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Screenplay Books & Ephemera
SAND PEBBLES, THE (Nov 1, 1965) Shooting script by Robert Anderson
by Robert Anderson
[Hollywood]: Twentieth Century Fox, November 1, 1965. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), 188 pp., printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph. There is much wear and spotting to yapped wrappers, especially at edges and along spine, with blank back wrapper detached although present. This script was heavily used by a crew member from the wardrobe department, with extensive annotations throughout in marker or pen to indicate what the characters were wearing. Also, many pages have had...
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£930.70
ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (1941) Set of 3 oversize photos
by RKO
[Hollywood: RKO Pictures, 1941]. Set of three (3) vintage original 13 1/2 x 10 1/2" (34.5 x 27 cm.) double weight black-and-white print still photos. Two of the three have studio text affixed on verso, JUST ABOUT FINE.Director William Dieterle's adaptation of the Stephen Vincent Benet short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster". One photo is a portrait of Walter Huston, who plays "Scratch" (the Devil), another is of Edward Arnold as Daniel Webster, and the third shows in foreground James Craig and Anne...
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BRAVE NEW WORLD, PART I & II (1978) Set of 2 revised draft scripts
by Robert E. Thompson, Doran William Cannon, Aldous Huxley (source)
Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Aldous Huxley (source) Robert E. Thompson (screenwriter) Set of two (2) vintage original revised draft scripts, USA. [Hollywood]: Universal Studios, 1978. Two volumes, brad bound, printed wrappers, quarto,.[1],118;[1],119-234. Revised drafts of scripts for what was originally conceived as a two part mini-series, but aired on television in the U.S. in March of 1980 as an abridged, single 3-hour film. The BBC, however, broadcast the uncut version in March of...
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DOSTOEVSKY. A SCREENPLAY bound with KING DOG. A SCREENPLAY
by CARVER, Raymond & GALLAGHER, Tess; LeGUIN, Ursula
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1985. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Pictorial wrappers. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED on a tipped-in leaf by both authors. Bound dos-a-dos with Ursula LeGuin's KING DOG. A SCREENPLAY, also one of 200 SIGNED.
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£151.74
HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY: THE SCREENPLAY
by Dunne, Philip, (Richard Llewllyn)
Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 1990. First edition thus, Based on the book by Richard Llewllyn, Screenplay for the film directed by John Ford which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. SIGNED BY DUNNE. Illustrated with stills from the movie, many of which were deleted from the final cut, and includes a lengthy essay by Dunne on the making of the film. One of only 1000 copies in the trade edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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£60.70
PAT AND MIKE (1952) Film script by Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin dated Jun 6, 1951
by Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (screenwriters) George Cukor (director) Vintage original film script, USA. Culver City: MGM, June 6, 1951. Quarto, printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, chipping to blank back wrapper, 142 pp., overall NEAR FINE. Pat and Mike was the second romantic comedy written for director George Cukor by the married screenwriting team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin that was specifically tailored for its stars, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who were friends of Gordon and Kanin....
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£2,023.25
LONG WALK HOME, THE (1990) 2nd draft script dated Oct 13, 1988
by John Cork
Softcover/Paperback. Fine. Manuscript (African American film) Vintage original Second Draft film script by John Cork, USA. Los Angeles: Dave Bell Associates, October 13, 1988. Plain wrappers, 112 pp., NEAR FINE. Whoopi Goldberg starred as a maid/nanny for a white family in Montgomery, Alabama, at the time of the city's 1955 bus boycott. The film was released to generally very positive reviews, and remains one of Goldberg's best-remembered films of the period.
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£303.49
All about Eve A screenplay
by Mankiewicz, Joseph L
NY. Very Good with no dust jacket; No DJ. Boards show minor wear but nothing . major. Hinges are tight and pages are clean. ; Hardcover; Random House; . 1951. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 245 p. .
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£52.60
SLEEP ON THE ROOF (1967) Unproduced script based on the life of Margaret Sanger
by Marcia F. Cohen
No binding. Very Good. Manuscript Margaret Sanger (subject) Story and Screenplay by Marcia F. Cohen dated May 19, 1967. Vintage film script, quarto. 128 pp., in plain stiff wrappers, bolt bound, with typed label affixed. Mimeograph on blue paper, with some scattered MS revisions in Cohen's hand, and a few pages of revisions on onionskin paper. An unproduced screenplay for the life of Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was an American nurse who became a birth control activist, sex educator,...
