Los Angeles: The Producers Entertainment Group, 1997. Draft script for the 1998 television film, which originally aired August 30, 1998 on Showtime.Based on the novel "Sorrow Floats," the second book in Tim Sandlin's GroVont series. A suicidal, alcoholic woman decides to leave her small Wyoming hometown to help two bumbling men move a trailer full of illegal beer across the.....

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1981. Final draft script for the 1982 film, with annotations in holograph ink striking dialogue on 3 pages.Jerry Belson's cocaine fueled spoof on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella, "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," could have only been made in the early 1980's. With tag lines like, "They told Dr. Jekyll to take his.....

Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage borderless photograph showing actor Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci in a pensive moment during on outdoor shoot from the set of the 1979 film. With the stamp of US co-producer Twentieth Century-Fox and identifying holograph notation on the verso. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his.....

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1967. Final Draft script for the 1967 BBC television special "Chicago in the Roaring Twenties," seen here under the working title "The Bootleggers". Based on British broadcaster and naturalist Kenneth Allsop's 1961 book "The Bootleggers". A BBC special in which the infamous gangster Al Capone's Chicago mafia reign is illustrated in song and dance, directed.....

Los Angeles: George Barris - Irwin Schaeffer Production, 1978. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to writer George Barris, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, holograph annotations and paper clip page markers throughout. With a cast that includes Fabian, Barris, and Casey Kasem.A sleazy nightclub owner tries to help the comeback of a......

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 199. Early Draft script for the 1993 film. Laid in with the script is a five page production document pertaining to casting, with holograph ink annotations to the verso of the final page, noting a to-do list and brief timetable.Based on Edwin Torres' 1975 novel "Carlito's Way" and its 1979 sequel "After Hours", following a Puerto.....

N.p. Four Leaf Productions, 1966. Draft script for the 1967 film, from the collection of cinematographer Paul Vogel, presumably his working copy, with "Camera" written in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and annotations throughout in holograph ink, primarily noting locations and which shots are to be done in post-production. Bound in behind back wrapper.....

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.....

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Original British quad poster for the 1975 US film. Printed in England by Lonsdale & Bartholomew, featuring cool high-contrast design. Sequel to William Friedkin's fantastic 1971 film, "The French Connection". This time, Hackman and Rey both reprising their roles, the action goes down in Marseilles. More drugs, more shootouts, and Doyle's forced heroin addiction. 30 x......

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Nick (Williams) is a federal agent tracking down a heroin ring, with the help of a few recruits he's trained, and seeking revenge for his deceased daughter. Prostitution, Vietnam War vets, and a Jewish ex-con make the nearly three-hour hit an explosive dose of action. Set in France, shot on.....

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1997. Master Draft script for the 2000 film, preceding the film's release by three years. Notations on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. Based on Chabon's 1995 novel. Professor Grady Tripp (Douglas) teaches creative writing in Pittsburgh, struggles writing his second novel, and smokes marijuana in his free time. His wife has left him, and he is.....

New York: Hotel Astor, 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City, dated Wednesday October 7, 1936.The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location, and a widely-known bar for pickups, the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1969. First Draft script for the 1974 television movie. The wife of a bootlegger in the backwoods dies while giving birth to her seventh child and her husband falls off the roof in a drunken stupor, thus leaving the seven children orphaned. Following the guidance of the oldest sibling, children seek replacement parents by.....

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1980. Original film press kit for the 1980 film. Included in the press kit are nine film still photographs and six cast biographies. Based Carolyn Cassady's 1976 book, about the lives of and relationships between Neal Cassady, Carolyn, and Jack Kerouac, with some focus on Kerouac's writing his novel "On the Road". One of the.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre. Copy No. 67 notated in holograph ink on the title page. After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar in the process of robbing his apartment, a depressed young actor ties the burglar to his kitchen sink and attempts.....

