N.p. Rollins-Joffe Productions, 1977. Vintage studio still compiling 6 portrait photographs from the 1977 film. Woody Allen's iconic romantic comedy explores the strange relationship between a neurotic comedian, Alvy (Allen) and his quirky girlfriend, Annie (Keaton). Despite deep feelings for one another, the duo is unable to resolves the problems in their relationship. The director's most important film, marking a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Collection of five vintage, borderless, oversize photographs from the 1970 film. With a small French distribution label from Twentieth Century-Fox on the recto of each photograph. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and, in turn, the basis of acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS. Winner of the Palme d'Or.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1926 film, showing actor John Gilbert applying makeup from a portable makeup case. With a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the 1894 German novel "The Undying Past" by Hermann Sundermann. The first of many pairings of legendary on-screen (and real life) couple Gilbert and.....
New York: Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. Second issue jacket, with reviews for the book printed on the jacket verso. The author's only book, basis for director Stanley Kubrick's classic 1957 film starring Kirk Douglas and Ralph Meeker. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good or better in a bright, Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a slight lean with.....
Vienna: Illustrierter Film-Kurier, 1933. Vintage Austrian film program for the 1933 US film. Cinema paper relating to "King Kong" is rare, this being the only example we have offered. Text in German. Issue No. 637 of "Illustrierter Film-Kurier," one of the oldest European film magazines, which ran weekly from 1929 to 1956. Like its German counterpart, "Film-Kurier," each issue focused.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Second Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Gerad Dery, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. One of the greatest crime films of the twentieth century and arguably a better film than its predecessor, Part II functions dually as both prequel and sequel in continuing.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1927. Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the US release of the 1927 film. The first talking picture to be in wide release. Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been Cantors in the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1940 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is seen in action stealthily snapping photographs. Rubber-stamps on the verso crediting "Silver Screen Archives" and photographer Clarence S. Bull. Based on Barry's 1939 eponymous play. A socialite (Hepburn) with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband (Grant) and a tabloid.....
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage photograph of Otto Preminger, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on the set of the 1959 film. Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score, composed by Ellington and Strayhorn (uncredited), and performed by Ellington's Orchestra, won three Grammy Awards.....
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage photograph of Lee Remick, Duke Ellington and Jimmy Woode rehearsing on the set of the 1959 film. Preminger's "Anatomy of a Murder" was the first major Hollywood film to feature a score by an African-American composer. The jazz score, composed by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn (uncredited) and performed by Ellington's Orchestra won three.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971. Vintage press photograph of director William Friedkin on the set of the 1971 film. Holograph annotations on the verso. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's non-fiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many 1970s crime films that were shot on location in New York.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1973. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Linda Blair in front of the National Theatre in Westwood, California, where crowds have lined up to see "The Exorcist." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1971 novel by screenwriter William Peter Blatty. The first and finest film in the series, following the demonic possession.....
