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.....
N.p. N.p., 1940. Vintage double weight publicity photograph of Josephine Baker from 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 the studio insignia of photographer Murray Korman in white at the bottom right corner. Ziegfeld Follies was a musical.....
![New Portuguese Letters [Parto] (Original script for the 1974 play). Maria Isabel Barreno, Gilda...](/pictures/thumb/147506.jpg?v=1588403897)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play, here under its working title, "Parto." With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly by proofreading. Text in English. Based on the groundbreaking Portuguese feminist work, a compilation of letters, poems, puzzles, and excerpts written by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972. The.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 Broadway musical, which premiered at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances through February 12, 1949. An unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the character of Tommy Keeler, with the character name on the front wrapper, and containing only the.....
New York: N.p., 1957. Vintage double weight photograph of Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence from the original 1957 production of the Broadway musical, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 and ran for 732 performances, closing on June 27, 1959. Stamps crediting photographer Fred Fehl and the Winter Garden production on the verso. Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut.....
New York: Philip Rose, 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered at the Longacre Theatre on January 4, 1977 and played for 70 performances, closing on March 5, 1977, with annotations on two pages in holograph pencil and marker highlighting dialogue. Professional race car driver Bobby Horvath returns to his hometown after eight years away and reminisces on his.....
![R.U.R. [Rossum's Universal Robots] (Original playbill for the 1942 Broadway revival). Karel...](/pictures/thumb/152269.jpg?v=1617054675)
New York: Playbill, 1942. Vintage playbill for the 1942 Broadway play. Front wrapper illustration by Albert Hirschfeld, SIGNED by Hirschfeld in holograph ink to the front wrapper on the bottom right corner. The first fictional work to introduce the word “robot” and expand on the concept, originally performed in Czech at the Prague National Theatre in 1921. The play made.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered March 2,1977, at the Little Theatre, for only 6 performances, closing on March 6, 1977. Copy belonging to director and producer Charles Grodin, whose name, address, and phone number are printed on the bottom of the title page. A comedy about a man who comes home to find his.....
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 and Arthur Cantor, Circa 1961. Draft script for the 1961 play. Brief annotations 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: Lyceum Theatre, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play. The play ran at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City from December 29, 1977 until June 4, 1978, for a total of 180 performances. A man who works in the financial sector of New York meets a cancer-stricken Armenian in a rooftop garden of a hospital. The.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Vintage reference photograph from the 1956 film, showing actors Jacques D'Amboise and Sheree North in a deep dancer's dip. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with holograph pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the careers of Broadway songwriting trio DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, who rose to popularity in the early 20th century. Set in.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1944. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1944 film, showing actors George Murphy, Ginny Simms, and Tommy Dorsey. With a small printed snipe affixed to the verso. Loosely based on the 1939 musical play "Very Warm for May" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. A retired vaudevillian clashes with his son, a successful Broadway producer.....
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.....
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1947-1948. Draft script for an unknown touring version, circa 1947-1948, of the stage musical originally produced on Broadway. In Tams-Witmark wrappers, a duplicating service associated with scripts printed for touring stage productions. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, Donald Burr, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page and annotations to.....
New York: Richard Fields/Peter Flood, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play, which premiered on February 6, 1973, with a short run of 31 performances, closing on March 3, 1973. Minor annotations in holograph pencil on a few pages in second act of script, with two pages showing extensive annotations which have been partially erased but are mostly still plainly.....
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 annotations 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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Vintage double weight narrow margin matte finish promotional press photograph of Henry Fonda and Anne Bancroft from the 1958 play, by photographer Howell Conant. Three "Two for the Seesaw," and one "Photo by Howell Conant" stamps on verso. "Two for the Seesaw" opened on January 16, 1958 at the Booth Theatre for a highly successful run.....
New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1959. Vintage script for the 1959 musical, which debuted on October 22 at the Shubert Theatre. Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1933 play "Ah, Wilderness." A light comedy following the romantic misadventures of a family in Connecticut in the early 20th century. The musical ran for 448 performances, and was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning.....
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.....
New York: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play, which premiered at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 6, 1977, then moving to the Belasco Theatre on April 12, 1977 and closing on June 11, 1977 for a total of 122 performances. Copy belonging to actor Jim Staskel, who was a stand-in for Kenneth McMillan's character.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1933. Vintage studio still photograph of John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Walter Connolly, from the 1933 film. Based on the 1932 play by screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which itself was based on the unproduced play "Napoleon of Broadway" by Charles Bruce Millholland. An egomaniacal theatre impressario attempts to manipulate everyone around him to.....
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 1975. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on October 26 at the ANTA Playhouse. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Playwright William Inge's rewrite of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1953 play "Picnic," about an attractive young drifter whose arrival into a small town inadvertently causes upheaval among its residents. Although "Summer Brave" was.....
