marriage in Victor Saville's 1946 film. Starring Lana Turner, Van Heflin, and Donna Reed, and winner of one Academy Award. Goldenrod titled wrappers, rubber-stamped.....
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1992. Revised Script for the 1992 television movie. Katharine Hepburn plays an elderly woman who houses an escaped convict, and the pair become unlikely friends. Goldenrod titled wrappers with Burt Reynolds production company insignia. Title page present, dated October 23, 1992, with credits for screenwriter Prideaux. 107 leaves, mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine.....
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1960. Draft script for Season Four, episode Eleven of the anthology drama show "Playhouse 90," which aired on February 24, 1960. Actor Van Heflin's working copy, with his holograph name on the first page and holograph annotations throughout. Also included are two rehearsal schedules for the production. "Playhouse 90" ran from 1956 to 1960.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Final Draft script for the 1973 film, dated August 16, 1972. With name of uncredited cast or crew member "B. Morgan" in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Two drifters set out on a journey east from California towards Pittsburgh, hoping to start a business together when they arrive. A key film from the New Hollywood.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1934. Vintage double weight photograph of director Victory Schertzinger and actors Gloria Stuart, John Boles, and members of the crew on the set of the 1934 musical. Mimeo snipe on the verso. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
London: Joseph Janni Productions / Embassy Pictures, 1965. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1965 film. When pondering the ultimate Julie Christie film during her "It girl" phase of the mid-1960s, it's a photo finish between this film and director Schlesinger's "Billy Liar" (1963). From another perspective, the third in a trilogy of films about youth in London during.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Archive of 15 single weight and 20 double weight vintage press photographs of Maria Schneider at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, there to promote Michelango Antonioni's Palme d'Or nominated "The Passenger," in which she starred opposite Jack Nicholson. Eight photographs with stamps of photographers Leo Mirkine, Prisco de Majo, and Daniel Angeli (four, two, and two photographs.....
N.p. N.p., 1958. Vintage borderless photograph of actress Romy Schneider in 1958. With the stamp of photographer Daniel Frasnay on the verso. Romy Schneider starred in four films over the course of 1958. The most well known of that year was "Christine," a remake of Max Ophuls' 1933 "Liebelei." Later the same year, Schneider met Alain Delon while filming "Christine." They.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1985. Collection of 17 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1985 film. From the collection of screenwriter Leonard Schrader. A fictionalized biographical retelling of the life of acclaimed Japanese author Yukio Mishima, in which episodes from his writing are interwoven with tales from his life. Besides his life as a prolific writer, Mishima was an.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1977. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1977 film. Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (De Niro) meets USO singer Francine.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1983 film. In this black-comedy a delusional aspiring comic, Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro), stalks and eventually kidnaps his idol, a late night talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis). The fifth film collaboration between De Niro and Scorsese, preceded by the classic "Raging Bull." Set in New.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1980. Complete set of eight lobby cards for the 1980 film. Winner of two Academy Awards, including Best Actor (Robert De Niro), and nominated for six others, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. 14 x 11 inches. Fine condition. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Spicer US.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1989. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1989 film, with a 35mm color slide laid in. Two New York City cops arrest a member of the Yakuza and escort him during his extradition to Japan. "Black Rain" marks the first collaboration between Ridley Scott and Hans Zimmerman, the two would later work together on "Hannibal." Set in.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1985. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1985 US film. Madonna's first major screen role, for which "The New Yorker's" Pauline Kael praised her as, "an indolent, trampy goddess." A film about a bored housewife and her fascination with a bohemian drifter, whose life she follows voyeuristically through the latter's frequent personal adds. When.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil on page 141. Winston Miller is credited as a screenwriter on the front wrapper, but he went uncredited upon the film's release. Reuniting the stars of Universal's "The Spoilers" (also 1942), and based on a......
Paris: Milton H. Bren and William A. Seiter Productions, 1950. Vintage photograph of actress Claire Trevor and various members of the crew on the set of the 1950 film noir. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. U.S. Police officer Madeleine Haley (Claire Trevor) goes undercover to get close to Pete Ritchie (Raymond Burr) the leader of a drug-smuggling ring in.....
