Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage reference photograph, with snipe printed on the verso identifying director Harry Beaumont on the set with actresses Anita Page and Joan Marsh in the 1932 film, based on the 1932 J.P. McEvoy novel of the same name. With an additional stamp on the verso reading "Country of origin USA." Left jobless and about.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1928. Vintage keybook reference photograph of director Frank Borzage and actor Guido Trento on the set of the 1928 film. Based on the 1922 play "The Lady Cristilinda" by Monckton Hoffe. A poor young woman, desperate for money for her ill mother's medicine, resorts to prostitution and theft, is caught and convicted, but escapes and.....

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

N.p. N.p., Circa 1933. Original dialogue notes for the 1933 Tod Browning film, "Fast Workers." Handwritten notes on two pages of legal-size notebook paper in holograph pencil, presumed to belong to one of the screenwriters for the film. The notes are as follows, with several lines marked through in various places:[First page]Spike: What'd you do to her, when you found.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1929. Final White Draft script for the 1930 film. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1915 novel, "Victory," the second of ten feature adaptations, preceded by Maurice Tourneur's 1919 film. Heyst (Arlen) is a hermit on an island who offers shelter to a redhead named Alma (Carroll), and the two live.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Post-Production Release Dialogue script for the 1932 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Based on the 1931 novel. When the unfaithful boyfriend of a wealthy society girl grows sick and dies, she finds herself falling for the physician who treated him instead. Tall white titled self wrappers, noted as RELEASE DIALOGUE SCRIPT on the front.....

Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Draft script for the 1931 Western film, here under the working title "Wyoming Wonder." Copy belonging to an unknown Fox Film Corporation employee, with her name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper, and a few brief annotations in pencil throughout.Based on the 1919 novel by Max Brand. The socialite son of a millionaire travels.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of five vintage double weight internal studio photographs from the set of the 1933 pre-code film. Holograph annotations on the verso of each. One photo shown. Please inquire to see others.High school students unite against a ruthless gang leader. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1930. Draft script for the 1931 film, here under the working title "Lilli." Copy belonging to uncredited assistant director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his holograph pencil annotations throughout. Accompanying the script is a mechanically duplicated, folded "Day Out of Days" map with holograph ink annotations correlating actors, scenes, and days.A lowly flower girl agrees.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. Draft script for the 1934 film. The second Tarzan film to star Johnny Weissmuller, with Jane famously portrayed by Maureen O'Sullivan. One of the best Tarzan films, and a landmark film in the history of film censorship. A big budget followup to MGM's first Tarzan film, "Tarzan and His Mate" featured a lengthy balletic.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Final Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film, here under the working title "The Beachcomber." Incomplete as stamped, with holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper.A New York fashion model must decide between her poor but faithful mechanic boyfriend and a rich but untrustworthy libertine. Although William C. De Mille was initially slated to direct, his.....

N.p. N.p., 1932. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1932 film, showing actors Paul Muni, George Raft, Karen Morley, Purnell Pratt, and others.Based on the 1930 book by Armitage Trail, which was in turn based on the true exploits of notorious Prohibition-era mob boss and bootlegger Al Capone. Along with "Public Enemy" (released only a few months prior), generally considered.....

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1930. Archive of 68 vernacular photographs, housed in a contemporary photo album, each photo with descriptions in silver holograph ink just below it, and distributed in three sections as follows: (1) 34 photos taken on the set of "The Dawn Patrol" (Howard Hawks, 1930), an aviation drama set during World War I. Included are shots.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, circa 1922. Draft script for the 1922 film. The film is now considered lost. Tess (Wanda Hawley) is a social climber who is neglected by her hardworking husband, David (Edward Hearn). She decides to go on a date with ex-suitor Arthur Sinclair (Casson Ferguson) to a casino, which is robbed while they are there. Her rings are.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Two vintage oversize reference photographs from the 1930 film, one showing actors Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler, and one showing Dressler alone. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. Based on Lorna Moon's 1929 novel. A beleaguered dockside innkeeper (Dressler) tries to protect and raise her young adopted daughter, while loving and frequently.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Proposed Treatment script for the 1935 film. In a later white leatherette binding with Jean Harlow's name and the date of the treatment (Dec. 15, 1931) in gilt on the front board and the spine. Original front wrapper bound in. Based on the 1931 novel by Crosbie [here spelled Crosby] Garstin, with Garstin and.....

