London: Sphere Books Limited, 1964. First UK paperback edition of "The Woman in the Dunes," after the American translation by E. Dale Saunders. Basis for the classic 1965 film "Woman in the Dunes," directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the 1965 Cannes festival, and was nominated for two Academy Awards, for Best Director and... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1954. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1954 film. Paper snipe taped to the verso. Won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. A documentary about the pristine American Prairie. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Very Good plus with a holograph notation, toned tape, and a stamp to the verso. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1985. Vintage French mini poster for the 1985 US film. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing. A delightfully crafted depression-era fantasy in which an unhappy wife indulges her knack for escapism through persistently visiting the cinema. Eventually, a handsome character in one of the films she frequents breaks the fourth wall, and what... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1970. Collection of five vintage, borderless, oversize photographs from the 1970 film. With a small French distribution label from Twentieth Century-Fox on the recto of each photograph. Based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and, in turn, the basis of acclaimed television show which ran for 11 seasons on CBS. Winner of the Palme d'Or... (read more)
Burbank, CA: New Line Cinema, 1997. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1997 film. Director Paul Thomas Anderson's second film, bringing him to widespread acclaim, about a young man's career in the porn industry during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Anderson, Best Supporting Actor for Julianne Moore... (read more)
N.p. Jerome Hellman Productions, 1978. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1978 film. Snipe affixed to the verso and folded around the still. Won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. Jane Fonda conceived of this Vietnam War era drama in which a military wife falls for a paraplegic veteran, while her own husband is off... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Final script for the 1948 film. This copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who played Beaumont Jackson, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil, and holograph pencil and ink notations, additions, and changes to his scenes throughout. Laid in is one page related to Mary O'Hara's "Green Grass of Wyoming." A widow hopes... (read more)
![The Virgin Spring [Jungfrukallan] (Original poster for the 1960 film). Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Isaksson, Allan Edwall Max von Sydow, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/130114.jpg?v=1434404443)
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1960. Original Swedish poster for the 1960 film. A landmark twentieth century film whose irregular but inspired dramatic structure and juxtaposition of beauty and savagery has inspired many other great films, from "The Last House on the Left" (1972) to "Irreversible" (2002). The first of two Bergman efforts to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film... (read more)
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... (read more)
France: Various Publishers, 1956. Collection of 45 vintage black-and-white candid photographs of Swedish film star Ingrid Bergman at a gala in France. Three of the photos are rubber-stamped on the verso with a date of October 9, 1956, and take place presumably at a premier of Bergman's then-recent film, "Elena and Her Men," released in France in September 1956. Bergman's... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 musical, based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical 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 notations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, circa 1970. US one sheet poster for the 1970s re-release of 1943 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. Considered by many to be Busby Berkeley's masterpiece (though there are several high spots to choose from), "The Gang's All Here" is indisputably the master film choreographer's wildest and most ambitious effort, with staging and camerawork that are... (read more)
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... (read more)
Rome: Mars Film, 1970. Vintage French mini poster for the 1970 Italian film. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing. Based on the 1951 novel by Alberto Moravia. Bernardo Bertolucci weaves an intricate and incisive picture examining the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal," despite the enormous personal cost. Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant)... (read more)
New York: Workman Publishing, 2008. UNCORRECTED PROOF preceding the First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Oblong, plastic spiral bound in clear Mylar wrappers as issued. A comprehensive and irreverent dicitionary of terms used on film sets, whimsically illustrated throughout by Katie Maratta, and containing several essays on about the craft of filmmaking by the author. Tony... (read more)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Vintage press kit for the 1974 film. Included are sets of sheets detailing production information, an opening day announcement, interviews with director Bogdanovich and actress Cybill Shepherd, biographies of actors Barry Brown, James McMurtry, Eileen Brennan, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, and director Bogdanovich, press column items, and insight into shooting on location. Based on the 1878... (read more)
