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".....
![A Fine Mess [The Music Box] (Original screenplay for the 1986 film). Blake Edwards, Howie Mandel...](/pictures/thumb/148722.jpg?v=1590815272)
Los Angeles: Blake Edwards Entertainment, Circa 1985. Draft script for the 1986 film, here under the working title "The Music Box." The second page of the script is a statement from Blake Edwards expressing his intent of utilizing "broad improvisation," and leaving the concise script with relatively minimal dialogue. Noted in the AFI Catalog. Inspired by the classic, and Academy Award.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1978. Collection of 13 vintage black and white reference photographs, 6 vintage color studio still photographs, 5 vintage studio still photographs, 2 vintage black and white borderless reference photographs, and 1 color reference photograph from the 1978 film. Several of the photographs are candid shots taken on the set of the film. The sequel to "National.....
![Ride, Kelly, Ride [Corncob Kelly's Benefit] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film). Norman...](/pictures/thumb/148708.jpg?v=1591673662)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1940. Final Draft script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Corncob Kelly's Benefit." Production No. 301 and copy No. 105 rubber stamped on front wrapper, with FINAL printed at the top right corner of same. Single annotation, in holograph pencil, of two names on verso of page 119. Eight blue revision pages follow.....
London: Michael Joseph, 1957. UNCORRECTED PROOF for the First UK Edition, preceding all other editions. Rare. Very Good plus in publisher's card wrappers, with light soil to the wrappers and moderately foxed page edges.
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. First Draft script for the 1958 film with single "?" notation in holograph pencil. Good-guy Max (Tom Ewell) and mooch Gus (Mickey Rooney) are horse-race loving pals whose lives are going nowhere. Desperate, they turn to bank robbery and actually pull it off. Using the money to buy a race horse, their bookie pal Rocky.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Hollywood Studio, 1936. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1936 film. Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone, with his holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and a typed note addressed to Humberstone from producer J.E. Grainger laid in with the script. Based on the detective novel series created in 1925 by author Earl Derr Biggers. The twelfth.....