Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his holograph annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in. Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Original one-sheet US poster for the 1961 film. Distributor rubber stamp on the verso. Based on Garson Kanin's play, "The Live Wire." Five Army buddies refurbish an old restaurant into a swinging bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills. One of them has a brother (Vaughan), an aspiring actor, who conspires with a sexy woman (Prowse).....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph of Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, and Willis Bouchey, from the 1961 film. Dr. Frank Harlow (Hill) flees to another town and changes his name after witnessing a murder of a detective, taking up lodging in a remote home of the wheelchair boound Colonel Maitland (Bouchey) and his daughter Laurie (Edwards).....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Case Britton (Davis) is a gunslinger and wanted man on his way to get married, stop a robbery, and to avenge the death of his brother. Shot on location at the famed Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. A few brief creases.....
![The Libertine [La Matriarca] (Original photograph of Catherine Spaak from the 1968 film)....](/pictures/thumb/151414.jpg?v=1610578479)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1968 Italian film, showing actress Catherine Spaak indisposed. A recently widowed woman discovers her husband kept a secret apartment for his kinky affairs, and decides to use the apartment to explore her own desires. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine.
Cannes, France: N.p., 1964. Original souvenir programs and film credits material showcasing some of the films from the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. It was this festival, the seventeenth one to be held, that the award name was changed from the Palme d'Or to the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the name used until 1974 when it returned to.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1968. Vintage pressbook for the first release of the groundbreaking 1968 film, based on the nonfiction book by Truman Capote. Laid in are all 4 of the original pressbook inserts, drawing equal attention to the best selling book and its filmed realization. Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched.....
N.p. Frank Capra Productions, Inc., 1965. Second Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Walter Newman, with Frank Capra credited on the title page as "Producer-Director," and with Capra's production company, Frank Capra Productions, Inc. heading the front wrapper. The script is 247 pages, which would roughly amount to a four hour film. In 1965 Capra was in negotiations to.....
![Candide [Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siecle] (Original French poster for the 1960 film)....](/pictures/thumb/139082.jpg?v=1492980185)
Paris: Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema, 1960. Original French petite (small) poster for the 1960 film. Set during WWII, Candide (Cassell) is an orphaned Westphalian who falls in love with the baron's daughter, Cunegonde (Lavi), and is thrown out of the house when the baron discovers them kissing. Candide is drafted and captured by the Nazis, but escapes and joins the.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of director Jack Cardiff and other crew members on location during filming for the 1960 British film. With a mimeo snipe in French on the verso, along with holograph ink annotations regarding layout. Based on the 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence, following a young man caught between his domineering mother, his.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1965 film. Mimeo snipe and Tony Crawley stamp on verso. A young Julie Christie sunning herself on the set of "Young Cassidy." Biographical drama based upon the life of playwright Sean O'Casey, John Cassidy (Taylor) in the film. Following the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland, a......
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Collection of three vintage color studio still photographs from the 1965 film. The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. The film follows the 1911 protest against British rule in Ireland. A young laborer-turned-playwrite combats the regime with his artistic practice. Shot on location in Ireland and England. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
![Wasteland [Terrain vague] (Collection of 30 original press photographs from the 1960 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143859.jpg?v=1569976867)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960. Collection of 30 vintage press photographs and contact sheets from promotional events for the 1960 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Terrain vague." Starring child actors Bras and Gaubert are seen elegantly dressed, Gaubert holding a bouquet, Bras nonplussed, and the two onstage before a microphone, joined by the gala host, taken by photographer.....
London: Hammer Films, 1968. Vintage press photograph from the 1968 film. With stamp and mimeograph snipe from the Associated Press on the verso, identifying actress Dana Gillespie, here posed with a giant scorpion, as a champion junior water skier. Based on the 1938 novel "Uncharted Sea" by Dennis Wheatley, about the passengers and crew of a steamer run aground on.....
![Prehistoric Women [Slave Girls] (Collection of five original photographs from the 1967 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143076.jpg?v=1515181508)
London: Hammer Films / Seven Arts, 1967. Collection of five photographs from the 1967 British American film, including one US studio still. One photograph with the stamp on a Spanish photo agency on the verso, a few with brief holograph annotations. Released as "Slave Girls" in the UK and "Prehistoric Women" in the US. An explorer touches a mystical statute.....