![Count Three and Pray [The Calico Pony] (Original screenplay for the 1955 film). George Sherman,...](/pictures/thumb/130854.jpg?v=1471469398)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film, here under the working title "The Calico Pony." Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph annotations throughout. Heflin plays a Civil War soldier returning to his hometown as a minister, but his violent past follows him. The film debut of Joanne Woodward. Red and black titled wrappers. Title.....
Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2000. Archive of two scripts for the 2000 film, including the shooting script with blue and pink revisions bound in, and yellow revisions bound separately, with the studio's production number rubber stamped randomly on the pages throughout. Copy belonging to Bruce Willis' stand-in, Allen Strange, with a detailed (and nicely anecdotal) typed letter signed providing.....
N.p. Timon Productions, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. Paper snipe affixed to the verso. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, and Richard Burton in their only role together. Taylor was only available for three days of filming and received $10,000 for her part. Shot on location in Wales, UK. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1954. Vintage linen backed keybook photograph of director Douglas Sirk and actor Jeff Chandler on the set of the 1954 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Similar to the Italian Peplum (sword-and-sandal) epics, this film centers a Roman centurion's (Jeff Chandler) attempts to prevent Attila the Hun (Jack Palance) from conquering Rome. Also.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Hollywood remake of George Sluzier's 1988 Dutch thriller, a film cemented in cinema history for its notorious ending. Sluzier was brought on to direct the 1993 adaptation, which stars Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock as the doomed couple and Jeff Bridges as the sociopath Barney Cousons. Shot on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1930s. Vintage portrait photograph of Russian actor Vladimir Sokoloff, circa 1930s. Sokoloff was born in Moscow and trained at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and the Moscow Art Theatre. He emigrated to the US in the 1930s, where he found a vibrant career as a theatre and film actor in roles ranging in nationality, including.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1973. Seven-page manuscript, executed in holograph pencil with numerous corrections. An early rough draft of an essay by Southern regarding his first encounter with actor Rip Torn, which, oddly, is more an encounter with the concept of Rip Torn than Rip Torn himself (though Torn would ultimately become one of Southern's closest friends and confidants). The piece.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Vintage photograph of director Malcolm St. Clair and actors Rochelle Hudson and Brian Donlevy on the set of the 1937 film. Printed description on the verso. A race car driver (Brian Donlevy) takes a job driving a cab where he clashes with a gangster and racketeer (Barton Maclane) who is trying to infiltrate to cab.....
N.p. N.p., 1939. Vintage press photograph of Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, along with some friends, in 1939, the year they were married. With a holograph pencil notation on the verso identifying the couple and year. 7 x 9.5 inches. Very Good, with pinholes to the corners, and a one inch jagged closed tear, repaired with white tape to the.....
![The Woman on Pier 13 [I Married a Communist] (Original Film Poster). Robert Stevenson, Robert...](/pictures/thumb/119232.jpg?v=1568059550)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1949. Original one sheet poster for the 1949 film noir. A visually striking design for one of the most arresting noirs of the late 1940s, one that predicted Samuel Fuller's "Pickup on South Street" (1953), in which communist intrigue and noir non-ethics are woven together to achieve maximum paranoia. 27 x 41 inches, linen-backed.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage photograph of theatre director E.D. Berman and playwright Tom Stoppard, circa 1970s. Stoppard wrote a number of plays, including "After Magritte" (1970), "Dirty Linen" and "New-Found-Land" (1976), and "Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth" (1979), for Berman's alternative theatre company, the Almost Free Theatre in London's West End. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light soil.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Vintage photograph of actor Gregory Peck and producer Mike Frankovich on the set of the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Martin Caidin's 1964 novel. After a crew of three astronauts are working in an orbiting space lab, Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), Clayton Stone (James Franciscus) and Buzz Lloyd (Gene.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1963. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1963 film, showing star Steve McQueen conferring with director John Sturges and a third, overdressed individual on outdoor prison camp location. With a United Artists credit stamp on the verso. A heavily fictionalized version of the real-life mass escape by Allied POWs from a German prison camp, based on.....
