Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1942. First Edition. Very Good plus in tan wrappers. Moderate toning to pages and wrappers, with a half inch tear to the top edge of the rear wrapper, and a previous bookseller's stamp to the rear wrapper. A very presentable copy.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for an unproduced play. Copy No. 9 noted in holograph ink on the title page. Based on screenwriter Abby Mann's original screenplay for Stanley Kramer's 1961 film "Judgment at Nuremberg," about an American court trial of four war criminal Nazis. Set in occupied Germany. Teal titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Original one-panel comic showing actor Charlie Chaplin in costume as "Adenoid Hynkel" (satirizing Hitler) in the 1940 satire "The Great Dictator." Distinctive signature/badge of artist Al Kilgore to the center left edge of the cartoon. Chaplin's most famous role, "The Tramp," was also known as "Charlot" in France, Italy, Spain, and other countries. Noted comic artist.....
![Without Pity [Senza pieta] (Two original photographs from the 1948 film). Alberto Lattuada,...](/pictures/thumb/139884.jpg?v=1504626680)
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 annotations 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film, showing actress Tallulah Bankhead sitting and reading a newspaper that makes reference to World War II. A group of survivors are stranded on a lifeboat following a Nazi attack on their merchant ship. Tensions are high as the group negotiates food rations and tries to plot.....
London: Navarone Productions, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 British-American film. Copy belonging to property master Tony Teiger (presumed), with "Props." in holograph ink on the title page. Based on Alistair MacLean's 1968 novel, and sequel to J. Lee Thompson's 1961 Academy Award-winning film, "The Guns of Navarone," also based on a MacLean novel. Set during WWII, US Colonel.....
N.p. Benagoss Productions, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on Alfred Hayes' novel, "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." A romantic drama set in south France during WWII. An American soldier begins a doomed romance with a French peasant woman. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light toning and a chip.....
Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an anti-fascist meeting in Paris in 1936, featuring novelist Andre Malraux speaking on a microphone with Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso, accompanied by holograph annotations in pencil, black ink, and red felt ink. Likely a photograph from a meeting of.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Vintage borderless black-and-white reference still photographs from the 1980 film. Based on Leasor's 1978 book about the raid by a small group of members of the Calcutta Light Horse on a Nazi radio ship in Goa in WWII. The daring plan is led by British Intelligence officers Col. Lewis Pugh (Peck) and Capt. Gavin Stewart (Moore).....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1990 Polish film, one showing director Andrzej Wajda, the other showing Wajda in conversation with actor Wojciech Pszoniak. The final days in the life of Polish-Jewish humanitarian, author, and educator Janusz Korczak, who founded an orphanage in Warsaw for Jewish children, and was eventually killed while.....
![Eine Liebe in Deutschland [A Love in Germany] (Original screenplay for the 1983 film). Andrzej...](/pictures/thumb/146511.jpg?v=1638076674)
Berlin: CCC-Film [CCC-Filmkunst], 1980. Draft script for the 1983 German film, directed by Andrzej Wajda. With a few small holograph pencil annotations, mostly regarding a character's name change and changes to pagination. Laid in with the script is a handwritten letter discussing films with KO-Productions. Text in German. Based on the 1980 novel. In 1983, a middle-aged man returns to.....
London: Contemporary Films, 1955. Vintage studio still photograph from the UK release of the 1955 Polish film, showing actors Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska, Tadeusz Janczar, Ryszard Kotys, and Roman Polanski. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on screenwriter Bohdan Czeszko's 1951 novel "Pokolenie." Andrzej Wajda's first film as director, and the first entry in what would.....
New York: Janus Films, 1961. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1958 film. Based on the 1948 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski. The last film in the "war" trilogy that began Polish director Wajda's career as a director, preceded by "Pokolenie" (1955) and "Kanal" (1957). A strong anti-war statement, framed in the personae of two men given orders - from the.....
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.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1973. Revised Final Shooting script for Part One of the 1974 television mini-series. Copy belonging to actor Ben Gazzara, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Winner of 6 Primetime Emmys. Physician Adam Kelno (Hopkins) travels to England after World War II, unaware that his identification with Anti-Communists in Poland has.....
![Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror [Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw] [Sherlock Holmes #1]...](/pictures/thumb/149229.jpg?v=1638077259)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film. First, an early Draft script, under the working title "Sherlock Holmes vs. Lord Haw-Haw," by screenwriter John Bright, noted as "Contract File Copy" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript, preceded by a four page ribbon copy typescript outline, dated 3/10/42. Annotation of inquiry into necessary.....
![Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon [Sherlock Holmes Fights Back] [Sherlock Holmes #2] (Archive...](/pictures/thumb/149240.jpg?v=1638077268)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Archive of three scripts and one post-production script for the 1942 film. First is a First Draft script, under the working title "'Sherlock Holmes' (#2)," by screenwriters Edward T. Lowe and Scott Darling, dated March 24, 1942. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin, with annotations in holograph pencil on several pages, inquiries about plotline, question marks, as.....
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. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which opened Off-Broadway at the Alley Theatre in Houston. With a few small holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page. A concentration camp survivor living in New York lures a man she suspects to be a former Nazi to her house, where she drugs him and attempts to exact.....
N.p. N.p., Circa early 1940s. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of four women workers at a Buick plant, posing on an in-process Buick on the assembly line, circa 1940s. As with many manufacturers, General Motors would convert a large percentage of their production lines to manufacture munitions for the military as a result of Franklin D. Roosevelt's establishment of the War Production.....
London: Rank Film Distributors / Hammer Film Productions, 1964. Collection of 8 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the 1964 Hammer 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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1965. Vintage reference photograph of actors Marlon Brando, Janet Margolin, and Yul Brynner from the 1965 film. With a printed spirit duplication snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Twentieth Century-Fox. Based on Werner Jorg Luddecke's 1958 novel. A German pacifist is blackmailed into helping sabotage a German merchant ship carrying a load.....
N.p. N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With a resume laid in for actor Sharon Hawn, including holograph ink notation correcting her phone number, possibly due to her being considered for a role in this unproduced feature. Based on the autobiography "With Two Wheels and a Camera" by still photographer Bert Kopperl, who was a war correspondent and photographer.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of director Billy Wilder and actress Marlene Dietrich inspecting a film strip on the set of the 1948 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. An Iowa congresswoman enlists a US army captain to assist her in an investigation of a former Nazi entertainer. Unbeknownst to the congresswoman.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1972. Vintage reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actress Marisa Berenson. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical, which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera," which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye.....
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2017. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes items relating broadly to the 20th Century, including literature by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, and James Joyce, as well as letters, illustrations, and World War II memorabilia.
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1965 UK release of the 1965 US film. On the versos are studio rubber stamps (UK), and one still has a mimeo tag affixed to the verso, with the reissue title "Sabateur: Code Name Morituri." Based on the 1963 novel by Werner Joerg Luedecke, and one of the most.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Copy lacking last part of Sequence "C" and Sequence "D," possibly due to reports that multiple endings had been considered and filmed, due to the uncertain.....
N.p. Lopert Pictures, 1966. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1965 British film. Housed in the original brown paper envelope stamped "It Happened Here 8 Stills Set A." Rare. The first feature film to be directed by documentarian and film scholar Kevin Brownlow. Shot in the style of a docudrama, an alternative history in.....
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Los Angeles: Conway and Associates, Circa 1975. Uncorrected proof of Nicolaysen's 1976 novel, "Perilous Passage," here under the working title, "The Basque." Nicolaysen would adapt his novel into a screenplay, and in 1979 a film was made based on his screenplay, called "The Passage." This proof is an early draft of the novel, presumably produced for purposes of film development.....
Los Angeles: APJAC Productions, 1964. Treatment script for an unproduced film, with blue revision pages throughout. Bound in with the script are a number of black and white photograph illustrations of World War I aviators and airplanes, as well as a handmade bound-in paper pouch containing 11 color reference photographs of early airplanes, clipped from an issue of Life Magazine. A......
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1962. Vintage black-and-white double weight still photograph from the UK release of the 1962 US film. Charlton Heston stars as an American soldier behind Italian lines in WWII, attempting to communicate German movements to the Allies by way of carrier pigeons fitted with messages. Unfortunately, he becomes distracted by the beautiful daughter of the family he.....