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.....
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 television movie adaptation. Snipe stamped to the verso. Television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel detailing the doomed romance between two Russian socialites. This version starring Claire Bloom as Anna Karenina and Sean Connery as Count Alexis Vronsky. Set in Russia, shot on location in London. 8.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1962. Vintage studio still photograph of producer Stanley Kramer and director John Cassavetes on the set of the 1962 film. Kramer and Cassavetes clashed throught the production, disagreeing on technique as well as the overall message of the film, leading Kramer to fire Cassavetes during the editing of the film. Dr. Matthew Clark (Burt Lancaster), the.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1961. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1961 film. A struggling jazz musician pursues a beautiful singer, to the detriment of his career. The duo prove toxic to one another, and the film follows the dissolution of their relationship and their band. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with two annotations to.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director John Cassavetes in conversation with actors Bobby Darin and Stella Stevens on the set of the 1961 film. With holograph pencil cropping annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Struggling jazz musician John "Ghost" Wakefield (Bobby Darin) pursues a romantic relationship with beautiful singer Jess Polanski.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1963. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Stamped production No. 63-213 on the verso. Several teenage daughters of diplomats help an intelligence agent uncover an international plot to sabotage the US. Set in Switzerland, shot on location in San Bernardino, California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and.....
![The Pleasure Pit [The Road to Katmandu] (Four original photographs from the 1969 film). Andre...](/pictures/thumb/137564.jpg?v=1492979677)
Paris: Franco London Films, 1969. Four vintage UK reference photographs from the 1969 French film, based on the 1969 novel "Les Chemins de Katmandou" by Rene Barjavel. With snipes on the verso from Cinecenta Film, the film's UK distributor. A young man travels to Nepal in search of his wealthy father, where he falls in love with a hippie, who.....
![Landru [Bluebeard] (Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film). Claude Chabrol, Francoise Sagan,...](/pictures/thumb/149232.jpg?v=1597290318)
Paris: Lux Film, Circa 1963. Promotional flyer for the 1963 French film. Text in French. During World War I, a man supplements his income by luring middle-class Parisian women to a countryside villa where he seduces and kills them, burns their bodies, then helps himself to their bank accounts, keeping himself, his wife, his mistress, and his four children in the.....
![Bluebeard [Landru] (Collection of 16 original photographs from the 1963 film). Claude Chabrol,...](/pictures/thumb/148754.jpg?v=1591332495)
New South Wales: Embassy Pictures, 1963. Collection of 16 vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on French serial killer Henri Desire Landru. During World War I, Henri Landru (Charles Denner) supplements his income by luring middle-class women through newspaper ads, to a villa outside Paris where he seduces and kills them, burns their bodies, then helps himself to their.....
Paris: Paris Film, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph of director Claude Chabrol goofing about with three of the four bonnes femmes on the set of the 1960 film. With the stamp of photographer Georges Pierre and holograph annotations on the verso. A light, spirited look at the lives of four young women in Paris, perhaps the standout of director Chabrol's early.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1968. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1968 film. With brief holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Geoffrey Jenkins. A former British Naval officer turned smuggler is eager to make up for his losses after he is forced to abandon his cargo after.....
London: Morningside Worldwide Pictures, Circa 1975. Early Revised Draft script for the 1963 British-American film, dated two years prior to its release. First generation reproduction, likely made for educational purposes circa early-mid 1970s, evidenced by the use of a photocopy process (not employed in the UK until the early 1970s). The script's vintage is also evidenced by the postal code.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1965 film. A blind musician (Ray Charles, playing himself) helps a blind boy and his down-on-their-luck family, including the boy's overprotective mother and her hard-drinking composer boyfriend. Shot on location in Paris and London. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
New York: Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8, 1961, opened the following day, an for over 200 performances, and closed on June 2, 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award, as were producers.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Collection of 18 original single weight press photographs from a gala surrounding the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. Most of the photos represent actress Kishi, here as "Kiski," in kimono, and director Ciampi, on-stage behind a microphone and signing autographs, presumably at the French premiere. Several photographs are rubber-stamped on the versos, crediting photographer Jungmann or Andre, also.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1958-1962. Archive of press material and film reviews for the Parisian distributor and press and film agency, Cinedis, representing a four-year span from the company notable for its associations with French New Wave filmmaking. French language throughout. Included in the archive are two 2-ring binders, noted on the spine of one as "Bulletin Informations Cinedis," and one with.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Original single-pocket blue folder from French film studio, Cinedis, for the years 1960 to 1961. Distributed to press agencies, film distributors and theaters, this folder is empty but would have contained press release information, like film credits and star biographies, for films credited on the front, here being "Adua et ses compagnes" (Hungry for Love, 1960), "L'amant.....
