The Bare Hunt or My Gun is Jammed (Two original photographs from the 1963 film)
by Sheri Everett, Marv Watson, Marilyn Savage (starring)
Los Angeles: Olympic International Films, 1963. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film, one with a provenance stamp on the verso. Inept investigator Max T. Unemployment is hired to try and track down a killer of beautiful young women. A proto-slasher/Giallo film with violent murders of young women countered with the outrageous, cartoon humor of... Read More
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Many Happy Returns [The John McGiver Show]: Many Happy Returns (Original screenplay for the pilot of the 1964 television series)
by Sherman Marks (director); Parke Levy, Norman Paul (screenwriters); John McGiver, Elinor Donahue, Mark Goddard (starring)
Hollywood: Lindabob Productions, 1964. Draft script for the Season 1, Episode 1 (i.e., pilot) of the television show "Many Happy Returns," here seen under its working title, "The John McGiver Show," which first aired on CBS on September 21, 1964. Copy belonging to actor Cheerio Meredith, with her manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper and throughout. Included with... Read More
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Idiot's Delight (Signed First Edition)
by Robert Sherwood
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the second blank. Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and basis for the 1939 film starring Clark Gable. Very Good plus in an about Very Good plus dust jacket. Light offsetting on the endpapers, with an evenly faded... Read More
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The Petrified Forest (First Edition)
by Robert Sherwood
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1936 film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, and Humphrey Bogart. About Near Fine in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed. Jacket moderately rubbed overall, with a tiny pinhole to the center of the... Read More
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The Petrified Forest (First Edition)
by Robert Sherwood
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1936 film directed by Archie Mayo, starring Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, and Humphrey Bogart. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus example of the scarce dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed. Jacket moderately rubbed, with a few nicks at the corners and a tiny... Read More
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Squaw Point (First Edition)
by R.H. Shimer
New York: Harper and Row, 1972. First Edition. First Edition. The author's first book, a mystery set in Alaska. Winner of the 1973 Edgar Award for Best First Mystery. Slight lean, overall Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket faintly foxed.
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![Widow's Boarding House: Ecstasy [Mibôjin geshuku: Hatsu nurashi] (Five original photographs from the 1980 Japanese adult film)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/773/024/1557024773.0.m.jpg)
Widow's Boarding House: Ecstasy [Mibôjin geshuku: Hatsu nurashi] (Five original photographs from the 1980 Japanese adult film)
by Shinya Yamamoto (director); Tetsurô Takahira, Tsutomu Yamada (screenwriters); George Tokoro, Yukiko Tachibana, Shinji Kubo (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1980. Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1980 Japanese pink film. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine, faintly age toned.
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Around the World in 80 Days (Original photograph of Mike Todd, Shirley MacLaine, and Cantinflas at the premiere of the 1956 film)
by Shirley MacLaine, Cantinflas (subjects, starring); Michael Todd (producer, subject); Michael Anderson (director); Jules Verne (novel); James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman (screenwriters); David Niven, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1956. Vintage photograph of actors Shirley MacLaine and Cantinflas with producer Mike Todd at the premiere of the 1956 film, held on October 17, 1956, at the Rivoli Theatre in New York. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel, and the first American adaptation (after Richard Oswald's 1919 German film), about two... Read More
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Portrait of Jason (Original photograph of director Shirley Clarke from the 1967 documentary)
by Shirley Clarke (director); Jason Holliday, Carl Lee (subjects)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage reference photograph from the 1967 documentary, showing director Shirley Clarke. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. The third feature to be directed by Clarke, following "The Connection" (1961) and "The Cool World" (1963). Ostensibly a straightforward interview of Jason Holliday, a gay, African-American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer,... Read More
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The Haunting (Original photograph of Robert Wise and Julie Harris on the set of the 1963 film)
by Shirley Jackson (novel); Robert Wise (director); Nelson Gidding (screenwriter); Julie Harris, Claire Boom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Wise and actress Julie Harris on the set of the 1963 film. With manuscript ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House." A group of disparate individuals are invited to... Read More
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Two Loves (Original front-of-house card from the UK release of the 1961 film)
by Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Harvey, Jack Hawkins (starring); Charles Walters (director); Sylvia Ashton-Warner (novel); Ben Maddow (screenwriter)
N.p.: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1961. Vintage front-of-house card from the British release of the 1961 film. Based on the 1958 novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. Shirley MacLaine stars as an American born schoolteacher teaching Maori children with experimental methods, who is pursued by two men, an alcoholic teacher and her married administrator. Set in New Zealand. ... Read More
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The Story of Seabiscuit [Always Sweethearts] (Original screenplay for the 1949 film)
by Shirley Temple (starring); David Butler (director); John Taintor Foote (screenwriter); Barry Fitzgerald, Lon McCallister, Rosemary DeCamp (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Second Revised Temporary script for the 1949 film, seen here under the working title "Always Sweethearts." An Irish horse trainer and his niece take a liking to a young Kentucky thoroughbred named Seabiscuit, deciding to convince the horse's owner to let them train the horse for races. A loosely fictionalized account of prizewinning... Read More
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Two original photographs of Shirley MacLaine and Mike Todd, circa 1956
by Shirley MacLaine, Michael Todd (subjects); George Shimmon (photographer)
San Francisco: N.p., 1956. Two vintage photographs of actress Shirley MacLaine with producer Mike Todd, circa 1956. Stamp of photographer George Shimmon on the verso. MacLaine appeared in Todd's 1956 box office hit, "Around the World in 80 Days." 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
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Sweet Charity (Original photograph from the 1969 film)
by Shirley MacLaine, Sammy Davis Jr., John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban (starring); Bob Fosse (director); Neil Simon (play); Dorothy Fields (lyrics); Cy Coleman (music); Peter Stone (screenwriter)
Paris: Le Spectacle du Monde, 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Sammy Davis Jr. and Shirley MacLaine dancing joyfully. French agency stamps on the verso. Based on the 1966 musical, which was loosely based in turn on Federico Fellini's 1957 film "Nights of Calabria." A happy-go-lucky taxi dancer dreams of romance, but only meets... Read More
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The Cool World (Original photograph from the 1963 film)
by Shirley Clarke (director, screenwriter); Warren Miller (novel); Robert Rossen (play); Hampton Clanton, Yolanda Rodriguez, Antonio Fargas, Carl Lee (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1963 film. Partial label on the verso. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen, which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, following "The Connection" (1961). Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema... Read More
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The Secret of My Success (Eight British front-of-house cards from the 1965 film)
by Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman, James Booth (starring); Andrew L. Stone (director, screenwriter)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Eight vintage full-color still British front-of-house cards from the 1965 film. Something of an antecedent to Hal Ashby's "Being There" (1981), in which a bumbling idiot inherits a fortune and becomes a high-ranking government official 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases to most, else Near Fine.
