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.....

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.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1977. Collection of 5 vintage black-and-white double weight still photographs from the 1977 film. Press photographs, with cropping annotations on the versos (4 stills) and rectos (2 stills) in holograph ink and pencil (in millimeters, the British style). Based on Ryan's 1974 book, about Operation Market Garden, a failed attempt by the allies in the.....

Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1954. Final shooting script for the 1954 film. Holograph annotations on the front wrapper reading "Revisions / Blue 9-28-54" and "part of 'Admiral John Hoskins.'"One of Republic's most elaborate productions of the 1950s, "The Eternal Sea" is the biography of American admiral John M. Hoskins. Sterling Hayden delivers a superbly understated performance as Hoskins, who continued.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Societe Nouvelle de Cinematographie (SNC), circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Text in French. A French-Italian collaboration film 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 joining the French resistance. Set in.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Collection of 5 vintage single weight studio still photographs from the 1957 UK film, released in the US in 1958. "Leo Genn" in holograph pencil on the verso of one still. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others.Troops of Company C occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse until they are discovered.....

New York: BasicBooks [Basic Books], 1995. First Edition. Chang's account of Tsien Hseu-shen, the Chinese-born scientist who helped pioneer the American space age, and father of the Chinese missile program. Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.

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.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1980. Draft script for the season one, episode four of the 1983 television mini-series, originally broadcast February 9, 1983 on ABC. As per request of the President, Pug Henry visits London to see the efficiency of the RAF and he is very impressed. He meets Pamela Tudsbury and her fiance, who is later shot.....

Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1959. Collection of 322 original black-and-white keybook still photographs from the 1959 French-Italian film. Small photos affixed with cello tape on thick stock in a folio "Lavis aquarelle" brand spiral bound notebook with maroon faux leather front wrapper. Each photo is numbered in holograph ink on the page, and in mimeograph on the verso, all credited.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Berlin: Deutsche Universal-Film, 1933. Vintage one sheet theatre poster for the 1933 German film. Stamped on lower left with the German Film Review Office eagle stamp as Approved, "Genehmigt Filmprüfstelle Berlin" and numbered dated and signed in holograph ink, "22611, 16 AUG. 1933 Zimmerman." An early release in the National Socialist era.One of the last US and German co-productions before.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from literary agent Bertha Case to producer Lester Cowan. A wounded Polish soldier is treated by a Jewish doctor in World War I, and impregnates the doctor's daughter before he is sent back home. The same Jewish doctor treats him again years later when.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film. Based on Alan Burgess' 1960 novel "Seven Men at Daybreak", which was in turn loosely based on the true story of "Operation Anthropoid", the assassination of a top general in the Nazi RSHA by two Czech spies.Set in Germany and shot on location in Prague.Green titled wrappers.....

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.....

Hollywood: Firewater Productions, Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a number of small holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly noting grammatical revisions and diacritical marks.In the final days of World War II, Allied forces race to take down Hitler and the Nazi elite, while German and Italian prisoners of war plot to escape from an American camp in Texas.Set.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1943. Draft script for the 1943 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. A man who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler plans to murder him and take over his identity. Gray-brown titled wrappers, noted as copy No.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Final script for the 1978 film. A production manager's copy, with brief annotations 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.....

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.....

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.....

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 annotations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1944. Eleventh Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to assistant director Early Bellamy, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and some annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Laid in are four revised pages. Many pages with a vertical center fold, made by the actress as scenes were completed.Set on the.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1942. Final Draft script for the 1942 film, here under the working title "Missing Submarine." Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman, who played Sue Curry in the film, with a few annotations in holograph pencil at the inclusion of her character's lines. Laid in is a singing telegram birthday greeting for Chapman, from Evelyn Keys, in.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Vintage photograph of director Fritz Lang and stars Joan Bennett and Walter Pidgeon on the set of the 1941 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and two punch holes in the left margin. Based on the 1939 novel "Rogue Male" by Geoffrey Household. The first of Fritz Lang's ant-Nazi films after he fled.....

London: Rank Film Distributors / Hammer Film Productions, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1964 English-American film. Set during WWII in Malaya, where US soldiers have been captured by the Japanese, and a woman secret agent gets shot down near the prison camp. The prisoners try to keep the woman from the Japanese, but they are.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1957 film. Set in Japan, shot on location in Sri Lanka. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.

N.p. The Rank Organization, 1956. Vintage UK three 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 World War II. Set in Malaysia, shot on location in Malaysia, Australia, and England.....

Madrid: Jose Frade Producciones Cinematograficas S.A., 1978. Draft script for the 1979 film. Here under the temporary title, "Neither Losers Nor Winners." With annotations throughout in holograph ink. The film was released in Italian, though with American actors Peppard and Hamilton dubbed in Italian. The text of this draft is in English, created for consideration by the US cast and.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1945. Two vintage double weight photographs, one showing of MGM still photographer Bert Lynch and his wife Bonnie, with "Columbia Pictures Photo by Joe Walters" stamp on the verso (Walters was a Paramount still photographer), and one portrait photograph of Bonnie Lynch, both lovingly inscribed in holograph ink by Bonnie to Bert, circa 1945.In the photograph of.....

Culver City, CA: Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit, 1943. Revised Final Draft script for the 1944 military training film. Actor Van Heflin's copy, with his holograph name on the front wrapper and holograph annotations throughout. White titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper, and production No. 112, rubber-stamped copy No. 20, dated October 11, 1943.....