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Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1959. Original French Grande poster for the 1959 film. Poster design by Boris Grinsson. Truffaut's auspicious debut, winner of Best Director at Cannes, nominated for the Palme d'Or, and also nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar the following year. 47 x 62 inches. Linen backed and rolled. Bright and Fine. Capitaine 207. Warren, Vol. 1, p. 159.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1952. Vintage publicity photograph of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) and young actor Tommy Rettig from the 1953 film. The only feature film written by Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote the story, co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy (Rettig) who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried), forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense, it takes 500 children to play it. Nominated for one Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1953. Four vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film, one with "Collection Marcel OMS" stamp on the verso. The only feature film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who wrote the story, co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics to songs. A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy (Tommy Rettig) who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher, Dr. Terwilliker (Hans Conried), forever enslaving children and forcing them to play a piano so immense, it takes 500 children to play it. Nominated for one Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes and light creasing to corners. Rosenbaum 1000. Weldon 1983.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1949. Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn lounging on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "Sep 9 1949" on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best. Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, the same writing team who produced "Pat and Mike" the following year. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Newtown, Connecticut. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to right edge and tiny chip at the bottom right margin. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).

London: N.p., 1953. Original film script, an unofficial "without permission" adaptation of George Sidney's "Young Bess" (1953). Simpson's presentation copy, a maroon composition notebook with the script filling rectos of over 70 leaves in the author's own manuscript ink, and a dedication on the front endpaper: "Everything I have to say, has already been said. I'll dedicate this, my first film to [memories], to you, and I hope you [appreciate] the honour / Herladyship x / 1953." No recipient is mentioned. The mysterious and unseen ladyship Simpson based her adaptation on the film, itself based on Margaret Irwin's 1953 eponymous novel and nominated for two Academy Awards. She includes her own embellished "title card" and a cast list of all credited members except Lester Matthews, and follows the film closely in dialogue and action, with slight differences, mostly spelling, grammar, and word replacing. Presumably Simpson watched the film incessantly to master the dialogue and scene changes, or may have… Read More

Various cities: Walt Disney Pictures / HanWay Films, 1967. Album of thirty lobby cards and photographs from thirteen animated films, all SIGNED or INSCRIBED by animation directors to fellow animator Les Gibbard. Lotte Reiniger,Norman McLaren, John Hubley, Arthur Babbitt, Grim Natwick, and four of Disney's famed "nine old men," Frank Thomas, Milt Kahl, Ollie Johnston, and Ward Kimball, all have signatures in the album, with the occasional humorous addition to the image or dated inscription. Signatures date from 1973 and 1974. The album contains images for eight animated classics: "Bambi" (1942), "Pinocchio" (1940), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), "Gulliver's Travels" (1939), "The Jungle Book" (1967), "Dumbo" (1941), "It's Tough to Be a Bird" (1969), and "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (1949). The album also has four still photographs for films by early avant-garde animator Norman McLaren: "Le Merle" (1958), "A Chairy Tale" (1957), "Blinkity Blank" (1955), and an unknown film, as… Read More

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1974. Two vintage black and white still reference photographs from the 1974 film. Both with mimeograph snipes on the verso, and one with a red press crop line at the right margin. Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, and nominated for four others, including Best Picture and Best Director. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677, dated June 7, 1956. Title page present, dated June 7, 1956, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate, bound with… Read More

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1982. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1982 film. Based on the popular Broadway musical (which was based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip "Little Orphan Annie"), with music by Charles Stouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and book by Thomas Meehan. Directed by John Huston, the only musical in his 40-year directing career, and featuring a blockbuster cast including Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Edward Hermann, and Ann Reinking, "Annie" received mixed reviews and only grossed $57 million, on a $50 million budget. A television sequel, "Annie: A Royal Adventure!" was released in 1995, Disney and Columbia Pictures made a television version in 1999, and Columbia would release another film adaptation in 2014. Nominated for two Academy Awards. Set in New York City. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1979. Original pressbook for the 1979 film. Loosely based on the 1899 novella "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. The ultimate reflection of the American experience in Vietnam, taking Joseph Conrad's dark vision of an expedition up the Congo and transplanting it to Vietnam-era Cambodia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning two. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on grueling location in the Philippines. Six pages, 7 x 11 inches. Near Fine, with light rubbing. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Godard, Histoire(s) du Cinema. Ebert I.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957. Vintage post-production Synopsis for the 1957 film. Based on the 1941 novel "Phantom Filly" by George Agnew Chamberlain. Troubled teen, Nick (Pat Boone), is forced to live and work on his uncle's Kentucky farm where he falls in love in their pretty neighbor Liz (Shirley Jones). Set in and shot on location in Lexington, Kentucky. Self-wrappers integral with title page, noted as Synopsis. Four leaves, with last page of text numbered 6. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing and edgewear, bound with single staple in upper left corner.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Archive of material from the 1928 film. From the estate of actor Monte Blue, who starred in the film. Included in the archive are a carbon typescript draft script, here under the working title "Southern Skies," four vintage photographs, each with a mimeo snipe on the verso, one with a press stamp as well, and a later, 1921 edition of the 1919 travel book by Frederick O'Brien which served as the source material for the film, signed and dated by Blue, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. MGM's first film with a fully prerecorded soundtrack, comprised of music and sound effects, including, most notably, the first time the company's mascot Leo the Lion roared at the film's start, White Shadows in the South Seas doesn't quite classify as a "talkie," as only the single whispered word "hello" appears in the soundtrack. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Set on a Polynesian Island, shot on location in Tahiti, at the time an… Read More

