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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Director's Scrapbook
Fine or nearly so. One call sheet is signed by both Reed and Smits (and all the other actors). [JSP02; JHG2019]
Book ID: 206630More details Price: $500.00 -
Bustin' Loose. Here provisionally titled 'Family Dream'. Second draft screenplay.
First Edition Thus
Universal City Studios, Inc, 1979. 109 pages. "Bustin' Loose" was released in 1981 starring Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson. This copy is identified as Family Dream, No. 00545, Second Draft, August 10, 1979 on front cover. Based on an original story by Richard Pryor. One of not too many all Afro-American films with national circulation at the time. Owner's name on cover in holograph: "J. Elkins." An Aaron J. Elkins is credited with writing/creating some characters in the TV series "Gideon Oliver" (1989) starring Louis Gossett Jr. Bound with 3 brads. ISBN: 281AIB1048761.
First edition thus. A near fine copy in printed gray wrappers (paperback). Pages are light green. Covers are mildly soiled.
Book ID: 264015More details Price: $300.00 -
Doctor Dolittle Final Screenplay
A fine copy, bound with two brad brads, in studio covers printed with an image of the doctor and a Pushmi-pullyu. [JSP01]
Book ID: 207220More details Price: $300.00 -
Cannery Row (Film Script)
141 pages. Film script sent from Burbank Studios in 1978. This is the film adaptation of Steinbeck's novels, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, released in 1982 starring Nick Nolte and Debra Wenger, produced by Michael Phillips. Reproduced from typed copy. Punched sheets with prong fasteners. ISBN: 281AIB1047911.
Near fine copy. Rare early film script of this movie from Burbank Studios.
Book ID: 262795More details Price: $250.00 -
Vincent Price Self Portrait Signed
Single cream-colored sheet, 8-1/2 by 11. A self portrait in profile done with a black ink pen and signed by Price. ISBN: 281AIB1040393.
Short crease to top corner else fine. [JSP02]
Book ID: 204539More details Price: $250.00 -
Suddenly It's Spring [The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer] [Original Script]
[Los Angeles?]: Vanguard Films, 1945. 131 pages. Labeled the "first draft" of Sheldon's Acadamy Award-winning screenplay, here titled "Suddenly It's Spring" and released as "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" in 1947. The film starred Shirley Temple as a teen-ager attracted to an older man, played by Cary Grant. Myrna Loy plays Temple's older sister, a judge; Rudy Vallee plays a district attorney. The movie was part courtroom drama, part romantic comedy (albeit about a 17-year-old who falls for a man more than twice her age.
Sheldon had a long and productive career as a writer for TV and film, before branching out in the 1970s with a run of steamy romances that sold millions of copies. ISBN: 281AIB1041665.
Bradbound, with brads rusting. Small edge tears on front cover; distribution page receipt removed; two pages replaced on pink paper dated Dec. 4, 1945. [JSP02]
Book ID: 209567More details Price: $250.00 -
By Love Possessed [Screenplay]
Holywood, CA: Seven Arts - Mirisch, 1960. 118 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An early draft of the screenplay for the 1961 movie directed by John Sturges. This draft still bears Schnee's name; script changes by starring actress Lana Turner drove him crazy and the final film credits a pseudonym, "John Dennis." Schnee won an Academy Award in 1952 for The Bad and the Beautiful. Printed on typescript on one side (verso) only. ISBN: 281AIB1043558.
A very good copy. Bound with two brass round-head fasteners. Covers a bit stained, creased and unevenly toned, front cover clipped at one corner. [JSP02]
Book ID: 220195More details Price: $250.00 -
Exhibitor's Campaign Book Charles Chaplin's Limelight
First Edition
London: United Artists, 1952. 10 pages, pages 7-10 printed on recto only. Movie starring Charles Chaplin, Clare Bloom with Buster Keaton. The first and only time Chaplin and fellow silent film actor Buster Keaton appeared together. The only Chaplin film to win an Academy Award (albeit for the original score of the 1972 re-release). Title page, pp 2-3: exploitation; pp. 4-5: press adverts; page 6: cast and credits; page 7: synopsis; pp. 8-10: editorials. ISBN: 281AIB1050359.
First edition (first printing). Very good in color illustrated wrappers (paperback), stapled. Pp. 3-4 have 2 press adverts removed. Pp. 3-6 are loose. Pp. 7-10 are stapled at top to rear of wrapper. Clear tape applied to wrapper spine. Folded once in the middle. Scarce.
Book ID: 266922More details Price: $200.00 -
Aguila o Sol (Heads or Tails) (movie poster)
First Edition
Los Angeles: Azteca Films, Inc, 1937. Poster, 36.5 x 26 inches. Printed in dramatic color but on fragile paper. Mario Moreno's (a.k.a. Cantinflas) third film and second with co-star Model. This film named as among the '100 best movies of the cinema of Mexico.'. ISBN: 281AIB1050576.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy. Poster has been folded into quarters and then in half. There are closed tears at center fold intersections and at poster lower center fold.
Book ID: 267193More details Price: $200.00 -
[Starta saunda, kyamera, ayaksan] (Start Sound, Camera, Action)
First Edition
Calcutta: De'ja Pabalisim, 1995. 178 pages plus 20 pages of photographs (8 pages in color). The memoirs (in Bengali) of a prolific Bollywood screenwriter, with more than 90 films to his credit. ISBN: 9788170797234.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket. With a long inscription from Bhaumika to the poet and songwriter (and Golden Globe winner for film score) Rod McKuen. A Christmas card and several notes to McKuen from the author are also laid in. An uncommon Bollywood book.
