N.p. Untitled Productions, 1989. Draft script for the 1989 film, belonging to and heavily annotated throughout by actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "Brothers." Bound in a spring binder with "Kraft Music Hall" and Landau's name in gilt on front ("The Kraft Music Hall" was a revival of the NBC variety television show with various hosts and performers.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Collection of 20 vintage borderless photographs from the 1966 film, 18 reference photographs and 2 fashion photographs of Rosaleen Murray and Ann Norman. Mimeo snipes on the verso of three of the photographs. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar.Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film, marking the beginning of the final.....

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1980. Vintage photograph of Levon Helm, who played Loretta Lynn's father, coal miner Ted Webb, from the 1980 film. Based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter, co-written by George Vecsey. Biography of Loretta Lynn from her poverty-striken upbringing in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a Country Music superstar.Nominated for one Academy Award.Shot on location.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1979. Final Draft script for the 1980 film. Based on screenwriter Shagan's 1979 novel. Barney Caine (Scott) of the LAPD uncovers a formula for synthetic gasoline devised by the Nazis in WWII. A greedy and ruthless oil magnate, Adam Steiffel (Brando) and his company hear of the formula, and stop at nothing to destroy it.....

Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original international program for the English language release of the 1960 Swedish film by Ingmar Bergman, printed by Svensk Filmindustri in Sweden. Adapted from the thirteenth century Swedish ballad, "Tores dottrar i Wange". Photo illustrated throughout. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, with director Bergman receiving.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 film musical, based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical play of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau, a date stamp of "Dec 1939," and holograph annotations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country".....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1947. Two vintage photographs from the 1947 film noir. Each with the stamps of photographers Eugene Robert Richee or Frank Bjerring, and a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the estate of actor Van Heflin. A woman suffers a psychotic break and is found wandering the streets after murdering the man she had become obsessed with.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1973 film. Based on Joe David Brown's 1971 novel, "Addie Pray". Real-life father-daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal play a con man and the girl who may or may not be his daughter. Shot on location in Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, and California. Winner of an Academy Award, nominated for three.....

Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the massive scale of the film, shot on location in.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Final Script for the 1943 film, "Tonight We Raid Calais" [here titled simply "Project 47"], directed by John Brahm, written for the screen by Waldo Salt, and starring Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Beulah Bondi, and Howard Da Silva. John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of 10 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1979 film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress. While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident.....

Culver City, CA: TriStar, 1996. Shooting Script for the 1997 film. SIGNED on the title page by director-screenwriter James L. Brooks. Housed in a quarter leather clamshell slipcase, red cloth with blue leather spine.A misanthropic novelist uses sarcasm and animosity to mask his extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder, but finds his highly regimented world begins to unravel when he is forced to.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Elmer Gantry Productions / United Artists, 1960. Vintage double weight photograph from the set of the 1960 film. Director Richard Brooks gets up close to direct Burt Lancaster as Lancaster holds Jean Simmons. Based on the 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis. Nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of six vintage photographs from the 1930 film. All but one with a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1913 play by Edward Sheldon, about an aristocratic young man who falls in love with an opera star. Nominated for Best Director for Clarence Brown and Best Actress for Greta Garbo, who.....

FranceSpain: Greenwich Film Productions / Les Films Galaxie / In-Cine Compania Industrial Cinematografica, 1977. Vintage borderless photograph showing director Luis Bunuel behind a camera on the set of the 1977 film. With identifying holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys, about the tempestuous relationship.....

Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1977. Vintage borderless color photograph of Fernando Rey and Carole Bouquet from the 1977 film. With holograph annotations and an agency stamp on the verso. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys, about the tempestuous relationship between a wealthy, middle aged Frenchman and a poor.....

Vintage US poster for the 1981 documentary film.Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. A compelling history of the great bridge that includes interviews with personalities such as New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger, playwright Arthur Miller, and Frank Sinatra. Narrated by historian David McCullough who wrote the nonfiction book the film was based on.23 x 29.....

N.p. N.p., 1959. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1959 film. A key film that captured the essence of an era, a music, and a place, namely the modern Carnival, bossa nova, and Brazil, as well as an important intersection of European and Brazilian viewpoints, merging the talents of French director Marcel Camus and.....

Culver City, CA: RKO, 1946. Revised Final Script for the 1946 film, with stamps "Revised Final Script," "Please Return to RKO Story Files," and production number "1838" on front wrapper. Carbon typescript on onionskin.Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of his rope during Christmas. Generally considered one of.....

N.p. Sol C. Siegel Productions, 1957. Collection of 3 vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film, one featuring Gene Kelly and Mitzi Gaynor during the title track, "Les Girls" sequence, and two of the trio of Mitzi Gaynor, Joy Henderson and Kay Kendall in Jack Cole's brilliantly choreographed, "Ladies in Waiting" sequence.Based on a 1959 story by Vera Caspary.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US program for the 1952 film. Autobiographically reflective of Chaplin's fears of being left behind in the fading vaudeville and silent film era, "Limelight" depicts the final years of a washed up stage clown who briefly maintains an impossible relationship with a young dancer, representative of a new generation of performers. The first.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1986 film. During an earthquake, a Cro-Magnon girl (Hannah) is separated from her family and subsequently orphaned. A family of Neanderthals find her and raise her as their own. The film is primarily told through sign language. Nominated for an Academy Award. Filmed on location in British Columbia, Canada. Royal.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to Delbert Mann: "To Delbert / Who needs no / inscription (p. 259). Thank you very much , Del / Paddy." In a custom clamshell box with red cloth and black calf quarter binding, titles in gilt.Delbert Mann, in addition to his notable work.....

