Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Vintage photograph of Tallulah Bankhead from the 1931 pre-Code film. Based on the 1929 play "Her Past," by Frederic J. Jackson, about a woman who kills a man in self-defense and, after she is acquitted, moves to a new city to restart her life under an assumed identity. Shot at Paramount-Publix New York Studios in.....
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1931. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-Code film. Complete, representing seven reels. Brad-bound self wrappers. Mimeograph duplication. Long tear to the first leaf (about 5.5 inches), else Near Fine.
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1931 film. Featuring Madge Evans and Lew Cody comparing binoculars while a very young and not yet famous Clark Gable smiles over their shoulders. Mimeograph snipe on the verso. Based on the short story "Horse Flesh" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, published in the "Saturday Evening Post".....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Draft script for the classic 1931 pre-Code film. Copy belonging to Joan Crawford, bearing the holograph inscription "Miss Crawford" on the front wrapper. Classic pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise from country girl to sophisticated high class mistress, who falls for an aspiring politician (Clarke Gable), though her existence may harm her.....
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], 1933. Collection of 70 vintage double weight reference photographs from the 1933 film, including seven of cast and crew at work on the set, three of which feature director Tod Browning. Also included is a later print of a fourth image of Browning on the set. From the estate of Tod Browning, housed in a......
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.....
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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.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Pre-production Dialogue Continuity Draft script for the 1933 film "Hell Below," here under the working title "Pigboats". Copy belonging to Felix Feist, an uncredited member of the crew, with his name on the front wrapper in holograph ink. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Brief annotations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Revised Final Script for the 1932 pre-Code film, an early starring role for Carole Lombard. Rubber stamped as a Paramount File Copy at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Penelope Newbold is a wealthy divorcée looking to remarry. She falls for her physician, Dr. Karl Bemis, but ends up marrying Bill Hanaway. Bill then.....
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.....
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.....
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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.
New York: A.L. Burt, 1929. First Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 pre-Code musical comedy, adapted for the screen from the 1927 Ziegfeld stage musical, directed by Luther Reed, and starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles, and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, reprising the stage roles that made them famous. RKO's.....
London: The Readers Library, 1929. First UK Photoplay Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Based on the 1929 pre-Code musical comedy, adapted for the screen from the 1927 Ziegfeld stage musical, directed by Luther Reed, and starring Bebe Daniels, John Boles, and the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, reprising the stage roles that made them famous.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1934. Vintage photograph of San Bernardino Ritz Theatre employee holding an "On Strike!" sign to promote the 1934 film "Circus Clown," by photographer Walt Fiss. This appears to have been taken at the intersection of 5th Street and North E Street, just north of the Ritz Theatre, which was located at 423 North E Street in San.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1933. Final Draft script for the 1934 pre-Code film musical, here under the working title "Hot Air". Holograph annotations in pencil on front wrapper and throughout. Multiple leaves watermarked with the name of the mimeograph company "Waterfalls Mimeograph duplication". A pre-Code musical comedy following a singing waiter on his rise to fame as a radio star, aided.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. "Return to Natl-Kline Poster Co" and "26140" stamps on the verso. Based on the highly controversial 1931 novel "Sanctuary" by William Faulkner. Remade in 1961 as "Sanctuary," directed by Tony Richardson and starring Lee Remick and Yves Montand. Wealthy, neurotic, and reckless Southern belle, Temple Drake.....
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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], 1932. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1932 film, with a printed snipe on the verso. Based on the novel by Upton Sinclair. Victor Fleming directs Dorothy Jordan and Lewis Stone in an early scene from his pre-Code epic about Prohibition. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.
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: 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.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1932. First printing of the photoplay edition, originally published as "An Imperfect Lover" in 1929 by Doubleday Doran. With photo-illustrated endpapers featuring scenes from the film. Basis for the 1932 pre-Code film, "Cynara," directed by King Vidor, and starring Ronald Coleman, Kay Francis, and Phyllis Barry, about an affair with a younger woman that ruins.....
