The Kiss of the Spider Woman (Four original photographs from the 1985 film)
by William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sônia Braga (starring); Héctor Babenco (director); Manuel Puig (novel); Leonard Schrader (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1985. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film, including one showing director Héctor Babenco talking with actor William Hurt on the set. Based on the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig, about two cellmates who form an unusual bond during their imprisonment in a Brazilian prison. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Puig's novel also... Read More
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Men With Wings (Original screenplay for the 1938 film)
by William A. Wellman (director); Robert Carson (screenwriter); Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell (starring)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1938. Draft script for the 1938 film. With manuscript pencil annotations on the front wrapper. Included with the script are four pages of mimeographed notes regarding main title billing for the film. Two aviators' friendship is tested when a love triangle forms between them and their shared childhood sweetheart. Another tribute to the glories of... Read More
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Sanctuary (Collection of 28 original photographs from the 1961 film)
by William Faulkner (novel); Tony Richardson (director); Darryl F. Zanuck, Richard D. Zanuck (screenwriter); Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman (starring)
N.p.: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 1961. Collection of 28 vintage studio still photographs from the 1961 film. Based on William Faulkner's novels, "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun." A harsh film with frank dialogue and thematic content throughout regarding rape, female sensuality, and sexual brutality. The final version of the film suffered from censorship, as well as... Read More
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The French Connection (Original screenplay for the 1971 film)
by William Friedkin (director); Ernest Tidyman (screenwriter); Robin Moore (novel); Philip D'Antoni (producer); Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971. Revised Draft script for the 1971 film. Produced for use on location in New York City in March and April 1971, when shooting for the film commenced there. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's 1969 nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking and its impact on... Read More
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The French Connection (Original photograph taken on the set of the 1971 film)
by William Friedkin (director); Ernest Tidyman (screenwriter); Robin Moore (novel); Philip D'Antoni (producer); Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage reference photograph from the 1971 film, showing cinematographer Owen Roizman and a camera crew preparing to shoot a night scene on location. Printed snipe affixed to the verso. William Friedkin made his name with this gritty adaptation of Robin Moore's nonfiction account of east coast drug trafficking. Perhaps the greatest of the many... Read More
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Original broadside for the Royal Princess's Theatre, 1852
by William Shakespeare, Samuel Birch, John Poole, John Westland Marston, Dion Boucicault (playwrights); Alexandre Dumas (novella); George Bartley, William Meadows, Carlotta Leclercq, James Vining (starring); Charles Kean (lessee)
London: The Royal Princess' Theatre, 1852. Vintage broadside for a series of performances at the Royal Princess's Theatre, Saturday, December 11, 1852, including Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night, or What You Will," Samuel Birch's 1825 musical drama "The Adopted Child," and John Poole's 1833 play "Deaf as a Post: A Farce, in One Act," two of which are noted as the... Read More
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Rampage (Original screenplay for the 1987 film)
by William Friedkin (director, screenwriter); William P. Wood (novel); Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1986. Draft script for the 1987 film. Based on the 1985 novel by William P. Wood. A liberal-minded district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a blood-drinking serial killer. Loosely based on serial killer Richard Chase. Set for release in 1987, the film went unreleased for five years after the bankruptcy of distributor, De... Read More
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? [Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?] (Three original photographs from the 1966 film)
by William Klein (director, screenwriter); Dorothy McGowan, Grayson Hall, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort (starring)
N.p.: Delpire, 1966. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1966 film. Both with the stamp of Tele-Magazine on the verso. An anarchic satire of the fashion industry directed by a true insider, Vogue magazine's longtime fashion photographer William Klein. Dorothy McGowan (in her first and only film appearance) stars as young model Polly Maggoo, who becomes... Read More
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Hamlet (Small archive of production documents for the 1990 film)
by William Shakespeare (play) Franco Zeffirelli (director, screenwriter); Christopher De Vore (screenwriter); Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Ian Holm (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1990. Small archive of production documents for the 1990 film, including six gatherings of Call Sheets, two to ten pages each, dating from "24th April 1990" to "6th May 1990," a sixteen page "Movement Order No. 4" for "Friday 27th and Saturday 28th April 1990," and a twenty-five page "Provisional Unit List," dated "29.6.90." The call sheets... Read More
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Cruising (Original German poster for the 1980 film)
by William Friedkin (director, screenwriter); Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen (starring); Larry Cohen (screenwriter); Gerald Walker (novel)
N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage German A0 poster for the 1980 film. Extremely scarce. Based on the 1970 novel by Gerald Walker, about a cop who goes undercover in the leather scene in New York to catch a serial killer targeting gay men. "Cruising" was widely protested at the time of its release by gay rights groups for its... Read More
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Bug [The Hephaestus Plague] (Original screenplay for the 1975 film)
by William Castle (screenwriter); Jeannot Szwarc (director); Thomas Page (novel, screenwriter); Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson (starring)
Hollywood: William Castle Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1974. Revised Final Draft script for the 1975 film, seen here under its working title "The Hephaestus Plague." "Bug" in manuscript pencil just below the title on the title page. Based on Thomas Page's 1973 novel. James Parmiter (Dillman) is a mad scientist who discovers the presence of a bizarre... Read More
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Funny Girl (Original photograph of Herbert Ross from the casting of the 1968 film)
by William Wyler (director); Isobel Lennart (musical play, screenwriter); Herbert Ross (choreographer); Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford(starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1967. Vintage reference photograph of choreographer and director of musical numbers, Herbert Ross, with a line of 15 girls in bikinis, from the casting of the 1968 film. Ross had previously worked with Streisand in her Broadway debut, in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" (1962). 1967 "Columbia Pictures Corp." stamp on verso.... Read More
