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N.p.: N.p., 1983. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in with the script is a typescript letter from screenwriter Les White to talent agent Walter Kohner, introducing the script. A comedy following the stunted entry into maturity of several young adults who have decided, for various reasons, to move back in with their parents indefinitely. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. A new school for native children has been built on the reservation but no parents want to send their children, distrusting the white establishment. An old scout seeks out a chief, who is an old friend, to convince him to send his children to the school. … Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1980. Final Draft script for the 1981 film. A newspaper reporter from Chicago falls in love with a strong-willed, reclusive scientist in the Rockies. The second of two collaborations between producer Steven Spielberg and actor John Belushi, following "1941" in 1979. Set and shot on location in Chicago and the Rocky… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced musical film. A young nun from a small European village runs away with a traveling Romani acrobat in hopes of seeing a performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Screenwriter Leslie Bricusse was best known as a composer and lyricist for musical films in the late 1960s and 1970s, including "Doctor… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1964. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1964 film. Manuscript annotations in ink and pencil to the title page. A love-them-and-leave-them womanizer meets a man equal in skill at deceiving women, but with an added knack for conning them out of money. The two men attempt to seduce a naive American woman… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Vintage promotional folder for the 1950 film. From the archive of songwriter Bert Kalmar, whose life is depicted in the film. A lighthearted biopic about twentieth-century songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. The pair is today best remembered for their work on several Marx Brothers endeavors, including the stage production… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Draft script for the 1977 film. Laid in with the script is a small handwritten note regarding the script's content. Based on the 1967 novel by Scott O'Dell. A young man discovers a beautiful, valuable black pearl which leads to trouble for his village. Shot on location in the Bahamas and Spain. … Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Television, 1979. Draft script for the 1980 television film, here under the working title "A Member of the Family." With a few annotations in manuscript ink. Laid in is an interoffice memo regarding actor Martin Sheen. After his wife leaves, a father struggles with keeping both his life and the lives of his children… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Original printed manuscript for the 1977 book. A biography of noted Czech-American talent agent and producer Paul Kohner, written by his brother, the screenwriter Frederick Kohner. Throughout his sixty-year career Kohner worked with a stable of Golden Age luminaries, including Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, John Huston, Billy Wilder, and more, and was… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 2000. Third Draft script for the pilot episode of the 2002 television series, which originally aired on July 17 on the Bravo Network. The series aired for a brief, one-season run, and followed the team members of a fictional 24-hour cable news television network named "I-24." Set in Milwaukee, and shot on location… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1987. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With manuscript ink annotations throughout, most editorial in nature. Loosely based on Clifford D. Simak's 1963 novel, which follows a Civil War veteran who is chosen by an alien to monitor an intergalactic way station in exchange for immortality. Set in Pennsylvania. … Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1984. Final Draft script for the 1984 film. A talented but reckless Detroit detective heads to Beverly Hills to conduct an unauthorized sting operation to find the man who killed his childhood friend, uncovering a lucrative drug smuggling operation in the process. Originally intended to be a star vehicle for actor Sylvester Stallone,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Treatment script for an unproduced television series. An elite team of beautiful, highly educated young women work in tandem with an international hotel chain to provide services for guests upon request-whether that be a dining date, private hostess, tennis partner, interpreter, or whatever "the busy traveler far away from home" needs. Red untitled… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced television film. With a single manuscript pencil deletion to page I-7. An American Indian man arrives at the White House, claiming the land is rightfully his and demanding recompense for the years of missed rent. Screenwriter Jack Lewis was best known for "The Amazing Transparent Man" (1960) and for… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Television, 1979. Draft script for the 1979 television film. A blue-collar worker seeks vengeance when his wife and child are wrongfully murdered in a police raid by a ruthless narcotics officer. The officer shows no remorse and is not punished, leaving the worker to take the law into his own hands. Winner of one… Read more about this item

N.p.: Blue Period Productions, 1989. Draft script for the fifth episode of season two of the 1989-1990 television series. The series followed B.L. Stryker, a private eye who lives on a houseboat in southern Florida. In this episode, which originally aired on March 10, 1990, on ABC, Stryker must resolve a hostage situation. Shot in… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Brandman Productions, 1995. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1995 novel by Robert B. Parker, the 22nd book in Parker's Spenser series. In this entry, Spenser searches for a sergeant's wife, who has gone missing. Set in Boston. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credit for novelist and screenwriter… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1996. Draft script for the 1997 film. Copy belonging to an unknown cast or crew member, with their annotations in manuscript ink on the front wrapper and throughout, noting scenes with special effects. A recently paroled ex-con finds himself traveling home on a prison transport plane also carrying a group of high-risk… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., Unknown. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Based on the Old English epic poem. Screenwriter Frank P. Rosenberg was better known as a film producer and studio executive at Columbia Studios. Set in Scandinavia. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Frank P. Rosenberg. 27 leaves, with last page of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Archive of 86 QSL cards from 45 countries, housed in a 32 page generic scrapbook binding, from dedicated radio enthusiast Mark Murphy, 1954-1973, the majority of which dates from the late 1950s. The majority of the QSL cards are addressed to Murphy, at various addresses in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. QSL cards were sent… Read more about this item