Hollywood: Hal Wallis Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1962. Vintage photograph of director John Sturges and actors Laurence Harvey, Gary Merrill and Michael Wilding on the set of the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Ronald Kirkbride's 1959 novel (also a 1960 paperback published by Monarch, an early sleaze publishing house). A Eurasian photographer named Ivan (Harvey).....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Vintage Paramount Pictures publicity photograph of Gloria Swanson, looking frighteningly happy, taken in 1950 in conjunction with the release of Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard." With holograph annotations on the verso. Swanson received her third and final Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in the film. 8 x 10 inches. Pinholes to the corners, Very Good.....
Los Angeles: Miramax, 2003. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph of Quentin Tarantino providing instruction to Uma Thurman on the set of the 2003 film. Thurman wears her iconic yellow track suit. Struck on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper stock. The first entry in Tarantino's bloody two-part female vigilante film. A female samurai assassin wakes from a four-year coma following a sadistic attack.....
N.p. N.p., 1946. Vintage photograph of a young Elizabeth Taylor writing in a journal. With the stamp of "Photoplay Movie-Mirror Magazine" on the verso, dated Feb. 1946. Likely from the set of "Courage of Lassie" (1946), as Ms. Taylor is still in her "National Velvet" wardrobe phase. Founded in 1911 and not ceasing publication until 1980, "Photoplay" was one of.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of producer Carl Foreman, director J. Lee Thompson and actor David Niven on the set of the 1961 film. Mimeo snipe and an studio stamp on the verso. Based on Alistair Maclean's 1957 novel of the same name. Set in 1943, allied intelligence assembles a commando unit assigned to infiltrate a Nazi.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage photograph of John Hodiak studying his script, from the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and label with photo number on the verso. Newspaperman John Royer (James Stewart) and his old friend Carnaghan (Spencer Tracey) are sent by the US government in Japanese-occupied Malaya to smuggle rubber for the war effort. Set.....
Hong Kong: Golden Harvest, 1992. Vintage Hong Kong film poster, for the 1992 film, here under it's original title "Police Story 3: Super Cop." The third of Chan's "Police Story" films, released in the US after the success of his "Rumble in the Bronx," simply as "Super Cop" because the first two films did not see theatrical release in the US.....
Rome: Unitalia Film, 1950. Fourteen original promotional heralds for Italian actors, from films distributed by Unitalia Films, circa 1950. Printed in Rome for distribution in France, each brochure is a single-fold folio, actor's name printed on the front, illustrated internally with a brief promotional blurb and film credits in French and Italian, and black-and-white images of the actor, including a......
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1925. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1925 film, with a mimeo snipe and photographer's stamp on the verso. Based on the unfinished 1832 novel "Dubrovsky" by Alexander Pushkin. A posed shot showing director Brown and stars Valentino and Banky with painter Federico Beltran Masses, a well known figure in Hollywood because of.....
![The Feminine Touch [Female of the Species] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film, Van Heflin's...](/pictures/thumb/130830.jpg?v=1488554640)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy. A delightful comedy about a man who does not believe in jealousy, much to the annoyance of his lovely wife, who constantly finds herself accosted by other men. Lacking front wrapper, rear wrapper is goldenrod, as used by Van Heflin. 138 leaves, mimeograph duplication.....
Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of director Agnes Varda and actor Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1966 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car accident, move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality, fact and fiction, begin to blend.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1956. Original borderless single weight studio portrait photograph of French actor Gil Vidal, circa 1956. A close-up, nearly haunting head shot, and dramatically lit, printed on Agfa-Brovira photo paper. Vidal's name in holograph ink, and numerical notation in holograph pencil, on the verso. Vidal was a prominent actor in the 1950s, with credits including "Bibi Fricoti" (1951), "Marianne of.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1946. Vintage black and white reference photograph from the 1946 film noir. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. In the image, a jealous George Macready spies on the activities of his wife Gilda (Rita Hayworth) and Glenn Ford. A superb deep focus shot. Hardy, The BFI Companion to Crime. Selby US. Silver Classic Noir.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1955 film. A Technicolor Western staring Kirk Douglas as Dempsey Rae, an easygoing cowboy who picks up work at a ranch under the supervision of what turns out to be an exceptionally beautiful and ambitious woman. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 8 x 10 inches. Near.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who played Bill King, with his name on the front wrapper, and annotations throughout, in holograph pencil. Based on Marquand's serialized novel, "Gone Tomorrow." Pulham (Young) is a conservative businessman with a daily routing. His wife Kay (Hussey) is loving but in.....