Cannes, France: Cinedis, 1955-1959. Archive of correspondence and film ephemera from representatives at Cinedis and UniFrance Films regarding Christian de la Maziere, briefly the impresario of press relations (and former Waffen-SS soldier) at Cinedis, detailing his participation at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and at a few Referendum Cinematographique festivals in Vichy. Represented in the archive are 27 leaves, several.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1967. Vintage photograph from the 1967 film. A promotional headshot of Dean Jagger in character as Lt. Col. E.J. Baseman. Sole survivor from his squad at Guadalcanal, Sergeant Jack Connell (Chad Everett) returns home a hero, awarded the Metal of Honor, and trains recruits, only to request a return to active duty on the front lines.....
London: London Weekend Television, 1981. Draft camera script for the 1982 episode "Hands Across the Sea," from the British miniseries "We'll Meet Again." Copy belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with a sheet of her notes about each character's makeup laid in. The series follows the goings-on of a British air base when a group of American airmen take over.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film, showing actors Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Gloria Holden, and Adolphe Menjou sitting around a nightclub table, with director Jack Conway and two crew members in the foreground. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the 1946.....
N.p. Vanguard Films, 1949. Original Spotting List script for the 1949 re-release of the 1944 film, noted as "For Recut Version," and dated August 22, 1949. Based on the 1943 novel "Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife" by Margaret Buell Wilder. A unique and important screenplay for a classic American war film, one that addressed the.....
Paris: Oeuvres Sociales du Cinema, 1944. First Edition. Deluxe brochure published in commemoration of the fourth year of the Comite d'Organisation de l'Industrie Cinematographique (COIC: Committee for the Organization of the Cinema Industry), an organization created by the Nazis during the first month of French occupation. The brochure contains a preface by director Marcel Pagnol, as well as five original.....
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.....
Italy: Excelsa Film, 1951. Vintage double weight press photograph of writer Curzio Malaparte sitting in the director's chair during the filming of his sole cinematic effort, "The Forbidden Christ." With holograph pencil annotations regarding layout on both the recto and verso, and the stamp of photographer Osvaldo Civirani and a mimeo snipe on the verso. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Included with the script is a small note from producer Sidney Beckerman to casting agent Paul Kohner, introducing the script as one they had discussed previously. After the end of World War I, a young Prussian officer returns home to Berlin and begins working as a male prostitute in a brothel.....
Culver City, CA: Brooksfilms, 1987. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1987 film. Two antiquarian booksellers strike up a long distance friendship during the late years of WWII. Starring Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, and Judi Dench. Shot on location in England and New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Vintage reference photograph of David Lean on the set of the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe and "Columbia Pictures" stamp on verso. Based on the 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai" by Pierre Boulle. Allied POWs of a Japanese prison camp are forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1958. Vintage reference photograph, with wide bottom margin, of David Lean on the set of the 1957 film. Based on the 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai" by Pierre Boulle. Allied POWs of a Japanese prison camp are forced to build a railway over a bridge during WWII. Under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Collection of five vintage studio still color photographs from the 1957 film. Based on Pierre Boulle's 1952 novel "Le Pont de la riviere Kwai," about Allied POWs forced to build a railway over a bridge during World War II. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director for David Lean.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1957. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1957 British film, showing actor Alec Guinness. With a printed label affixed to the verso crediting still photographer Mike Wilson, along with the stamp of PIX Agency. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still.....
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. Near Fine. National Film.....
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. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert II.
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson.....
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Final Draft script for the 1963 film. Based on the 1961 novel by Leo Rosten. An Army doctor in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Air Corps hospital in Arizona encounters a variety of tough, humorous, and touching cases. Rosten's novel took inspiration from the experiences of his wartime friend Ralph Greenson, a psychoanalytic.....
Culver City, CA: The Selznick Company, 1962. Rough Draft Outline script for an unproduced film. Not related to the 1953 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury. Rather, a story about culture clash in Japan toward the end of World War II, centering on a forward-thinking woman who ultimately ends her own life with a ceremonial knife, in an ironically.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Charity Blackstock, a pseudonym of Ursula Torday, who is here mis-attributed as "Charity Blackstone." In a post-World War II French village a young Jewish survivor of a concentration camp and a girl away at finishing school experience a budding romance, only to be stymied by a......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1944. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1944 film. Two soldiers celebrate at the Hollywood Canteen before departing for active duty in the South Pacific. Featuring brief cameos from several top-name Hollywood stars, including Joan Leslie, Joan Crawford, Jack Benny, Peter Lorre, and Roy Rogers. Set and shot on location at the Hollywood Canteen, a......
