London: Unviersal International Pictures, 1961. Collection of 5 vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1961 US film. Based on Howard Rigsby's novel, "Sundown at Crazy Horse," about a cowboy who, on the lam from the law, travels to visit an old flame in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
Los Angeles: Lorimar, 1980. Two borderless photographs from the 1980 film. Though most often remembered as Peter Sellers' final role, it also was the last success for the great Hal Ashby, as well as Jack Warden's first shot at portraying the President of the United States. Photographs 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm). Brief emulsion defect to one of the photographs, else Fine.
New York: Bonhams Auctions, 2016. Fine and unread in illustrated wrappers. Perfect bound. Illustrated profusely in color throughout. Includes screenplays, posters, film ephemera, costumes, props, and celluloids from various classic films.
Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Company / RKO Radio Pictures, 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film noir. Based on the 1949 novel by Leo Brady. Written for the screen by Philip Yordan and Ben Hecht. An RKO release that flopped at its premiere, so much that the producers at Goldwyn had Ben Hecht write framing scenes to be added to the...
New York: First Run Features, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. A feelgood comedy about an extraterrestrial shaped like a bowling ball who crash lands in small-town America and encounters an untalented woman who bowls for a soft drink company bowling team. With his assistance (the alien acting as her bowling ball), she gains notoriety before he repairs his...
London: Granada Television, 1980. Two borderless photographs from the 1981 film. One photo with a snipe attached to the verso. Directed by Bob Rafelson, and based on the 1939 novel by James M. Cain, "Postman" was one of the gems of late 1970s cinema (along with "The Verdict"), and brought David Mamet to the attention of the filmmaking world, leading...
New York: Jerry Adler Productions, Circa 1962. Draft script for the 1962 Broadway premiere. Copy belonging to actor Bruno Gerussi, who played the part of Young Actor/Ishmael in the play, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and with his holograph annotations throughout. Moby Dick—Rehearsed is set at a mid-19th century American repertory theater where a......
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Original Japanese program for the US film "The Great Gatsby." Full color wrappers, with black and white text and black and white and full color photos throughout. Text in Japanese. The 1974 adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel has been praised for its lavish costumes and decadent set design. Coupled with an all star cast and...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage black-and-white press photograph from the 1965 French-American film. Editorial annotations and Wide World Photo rubber stamp on the verso, with a Spanish rubber stamp, "paso por fotograbado." Shown are Ursula Andress and Katrin Schaake on-the-set, conferring between scenes while standing on a bed. Woody Allen's film debut, as actor and screenwriter. Michael (O'Toole)...
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Aldo Ray, bound into a brown leather binding with raised bands and gilt decoration, the name "ALDO RAY" in gilt on the front board, and film title in gilt on the spine. With an additional gilt stamp on the lower front pastedown...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Final Draft script for the November 7, 1977 television episode, "The Crypt," season 1, episode 7 of the science fiction series "Logan's Run." This episode is based on an original story by Harlan Ellison. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member named Chuck Sereci, with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper...
Cambridge MA: American Repertory Theater, 1991. Revised draft script for the 1991 play. INSCRIBED by playwright Larry Gelbart: "4-30-91 / Tom - As promised - changes will be made as rehearsals and previews dictate but, basically, this is it — best, Larry Gelbart." Debuted at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 24, 1991. A dark satire influenced by...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1951. Final White script for the 1953 film. Based on Charles Nordhoff's 1941 novel of the same name. Two film stills laid in, one of which has been hand colored. Final Paramount film starring Alan Ladd, who plays a determined medical student en route to New South Wales. The vessel he is aboard is also occupied by...
1968. Autograph note signed from noted screenwriter Carl Foreman to producer Daniel Selznick, executed on Foreman's production company stationery (Open Road Films, Limited in London). In the letter, Foreman agrees to meet with Selznick to discuss a project Selznick is working on for Universal. Included are two photostat copies of related letters from Selznick to Foreman, going into some detail...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and director John Frankenheimer on the set of the 1968 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Directed by Frankenheimer, based on the 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Bernard Malamud, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, and...
1968-1969. Two typed letters signed (one with cartoon illustration) and one autograph postcard signed from director Samuel Fuller to Daniel Selznick (along with a carbon of Selznick's reply). The letters make reference to "The Eccentrics" a project that Fuller had written a screenplay for and very nearly made. Fuller notes that Janet Leigh had replaced Jennifer Jones as the current...
N.p. N.p., 1979-1997. Archive of 22 pieces of correspondence between writer Larry Gelbart and director Robert Parrish, consisting of nine typescripts, six of which are INSCRIBED, plus three autographed letters signed, one typed letter signed, and six autographed notes from Gelbart to Parrish, as well as three outgoing carbons of letters written from Parrish to Gelbart and a seven-page typescript.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss, producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick, on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." In a custom museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. 11 x 13.5 inches. Near Fine, with a small corner...
