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...
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.
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...
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. Vintage borderless color photograph of Heather Graham from the 1997 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. 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...
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. 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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 annotations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the...
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...
N.p. Warner Brothers, 1937. Vintage studio photograph on the set of Busby Berkeley's finale, from the 1937 film. Two mimeo snipes and the stamp of Warner Brothers still photographer Bert "Buddy" Longworth on the verso. College students rebel when their professor doesn't allow swing music in their varsity show. They enlist the help of an alumni, a big Broadway star...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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 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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
Santa Monica: RKO, 1946. Final script for the 1946 film, rainbow revision copy, with stamps "Final Script," "Please Return to RKO Story Files," and production number "1838" on front wrapper. Mimeograph on red, yellow and blue onionskin paper. Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of his rope during Christmas...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Revised Draft script for the 1945 film. Carbon typescript, with brief annotations 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...
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...
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).
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...
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Laid in are a staff and crew list, and a photocopied (as issued) six page inter-office memo on Paramount letterhead regarding contract terms for Marlon Brando, dated February 9, 1971. With a notation of copy No. 11 in blue holograph ink on the title page. Based on the 1969...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage black-and-white 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 Barry's 1939 eponymous play. A socialite (Hepburn) with plans to marry is interrupted by her ex-husband (Grant) and a tabloid...
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.
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 story by Vera Caspary. "Les...
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.
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: Brandywine Productions, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Glenda Jackson, Vladek Sheybel and Oliver Reed from the 1969 film. With a typed description on the verso. Based on D.H. Lawrence’s 1920 novel about two sisters who begin relationships with a pair of friends, bringing conflict between the two pairs as their relationships head in different directions. An examination...
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...
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1993. Draft script for the 1993 film. Included are 54 separate green revision pages dated 6/02/93. In this sequel to the popular 1992 film, Beethoven becomes a dad but the mom, Missy, and the pups are pawns in a divorce settlement and need rescuing. It's time for the Newton kids to step in. Nominated for...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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, stitched at the top left corner. Mimeograph. 16 pages.
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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, 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, 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 into...
N.p. Famous Artists Productions, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. German Columbia Film stamp and faint Swedish Columbia Film stamp on the verso. Based on the 1956 novel by Nelson Algren, about the women in an upscale New Orleans brothel, whose lives are thrown into chaos when one of the women's former lover comes looking for...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage black-and-white press photograph from the 1965 French-American film. Editorial annotations 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)...
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...
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...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1962. Vintage photograph of Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick on the set of the 1962 film. With holograph annotations 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...
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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...
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 annotations throughout. Though easily one of John Wayne's best performances, "Hondo" was virtually...
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...
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...
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...
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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 are rarely 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...
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...
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...
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...
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.....
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...
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...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Vintage photograph of actor James Stewart, director Henry Hathaway and cinematographer Charles Lang on the set of the 1962 film. With a mimeo snipe and studio stamp on the verso. An epic and romanticized depiction of Westward Expansion set between 1839 and 1889, comprised of five episodes and following four generations of a family...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Two vintage photographs from the set of the 1962 film. Printed snipe on the verso of each and studio stamp on the verso of one. One photo shown. Please inquire to see the other. An epic and romanticized depiction of Westward Expansion set between 1839 and 1889, comprised of five episodes and following four generations of...
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...
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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...
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...