Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures Corporation, 1985. Vintage studio still photographs from the 1985 film. 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 ensues is an unusual and fantastical romantic comedy.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures Corporation, 1989. Vintage reference photograph of Woody Allen and cinematographer Sven Nykvist on the set of the 1989 film. One of Allen's finest films, a dark drama with comic elements, interweaving two opposing stories. In one, ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal's (Landau) mistress (Angelica Huston) threatens to reveal their affair unless he leaves his wife Miriam (Claire.....

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.....

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 Actress for Julianne Moore.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of model Veruschka von Lehndorff in her famous five-minute scene from the 1966 film.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 phase of his work, co-produced by companies in Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom and.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980. Collection of materials related to post-production editing for the 1981 film, including notes on film reels and pages of proposed sequences for each reel. Director, screenwriter, and actor Warren Beatty's epic political drama, which follows a left-wing American journalist who becomes involved with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning three for.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. First Edition publicity manual, reminiscent in content to a press kit, but with far more detail. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis to advertise legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and his Oscar-nominated psychological drama "Face to Face" (1976). Profusely photo-illustrated with over 60 black and white images, including film stills and on the set photography of Bergman.....

Rome: Mars Film, Circa 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Stefania Sandrelli from the 1970 film. Stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on verso. An intricate and incisive examination of the psychological tribulations of a man who will do anything to be "normal." Marcello Clerici (Trintignant), a young and upper-middle class Italian, joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and.....

N.p. United States Productions, Inc, 1959. Revised Estimating script for the 1960 film belonging to actor Martin Landau, here under the working title "The Life and Death of Legs Diamond." Laid in are five carbon typescript pages of script with Landau's name written in holograph ink to upper right and annotations to dialogue of lead character Legs in holograph pencil.....

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.....

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.....

Culver City, CA: TriStar, 1996. Shooting Script for the 1997 film. SIGNED on the title page by director-screenwriter James L. Brooks.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 dog-sit for his neighbor following a violent robbery. Nominated for seven Academy Awards.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 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.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert Blake and Scott Wilson from the 1967 film. Crop annotations in holograph pencil and the stamp of photographer Michel Ciment stamp on the verso.Richard Brooks' unflinching and unsentimental documentary style made for a visualization that matched the power of Capote's most famous book, and remains one of the great.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Luis Bunuel discussing a scene with Fernando Rey and Angela Molina on the set of the 1977 film. Based on the 1898 novel "Le femme et le patin" ("The Woman and the Puppet") by Pierre Louys.The tempestuous relationship between a wealthy, middle aged Frenchman and a poor, young Spanish dancer. The.....

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: Columbia Pictures, 1936. Vintage double weight press portrait photograph of Frank Capra, by photographer Alfredo Valente, to promote the 1937 film. Mimeo snipe, photographer "Alfredo Valente" stamp, filing stamp with annotations in holograph pencil, dated "6-25-36," and "Kenneth G. Lawrence" stamp, all on verso.Based on the 1933 novel by James Hilton. Remade in 1973 as a musical.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960. Vintage black and white photograph of director Jack Cardiff and other crew members on location during filming for the 1960 British film. With a mimeo snipe in French on the verso, along with holograph ink annotations regarding layout.Based on the 1913 novel by D.H. Lawrence, following a young man caught between his domineering mother, his.....

Hollywood: Faces, 1979. Fifth Draft script for the 1980 film, here under the working title "One Summer Night." Name of uncredited editor Jack McSweeney and "#36" in holograph ink on top right of title page. After her neighbors are killed in a mob hit, a woman goes on the run with their young son, who is in possession of a......

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1952. Vintage 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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1934. Draft script for the 1934 film. Based on the 1930 play by Rudolf Besier. A young invalid poetess begins a romantic relationship with a fellow poet and must combat her overprotective father for the right to live her own life. Nominated for Academy Awards for both Best Picture and Best Actress in a Leading.....

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 as.....

N.p. N.p., 1960. Three vintage borderless reference photographs, variously of Henri-George Clouzot, Brigitte Bardot, Jaques Perrin, Jean Hobe, and Marie-Jose Nat on the set of the 1960 film. Both with "Cinema Verite," "La Verite," and photographer Paul Apoteker stamps on verso.A young woman finds herself standing trial for the murder of her lover, forcing her to reflect on her memories.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Original pressbook for the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Winner of two Academy Awards and nominated for six others, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Winner of the Palme d'Or.Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. Six pages, 7 x 11 inches. Near.....

N.p. Ealing Studios, 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Holland (Alec Guinness) has been a dutiful bank clerk for 20 years, until a new neighbor, Alfred Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), an eccentric artist who owns a foundry that makes souvenirs, helps him hatch a plan to steal gold bullion and melt them into miniature Eiffel Towers. Winner of.....

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.....

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.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1940 film. Starring actress Ruth Hussey is seen in action stealthily snapping photographs. Rubber-stamps on the verso crediting "Silver Screen Archives" and photographer Clarence S. Bull.Based on Philip Barry's 1939 play. A socialite with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband, as well as a tabloid journalist.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1949. Vintage reference photograph of Will Wright, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy from the 1949 film. "Jacques Moreau" collection stamp and two "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer France, Inc." stamps on verso.For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best. Written by.....

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......

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.....

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 annotations in holograph.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1935. Two vintage reference photographs of Cecil B. DeMille on the set of the 1935 film, one with Henry Wilcoxon and C. Aubrey Smith. Mimeo snipes printed on versos. DeMille's typically spectacular dramatization of the Third Crusade, launched by King Richard the Lionheart in 1187 AD. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.8 x 10.25 inches.....

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 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.....

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, stapled at the top left corner. Mimeograph duplication. 16 pages.

Los Angeles: The Selznick Studio, Circa 1948. Three page post-production Synopsis for the 1948 film, from Selznick Studio Director of Publicity Paul MacNamara, including cast listing and "Suggested Picture Layouts."Based on the 1940 novella by Robert Nathan. "Portrait of Jennie" was painstakingly developed by Selznick International and then released under the auspices of Vanguard Pictures (to whom Selznick International was.....

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 annotations to.....

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1979. Collection of five studio still photographs, one of which is a compilation photograph of two images, from the 1979 rerelease of the 1959 film. Based on the story "La Bell au bois Dormant" ("The Sleeping Beauty") from the 1697 book "Histoires ou contes du temps passe," by Charles Perrault, which laid the foundation for.....