Women Screenwriters from Royal Books, Inc.

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

Beverly Hills, CA: United Talent Agency, 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1992 film, here still noted as "Working Title" on the title page. Fraudulent Christian faith healer Jonas Nightengale (Steve Martin) makes a living swindling people as his revival meetings with the help of his friend and manager Jane (Debra Winger). When their truck breaks down… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. Based on Raphael Blau's unpublished story. Widow Abby Abbott (Loretta Young) and her teenage daughter Susan (Betty Lynn) support themselves on a trust fund started from her late husband. In order to get Susan the needed funds to pay for college tuition, Abby must enroll… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Final Draft script for the 1985 film. With a few annotations in holograph pencil throughout. A story of the interoffice politics and struggles that beleaguer the Chicago police department. Set in Chicago. Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated November 6, 1985, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters… Read more

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1959. Vintage press photograph from the 1959 film, showing actors Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada posing with a group beneath the exterior of the fictional "New Hiroshima Hotel". With a stamp for Cinemonde Archives and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout to the verso. The set of the "New Hiroshima Hotel", a key element in… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage photograph of noted gossip columnist and screenwriter Louella Parsons in 1949. With the stamp of photographer Michel Brodsky, as well as stamps of a French archive and holograph pencil annotations regarding layout and dated 26.5.49 on the verso. Louella Parsons was known as the first American gossip columnist and the so-called "Queen… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1931. Vintage photograph of Tallulah Bankhead from the 1931 pre-Code film. Based on the 1929 play "Her Past," by Frederic J. Jackson, about a woman who kills a man in self-defense and, after she is acquitted, moves to a new city to restart her life under an assumed identity. Shot at… Read more

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1932. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper. Based on the 1898 story by John Luther Long. An early screenplay by American playwright Zoe Akins, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935 for her adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Old Maid." An American naval officer purchases,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Revised Shooting script and storyboard for an unproduced film. It is finals week at a local university where the graduating seniors are hoping to leave college and graduate, for better or for worse. Screenwriters Mary Anne Kasica and Michael Scheff are known for the work on television and working together on… Read more

Italy / US: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Jill Clayburgh and director Bernardo Bertolucci on the set of the 1979 film. The son of a famous opera singer falls into heroin addiction, and his mother begins an incestuous relationship with him to help him kick the habit. … Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1962. Collection of 11 vintage single weight studio still photographs from 1962 (5 photos) and 1969 re-release (6 photos) of the 1954 film, under the title, "Student Prince." Starring actor Purdom, who played the prince, is prominently featured, sometimes sword fighting. One image from the set is shown. Please inquire for others.… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1923. Vintage photograph of Cecil B. Demille, Jeanie Macpherson and Jack Holt on the set of the 1923 film. With holograph annotations and rubber stamp of noted collector Gene Ringgold on the verso. Filmed in two parts, first is the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt to the Promised Land, receiving… Read more

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1947. Vintage photograph of director Charles Vidor and stars Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas speaking to Orson Welles on the set of the 1947 film. Welles was directing the classic Columbia Pictures film, "The Lady from Shanghai" at the same time. Mimeo snipe and agency stamps on the verso. Janet Ames (Rosalind Russell)… Read more

Paris: Parc Film, 1966. Vintage borderless photograph of director Agnes Varda and actor Catherine Deneuve on the set of the 1966 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A writer and his pregnant wife, mute from a car accident, move to a remote village while he works on a novel. Fantasy and reality, fact and fiction,… Read more

New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1955. First Edition. First Edition, two volumes bound in red cloth housed in a black cloth covered slipcase. Issued for Carl Van Vechten's 75th birthday. Warmly INSCRIBED by Van Vechten on the front endpaper of the first volume to noted screenwriter Anita Loos: "For Anita with admiration and love from Carl / Christmas, 1955… Read more

Nice: Studios de la Victorine, 1957. Original black-and-white single weight still photograph from the 1957 French film, here under the original title, "Une manche et la belle." Vidal and Demongeot are seen sunbathing worriedly on marble. Numerical annotations in holograph pencil, French film title, and Demongeot's and Vidal's names in holograph ink, on the versos. Noirish… Read more

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1931. First White script for the 1931 Pre-Code film. An early starring performance for Carole Lombard, made prior to her 1934 star breakthrough in Howard Hawks' "Twentieth Century." Included is a studio still photograph of Lombard and Lilyan Tashman from the film, with the unusual feature of having an associated quote from the scene added to… Read more

Paris: France Cinema, 1962. Collection of 14 original black-and-white film still photographs for the 1962 French-Italian film. Starring actoir Poiret is prominently featured, metal crutches in tow, with a few images of Saval and Maillan. All with numerical annotations in holograph pencil on the versos. Based on Annette Wademant's screenplay, one of twelve written by Wademant for… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to uncredited cast member Merritt Blake, with his name in holograph ink on the front wrapper. Jay Grobart (Reynolds) kills a man who raped and murdered his wife, Cat Dancing. He is arrested, but soon after is released and goes on a… Read more

Hollywood: Malabar, 1962. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1962 film. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. A group of hunters track and capture wild animals for a zoo, their job complicated by the arrival of a photojournalist. The film's scenes of animal capture, which consisted of chasing them down in jeeps until exhausted,… Read more