N.p. N.p., 1977. Second Draft script for an unproduced film, with single holograph annotation at bottom of title page.Written by author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter Jeremy Larner, who won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Screenplay for Michael Ritchie's "The Candidate" starring Robert Redford and Peter Boyle. Larner also co-wrote with Jack Nicholson the 1971 Nicholson film "Drive She Said,".....

Beverly Hills, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1973. Second Draft script for the 1974 film. Copy belonging to uncredited crew member Gerad Dery, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. One of the greatest crime films of the twentieth century and arguably a better film than its predecessor, Part II functions dually as both prequel and sequel in continuing.....

Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1977 film. One of the great unsung literary adaptations of the 1970s, taking a terrifically complex novel about a young woman who has completely retreated into fantasy following the death of her sister. A film that suffered inevitable comparisons to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," but actually far more.....

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1969. Estimating script for the 1971 film. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, who shot to international stardom on the heels of the film's success. In the unusual "preface" found in this screenplay, Robert Wise describes the "cinescript" as follows: "..an amplified screenplay, which uses the written page in a cinematic form to convey.....

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.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1946. Vintage photograph from the 1946 film, showing director Michael Curtiz, and stars Cary Grant, Monty Woolley, and Donald Woods conferring on the set. With the stamp of photographer Pat Clark and a mimeo snipe on the verso. A fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter. Grant's first color film. Nominated of an Academy Award. 10 x......

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, 1964. Draft script for the 1964 revival of the 1935 opera, which debuted on May 6th, 1964 at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York City, and ran for a limited engagement of 31 performances. "Porgy and Bess" is based on DuBose Heyward’s 1925 novel "Porgy," and its subsequent 1927 play adaptation.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993. Rainbow Draft script for the 1994 film. Keanu Reeves is a Los Angeles police officer who must rescue a city bus that has been rigged with an unusual bomb by Dennis Hopper, an ex-cop with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Sandra Bullock plays the sassy love interest. Director and screenwriter Joss Whedon went.....

N.p. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1960. Vintage double weight reference studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Sophia Loren won an Academy Award fro her role as Cesira. Vittorio De Sica's harsh war-era film follows the plight of an Italian mother an daughter as they traverse the Italian countryside in search of safety. The film stars Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belonodo, and.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1989. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1991 film. This set dated 1989, two years before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. Of note is a "tasty" image of Hopkins' bloody mouth, and a shot of director Demme surveying his work, with many images not seen in the film. Based.....

Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jacques Demy and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1964 French musical. With extensive holograph annotations in blue marker and the production company's rubber stamp on the verso. Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve), works at her widowed mother's umbrella boutique and Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), a young mechanic, fall in love in the beautiful.....

Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1949. Post-production Music timing schedule for the 1949 film. A script that breaks down all of the Claude Debussy music sequences in the film in accordance with its exact placement in the running time. Tall self wrappers, stitched at the top left corner. Mimeograph duplication. 16 pages.

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1938. Vintage studio press photograph of an animator painting a transparency of the character of Snow White from the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Disney’s first full length animated feature, and one of the first animated feature films period, Snow White cost over $1.5 million, a huge sum at the time, and took.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. Collection of four vintage contact sheets for the 1962 film, featuring 64 images of actor Jane Fonda and 9 images of actor Capucine. With holograph ink and red pencil annotations to the rectos. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Jane Powell and Musical Director Johnny Green on the set of the 1951 film. Mimeo snipe, French annotations in holograph ink and crop marks on the verso.Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a gig in London.....

Burbank, CA: Centurion / Buena Vista, 1959. Pre-Production script for the 1959 film, dated August 7, 1958. Copy beloning to art director Walter M. Simonds, who would go uncredited on the final film, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and a single holograph notation inside. Based on the 1948 biblical novel of the same name by.....

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.....

Los Angeles: Cinema Center Films / Duo Films / Solar Productions, 1968. Revised Draft script for the 1969 film. Accompanying the script is a shooting schedule, dated 8/22/68. Based on Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1962 novel, his last book. Boon (McQueen) and his buddy are reivers, or thieves, who steal the McCaslin family's new car, a Winton Flyer. They are out.....

New York: Bill Doll and Company, 1961. Two vintage borderless studio still photographs from the US release of the 1961 Italian film. Large Astor Release snipe on verso, one with "R.R. Stuart Collection" stamp on verso. Fellini's most pivotal film, if not his finest. Unlike the more sentimental and abstract films that would follow, "La Dolce Vita" is an unflinching.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Final Shooting Script for the 1954 film, with blue, yellow, and green revisions throughout. Based on the 1870 novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne. Walt Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was one of the most expensive and ambitious productions of its time. A 200 foot submarine, a 225 pound.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Complete script for the 1943 film. The fourth Steinbeck script to be adapted in as many years. Not as well known today as "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Of Mice and Men," but still a wonderful, warm adaptation of what is perhaps Steinbeck's lightest and most anecdotal novel, with expert interplay among Spencer Tracy.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1961. Original scenario artwork for the 1962 film, depicting the main drag of the town of Osage, with various townspeople going about their business. Archivally mounted and double matted, with a description in a die cut window in the matte just below the artwork. Unexamined out of frame. Winner of the Academy Award for Best.....