Los Angeles: Goldwyn Films / Green Parrot / Rysher Entertainment / Trinity Films, 1996. Vintage photograph from the set of 1996 film, showing Paul Thomas Anderson giving literal direction to Philip Baker Hall. Anderson's feature debut, a taut crime story, smaller in scale than most of his subsequent career defining work, but with several of Anderson's trademark touches arriving fully...
N.p. Harry Sherman Productions, 1942. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1942 film. A strong willed young woman from the Barbary Coast sacrifices romance in order to pursue her love of card games. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Very Good plus with light soiling to the verso and a holograph pencil notation to the verso. Complete collation details available on request.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor)...
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London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers." Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers." A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed...
Kansas City, MO: A.M. Wilson / The Sphinx, 1913. First Edition. A small pamphlet detailing tricks of the trade for magicians and performers, written during the height of the vaudeville era. Very Good in stapled wrappers. Stamp from the Magic House of Charles on the title page. Bruise to the front wrapper, with some light toning to the edges. Page...
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Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. With photocopied annotations throughout. Later generation photocopy, but produced during production, with vintage Embassy Pictures production company wrappers. Based on Laurel & Hardy's classic short "The Music Box," Spencer Holden is a gambler set on the next bet as soon as the last one comes to an end...
Hollywood: Paul Kohner Inc., Circa 1963-1964. Draft agency script for the an uproduced film called "A Thousand Several Tongues," written by Jeremy Fey, whose film credits include three episodes of the 1976-1977 television series, "ABC Afterschool Specials," his job being Productions Assistant. Agency copy, with the address imprint and label present from the Paul Kohner, Inc. agency in Hollywood. Copy...
Los Angeles: Underworld Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on John Gay's 1728 play, "The Beggar's Opera," source for many similar adaptations, including "The Threepenny Opera." The odds are constantly stacked against Mickey Moore, an honest gambler who is about to be killed for owing a powerful man too much money. He falls for a female acrobat and...
New York: Random House, 2001. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Here under the working title "Dark Horse: The Legend of Seabiscuit." Basis for the 2003 film starring Jeff Bridges and Tobey Maguire, nominated for seven Academy Awards. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers.
New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick at...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1962. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe once affixed to the verso (detached but present). Featured is Nita Talbot, who played "Saturday Knight" in the film. Based on Alexander Rose's 1960 novel, "Four Horse Players Are Missing." Steve (Martin) is a horse-race better whose habits get the better of him, so his...
N.p. Compagnia Industrielle et Commerciale Cinematographique, 1967. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1967 French film noir. Alain Delon plays the silent hitman Jef Costello, who is spotted by the piano player after carrying out a job at a nightclub. His lover provides an alibis, keeping the police temporarily at bay, but eventually the entire plot...
Las Vegas: New Frontier Hotel, Circa 1950s. Original menu from the Venus Room in the New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, circa the mid-1950s. Designed by Saul Bass, with his name to the front panel. Likely an early Bass design, bearing striking resemblance to his billboard designs for the 1956 film "On the Threshold of Space." Originally built with...
Los Angeles: Lippert Pictures, Circa 1952. Draft script for the 1952 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with brief annotations in holograph pencil on the verso of the last page of text, and on a few pages. An unusual story for a low-budget Western: a tough woman gambler named Iron Mae McLeod (Windsor) runs a town where law...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Collection of 4 black and white stills photographs from the 1964 film. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1944. Agency Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the story by George Agnew Chamberlain that first appeared in Collier's Weekly on May 27, 1939. The daughter of a well known racehorse owner falls for the son of another owner, currently down and out, and their relationship hinges on the success of the young man's new wildcard...