Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the 1927 film. Based on the 1925 play by Samson Raphaelson. The first feature film with both a synchronized recorded score and lip-synchronized singing and dialogue, effectively signaling the end of the silent era. At the first Oscars, producer Daryl F. Zanuck received an Honorary Academy Award and the film was.....
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 annotations 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.....
![A Woman Called Golda [A Woman Called Golda: Part I] (Original teleplay script for the 1982 film)....](/pictures/thumb/140025.jpg?v=1525704070)
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the set of the 1990 Polish film, one showing director Andrzej Wajda, the other showing Wajda in conversation with actor Wojciech Pszoniak. The final days in the life of Polish-Jewish humanitarian, author, and educator Janusz Korczak, who founded an orphanage in Warsaw for Jewish children, and was eventually killed while.....
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.....
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. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. A complex thriller built around a Jewish businessman who survived the concentration camps in World.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1990. Second Draft script for the 1992 film. A recently widowed Jewish woman finds love in her autumn years with a charming Italian playboy, but faces criticism from her two unhappy daughters, who believe she is moving forward too quickly. Set in Queens, New York. Blue titled wrappers, dated MARCH 2, 1990. Title page present, dated 3/2/90, noted.....
N.p. N.p., 1928. Vintage photograph of Philip Sassoon and Charlie Chaplin at United Artists studios in 1928. The acetate negative of the photograph is in the holdings of the Charlie Chaplin Archive at Cineteca Bologna. Chaplin and Sassoon were born within three months of each other, with childhood homes less than three miles apart, Sassoon into one of the wealthiest families.....
New York: The Producers Theatre, 1954. Archive of 14 vintage photographs from the 1954 play. Eleven photographs with stamps identifying the play, two photographs with the stamp of photographer Gene Cook, and two photographs with the stamp of photographer Louis Melacon on the verso. Included is an announcement of the premiere and an invitation to the play, both on Broadway.....
New York: Vanguard, 1934. First Edition. The author's first novel, taking its place next to Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep," published the same year, as a classic of Jewish-American life in New York during the Great Depression. Fuchs would go on to write two more novels in the same vein, today generally thought of as a trilogy collectively called "The.....
New York: Vanguard, 1934. First Edition. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to noted philanthropist and book collector Charles Feinberg: "To Mr. Feinberg / With all good wishes / Daniel Fuchs." Feinberg's Walt Whitman collection now resides in the Library of Congress. The author's first novel, taking its place next to Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep," published the same year, as a......
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......
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.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film by screenwriters Daniel Fuchs and Phil Rapp, dated 10/16/46. First page of carbon typescript treatment is a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc., signed and dated by Fuchs in holograph ink, with date illegible. Daniel Fuchs began his writing career in his mid-twenties with the novels "Summer in.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1959. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs and one vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1959 film. Based on Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's 1955 play. The first adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, considered by many to be the best, winner of three Academy Awards, including one for Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Set and.....
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 antisemitic 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 annotations 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 annotations in holograph pencil, and Contino's rubber-stamp, on the versos. An impressive showcase in.....
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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.....
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Pocking, Germany: Eucent Film, Circa 1977. Draft script for an unproduced German film. Laid in with the script is a brief typed letter in German on Eucent Film letterhead, addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from producer Konstantin Thoeren, introducing the screenplay. Text in English. After the unexpected death of his dear friend Frank in a test flight accident, a......
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.....
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 annotations 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.....
New York: Hesseltine-Bookman-Seff, 1966. Archive including a Draft script and a Master Copy script for the 1966 play by Herman Raucher. Undated script has 2 small clippings taken from the title page, top right, which likely had the copy number written in and a 1 1/2 x .75" clipping taken from the lower right, which likely held the revision date.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. First Draft script for an unproduced film, separated into nine separate parts, likely for a television miniseries. Based on the 1965 historical novel by James Michener, a survey of the history of the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Screenwriter Robert L. Joseph was known for the 1953 film noir "The Hitch-Hiker" and for the television.....
