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Altman, Robert; Blake Edwards, David O. McDearmon, Lamont Johnson, Robert Ellis Miller, Boris Sagal, Jack Arnold, George Stevens Jr., Alan Crosland Jr. (directors); Lewis Reed, Vick Knight, Ken Kolb, Lester Aaron Pine, P.K. Palmer, Tony Barrett (screenwriters); Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Herschel Bernardi, Hope Emerson, Minerva Urecal (starring); Henry Mancini (composer)

Archive of scripts for 56 episodes of "Peter Gunn" (Collection of 57 original screenplays from the 1958-1960 television show)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958-1960. Archive of scripts and revision pages for 56 episodes of the hip private-eye detective television series "Peter Gunn." Copies belonging to screenwriter Lewis Reed, with his holograph name to the front wrapper of each episode. Included are screenplays for nearly half of the 114-episode run of the noir influenced television series starring the sophisticated, sharp-dressed...

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Bogner, Norman (screenwriter)

The Operators (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. First Draft script for an unproduced film called "The Operators," written by novelist Norman Bogner, and set in London in the 1960s. A crime-based drama about ex-cons and their cons. Brief notation in holograph ink on two pages. Bogner's other credits include "Privelege" (1967, screenwriter, his only film), "Emerald Soup" (1963 television series, story editor)...

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Coppola, Francis Ford (director); S. E. Hinton (novel, screenplay); Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane (starring)

Rumble Fish (Original photograph from the 1983 film)

San Francisco: Zoetrope Studios, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1983 film. Francis Ford Coppola's passion project, and an earnest look at the complex relationship between brothers. With a style reminiscent of German Expressionism, French New Wave, and Film Noir, Coppola weaves a tightly packed plot with an experimental music score. Shot on location in Oklahoma. 8 x 10...

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Coppola, Francis Ford (director); S.E. Hinton (novel); Kathleen Rowell (screenwriter); C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio (starring)

The Outsiders (Collection of seven original photographs from the 1983 film)

San Francisco: Zoetrope Studios, 1983. Collection of seven vintage color studio still photographs from the 1983 film. A bloody gang rivalry between a set of lower- and higher-income teenagers results in a number of deaths before a peaceful equilibrium is again achieved. One of the first films of the "Brat Pack" genre of the 1980s, the film starred a number...

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Dmytryk, Edward (director); Nelson Algren (novel); John Fante, Edmund Morris (screenwriters); Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck (starring)

Walk on the Wild Side (Collection of four original contact sheets from the 1962 film)

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 notations 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...

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Godard, Jean-Luc (director, screenwriter); Jean Seberg (starring)

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers [Les plus belles escroqueries de monde] (Original photograph from the set of the 1964 film)

France: Ulysse Productions, 1964. Vintage borderless photograph of a playful Jean Seberg pointing her prop camera back at the real one on the set of the 1964 film. With the stamp of production company Ulysse Productions and holograph notations on the verso. An anthology film featuring five stories about swindlers around the world, with Seberg appearing as a journalist accused...

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Jay, Ricky

Cards as Weapons (First Edition)

New York: Darien House, 1977. First Edition. Author, actor and huckster historian Ricky Jay's first book, a hilarious, photo illustrated treatise on the use of playing cards as weapons, with chapters on technique, practice, stunts and self-defense. The scarce cloth edition (a simultaneous softcover edition was also published). Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Jacket has a tiny nick at...

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Lang, Fritz (director); Norman Krasna (story writer); C. Kenneth Lobben (still photographer); Virginia Van Upp (screenwriter); Sylvia Sidney, George Raft (starring)

You and Me (Original photograph from the set of the 1938 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown are director Fritz Lang and George Raft on the set. Stamps on the verso crediting photographer C. Kenneth Lobben, Paramount, and an exclusivity notice. 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm) with wide margins. Near Fine. Complete collation details available on request. Spicer, p. 403.

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Lang, Fritz (director); Norman Krasna (story writer); C. Kenneth Lobben (still photographer); Virginia Van Upp (screenwriter); Sylvia Sidney, George Raft (starring)

You and Me (Three original photographs from the set of the 1938 film)

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Set of three vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1938 film noir antecedent. Shown respectively are Lang conferring with Silvia Sidney, Lang on the floor setting up an unusual camera angle, and Lang playing a clarinet for baby actor Donald Dodd's (who played Silvia Sidney's infant son in the film). Each photo...

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Levy, Ralph (director); Leo L. Fuchs (photographer); Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning (screenwriters); Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones (starring)

Bedtime Story (Collection of 11 photograph negatives for the 1964 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1964. Collection of 11 color negatives for film still photographs from the 1964 film. Four of the negatives have mimeo snipes associated with them. Marlon Brando stars as a love-them-and-leave-them womanizer who meets a man equal in skill for deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money at the same...

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Ratoff, Gregory (director); Karl Tunburg, Don Ettlinger, John O'Hara (screenwriters); Peter Lorre, Erich Von Stroheim, Zorina (starring)

I Was an Adventuress (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final script for the 1940 film. Based on the 1939 French film "J'etais une Adventuriere," written by Jacques Companeez, Herbert Juttke, Hans Jacoby, and Michel Duran. The story of a second-rate ballerina played by real-life ballerina Zorina, who teams up with con men Erich Von Stroheim and Peter Lorre, the three of whom hatch a....

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Revell, Nellie

Spangles (Photoplay Edition)

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1926. First Photoplay Edition, originally published by George H. Doran the same year. Photo-illustrated with film stills throughout. Basis for the 1926 film directed by Frank O'Connor and starring Marian Nixon and Pat O'Malley. Drawn from the author's own experiences as a circus performer, about a bareback rider and her romance with a grifter who...

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Taylor, Ray (director); Brenda Weisberg, Lewis Amster, Harold Tarshis, Henry Sucher (screenwriters); Charles Grayson (original story); Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Paul Fix (starring)

Mug Town [Skidrow] (Original screenplay for the 1942 film)

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film "Mug Town," seen here under the working title "Skidrow." A crew of teenage tramps finds themselves about to be framed for a freight heist, and must clear their names of the charges. Once they are able to do so, they enlist in the US Army in order to...

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Wilder, Billy (director, screenwriter); I.A.L. Diamond (screenwriter); Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Lurene Tuttle (starring)

The Fortune Cookie (Collection of five original photographs from the set of the 1966 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1966. Collection of five vintage borderless black-and-white studio still photographs from the set of the 1966 film. All photographs show Billy Wilder giving direction, including scenes in a bedroom, on a football field, in a cemetery, and more. Walter Matthau won an Academy Award for his role in the film. 8 x 10 inches (20...

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