Bedazzled (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by Stanley Donen (director); Peter Cook, Dudley Moore (screenwriters); Raquel Welch, Peter Cook (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless satin finish oversize reference photograph from the 1967 film. Provenance stamps and annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. A comic retelling of the Faust legend, set in Swinging London, in which an unhappy man working as a short order cook makes a deal with the devil in exchange for seven wishes,... Read More
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The Betty Hutton Show: Art for Goldie's Sake (Original screenplay and call sheet for the 1959 episode of the 1959-1960 CBS television series)
by Stanley Roberts (creator); Robert Sidney (director); Laurence Marks, Ed Jurist (screenwriters); Betty Hutton, Dennis Olivieri, Peter Miles (starring)
Culver City, CA: Hutton Productions, 1959. Second Draft script for the 1959 season 1, episode 11 of the 1959-1960 CBS television series, which aired on December 3, 1959. Copy belonging to actor Nick Dimitri with the pencil annotation of his character's name "Carlos" and "Alex Dimitri" (Nick Dimitri also went by the name Alex Dimitri) written on... Read More
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Lucky Lady (Original photograph of Gene Hackman from the 1975 film)
by Stanley Donen (director); Williard Huyck, Gloria Katz (screenwriters) Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds (starring)
Vintage reference photograph of Gene Hackman from the 1975 film. Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, and Burt Reynolds star as a trouple (!) of rum-runners in Tijuana and San Diego during 1930s prohibition. Shot on location in Sonora and Mexico City, Mexico, and Los Angeles and Nevada. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. ... Read More
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The Defiant Ones (Original poster for the 1958 film)
by Stanley Kramer (director); Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith (screenwriter); Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel (starring)
N.p.: Curtleigh Productions, 1958. Vintage US three-sheet poster for the 1958 US film. The film won two Academy Awards, for best writing and cinematography, and was nominated for another seven. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier were lauded for their performances in this Academy Award winning drama, in which two prisoners from a chain-gang escape. One white, one... Read More
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Royal Wedding (Original photograph from the 1951 film)
by Stanley Donen (director); Johnny Green (musical director); Alan Jay Lerner (screenwriter); Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1951. Vintage reference photograph from the 1951 film. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Siblings in a song-and-dance duo are booked for a gig in London while the Royal Wedding is in progress. Brother and sister both find romance overseas, and struggle... Read More
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Royal Wedding (Original photograph from the set of the 1951 film)
by Stanley Donen (director); Johnny Green (musical director); Alan Jay Lerner (screenwriter); Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Peter Lawford (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Vintage studio photograph of Jane Powell and Musical Director Johnny Green on the set of the 1951 film. Mimeo snipe, French annotations in manuscript ink and crop marks on the verso. Tom and Ellen Bowen (Astaire and Powell) are siblings with a dance act in New York. Their agent books them a... Read More
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Robbery (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay (starring); Peter Yates (director); Edward Boyd, George Markstein, Gerald Wilson (screenwriters)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1967. Vintage full-color still photograph from the 1967 UK film. Based on the "Great Train Robbery" that took place in Buckinghamshire in 1963. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with a few tiny tears and light creases.
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Pardon Us (Original photograph from the 1931 film)
by Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy, June Marlowe, Wilfred Lucas (starring); James Parrott (director); H.M. Walker (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1931. Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 film. In Prohibition-era America, two men end up in prison after attempting to sell some home-brewed beer to a policeman. The first feature film to star Laurel and Hardy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, moderately toned overall, with creasing and wear to the corners. ... Read More
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The Runner Stumbles (Original screenplay for the 1979 film)
by Stanley Kramer (director); Milan Stitt (screenwriter); Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Mel Simon Productions, 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Father Brian (Dyke) is a priest in a depressing mining town, until one day a new Sister, Rita (Quinlan) joins his parish and changes his perception of life. She is trusting and kind and listens to Father Brian, but their relationship takes a... Read More
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Hollywood Party (Original photograph from the 1934 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante (starring); Richard Boleslawski (director); Howard Dietz, Harry Rapf (screenwriters)
N.p.: N.p., 1934. Vintage reference photograph from the 1934 film, showing a chorus line of bathing beauties, reflected in the foreground. An actor known for starring in jungle films wants to work with real lions in his next movie, and decides to throw a big star-studded party to win over a wealthy European baron who keeps lions... Read More
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Air Raid Wardens (Original photograph from the 1943 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); Edward Sedgwick (director); Martin Rackin, Jack Jevne, Charley Rogers, Harry Crane (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1943. Vintage reference photograph from the 1943 film, showing actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in bed together. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Two bumbling air raid wardens accidentally uncover a Nazi plot to blow up the local magnesium plant. ... Read More
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Air Raid Wardens (Original photograph from the 1943 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); Edward Sedgwick (director); Martin Rackin, Jack Jevne, Charley Rogers, Harry Crane (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1943. Vintage reference photograph from the 1943 film, showing actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Two bumbling air raid wardens accidentally uncover a Nazi plot to blow up the local magnesium plant. 10 x... Read More
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Wrong Again (Seven original photographs from the 1929 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); Leo McCarey (director, screenwriter); Lewis R. Foster, H.M. Walker (screenwriters)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1929. Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1929 comedy short film. Stan and Ollie mistakenly think a reward for a stolen painting is for a horse with the same name, leading to a series of slapstick misadventures when they return the horse instead of the painting. Shot as a silent, but issued... Read More
