London: The Rank Organization, 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing director-actor Albert Finney. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of The Rank Organization. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A wealthy, famous English writer with working class roots is forced to reconnect with his emotions and sense.....
Buckinghamshire: British Lion Film Corporation, 1964. Draft script for the 1964 film. Based on the 1960 novel of the same title by Douglas Hayes. A middle-aged stage actor moves from a conservative life in the provinces to the very center of Swinging London and tries to revitalize his career by performing in commercials. Set in London, shot on location there.....
N.p. Cafe Au Pere de Nico, 1956-1974. An archive of 80 daily menus from Cafe Au Pere de Nico in Chelsea, London, signed by visiting luminaries from world leaders to icons of the entertainment world, displayed for in the cafe for nearly two decades between 1956 and 1974. Together with a sketch by Paul Winner of the restaurant’s interior, inscribed.....
Burbank, CA: Warner-Pathe, 1965. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1965 British film, and one vintage photograph of actors Monica Vitti and Dirk Bogarde at the film's premiere in London in September 1965. Four with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A cynical look at Swinging London, about.....
London: The Rank Organization, Circa 1965. Collection of six vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1965 film, showing actors Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, and one with the stamps of The Rank Organization and the Israel Film Archive. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. In Swinging London, a married fashion.....
UK: Jospeh Janni Productions, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph on the set of the 1965 film, showing director John Schlesinger and stars Julie Christie, Laurence Harvey, and Dirk Bogarde relaxing between takes. With the stamp of distributor the Rank Organization on the verso. A cynical look at Swinging London, about a fashion model who sleeps her way into high society, only.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1966 film. A split still showing Vitti in two different guises, as a brunette spy and as a seductive blonde who is actually a brunette spy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Collection of eight vintage borderless reference photographs and one vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film. Based on the British comic strip which originally appeared in 1963. Modesty Blaise, a former criminal mastermind occasionally employed by the Secret Service, must protect a shipment of diamonds en route to a small Middle Eastern kingdom from a......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Two vintage reference photographs of Monica Vitti from the 1966 film. One with cropping annotations in holograph red and graphite pencil and "Modesty Blasie" stamp on verso. Based on the British comic strip which originally appeared in 1963. Modesty Blaise, a former criminal mastermind occasionally employed by the Secret Service, must protect a shipment of diamonds.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1966 UK film. Featuring a very relaxed Michael Caine, laying across the laps of his four female costars (Vivien Merchant, Jane Asher, Julia Foster, and Shelley Winters) between takes. Tipped-on snipe humorously describing Michael Caine's interest in the opposite sex on the verso. Based on Naughton's 1966 play.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white borderless still photographs from the 1966 UK film. Press photos, with cropping annotations in the British style (millimeters) on the verso of one still, and a stamp on the verso of the other still. Based on Naughton's 1966 play, about a young man from the working classes of sexy, swinging 1960s London, Alfie.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Collection of 20 vintage borderless photographs from the 1966 film, 18 reference photographs and 2 fashion photographs of Rosaleen Murray and Ann Norman. Mimeo snipes on the verso of three of the photographs. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film, marking the beginning of the final.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Vintage borderless double weight photograph of Michelangelo Antonioni on the set of the 1966 film, with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "J. P. Berthome" on verso. Inspired by the 1959 short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Julio Cortazar. Michelangelo Antonioni's first English-language film, marking the beginning of the final phase of his work, co-produced by.....
London: Columbia British Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1970 British film. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe's name written and underlined in holograph ink on the title page, as well as an encircled "71" in red holograph marker. Based on Janice Elliott's 1967 novel about cousins born on the same day to twin sisters. Inseparable and maybe in love they agree to.....
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N.p. N.p., 1961. Draft script, on yellow leaves, for the 1961 British film musical, and souvenir 45 rpm record with slipcase from the December 13 1961 World Premiere at the Warner Theatre in London's West End. Script noted as "Copy No. 2" on front label with simple annotations in holograph pencil and ink throughout script. Released in the US as.....
Paris: Les Films Marceau, circa 1968. Three Draft scripts for the 1969 film by three different screenwriters. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks" (Arthur Penn, 1976), and “Heat” (Michael Mann, 1996). The first script is an undated draft script by screenwriter George Bluestone, who previously.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1965. Vintage borderless photograph of actor-screenwriter Woody Allen and actress Paula Prentiss on the set of the 1965 film. With holograph pencil annotations on the verso. Woody Allen's film debut as both actor and screenwriter, a movie that Allen today describes as "dreadful" but one that was a box office smash at the time. A soon-to-be-married womanizer.....