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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. Paramount Pictures, 1934. Final draft script for the 1934 film, with two annotations in holograph pencil and Paramount "File Copy" stamp on front wrapper. Laid in are four blue revision pages, dated 1-20-34, "Changes in Scene A-28," with Paramount "File Copy" stamp and one annotation in holograph pencil on first page. US Marine Sergeant "Lucky" Davis (Richard Arlen) leads his.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage studio still photograph of John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Walter Connolly, from the 1933 film. Based on the 1932 play by screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which itself was based on the unproduced play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland. An egomaniacal theatre impressario attempts to manipulate everyone around him to.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1933. An early draft, in script format, of the 1933 novel, "Gabriel Over the White House," written by Thomas Frederic Tweed. This draft was developed the same year into the 1933 pre-Code film directed by Gregory LaCava, written for the screen by Carey Wilson, and starring Walter Huston, Franchot Tone, and Jean Parker. The novel.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Post-production Censorship Dialogue script for the 1930 pre-Code film. An early lead performance for Claudette Colbert. Nominated for an Academy Award. White brad-bound titled wrappers, dated April 16, 1930. Mimeograph duplication. Near Fine.
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Revised Final script for the 1933 film, with one annotation in holograph pencil and Paramount "File Copy Return to Story Dept.," "Master File," and "File Copy" stamps on front wrapper. One annotation in holograph pencil to "CAST" page adding actor Buster Crabbe's name to lead character Kaspa. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1929. Dialogue Draft script for the 1929 film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and throughout. Based on H.C. McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond". A former army captain bored with civilian life aids a young woman whose uncle has been wrongly committed to a psychiatric institution. The third Bulldog Drummond film to be released, following the.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Censorship Dialogue script for the 1933 film. A group of diverse characters at a resort hotel await the results of a horse race, each imagining what they could do with the winnings. Tall white titled self wrappers, stamped as CENSORSHIP DIALOGUE SCRIPT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 588, dated February 7, 1933. Title page integral.....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Vintage keybook photograph of Loretta Young and Gene Raymond on the set of the 1933 Pre-Code film. With a printed snipe and studio stamp on the verso and two holes punched into the left edge. Zani (Gene Raymond), a young zoo keeper, has spent his life inside the zoo in Budapest where his only true.....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Script for the 1933 film, "Berkeley Square," directed by Frank Lloyd, written for the screen by John L. Balderston and Sonya Levien, based on Balderston's play. Starring Leslie Howard. A pre-Code film adaptation of Balderston's stage fantasy in which a scientist (Leslie Howard) is fascinated by the 18th century and winds up being.....
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.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage sepia studio still photograph from the 1930 film. A pre-Code musical comedy directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Hailed as a masterpiece of the newly emerged musical genre and remembered primarily for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon". 8 x 10 inches. Good, with soiling overall, pin holes, and the top to corners torn off. Studio stamp.....
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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.....
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Fox Film Corporation, 1930. Early Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film, "Wild Company," here under the working title, "Roadhouse". An early example of a film about "rebellious youth," set during Prohibition, about the exploits of a spoiled young man who squanders his parents' money in an illicit speak-easy, and ultimately gets involved in murder. Featuring Bela Lugosi in a......
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1933. Final Shooting Script for the 1934 pre-Code crime film. With a single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. Based on the 1933 novel by noted crime novelist Frederick Nebel. An ex-convict is escorted via train to a murder trial in New York, where her testimony is the only protection the defendant has from impending.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures. Early Draft script for the 1931 film "The Good Bad Girl," here under the working title "Columbia No. 14". Mae Clarke's first feature following her famous role as James Cagney's moll in "The Public Enemy" the year before, a pre-Code drama vehicle for the actress' subtle, direct style. Pale blue titled wrappers, rubber stamped copy.....
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, 1933. Collection of five vintage photographs from the 1933 film, including three double weight and two single weight photographs. With stamps or holograph annotations to most of the photographs. Based on William Faulkner’s 1931 controversial literary potboiler, "Sanctuary". The story concerns a wealthy and neurotic Southern belle who falls in with a violent bootlegger who rapes her.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Final Script for the 1934 pre-Code film musical, "Bolero," directed by Wesley Ruggles, written for the screen by Horace Jackson, Kubec Glasmon, Carey Wilson, and Ruth Ridenour, and starring George Raft and Carole Lombard. A stylish Paramount musical that, unlike so many others from its time, came with a great storyline. George Raft rises from coal.....
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. Second Draft script for the 1930 pre-Code film. Cast list with holograph ink and pencil annotations tipped in, and distribution receipt signed by composer and lyricist George Marion Jr. laid in. 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.....
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., circa 1931. Archive of 14 vintage photographs of movie theaters circa 1931. Each with a holograph pencil notation on the verso identifying the theater and city. Three photographs with the photographer's stamp bearing his name and Reading, PA address on the verso. Films by Warner Brothers, Fox, Columbia, Paramount, and RKO are represented in the archive. Seven of.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1932. Post-production Continuity 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......
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.....