![Service de Press "Bonne Annee" [Happy New Year] (Original promotional brochure, circa 1950s)....](/pictures/thumb/143968.jpg?v=1531515299)
Paris: Cinedis, 1950s. Original "Happy New Year" brochure from French film production and distribution company, Cinedis, circa 1955-1960. Illustrated inside with "Service de Press / Bonne Annee / Cinedis," surrounded by red, green and yellow confetti illustration by noted film poster artist, Ferracci. The outside reproduces signatures of French actors and actresses, not all are legible, including Mylene Demongeot, Noel-Noel.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1959. Archive of press material compiled by Cinedis, a French press and film agency, concerning the formation and founding members of the Ministere de la Culture (Ministry of Culture) of France. The Ministry of Culture was created by Charles de Gaulle in 1959 and the first Minister was writer Andre Malraux, whose responsibilities included the democratizing of access.....
Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First Edition. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Rene Clair in holograph ink on the front endpaper. Photoplay edition, with stills from the film, and released in a dust jacket featuring a still of Bourvil on the front. Top edges uncut. Basis for the 1961 eponymous film, directed by Clair, starring Bourvil, Alfred Adam, Philippe Noiret, and Claude Rich.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1962. Typed letter signed from director Rene Clair to Mr. Gay-Lussac at Cinedis, the prominent French film distribution company, signed by Clair in holograph ink. In it, he requests some photograph negatives for "Port de Lilas" (1957, released in the US as "The Gates of Paris"), on behalf of a press agent who inquired of them, and Clair.....
1968. Autograph note signed from noted director Rene Clair to producer Daniel Selznick, executed on hotel airmail stationery. In French. Included are two photostat copies of related letters from Selznick to Clair (also in French), as well as a ditto-style mimeograph copy of a wire from Clair to Selznick noting where Clair is staying during May 1968. The letters involve.....
France: Limot, Circa 1961. Original black-and-white single weight photograph from the the 1961 French film. Actor Noiret is seen anxiously conversing on a telephone. Rubber-stamped on the verso, crediting photographer Limot, and with numerical annotations 641 in holograph pencil. A businessman (Noiret) wants to buy land around the village of Cabosse, claiming his desire for seclusion but with intentions to.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 749 vintage keybook photographs from the 1961 French-Italian film. Over 200 are loose, the remainder being affixed with cello tape on thick stock in two folio sized spiral bound notebooks with one title label present. Each photograph is numbered in holograph pencil on the versos, 13 photographs credit photographer Water Limot, 18 with his name.....
France: Limot, Circa 1961. Collection of 86 original single weight photographs from the set of 1961 film. Members of the cast and crew are seen in action shots, pinup images of actress Castel, Bourvil mending fences, and several images of the camera crew during filming. Sprawling landscapes, gunfights in the town square, and charming taproom images candidly showcase one of.....
France: N.p., Circa 1961. Collection of 91 vintage candid photographs featuring director Rene Clair and members of the cast and crew at release parties for the 1961 film. Clair is seen with fans, giving a speech, signing autographs, conducting a recorded interview, and cavorting with stars of the film like Colette Castel, Alfred Adam, and Annie Fratellini. The festivities seem.....
Nice: Gaumont-Palace, 1961. Vintage French program, and two invitations, for the 1961 film, here under the original French titles. The collection both predates and postdates November 1, 1961, generally considered the original release. A small invitation "for two" doubles as a folding RSVP, for the October 17 showing at the Cyrano theatre in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, a Southwest France commune with the.....
