London: Carol Reed Productions, Circa 1948. Vintage candid photograph from the UK release of the 1949 film. From the archive of Maurice Bessy, with his stamp on the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Leslie Baker, and another for Carol Reed Productions and The London Films Studios in Shepperton, England. A mimeo snipe, also on the verso, describes the...
Stockholm: Svensk Filmindustri, 1961. Vintage oversize Swedish still photograph from the 1961 film. With the Svensk Filmindustri logo at the bottom right corner. In a typically heavy moment from the film, Max Von Sydow (Martin) and Lars Passgard (Minus) stand together in a moment of silence. Shot by the film's cinematographer, the legendary Sven Nykvist. 11 x 9 inches. In...
Budapest: Singer es Wolfner Irodalmi Intezet, 1927. First Hungarian Edition. Screenplay for the 1927 silent film, a photoplay edition with a photographic image of the film's star, Pola Negri, on the front wrapper. With the logo of the film's Hungarian distributor, Royal Apollo, on the front wrapper at the bottom right corner. Biro wrote the 1917 play, "Szinmu negy felvonasban,"...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1943. Revised Draft script for the 1943 film. Co-written for the screen by Raymond Chandler and Frank Partos. Chandler's contribution to the script had mostly to do with Alan Ladd's character and his tough dialogue (elements sneered at by the media upon the film's release). Laid in is an 8-page shooting schedule on blue stock, a 6-page...
Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Pictures, 1981. Revised script for the 1983 film. Written for the screen by Ray Bradbury, based on his 1962 novel. After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Mr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition...
London / Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Draft British script for the 1967 film. A comic retelling of the Faust legend, in which an unhappy man working as a short order cook makes a deal with the devil in exchange for seven wishes, and is given advice along the way by the Seven Deadly Sins. Though he attempts to use...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Wagner / United Artists, circa 1967. Original late 1960s Polish R61 poster for the Polish re-release of the 1939 US film, designed by Jerzy Treutler. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece, "Stagecoach" revolutionized the Western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list...
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...
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Paris: Les Films Concordia, 1963. Original French program for the 1963 film. Based on the novel "Il Disprezzo" by Alberto Moravia. With a tiny rubber stamp contemporary to issue reading, "Interdit au moins de 18 ans" ("No under 18 admitted"). Godard's lush Technicolor landmark that transformed Brigitte Bardot from a sex symbol into an art object, while simultaneously making him...
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Paris: Les Films Imperia / Films Around the World, 1960. Original French pressbook for the 1960 film. A fascinating object, created in a die-cut style we have never seen duplicated, made by Films Around the World, the distributor that picked up the film for international distribution. The only copy we have ever seen. With a middle splash page containing a....
N.p. N.p., 1928. Two vintage oversize photographs from the first stage production of "The Front Page" in 1928, showing two different trio shots of the reporters who grace the majority of the play. The first photo, a double weight 8 x 10 by Florence Vandamm with her blindstamped name on the recto, shows Lee Tracy (later played by Rosalind Russell...
New York: New Yorker Films, 1979. Original US promotional window poster for the 1979 German film, issued in small numbers by New Yorker Films, who distributed Herzog's film in the US. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 11 x 17 inches, folded as issued. Near Fine.
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Los Angeles: Studio Films, 1955. Complete set of 8 vintage two-color lobby cards from the 1955 film. Each of the lobby cards features one of the African American starring performers, and each card advertises the Poverty Row studio, Studio Films, and the short-lived film process "WonderColor," used to make it. A music revue that set the standard for the much...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Two original posters, each with a different design, for the well-loved 1973 documentary about the famed Wattstax music festival, the largest all-black soul music concert of all time, held by Stax Records on August 20, 1973 commemorating the seventh anniversary of the Watts race riots. Nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Documentary. Includes...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1965. Vintage press photograph of Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, the iconic female character in the classic British television series, "The Avengers." Here Rigg stands on a polar bear skin rug laid out near the shoreline of an unknown British locale. Shot by photographer Terry O'Neill to promote the hiring of John Bates (who worked for noted.....
N.p. N.p., 1941. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the Broadway premiere of Clifford Odets' dark social drama, set in Staten Island, this image showing leads Tallulah Bankhead and Joseph Schildkraut. On the verso is a very detailed mimeo snipe prominently mentioning Odets as the playwright, and stamped 12-25-41, two days prior to the opening of the play. The play ran.....