N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others. Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage studio still photograph of John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Walter Connolly, from the 1933 film. Based on the 1932 play by screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which itself was based on the unproduced play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland. An egomaniacal theatre impressario attempts to manipulate everyone around him to.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1938. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hawks, and a resting Cary Grant on the set of the 1938 film. One of the foundational entries in the canon of American screwball comedies. Based on the short story by Hagar Wilde which originally appeared in Collier's Weekly magazine on April 10, 1937. Zoologist David.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn lounging on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "Sep 9 1949" on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final script for the 1969 film. A landmark of New Hollywood cinema, and arguably the high spot (as well as the beginning) of an incredible streak of inventive cinematic achievements directed by George Roy Hill in the 1960s and 1970s that included "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1972), "The Sting" (1973), and "Slap Shot" (1977). Loosely based on fact.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1939. Early Continuity script (pre-production), stamped "TEMPORARY," with a credit for Alfred Hitchcock's wife and frequent screenwriter Alma Reville. "TEMPORARY" script includes screenwriting credit for Michael Hogan, who, along with Philip MacDonald, were given adaptation credits in the final film. Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1957. Post-production Cutting and Continuity script for the 1940 film, dated December 15, 1957 for the 1957 re-release of the film. Housed in a custom blue cloth, quarter black leather clamshell box, with rounded spine, raised bands, and titles in gilt. Alfred Hitchcock's first American project, the elegant, dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel of.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures, 1938, 1939. Two early treatments for the 1940 film, consisting of (1) a Synopsis by Franclien Macconnell, dated October 10, 1938 and (2) a Chapter Breakdown by Mary Bowie, dated May 10, 1939. Both issued for the studio’s review of the novel’s content prior to it having been green-lit for adaptation to film. Macconnel was.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Collection of five vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1960 US film. With the stamps of a French distributor on the versos. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy awards, including Hitichcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1969. Vintage oversize borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Peter Fonda chatting up Sabrina Scharf, with Dennis Hopper making his own connection in the background. With the stamp of Tele-Cine on the verso. About as close to the very start of the New Hollywood era as can be imagined. Dennis Hopper's directorial debut.....
US: Metro Pictures Corporation, 1921. Vintage photograph from the 1921 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1916 anti-war novel by Vincent Basco Ibanez, about a French and German family on both sides of World War I. Along with "The Sheik" later the same year, the film the catapulted Rudolph Valentino to stardom and helped create.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage reference photograph from the 1984 film, showing actors John Lurie and the mystical Eszter Balint. With a printed xerographically duplicated label affixed to the bottom right corner of the verso. Director Jim Jarmusch's first effort, "Permanent Vacation" (1980), was his final thesis at New York University's film school. As with the earliest films.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph of actors Arthur Malet, Sidney Poitier, and Rod Stieger filming a scene on the set of the 1967 film, a camera crew in the foreground. With holograph annotations on the verso regarding layout. Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Vintage photograph from the 1945 film, showing the crew and equipment used to create rain for a scene featuring Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson. Mimeo snipe on the verso describing the scene in detail. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1944. Final Shooting script from the 1945 film. With credit on the title page for screenwriter Anita Loos, who would go uncredited in the final film. Based on the classic 1943 coming-of-age novel by Betty Smith. Nominated for Best Screenplay, and James Dunn won for Best Supporting Actor. Peggy Ann Garner was also awarded a special.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures Industries, 1978. Two studio still photographs from the 1954 film, struck by Columbia Pictures Television in 1978. Housed in a Columbia Pictures Television photos envelope stamped with title. Budd Schulberg based his 1955 novel "Waterfront" on the screenplay. Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) dreams of being a prize fighter while tending his pigeons and running errands on.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Two vintage keybook photographs from the 1955 film, one showing director Elia Kazan behind the camera, the other showing actors James Dean and Nick Dennis goofing around behind the scenes with dialogue director Guy Thomajan. Typed annotations identifying the subjects on the versos. Based on the 1952 novel by John Steinbeck. Winner of Best Dramatic.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1963. Vintage photograph on the set of the 1963 film, showing director Elia Kazan and crew on a scaffolding shooting across a large lake. With some holograph pencil annotations (including the film title) on the verso. Based on Kazan's own 1962 novel, based on the life of his uncle, about a young Greek man living in.....
Universal City: Universal, 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing star Kirk Douglas lying down on the job, the mirror image of the word IESVS (Jesus) written in the sand behind him. Based on the 1951 novel by Howard Fast, a fictionalized account of a real life slave revolt against the Roman Empire. Along with.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1936. Original US herald for the 1936 film. Lang's first Hollywood film and second talkie, considered one of his finest efforts, and one of three films in 1936 that propelled Spencer Tracy to the upper echelons of stardom. An important precursor to film noir, which would develop directly from the expressionist style Lang and others.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage candid photograph of Robert Mitchum, sharing a moment with his wife Dorothy while on the set of "The Night of the Hunter." Dressed in costume as Harry Powell, the image of a smiling, relaxed Mitchum is incongruous with the severe, terrifying nature of the character he played, one of the most iconic villains.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph of Lillian Gish and Charles Laughton on the set of the 1955 film. Annotations in holograph pencil, "Library Dell Publishing," "Life Story 1953," and four overlapping "Everett Collection" stamps, all on verso. Based on the 1953 novel by David Grubb. Charles Laughton's only directorial credit, with tremendous performances throughout, led.....