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The... (read more)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 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 Dorogobuzh... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film. Nominated for an Academy Award. A young hotshot pilot joins an elite flying squadron and has to prove himself to his commanding officer and fellow pilots by taking on a dangerous mission. Made with the cooperation of the US Navy, who lent a real life squadron to the... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Centurion / Buena Vista, 1959. Pre-Production script (so noted on the front wrapper) for the 1959 film. Holograph pencil notation for uncredited Art Director Walter Simonds. Based on the 1948 biblical novel of the same name by Lloyd C. Douglas, sequel to "The Robe." First picture to be filmed using Panavision 70mm, allowing for superior depth of focus... (read more)
![Tonight We Raid Calais [Project 47] (Original screenplay for the 1943 film). John Brahm, Waldo Salt, John Sutton Lee J. Cobb, Howard Da Silva, Beulah Bondi, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/117138.jpg?v=1434404384)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures / Pennebaker Productions, 1961. Collection of four vintage oversize double weight matte finish photographs from the 1961 film. Based on the 1956 novel "The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones" by Charles Neider. Marlon Brando's only directorial effort, after his production company fired original screenwriter Sam Peckinpah and director Stanley Kubrick, and he rewrote the script, first with... (read more)
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... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of 6 vintage color double weight 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... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. While reporting on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells (Fonda) witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1983. Original US one sheet poster for the 1983 film. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay; nominated for six others. 27 x 41 inches (105 x 89 cm), rolled. Near Fine with minute edge creasing. (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 Western, showing director Richard Brooks and crew getting ready to shoot a close up of actor Lee Marvin letting loose with a machine gun. Based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke, about four men hired to by a wealthy Texan... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1944. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1944 film. Winner of two Academy Awards. A young Elizabeth Taylor starred as Velvet Brown, a horse-crazed twelve-year-old who, after winning a horse in a raffle, decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5... (read more)
New York: John Day, 1931. First Edition. First issue with "flees" on page 100, and "John Day Publishing Company" on the copyright page. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Basis for the 1937 film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer, who won an Academy Award for her role, and directed by Sidney Franklin. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Good... (read more)
![That Obscure Object of Desire [Cet obscur objet du desir] (Original photograph from the set of the 1977 film). Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Louys, Serge Silberman, Carole Bouquet Fernando Rey, Angela Molina, screenwriter director, screenwriter, novel, producer, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143314.jpg?v=1522340707)
France Spain: 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 holographic notations 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... (read more)
France: Greenwich Film Productions, 1977. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1977 film. 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, young Spanish dancer. The woman is played by both Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina... (read more)
Paris: Greenwich Film Productions, 1977. Vintage borderless photograph of Fernando Rey and Carole Bouquet from the 1977 film. With holograph notations 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, young... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943. Two vintage still photographs from the 1943 US film. One still is a black-and-white reference still, and the other is a full-color studio still. Based on a story by W.R. Burnett. Lieutenant Ward Stewart (Power) is made executive officer of the submarine USS Corsair. Before sailing, he meets schoolteacher Jean Hewlett (Baxter) and seduces her... (read more)
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... (read more)
![I Should Care [The Sammy Cahn Story] (Signed First Edition). Sammy Cahn.](/pictures/thumb/131230.jpg?v=1434404451)
New York: Arbor House, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author, with flourish, on the half-title page: "For the charmin' Toby Harman! / And I do! / Sammy Cahn / 1990 / And Harry, she got to marry!" Autobiographical account of the Academy Award-winning songwriter, his friendships with Louis Armstrong and the Rat Pack, and troublesome first marriage. Very Good plus... (read more)
Manhattan Beach, CA: Lightstorm Entertainment, 1991. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film. Pages watermarked "T20029" and bearing the ownership watermarks of director Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. The film would eventually be produced by Carolco Pictures, the same company that distributed the "Rambo" films and produced Oliver Stone's "The Doors" (1991). Schwarzenegger returns to play one of his most... (read more)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Original US pressbook 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... (read more)
Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1972. An issue of LIFE magazine from April 21, 1972, featuring a 5 page cover story on Charlie Chaplin's first return to the United States after having renounced his citizenship in 1953. Universally acclaimed as an actor, director, and producer, Chaplin and his iconic Tramp character especially captured the hearts of the filmgoing population, and to... (read more)