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ALL THE YOUNG MEN (Sep 15, 1959) Revised Final Draft script by Hall Bartlett
by Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (screenwriter) Hollywood: Columbia Pictures. Brad bound, quarto, mimeograph, 131 pp., a few penciled notes throughout, a few pages with markings in heavy pen, and some pages of revisions on yellow paper dated Sept. 22, 1959. Various editorial notes on back wrapper in an unknown hand, overall NEAR FINE.A Korean War film in which Sidney Poitier was second-billed in the role of a stalwart troop commander who is forced to deal with racism as well as incoming fire.
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£364.18
(Film noir) ONE WAY STREET (Sep 14, 1949) Revised first continuity script by Lawrence Kimble
by Lawrence Kimble
Universal. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1949. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), noted as Revised First Continuity script, here under the film's working title Death on a Side Street. That title has been struck through in pencil, with the film's final title One Way Street written just above it. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in manuscript pencil on a second title page. Brief annotations throughout in...
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£687.90
Galactica
by Glen A. Larson
1977. Softcover. Very Good. Black & white photocopy of an original color screenplay with conceptual artwork by Ralph McQuarrie
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£40.46
![THE DEFENCE [Defense]: A Screenplay; [Unproduced screenplay based on Nabokov's novel]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/862/561/1243561862.0.b.jpg)
THE DEFENCE [Defense]: A Screenplay; [Unproduced screenplay based on Nabokov's novel]
by Nabokov, Vladimir, Screenplay by Guy Cullingford and Jan Troell
No-place: no-publisher, 1974. First edition. 124-page unproduced screenplay dated April 1974. Xerox copy of typed script printed on rectos only; brad-bound in red card covers with "The Defence" handwritten on front cover and bottom page edge. Cullingford is the pseudonym of mystery writer Constance Lindsay Taylor, and Troell is the Swedish director whose 1971 film, "The Emigrants," was nominated for an Academy Award. About very good with light stains to covers and pages a little aged. Scarce to rare.
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£161.86
Heaven Can Wait. 2nd Draft screenplay
by Coppola, Francis Ford
1969. Screenplay by Coppola, based on the Harry Segall play (previously filmed as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941, and then in 1978 under this its original title).115 pages. Mimeographed, brad-fastened, covers with light edge wear, title and date inked on spine. Unproduced. This script was written for Bill Cosby, and he was to play a boxer in his first film role, a black version of the classic. Cosby's manager, Roy Silver, had bought the rights, and commissioned the script, but before Cosby was available,...
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LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, A (1973) Theatre script dated Mar 5, 1973
by Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler, Ingmar Bergman (source)
Softcover/Paperback. Very Good. Manuscript Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Playing version 5 March 1973. New York: Harold Prince. Vintage original theatre script, USA. Brad bound in leatherette printed wrappers for Studio Duplicating Service, Inc. Quarto, mimeograph, [1], 73, [1], 49 pp., wear to yapped covers at edges and also near bottom (where there is some damage to a blank area), stains to title page, the rest of the text is...
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£809.30
The Bat". Screenplay
by Perelman, S.J. and Laura Perelman
Hollywood, 1940. First draft typescript (ribbon copy on Fidelity onion skin paper). 84 pages. Brad-fastened into textured paper covers from The Orsatti Agency, with typed cover label. Screen adaptation of the popular 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, which itself was adapted from her 1908 classic mystery "The Circular Staircase". A silent version had been produced in 1926, and a 1930 version was entitled "The Bat Whispers" served as an inspiration to Bob Kane in the creation of...
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£890.23
![SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTS BACK [released as: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON] (1942) Screenplay](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/567/1349567493.0.b.jpg)
SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTS BACK [released as: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON] (1942) Screenplay
by Scott Darling, Edward T. Lowe, SIr Arthur Conan Doyle (source)
Screenplay by Scott Darling & Edward T. Lowe, based on a free adaptation of "The Dancing Men" (later "The Adventure of the Dancing Men") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, released as SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON [Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 22 May-17 June 1942. [1],110 leaves plus numerous numbered or lettered revised inserts or appended leaves. Quarto. Original carbon typescript on rectos only of onion skin stock denoted "Contract File Copy" in red. Brad bound in typed wrappers (neatly...
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THE MIGHTY BARNUM: A Screen Play
by Fowler, Gene, and Bess Meredyth
New York: Covici Freide, (1934). First edition. Illustrated with photographs from the movie. Touted as "the first full-length scenario for an actual talking picture production to be published in book form." If not the first screenplay to published in book form, certainly among the very earliest. INSCRIBED TO A MAJOR BOOK COLLECTOR BY FOWLER, "To that assidious and clever collector, and my friend as well, Earle Bernheimer. Gene Fowler 1947." Bernheimer was part owner of a film company and a patron of...
