Culver City, CA: Selznick Studio, 1950. Draft English language script for the 1951 French-Italian film, "Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois," here under the English title, "Miracles Only Happen Once." Based on an original scenario by Jacques Sigurd, adapted to English by Hugh Brooke. Claudia (Valli) and Jerome (Marais) meet in Paris shortly before WWII, fall in love and expect... (read more) about Miracles Only Happen Once (Original screenplay for the 1951 film)

London: Warner-Pathe, 1966. Collection of 10 vintage still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1965 US film. Six stills are full-color, and four stills are black-and-white, with a studio stamp on the verso of one of the black-and-white stills. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, but denounced by President Eisenhower... (read more) about Battle of the Bulge (Collection of 10 photographs from the 1965 film)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1965. Original UK script for the 1965 film. One of the most ambitious films about World War II made during the 1960s, an epic story that details the events leading to the title confrontation, the bloodiest battle that the US fought in WWII and one of the key turning points in the war. Filmed almost entirely... (read more) about Battle of the Bulge (Original UK screenplay for the 1965 film)

N.p. N.p., circa 1947-1963. Album containing 95 vintage black and white photographs and one color promotional print of open-wheel automobiles, focusing on well-known drivers, and with an emphasis on Indianapolis Motor Speedway winners. An uncommonly large, collection of promotional photographs of various well-known race car drivers from the late 1940s through the 1960s, collected by enthusiast John E. Cory, with..... (read more) about An album of over 20 years of photographs of open wheel auto racing

Los Angeles: California Pictures, 1979. Collection of 51 vintage borderless, color photographs from the 1979 film. Also included are eight large format negatives for photographs in the collection. Two US Navy divers, taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Philippines, are forced to search for millions of dollars worth of silver that the retreating American forces dumped into Manila Bay... (read more) about Pacific Inferno (Collection of 41 original photographs from the 1979 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage double weight studio still photograph from the 1947 film. Mimeograph snipe to the verso. Featuring Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter canoodling somewhat begrudgingly. Robert Taylor shines in this challenging role an ex-pilot accused of murdering his wife after discovering she is having an affair with her boss (Herbert Marshall). Unfortunately he suffers from... (read more) about High Wall (Original double weight photograph from the 1947 film)

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Revised Final script for the 1973 film. Laid in are two full-color studio stills from the film. Director Paul Bogart's sequel to Robert Mulligan's 1971 film, "Summer of '42." Hermie (Grimes), Oscy (Houser), and Benjie (Conant) graduate from high school in the waning months of World War II, and go separate ways. Benjie joins the... (read more) about Class of '44 (Original screenplay for the 1973 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1939 film. A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid. Tall white side stitched titled wrappers, dated August 31, 1939, noting 10 reels and footage of 8170. Mimeograph. Fine. (read more) about Disputed Passage (Censorship Dialogue script for the 1939 film)

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Text in French. One of Marcel Camus' best loved films, a French-Italian collaboration dealing with World War II in a humorous light. The last film made by French actor Bourvil. A British airman falls into the bedroom of a young woman and is coerced into... (read more) about Atlantic Wall [Le Mur de l'Atlantique] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film)

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... (read more) about Candide [Candide ou l'optimisme au XXe siecle] (Original French poster for the 1960 film)

N.p. N.p., 1943. Typescript treatment script for an unproduced film called "The Sailor and the Girl," written by Martha Chapin, whose notable film credits include "Gambling with Souls" (1936), "Slaves in Bondage" (1937), and "Lightning Strikes West" (1940). Typeovers on a few pages. Set in New York during World War II, with a touch of hard-boiled attitude, the story follows... (read more) about The Sailor and the Girl (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)

Paris: Cinedis, 1961. Original program, and press book, for the 1961 French-Italian-West German-Japanese film. The program is excellently illustrated in photo negative by Ferracci, a prolific French poster artist, with film still images throughout, and layout akin to work by Saul Bass. The press book provides similar synopsis and biographies to the program, with further examples of poster and advertisement... (read more) about Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (Original program and press book for the 1961 film)

New York: Janus Films, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British film.A young man who has had a premonition of his death is called up to train and fight with the British forces during World War II, ultimately ending in his actual death in battle on D-Day. Shot in black and white on vintage Kodak film stock, with about half... (read more) about Overlord (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode six of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast on February 11, 1983 on ABC. The President of the United States asks Pug Henry to lead 70 merchant ships to England in order to deliver much needed supplies, at the promise by the president of command of... (read more) about The Winds of War, Part VI: The Changing of the Guard (Original teleplay script for the 1983...