Hollywood: N.p., 1957. Vintage party kit produced by Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd in celebration of the first anniversary of the Los Angeles premiere of their 1957 film "Around the World in 80 Days." Kit includes an illustrated two-color bifold folder, which houses an introductory letter from "Liz and Mike," a two page instruction manual, and a bifold "Around the World Menu." Taylor and Todd were married on February 2, 1957, four months after the New York premiere of Todd's epic production "Around the World in 80 Days," which would go on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The couple spent much of their first year together celebrating and promoting the film. On the first anniversary of the film's release, Todd threw a party at Madison Square Garden, attended by 18,000 people, and featured on a 90-minute CBS telecast. The broadcast was a "spectacular flop," according to Life magazine, and in response Taylor and Todd took this decidedly different (and flippant) approach to the… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Three vintage vintage black-and-white double weight matte finish studio still reference photographs from the 1948 film. From the collection of actor Van Heflin, who played Thomas Brett in the film, in his personal tabbed file folder. Numerical rubber stamps on the versos. Based on John P. Marquand's 1946 novel. Released in the UK as "Polly Fulton," because "B.F" is a British euphemism for "bloody fool." Polly (Stanwyck) is the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, about to marry a lawyer. Then she meets Tom (Heflin), who blames the world's problems on the rich. Despite their differences, they fall in love and marry. WWII takes Tom to the nation's capital, and their relationship begins to spiral into turmoil. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.

N.p.: Afton-Linebrook, 1960. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1960 film. Extremely watchable trash, a big-budget film with lowdown agenda, and the last film in which Elizabeth Taylor, who won an Oscar for her performance, could have been accurately described as young and radiant. Something of an American answer to De Sica's "Madame De..." with the object in question being a fur coat rather than a pair of earrings. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with extensive annotations to the verso in red felt-tipped ink, blue ink, and manuscript graphite.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1960. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Five with printed mimeo snipes on the verso. Loosely based on John O'Hara's 1935 novel. A promiscuous New York model falls in love with a married man following an illicit one-night stand. The most successful MGM release of 1960, well-received by most audiences, save actress Elizabeth Taylor herself, who called the film "Butterball Four" in private. Nevertheless, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Taylor her first Oscar for Best Actress. Set and shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1939. Vintage photograph from the 1939 film musical, based on the 1937 Rogers and Hart Broadway musical play of the same name. With a printed snipe on the verso, along with the stamp of Culver Pictures photo bureau, a date stamp of "Dec 1939," and manuscript annotations regarding layout. Rooney and Garland sing "God's Country" from the finale of the musical, in a scene spoofing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the FDR's fireside chats. This scene was cut from the film after Roosevelt's death, and believed lost until it was rediscovered and restored in 1990s. Rooney received a Best Actor nomination for his role in the film. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good. Pinholes to the corners, with pinholes at the corners and light wear to the margins. Hirschhorn, p. 167.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film, here under the working title "The Big Cast." Nominated for an Academy Award. Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. An opera singer is drafted into the army, where he faces favoritism to the chagrin of his comrades. He falls for the sister of his Seargent, who wishes for Rossano to appraise his sister's singing voice. Yellow titled wrappers, rubber-stamped production No. 1553, dated July 16, 1951, with credits for director Al Hall, and screenwriters Karl Tunberg, and Leonard Spigelgass. Title page present, dated July 16, 1951. 120 leaves, with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Hirschhorn 327.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1963. Revised Draft script for the 1964 film. With a few manuscript pencil annotations throughout, mostly relating to line revisions and props. Based on the 1959 French play by Jean Anouilh. King Henry II's malcontent relationship with the Church leads to the appointment of his close friend Thomas Becket as the Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry does not anticipate, however, how seriously Becket will take the vocation, leading to the dissolution of their friendship in the face of Becket's rising political power. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay. Set in England and France. Beige titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 12th February, 1963, noted as REVISED. 157 leaves, with last page of text numbered 155. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with some rusting near the binding, bound internally with three silver brads.

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1964. Original Pressbook for the 1964 film. Unique for a pressbook, with a folding front page and a coloring contest (to have been used as a herald by distributors). Based on Jean Anouilh's 1959 play. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and nominated for 11 more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and twice for Best Actor. It would be the first of two times O'Toole was nominated for portraying Henry II, the other being in 1968 for "The Lion in Winter." 18 pages, saddle-stapled, 12.25 x 15 inches. Rust to the staples, else Near Fine.