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Italy: Arco Films / Lux Compagnie Cinematographique de France, 1964. Vintage photograph of director Pier Paolo Pasolini and crew on the set of his 1964 film, "The Gospel According to St. Matthew," by photographer Angelo Novi. A magnificent shot, capturing the immediacy of the crew (and a philosophically distracted Pasolini) as well as the panorama of the Fosso Castello Waterfalls...
Poland: WDA-offset. / Long Road Productions, 1976. Original 1976 Polish A1 poster for the 1974 film. Design by Andrzej Klimowski. A striking and erotic Polish take on the ultimate neo-noir, or better put, the logical evolution of the style as of the mid-1970s. Robert Towne’s defining work, and a rival to Roman Polanski’s prior masterpiece, “Rosemary’s Baby,” as well as.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1959. Vintage photograph of director Douglas Sirk and producer Ross Hunter working on the set of the 1959 film, discussing a scene with actress Lana Turner. With a mimeograph snipe on the verso. Set on Coney Island in New York, but shot on location in Los Angeles, with notable spots including the Aquarius Theater on...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1949. Vintage studio still photograph of director Douglas Sirk working on the set of the 1949 film noir. A wonderful photograph of the entire crew shooting a scene where Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight are parting at an airport. Sirk is standing on a crane support at the left, and cinematographer Charles Lawton, Jr. is...
Los Angeles: Four Star Productions, 1965. Vintage photographic title cards and title design sketches for the seminal 1965 television series, notable for having utilized these photographs rather than filmed performances for its title sequence. Included are ten double weight photographs, several signed by the series' star, Anne Francis, and four title design sketches that were ultimately made into overlays ("Starring...
N.p. N.p., 1953. Original program for the notorious Broadway flop, "Carnival in Flanders." An interesting and rare piece documenting a directorial and writing effort from the strange final years of Sturges' career. The program was printed well prior to Sturges' arrival to the production—as a result, though the musical was never staged prior to his involvement, it still credits the.....
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Japan: Toho Company, Ltd., 1964. Original Japanese B2 poster for the 1964 film. With the English language title for the film discreetly rubber stamped onto the poster in two spots, and with a tiny copyright notice in black at the bottom right corner for the Toho Company, dated 1964. A masterpiece of 1960s Japanese cinema, based on the novel by...
Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First French Edition, preceded by the Greek edition published by Editions Themelion in 1966. Association copy, inscribed by Vassilikos to author William Styron and his wife: "For Rose and Bill / With all my happiness for the success of the book / Love and nostalgia / from Mimi and Vassilis." The prolific author's best known work, basis for...
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Czechosolvakia: N.p., 1961. Original A1 poster, issued circa 1961, for the Czechoslovakian release of the 1960 Italian film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. Artwork by Fremund. 22.5 x 32.25 inches. A few professional repairs to tears at the edges, rolled, on archival linen. Fine.
Weimer: Verlag der Hofbuchhandlung Alexander Buschke Nachf, 1908. First Edition. A very early work by writer, actress and film maker Thea von Harbou, best known for writing and co-directing "Metropolis" (1927) in collaboration with her then-husband Fritz Lang. The only recorded presentation copy, INSCRIBED by both Thea and her brother Horst (who would go on to be the still photographer...
New York: Theatre de Lys / Edison Theatre, 1970-1971. Archive of ten photographs, two programs, and an early mimeograph summary of performances for a little-seen production of Kurt Vonnegut's play, "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," directed by Michael J. Kane. Photographs by Bert Andrews, with his stamp on the verso of each, along with holograph ink annotations regarding the actors in...
Wengen, Switzerland: Alpine Films, 1965. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Orson Welles and John Gielgud on location in Spain for the shooting of "Chimes at Midnight" in 1965. Shot and struck by noted photographer Nicolas Tikhomoroff, with his rubber stamp and the stamp of his Parisian agency, V.I.P., on the verso. "Chimes at Midnight," Welles' third of three legendary...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Vintage oversize double weight photograph of Jean Seberg, Otto Preminger, David Niven, and the stand-ins for Seberg and Niven on the set of "Bonjour Tristesse" in the late summer of of 1957 in Cote d'Azur, France. Shot, struck, and mounted by the film's still photographer, Bob Willoughby. Willoughby's annotations regarding same present on the...