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.....
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Midwest Films, 1973. Draft script for the 1975 film. Copy belonging to actress Doris Roberts, who portrays Mrs. Kavarsky in the film, with her annotations, changes, additions and translations heavily notated in holograph ink and pencil. Here under the working title, " The Discovery of America." Laid in is one page notated in holograph pencil. Based on the 1896 novella.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage borderless black and white photograph of musician Johnny Hallyday, actor Alain Delon and his then-wife, actress Nathalie Delon, and director Claude Lelouch at a 1967 French protest against the ban of Israeli trade by the United Arab Republic. With two printed mimeo snipes on the verso, along with the stamp of Agence Dalmas. From the archive.....
N.p. N.p., 1978. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Criminals plan a massive theft from a military air base in order to secure the materials to build a nuclear warhead. Screenwriter Josef Shaftel was better known for "The Biggest Bundle of them All" (1968). Set in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, and New York. Black untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated June 15.....
N.p. N.p., 1978. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on screenwriter Josef Shaftel's experiences working as a newspaper correspondent in 1948 in the Middle East during the Arab-Israeli conflict, during which time he falls in love with a Jewish refugee and gradually becomes sympathetic to the Zionist cause. Shaftel's story was also the basis for a 1962.....
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.
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Prague: Filmove studio 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.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1946. Treatment script for an unproduced film. 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 he is found disfigured in the wreckage of an attack on Jews by Polish forces.....
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.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Batjac Productions, 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1966 film, showing actors Kirk Douglas and Angie Dickinson. With holograph pencil annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on the real experiences of David "Mickey" Marcus, a US military officer recruited to command units of the Israel Defense Forces forces during the 1948 Arab-Israel War. Shot on location.....
![Hanna's War [Hannah Senesh] (Original screenplay for the 1988 film). Menahem Golan, Stanley Mann,...](/pictures/thumb/141500.jpg?v=1638076174)
Los Angeles: Golan-Globus Productions, 1986. First Draft script for the 1988 film. Here under the working title "Hannah Senesh." Based on two books: "Hanna Senesh, Her Life and Diaries" (Sphere Books, 1973) and "Un Vento Impetuoso Soffio," a memoir by Joel Palgi published only in Italian in 1950, then in English in 2003 under the title "Into the Inferno: The.....
New York: Horace Liveright, 1935. Fifteenth printing, published in 1935. In the uncommon dust jacket. An important book, originally published in 1930, from the underside of the Jazz Age, and anticipating the socialist and labor-oriented fiction of the Depression. Gold, whose real name was Irwin Granich, also wrote for the radical magazine "The Liberator." Small, contemporary owner name (dated 1938) on.....
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. 12 pages, saddle stapled. Very Good. Dampstain on the front wrapper and light soiling.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1964. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1964 independent film. Philip Kaufman's directorial debut, a humorous then-present-day retelling of the biblical story of Elijah, starring many local actors from the improvisational Chicago comedy troupe The Second City, as well as author Nelson Algren appearing as himself. Shot on location in Chicago. 10 x 8 inches. Near.....
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. 14 pages, saddle stapled, with a fold out to the rear wrapper. Very Good. Horizontal fold as issued, with a chip.....
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. 14 pages with a......
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.....
N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single notation to the title page in holograph ink, noting this copy was from Kurt Onger. Based on the 1949 play "They'll Be Here Tomorrow" by Nathan Shaham. An Israeli platoon takes an Arab soldier prisoner and questions him about an impending attack, with varied success during the 1948 Israeli-Arab.....
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Germany: Kinematrade, 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 Wampe.....
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.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1937. First Edition. Uncommon in dust jacket. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. With light soil and offsetting to the endpapers, and striping (from production) to the preliminary pages. Jacket is lightly rubbed and faded overall, with spine, flap folds, and interior lightly toned, and a small tear and small chip to the bottom.....