California: Elliott-Shelton Films, 1953. Vintage US one-sheet poster for the 1953 film. A young boy (Courtney) is befriended by a horse trainer (Woods), who has the boy train a new horse for an upcoming, albeit fixed, race. Written for screen by Adele Buffington, a major proponent of using original screenplays during the silent film era, whose credits extend to over...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1931. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1931 film. Featuring Madge Evans and Lew Cody comparing binoculars while a very young and not yet famous Clark Gable smiles over their shoulders. Mimeograph snipe on the verso. Based on the short story "Horse Flesh" by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, published in the "Saturday Evening Post"...
New York: Random House, 2001. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Here under the working title "Dark Horse: The Legend of Seabiscuit." Basis for the 2003 film starring Jeff Bridges and Tobey Maguire, nominated for seven Academy Awards. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers.
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, Circa 1937. Vintage black-and-white reference press photograph from the 1937 film. The photograph features child star Jane Withers, prolific child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, and her pet lamb, Snowdrop. Ditto-style mimeo snipe on the verso. Checkers (Withers) and a horse trainer named Edgar (Erwin), save a racehorse by mending its broken leg and entering...
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1962. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe once affixed to the verso (detached but present). Featured is Nita Talbot, who played "Saturday Knight" in the film. Based on Alexander Rose's 1960 novel, "Four Horse Players Are Missing." Steve (Martin) is a horse-race better whose habits get the better of him, so his...
N.p. N.p., circa 1940. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Two brothers with a patchy relationship both end up becoming competent jockeys, and one who had previously slighted the other throws the important race so the other can win. Self wrappers, with integral title page present, showing credits for screenwriter Pinkham. 9 leaves, original typescript. Pages Very Good plus bound...
N.p. N.p., 1944. Agency Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the story by George Agnew Chamberlain that first appeared in Collier's Weekly on May 27, 1939. The daughter of a well known racehorse owner falls for the son of another owner, currently down and out, and their relationship hinges on the success of the young man's new wildcard...