France, Italy: Cineriz, 1961-1962. Archive of press material related to the 1961 French-Italian film. Includes film production-related material, like shooting schedules and synopses, a cinema magazine reviewing the film, and several leaves of correspondence addressed from various members of film production to Maryse Martin (Martres), a prolific French actress who was also involved in press relations in France. Brief annotations.....
Paris: Office Catholique Francais du Cinema, 1961. Original French invitation from the 1961 awards ceremony for the Grand Prix de L'O.C.F.C. (Office Catholique Francais du Cinema), honoring director Rene Clair "pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre" (For all of his work). The invitation credits officials at the office, orators, date and location of the event, with a laid-in RSVP postcard addressed.....
Denver, CO: Wiseman Film Productions, 1964. Original one sheet poster for the 1964 film. Only one style of the poster is known to have been issued for its initial release. A seminal film from many points of view. The second feature to be directed by Shirley Clarke. Clarke's goal was to make a non-judgmental film that resisted the moralizing prevalent.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1969 film, showing Romy Schneider departing Tom Courtenay's sweet ride. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Martin Waddell. Gerry Otley (Tom Courtenay) is a petty thief who wakes up after a long night out drinking to find himself accused.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 US release of the 1966 French film. The French resistance factions attempt to regain control of Paris near the end of WWII. A Nazi general in charge of Paris has orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if he cannot maintain control. What the film lacked in cohesive.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 French film. The third film collaboration between director Rene Clement and actor Alain Delon, the latter stared in Clement's 1960 acclaimed film "Purple Noon." Delon plays a cardsharp in hiding from an American gangster whose wife he recently seduced. He is hired by a wealthy widow as.....
Italy: Cinematografica RI.RE, 1961. Collection of 14 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film. Action sequences, picketers, Delon and his compatriots, and a charming candid of Barbara Lass, are present. Numerical annotations, and a few with actor names, on the versos in holograph pencil, and rubber-stamps on the verso crediting photography agency "PIERLUIGI" and the.....
![La Prisonniere [Woman in Chains] (Collection of ten original photographs from the 1969 US release...](/pictures/thumb/150649.jpg?v=1605755539)
N.p. Avco Embassy Pictures, 1969. Collection of ten vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 US release of the 1968 French film. An avant-garde artist's wife begins an affair with the owner of the modern art gallery which shows her husband's work. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot's final film, and his first completed film following his eight-year hiatus after the release of.....
![La Verite [The Truth] (Two original photographs from the set of the 1960 film). Henri-Georges...](/pictures/thumb/150454.jpg?v=1604645227)
N.p. N.p., 1960. Three vintage borderless reference photographs, variously of Henri-George Clouzot, Brigitte Bardot, Jaques Perrin, Jean Hobe, and Marie-Jose Nat on the set of the 1960 film. Both with "Cinema Verite," "La Verite," and photographer Paul Apoteker stamps on verso. A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover, forcing her to reflect on her memories.....
![La Verite [The Truth] (Original photograph from the 1960 French film). Henri-Georges Clouzot,...](/pictures/thumb/149725.jpg?v=1608418215)
N.p. N.p., 1960. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1960 French film, showing actors Charles Vanel and Brigitte Bardot. With holograph pencil and ink annotations on the verso regarding layout, along with the stamp of Parimage agency and ICI Paris. A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover, forcing her to reflect on her memories.....
Paris: Various, 1946-1964. Collection of 19 original French programs for French, German, Italian, and Spanish films, with a single US film, here under the original French titles, 1946-1964. All feature color wrappers, some illustrated with color stills from the film, and highlights include "Madame du Barry" (1954, Christian-Jaque), "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Carmine Gallone), "Les Diaboliques" (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot), US film.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Collection of six vintage oversize borderless photographs from the 1969 British film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso of each. One of the best heist films of the twentieth century: funny, complex, and altogether beautiful to watch. Michael Caine and Noel Coward bring the erudite and the cockney together to make.....
![Misunderstood [L'incompris] (Original French poster for the 1967 film). Luigi Comencini, Piero De...](/pictures/thumb/139036.jpg?v=1492980175)
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.....
London: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors / Zodiac Productions, 1961. Two vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1961 UK film. Sean Connery stars as Paddy Damion, the best friend of a gangster who is killed in opposition to the extortionist mob that runs a decrepit area of London. Paddy swears revenge on those responsible for his friend's death, and after.....
