Search Results: Producers from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Archive of materials for "The Society," an short-lived film production organization looking to produce "films which are agreeable and acceptable to all audiences [...] the classic western, the detective story, the family comedy, the simple uncomplicated love story, the science fiction thriller and always the Halloween Eve horror thriller." To our knowledge the organization never produced a completed film, thus remaining entirely conceptual. Archive includes five copies of an introductory pamphlet discussing the group's goals and prospective production costs, values, and procedures, as well as two treatment scripts for two unproduced films, "The Seven Inch Wilderness" and "The Irish Game." "The Seven Inch Wilderness" is based on Danish-American novelist Ib Melchior's 1980 science fiction novel "The Marcus Device," about a test pilot who suffers amnesia when his experimental plane crashes. "The Irish Game" was based on a novel by J.R. Lowell about a young Irishman who starts a… Read More

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], 1976. First Draft script in two volumes for the 1976 television miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's 1975 novel. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board of each volume. Boris Sagal directed this star-studded miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's fastidious novel. The laboriously researched story follows the happenings at a major bank, with heavy emphasis on interpersonal drama. Nominated for five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series, winning Lead Actor for Christopher Plummer. Volume I: Green calf boards with guilt titles and rule. Title page present, dated May 18, 1976, noted as First Draft, with credits for screenwriters Dean Rieser and Stanford Whitmore. 221 leaves, with last page of text numbered 203. Mimeograph duplication, with blue, pink, and yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/26/76 and 6/25/76. Pages Fine, wrapper Fine. Volume II: Green faux leather… Read More

Hollywood: Paramount Television, 1976. Third Revised Final Draft script for the pilot of an 1976 unproduced television series. Presentation script belonging to producer Ross Hunter with Hunter's name on the front board. A comedy about the house hold of a 45 year old widowed man with two daughters, ages 12 and 20, who is remarried to a woman just a few years older than his eldest daughter. Green faux leather covered boards with gilt titles and rule. Title page present, dated February 13, 1976, noted as 3rd Revised Final Draft, with credits for screenwriters Elliot Shoenman and Norman Steinberg. 90 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine, boards Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Four vintage black-and-white press photographs of Lester Cowan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Hernan Santa Cruz (former Chilean UN Ambassador), and author Enrique Campos Menendez, signing a contract for the proposed film "Bolivar." The film was set to portray the life of Simon Bolivar, the Venezelan military and political lead of the 19th century, though the film never went into production. One photo shows Cowan and the others signing a contract (with a press release note in manuscript ink affixed to the verso), one features a portrait of Cruz, one a reproduction of a painting of Bolivar, and one features Roosevelt, Jr., shaking hands with Cruz before a statue of Bolivar. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with curling and light toning.

New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Southern to noted producer Si Litvinoff and his wife Toy on the front endpaper: "To Seymour and Toy with greatest admiration / Terry Southern." The two men collaborated on an unproduced version of "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), to be produced by Litvinoff and adapted for the screen by Southern, based on the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. It was Litvinoff who arranged for Southern's option purchase for the rights to the novel in 1965. Southern originally intended to have Richard Lester or Nicholas Roeg direct the film, and have Mick Jagger star as Alex (with the Rolling Stones as the gang of Droogs). However, the project fell apart and was picked up by Kubrick and Warner Brothers three years later. A fine association. "The Magic Christian" is the basis for the wild 1969 film starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Richard Attenborough, Roman Polanski and many others. About Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Book is Near Fine… Read More

Beverly Hills, CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment, 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper," seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy, SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton, producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd, cast members Lance Henriksen, Adam Solomon, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan Blom, editor Harry Hitner, production designer Jeremy Levine, stunt coordinator Anthony Cecere, makeup artists James Barr and Paul Jones, and more. A science lab in a remote desert location attempts to create a superhuman by reanimating a corpse, but the end result is an uncontrollably violent monster zombie. Although marketed as a sequel to "The Hills Have Eyes" and "The Hills Have Eyes II," the only true link between the three films is Wes Craven's name. Shot on location in Bulgaria and Canada. Tall white titled self wrappers, lacking rear wrapper presumably as issued, noted as REVISED SHOOTING DRAFT… Read More

N.p.: Roger Corman Productions, 1972. Revised Draft script for the 1972 film, seen here under the working title "Canyons." Copy belonging to character actor and longtime Roger Corman collaborator Dick Miller, with his manuscript ink and pencil annotations to pages 48 and 50A, as well as copied annotations on nearly every page. From the estate of Dick Miller. The third film in Corman's "nurses" film cycle, preceded by "The Student Nurses" (1971) and "Private Duty Nurses" (1971) and followed by "The Young Nurses" (1973) and "Candy Stripe Nurses" (1975). Blue untitled card wrappers, with a manuscript ink annotation to the top right corner of the front wrapper, noting copy No. 22. Title page present, dated Feb. 22, 1972, noted as Rewrite. 115 leaves, with last page of text numbered 113. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, with light foxing on the front wrapper and first three leaves, bound internally with three silver brads.

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Vintage matte-finish photograph of Canadian-American film mogul Jack Warner and Warner Brothers sales manager J. Walton Brown in conversation with an unknown third man, circa 1938. With the stamp of photographer Schuyler Crail on the verso, along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, evenly toned overall, with tape reinforcements to the top corners of the verso.