![Rue de Paris [Rue des Prairies] (Collection of 322 original photographs for the 1959 film). Denys...](/pictures/thumb/144663.jpg?v=1560892603)
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.....
London: Unviersal International Pictures, Circa 1958. Collection of 8 vintage full-color still photographs from the UK (country of origin) release of the 1958 film. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1954 novel, about a company of German soldiers on the Russian front during WWII. One of the soldiers is sent home, where, finding his home bombed, he struggles for his sanity.....
London: Unviersal International Pictures, Circa 1958. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Erich Maria Remarque on the set of the 1958 film. Cropping annotations in holograph pencil on verso. Based on the 1954 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, who played the role of Professor Pohlmann in the film. German soldier Ernst Graeber (John Gavin), sent home from the Russian front, finds his home.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1958. Two vintage photographs of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1958 World War II film. In one photograph, Sirk works with actress Lilo Pulver (misspelled "Lisa" on the recto) in a camera setup with production assistants present. In the other, Sirk holds a bound script and discusses a scene with Pulver.....
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 and London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Collection of four and two double weight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1958 US film. Two stills are from the UK release, with seller stamps on the versos. Based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, set during World War II, this largely antiwar film follows two American soldiers.....
![Suicide Battalion [Hell Raiders] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film). Edward L. Cahn, Lou...](/pictures/thumb/135931.jpg?v=1492979213)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], Circa 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, "Suicide Batallion," here under its working title, "Hell Raiders." The screenwriter-director team of Rusoff and Kahn worked together on several AIP films, including "Girls in Prison" (1956), "The She-Creature" (1956), "Shake, Rattle & Rock" (1956), "Runaway Daughters" (1956), "Dragstrip Girl" (1957), and "Motorcycle Gang" (1957). Rusoff.....
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the classic 1942 film noir. An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board. Set in Turkey. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped and production No. 1223, dated July.....
N.p. Enterprise Productions, 1948. Vintage studio still photograph of Ingrid Bergman from the 1948 film. Holograph annotations in ink on bottom border of recto. Crop annotations in holograph pencil and stamp on the verso obscured by holograph marker. Based on the 1945 novel by Erich Maria Remarque. A complex romantic film noir, in which Dr. Ravic (Boyer) is a refugee.....
![Full Circle [The Last Station] (Original script archive, two drafts, undated, one annotated Part...](/pictures/thumb/154858.jpg?v=1638078958)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Script archive, undated, for the 1973 Broadway production of the play "Full Circle," here under Erich Maria Remarque's original title "The Last Station." The archive contains two copies of Part II of the play, the first clean and the second with dialogue annotations in holograph ink on all but two pages. "Full Circle" premiered on November.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1975. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1970, following three episodes in the life of a stoic, aging artist living in the British-controlled Bahamas. Set in the Bahamas, shot on location in Kaua'i, Hawaii. Green generic Paramount wrappers with a die-cut title window in the.....
N.p. N.p., 1937. Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren (uncredited in the final film) added to the cast list in holograph pencil, and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences, A through H. A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. First Draft script for an unproduced film, written by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ernest Tidyman. Based on Martin Caidin's 1974 novel. An American ace pilot and his Japanese counterpart take to the skies during World War II to duel, and are eventually forced into a friendship built on necessity. Screenwriter Ernest Tidyman previously won an Academy Award for Best.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1941. Vintage wide reference photograph of Ernst Lubitsch playing piano on the set of the 1942 film. Remade in 1983, directed by Alan Johnson, starring Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Carol Lombard's final film, having died in an airplane accident during post-production. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard star as Joseph and Maria Tura, husband and wife.....
![Istanbul [Singapore] (Original screenplay for the 1957 film). Errol Flynn, Joseph Pevney, Seton...](/pictures/thumb/128858.jpg?v=1638075815)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Early Draft script for the 1957 film, a remake of an earlier Universal Pictures release, "Singapore" (1947). This draft dated September 1955. Light blue titled wrappers, dated September 21, 1955. Title page present, with credits for story writer Miller. 121 leaves, Multilith duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Dialogue Draft script for the 1929 film. With holograph pencil annotations on the front wrapper and throughout. Based on H.C. McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond." A former army captain bored with civilian life aids a young woman whose uncle has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric institution. The third Bulldog Drummond film to be released, following the.....