![How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life [Band of Gold] (Original screenplay for the 1968 film)....](/pictures/thumb/143257.jpg?v=1525704116)
N.p. Nob Hill Productions Inc., 1966. Final Draft script for the 1968 film, here under the working title, "Band of Gold." Dean Martin plays a wealthy playboy wrongly believing good girl Stella Stevens is his best friend's mistress in this 60's sex comedy. Screenwriting duo Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro had worked previously together on films such as 1965's "A.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Three vintage borderless studio still photographs from the set of the 1968 film. Warner Brothers optioned the musical shortly after its premiere in 1947, but Harburg and Saidy were unwilling to tone down the racial satire to fit studio demands, holding out until the option was about to expire and Warner agreed.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1969 film, one showing director Francis Ford Coppola and the other showing Coppola and a camera crew filming a scene with actors Shirley Knight and James Caan. After discovering she is pregnant, a young housewife takes off on a spontaneous road trip across the United States to reevaluate her life path.....
Rome: Titanus, 1962. Collection of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1962 film. The film follows the son of Sparticus, a young soldier in the Roman army. While on an expedition, Randus and a young slave girl are lost at sea and the couple must find their way back to civilization. Shot on location in Egypt. 8 x......
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 Italian film. Features Burt Reynolds on horseback and as a captive. Reynolds' fourth film credit, as a survivor of a massacre out for vengeance, released the same year as director Corbucci's infamous brutal western, "Django." 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. Complete collation details available.....
Paris: Warner-Pathe, 1964. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1964 horror film, three without borders. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, about a cruel Satanist prince who invites the local nobility to a masked ball at his castle in the midst of a deadly.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1967. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1967 exploitation film White margin, with a single credit and copyright date for American International Pictures at the bottom margin. In the photograph, Peter Fonda and Salli Sachse exchange admiring glances during a rare scene where people aren't tripping. One of the iconoclastic Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial.....
London: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1967. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman filming on location for the 1967 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A television commercial director falls into a tailspin of LSD and free love after being left by his wife. One of Corman's most idiosyncratic directorial efforts, frequently referred to as his.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Les Films 13, Circa 1969. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 UK release of the 1969 French film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Produced late in the French New Wave cycle, implementing flashbacks and imagined scenarios, about a troubled young man who meets a pretty shop girl, and the.....
Paris: Les Films 13, 1969. Collection of 38 original keybook contact print photographs from the 1969 French film. Color and black-and-white contact prints of small and medium format transparencies, several printed in Agfa photo paper, most with 36 images per print, amounting to over 1300 images of starring actors Girardot and Kalfon, child actors, and a few of the film.....
Ottawa, Canada: Crawley Films Limited, 1963-1966. Archive of press material and photographs for the 1963 Canadian film, and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the production company, Crawley Films. F.R. "Budge" Crawley was Canada's answer to Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, and he produced hundreds of films during his 40-year career, including the Academy Award-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who.....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Draft script for the 1964 British film noir. With a few holograph ink annotations to the front wrapper and throughout, mostly noting deletions. The daughter of a recently deceased psychoanalyst enlists one of her father's former patients, an American newscaster, in helping her discover the cause of his mysterious death. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Vintage photograph of Marilyn Monroe and director George Cukor between takes on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations in ink and holograph annotations regarding layout in pencil, white-out, and a rubber stamp of actor Joe Van Cottom on the verso. A remake of the 1940 comedy "My Favorite Wife" starring Irene Dunne.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. One of Ty Hardin and Glynis Johns and the other of Claire Bloom. Based on Irvin Wallace's 1960 novel which was inspired by the 1948 and 1953 studies on human sexual behavior, "Kinsey Reports" by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, and Clide Martin. Psychologist Dr. George C. Chapman (Andrew.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage black and white publicity photograph from the 1960 film, showing actress Marilyn Monroe laughing as Gene Kelly shows Yves Montand a dance move. With a Twentieth Century-Fox stamp on the verso. A billionaire (Montand) poses as an actor in order to gain a part in an off-Broadway musical revue, hoping to romance the show's.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Final Draft script for the 1961 Western film. Copy belonging to unknown crew member dealing with costumes and wardrobe, with 20 leaves detailing costume changes for each character preceding the script, and holograph ink annotations throughout. A Texas Ranger returning a runaway gambler to Louisiana in order for the man to face prosecution finds their.....
