Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976. Final Draft script for the 1977 film. Laid in is a five-page staff and crew list, with brief notations in holograph ink on the verso of the last page. Based on Klane's 1975 novel. The last of four films directed by Alan Arkin between 1967-1977, and probably the best. An anarchic comedy about the owner...
Los Angeles: Sandy Howard Productions / New World Pictures, Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Holograph ink notation 108 on title page. Bar-Yotam is an Israeli actor and screenwriter, who is best known for his roles in "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" (2008), and "Moon Over Parador" (1988) along with several television appearances dating from 1981-2016 on...
Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2001. Poster advertising a colloquium on Joseph Brodsky at Stanford University on Friday February 23, 2001. Topics include "Joseph Brodsky and the Russian Tradition" and "Joseph Brodsky and the Anglo-American Tradition." Thin, non-glossy tan card stock. 11 x 14 inches. Fine.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2001. Poster advertising a colloquium on Joseph Brodsky at Stanford University on Friday February 23, 2001. Topics include "Joseph Brodsky and the Russian Tradition" and "Joseph Brodsky and the Anglo-American Tradition." Glossy black and white card stock. 11 x 14 inches. Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1957. Two vintage borderless photographs of Marc Chagall painting in his studio, Saint-Paul-de-Vance, France, 1957. With agency stamps on the verso. Chagall moved to Saint-Paul-de-Vence in 1948 after seven years of living in exile in the United States during World War II. 7.5 x 11 inches (19 x 28 cm) Near Fine.
New York: LIFE Magazine, 1958. Two vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photographs featuring actor Ed Wynn and other actors and working crew members on the set of the 1959 film, both shot by photographer Ralph Crane on assignment for LIFE Magazine. Both photos with stamps on the verso crediting both Crane and LIFE Magazine, and date stamped May 14, 1958...
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...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Final Script for the 1969 film. Originally set to be made by maverick director Joseph Strick, who actually did some location shooting in Tunisia. However, Strick ran into disagreements with Fox executives, and was replaced with George Cukor, who shot the remainder of the film in Hollywood. Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British...
London: Golan-Globus, 1982. Original British quad poster for the 1982 US film. Printed in England by Broomhead, featuring artwork far more risque than its US variant. Remaking his own film, "Lemon Popsicle" (1978), director Davidson brings his Israeli tale to the streets of Los Angeles. Gary (Monoson) and his friends (Antin, Rubbo) are high school students who stumble through life...
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Germany: Kinematrade, Inc., circa 1933. Vintage US poster for the 1932 German communist propaganda film "Kuhle Wampe oder Wem gehort die Welt?" The subtitle is seen here under the English translation "Whither Germany." Circa 1933, as identified by the name of the Philadelphia theatre on the poster. The last and arguably most important communist film of the Weimar era, "Kuhle...
N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the novel by Charity Blackstock, a pseudonym of Ursula Torday, who is here mis-attributed as "Charity Blackstone." In a post-World War II French village a young Jewish survivor of a concentration camp and a girl away at finishing school experience a budding romance, only to be stymied by a......
London: Alpha / Roxy / CIP, 1980. Original British quad poster for the 1981 film. Brightly colored Third Reich artwork by Chantrell. A less-known installment in the New German Cinema director's oeuvre. Based on Lale Andersen's 1972 autobiographical novel, "Der Himmel Hat Viele Farben." German singer Willie (Schygulla) falls in love with Jewish composer Robert (Giannini), who actively resists the...
N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from literary agent Bertha Case to producer Lester Cowan. A wounded Polish soldier is treated by a Jewish doctor in World War I, and impregnates the doctor's daughter before he is sent back home. The same Jewish doctor treats him again years later when.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1967. Draft script for the 1968 British film. Based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel. Set in Czarist Russia, Frankeheimer's adaptation is a brutal realization of Malamud's novel, wherein a poor Jew named Yakov Bok assumes the identity of a Gentile after moving from the country to Kiev, in order...
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Culver City, CA: Harry Bennett Productions, 1981. Final Draft script for Part II the 1982 television movie (shown in two installments, at a length of 240 minutes). Winner of three Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress, and nominated for four more. A biopic on the life of Israel's first female prime minister, Golda Meir, who tells her story at her old...
Culver City, CA: Harry Bennett Productions, 1981. Final Draft script for Part II the 1982 television movie (shown in two installments, at a length of 240 minutes). Winner of three Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress, and nominated for four more. A biopic on the life of Israel's first female prime minister, Golda Meir, recounts her story at the school in...
Los Angeles: Cinevision Ltee, 1974. Final script for the 1975 film, "The Man in the Glass Booth," directed by Arthur Hiller, based on the play by Robert Shaw, written for the screen by Edward Anhalt, and starring Maximilian Schell. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World War II. Well-known for being bizarrely...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1969. First Draft script for the 1971 film. Anatevka is a fictional shtetl in prerevolutionary Russia where Tevye works as a dairyman, obsessed with tradition and providing for his family, both of which come under fire as great changes come to his small village. Based on the stories from "Tevye the Dairyman" from Yiddish writer...
