La Gringa (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Peter Herald Dale Walley (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the amazing life of Agnes Salm-Salm, a woman born in Vermont who married the Prussian mercenary, Prince Felix Salm-Salm. This story focuses on their time in Mexico when Felix was fighting in defense of Maximilian I, the short lived Habsburg appointed Emperor of Mexico. Felix Salm-Salm... Read More
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Iffie (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Steven James Silva (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1979. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typed synopsis of the prospective film, with the copied signature of screenwriter Steven James Silva at the bottom. Stapled to the recto of the rear wrapper is a brown paper mailing envelope, ostensibly the one used to ship the script to its recipient. ... Read More
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The Whales (Original screenplay for an unproduced short film)
by Zack Kaplan (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 2002. Draft script for an unproduced film. A young woman discusses her problems with her mentally ill mother, her desire to save the whales, and her absent fiance in therapy—but all is not as it seems. White, lacking wrappers. Title page present, dated 3/16/02, noted as Rough Draft, with credits for screenwriter Zack Kaplan. 19... Read More
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South Pacific Women (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Jack Lewis (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1961. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from a producer, expressing regret about not working on the production. Single annotation on the title page, noting the address and signature of Ilse Lahn of the Paul Kohner Agency. A charter boat accepts a contract to go hunting for sharks while also... Read More
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The Ideale [Ideal] Wife (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Marc Werner (screenwriter)
Paris: Peri Productions, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film. Overcome with jealousy over her infidelity, a crime and mystery novel writer murders his dream woman and decides to frame her lover for the crime. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1982, with credits for screenwriter... Read More
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Arabella (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Stephen Kandel (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1966. Draft script for an unproduced film. Note laid in from agent Paul Kohner to Mel Tucker, dated June 23, 1966. A group of Nazis steal a truck of gold during the war, eventually hiding it in a cave on the Portuguese coast. Years later, a group of thieves begin looking for the loot. ... Read More
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My Personal Czech (Original treatment script for an unproduced television series)
by Robin Sanborn (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced television series. Laid in is a letter to agent Walter Kohner, and five pages relating to another unrelated and unproduced television program. After speaking very fondly about the Americans he met while traveling abroad, a chef is arrested by the KGB. Set in the Czech Republic. ... Read More
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Bella Donna (Original photograph of Pola Negri and George Fitzmaurice on the set of the 1923 film)
by Pola Negri (starring); George Fitzmaurice (director); Robert Hichens (novel); Ouida Bergère (screenwriter)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1923. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1923 silent film, showing director actress Pola Negri and George Fitzmaurice between takes, together consulting a copy of Robert Hichens' source novel. Mimeo snipe, provenance stamp, and Famous Players-Lasky stamp on the verso. Based on Paramount's 1915 film of the same name, which was based... Read More
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San Bernardino (Original screenplay for an unproduced television pilot)
by Stephen Sustarsic (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1999. Draft script for an unproduced television pilot. A black comedy about a working-class family headed by an unsuccessful repo man. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most memorably for the television series "Alice" (1976-1985) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sustarsic was also one of the creators... Read More
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The Chinese Bandit (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Stephen Becker (novel); Barry Spikings (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1975 novel by Stephen Becker, about a former Marine turned alcoholic drifter forced to fend his way out of Peking after nearly killing an American brigadier in a bar fight. Generic white Embassy Pictures wrappers. Title page present, dated 4th April... Read More
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Verna, the U.S.O. Girl (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by David Shaber (screenwriter)
New York: Joseph E. Levine Productions, 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film, circa 1980. Not to be confused with the 1978 television movie starring Sissy Spacek and William Hurt. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with credit for screenwriter David Shaber. Title page present, undated, with credits for Shaber and story writer Paul Gallico. 116 leaves, with... Read More
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Afterlife (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Joss Whedon (screenwriter)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1994. Draft script for an unproduced film by noted television and film director Joss Whedon. Annotations in manuscript ink throughout, indicating locations of scenes. A government scientist dies, only to wake up in an entirely different body: that of a serial killer named Snowman. Although the script never progressed to production, Whedon... Read More
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Gavilan: Somebody Needs a Taxi (Original screenplay for an unproduced episode of the 1982-83 television series)