![Venere in pelliccia [Venus in Furs, Devil in the Flesh] (Two original photographs of Laura...](/pictures/thumb/149661.jpg?v=1598502687)
N.p. N.p., 1969. Two vintage oversize borderless double weight color photographs of actress Laura Antonelli from the 1969 Italian film. One photo shows Antonelli in an ecstatic semi-nude pose, the other with her completely controlled, in elaborate chain-mail bikini, wielding a riding crop (though in a bedroom, so, no horses). Latter photo with the stamp of Cine-Street on the verso.....
France: N.p., Circa 1960. Vintage portrait photograph of actress Christine Dandrieux. Dandrieux herself is very nearly apocryphal, with almost no biographic information readily obtainable, but her classic blonde coiffure and light eyes are unquestionable qualities often seen in French cinema of the era. This photograph presumably floated between talent agencies before her first and only film credit, "Et la femme.....
N.p. Stratton Productions Inc., 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. The film follows Yukio and Toru, two young men living in a small Japanese fishing village. Included in the stills is a photographic proof trial poster. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Complete collation details available on request.
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Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1961. Draft script for the 1961 television episode. Actor Van Heflin's copy. "The Dick Powell Show" was an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963, ending when the show's host, Dick Powell, died of lung cancer. It featured a number of notable screenwriters and directors, including Aaron Spelling, William Friedkin.....
Canada: National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Original souvenir program, printed in Canada, for the 1965 Canadian film. These programs saw popularity beginning in the 1960s and continued to be produced until the early 1980s and the ever-growing VHS market, with a particularly high distribution in Asian countries. This example is French language, square in shape (versus the normal rectangular).....
Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. Two children manipulate their estranged mother into returning home with from Italy. The final film to be directed by Delmer Daves. Shot on location in Italy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with a stamp to the verso.
London: Charwill Productions, 1967. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film, based on the 1959 novel by Mark Rascovich, co-written by Jack Davies and director Ken Annakin, who had received an Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" the previous year. A man and his bear attempt to flee Soviet Russia after the bear is.....
London: Anglo-Embassy Productions, 1968. Draft British script for the 1969 UK film. From the collection of still photographer Bob Willoughby. Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) studied with Saul Bass at the Kann Institute of Art in Los Angeles, worked as a photographer for magazines such as "Life," "Look," and "Harper's Bazaar," and as a set photographer for every major studio, documenting some.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Three vintage photographs from the 1967 film, one studio still, and two on the set photographs. The second of three Tarzan films to star Mike Henry. Tarzan is called to Brazil by his old friend The Professor (Paulo Gracindo) to help stop the evil Barcuma (Rafer Johnson) and the Jaguar Cult from destroying villages and enslaving.....
N.p. British Lion Film Corporation, 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of Maurice Denham and Lionel Jeffries, with Peter Sellers, David Lodge, and Bernard Cribbins behind, from the 1960 film. Dodger Lane (Peter Sellers) and two of his prison mates plan to break out of prison the day before their release, steal a fortune in diamonds, and break back in before.....
![Up to his Ears [Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine] (Original photograph from the 1965 film)....](/pictures/thumb/144489.jpg?v=1540328951)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of Ursula Andress on the set of the 1965 film, provocatively eating a banana. With agency stamps and holograph annotations on the verso. Loosely based on the 1879 novel "Tribulations of a Chinaman in China" by Jules Verne. An adventure-comedy following the depressed billionaire Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who after a series.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Fildebroc / Compagnia Cinematografica Montoro / United Artists, 1966. Vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1966 French-Italian film. Seen is actor Alan Bates serenading the cast and crew on a busted piano. At the end of WWI, the German army booby-traps a small French town, prompting mayhem and panic, and the local lunatics escape from.....
![That Man from Rio [L'homme de Rio] (Collection of 343 original photographs from the set of the...](/pictures/thumb/143227a.jpg?v=1534366274)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title, several with annotations in holograph.....