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![ESCAPADE [working title for: A WARM DECEMBER] (Jun 11, 1971) Revised First Draft screenplay](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/900/553/1403553900.0.b.jpg)
ESCAPADE [working title for: A WARM DECEMBER] (Jun 11, 1971) Revised First Draft screenplay
by Lawrence Roman
Universal City: Vernon Productions, June 11, 1971. Vintage original film script by Lawrence Roman, printed wrappers, 11 x 8 1/2" (28 x 22 cm.), brad bound, 119 pp. Stains to outer wrappers, JUST ABOUT FINE in VERY GOOD wrappers.A romance film starring Sidney Poitier as a widowed American doctor living in London who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of an African diplomat, played by Esther Anderson. Bogle, Blacks in American Films, p. 227:"Seldom has a black woman been [up to that point in film...
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SEARCHING WIND, THE (1946) Final White script by Lillian Hellman, November 7, 1945
by Lillian Hellman
Vintage original film script, quarto, studio mimegoraph, 133 pp., bound into folder with metal clasps, title page torn and partly detached, some staining to last 30 or so pages, VERY GOOD. Robert Young, Sylvia Sidney, dir: William Dieterle; Paramount. "Final White," November 7, 1945. One of a few screenplays entirely credited to Lillian Hellman, this one adapted from her play of the same name. This movie is about an American diplomat who reflects on mistakes he made in the years prior to World War II....
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FORREST GUMP (Apr 23, 1992) Second Draft screenplay adapted by Eric Roth
by Eric Roth
Paramount. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. [Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1992]. Vintage original film script, quarto, brad bound, 139 pp., with a blank back wrapper. Title page a bit soiled with marginal creasing, overall near fine or better. The title page states Second Draft, 4/23/92, and credits the screenplay to Eric Roth.
Winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Picture, Forrest Gump presents an epic cultural history of the United States from roughly the end of World War II through the 1980s as... Read more about this item
Winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Picture, Forrest Gump presents an epic cultural history of the United States from roughly the end of World War II through the 1980s as... Read more about this item
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SORCERER (ca. 1975) Script by Walon Green based on Georges Arnaud novel
by Walon Green, Georges Arnaud (source)
William Friedkin (director) A Screenplay by Walon Green, based on the novel Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) by Georges Arnaud. ND (ca. 1975) Vintage original film script, quarto, mimeograph, plain stiff wrappers, 200 pp. Wear to edges of blank wrappers, title labeled in ink on spine, FINE in VERY GOOD+ wrappers. Script belonged to art director Alex Tavoularis, who has had a distinguished career, but does not seem to have actually worked on this film.
Walon Green was born in Baltimore, MD on... Read more about this item
Walon Green was born in Baltimore, MD on... Read more about this item
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£606.98
Agnès Varda (screenwriter, director) LES CRÉATURES (1966) Film script
by Agnès Varda (writer, director)
[Paris: Agnès Varda, 1966]. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 1/4" (28 x 21 cm.), Tan untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for director Agnès Varda. 229 leaves, with last page of text numbered 227. Mimeographed, rectos only. Pages near fine, wrapper very good, with soil to the front wrapper, bound with two gold brads. With a single holograph ink notation to the front wrapper. Laid in with the script is a set of seven typed revision pages, lightly marked with holograph ink notation...
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WONDERFUL TOWN (1958) TV script dated Nov 19, 1958 for live production
by Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields (source)
Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Fields (source) Vintage original television script, USA. New York: Fields Productions/CBS, 19 November 1958. [4],197,[1] leaves plus lettered inserts, etc. Quarto, mixed mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Some use and creasing, pencil annotations throughout. Script was never bound, and shows various creases throughout, VERY GOOD. A script utilized in the course of the production of the November 1958 television broadcast of Chodorov and Field's musical hit (which was...
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WINGS OF EAGLES, THE (1957) Two variant film scripts
by Frank Fenton
John Ford (director) Frank Fenton (screenwriter) Culver City: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 21 July - 4 October 1955 and 20 February - 11 July [rerun 27 July] 1956. Two volumes. 116 leaves, plus duplicate leaf 116 printing variant text; and [1],123 leaves, plus lettered inserts. Quarto. The first comprised of carbon typescript on yellow paper (with each leaf marked 'Permanent Script File' in red), and mimeographed typescript, text on rectos only. Brad bound in studio wrappers, with studio labels and stamps. A few...
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