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Warner, 1955. DVD Movie. Starring Rosanna Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Nial MacGinnis. 1955. 121 minutes. Widescreen format. Fine copy with original artwork. Screenplay by John Twist and Hugh Gray.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1965. DVD Movie. Fine copy/fine. DVD movie. 175 minutes. DVD with widescreen format. Includes a second disc with many extra features. From the stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker.

Warner Bros, 1950. Trade Paperback. 20 pages. B/W illustrations. Film starring Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film noir. Based on Dana Lyon's 1948 novel "The Frightened Child." A concentration camp survivor finds herself in too deep when she assumes the identity of a deceased friend in order to gain passage to America. Shot on location throughout California. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. Grant US. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1951. Vintage herald (or possibly program) for the 1951 film noir. With an advertisement for a coming attraction, "A Millionaire for Christy," starring Fred MacMurray and Eleanor Parker, on the final leaf. Based on Dana Lyon's 1948 novel "The Frightened Child." A concentration camp survivor (Valentina Cortese) finds herself in too deep when she assumes the identity of a deceased friend in order to gain passage to America. Shot on location throughout California. 11.25 x 9.75 inches, bifold. Very Good overall.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1957. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1957 film. Mimeo snipe and one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1951 story by James A. Michener. During WWII, three sisters fall in and out of love with the soldiers who are stationed in Christchurch, though one sister is married. Set and shot on location in New Zealand. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with some small splashes at the top center.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1958. Vintage pressbook for the 1958 film. A dramatization of the trial and execution of Barbara Graham, a petty criminal convicted of murdering an elderly woman. Nominated for six Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actress for Susan Hayward. 19 pages, saddle stitched. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall. Grant US. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Selby US. Spicer US. Twilight Time.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1966. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph from the 1966 film. With the stamp of French weekly "Tele Magazine" and manuscript annotations on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel by Richard McKenna, about a rebellious sailor aboard the titular US gun boat patrolling China on the brink of civil war. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Steve McQueen, and Best Supporting Actor for Mako. Set in China, shot in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Texas. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear.

Hollywood : MGM, 1954. 6 large format photographs mounted on board, 29 x 39.4cm. These are the actual display photos ...one duplicate....When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him. This was Lehman's first produced screenplay, and its plot deviates substantially from the novel. He went on to write Sabrina, North by Northwest, West Side Story, and other films. The film is one of few in Hollywood history without a musical score, but the song "Singin' in the Rain" is sung by Mike Walling while he is off-camera taking a shower. The song appears in many MGM films during the period when its lyricist Arthur Freed was a producer at the studio.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Brief annotations, mostly marking key passages, throughout in manuscript blue ink. Based on Gibson's 1960 play, about two down-and-out people in New York and their sustained conversations. Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Cinematography, Best Music), and wonderfully shot in anamorphic black-and-white. Regarded as one of the best portrayals of the New York scene after the Jack Kerouac era, pre-Andy Warhol and the Factory. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 9. Title page present, dated December 13, 1961, with credits for screenwriter Lennart and playwright Gibson. 141 leaves, mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Vintage reference photograph of director Robert Wise and actress Julie Andrews on the set of the 1968 film. With a provenance stamp on the verso. A musical adaptation of the life of British actress Gertrude Lawrence, who rose to prominence in the 1930s. Set and shot on location in London, England, New York, and Massachusetts. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, lightly edgeworn.

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 a purportedly haunted house by a paramormal investigator. Set in Massachusetts, shot on location in Ettington Park in Warwickshire, UK. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Scorsese, The Dark Eleven. Spicer US.

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1970. Collection of seven borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the set of the film, shot in April 1960. Five of the six remarkable photographs show Wise both in the desert and in the midst of the elaborate sets designed to simulate the film's massive underground laboratory. With printed snipes on the verso of each photograph. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art.

Hollywood: Mirisch, 1961. Draft script for the 1962 film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil on virtually every page, noting changes to dialogue and scene breaks. Based on the 1958 Broadway play, about a troubled lawyer from Nebraska who moves to New York and falls in love with a free-spirited Greenwich Village dancer. Set and shot on location in New York. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 118 on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated December 13, 1961, with credits for playwright William Gibson and screenwriter Isobel Lennart. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/9/62 and 1/11/62. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads. Housed in a custom red cloth slipcase.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Revised Draft script for the 1956 film. File Copy stamp on the front wrapper. A stranger falls in love with the wife of a hardened land baron after saving the baron from bushwhackers. Set in the Wyoming Territory, shot on location in Colorado. Goldenrod titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 143 and production No. 5626, dated 8-1-55, with credits for screenwriter Michael Blankfort, director Robert Wise, and producer S. Zimbalist. Title page integral to the first page of the text, dated 7-29-55. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication, with white, pink, and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/12/55 and 10/5/55. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. In a custom green quarter-leather clamshell box. Pitts 4548.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Mirisch Corporation, 1961. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente, Harvey Evans, Susan Oakes, Bert Michaels, Tommy Abbott, and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise, served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris, and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno. Set in New York's West Side, shot on location in New York and California. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear and creasing to the corners.