![Hornets' Nest [Children at Their Games] (Original screenplay for the 1970 film). Franco Cirino...](/pictures/thumb/134169.jpg?v=1418081771)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 film. Set in Italy in 1944, where the entire population of a village has been massacred by the SS except for a group of young boys. Rock Hudson, the only US paratrooper left alive after a failed mission to blow up a nearby dam, decides to lead the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Collection of 3 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1959 UK release of the 1958 US film. Based on Jones' 1957 novel, set in postwar Indiana, where Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) returns to his home town, fresh out of the army and looking to resume his career as a writer. He meets professional gambler Bama.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1959 film, showing actors Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, and Richard Johnson standing in a base in Burma. Based on the 1957 novel by Tom T. Chamales, about a unit of American and British forces who mount a covert operation against the Japanese army while stationed in Burma.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1964. Shooting Final script for the 1965 film. Based on the 1964 novel by David Westheimer. Based on David Westheimer's 1964 novel, about an American POW (Sinatra) who leads a group of British prisoners to escape from the Germans in World War II. Nominated for an Academy Award. Tan titled wrappers, noted as Shooting Final on.....
10-16-31. Vintage photograph, 1931. Mimeo snipe and International News Photos stamp on verso. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York addressing spectators at the dedication of the Colonial National Monument at Yorktown during Virginia's Sesquicentennial Celebration of Cornwallis surrender. By the fall of 1931 Roosevelt was already being considered a likely candidate for the Democratic nominee for President in the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1950. Vintage black-and-white reference still photograph from the 1950 film. Pictured are Richard Erdman, Ray Teal, and Marlon Brando (left to right). Ken (Brando) is a paralyzed WWII vet trying to adjust to living without the use of his limbs. Nominated for an Academy Award, and one of the earliest portrayals of post-WWII vets assimilating.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage black-and-white double-weight studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Struck from the original negative, with offset black border. Starring actors Ericson and Mauldin are prominently featured. "Silver Screen Archives" rubber-stamp on the verso. Based on an original story by Alfred Hayes and Stewart Stern. Phillip (Ericson) is a soldier in Italy during WWII.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1951 film. Starring actors Ericson and Mauldin are featured throughout. On the versos, two stills with "Silver Screen Archives" rubber-stamp, one still with title mimeo snipe, and all with brief numerical annotations. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Based on.....
N.p. N.p., 1966. First Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Franz Habeck, the French resistance works to send a Nazi prisoner of war back home but is engaged with the question of why. The consequences of not sending him back leaves 50 innocent French citizens slaughtered daily at the hands of the German Army as.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1945. Incomplete First Draft Shooting script for an unproduced film called "Daybreak," written for screen by Jay Dratler, whose film credits include "Laura" (1944), "The Dark Corner" (1946), "Call Northside 777" (1948), "Pitfall" (1948), and "Impact" (1949). Fritz Lang's only effort with Selznick, also known as "Dawning." Intended for Ingrid Bergman, the project was called off.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1955. Vintage narrow margin reference photograph of cast and crew fixated on Dolores Gray's performance on the set of the 1955 film. Cropping annotations in holograph pencil and mimeo snipe printed on verso. Three former army friends meet for a reunion in New York after ten years apart, and find that they have little.....
![Living in a Big Way [To Kiss and to Keep] (Original publicity photograph of Gene Kelly from the...](/pictures/thumb/151265.jpg?v=1638077963)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1947. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1947 film, showing actor Gene Kelly performing a dance step. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A World War II pilot returns home, only to discover his wife seeking a divorce on the recommendation of her overprotective father. 8 x......
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. Draft script for the 1969 television movie. During the latter days of WW2 an American Lieutenant (Berry), accidentally falls out of an airplane that he was on and falls into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness (Gabor). She is taken with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she.....
![Paracelsus (Original photograph of Georg Wilhelm [G.W.] Pabst from the set of the 1943 German...](/pictures/thumb/149399.jpg?v=1638077337)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1943. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Georg Wilhelm [G.W.] Pabst on the set of the 1943 German film. Production stamps on verso. Made to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Paracelsus. Story of the 16th century Swiss physician/alchemist/astrologer Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), played by Werner Krauss. Made under the auspices of the Third Reich.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 18th episode of season 3 of the 1956-1961 television playhouse series, which originally aired on February 5, 1959. Copy belonging to director George Roy Hill, with a printed label noting his name on the verso of the front wrapper, and his holograph ink annotations throughout, noting deletions and substantive changes. A kinescope of.....