New York: Self published, 1957. Revised Final Draft script, later photocopy, for an unproduced film written by screenwriter Nunnally Johnson. Johnson was a screenwriter, director, and producer, and highlights of his 40 year career include "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "The Three Faces of Eve" (1957), and "The Dirty Dozen" (1967). From the estate of Nunnally Johnson. Based on the...
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Prague: Barrandov, 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street," with four image from the film, and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman, and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed to the...
New York: George/Granat, 1965. Draft script for the 1965 play. Laid in is a note about props and time, written in holograph ink and pencil. With holograph pencil notations, additions and changes throughout concerning a character's actions. A Jewish man who made munitions in World War II in Germany finally meets his two children, one who was brought up by...
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. Joseph, son of the biblical Jacob, is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Draft script for an unproduced fictional film, set on a kibbutz in Israel, by documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline. Accompanying the script is a typed letter signed by Kline, dated "May II, 1964," discussing casting of the film, plans for script rewrites, including the removal of some "overt political statements" that aided in getting Israeli financing, and...
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Post-production Draft script for the 1972 film. Based on the 1969 novel by Philip Roth, Alexander Portnoy (Benjamin) discusses his love life with his psychoanalyst, who uncovers his trials as a mother-obsessed young Jewish man who is infatuated with sex and masturbation, yet terrified of commitment. Set in New York City. White clip-bound titled wrappers...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released...
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Rome: Eldorado Films, Circa 1987. Original treatment script for the 1987 film, "The Gold Rimmed Glasses," here under the working title, "The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles." Based on Giorgio Bassani's 1958 novel, "Gli occhili d'oro." Dr. Fadigati (Noiret) is a homosexual doctor living in Fascist Italy, where he befriends a Jewish family. Bassani also helped write the screenplay for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1953 film...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1973. Vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1973 film. The film follows the blunders of an anti-Semitic Frenchman, a Rabbi, and an Arab revolutionary. After a merry mixup, the Frenchman must disguise himself as the Rabbi, who is subsequently confused for the revolutionary. Audiences were initially turned off by the title, believing it to...
Rome: Cineriz, 1960. Collection of 18 vintage borderless single weight studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Strasberg is seen in all photographs, before and after a buzz cut, always in pinstripes, with a candid image of director Pontecorvo discussing aspects of Strasberg's trimmed hair. Numerical notations in holograph pencil on the versos of all but one, and...
Rome: Cineriz, 1960. Collection of 21 original borderless double weight still photographs from the 1960 film. Starring actress Susan Strasberg is seen in several photographs, always in pinstripes, and several feature costar Terzieff, with striking images of laboring women, a death pit, and German soldiers. Numerical notations in holograph pencil, and Contino's rubber-stamp, on the versos. An impressive showcase in...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Original pressbook for the 1960 film, based on the best selling novel by Leon Uris about the founding of Israel. Featuring many examples of the iconic design work of Saul Bass throughout. 12.5 x 18 inches (32 x 46 cm). 12 pages, saddle stitched. Very Good. Dampstain to the front wrapper and light soiling.
London: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1976. Vintage black-and-white borderless still photograph from the UK release of the 1976 film. An account of the tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no European nation is willing to save from certain doom. Shot on location in Barcelona, London, and St. Pancras. 8...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. Bound presentation script belonging to producer Howard Pine with his named embossed on the front board. With notations in holograph pencil and ink throughout. A sequel to the 1968 film "Funny Girl," this is a fictionalized account of singer Fanny Brice and her marriage to impresario Billy Rose...
Hollywood: Willow Tree / Paramount Pictures, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 film, based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. Arnold Schulman received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Ali McGraw's film debut. 12.25 x 15 inches (31 x 38 cm). 14 pages, saddle stitched, with a fold out to the rear wrapper. Very Good. Horizontal fold as...
Hollywood: Willow Tree / Paramount Pictures, 1969. Original pressbook for the 1969 film. Based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth. A budding romance between two people of Jewish heritage forces them to reconcile their very different upbringings. Arnold Schulman received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay. Ali McGraw's film debut. 12.25 x 15 inches (31 x 38 cm)...
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1948. First Draft script for the 1949 film. Based on 1947 novel "Night Watch" by Robert Buckner, resulting in the first American film to deal with the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine. Set in Israel and Palestine, shot on location in Mojave Desert, San Fernando Valley and Monterey, CA. Green titled front wrapper...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Original US insert poster for the 1959 film, directed by George Stevens and the definitive adaptation of the seminal memoir of a Jewish family's experience during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. Winner of 3 Academy Awards (including Best Cinematography) and nominated for 5 others (including Best Picture and Best Director). 14 x 36 inches. Very...
New York: N.p., Circa 1979. Archive including a Draft script for an unproduced film, and several associated typed letters signed relating to the possible casting of Liv Ullmann and Carol Kane. Based on the 1972 novel by Jerome Weidman. Laid in to the script are a three page handwritten letter on Film Friends letterhead from Marilyn Feinstein to Paul Kohner...
Paris: Migra, 1959-1962. Five issues of "Le Guide de la femme" (roughly, "Woman's Guide"), a mid-century Parisian periodical published with the patronage of French author, journalist, politician, and noted feminist, Louise Weiss. The periodical, not unlike similar publications of today found on wire racks at grocery checkout lines, was produced by and for France's modern Woman, "at the forefront of...