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.... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1936. Final Draft script for the 1936 film. Quarter-bound red leather Presentation script belonging to executive producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with his name in gilt on the front board. Bound throughout are ten black-and-white stills from the film, backed with paper. Based on Harry Hamilton's 1936 novel. Ernie Holley (McCrea) believes he killed a guest at... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Artanis Productions, 1965. Final Draft script for the 1965 film. Presentation copy belonging to actor Tony Bill, bound in full maroon calf with gilt titles and design, Bill's name on the front board, California Bookbinding (Hollywood) label on the front pastedown, housed in a matching maroon cloth-covered slipcase as issued. Dan (Sinatra) and his wife Valerie (Kerr) go... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1934. Final script for the 1935 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Partos, bound in red leather with gilt titles. An early Cary Grant picture, in which he plays a pilot who goes blind just as he is perfecting an autopilot system for use on planes. He is deeply affected by the loss of his vision, and... (read more)
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... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1954. Final shooting script for the 1955 film, "Target Zero," directed by Harmon Jones, written for the screen by James Warner Bellah and Sam Rolfe, and starring Richard Conte, Charles Bronson, and a young Chuck Connors. This is producer David Weisbart's bound presentation copy, including a staff and cast list with contact phone numbers and a.... (read more)
Hollywood: RKO Radio Pictures, 1939. Bound presentation script for the 1939 film, based on the 1933 short story by Gordon Malherbe Hillman originally published in "American Magazine." SIGNED by members of the cast and crew, including stars John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, and Donald McBride, director Garson Kanin, screenwriter John Twist, and producers Cliff Reid and Pandro S. Berman... (read more)
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1962. Final script for the 1963 film. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front boards. Number three of the four "Tammy Films," Tammy (Sandra Dee) accompanies her older friend Annie Call (Beulah Bondi) on a trip to Los Angeles where Tammy strikes up a romance with one of the doctors... (read more)
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 notations, primarily denoting the... (read more)
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... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Final shooting script for the 1956 film, based on the radio and television series of the same name. Producer David Weisbart's bound presentation copy, including a staff and cast list with contact phone numbers and a page describing the central characters in detail. The film version of "Our Miss Brooks" capped several years of a.... (read more)
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... (read more)
![Song of the Eagle [The Beer Story] (Original screenplay for the 1933 film, producer Harry Joe Brown's presentation copy, with stills and notations throughout). Ralph Murphy, Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker, Charles R. Rogers, Harry Joe Brown, Richard Arlen Charles Bickford, director, screenwriters, producers, starring.](/pictures/thumb/131504A.jpg?v=1418080813)
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 to the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's ownership... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1949. Temporary Script for the 1950 film (here under its working title, "Two Corridors East"). Actor Paul Douglas' presentation copy, bound in blue calf with 10 reference photos from the film bound in throughout. A semi-documentary film about the Berlin Airlift during World War II, told through the eyes of two soldiers, one with a seething... (read more)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1969. Third Revision script for the 1969 television special, originally broadcast on November 5, 1969 on CBS. Presentation script belonging to uncredited production manager Gary Necessary, with his name and the title stamped on the front board of the custom spring binding. With holograph notations throughout delineating the pages of the script by acts... (read more)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1966. Final Draft script for the 1966 television special. Ed McMahon's presentation copy, with his name in gilt on the front board. McMahon served as the show's announcer. The second of five annual television specials by Frank Sinatra, after his departure from Columbia and the founding of Reprise Records saw him more in control... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Eagle Associates / Orion Pictures, 1983. Third Draft script (and Final Shooting script) for the 1983 film, "Gorky Park," based on the 1981 novel by Martin Cruz Smith. Actor Lee Marvin's leather-bound presentation copy from director Michael Apted and producer Howard W. Koch, Jr., bound in maroon leather, with Marvin's name in gilt at the bottom right corner... (read more)
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... (read more)