Los Angeles and Burbank: American Broadcasting Company [ABC] / Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS] / National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Draft script for the short segment from the film "Light's Diamond Jubilee," a variety program developed by all three major television networks to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Edison's invention of the light bulb. Goldenrod titled wrappers, noted as FINAL, rubber-stamped...
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1954. Final script for the 1954 television special, an anthology of stories commemorating the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. An ambitious undertaking, with adaptations and original stories by G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Gordon, Irwin Shaw, Max Shulman, John Steinbeck and Mark Twain. Much of the script doctoring and...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1945. Temporary screenplay for the 1946 film. At 162 pages (the equivalent of nearly 3 hours' running time), this script is much longer than the final edited version, and like many Selznick scripts in the draft stage, is not quite complete (though the camera direction is already quite detailed), ending with the line "Alex, are you...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Post-production Dialogue and Cutting Continuity script for the 1946 film. The original continuity for the film's premiere. Tall white titled self wrappers, brad bound at the top edge, dated July 18, 1946, noting 5 reels, 10 sections, and footage of 9292 feet. Mimeograph. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 137. Hardy, The BFI Companion...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28, 1948." Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson (1888–1976) in...
New York: Boni and Gaer, 1948. First Edition. Signed by author Gordon Kahn and by each of the ten men indicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, known collectively to history as the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman, John Howard Lawson, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner Jr. and Alvah Bessie. One...
Hollywood: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Final Shooting script for the 1932 film. Based on the 1915 novel by Zane Grey. Sequel to the 1931 film "Riders of the Purple Sage," and bringing back star George O'Brien, this time as the nephew of the character he played in the previous film, seeking his missing uncle. Starring Cecilia Parker as O'Brien's love...
Beverly Hills, CA: Mirisch Productions, Inc. / United Artists, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to actress Merie Earle (her first film credit), and INSCRIBED on the front wrapper: "This was my first / "on location" picture / Everything was / "red carpet" I loved it / Merie Earle." Notations in holograph red ink and pencil...
Hollywood: Republic Pictures, 1938. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the 1938 film. Featuring images of Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, and others. Written for the screen by Nathanael West. Ralph Byrd and Ward Bond play two rough and tumble truckers who agree to take a dangerous load of dynamite to a city in danger of being...
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, Circa 1954. Two vintage full-color still photographs from the 1954 UK release of the 1954 US film. Written for the screen by Horace McCoy and W. R. Burnett, with the help of Charles Bennett (a Hitchcock favorite), about a mob killing and a witness, young Louise Graham, who flees to Montana too afraid to testify. Two...
N.p. Golan-Globus Productions, 1985. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1985 film. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actor. Original screenplay written by acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa, who intended the film to be his color debut. His plans were thwarted, however, when difficulties with American financiers led to the film being shelved. Starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebecca...
Los Angeles: Samuel L. Bronkowitz, 1977. Shooting script for the 1977 film. Working copy belonging to producer Robert K. Weiss, with his ownership name in holograph orange ink at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Photocopied annotations throughout. Written by and starring the Zucker brothers, the duo who would eventually make their fame with similarly irreverent comedy hits...
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition, a paperback original. Perfect bound in illustrated wrappers. Copy belonging to ex-Columbia Pictures chairman David Puttnam, and colorfully INSCRIBED by Spike Lee: "To David Puttnam / Thanks for everything / I appreciate it / Fuck Columbia!!! / love, Spike Lee." Housed in a custom slipcase. British film producer David Puttnam was chairman...
Atlantic Entertaining Group, 1984. Revised Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on the 1981 debut novel by Leonard Michaels. Seven singularly dysfunctional men form a discussion group and share their feelings about women, love, and life. Red titled wrappers (recycled by studio from a previous wrapper) with the film title noted in holograph ink. Title page present, dated April...
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Vintage press photograph from 1934. Verso with typescript snipe, press engraving order, "10/4/34" holograph notation in ink and holograph annotations in pencil. Holograph annotations in pencil, ink and paint on recto regarding layout. Paramount Pictures press photo of Parker and Campbell, shortly after being signed, Parker as a screenwriter and Campbell as a screenwriter and...
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1986. First Edition. Number 41 in Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets series. Pasolini illuminates an impoverished Italian culture. Italian and English text. Very Good plus overall, with foxing to both book and dust jacket.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1989. Softcover, published three years after the original 1986 hardcover edition, though no printing statement is present. Number 41 in Ferlinghetti's Pocket Poets series. Pasolini illuminates an impoverished Italian culture. Italian and English text. Very Good plus, with light foxing at the extremities.
Los Angeles: Selznick International Pictures / Vanguard Films, 1946. An archive of 3 scripts relating to an unproduced film version of "Joan of Arc" developed by Selznick International Pictures and Vanguard Films. The archive includes: Early partial treatment (but complete as issued) for an unproduced film, "Joan of Arc," written for the screen by Ben Hecht. The treatment ends with Joan...
New York: Emanuel Azenberg, 1984. Third Draft script for the 1985 play. First performed at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, from December 8, 1984 to February 2, 1985, and then at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, from February 6 through March 9, 1985. Debuted on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 28, 1985, closing n June...
Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, 2001. First Edition. One of 10 numbered copies (this being No. 9) SIGNED by both Schulberg and author Nicholas Beck. This copy is additionally INSCRIBED by Beck on the title page: "For Jim Butler / With gratitude for your friendship / Nick Beck / 17 Nov 2001." Fine in blue cloth with no dust jacket as issued.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1976. Vintage borderless photograph of Robert De Niro and Jodi Foster on the set of the 1976 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A film that would prove to be the turning point in the careers of director Martin Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, and one that has...
N.p. N.p., 1985. Revised Draft script for the 1985 play. Copy belonging to Peter Mark Richman, who played the character of Lewis in this production, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper and annotations throughout in holograph ink. The story of a screenwriter living in Los Angeles who can not seem to finish any screenplays, and thus...
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Southern to noted producer Si Litvinoff on the front endpaper: "To Seymour and Joy with greatest admiration / Terry Southern." The two men collaborated on an unproduced version of "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), to be produced by Litvinoff and adapted for the screen by Southern, based on the 1962 novel by...
N.p. N.p., circa 1970. One page, typescript, with a couple of typeover corrections. A fascinating muse of Southern's crafting of the "Easy Rider," screenplay, focusing on how he actually wrote Jack Nicholson's role for Rip Torn, with a detailed explanation of why Torn did not ultimately fill the role. Full provenance available on request. Blank office stock, recto only, 8.5...
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N.p. N.p., circa 1979. Composite typescript by Terry Southern, with paste-ups, white-outs, holograph corrections, etc. 5 pages, complete and unpublished. An outline for a film version of Southern's novel, "Blue Movie." The film outline appears to be unique and unpublished, a parallel piece of sorts to "Outline for Blue Movie," an essay about the novel (not the film version), written in.....
New York: Francis Productions, Inc, circa 1968. First Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to Frank Perry, with his name in red holograph ink on the title page. Perry considered making the film, but it was ultimately directed by Christian Marquand. This draft is credited solely to Southern, though Buck Henry was ultimately given full credit for the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Draft script for the 1965 film, based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh, legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Deluxe working script belonging to uncredited crew member William Todd Mason, with his name and phone number in holograph ink on the title page, and some brief penciled annotations on three pages...
London and Los Angeles: MGM / Filmways, circa 1965. Vintage still photograph of noted screenwriter Terry Southern with British actor John Gielgud on the set of Tony Richardson's seminal 1965 black comedy, "The Loved One." On the verso is a printed ditto-style mimeo description of the shot and a blurb for the film. "The Loved One" has always been overshadowed...
N.p. Self published, Circa 1990. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film, an original story written by Terry Southern and two co-writers. A story set in South America, about a "mad scientist" experimenting on animals, and eventually people. Animal rights, Greek Mythology, and an ending involving a depiction of Goya's famous painting, "Saturn Devouring His Children," as well as a....
Hollywood: Hal Wallis Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1961. Revised Final Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging a member of the crew, with profuse annotations in holograph red pencil throughout, mostly underlining sections of narrative, with a few additions. Starring actors and actress' names on the front wrapper verso in holograph ink. Based on Ronald Kirkbride's 1959 novel (also...
Los Angeles: Springfield Productions, circa 1957. Original story treatment script for an unproduced 1957 film by legendary screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, based on an idea by producer Alec March, with screenwriter Ben Perry fronting the script for the blacklisted Trumbo. Written in the prose style of most treatments. Trumbo bought out the rights of March and Perry, and sold the film...
Los Angeles: Cinemation Industries, 1968. Final Draft script for the 1971 film, "Johnny Got His Gun," directed and adapted for the screen by Dalton Trumbo, and starring Timothy Bottoms, Donald Sutherland, and Donald Barry. Based on the 1939 novel by Trumbo, about a horribly disabled World War I veteran, which the acclaimed screenwriter tried for most of his career to...
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1939. Final Script for the 1939 film, "Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence," directed by Ricardo Cortez, adapted from a story by Dalton Trumbo, written for the screen by Leonard Hoffman and Ben Grauman Kohn (though Trumbo is not credited here), and starring Glenn Ford, Nicholas Conte, Jean Rogers, and Ward Bond. In his feature film...
New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1955. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration and love from Carl / Christmas, 1955 / New York."...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1940 film. Mimeo blurb and distributor rubber-stamp on the verso. An American reporter (Gable) in Moscow smuggles out uncensored news under the alias "Comrade X," but his secret is soon discovered. An informant fears for the safety of his daughter (Lamarr) and blackmails the reporter into helping her...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1953. American one sheet film poster for the classic 1953 romantic comedy, "Roman Holiday," directed by William Wyler, written for the screen by Dalton Trumbo (writing under the front Ian McLellan Hunter), and starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, and Eddie Albert. Near Fine condition, 27 x 41 inches (105 x 89 cm), linen-backed and rolled.