New York: Billy Rose Theatre, 1962. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the original Broadway production of the 1962 play at the Billy Rose Theatre. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" debuted on Oct. 13, 1962 and ran until May 16, 1964, for a total of 664 performances. The play swept the Tony awards that year, winning Best Play...
New York: Sabinson, 1969. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1969 Broadway play, written by and starring Woody Allen, as well as Allen's first production with a young Diane Keaton. Each photo with a mimeograph snipe on the verso crediting photographer Leo Stern and the Sabinson Agency, along with a credits blurb. "Play It Again, Sam" was...
New York: Sabinson, 1969. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1969 Broadway play, written by and starring Woody Allen, as well as Allen's first production with a young Diane Keaton. "Play It Again, Sam" was the third play by Woody Allen to be staged on Broadway (following "From A to Z" in 1960 and "Don't Drink the Water" in 1966)...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1940s. Archive of seven vintage photographs showing both the interior and exterior of the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center in New York City. The theatre was demolished 1954, the only one of the original buildings at Rockefeller Center to have been removed since its construction. The exterior shots show include the marquee, advertising the 1939 Broadway play...
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker for the 1936 Broadway musical, Ziegfeld Follies. INSCRIBED by Baker in black marker on the recto: "Mademoiselles / Sunny Templeman / With best wishes from / Josephine Baker / 1940." With a studio insignia for Murray Corman photography studio in New York in white at the bottom right corner. Ziegfeld...
New York: ANTA Playhouse, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 Broadway play, "A Man for All Seasons." William Redfield's copy, though not noted as such on the script. The play premiered at the Globe Theatre in London in 1960, then made its Broadway debut at the ANTA Playhouse on Nov 22, 1961, running for a total of 637 performances. The...
New York: Arthur Cantor and E.E. Fogelson, 1963. Draft script for the 1964 Broadway play. INSCRIBED by Chayefsky to the play's producer, Kip Cohen on the title page in the year prior to the play's debut: "Nov 9/63 / To Kip Cohen / Without whom there would be no 'Passion of' / Paddy." "The Passion of Josef D." opened at...
New York: Fred Coe & Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief notations in holograph pencil and ink on the title page. Chayefsky's play previewed on Broadway on November 8, 1961, opened the following day, an for over 200 performances, and closed on June 2, 1962. He was nominated for a Tony Award, as were producers...
New York: Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1983. Original full-color program for the 1983 Broadway play. Laid in is another program, detailing a song list and brief biography. Performances by Charles Aznavour, the French-Armenian singer-songwriter, actor, and public activist. The play opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 3/14/83 and ran for fourteen performances, closing on 3/26/83. Other performers included Peter Lee (piano), Bob...
N.p. N.p., 1945. Set of three vintage photographs from the short-lived Broadway production of Du Maurier’s play, adapted from her novel, produced following the success of the 1940 film. The play ran at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre from January 8 to February 3, 1945, for a total of 20 performances. Each of the photographs is rubber stamped with a unique...
N.p., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 play. First presented at the Martinique Theatre, New York City, on October 28, 1959 running for 256 performances. Based on Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy of novels written between 1930 and 1937, turned dramatic revue by Paul Shyre and John Dos Passos. Shyre's adaptation consists of three actors and three actresses portraying a total...
1980. Draft script for the 1980 stage version of "Harold and Maude," adapted by Colin Higgins from his 1971 novel and screenplay. Actress Ruth Ford's copy, effusively inscribed to her on the title page by Higgins, actress Janet Gaynor (who played Maude, 23 years after her last film appearance), Keith McDermott (who played Harold), and director Robert Lewis. The film...
London: N.p., Circa 1953. Original typescript draft for the 1954 play. With brief holograph notations throughout, mostly by a proofreader. Laid in note addressed to Alec Clunes, manager of the Arts Theatre in London, submitting script for review. First performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London May 1954, and then again in the US at the ANTA Playhouse in New...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1973 film. Distributor rubber stamp on the verso. A modern retelling of the gospels of the Bible, set in modern New York (and a junkyard where Jesus is crucified). Based on Tebelak's 1971 book, and the 1973 Broadway play, and noted for its controversial costuming of religions figures...
Garden City: Doubleday, 1954. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the authors and members of the original Broadway cast, including star Cloris Leachman, to fellow actor Hilda Haynes, who played the role of Janiella in the production. From the estate of Hilda Haynes, with her ownership name in pencil to the front pastedown. Hilda Haynes was a pioneering African-American actress with extensive...
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N.p. N.p., circa 1968. Vintage black-and-white photograph of James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson in the 1968 Howard Sackler play "The Great White Hope." INSCRIBED by Jones to fellow actor Hilda Haynes, making reference to her role in the production as the mother to his character. From the estate of Hilda Haynes. Based on the life of heavyweight champion Jack...