Beverly Hills, CA: Selznick Studios / United Artists, 1961. Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the well-loved 1944 film, mimeograph for the Selznick Studio files in 1949. A woman in prison convicted of accidental manslaughter and a man in a VA hospital with PTSD are both given brief leave for the holidays, and meet each other while on a train. In... (read more) about I'll Be Seeing You (Post-production Cutting Continuity script for the 1944 film)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1954. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1954 film. Mimeograph snipes unattached (but present) from the versos of two of the stills. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, about a WWII ship captain who is removed from his command, something the US Navy has never experienced, and the consequences... (read more) about The Caine Mutiny (Collection of 3 photographs from the 1954 film)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1957 film. Adapted from the 1945 Broadway play, and the first major film role for model-turned-actress Suzy Parker. Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four-day leave in San Francisco. They land a posh suite at The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel where Commander Andy Crewson (Cary Grant), a master of procurement... (read more) about Kiss Them for Me (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final script for the 1940 film "Sailor's Lady," here seen under an early working title, "Sweetheart of Turret One," with "Sailor's Lady" written above in holograph pencil. A comedy of errors about a sailor on leave and his bride-to-be, who end up adopting an infant whose parents have been killed. Sixty-seven babies were originally tested... (read more) about Sweetheart of Turret One [Sailor's Lady] (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)

N.p. N.p., circa 1940. Vintage sepia tone photograph of clarinet player and swing band leader Ann Dupont. United States involvement in World War II created the perfect storm for a staggering increase in the number of "all-girl" big bands in the early 1940s. As male musicians were frequently getting drafted, and those left behind on the home front sought musical..... (read more) about Ann Dupont (Original photograph, circa 1940)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1955. Final Script for the 1956 film. Actor Robert Wagner's working copy, with his name in black holograph ink at the top of the distribution page. Nominated for an Academy Award. Wagner stars in this Richard Fleischer-directed film, a typically efficient and entertaining entry, a World War II film about the son of a wealthy Southerner... (read more) about Between Heaven and Hell (Original screenplay for the 1956 film, actor Robert Wagner's working copy)

France: Forrester-Parant, Circa 1937. Vintage double weight press photograph from the 1938 film, showing director Gance on location in Verdun with French politician and veteran Emile Yves Picot, both surrounded by former WWI soldiers - members of the Gueules Cassees (broken faces) organization of facially disfigured veterans - who would appear as ghosts of dead soldiers in the film's climatic... (read more) about J'accuse [I Accuse] (Original double weight photograph from the set of the 1938 film)

Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions, 1987. Final Draft script for the 1988 film, "Hanna's War," here seen on the title page under its original title "A Great Wind Cometh," which is crossed through and replaced with "Hanna's War" written above in black holograph ink. Includes a vintage still photograph from the film. Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh, Her Life and... (read more) about Hanna's War (Original screenplay for the 1988 film)

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. An American spy infiltrates Sicily during World War II, where he works to bring down the fascist government. Set in Sicily. Tan titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter S.N. Gorodisky. 145 leaves, with last page of text numbered 145. Pages Very..... (read more) about Sicily 43 (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Calabasas Park, CA: Self published, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced stage play called, "The Call," written by Bill Hare, about a German general plotting against Adolf Hitler at the Battle of Stalingrad. Printed blue titled wrappers, with swastika symbol and title on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 11/30/82, with a credit for playwright Hare. 102 leaves, with... (read more) about The Call (Original script for an unproduced stage play)

Vienna: N.p., Circa 1970s. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Based on Herman Hesse's last full-length novel "Das Glasperienspiel" or "The Glass Bead Game", published in 1943. Years into the future, a class of intellectuals is concerned only with running boys' boarding schools and playing the Glass Bead Game, which involves a sophisticated synthesis of arts, science... (read more) about Das Glasperlenspiel (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)