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Zegen (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)
by Shohei Imamura (screenwriter, director); Kota Okabe (screenwriter); Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baisho, Chu Hsiung Ko, Norhei Miki (starring)
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 film. Text in Japanese. The greatest pimp in all of Japanese history, Iheji Muraoka, also known as Zegen or the "Boss of the South Seas" grew in power as Japan grew. Not only were his achievements contributing to his mantle of success, but he believed they advanced the... Read More
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Nisha Ginza Station (Original screenplay for the 1958 film)
by Shohei Imamura (screenwriter, director); Frank Nagai, Shin'ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka, Masahiko Shimazu (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Title based on a song popularized by the leading actor, Frank Nagai. A comedy featuring a drugstore owner, who begins an extramarital affair when his wife and child go on vacation. White illustrated titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 95 leaves, with last... Read More
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The Pornographers (Original screenplay for the 1966 film)
by Shohei Imamura (screenwriter, director); Akiyuki Nosaka, Koji Numata (screenwriters); Shochi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Ganjiro Nakamura, Chocho Miyako (starring)
Tokyo: Toho Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 film. Text in Japanese. A pornographer is keeping a low profile to keep out of the way of the mob, while also is trying to keep the various people in his life happy, including his stepdaughter, stepson, mistress, and wife (who believes her first husband was reincarnated as... Read More
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Endless Desire (Original screenplay for the 1958 film)
by Shohei Imamura (screenwriter, director); Hisashi Yamanouchi (screenwriter); Shinji Fujiwara (author); Reiji Akitsu, Shinsuke Ashida, Takeshi Kato, Nobuo Kawakami (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film. Text in Japanese. Based on a novel by Shinju Fujiwara. Five people assemble ten years after the end of the Pacific War at a military station to uncover a stash of morphine worth a fortune now, whcih was buried by the medical officer Mashimoto at the abdication of... Read More
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Why Not (Original screenplay for the 1981 film)
by Shohei Imamura (screenwriter, producer, director); Ken Miyamoto (screenwriter); Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi (starring)
Tokyo: Imamura Productions, 1980. Draft script for the 1981 film. Text in Japanese. A period drama featuring a man returning from exile in America during the Edo era and begins searching for his wife. He gets caught up in revolutionary fervor and his emotions get the best of him. Orange titled perfect-bound wrappers, rubber stamped... Read More
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The Pornographers (Two original photographs from the 1966 Japanese film)
by Shôhei Imamura (director, screenwriter); Akiyuki Nosaka (novel); Koji Numata (screenwriter); Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1966. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1966 Japanese film. One with annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso, identifying the film and director. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A disillusioned pornographer tries to stay out of the clutches of the local mob while taking care of his ailing landlady... Read More
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The Pornographers (Four original photographs from the 1966 Japanese film)
by Shôhei Imamura (director, screenwriter); Akiyuki Nosaka (novel); Koji Numata (screenwriter); Shôichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1966. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 Japanese film. Stamps of Nikkatsu Productions on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript ink. A disillusioned pornographer tries to stay out of the clutches of the local mob while taking care of his ailing landlady and her children, secretly spending time with his mistress, and... Read More
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The Insect Woman (Original screenplay for the 1963 film)
by Shohei Imamura (director, screenwriter); Keiji Hasebe (screenwriter); Emiko Aizawa, Setsuko Amamiya, Tomio Aoki, Aomoko Aoyagi (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1963. Draft script for the 1963 film. Text in Japanese. A metaphor for the Twentieth Century Japanese experience, particularly through World War II, told through the perspective of a woman named Tome, born into a lower class family. She finds herself in a cycle of self-defeat, repeating the same mistakes that have always plagued her.... Read More
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My Second Brother (Original screenplay for the 1959 film)
by Shohei Imamura (director, screenwriter); Ichiro Ikeda (screenwriter); Sueko Yasumoto (author); Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura, Akiko Maeda (starring)
Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Text in Japanese. Based on Sueko Yasumoto's novel, and one of the first examples of media dealing with the plight of zainchi or ethnically Korean Japanese citizens, and their identity and struggles. One man has always worked faithfully for the Toho Company and another man is working for... Read More
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