Women Screenwriters from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1989. Revised Draft script for the 1991 film, here under the working title "Little Havana." Copied annotations on title page of title, screenwriter, and "revised." One copied annotation regarding character on page 11 of script. Nestor (Jimmy Smits), recently released after years of being a political prisoner, flees Cuba to rejoin his wife Isabel (Greta Scacchi)… Read more

Sherman Oaks, CA: The New Ingot Company, 1988. Revised Draft script for the 1989 television film, which originally aired on April 24 on Turner Network Television. A dramatization of the life of noted twentieth century photographer Margaret Bourke-White, best remembered as the first Western photographer permitted to take photographs of Soviet industry in the 1930s. Shot on… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1939. Vintage reference photograph from the 1939 film, showing actors Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, and Jack Haley working to secure Frank Morgan's air balloon, moments before taking off from the Emerald City. With the stamps of Israel Film Archive on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. … Read more

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1926. Vintage program for the 1926 silent film. Based on the 1821 epic poem by Lord Byron, about legendary womanizer Don Juan. The first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to provide a musical soundtrack and sound effects (but not spoken dialogue). 12 x 9 inches. Six leaves, side… Read more

Berlin: Universum Film [UFA], 1927. Vintage reference photograph from the landmark 1927 silent film, showing masses of slaves constructing of the Tower of Babel. With the UFA logo to the bottom right corner. Based on the 1925 novel by director Fritz Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, who also adapted her novel for the screen. One of the… Read more

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1942 film, showing an elaborate ballroom scene, with director Alfred Hitchcock, cameraman Joseph Valentine, and actors Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings in conversation in the foreground. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A high spot among Alfred Hitchcock's early thrillers, and… Read more

N.p.: Vanguard Films, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced film by novelist and screenwriter Marian Cockrell. A romantic comedy set in the small town of Kenwood, Missouri. Cockrell is best known as screenwriter for Andre De Toth's 1945 film noir, "Dark Waters," and also for her television work for noted shows such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Batman." … Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1950. Vintage oversize borderless black and white publicity portrait photograph of James Stewart from the 1950 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Twentieth Century-Fox crediting photographer Frank Powolny. A man wins several substantial prizes on a radio quiz show, including a pony, washing machine,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1952. Vintage oversize borderless satin-finish reference photograph from the 1952 film, showing director-actor Gene Kelly and the cast during the "Broadway Melody Ballet" dance. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's exuberant Hollywood tale, widely considered one of the greatest American musical films, following the adventures and difficulties… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1962. Collection of five vintage press photographs of actress Jane Fonda from the 1962 film. Based on the 1960 play by Tennessee Williams. On their ill-fated honeymoon, George and Isabel visit George's war buddy, whose wife has just walked out on him. Director George Roy Hill's directorial debut, and a breakthrough role for Fonda. … Read more

New York: International Famous Agency, 1969. Draft script for an unproduced play from noted playwright and screenwriter Ruth Wolff. From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Wolff, a prolific and successful playwright since the late 1950s, is best known for her historical and biographical plays about famous women. "The Abdication," one of Wolff's most regarded plays,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the seminal 1963 film. Partial label on the verso. Based on the 1960 play by Warren Miller and Robert Rossen, which was based on Miller's 1959 novel. The second feature to be directed by independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke, following "The Connection" (1961). Both films were statements on the limitations of cinema… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1941. Vintage photograph of director King Vidor, his wife and screenwriter Elizabeth Hill, and actors Hedy Lamarr and Robert Young, taken to publicize the 1941 film. With provenance stamps on the verso, along with a stamp noting No. 81-422. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on John P. Marquand's… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage reference photograph of Will Wright, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy from the 1949 film. "Jacques Moreau" collection stamp and two "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer France, Inc." stamps on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best.… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1952. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1952 film, one showing actors Arthur Franz and Marie Windsor in conversation between takes, the other showing Franz and Windsor sitting with director Edward Dmytryk, assistant director Billy Reineck, dialogue director Lauren Gage, and script supervisor Frances McDowell. One with a mimeo snipe… Read more

Los Angeles: The Landsburg Company, 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 television film, which originally aired on May 1 on NBC. Here under the working title "Cindy." With holograph ink annotations on post-it notes attached throughout the script, most noting substantive changes. A police officer's daughter tries to hide her physically and emotionally abusive husband's behavior… Read more

London: Planet Film Productions, 1967. Final Shooting script for the 1967 film. Copy belonging to screenwriter Pip Baker, with his name in holograph ink to the top right corner of the front wrapper. Based on John Lymington's 1959 novel "Night of the Big Heat." In the dead of winter, the northern island of Fara experiences an unrelenting,… Read more

Culver City, CA: Loew's Incorporated, 1951. Draft script for the 1952 film. Script department copy, stamped as COMPLETE and RERUN JAN 3, 1952. With 94 small, borderless reference photographs tipped on the versos of script pages, and 23 additional photographs of the cast and crew on the set tipped on blank pages inserted after the end of the script,… Read more

Los Angeles: Fox Film, 1933. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1933 film. Based on the Broadway play by John L. Balderston, an American (Howard) sails to England to marry his cousin, follow the American victory in the war of independence. 149 years later, his descendent with the same name, also played by Howard,inherits his house in… Read more

Paris: Les Films du Carrosse, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Francois Truffaut, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, and cast and crew members on the set of the 1976 film. French and English printed snipe, and "Sygma," and photographer "Simonpietri" stamps on verso. An interrelated series of vignettes about the lives of children in a small French town, primarily using… Read more