Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. First Draft Continuity script (pre-production) for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to art director Joseph C. Wright, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Based on the 1946 semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward about a woman who suffers a psychological breakdown, and her long recovery at a......
Los Angeles: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to light in the late 2010s. Featuring actress Barbara Bach during.....
N.p. N.p., 1957. Oversize double weight photograph of screenwriter Ben Hecht standing with his boss, producer and mogul extraordinaire David O. Selznick, on a snow covered set in the Italian Alps during the 1957 filming of Selznick's "A Farewell to Arms." Based on the 1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway, directed by Charles Vidor, and starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones.....
New York: Filmmakers Newsletter / Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1967-1971. Archive of 41 issues of "Filmmakers Newsletter," dating from the first four years of the magazine, including Vol. I, issue 1. Early issues of the magazine are scarce, and putting together a collection of this size piecemeal would be prohibitively difficult. Founded in 1967 by experimental filmmaker Carl Linder as "New York.....
London: Secker and Warburg, 1969. UNCORRECTED PROOF, preceding the First Edition. Basis for Sam Peckinpah's violent 1971 film classic, Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, and a bunch of kill-crazy Devon townies, considered by many to be his finest directorial effort in a career that included many important films. Very Good in orange printed wrappers. Address label on the.....
Paris: Fox Europa, 1969. Vintage borderless photograph of Jean Gabin and Alain Delon from the 1969 neo-noir film. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1967 novel by Auguste Le Breton, about a small Mafia family planning to steal a collection of diamonds while being pursued by a police commission. With a film score by.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Collection of four striking vintage photographs from the 1957 US film. The stills demonstrate the practical effects and extraordinary sets constructed in order to make the picture—at a time when the special effects needed to visualize the world of a man reduced to being only a few inches were essentially nonexistent. A landmark science.....
Paris: Gaumont, 1947. Vintage photograph of director Jacques Becker and actor Claire Maffei on the set of the 1947 film. With holograph annotations and a rubber stamp on the verso. A working class couple in Paris find their dreams of a life free of financial hardship about to come true when they win the lottery, only to have the dream.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1970s. Vintage borderless photograph of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1970s. With photographer Robert Donat's rubber stamp on the verso. The famous couple first met on the set of "Slogan" in 1968. The following year they released the popular and controversial duet "Je t'aime... moi non plus." They were together for 13 years and had a child.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Three striking vintage photographs from the 1972 film, picturing variously director John Boorman, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, Jon Voight, and others working on location along the Cahulawassee River in Georgia, the setting for most of the film. A seminal entry in the early days of the New Hollywood cinema movement. As with "Point Blank" in 1967.....
N.p. N.p., 1959. Vintage photograph of Bob Newhart and Nat 'King' Cole on stage at the 1959 Grammy awards. The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded to Nat 'King' Cole for his song "Midnight Flyer." 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions, 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and this is a US draft of the script, noting the.....
Paris: Transcontinental Film Productions, 1961. Vintage borderless photograph of director Sidney Lumet, playwright Arthur Miller, and actors Ralf Vallone and Raymond Pellegrin on the set of the 1962 film. With the stamp of photographer Jacques Moreau, a mimeo snipe, and holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1955 play by Arthur Miller, about an unhappily married man whose obsession.....