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[The] Wild Rebels (Four original photographs from the 1967 film)
by William Grefe (director, screenwriter); Tony Gulliver (photographer); Steve Alaimo, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Bobbie Byers (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1967. Four vintage borderless photographs from the 1967 film. All with "Les Films Armon BON" stamps, two with "L.F. Films" stamps, stuck with manuscript marker, two with "5 / 20," one with "4 / 20," and one with "15 / 20" stamps, all on verso. Stock car driver Rod Tillman (Steve Alaimo) goes undercover as a... Read More
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The Little Foxes (Original photograph of William Wyler, Bette Davis, and Victor Sassoon on the set of the 1941 film)
by William Wyler (director); Lillian Hellman (play, screenplay); Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright (starring)
Culver City, CA: Culver Pictures, 1941. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler in conversation with actress Bette Davis and millionaire businessman and hotelier Victor Sassoon on the set of the 1941 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Culver Pictures. Based on Lillian Hellman's classic 1939 play, about the struggles... Read More
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Dodsworth (Original photograph of Walter Huston and William Wyler on the set of the 1936 film)
by William Wyler (director); Sidney Howard (play, screenwriter); Sinclair Lewis (novel); Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor (starring)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1936. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler and actor Walter Huston on the set of the 1936 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with a date stamp in French, reading 30 Juil (July) 1936. Based on the 1934 play by Sidney Howard, based in turn on the 1929... Read More
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The Agony of Love (Original photograph from the 1966 film)
by William Rotsler (director, screenwriter); Pat Barrington, Sam Taylor, Parker Garvey (starring)
Los Angeles: Boxoffice International, 1966. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A bored housewife rents an apartment to indulge in her sexual fantasies. Set in and shot on location in Hollywood. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear, else Near Fine.
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Mr. Freedom (Four original photographs from the set of the 1968 film)
by William Klein (director, screenwriter); John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1968. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1968 French film, showing director William Klein with actors Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, and other cast members between takes. Provenance stamps on the versos. A satire of superhero films and American imperialism, following the adventures of the eponymous Mr. Freedom, a beer-swilling white nationalist cop who moonlights... Read More
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[The Tragedy of] Macbeth (Original screenplay for the 1971 film)
by William Shakespeare (play); Roman Polanski (director, screenwriter); Kenneth Tynan (screenwriter); Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw (starring)
London: Caliban Films, 1971. Draft script for the 1971 film. Copy belonging to publicist Ted Gilling, with his name and address in manuscript ink on the title page, and his annotations in manuscript ink throughout, noting filming locations. Roman Polanski's stark, bloody adaptation of Shakespeare's classic drama of murder and ambition in medieval Scotland, co-written by noted... Read More
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The Exorcist (Original oversize double weight still photograph from the 1972 film)
by William Friedkin (director); William Peter Blatty (novel, screenwriter); Josh Weiner (photographer)l;
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above—and seemingly beyond—a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and... Read More
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Dodsworth (Original photograph of Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, and William Wyler on the set of the 1936 film)
by William Wyler (director); Sidney Howard (play, screenwriter); Sinclair Lewis (novel); Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1936. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler and actors Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton on the set of the 1936 film. Based on the 1934 play by Sidney Howard, based in turn on the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis. A recently retired automobile magnate and his frivolous wife take an extended trip to Europe,... Read More
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Mr. Freedom (Original photograph of William Klein on the set of the 1968 film)
by William Klein (director, screenwriter); John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Philippe Noiret (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1968 French film, showing director William Klein with actors Delphine Seyrig, Philippe Noiret, and other cast members between takes. Manuscript ink annotations to the verso noting the film's title, along with stamps noting "PM 1020" and "1968". A satire of superhero films and American... Read More
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Maskerade (Original program for the 1934 Austrian film)
by Willi Forst (director, screenwriter); Walter Reisch (screenwriter); Adolf Wohlbrück, Paula Wessely, Olga Tschechowa (starring)
N.p.: N.p., 1934. Vintage program for the 1934 Austrian film. Text and titles in German. A prominent surgeon's wife poses nude (but masked) for a portrait by a famous artist. The artist must quickly improvise when asked about the identity of the woman in the painting, and accidentally implicates a real woman, leading to a number of... Read More
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (Original pressbook for the 1970 film)
by William Wyler (director); Jesse Hill Ford (novel, screenwriter); Stirling Silliphant (screenwriter); Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Hershey, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage pressbook for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife, leading to a series of violent interactions with the police force,... Read More
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones (Original poster for the 1970 film)
by William Wyler (director); Jesse Hill Ford (novel, screenwriter); Stirling Silliphant (screenwriter); Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Hershey, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana (starring)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1970. Vintage one sheet poster for the 1970 film. Based on the 1965 novel "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones" by Jesse Hill Ford. A wealthy African American funeral director suspects a white policeman of having an affair with his considerably younger wife, leading to a series of violent interactions with the police... Read More
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The Manitou (Original screenplay for the 1978 film)
by William Girdler (director, screenwriter); Graham Masterton (novel); John Cedar, Thomas Pope (screenwriters); Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg (starring)
Los Angeles: Weist and Associates, 1977. Final Draft script for the 1978 film, with all pink pages except for one page and blue revision pages. Based on the 1976 novel by Graham Masterton. A woman discovers the quickly growing tumor on her neck is alive and is the reincarnation of an ancient demonic Native American spirit. Set... Read More
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