N.p. Ponti-De Laurentils Cinematografica, 1956. Two vintage reference studio still photographs from the 1956 film. Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel of the same name. An Italian-American war film directed by King Vidor and starring Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer. The film contains a condensed plot compared to its lengthy source material. Set in Russia, shot on location in.....
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Rome: Titanus, 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Luchino Visconti coaching actor Alain Delon through a salute on the set of the 1963 Italian film. With the stamp of G.B. Poletto 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 Italian midcentury cinema.....
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Rome: Titanus, 1963. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph of Burt Lancaster. Photographer "G. B. Poletto" stamp on verso. Based on the 1958 novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Visconti's classic, spacious homage to the quiet death of the Sicilian aristocracy of the mid-nineteenth century, one of the great films of Italian cinema. Perhaps the apex of Ms. Cardinale's career, and one.....
![The Leopard [Il Gattopardo] (Original photograph promoting the 1963 film). Luchino Visconti,...](/pictures/thumb/143082.jpg?v=1515181515)
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.....
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Original double weight, borderless photograph of Claudia Cardinale on the set of director Luchino Visconti's 1963 film, "Il Gattopardo," taken in 1962 during shooting. With the blue rubber stamp of an Italian press agency, Publifoto, on the verso. In the photograph, Ms. Cardinale studies an Italian version of the script while having her hair done for a......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Vintage photograph of director Luchino Visconti peering out of a large window while Romy Schneider laughs in the background. With the stamp of photographer Angelo Frontoni on the verso, as well as holograph annotations and a date stamp of June 3, 1982, roughly a week after Schneider died unexpectedly from a heart attack. Visconti directed Schneider.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Vintage borderless double weight portrait photograph of Monica Vitti, circa 1966. "ROMA's RESS PHOTO" stamp on verso. The acclaimed Italian actress is perhaps best known for her starring roles in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, particularly his classic trilogy on "modernity and its discontents," "L'Avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961), and "L'Eclisse" (1962). In the mid 1960s.....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Vintage borderless press photograph of director Michelangelo Antonioni and actor Monica Vitti leaving a nightclub in Rome in 1963. With a stamp for Farabola press agency and a mimeo snipe to the verso. Vitti and Antonioni enjoyed a prolonged romantic and professional relationship throughout the late 1950s and 1960s, creating "L'avventura" (1960), "La Notte" (1961), and "L'eclisse" (1962).....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage sepia reference photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Shown are director Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich in full regalia, visiting with noted Mexican toreador Pepe Ortiz and a member of the Mexican Counsul in Los Angeles. Typescript snipe on the verso indicating same, along with an ink notation of the photo date.....
N.p. N.p., 1954. Two vintage black-and-white French press photographs. With holograph annotations and the photographers rubber stamp on the verso. Accompanying Erich von Stroheim are actors Corinne Calvet, Charles Moulin, and Louise Carletti, among others. The book release in question was the second volume of von Stroheim's last book, published only in French, "Les feux de la Saint-Jean: Constanzia." Strohiem.....
New York: N.p., 1967. Draft script for an unproduced play. Although not indicated on the script, copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who was presumably considering a role in the play. From the estate of the actor. A comedy about a con man who founds a fictional, absurdist island-based country. Orange titled wrappers with credit for playwright Wallach. Title page.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black and white photograph from the set of the 1938 film. Shown are director Raoul Walsh, explaining a scene to George Burns and his wife (and co-star) Gracie Allen. With a mimeo snipe describing the photo printed on the verso. The only photograph from the set of this film we have ever seen. Gracie sets.....