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... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film. Carbon typescript, with brief notations throughout in holograph pencil. Noted as "Cockle Script" on the front wrapper. Leslie Charteris wrote the original screen story (but not the screenplay) for this film, and subsequently published the story as a novel in conjunction with the film's release. A light... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1980. American one sheet film poster for the 1980 film, "Altered States." Based on the novel by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Ken Russell, and starring William Hurt and Blair Brown. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Very Good plus condition, with brief chipping at the lower left edge, folded, 27 x 41 inches (105 x 89 cm). (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1974 film. Later photocopy. Not vintage, for research or content purposes only. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Clayton's film has cemented its place... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers, with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1936. Vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1936 film. Shown are Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, and William Powell leaning over a railing. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Very Good plus, with a single 1-inch closed tear at one edge. Complete collation... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Eight vintage lobby cards for the 1974 film. 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 the story of the Corleone empire and the corrupting influence of power. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best... (read more)
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971, with occasional copied handwritten notations. Based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Francis... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 film. Copy belonging to character actor Randy Jurgensen, with his name in holograph blue ink to the title page, also noted as copy No. 71 in green holograph ink to the right of same. Jurgensen played the main henchman in the scene where Sonny Corleone (James Caan) is shot up... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film. Later photocopy, not vintage, for content and research purposes only. With two photocopied holograph notations. Laid in is a character sheet with names and brief descriptions. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and nominated for an additional... (read more)
New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Basis for the 1979 film starring Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman, a film that won five Academy Awards. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean. Jacket has a chip at the bottom of the front panel, with rubbing overall. (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Selznick International, 1949. Dialogue & Cutting Continuity Draft script for the 1944 film. 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 plight of the families left behind in the United States... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final Draft script for the 1936 film. Quarter-bound red leather Presentation script belonging to executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with his name in gilt on the front board. Bound throughout are ten black-and-white stills from the film, backed with paper. Based on Harry Hamilton's 1936 novel. Ernie Holley (McCrea) believes he killed a guest at... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1927. Vintage poster for the landmark 1927 film. With a printed blank advertising twice daily showings at the Fox Locust Theatre in Philadelphia. A film whose impact on the art is almost impossible to overestimate. Although short films had experimented with sound throughout the decade, and Warner Brothers had debuted its Vitaphone process featuring synchronized instrumental... (read more)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1972 film. At his mother's funeral, Henry Pulling becomes aquatinted with an eccentric elderly aunt and her unusual life. Shot on location in Spain, France, England, Turkey, Morocco, Italy, and Yugoslavia. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1942. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1942 film musical. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Score, and nominated for five others, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Hirschhorn, p. 205. (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Filmways Pictures / United Artists, 1964. Collection of 16 vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1964 US film. Based on the 1962 novel by Eric Ambler, about a con man forced to help a group of thieves steal a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum. Peter Ustinov won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for... (read more)
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... (read more)
![That Man from Rio [L'homme de Rio] (Collection of 343 original photographs from the set of the 1964 film). Philippe de Broca, Daniel Boulanger Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Raymond Voinquel Darcy Trigo, Françoise Dorléac Jean-Paul Belmondo, Roger Dumas, Jean Servais, screenwriter director, screenwriters, still photographers, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143227a.jpg?v=1534366274)
Paris: Les Films Ariane, 1964. Collection of 343 vintage black-and-white photographs from the set of the 1964 film, "That Man from Rio," here under the original French title, "L'homme de Rio." Most are rubber-stamped on the versos indicating film studio, Les Films Ariane, still photographer Trigo, Brazilian magazine "O Cruzeiro " and French film title, several with notations in holograph... (read more)
![Two Women [La Ciociara] (Original photograph from the 1960 film). Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Jean-Paul Belmondo Sophia Loren, Eleonora Brown, director, novel, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/141245.jpg?v=1497555094)
