N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel, which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown. 131 leaves, with last page of.....
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".....
Paris: Keystone, Circa 1956. Vintage borderless photograph of Nat King Cole at the piano in 1956. With a printed French mimeo snipe detailing an attack in Birmingham, Alabama affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Keystone photo. Cole, who was born in Montgomery, Alabama, was performing at the Municipal Auditorium for an all-white audience in Birmingham on April 10.....
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.....
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.....