N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced play. A musical dramatization of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lyricist John Briley was best known for the 1982 musical "Gandhi," for which Briley won an Academy Award. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks".....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Collection of five vintage black-and-white photographs of members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference marching in Richmond, Virginia in 1963. With holograph annotations in pencil and ink to the verso. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's seventh annual convention occurred from September 24 to September 27 at Virginia Union University. Martin Luther King Jr., who was one of the.....
N.p. American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1970 film. With an American International Pictures stamp to the verso, alongside a cello-taped mimeograph snipe. Featuring a "black militant" being forcibly removed from the room by actor Larry Hagman, while Harlene Jones and Judy Pace look on. A lighthearted comedy in which a man (Wes Stern) who.....
N.p. N.p., Circa early 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced film. A lurid yet touching tale of a white man whose perceptions of cultural normativity are broken when he encounters an African American pimp in Depression-era Hollywood, the two becoming lifelong friends and sharing the trials of the era in which their friendship is forbidden. Goldenrod titled wrappers, with credits.....