N.p. N.p., 1959-82. Notebook belonging to legendary amateur filmmaker Sid Laverents containing 73 pages of holograph notes on various film and camera tests, lighting, settings, and other technical aspects of filmmaking made between circa 1959 and 1982. Included are 21 film strips laid or tipped into the notebook, with accompanying annotations, and each generally between three to four inches in.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Concord Productions, 1973. Original lobby card for the 1973 US and Hong Kong co-film from original Hong Kong distributor Golden Harvest. Scarce. Perhaps the greatest and most influential martial arts film of all time, and the first produced by a Hollywood studio, which brought the genre to a wide international audience, changed the way fight.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Vintage photograph of F.W. Murnau, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, a sound engineer, and extras on location during shooting of the 1931 film. Considered the first example of "docufiction." The fourth and final film made by Murnau during his time in the US. Murnau and Robert J. Flaherty wrote the unpublished story "Turia," based on a South Sea.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Vintage press photograph on the set of the 1966 film, giving a boom mic's view of a camera crew and director Mike Nichols filming a scene with stars Richard Burton and Sandy Dennis. Directorial debut of Mike Nichols, and winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and nominated for eight.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Newmarket, 2000. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs for the Canadian release of the 2000 US film. The film the introduced Christopher Nolan to the world. Nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay. Based on a short story "Momento Mori" by Jonathan Nolan, who would not only continue to collaborate with his brother, but also.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage fashion test photograph of Faye Dunaway, in two outfits straight from depression-era fashion, for the 1967 film. Perhaps the most significant film for the New Hollywood generation, with its mix of graphic violence, sex and humor, and a glamourous take on disaffected youth. Its portrayal of violence and ambiguity in regard to moral values.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photograph of Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, and Michael J. Pollard from the 1967 film. With a German address stamp to the verso. Perhaps the most significant film for the New Hollywood generation, with its mix of graphic violence, sex, and humor, and a glamourous take on disaffected youth. Its.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Vintage reference photograph of Roman Polanski and Mia Farrow in front of the flagship Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Ave, New York City, during the filming of the 1968 film. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film, one of the best genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1977. Two vintage photographs from the 1977 re-release of the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker, under the pseudonym Robert Traver, which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed raped his wife. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including.....
Burbank, CA: Otto Preminger Films, 1959. Vintage keybook studio photograph of Lee Remick with Jimmy Stewart and Duke Ellington at the piano from the 1959 film. Based on the 1958 novel by John D. Voelker, under the pseudonym Robert Traver, which he based on a real life case of a veteran accused of killing a local man who he believed.....
N.p. Veriscope, 1897. Two vintage fragments from a 63mm film print of the 1897 boxing match between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons. The first fragment consists of six frames depicting the fighters in a clinch, while the second consists of four frames depicting the fighters in the center of the ring about to trade punches. At over 100 minutes.....
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: United Artists, 1969. Collection of nine vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. A classic and a cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema. Would-be gigolo Joe Buck (John Voight) and ailing con artist Enrico Salvatore 'Ratso' Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), form an.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. Post-production Combined Continuity script for the 1969 film. A classic of the New Hollywood cinema, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. A would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist form an unlikely friendship. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema, nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best.....
West Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1982. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1982 film. French "Still Photo" label on verso. Based on the 1968 novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. Like Stanley Kubrick's "2001" in 1968, and building on the claustrophobic, dystopian vision director Ridley Scott had already developed in "Alien" (1979), "Blade Runner" set a standard.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph showing director Robert Siodmak meeting star Ava Gardner and her then-husband, band leader Artie Shaw, on the set of the 1946 film. With a fold-over mimeo snipe on the verso. A breakthrough role for Gardner, as well as the screen debut of Burt Lancaster, the film follows Hemingway's story closely for the.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, Circa 1975. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1975 film, of Spielberg and crew in wetsuits, filming waist deep in the Atlantic Ocean. "Movie Star News" stamp on verso. The film that basically invented the concept of the summer blockbuster, forever changing how movies were greenlit and marketed, and, along with "Star Wars" two years.....
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1970 film. director Michael Wadleigh with an unidentified crew member. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an audience of more than 300,000 people. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary and nominated for two more. Shot on location in.....
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph on the set of the 1970 film showing director Michael Wadleigh, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, cinematographer Richard Pearce and a young Martin Scorcese working in the editing room. With a French language Warner Brothers stamp on verso. The iconic documentary of the 1969 three day music festival near Bethel, New York which attracted an.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1952. Mini-poster for a circa 1952 re-release of the 1949 film. One of the great gangster films, based on an original screen story by screenwriter Virginia Kellogg, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her work. 8.25 x 13.25 inches. Very Good. Light toned, with tape residue to the top and bottom edges, a couple of.....
Hollywood: Mercury, 1942. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Orson Welles, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, and members of the cast, including Joseph Cotton, Anges Moorehead, and Anne Baxter, conferring during a lunch break. Mimeo snipe promoting Welles' Mercury Players, and "APR 13 1942" stamp on verso. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. Welles'.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1959. Vintage French press photograph of Billy Wilder and Tony Curtis on the set of the 1959 film. "Cinemondial," "19 Jul. 1984" stamps and cropping annotations in holograph pencil and ink on verso. Billy Wilder's masterful classic comedy, wherein Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon disguise as women and join an all-girl band, that includes Marilyn Monroe, to hide.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film, showing saxophonist Joe in disguise as millionaire Junior (Tony Curtis) in the process of tripping Sugar (Marilyn Monroe) on the beach. Billy Wilder's masterful classic comedy, widely considered one of the funniest films of the 20th century, following two men who witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1954 film. One of the photographs with 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. The second photograph is from a later Paramount rerelease of the film. Based.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Vintage US illustrated two-color silkscreen banner poster from the 1951 film. A striking graphic, printed in two tones of blue, befitting the classic science fiction film. Stamped in allotted space on lower right with Sign and Pictorial Local Union 230 stamp, with National Screen Service and Twentieth Century-Fox 1951 copyright stamps below. Widely considered one of.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1961 film, showing directors Robert Wise and Jermone Robbins seated on a camera crane, surrounded by members of the crew. With the stamps of press agencies Globe Photos and International Magazine Service, the latter dated May 29, 1961, on the verso. Based on the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1961 film, showing director Robert Wise looking through a viewfinder while his co-director Jermone Robbins looks through a pair of sunglasses. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage photograph of Natalie Wood from the 1961 film. With holograph notation on the verso identifying the film. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise, served.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Treatment script (here called a "Suggested Screen Treatment") for the 1939 film by British playwright and screenwriter Mordaunt Shairp. Annotation in holograph pencil on upper left of front wrapper, partially lost because of chipping. Shairp, during his brief three year run as a screenwriter, worked previously with producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1935 on "The Dark Angel,".....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1978. Draft script for the 1980 film. The first major studio effort by the famed Zucker brothers, following their rather inspired patchwork comedy, "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977). With "Airplane!" the brothers brought their brand of silly, unhinged comedy out of the midnight movie and into the mainstream, the beginning of a 10-year run that would peak with.....