Los Angeles: Cinevision Ltee, 1974. Final script for the 1975 film, "The Man in the Glass Booth," directed by Arthur Hiller, based on the play by Robert Shaw, written for the screen by Edward Anhalt, and starring Maximilian Schell. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World War II. Well-known for being bizarrely... (read more) about The Man in the Glass Booth (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Final script for the 1978 film. A production manager's copy, with brief notations in red holograph ink regarding the initial entrance of the principal characters. The typed name of an uncredited crew member, Gerald R. Fischer, is affixed to the front wrapper with Scotch tape, and the name "Jerry Fis(c)her" is written at the... (read more) about Brass Target (Original Screenplay for the 1978 film)

N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes... (read more) about Hungarian Rhapsody (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)

N.p. N.p., N.d. Draft script for an unproduced film by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson. Johnson was a screenwriter, director, and producer, and highlights of his 40 year career include "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957), and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). From the estate of Nunnally Johnson. A small group of Army rangers are facing court martial... (read more) about The $100,000,000 Snatch (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 Czechoslovak new wave film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with both still images from the film and impressionistic illustrations. The end of WWII from the perspective on a boy in a rural farming village, equally worried about retreating German soldiers... (read more) about Long Live the Republic [At ije republika] (Original program for the 1965 film)

Moscow: Mosfilm, 1957. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine," with two stamps on the verso, one referencing its inclusion in issue 52, page 5, along with holograph notations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay... (read more) about The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA], 1937. Vintage French pressbook for the 1937 German film "Vor Liebe wird gewarnt," seen here as "Onny a le Beguin." Anny Ondra plays a woman, the youngest in a family of three sisters, who can't seem to find romance, and whose boss attempts to set her up. An unusual look at women's roles under the Nazi... (read more) about Vor Liebe wird gewarnt [Onny a le Beguin] (Original French pressbook for the 1937 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1940. Draft Script for the 1940 film. In 1939, a Finnish reserve unit defends a town on the border, located in a valley, from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosives-laden tunnel under their mountaintop encampment. Brown titled wrappers, rubber-stamped as File Copy on the front wrapper, production No. 6819, dated Feburary 29, 1940, with... (read more) about Ski Patrol (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film musical. Based on the 1940 French comedy "L'homme qui cherche la verite," written by Poerre Wolff. With three pages of shooting schedule laid in and holograph pencil notations to the verso of the rear wrapper. America's wealthiest bachelor (Eddie Bracken) joins the Navy to escape his gold-digging suitors, only to... (read more) about Bring on the Girls (Original screenplay for the 1945 film)

Rome [Roma]: Lux Film, 1948. Two vintage French borderless still photographs from the 1948 Italian film. Both images depict African American actor John Kitzmiller. Foto Franci rubber stamp to the verso, alongside various holograph notations in pencil and red felt ink. At the close of World War II an African American sergeant struggles with the temptation to sell ex-military supplies... (read more) about Without Pity [Senza pieta] (Two original photographs from the 1948 film)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1957 film. A fascinating collection of candid shots from various scenes in the film, including several perspectives on the construction of the bridge at the story's center. Set in Burma, shot on location in Sri Lanka. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm)... (read more) about Bridge on the River Kwai (Collection of 14 candid photographs from the 1957 film)

N.p. The Rank Organization, 1956. Vintage UK one sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune, a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya, where she was previously a POW, with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. Set in Malaya, shot on location in Malaya and England. 27 x.... (read more) about A Town Like Alice (Original UK one sheet poster for the 1956 film)

N.p. The Rank Organization, 1956. Vintage US half sheet poster for the 1956 British film. After inheriting a fortune, a newly wealthy Englishwoman returns to Malaya, where she was previously a POW, with the intention of building a well for the villagers who sheltered her during the war. Set in Malaya, shot on location in Malaya and England. 28 x.... (read more) about A Town Like Alice (Original US half sheet poster for the 1956 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Draft script for the 1941 film. Based on the 1937 book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay, Jr. Veronica Lake's first major film, the role that would make her a star. Here she plays a seductress who attempts to woo two separate pilots in training (Ray Milland and William Holden), including one who already has a girl (Constance... (read more) about I Wanted Wings (Original screenplay for the 1941 film)

Hollywood: Petramonte Productions, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph notations throughout. Based on the 1951 novel "Fortress in the Rice" by Benjamin Appel. The only film ever released by Petramonte Productions (and eventually distributed by Allied Artists).During World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the... (read more) about Cry of Battle [To Be a Man] (Original screenplay for the 1963 film, actor Van Heflin's working copy)