Los Angeles: Sonny Amusement Enterprises / S.A.C.L., 1950. Collection of 15 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1950 Spanish-Argentine film. The financial success of the 1949 exploitation film "She Shoulda Said No," a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted distributors to import this film from Argentina for distribution in the US. It was a success on the exploitation.....

Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1972. Final Draft script for the 1972 television movie. Copy belonging to prop assistant Paul Marco, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and title page, with other production ephemera laid in. Based on the infamous 1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks. A mostly tasteful, surprisingly non-exploitative look at 1970s teenage drug.....

Los Angeles: DDF Films, 1993. Revised Draft script for the 1993 television series, which debuted in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993, and in the US on PBS in January, 1994. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, with her holograph ink and pencil annotations to several pages. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis.Based on Armistead Maupin's.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted at the Circle Repertory Company in New York on November 4. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Milton Katselas. A small town's slow way of life is disrupted by the arrival of a unstable, drug-trafficking Vietnam veteran whose car has broken down en route to Mexico. Set in.....

France: Eve Productions, 1989. Original French grande poster for the 1989 release of the 1970 US film. Scarce. A small-town border sheriff and marijuana smuggler sets out to kill a rival drug dealer, while his girlfriend has a dalliance with another woman. The first Meyer film to feature full frontal male nudity, a rarity even in sexploitation films at the.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1989. Draft script for the 1990 film based on Carrie Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel of the same title that she has here adapted for the screen. A comedic account on the pressures of Hollywood, in which an actress daughter returns to her actress mother's home while recovering from a drug overdose. Upon its release, the film.....

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1986. Original US one sheet poster for the 1986 film. A semi-autobiographical account of Pryor's life in which, after attempting suicide by setting himself on fire, a popular standup comedian falls into a coma and must reexamine his difficult past. The impetus for this self reflection closely resembles an event in Pryor's own past in.....

Culver City, CA: RKO, Circa 1939. Original menu from the "Famous RKO Grill" in San Francisco, California, circa 1939. The massive and varied menu includes food for all three meals of the day, including Italian dishes, Mexican dishes, and Kosher sandwiches and boasts "we never close," in what is clearly a precursor to the anything-you-could want all-night diner. The menu.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Draft script for an unproduced musical. With a single copied annotation to page 1-P-1.The mishaps and adventures of a teenage runaway who leaves his relatively peaceful home in Massachusetts to join the wacky, drug-fueled world of 1970s New York.Set in Massachusetts and New York.Navy titled wrappers. Title page present, dated January 1971, with credits for playwright Kingsley.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Library, 1971. Vintage photograph of director Jerry Schatzberg and cinematographer Adam Holender on the set of the 1971 film. A note affixed on the top edge with scotch tape with holograph annotations on the verso. An important film of the New Hollywood movement, and one of the best and least moralistic ones made on the subject.....

London: Commies From Mars / Initial Pictures, 1985. Third Draft script for the 1986 film, "Sid and Nancy," here under the working title, "Love Kills." INSCRIBED by Kate Simon in holograph ink on the verso of the last page of text. Simon was "a friend of Alex Cox's and [she] helped him vis a vis the fine details of the.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Collection of five vintage reference photographs, all quite striking, of Patty Duke in various states of celebrity, intoxication, or depravity in the 1967 film. Based on Jacqueline Susann's 1966 best selling novel. Shown in one of the photographs is author Susann, who appears in a cameo as a reporter who interviews Duke. A big budget.....

Binghamton, NY: N.p., 1956. Personal diary of Federal Treasury Department enforcement agent Kenneth T. Brown, Jr., dating from 1956. Holograph manuscript in blue and black felt ink, blue ink, and pencil in a black leather-bound 1956 Business Year Book with gilt titles. The diary largely contains entries regarding on Brown's day-to-day professional life as a rookie Alcohol and Tobacco Tax.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1989. First Draft script for the season one, episode eight of the 1989 television show, originally broadcast March 25, 1989 on ABC, here under the working title "White Poison". Virgil Vogel credited here as Director, but Harry Falk would receive final credit as Director of the episode. "Hawk" was based on.....