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage candid photograph of Hollywood producers Darryl F. Zanuck and Louis B. Mayer attending a formal event, circa 1930s. With a mimeo snipe on the verso, along with the provenance stamp of collector Lester Glassner. Shortly after leaving Warner Brothers in 1933 over a salary dispute, Zanuck formed Twentieth Century Pictures with Mayer, then president of Loew's, Inc. and its subsidiary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 4 x 5 inches, mounted on a 5 x 6.25 piece of paper. Very Good plus, lightly toned and slightly wavy.

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage double weight portrait photograph of playwright, screenwriter, and actor Bartlett Cormack, circa 1930s. Stamp of Los Angeles studio photographer Ray Huff on the verso. Cormack wrote his best-remembered play, "The Racket," in 1927. The work would go on to be adapted twice for film: once in 1928 as a silent film, and once in 1951 as a film noir starring Robert Mitchum. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, lightly age-toned.

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage photograph of Sir Alexander Korda at Shepperton Studios circa 1950. With manuscript annotations, and a Huntley Film Archive address sticker on the verso. Korda was born in Hungary and began his career in the Austrian and German film industries. He worked in Hollywood in the late 1920s before relocating to London, where he quickly became one of Britain's most prominent filmmakers. He was the founder of London Films and later was the owner of British Lion films. He produced "The Fallen Idol" (1948) and "The Third Man" (1949) at Shepperton Studios. Both films were very well received, "The Third Man" winning the Academy Award for best cinematography in 1951. 8 x 10 inches Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage photograph of producer Darryl F. Zanuck holding an Academy Award, circa 1940s. Zanuck was nominated for fifteen Academy Award-nominated pictures throughout his extensive tenure as a Hollywood producer, winning three: "How Green Was My Valley" in 1941, "Gentleman's Agreement" in 1947, and "All About Eve" in 1950. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with a light diagonal crease affecting the upper portion of the photograph.

N.p.: N.p., 1937. Vintage borderless photograph of film producer Adolph Zukor, circa 1937. With a printed mimeo snipe dated Jan. 25, 1937 affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of photography agency Underwood and Underwood. Austro-Hungarian-born producer Zukor established Paramount Pictures in 1916 alongside Jesse Lasky and William Wadsworth Hodkinson. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, slightly wavy, with light edgewear.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] / United Artists, 1980. Vintage large format color negative, produced circa 1981, showing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's production logo, with the studio's longtime motto, "Ars Gratia Artis," replaced by the joint studio name "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists." From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. There have been eight different lions used for the MGM logo since its creation by designer Howard Dietz in 1924, beginning with Slats, a lion born at the Dublin Zoo in 1919. United Artists was sold to Transamerica Corporation in 1967, who would sell the studio to Kirk Kerkorian (the then-current owner of MGM) in 1981. The MGM / UA mascot variant does not appear to have been widely used. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage photograph of director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and producer Darryl F. Zanuck, circa 1950. Mimeo snipe with manuscript annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Joseph L. Mankiewicz holds a copy of the 1941 novel "The Keys of The Kingdom" by A.J. Cronin which he adapted for the screen in 1944. Mankiewicz and Zanuck worked together on the films "No Way Out" and "All About Eve," both debuted in 1950. 7 x 5 inches Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1930. Vintage photograph of actress Norma Shearer and her husband, MGM producer Irving Thalberg, aboard a ship traveling to Europe, circa 1930. Mimeo snipe in French on the verso. In 1923, Thalberg, then a producer at Louis B. Mayer Pictures, invited Shearer to come sign with the studio. After four years working together the pair would marry, purportedly attributable to Shearer's determination to win Thalberg's heart. The couple would remain married until Thalberg's unexpected death of pneumonia in 1936, at the age of 37. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Lightly age toned, else Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of studio executive Darryl F. Zanuck, circa 1940s. With the provenance stamp of collector Lester Glassner on the verso, along with manuscript ink and pencil annotations identifying Zanuck. 7.5 x 9 inches. Near Fine.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1946. Vintage photograph of producer and screenwriter Virginia Van Upp, circa 1946. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of National Film Archives. Van Upp began her career in Hollywood as a script reader and editor, gradually working her way up to become a screenwriter, agent, and casting director. At 43 she was named Executive Producer of Columbia Pictures, becoming one of the few woman producers in the film industry at the time. She was best known for producing and co-writing "Gilda" (1946). 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned.

N.p.: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph of Walt Disney shaking hands with RKO Chairman Merlin Aylesworth, while RKO president Ned Depinet looks on to the right. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. RKO entered into a distribution deal with Disney in 1936, and for the next two decades would release Disney's features and shorts, including "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" (1937), one of the highest grossing films of the period. 9.25 x 7 inches. About Near Fine.

New York: International News Photos, 1946. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of actor Bert Lahr with producer Michael Todd and other producers, circa 1946. With the stamp of International News Photos to the verso. The group was likely in talks for a planned musical revue produced by Todd and set to star Lahr, called "Face and Body," which ultimately never came to fruition. Over the course of his short career in show business, Todd worked as a producer for theatre and film, most notably producing the 1956 Academy Award-winning film "Around the World in 80 Days." He is perhaps best remembered now as Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, the only one whom she did not divorce (Todd died in a plane accident a year after their marriage). 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with a few short closed tears to the left edge, and a small bruise to the bottom right corner.