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1981 film. Based on Neil Simon's 1971 play "The Gingerbread Lady." Playwright Neil Simon departed from his typical, light hearted comedic style when he wrote "The Gingerbread Lady." This drama, which netted three Academy Award nominations, follows the struggles of a alcoholic Broadway actress, whose attempt at sobriety...
New York: Music Theatre, Inc, circa 1960. Draft script for the 1965 play. Revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1958. Vintage black-and-white studio still photograph from the 1958 film. Featured is Doris Day and Richard Widmark in playful embrace. Based on Peter De Vries' 1958 novel, in turn based on his and Joseph Fields' Broadway play. The Pooles (Day, Widmark) have been trying to conceive for years, to no avail. They apply for adoption...
New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne. Outwardly, Anne is sweet and caring, but beneath her docile...
New York: Saint Subber / Belasco Theatre, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 play, which made its debut at the Belasco Theater on September 25th 1967, running for only eight shows over five days. A rare dramatic outing by the author of "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) and "The Stepford Wives" (1972) both adapted into iconic films. James Tennyson (Keir Dullea) returns...
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Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1935. Vintage pressbook for the French release of the 1935 film "Go Into Your Dance," seen here under the French title "Entrez dans la danse." Based on the 1934 novel by Bradford Ropes. The first and only on-screen pairing of husband and wife team Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, an unusual blend of musical and crime...
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released...
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1932. Vintage Draft script for an unproduced film called, "Party," written by Ivor Novello, produced for circulation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for purposes of script development, 1932. In MGM production wrappers. Included with the script is a nine-page synopsis, dated June 20, 1932, and rubber-stamped FILE COPY. The script is also rubber-stamped FILE COPY. Novello developed the...
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Very Good plus or better in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine slightly faded, boards briefly rubbed and mottled. Jacket extremities moderately toned, with light shelfwear, and a few short closed tears. Debuting on Broadway on Feb. 11, 1929, towards the end of the Nobel-winning playwright’s most prolific period, the original production...
N.p. N.p., 1941. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the Broadway premiere of Clifford Odets' dark social drama, set in Staten Island, this image showing leads Tallulah Bankhead and Joseph Schildkraut. On the verso is a very detailed mimeo snipe prominently mentioning Odets as the playwright, and stamped 12-25-41, two days prior to the opening of the play. The play ran.....
N.p. John Erwin, 1953. Two vintage oversize double weight photographs from the premiere of the 1953 play. Both photos feature a very young Louis Gossett (who later changed his stage name to Louis Gossett, Jr.), and one features African American actress and singer Maxine Sullivan. Both photos credit photographer John Erwin and the Lyceum Theatre in New York, as well...
New York: The Billy Rose Theatre, 1971. Original script for the 1971 play by Harold Pinter, for its Broadway premiere at the Billy Rose Theatre in New York. The play ran from November 16, 1971 to February 26, 1972 for 120 performances. "Old Times" made its debut in London at the Royal Shakespeare company earlier in 1971, and both the...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Two vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1964 UK film. A remake of Richard Thorpe's 1937 film noir antecedent, based on Emlyn Williams' Broadway play that opened in 1936 and ran for 64 performances. Mrs. Bramson (Washbourne) is a crotchety old lady who hires a handyman (Finney) to help around her isolated estate...
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With notations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing complications when he wants to make donations to her cause...
N.p. N.p., 1953. Original program for the notorious Broadway flop, "Carnival in Flanders." An interesting and rare piece documenting a directorial and writing effort from the strange final years of Sturges' career. The program was printed well prior to Sturges' arrival to the production--as a result, though the musical was never staged prior to his involvement, it still credits the.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1952. Revised Final Draft script for the 1954 film. Studio File Copy, rubber-stamped on the front wrapper. Three front wrappers are present, each with varying rubber-stamps to indicate different drafts, and each noting different directors: Thorpe (who received final credit), Mervyn LeRoy, and Curtis Bernhardt. Brief notations in holograph pencil on the verso of one...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Collection of 11 vintage single weight studio still photographs from 1962 (5 photos) and 1969 re-release (6 photos) of the 1954 film, under the title, "Student Prince." Starring actor Purdom, who played the prince, is prominently featured, sometimes sword fighting. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others. Based on the 1924...
New York: Stuart Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 Broadway musical. A series of three playlets tied together by themes, such as dissatisfaction with getting what one wants, and repeated references or design elements, such as the color brown. Each playlet based on an existing work, with the first act based on "The Diary of Adam and Eve" by...
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Circa 1946. Collection of 14 vintage black-and-white reference studio still photographs from the 1946 film. From the collection of actor Van Heflin, who played James I. Hessler in the film, in his personal tabbed file folder. A few stills show the actors behind the scenes, on-the-set, including one with director Whorf. Musical biopic of American...
New York: N.p., 1961. Exact Playing Version script for the original run of the 1960 Broadway play, dated January 1961. With a photograph of the cast onstage, inscribed by four members of the cast or crew to an unknown crew member laid in. Premiered November 10, 1960 and closed March 4, 1961, with a total of 132 performances at the...