![Swords of Blood [Cartouche] (Collection of 67 original still photographs, and French press...](/pictures/thumb/143832.jpg?v=1567478180)
Paris: Filmsonor, 1962. Collection of 67 original single weight borderless film stills for the 1962 French-Italian film, here under the original French title, "Cartouche." Action sequences, men in military regalia, and romantically charged images of Belmondo and Cardinale, with most representing Belmondo either charming people or dueling with swords. Housed in original brown envelope, noted as "CARTOUCHE" on the flap.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and a sticker noting the photograph is from the collection of film historian, collector, and founder of the Tele Cine Documentation (TCD) cinema photo library Daniel Bouteiller on the verso. Loosely based on the 1822 novel by Thomas De Quincey, the film transposes the setting.....
![Two Women [La Ciociara] (Original double weight photograph from the 1960 film). Vittorio De Sica,...](/pictures/thumb/141245.jpg?v=1497555094)
N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1960. Vintage double weight reference studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Sophia Loren won an Academy Award fro her role as Cesira. Vittorio De Sica's harsh war-era film follows the plight of an Italian mother an daughter as they traverse the Italian countryside in search of safety. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belonodo, and.....
New South Wales: Embassy Pictures, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica on the set of the 1964 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1964 play by Eduardo De Filippo titled "Filumena Marturano." Set during and immediately after World War II in Naples, Italy. Filumena (Sophia Loren) is a prostitute.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white reference photographs from the 1967 film. Each photo has a ditto-style mimeo snipe printed on the verso. An anthology of seven mini-stories, ranging from comedy to drama, all directed by De Sica, all starring actress Shirley MacLaine in various guises, and all dealing with adultery and its ramifications.
Rome: Cineriz, 1962. Original program for the Italian-French film, undated but issued upon the 1962 premiere. Unfolds to three panels of film synopsis and credits, and full-color film stills of Loren, Ekberg, Schneider and others. A four episode anthology exploring morality and love. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana in a secret marriage (Solinas, Gilioli), a billboard of a blonde woman.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Collection of three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1969 sexploitation film, two black and white and one in color. One with the stamp of Studio 111 on the verso. Two 9.5 x 7 inches, one 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Very Good plus, one with light fading on the recto.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Revised Final Draft script for the 1960 film "Man on a String," seen here under the early working title "Ten Years a Counterspy." Espionage thriller in which Ernest Borgnine stars as Boris Mitrov, a US secret agent sent to Berlin to act as a double agent for the USSR. Tan titled wrappers, noted as.....
![The Mongols [Les Mongols] (Collection of 9 original photographs from the 1961 film). André...](/pictures/thumb/143863.jpg?v=1570411413)
Paris: France Cinema, 1961. Collection of 9 vintage borderless black-and-white still photographs from the 1961 Italian-French film, here under the original French title, "Les Mongols." Rubber-stamps on the versos, crediting photographer Dorka and street address. Palance and Ekberg are present in a few photos, including two candid images of Ekberg. Housed in brown envelope and fold, both with French film.....
United Kingdom: Pinewood Studios / American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Shooting script for the 1963 film. Copy from the StudioCanal archives, with a letter of provenance laid in. Based on the simultaneously-published novel "The Mindbenders" by screenwriter James Kennaway about a professor brainwashes himself to stop loving his wife in an attempt to clear the name of a colleague, suspected.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe affixed on the verso. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. A doctor journeys to Africa with his wife, hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with short creases.....
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Three original color transparencies from the 1961 film. Starring actors, including Marais and Vlady, are seen in lavish period costumes designed for the film by Marie-Claude Fouquet and Jacqueline Guyot. Housed in a light blue mailing envelope, with annotations on the recto in holograph ink, noting contact information for Fouquet and Guyot. Based de La Fayette's 1678.....
![Princess of Cleves [La princesse de Cleves] (Archive of 14 original photographs and ephemera from...](/pictures/thumb/144012.jpg?v=1532553926)
Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Archive of 14 original single weight black-and-white photographs, and various ephemera, from the 1961 film, here under the original French title. The photographs, numbered on the versos in holograph pencil, detail costumes for starring actors Marina Vlady and Jean Marais, an exhibit of film stills and costume designs at a bookshop called "Lavocat," costumes displayed at tge.....