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N.p.: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1974. Vintage Insert poster for the 1955 film. Italian director Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi torturer after a chance encounter, which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in secret in postwar Vienna. 14… Read more

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Vintage six sheet poster for the 1954 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Vina Delmar. Boarding house owner Mrs. Vivien Leslie (Shirley Booth) reminisces on her affair with the secretive George Leslie (Robert Ryan) and their annual retreats at an Big Sur. Set in Beverly Hills, California. 80 x 80.5… Read more

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Two double weight photographs from the 1977 film. With the stamp of photograph Alan Pappe to the versos. Struck by Pappe circa 1990s, from his archive. Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years, photographing a who's who of film and music stars, including iconic images of Sharon Tate,… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Treatment script for an unproduced film. Included with the script are four partially-bound identical sets of carbon typescript pages listing prospective filming locations and camerawork, and two smaller unbound leaves, one blank and one with holograph ink annotations to the recto. Screenwriter Vera Caspary was best known for her 1942 novel "Laura," the basis for… Read more

Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1980. Draft script for the 1980 television film. A well-to-do woman with high social standing falls for a construction worker with a gambling addiction. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographically… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the set of the 1985 film, showing director Susan Seidelman reviewing the script on location. A bored New Jersey housewife gets involved in the life of a free spirited New Yorker through a series of events involving farcical elements such as amnesia and mistaken identity. Madonna's first major screen… Read more

Culver City, CA: Culver Pictures, 1941. Vintage reference photograph of director William Wyler in conversation with actress Bette Davis and millionaire businessman and hotelier Victor Sassoon on the set of the 1941 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Culver Pictures. Based on Lillian Hellman's classic 1939 play, about the struggles… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1945. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1945 film, showing actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Cinema International Corporation. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A pair of sailors on shore leave in Hollywood help… Read more

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1948. Vintage pressbook for the 1948 musical film. Based on the 1942 Broadway play by S.N. Behrman. The singing leader of a traveling circus poses as a famed pirate in order to win the heart of a woman from a small Caribbean village. Set in Calvados. Ten pages, saddle… Read more

Burbank, CA: Buena Vista / Walt Disney Productions, 1960. Vintage pressbook for the 1960 film. Based on the 1880 children's book by James Otis Kaler. Unhappy with his life at a foster home, a young orphan runs away to join the circus. 26 pages, saddle stitched, 11.5 x 15 inches. Very Good plus, with faint… Read more

Santa Monica: RKO Radio Pictures, 1949. Vintage pressbook for the 1949 film. A veteran begins working at a New York department store in the weeks before Christmas, and begins a relationship with a comparative shopper for a rival store. An unusually benign role for actor Robert Mitchum, who purportedly took the part in order to rehabilitate his… Read more

N.p.: Lucasfilm, 1980. Vintage program for the 1980 film. The second entry in George Lucas' "Star Wars" trilogy, with the Rebel Alliance on the run from the Empire's minions after being defeated on the ice planet of Hoth. Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are persued by Darth… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Original studio still photograph of actress Charlotte Rampling and director Liliana Cavani on the set of the 1974 Italian film. Stamp of the British Film Institute on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing a topless Sandy Dennis. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1965 novel by Peter Miles, about a woman who becomes obsessed with a mute teenage boy. Director Robert Altman's breakthrough film. Shot on location in… Read more

Los Angeles: Dimension Pictures, 1973. Vintage pressbook for the 1973 film. A small offshore island houses a number of first-degree murderers after the abolition of the death penalty. One leaf, folded twice. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall.

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Collection of ten vintage oversize double-weight photographs from the French release of the 1974 Italian film. Director Liliana Cavani's international breakthrough, a deeply controversial film about a Holocaust survivor who renews her sadomasochistic sexual relationship with her Nazi captor after a chance encounter, which threatens to expose his fellow former SS officers now living in… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1920. Black and white photograph (struck circa 1960) of noted screenwriter and producer June Mathis with her husband, cinematographer Silvano Balboni, in 1922. With the stamp of National Film Archive in London on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Mathis was one of the top-paid executives in Hollywood… Read more

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Collection of five vintage studio still photographs from the UK release of the 1977 film. The film that started a multibillion dollar media empire (pun intended) which now includes ten additional live action films, animated shows, novels, comic books, video games, and countless tons of officially licensed merchandise, with no signs of slowing… Read more

N.p.: International Classics, 1977. Vintage color studio still photograph from the US release of the 1977 Italian film, showing actresses Joan Bennett and Alida Valli with an unknown third actress. Arguably director Dario Argento's most well known and influential fantasy, about a ballet dancer who enrolls at a new academy, where grisly murders lead her to discover… Read more

N.p.: N.p., 1927. Vintage program for the 1927 silent film. One of the most successful Hollywood Biblical epics, and the first film to debut at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The second installment in Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical trilogy, preceded by "The Ten Commandments" (1923) and followed by "The Sign of the Cross" (1932). 16 pages, saddle stitched,… Read more