N.p. N.p., 1944. Draft script for the 1946 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter, bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design, with Hunter's name on the front board. Veteran actor Curd Jurgens begins to have feelings for a......
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1946. Rainbow Revision Draft script for the 1947 film. Presentation copy belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Holograph pencil annotations on three pages. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. First Draft script in two volumes for the 1976 television miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board of each volume. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's fastidious novel. The laboriously researched story follows the happenings.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Copy lacking last part of Sequence "C" and Sequence "D," possibly due to reports that multiple endings had been considered and filmed, due to the uncertain.....
N.p. N.p., 1943. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Bound in before the title page is a handwritten note (not in Bendix's hand) reading, "Bendix Played 'Danny' / Blaine " Bonnie." Laid in is a small typescript note.....
Universal City, CA: Republic Pictures / Pax Films / Universal Pictures, 1943, 1961. Forrest J. Ackerman's copy of scripts from two key science fiction films, bound together (including original front wrappers) in red buckram, with Ackerman's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. "The Lady and the Monster": Shooting script for the 1944 film. The.....
N.p. Osmond Television, Circa 1976. Final script for the seventh episode of season two of the 1975-1979 television series, which originally aired on November 5, 1976. Presentation copy belonging to noted African American television actor Haywood Nelson, with his name on the front binder and his holograph ink annotations to page 130. The series typically featured a combination of musical performances.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Draft script for the 1966 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore, bound in full red leather, with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in, and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds, on the verso of the first leaf in holograph ink, is "Juanita, I Love.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Revised Final script for the 1950 film. Bound presentation belonging to producer Sol C. Siegel with his name in gilt on the front board. With 53 studio still photographs tipped in throughout, four pages of retakes and added scenes tipped in at the rear, as well as a number of holograph annotations, primarily denoting the.....
Burbank, CA: Artanis Productions, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film, dated 2/15/65. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill, with his name in gilt on the front board, bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design. Housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. A bored husband and wife visit Mexico on their anniversary, where.....
N.p. Frankovich Productions, 1970. Final Shooting script for the 1971 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Jackie Cooper, bound in full tan leather, with gilt titles and rule, and Cooper's name in gilt to the bottom right corner of the front board. Title page with annotations in holograph pen and marker along top margin of copy number "19," and, in.....
Santa Ana, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1942. Final Draft screenplay for the 1942 film. Copy belonging to legendary screenwriter Dudley Nichols, inscribed by Nichols to Los Angeles Times film critic Phil Scheuer on the title page: "By Dudley Nichols / Confidential! / For Phil Scheuer from D. Nichols—with admiration." Nichols' ownership name is also in holograph pencil at the top.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Draft script for an English-language stage adaptation of Jean Renoir's 1960 French play that was ultimately produced as a televised stage production on the series program "Hollywood Television Theater" on WNET in New York, on February 3, 1973. The production starred Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer, and was produced by Norman Lloyd. Presentation copy, inscribed by Renoir.....
Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Revised Shooting script for the 1956 film. Based on the 1945 novel by Jessamyn West, written for the screen by Jessamyn West, Robert Wyler, and Michael Wilson (though only West and Wyler are credited here) and starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, and Anthony Perkins. Interestingly, Michael Wilson, who was ultimately granted sole screenwriting credit on.....
N.p. N.p., 1944. Final Draft script for the 1945 film. Presentation copy belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley,".....
N.p. N.p., 1945. Revised Final Draft script for the 1947 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in.....
N.p. N.p., 1942. Draft script for the 1943 film. Presentation copy belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. Bound in before the script is a fifteen page shooting schedule, along with an unusual two page story flow map, charting time of day, weather, special effects, terrain, location, and synopsis.....
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N.p. N.p., 1945. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1946 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley.....
Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Top Gun Productions, 1959-1961. Archive of 26 scripts from the early revisionist television Western, the working copies of producer Michael Kraike, consisting the second half of the first season (1959-1960) and the first half of the second season (1960-1961). These two halves are in two full red leather presentation bindings, each with Kraike's.....
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N.p. N.p., 1942. Draft script for the 1943 film. Presentation copy belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and release title in gilt on spine. Seen here under the working title "Redheads are Dangerous." William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the.....
Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Third Revised Final Draft script for the pilot of an 1976 unproduced television series. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board. A comedy about the house hold of a 45 year old widowed man with two daughters, ages 12 and 20, who is remarried to a woman just a......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Final shooting script for the 1981 film "Death Hunt," directed by Peter Hunt and starring Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board, and is INSCRIBED on the first blank by producer Albert S. Ruddy: "Lee / Thank.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1972. Final Shooting script for the 1973 film. The script supervisor's heavily annotated copy (with photocopied annotations), here as a presentation copy belonging to director and producer Philip D'Antoni, bound in full blue leather, with titles and rule in gilt, and D'Antoni's name in gilt to the bottom right corner of the front board. With D'Antoni's.....
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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles on the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's ownership.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith, with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board, bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves, all featuring Smith and costar, Paul Henreid. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic 1915 novel.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1941. Draft script for the 1942 film, in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine. William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor who is best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriarchs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Philip D'Antoni, bound in full blue leather, with gilt titles and rule, and D'Antoni's name in gilt to the bottom right corner of the front board. D'Antoni was a major figure in 1970s New Hollywood Cinema, as the producer of "Bullitt" (1968), "The.....