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... (read more)
![Dangerous Moves [The Fool's Gambit] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film). Richard Dembo, Hilary Sandison, Alexandre Arbatt Michel Piccoli, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137667.jpg?v=1492979744)
N.p. N.p., 1983. Draft script for the 1984 film, "Dangerous Moves," here under the working title, "The Fool's Gambit." Script translated by Hilary Sandison, credited on the last leaf of text. Akiva (Piccoli) is a Soviet Jew chess master ensconced in Communism, and in declining health. His rival, Pavius (Arbatt) is a young defector tired of Communist ways, and the... (read more)
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... (read more)
Switzerland: CVB Publishers, N.d. Undated reproduction, based on the design of the original French grande poster, for the 1967 film. A charming French musical directed by Jacques Demy and staring Catherine Deneuve, directly following his 1964 film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," also starring Deneuve. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Musical score. Shot on location in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France... (read more)
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of Jacques Demy and Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1964 French musical. With extensive holograph notations 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... (read more)
Paris: Parc Film, 1964. Vintage borderless press photograph of actor Catherine Deneuve and composer Michel Legrand at the awards ceremony for the Louis Delluc Prize, given to the best French film of the year, which "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" received in 1964. With the stamps of ADP press agency and a French-language mimeo snipe on the verso. In addition to... (read more)
![The Life of Emile Zola [Zola] (Original screenplay for the 1937 film). William Dieterle, Heinz Herald Norman Reilly Raine, Geza Herczeg, Gale Sondergaard Paul Muni, Gloria Holden, Joseph Schildkraut, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/142703.jpg?v=1522340686)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1937. Revised Final Draft script for the 1937 film, "The Life of Emile Zola," here under the working title, "Zola." Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1938. Based loosely on Matthew Johnson's 1928 biography of Emile Zola, the French muckraking author who attempted to help clear Army captain Alfred Dreyfus. The film represents Zola's... (read more)
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. 16 pages. (read more)
![The Story of Louis Pasteur [Enemy of Man] (Original screenplay for the 1936 film, Raymond Brown's copy). William Dieterle, Pierre Collings Sheridan Gibney, Josephine Hutchinson Paul Muni, Donald Woods, Anita Louise, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/134774.jpg?v=1492979009)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1935. Revised Draft script for the 1936 film, "The Story of Louis Pasteur," here under it's working title, "Enemy of Man." Copy belonging to actor Raymond Brown, who played Dr. Radisse in the film, with his name in holograph crayon on the front wrapper, and check marks next to his inclusions, as well as notations to... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage black-and-white press photograph from the 1965 French-American film. Editorial notations and Wide World Photo rubber stamp on the verso, with a Spanish rubber stamp, "paso por fotograbado." Shown are Ursula Andress and Katrin Schaake on-the-set, conferring between scenes while standing on a bed. Woody Allen's film debut, as actor and screenwriter. Michael (O'Toole)... (read more)
London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1974 Spanish-Panamanian-English-British film. Printed in England by W.E. Berry. Based on Dumas' serialized 1844 novel, "The Three Musketeers." What's better than The Three Musketeers? Four! This time the gang must defend Queen Anne (Geraldine Chaplin) and her seamstress (Welch) from the wily Cardinal Richelieu (Charlton Heston) and Milady (Dunaway). Nominated... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph notations regarding layout and typed credits on the verso. Jack Lemmon plays an alcoholic who falls in love with an innocent young women, whom he convinces to start drinking, leading them both lose themselves in the downward spiral... (read more)
![My Night at Maud's [Ma nuit chez maud] (Original Pressbook for the 1969 film). Eric Rohmer, Francoise Fabian Jean-Louis Trintignant, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/138609.jpg?v=1492980031)
Paris: FFD, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 French film. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Palme d'Or. The third film (but fourth released) in Rohmer's "Moral Tales" series, and the one that finally elevated him to the international status of his New Wave peers. 9.5 x 13.25 (24 x 34 cm). Tri-fold, Very Good plus. Starting to the... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1953. Final script for the 1953 film. Based on the short story "the Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour, published in Collier's Magazine on July 5, 1952. Copy belonging to actor Tom Irish, with his name to the front wrapper and his holograph notations throughout. Though easily one of John Wayne's best performances, "Hondo" was virtually... (read more)
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... (read more)
Rome: Riama Film, 1960. Vintage oversize borderless double weight press photograph of Anouk Aimee from the 1960 film. With agency stamps on the 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 7-day journey through 1960s Rome, with Mastroianni, a jaded journalist at the... (read more)
![Se7en [Seven] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film). David Fincher, Andrew Kevin Walker, Daniel Zacapa Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, John Cassini, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144732.jpg?v=1544116864)