Book ID: 147166More details Price: $187.50 -
Texasville (Screenplay)
First Edition
Los Angeles: Crescent Moon Productions, 1988. 109 pages. Revised first draft of screenplay based on novel of same name by McMurtry. Movie was released in 1990 and starred Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd. ISBN: 281AIB1048792.
First edition (first printing) of this draft. A near fine copy in bradbound blue wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 264075More details Price: $160.00 -
Hud (movie poster)
First Edition
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1962. Poster, 40.5 x 27 inches, in color. Movie was directed by Martin Ritt and produced by Ritt and Irving Ravetch. Starring Paul Newman, Melvin Douglas and Patricia Neal. ISBN: 281AIB1050360.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Stamped on back of poster: " 'HUD' 1 SH. 63/117." On front at bottom of poster printed in ink: 63/670; 63/117. Poster with edge and corner wear, small edge chips confined to margins. Poster folded into eighths. Some tanning to one of rear panels.
Book ID: 266923More details Price: $160.00 -
Encyclopedia of Comedy with Index for Use with The Plot Genie
First Edition
Los Angeles: Ernest E. Gagnon Company, 1936. 320 pages. The classic guide to plotting farce comdies, with lists of stock characters, situtations, and problems. Pick from each list and all you have to do is write the in-between bits. ISBN: B003N0O46K.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy, with worn corners. Plot Genie random spinner not present. This copy with a notable provenance, it comes from the librar of Beverly Hillbillies producer Paul Henning, with his address label on the front pastedown. From Henning it went to Robert Easton, who played recurring characters on the Beverly Hillbillies.
Book ID: 145448More details Price: $156.25 -
Dark Command: Cutting Continuity [Original Script]
New York: Republic Pictures Corp, [ca. 1940]. 99 pages. 8-1/4 by 14 inch sheets bound with two brass round-head fasteners. Post-production continuity script for the 1940 film adaptation starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Walter Pidgeon. It was the only film in which the Western icons Wayne and Rogers appeared together. Based on Burnett's 1938 novel. Printed recto only in typescript. ISBN: 281AIB1042959.
A very good copy. Bradbound. Top edges curled and snagged but not affecting text.
Book ID: 216446More details Price: $125.00 -
All Creatures Great and Small (screenplay)
London: Venedon Limited and Foote Cone & Belding Productions, (n.d. but 1974). 100 leaves, printed on one side only. 12 by 8-1/2 inches. Script from the 1975 British film starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins. Based on Herriot's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, which itself incorporates two books first released in the U. K. titled If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. ISBN: 281AIB1027033.
Very good, bound in a blue double-pronged folder with a paper sticker title label. One-inch faded strip that runs the length of the bottom front cover. Script number 76.
Book ID: 123307More details Price: $125.00 -
Samantha (A New Kind of Love) (screenplay)
N. Pl: 1962. The title 'Samantha' was later changed to "A New Kind of Love". Melville Shavelson wrote the screenplay and directed and produced the film which was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film starred Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward with Woodward receiving a nomination for Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture Actress in Musical/Comedy. ISBN: 281AIB1049301.
Presumed first edition before film title was changed. Very good copy on pink sheets. 131 loose pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, held on left side by 2 folding pins, printed on recto side only. Top sheet 'Cast Sheet' is loose. Some text pages have been folded down center.
Book ID: 264886More details Price: $120.00 -
Projectionist's Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2; Vol. 2, No. 1-4, 6-12; Vol. 3, No. 1-3, 5. (16 issues )
First Edition
London: Guild of British Kinema Projectionists and Technicians Ltd, 1932-1934. The Journal begins in November, 1932, with 4 pages; the December, 1932 issue is 8 pages and later expands to 12 and 16 pages. It was published monthly (with only 2 numbers in 1932). 12.25 x 9.25 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1051037.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Vol. 2, No.3 is missing pp 9-12. Other issues complete. Some of pages are loose and there is some edge and corner wear and closed tears but very good overall. Scarce.
Book ID: 267968More details Price: $120.00 -
The Red Pony: Screenplay
Los Angeles: Omnibus Productions, Inc, [1973]. 154 pages. This screenplay is credited only to Robert Totten, who directed the TV adaptation based on John Steinbeck's novella.. The final teleplay was also credited to Ron Bishop. The made-for-TV movie starred Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. ISBN: 281AIB1040048.
Very good to near fine in stiff studio wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Totten.
Book ID: 203105More details Price: $100.00 -
A King in New York (Campaign Book)
First Edition
London: Attica Film Company, 1957. One sheet, folded into thirds, 13.2 x 6.4 inches, when folded, creating 6 pages. With an additional order sheet, folded to create 4 pages, 12 x 6 inches when folded, with examples of posters and other advertising materials. Satirical British comedy with Chaplin in his last leading role, which co-stars, among others, his son, Michael. The film presents a satirical view of the McCarthy communist-hunt era and certain other aspects of United States politics and society. The film, which was produced in Europe after Chaplin's exile from the U.S. in 1952, did not open in the United States until 1972. ISBN: 281AIB1050530.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Closed tear along top cover fold.
Book ID: 267137More details Price: $100.00 -
Two for the Road (Dialogue and Continuity for film)
London: 20th Century Fox, 1967. 14 x 10 inch sheets, bound at top edge with folding steel pins, approximately 200 sheets, printed on one side only. A 20th Century Fox film, produced by Stanley Dorn, starring Audrey Hepburn and Michael Finney from 1987. Screenplay by Frederic Raphael who received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. Cover Title: "TWO FOR THE ROAD / Dialogue and Continuity. London 10th April 1967". ISBN: 281AIB1049299.
Very good copy in tan paper wrapppers. Ink lines and numbering with some notations made throughout pages.
Book ID: 264884More details Price: $100.00