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...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1932-1933. Archive of four rare production photographs from the set of the 1933 film. One 13.5 x 10.75 inch (34 x 27 cm) oversize, double weight photograph and three 8 x 10 (20 x 25 cm) photographs. The oversize photograph and one of the others depict scenes from the miniature setups in the film, with Kong...
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...
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied (as issued) six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971. With a notation of copy No. 11 in blue holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1969...
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: Warner Brothers, Circa 1981. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference photograph from the 1982 film. Shot by still photographer Stephen Vaughan. Shown are Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford conferring as Ford sits in his "spinner" vehicle. 10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.5 cm). Fine.
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...
Hollywood: 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 British in.....
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...
Los Angeles: David W. Griffith, 1918. Vintage herald for a revival showing of the landmark 1915 film at the Opera House in Suffern, NY on May 15 and 16, 1918. 16.5 x 5.5 inches (42 x 14 cm), accordion folded to 4.25 x 5.5 inches (11 x 14 cm), with four panels on each side. Near Fine, with a small separation to one of the folds and some light edgewear. National Film Registry.
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...
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: 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...
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 dialog 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, CA: Universal Pictures, 1960. First Draft script for the 1961 film. Based on the actual events and judgments in Nuremburg, Germany following World War II, an American tribunal tries and convicts four judges who acted by means of the law to promote the legal status of eugenics, violence and war crimes against civilians, and ethnic cleansing in the...
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 double weight photograph of the cast and crew of "The Night of the Hunter," on the set of the film, including director Charles Laughton, stars Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish, director of photography Stanley Cortez, all the children from the film's final sequence, and about 40 others. Likely unique. 8 x 10...
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...
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...
London: William Heinemann, 1960. First UK Edition. Basis for the 1962 Robert Mulligan film, starring Gregory Peck, and winner of three Academy Awards, as well as a nomination for the Palme d'Or at Cannes the following year. Near Fine with a slight lean, in a bright Near Fine dust jacket. National Film Registry.
New York: Dial, 1966. First Edition. Basis for the Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 directorial debut, which he co-scripted with McMurtry. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winner for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman, who beat out co-stars Jeff Bridges and Ellen Burstyn in the Supporting Actor categories. Fine and unread in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket...
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...
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...
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 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 Scott had already developed in "Alien" (1979), "Blade Runner" set a standard for science fiction...
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Final Draft script for the 1956 film. Copy belonging to actor Bob Nichols, who played the part of "Mort 'Pinky' Snythe," with his name on the front wrapper, and annotations throughout, in holograph pencil. Based on Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. Bick Benedict (Hudson) and his wife Leslie (Taylor) are cattle ranchers in Texas, Leslie having...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Vintage press photograph of director Billy Wilder and actor Jack Lemmon on the set of the 1960 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. A film that couldn't be made today, and definitely a story of its time, yet today still seems strangely undated and unbearably sweet. Jack Lemmon allows his boss use of...
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...
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...