Los Angeles: PentAmerica Pictures, 1992. Early draft script for the 1995 neo-noir film, here under the spelling that does not include a number in the middle letters. Rookie detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) joins the soon-to-retire William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in a search for a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) who bases his murders on the seven deadly sins. Nominated for... (read more)
![Joan of Arc [Joan of Lorraine] (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Victor Fleming, Andrew Solt, Francis L. Sullivan Ingrid Bergman, Ward Bond, J. Carrol Naish, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/135635.jpg?v=1492979154)
Hollywood: Sierra Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film, "Joan of Arc," here under its working title, "Joan of Lorraine." Original scripts from Fleming's films rarely are seen on the market. Based on Maxwell Anderson's play, "Joan of Lorraine." Anderson's play debuted on Broadway in 1946, ran for 199 performances at the Alvin Theatre... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Original one sheet poster for the 1941 film. Frank Morgan received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
Venice: Venice International Film Festival, 1952. Director John Ford's framed International Award from the Venice International Film Festival for his classic 1952 film, "The Quiet Man." Ford also received a nomination for the Golden Lion Award at the same festival and went on to win the 1953 Academy Award for Best Director for the film. Begun in 1932, the Venice... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Argosy / RKO Radio Pictures, 1948. Budgeting script, treatment script, and a 58 page cost breakdown for the 1949 film. The second of director John Ford's Cavalry trilogy (alongside "Fort Apache" and "Rio Grande"), starring John Wayne as a cavalry captain on the verge of compulsory retirement who must deal with Native American uprising after the Battle... (read more)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1934. Draft script for the 1935 film. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. The second of two films based on Liam O’Flaherty’s 1925 novel, the first being Arthur Robison’s 1929 British feature, about a former Republic Army member during the Irish War of Independence, who turns in one of his comrades to the British in..... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1937. Collection of 103 vintage keybook set design photographs from the 1937 film. Original brown card wrappers present, with film title printed on the front cover. In British India, a young girl, played by Shirley Temple, is beloved by the soldiers and their leader Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen). A rebel group kidnaps the girl and the... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1953 film. Director John Ford and star Clark Gable take a smoke break in between shots. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1928 play "Red Dust" by Wilson Collison, previously adapted to film under that name in 1932, starring Gable, Jean Harlow, and... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1981 film. An important script for one of the most elaborate productions of the early 1980s, one of Forman's great achievements, in keeping with his 1975 classic, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." An unflinching look at the racial tensions that result when a young black pianist (Gunn) becomes embroiled in... (read more)
Los Angeles: Orion Pictures, 1984. Vintage French petite poster for the 1984 US film. Winner of eight Academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and both Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Adapted from Peter Shaffer's 1979 play of the same name, the film presents a fictionalized account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life, as well as that... (read more)
![The Loves of a Blonde [Lasky jedne plavovlasky] (Original program for the 1965 film). Milos Forman, Ivan Passer Jaroslav Papousek, Vaclav Sasek, Vladimir Pucholt Hana Brejchova, screenwriter director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/138325.jpg?v=1492979933)
Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with images from the film and line drawings. One of the best known films from the Czechoslovak New Wave, nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and bringing Forman to international attention. 11.25... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1978. Draft script for the 1979 Academy Award winning film. An especially noteworthy copy, likely belonging to a member of the filmmaking security staff, and INSCRIBED by director Bob Fosse, screenwriter Robert Alan Aurthur, leading man Roy Scheider, and associate producer Kenneth Utt: "For Jimmy / Your [sic] the best - I thank you for... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1978. Vintage US one sheet poster for the 1978 US film. Winner of four Academy Awards. Often compared to Fellini's cinematic masterpiece "8 1/2," "All That Jazz" provides a comprehensive look into the tortured personal life of a highly successful entertainer. Forced to contend with his nearing mortality and confined to a hospital bed following... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Collection of 8 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1979 film. Often compared to Fellini's cinematic masterpiece "8 1/2," "All That Jazz" provides a comprehensive look into the tortured personal life of a highly successful entertainer. Forced to contend with his nearing mortality and confined to a hospital bed following a heart attack, director... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: M.C. Productions / United Artists, 1962. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel. A film that managed the unlikely feat of being both timely and well ahead of its time, combining several ambitious themes, including thought control, political assassination, multinational conspiracy, Oedipal issues, and Cold War paranoia. Still riveting... (read more)