New York: Wiliam Mishkin Motion Pictures, 1965. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1965 film. With a provenance stamp on the verso. Three theatre bigwigs discuss their most recent project, prominently featuring aspiring actress Liz Adams, who has slept her way to the top of the Broadway money chain. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which premiered on May 1 at the Morosco Theatre in New York. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page. Basis for the 1988 film, directed by Matt Clark. In 1968, a young expatriate writer returns to his childhood home in Dalkey after the death of his adoptive father.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1951. Vintage script for the 1951 musical play. Copy belonging to cast member Steve Elmore, who was an uncredited understudy or replacement in the role of Sandy, with his name and character's name in holograph ink and pencil to the title page, and several substantive holograph pencil annotations throughout. Basis for the 1969 film, made 18 years later.....
![Lily in Love [Playing for Keeps] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film). Karoly Makk, Frank...](/pictures/thumb/150038.jpg?v=1605165966)
New York: Robert Halmi Productions, 1983. Fifth Draft script for the 1984 film, seen here under the working title "Playing for Keeps." With copied holograph annotations and holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout, most noting scene numbers. After being told by his playwright wife that he is too old for the lead role in her latest production, an aging actor.....
N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 play, which premiered on May 3 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the subtlety and accuracy of its indictments. Set in Los Angeles. Pink titled wrappers, with.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 musical play, which premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 19, 1975. The origins of jazz told through the ersatz romance of a would-be trumpeter and a young black brothel worker. Set in New Orleans and Chicago. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, with book credits for Buster Davis and Paul Carter.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5, 1974 for 177 performances, closing on October 5, 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page, and on cast page for "Ravenswood," the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits," listing names adjacent to the characters. Two one act.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1956. Vintage photograph from a rehearsal for the 1956 London premiere with playwright Arthur Miller, theater director Peter Brook, and actors Anthony Quayle and Mary Ure. Snipe and "Sunday Telegraph," "The Daily Telegraph" and "Keystone Press Agency Ltd" stamps on the verso. "A View from the Bridge" debuted as a one-act play on Broadway on September 9, 1955 at.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977, at the John Golden Theatre, directed by Mike Nichols. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Actor Hume Cronyn's copy, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page. Noted as.....
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.....
New York: The Producers Theatre, 1954. Archive of 14 vintage photographs from the 1954 play. Eleven with "The Flowering Peach" stamps, two with photographer "Gene Cook" stamps, and two with photographer "Louis Melacon" stamps on verso. Laid in is an announcement of the premiere and an invitation to the play, both on Broadway producer and publicist Barry Hyams letterhead, the.....
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.....
New York: Harvey Sabison, 1961. Collection of five vintage borderless photographs from the 1961 play, four by photographer Sam Siegel, and one by Michael Boys. Mimeo snipe on verso of two, "Sam Siegel" stamp on verso of four, and "Michael Boys" and "Theatre World" stamp on verso of one. "The Caretaker" opened at the Lyceum Theatre on October 4, 1961.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered at the Ambassador Theatre in New York on January 8. With a single holograph pencil annotation (phone number for a cast or crew member) on the title page. A group of black inmates try to survive amidst dehumanizing treatment and discrimination by their captors and other inmates at a......
N.p. N.p., 2003. Archive of material from the 2003 musical, including three rehearsal scripts dated 7/29/03, 3/31/03, and 10/23/03, with various production materials bound in, including sheet music, production schedules, and cast and crew contact information. Two scripts noted as belonging to uncredited cast member Walter O'Neil, with his holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, noting blocking and staging directions.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1990. Vintage script for the 1990 US production of the 1987 British play, which made its US debut at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 13, 1990. Noted as copy No. 5 in holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper and title page, with holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout the script. Accompanying the script are a......
New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations 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.....
New York: Frissell and Macdonald Productions, Circa 1976. Draft script for the 1976 play, which premiered on May 18, 1976 at the Little Theatre for a run of 396 performances, closing on October 30, 1978, copy number "#13" written in holograph marker on top right of title page. Inspired by the August 1907 murder of Sr. Mary Janina Mezek. Named best.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, UK on November 6. Copy No. 61 notated in holograph pencil on the title page. An overweight young woman decides to drastically change her figure with the help of her quirky roommates after a one-night encounter with a potential suitor. Followed by a New.....
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.....
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 annotations in holograph pencil on the verso of one.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1955. Vintage script for the 1955 Broadway play, which debuted at the Morosco Theatre on March 24 and ran for 700 performances. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their holograph pencil annotations to virtually every page, noting stage blocking and deletions. One of Tennessee Williams' most successful works, about the deeply dysfunctional family of a dying.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage reference photograph of choreographer and director of musical numbers, Herbert Ross, with a line of 15 girls in bikinis, from the casting of the 1968 film. Ross had previously worked with Streisand in her Broadway debut, in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" (1962). 1967 "Columbia Pictures Corp." stamp on verso. Based.....
N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on April 5. Noted in holograph ink as Copy No. 5 on the title page. Five steely Texan women battle for control of the Alamo, a regional theatre complex, beginning when the wealthy Chairman of the Board reveals her plans to oust.....