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Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1936. Vintage studio still photograph of actor Roland Young from the 1936 British film. Based on screenwriter H.G. Wells' 1898 short story, following a skeptical British man who suddenly realizes that he has been granted godlike powers. Set in England, partially shot on location in San Francisco. … Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1938. Vintage reference photograph of actor Don Ameche from the 1938 film. With a mimeo snipe to the verso. A womanizing band leader and his manager are forced to land in a small village in Norway en route to Paris, where misunderstanding and romantic pathos ensues with a villager's daughter. Set… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1995. Shooting Script for the 1995 film, here under the working title "Me and My Shadow". Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including director Andy Tennant, screenwriter Rick Parks, and actors Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Steve Bosco. From the… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Imagine Entertainment, 1999. Final Draft script for the 2000 television pilot, which originally aired on NBC on February 14. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by members of the cast and crew, including screenwriter Noah Baumbach and actors Joanna Going, Sabrina Grdevich, Carlos Jacott, Heidi Schanz, and Eric Stoltz.… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1997. Draft script for the 1997 television film, which originally aired on CBS on November 24. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED by members of the cast and crew on the front wrapper, including Olympia Dukakis and Julie Hagerty. Laid in with the script is an inscribed borderless black-and-white photograph of actress… Read more

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 2007. Shooting Script for the 2008 comedy film, here under the working titles "Little Big Men" and "Big Brothers". Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, with her name on a printed label affixed to the title pages, and holograph ink annotations to the verso of page 110 noting revision sequences. From the collection… Read more

Los Angeles: Gracie Films, 2001. Shooting Draft script for the 2001 television episode, which originally aired on October 2 on ABC. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the title page by actress Joan Cusack: "Molly-- / my god you are so wonderful / Thank you for your ideas -- and your great smarts / Joan… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1995. Revised Draft script for the 1996 film. Copy belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, warmly INSCRIBED on the first twelve title pages by members of the cast and crew, including director Steve Rash and actress Whoopi Goldberg. From the collection of costume designer Molly Maginnis. A New York limousine driver is named "honorary… Read more

Minneapolis: Werc Werk Works, 2010. Original working script from the 2012 film belonging to costume designer Molly Maginnis, with her name on a handwritten slip of paper tucked into the front of the binder, including a Revised Draft script, a two-page xerographically duplicated document regarding costume fitting, and two photographs from the set of the film. Warmly INSCRIBED on… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Draft script for the 1963 film. Four street urchins bet weekly on the horse races and decide to steal a dime from the church one week in order to allow Jesus to be a partner in their scheme. They win an exorbitant amount, only to have the winning ticket float away… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm, 1984. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper and a few copied holograph annotations to page 59 and 60, noting grammatical revisions. A young pizza delivery worker falls for his new roommate, a single mother who wants to be an actress… Read more

Santa Monica, CA: Shepherd / Walter F. Parkes, 1984. Shooting script for the 1985 film, with rainbow revisions. A wealthy, womanizing playboy joins a Peace Corps mission to Thailand accompanied by a crew of all-American gomers as a last-minute escape from his gambling debts. The second unconventional buddy film for Tom Hanks and John Candy, following Ron Howard's… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1965. Early Draft script for the 1965 British comedy film. Based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. In 1818, the parents of 20 boys establish a tontine, a fund to go to the last surviving boy. It is now 1882 and only 2 elderly brothers are left, Joseph (Ralph… Read more

London: ITC, 1971. First Draft script for the 1972 British television film which aired on ABC on January 15, 1972 and was theatrically released in Europe. This early First Draft was written by screenwriter Philip Levene, best known for his screenwriting and consultant work on the television series "The Avengers" from 1965 to 1968. Levene did not receive screen… Read more

London: National Film Corporation, 1965. Second Draft script for the 1967 film, here under the working title "Female of the Species." Based on the adventurer character Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, which appeared in 24 novels and short stories, beginning with "Bull-Dog Drummond" (1920), created by H. C. McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper, and continued after his death, from… Read more

Culver City, CA: TriStar Pictures, 1986. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1986 film. A prototype of a military robot is struck by lightning and gains sentience. Through a series of comedic events the robot manages to thwart the soldiers looking for him, fake his own death, and live happily ever after with one of… Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Vintage half sheet poster for the 1957 film. Based on Terence Rattigan's 1953 play "The Sleeping Prince," about the visiting prince of a small (fictional) Balkan nation who falls in love with an American showgirl while in London. A notoriously difficult production, which forms the basis for two behind-the-scenes memoirs by Marilyn… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play which premiered at the Booth Theatre on May 5, 1974 for 177 performances, closing on October 5, 1974. Annotations in holograph pencil on title page, and on cast page for "Ravenswood," the first of the two one act plays in "Bad Habits," listing names adjacent to the characters. Two… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Treatment script for 1972 television film which aired on November 21, 1972 on CBS. Ribbon copy script, with illustrated front wrapper with annotation on top in holograph ink. Anthropologist Dr. Mercer Boley (Cornel Wilde) and his daughter Diana (Jennifer Salt) receive word of a mysterious skeleton unearthed in the desert and decide to excavate it… Read more

New York: Sheldon R. Lubliner/F. Wendell Minnick, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 musical, which was to premiere at the Palace but closed during its out-of-town tryout, and played The National Theatre in Washington, DC from January 1, 1978 to February 4, 1978. Copy number "#34" written in holograph marker on top corner of title page. The story… Read more