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... (read more)
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. Long tear to the first leaf (about 5.5 inches), else Near Fine. (read more)
Various cities: Various Publishers, 1933-1934. Archive of 89 photographs belonging to actress Julie Bishop, featuring film still and publicity photographs from five pre-Code films made in 1933 and 1934 while she was still being credited under her birth name, Jacqueline Wells. The photographs have been tipped into a contemporary photo album, with the exception of three photographs, which are laid... (read more)
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Script for the 1932 pre-Code film. A drama about the extreme hazards of marrying for money, featuring early performances by Joan Bennett and Spencer Tracy. Bennett begins as a poor girl from Missouri, the daughter of a railway brakeman. Tracy works for the same railway line as an engine driver, who loves Bennett but... (read more)
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"... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Post-production dialogue cutting continuity script for the 1931 film. Substantial notation to the front wrapper regarding the relationship of reels to scenes. Classic pre-Code romantic melodrama, following Mariane's (Joan Crawford) rise to sophistication. Mariane is a country girl turned high class mistress, who falls for an aspiring politician (Clarke Gable), though her existence may... (read more)
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... (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], 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.... (read more)
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..... (read more)
N.p. Harry Langdon Corporation, 1926. Vintage photographic proof trial poster from the 1926 film. Harry Langdon plays Paul Bergot, a Belgian immigrant who has fallen in love with Mary Brown, a blind woman. Paul desperately searches for Mary, accidentally rescuing her town from crooks and bootleggers in the process. 8 x 10 inches (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Holograph ink notation... (read more)
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... (read more)
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 notations in holograph pencil throughout. Based on... (read more)
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... (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], 1933. Original American program for the 1933 film, with an original illustration by Hirschfeld and a striking photo of Jean Harlow on the front wrapper. Rarely in the 1930s was such excellent source material successfully combined with such stellar screenwriting, directing, and acting talent. Today the film plays equally well as both comedy and drama... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Original lobby card for the 1933 pre-Code film, based on William Faulkner's 1931 novel, "Sanctuary." An interesting image from the film’s final dramatic courtroom scene. The film has a relatively upbeat ending, in which Temple tells the truth and is disgraced. This in marked contrast to the ending of Faulkner’s novel, in which Temple perjures herself..... (read more)
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. (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1931. Collection of 20 vintage studio still photographs from the 1931 pre-Code film, and the first adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's classic hard boiled novel. All but two images with the Warner Brothers / Vitaphone logo at the bottom margin. This first adaptation, made well prior to the establishment of the Hayes Code, carries a set of... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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. Near Fine. (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage photograph from the set of the 1930 film. With holograph notations and a typed description on the verso. A pre-Code musical comedy regarded as a masterpiece of the emerging musical genre and remembered primarily for the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon." Based on the 1900 novel, "Monsieur Beaucaire" by Booth Tarkington, later adapted as... (read more)
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 (20.5 x 25.5 cm). Good, with soiling overall, pin holes, and the top to corners... (read more)
Hollywood: 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 notations. 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 titled wrappers... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Post-production Release Dialogue script for the 1931 pre-Code film. White side-stitched titled wrappers, dated April 4, 1931. Mimeograph. Near Fine. (read more)
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... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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 notations 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
Various cities: Various Film Studios, 1918-1961. A collection of 153 black and white photographs from 88 films featuring images of women being bound or restrained, dating from 1918 to 1961. An impressive set of mild bondage and domination film stills, amassed by a Southern Californian amateur collector, all featuring images of women (plus the occasional man) who are bound, gagged... (read more)
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... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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 (20 x 25 cm). Stamp... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1931. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1930 play "Waterloo Bridge" by Robert E. Sherwood. James Whale's first film preceding his cinematic classic "Frankenstein." Widely censored for its controversial material, "Waterloo Bridge" tells the tale of a desperate American Chorus girl (Mae Clarke), stranded in London during World War... (read more)
![Archive of 89 photographs from various pre-Code films starring Julie Bishop [Jacqueline Wells], 1933-1934. Julie Bishop, subject, Jacqueline Wells.](/pictures/thumb/138844.jpg?v=1492980117)
![Possessed [The Mirage] (Original screenplay for the 1931 film). Clarence Brown, Edgar Selwyn, Lenore J. Coffee, Joan Crawford, Clarke Gable, director, play, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140728.jpg?v=1492980595)
![Dangerous Paradise [Victory] (Original screenplay for the 1930 film). Joseph Conrad, William A. Wellman, Grover Jones William Slavens McNutt, Richard Arlen Nancy Carroll, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland, novel, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/131052.jpg?v=1451421592)
![Hell Below [Pigboats] (Original screenplay for the 1933 film). Jack Conway, Laird Doyle Raymond L. Schrock, Walter Huston Robert Montgomery, Jimmy Durante, Madge Evans, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137376.jpg?v=1492979605)
![The Meanest Gal in Town [Once Over Lightly] (Original screenplay for the 1934 film). Russell Mack, Arthur T. Horman H W. Hanemann, Richard Shayer, Pert Kelton Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, El Brendel, screenwriter director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140054.jpg?v=1526670506)
![Wild Company [Roadhouse] (Original screenplay for the 1930 film). Leo McCarey, Bradley King, Bela Lugosi Frank Albertson, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/117140.jpg?v=1492802381)
