Bodyguard (Original screenplay treatment for the 1948 film noir)
by Robert Altman (screenwriter); Richard Fleischer (director); Lawrence Tierney (starring)
Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1948. Treatment script for the key 1948 film noir. In Jaffe Agency wrappers, stamped "FILE COPY" and "JAFFE AGENCY" at the top right corner of the front wrapper. Robert Altman's first screenwriting credit (he would not direct his first feature film for another 20 years), and Richard Fleischer's first directorial effort, a... Read More
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Carl Boehm and Pamela Green on the set of "Peeping Tom" (Original photograph on the set at Pinewood Studios, from the 1960 film)
by Michael Powell (director); Carl Boehm (starring)
London: Michael Powell [Theatre], 1960. Vintage borderless French press photograph from the 1961 British film. Shown are Austrian actor Carl Boehm, getting to know a prostitute (Pamela Green) who will be dead just as soon as she's been photographed. On the verso is a rubber stamped credit for photographer Nicole, with her Paris address, along with a few manuscript... Read More
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Shark (Five stills from the 1969 film)
by Samuel Fuller (director); Burt Reynolds (starring)
Los Angeles: Excelsior Distribution, 1969. Five vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the 1969 film. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.
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Quatorze Juillet [July 14] (Original photograph from the 1933 film)
by René Clair (director); Georges Perinal (cinematographer); Annabella (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1932. Vintage photograph of director René Clair in the midst of an outdoor shot with his cinematographer Georges Perinal on location for the 1933 film. A wonderful image, capturing Clair and Perinal as they set up the kind of shot that distinguished the director's work: viewing an intimate scene through a window from the street.... Read More
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The Connection (Three original photographs from the 1959 play)
by Jack Gelber (playwright); Judith Malina (director); Julian Beck (designer); Roger Pic (photographer); Warren Finnerty (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1959. Three vintage photographs from performances of The Living Theatre's 1959 play. One photograph from the original 1959 production, with a printed caption in English on the verso. The other two photographs from a 1961 production in Paris, with the stamp of photographer Roger Pic on the versos. All three photographs with manuscript annotations in French on... Read More
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (Two original photographs from the set of the 1982 British film)
by Alan Parker (director); Roger Waters (screenwriter); Bob Geldof (starring)
London: United International Pictures, 1982. Two vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1982 film, one showing director Alan Parker, director of animation Gerald Scarfe, and cameraman John Stanier in conversation, the other showing Parker and actor Bob Geldof. With printed mimeo snipes on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author... Read More
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Original photograph from the premiere of "Fahrenheit 451" at the Theatre Marigny, 1966
by François Truffaut (director); Julie Christie (starring)
Paris: Paris Internationale, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1966 premiere of François Truffaut's film "Fahrenheit 451" at the Theatre Marigny. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Paris Internationale. From the archive of the PIX Agency, a photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well... Read More
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Le Deuxieme Souffle (Original photograph from the set of the 1966 film noir)
by Jean-Pierre Melville (director); Jose Giovanni (novel); Lino Ventura (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1966. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Jean-Pierre Melville and Lino Ventura on the set of the 1966 film. Based on the 1958 French novel by Jose Giovanni. Director Melville's ninth film, and while this is saying something, probably his bleakest. Ventura plays a mobster who emerges from prison determined to reclaim his old crime... Read More
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Bad Habits (Original script for the 1971 play, copy belonging to director Larry Arrick)
by Terrence McNally (playwright); Larry Arrick (director); Linda Lavin (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage script for the 1971 play. Copy belonging to director Larry Arrick, with his name and address in manuscript ink on the title page. A black comedy set in a sanatorium, satirizing American dependence on psychotherapy. The play debuted off-Broadway on August 10, 1971, at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton, New York,... Read More
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The Man in the Glass Booth (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)
by Robert Shaw (novel and playwright); Arthur Hiller (director); Edward Anhalt (screenwriter); Maximilian Schell (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1974. Draft script for the 1975 film. In Manhattan, a Jewish man who is a Holocaust survivor is arrested by Israeli agents for war crimes. The trial reveals him to be innocent but also leads to the decline of his mental well being in the courtroom. Maximilian Schell was nominated for the Academy Award for... Read More
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Young as You Feel (Original post-production script for the 1931 film)
by Frank Borzage (director); Edwin J. Burke (screenwriter); George Ade (playwright); Will Rogers (starring)
Los Angeles: Fox Film Corporation, 1931. Post-production Screen Continuity script for the 1931 film. Based on the 1908 play "Father and the Boys" by George Ade. A comedy of errors in which a wealthy meatpacking company owner in Chicago has two sons, both who treat their father's company as a means to their own extravagant ends. When... Read More
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Peeping Tom (Original photograph from the 1960 film)
by Michael Powell (director); Norman Gryspeerdt (photographer); Carl Boehm (starring)
London: Michael Powell [Theatre], 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1960 film, showing actor Carl Boehm taking in a scene being shot out of frame, with the prop film camera his character is hopelessly devoted to in front of him, and a real film camera just behind him in the foreground. With copyright stamp of international... Read More
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We the Living [Noi Vivi / Addio Kira] (Two Spanish promotional flyers from the premiere of the 1942 Italian film)
by Ayn Rand (novel); Goffredo Alessandrini (director); Alida Valli (starring)
New York: Angelika Films, 1988. Two Spanish promotional flyers for the premiere of the epic 1942 Italian film version of Ayn Rand's controversial 1936 novel. One flyer is full-color and in a handbill style, the other cut to look like a book, and opens to reveal the film's details, along with the logo of the Spanish distributor, Una Distribucion.... Read More