![Target Unknown [Prisoner of War] (Original screenplay for the 1951 film). George Sherman, Harold...](/pictures/thumb/146051.jpg?v=1638076552)
Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1950. Final Shooting script for the 1951 film, here under the working title "Prisoner of War." With detailed, extensive holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout the script. Likely copy belonging to Harold Medford with many annotations ending in "HM" throuhgout Disoriented and exhausted from multiple missions over occupied France, an American bomber squadron is forced to.....
N.p. George Stevens Productions, 1959. Vintage studio photograph on the set of the 1959 film revealing the house interior set design. Based on Anne Frank's diary and Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 stage play that was adapted from it. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and for 8 Academy Awards, winner of 3, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. 8.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs and one vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 film. Based on Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 play. The first adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, considered by many to be the best, winner of three Academy Awards, including one for Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Set and.....
Sydney: Melaleuka, Circa 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film with occasional holograph annotations. Adapted from Morris West's novel of the same name. Just after World War II ends a British major in Austria seeks revenge on the man who killed his sergeant. Shot on location in Salzburg, Austria, and at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire, England. Red untitled wrappers. Title.....
![Target Unknown [Prisoner of War Story] (Original screenplay for the 1951 film). Mark Stevens Gig...](/pictures/thumb/128725.jpg?v=1638075813)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Draft script for the 1951 film. In 1944, an American bomber squadron is tense and discontented from too many missions over France. Luck runs out for Capt. Stevens and his crew; they must bail out and are promptly taken prisoner. Their wily German captors, sensing that they have valuable information unknown even to themselves.....
Rome: Cineriz, 1960. Collection of 18 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Strasberg is seen in all photographs, before and after a buzz cut, always in pinstripes, with a candid image of director Pontecorvo discussing aspects of Strasberg's trimmed hair. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos of all but one, and.....
Rome: Cineriz, 1960. Collection of 21 original borderless double weight still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Susan Strasberg is seen in several photographs, always in pinstripes, and several feature costar Terzieff, with striking images of laboring women, a death pit, and German soldiers. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil, and Contino's rubber-stamp, on the versos. An impressive showcase in.....
![The Fifth Day of Peace [Gott Mit Uns] [God's On Our Side] (Original treatment script for the 1970...](/pictures/thumb/137628.jpg?v=1638076050)
Italy: Clesi Cinematografica, 1969. Typescript Treatment script for the 1970 film, "The Fifth Day of Peace," here under the working title, "Gott Mit Uns!!," its translated title being "God's On Our Side." Laid in is a single typescript leaf (author unknown), dated 9/8/69, detailing the story outline, and noting the possibility of actor Max von Sydow taking on the lead.....
![Jim Now [The City and the Pillar] (Original screenplay for an unproduced film). Gore Vidal,...](/pictures/thumb/152410.jpg?v=1638078398)
N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film, attributed to Gore Vidal. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Loosely based on Vidal's 1948 classic landmark novel "The City and the Pillar," one of the few books of the period which portrayed overt homosexuality as natural and without moral ramifications. In 1970 and 1971 Variety International reported Franco Rossellini.....
![South Sea Sinner [Java] (Original screenplay for the 1950 film, copy belonging to director Bruce...](/pictures/thumb/149210.jpg?v=1638077248)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1949. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1950 film, here under the working title "Java." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and single annotation on page 41. Loosely based on Tay Garnett's 1940 film "Seven Sinners." A sick steam ship crewman attempts to clear his.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Revised Final Draft script for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. A bratty naval recruit is transformed into a battle-wise soldier several days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Set and shot on location in San Diego, California. Red titled wrappers.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. First Draft script for the 1968 film. Wartime secret agents Col. Charles Waslow-Carton (Tony Franciosa) and Lt. Col. Philip Braden (Guy Stockwell) infiltrate enemy lines, posing as POWs. Their mission is to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France. Their contact is Denise Marchois (Anjanette Comer), whom.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1971. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film. An American B-movie set during WWII and originally intended for television. Starring the acclaimed Welsh actor Richard Burton. Shot on location in Arizona and California. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the corners and holograph annotations to the verso...
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.....