by Tom Mankiewicz (creator); Bob Stabler (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Madison Productions Inc, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 1982-83 NBC television series. Script with manuscript ink annotations calling out an action sequence on one page. Created by Tom Mankiewicz, the series starred Robert Urich as former CIA agent Robert Gavilan who now works for the Oceanographic Institute, and occasionally finds himself in... Read More
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The Marriage Game (Original screenplay for an unproduced television series)
by Stephen T. Sustarsic II (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced television series, a ribbon typescript copy, with manuscript white-out annotations throughout, and one manuscript ink annotation on the second to last page. Screenwriter Stephen Sustarsic wrote frequently for sitcom television throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most memorably for the television series "Alice" (1976-1985) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sustarsic was also... Read More
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Giants in the Earth (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Old Edvart Rolvaag (novel); Rodney Anderson (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A Norwegian immigrant family in America struggles to survive in the Dakota Territory in 1973. Based on the 1924 novel by Ole Edvart Rolvaag. Although this version was unproduced, the novel was later made into an opera. Set in Dakota Territory. White untitled wrappers.... Read More
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Watcher in the Shadows (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Geoffrey Household (novel); Marvin H. Albert (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. First Draft script for an unproduced film, written by Marvin H. Albert, based on the 1960 Geoffrey Household novel, about an ex-military man with a dark past that comes back to haunt him. "Frances Richardson" in manuscript pencil on the front wrapper, but this person's role in the film is undetermined. An interesting script,... Read More
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The Phantom of Liberty [Le fantome de la liberte] (Collection of 6 original photographs from the 1974 film)
by Luis Buñuel (director); Jean-Claude Carriere (screenwriter)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1974. Collection of 6 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1974 film. A masterpiece like most all of the director's films, a nonlinear surrealist comedy that challenges bourgeois notions of morality. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 290. Rosenbaum 1000.
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Stosh (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Lincoln Demyan (screenwriter)
Simi Valley, CA: Self published, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film, circa 1970s. Written by Lincoln Demyan, whose film credits as actor include episodes of "Bonanza" and "The Big Valley," "The Great Impostor" (1961), "Man's Favorite Sport?" (1964), "The Brass Bottle" (1964), and "White Lightning" (1973). Set in post WWII West Virginia, where Stosh and his... Read More
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Kiss Me (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Peter Yeldham (screenwriter)
London: Excelsior Film Productions, 1970. First Draft script for an unproduced film with the tentative titles, "Kiss Me" and "In Confidence Limited," written by Peter Yeldham, whose notable film credits include "The Long Duel" (1967), "Age of Consent" (1969), and "The Call of the Wild" (1972). Brief notation in manuscript ink on two pages. Set in London,... Read More
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The League of Free Men (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by G.E. Moore (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1950. Draft script for an unproduced film. Ribbon copy typescript. A gentleman pays the bail of a recently-jailed political activist, who is then invited to a meeting of the League of Free Men. When the activist turns up murdered a few days later with a mysterious note found on his body, the police begin investigating... Read More
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Invasion of Privacy (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)
by Robert K. Lansford (screenwriter)
Hollywood: Marford Productions. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Marta Raynes meets her fiance's college roommate in San Juan, James Holliday, a brilliant chemist. Raynes runs a patent firm and soon Holliday brings her a new kind of tobacco leaf. What she is interested in is the camouflage he has accidentally developed but when an intern... Read More
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Winter Woman (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Larry Davis (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Marisa immigrates to Los Angeles from Guatemala to go to a university for the deaf. She struggles to find work without a green card, and as she is forced into increasingly precarious situations she must defend herself from violent and predatory men. Set in Guatemala,... Read More
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Next of Kin (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Thomas Rickman (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Written by noted screenwriter Thomas Rickman, whose produced work includes "Kansas City Bomber" (1972), "The Laughing Policeman" (1973), and "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980). Not to be confused with the 1989 film starring Patrick Swayze. On a train bound for Kentucky, an unnamed soldier murders a honor guard sent... Read More
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Usufruct (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Ralph Stephens (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper noting the film title and screenwriter's name. A scientist accidentally creates a new strain of the influenza virus, unaware that his coworkers intend to use the virus to solve the world's overpopulation problem by killing millions of people. ... Read More
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Amok (Original treatment script for an unproduced film)
by Stefan Zweig (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1922 novella by the same author, of the same title. The protagonist, a doctor who has moved to India from Germany to practice medicine is overcome by an obsession which eventually leads to his committing suicide. "Amok" is an Indonesian word of Malay origin, referring... Read More
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