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The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (Eight original photographs from the 1930 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); James Parrott (director); H.M. Walker (screenwriter)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1930 comedy short film. Notable as the first short by the duo where Hardy says to Laurel, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" A parody of the 1927 silent film "The Cat and the Canary," with Stan and Ollie spending the... Read More
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Sugar Daddies (Nine original photographs from the 1927 film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey (directors); H.M. Walker (screenwriter); James Finlayson (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Collection of nine vintage reference photographs from the 1927 silent comedy short film. Stan and Ollie help a wealthy oil tycoon escape a trio of blackmailers after his money. One the last films released prior to the duo becoming officially billed as Laurel and Hardy. 8 x 10 inches.... Read More
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Sugar Daddies (Original photograph from the 1927 silent film)
by Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (starring); Leo McCarey, Fred Guiol (directors); H.M. Walker (screenwriter); James Finlayson (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1927. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1927 short film, showing actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy attempting to smuggle actor James Finlayson through a comically crowded dance hall. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A wealthy oil tycoon wakes after a night of drunken carousing only to discover a... Read More
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The Grass is Greener (Original screenplay for the 1960 film)
by Stanley Donen (director); Hugh Williams (screenwriter); Margaret Vyner (screenwriter, playwright); Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons (starring)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. First Draft script for the 1960 film. Copy belonging to associate producer James H. Ware with his name on the front wrapper, and his annotations throughout in manuscript pencil and ink. Ware was a major presence in British and American cinema, best known for his work on "Beat the Devil" (1953), "Room at... Read More
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Paths of Glory (Eight original photographs from the 1957 film)
by Stanley Kubrick (director, screenwriter); Jim Thompson (screenwriter); Humphrey Cobb (novel); Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1957. Eight vintage photographs from the 1957 film, including one reference photograph and seven studio still photographs. One of the great antiwar films, based on the 1935 novel by Humphrey Cobb, about a group of French soldiers who are charged with cowardice after refusing to complete a suicidal attack during World War... Read More
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Better Days (Original photograph from the 1986 television series)
by Stan Lathan (director); Jeff Freilich (creator, screenwriter); Ralph Farquhar (screenwriter); Reggie Theus, Raphael Sbarge, Chip McAllister, Guy Killum, Randall Batinkoff, Randee Heller (starring)
Los Angeles: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Magnum/Thunder Road, 1986. Vintage reference photograph from "Double D," Season 1, Episode 4 of the 1986 television series. With mimeo snipe affixed to the verso advertising the broadcast of this episode on Wednesday, October 29, 1986 and the guest appearance of professional basketball player Reggie Theus. To lessen his parent's... Read More
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The Bind (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
by Stanley Ellin (novel, screenwriter)
London: Winkast Programming, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Stanley Ellin's screen adaptation of his 1970 novel. Film rights for Ellin's novel had been bought in 1969, prior to its publication, by producer Phil Waxman, wanting Robert Redford in the lead. It would not be made into a motion picture until 1979 when Richard C. Sarafian filmed... Read More
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Barry Lyndon (Collection of ten original color photographs for the 1975 film)
by Stanley Kubrick (director, screenwriter); William Makepeace Thackeray (novel); Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Collection of ten vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso, along with a stamp noting production No. 75-218. Director Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking period drama, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," charting the astronomic rise... Read More
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Barry Lyndon (Original International Oscar Style one sheet poster for the 1975 film)
by Stanley Kubrick (director, screenwriter); William Makepeace Thackeray (novel); Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1975. Vintage International Oscar Style one sheet poster for the 1975 film, a variant lacking the "PG" rating found on the US one sheet.. Director Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking and visually stunning period drama, based on William Makepeace Thackeray's 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon." The story charts the astronomic rise and fall of... Read More
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Naked Evil [The Obi] (Original screenplay for the 1966 British horror film)
by Stanley Goulder (director, screenwriter); Jon Manchip White (play); Basil Dignam, Anthony Ainley, Richard Coleman, Suzanne Neve (starring)
London: Gibraltar Productions, 1965. Revised Draft script for the 1966 British horror film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his name written in ink on the top of the front wrapper, with manuscript pencil annotations and paste-ups of clippings of goldenrod revision pages throughout, here under the working title "The Obi." Laid in is a rough pencil... Read More
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Archive of production photographs and ephemera from "2001: A Space Odyssey," from the collection of scientific advisor Frederick I. Ordway III
by Stanley Kubrick (director, screenwriter); Arthur C. Clarke (screenwriter); Frederick I Ordway III (scientific consultant); Harry Lange (production designer)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1968. Archive including 20 vintage linen-backed production photographs, a trade advertisement, a film program, and a souvenir booklet from the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." From the collection of NASA scientific consultant Frederick I. Ordway III, with images prominently featuring Ordway, production designer Harry Lange, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, and others. One... Read More
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A Clockwork Orange (Original photograph from the 1971 film)
by Stanley Kubrick (director, screenwriter); Anthony Burgess (novel); Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1971. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1971 film, showing actors Malcolm McDowell, Vivienne Chandler, and Prudence Drage. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Cine-Revue and manuscript ink and pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on Anthony Burgess' 1962 novel. A futuristic, voyeuristic catapult into... Read More
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