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La Ronde (Original Pressbook for the 1950 film)
by Max Ophuls (director); Arthur Schnitzler (play); Anton Walbrook (starring)
Paris: Films Sacha Gordine / Jeannic Films, 1950. Original pressbook for the 1950 film. Based on the play, "Reigen" by Arthur Schnitzler, in which an all-knowing interlocuter guides the audience through a series of affairs in Vienna, circa 1900. The first of the final four masterpieces directed by Ophuls after his return to Europe in 1950. ... Read More
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Robert Bresson on the set of "Le proces de jeanne d'arc" [The Trial of Joan of Arc] (1962)
by Robert Bresson (director); Andre Marinie (photographer); Florence Delay (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1960. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film by photographer Andre Marinie. A candid, on-the-set photograph of the film's reclusive director, Robert Bresson, behind the camera, typically pensive and with cigarette in hand. Marinie's stamp and stamp from the film's production companies, Agnes Delahaie Productions and Consortium Pathe on the verso. Linda Rasmussen at AllMovie... Read More
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Be Your Own Illustrated Man (Promotional temporary tattoos for the 1969 film)
by Ray Bradbury (short stories); Jack Smight (director); Howard B. Kreitsek (screenwriter); Rod Steiger (starring)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1969. Six vintage temporary tattoos, issued as a promotional item for the 1969 film by the beloved but short-lived film studio Warner Brothers-Seven Arts. With both the original envelope housing the tattoos and a Warner Brothers-Seven Arts mailing envelope addressed to film critic, photographer, and poet Michael S. Dworkin. The decals... Read More
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Original photograph of Saul Bellow and Sam Levene on the set of The Last Analysis in 1964
by Saul Bellow (playwright); Joseph Anthony (director); Sam Levene (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1964. Vintage reference photograph of playwright Saul Bellow and actor Sam Levene on the set of the 1964 play. Printed mimeo snipe with a full description affixed to the verso and noting a date of 9/24/64, along with the stamps of The Salt Lake Tribune Library. Bellow's only theatrical effort, about a New York comedian who... Read More
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The American Clock: A Mural for Theatre (Original play script for the 1980 play)
by Arthur Miller (playwright); Vivian Matalon (director); Studs Terkel (novel); Tresa Hughes (starring)
New York: Biltmore Theatre, 1980. Draft script for the 1980 play. Copy belonging to actress Tresa Hughes, with her annotations throughout. Adapted by Arthur Miller from Studs Terkel's 1970 book "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," a firsthand account of the Great Depression by Americans of varying socioeconomic status. The play ran for 11... Read More
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Original Film Pressbook)
by Roger Corman (presenter); Anthony Page (director); Hannah Green (novel); Kathleen Quinlan (starring)
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1977 film. One of the great unsung literary adaptations of the 1970s, taking a terrifically complex novel about a young woman who has completely retreated into fantasy following the death of her sister. A film that suffered inevitable comparisons to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," but... Read More
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Aucassin and Nicolette (Two original photographs from the 1975 short film)
by Lotte Reiniger (director); Maurice Podbrey (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1975. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1975 short film, one showing an animation used in the film, the other showing director Lotte Reiniger at work on a silhouette form. Annotations in manuscript ink regarding cropping on the verso. Reiniger was a pioneer of scherenschnitte, the German art of silhouette, heavily inspired by the ancient... Read More
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The Pianist (Original photograph from the set of the 2002 film)
by Roman Polanski (director); Wladyslaw Szpilman (memoir); Jean-Louis Seigner (photographer); Ronald Harwood (screenwriter); Adrien Brody (starring)
Paris: Jean-Louis Seigner, 2001. Vintage oversize photograph of Roman Polanski on location in Warsaw in 2001 during the production of his 2002 film. Based on the 1946 memoir by Wladslaw Szpilman, about his survival in the Nazi-occupied Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and three Academy Awards, including Best Director... Read More
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BBC: The Voice of Britain (Nine still photographs from the 1935 British documentary film)
by Stuart Legg (director); Henry Hall and his Orchestra (starring)
London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1935. Seven vintage black-and-white still photographs and two double weight sepia photographs from the UK release of the 1935 British documentary film. Included is the original trasmittal envelope, with the printed label, "On His Majesty's Service." Featured in two of the photographs are Henry Hall and his Orchestra (a.k.a., the BBC Symphony Orchestra), the... Read More
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Rabid (Two original photographs from the Canadian release of the 1977 film)
by David Cronenberg (director); Marilyn Chambers (starring)
Toronto: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1977. Two vintage borderless black-and-white photographs from the Canadian release of the 1977 horror film. David Cronenberg's fourth film, continuing his meditation of horrific transformations of the human body. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one... Read More
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The Letter (Original photograph of Bette Davis and William Wyler on the set of the 1940 film)
by Bette Davis (starring); William Wyler (director); W. Somerset Maugham (play); Howard Koch (screenwriter); Herbert Marshall (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1940 film, showing director William Wyler and actress Bette Davis enjoying tea on the set. A rubber plantation owner's wife claims self defense after shooting her secret lover, but a damning letter in her own hand may uncover the truth. 9 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. ... Read More
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England Made Me (Original UK poster for the 1973 film)
by Graham Greene (novel); Peter Duffell (director); Desmond Cory (screenwriter); Michael York (starring)
London: Atlantic Productions, 1973. Original UK Quad poster for the 1973 British film. Greene's novel was set in Stockholm, and involved the internal deconstruction of a ne'er-do-well bodyguard Anthony Farrant, who finds himself working for a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. The setting of the film version was changed to Nazi... Read More
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