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 pre-Code film. A pregnant woman (played by Ann Harding) whose husband dies in a plane crash gives her newborn son up for adoption to prevent him from growing up in a broken home. When the adoptive mother dies six years later, Harding attempts to rebuild a relationship with the.....

Los Angeles: Max Linder Productions, 1922. Vintage borderless promotional reference photograph of Max Linder, from the 1921 film, promoting the film's run at Los Angeles' California Theatre, in April, 1922. An image, which if it had been seen by David Lynch, seems likely to have been inspirational to his experimental 1977 film, "Eraserhead."Max Linder, the onscreen persona of French actor.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. First White script for the 1931 Pre-Code film. An early starring performance for Carole Lombard, made prior to her 1934 star breakthrough in Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century." Included is a studio still photograph of Lombard and Lilyan Tashman from the film, with the unusual feature of having an associated quote from the scene added to the.....

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1933. Final script for the 1934 film. Copy belonging to a unknown cast member, with his signature on front wrapper. With some holograph pencil annotations. A pre-Code comedy featuring a stranded actress in a small town, who becomes a manicurist and inadvertently has a great impact on the lives of the local citizenry. Red.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Final Draft script for the 1933 pre-Code film. Francois dreams of working as a tour guide in his beloved Paris, but instead works for Bibi, a pimp, who hires Francois to craft alibis for the adulterers who engage in this business. While working the streets, he meets Madeleine, who works as a target for her knife-throwing.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1931 film, director Charles Reisner working with actresses Charlotte Greenwood and Leila Hyams. With a snipe printed on the verso noting same, along with a stamp stating "Country of origin USA." A romantic farce in which two philandering husbands are taught a lesson by their wives.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. First Draft script for the 1932 pre-Code film (though it is what would later be known as a revised shooting script, as it was a rewrite issued during shooting). AFI Catalog provides some context around the October 20, 1932 date on the script, revealing a somewhat troubled production that resulted in a fine film: "On 23.....

Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Final Shooting script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A comedy with angles on sports, gangsters, and higher education that demonstrates the timelessness of the interdependence of college football and the continued ability for a university to exist. Victor McLaglen plays hulking gangster Knucks McGloin, who founds a school called Canarsie College. (Canarsie being a......

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Release Dialogue script (post-production) for the 1930 pre-Code film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. An early uncredited role for Carole Lombard, who performs the song "You Appeal to Me."A young man is set to inherit a large sum from his uncle on the caveat that he learn the ways of the world beforehand. As such.....

N.p. N.p., 1927. Vintage publicity photograph of Mack Sennett and Gloria Swanson, reunited in 1927, nearly a decade since Swanson's early career working at Sennett's Keystone Studios. Photograph printed unevenly, lacking margin on left. Mimeo snipe, dated 4.29.27, and "Wide World Photos" stamp, on verso.Actor, director, producer, and studio head, "King of Comedy" Mack Sennett founded Keystone Studios in 1912.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage portrait photograph of Josef von Sternberg, 1934. "Photoplay Magazine Library and "FEB 14 1935" stamps obscured by label, and "FEB 13 1935" stamp, all on verso. One of Hollywood's premiere directors during the 1920s and 1930s, whose career spanned both the silent and the sound era. Sternberg was a master cinematographer with an unmistakable.....

Universal City: Universal, 1930-1932. Archive of 19 draft scripts for comedy shorts produced by Universal Pictures between 1930-1932 and starring Slim Summerville. Eight scripts with holograph pencil annotations throughout. An actor and director whose career spanned both the silent and sound eras, Summerville got his start in Mack Sennett's Keystone Kop shorts. Contemporary to the scripts in the archive, Summerville.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1929. Two vintage reference photographs on the set of the 1929 film. Mimeo snipes on verso of both, one with annotations in holograph pencil and Culver Picture stamp on verso, and one with "Menningen" and graphic stamps on verso. The first Black musical, and one of the first all-Black films by a major Hollywood.....

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code film. Shown is Ann Hovey as she is attacked after stowing away on a train by Ward Bond, playing against type as a villainous railroad worker. The rape is not only attempted but takes place, a radical element even in a pre-Code film. A film that has.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, Circa 1930s. Vintage photograph of Mae West, circa 1930s, promoting her generally as a contract player for Paramount, where she nearly single-handedly saved the studio from bankruptcy with the success of "She Done Him Wrong." By the middle of the decade was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Stamp of famed French bookstore.....