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N.p.: N.p., 1937. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1937 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board, with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on eight pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions / RKO Radio Pictures, 1937. Vintage hand tinted color photograph from the 1937 film. Disney's first full length animated feature, and one of the first animated feature films period, Snow White cost over $1.5 million, a huge sum at the time, and took three years to complete. Despite the risk (both Disney's… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: RKO Studios, Inc, 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1951 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages, each with an RKO stamp on the versos and four with a mimeo snipe on the versos.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Third Revised Final Draft script for the 1953 film with rainbow revisions. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the 1944 film. With manuscript ink annotation noting the title of the film on the border of the recto. After winning a horse in a raffle, a horse-crazed twelve-year-old decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. Winner of two Academy Awards. Shot on… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1941 film. Adventure film following the rise and fall of an illiterate peasant who becomes a renowned bullfighter. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and nominated for one other. Set in Spain, shot on location in Mexico City. 10 x… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1945. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1945 film. A fictionalized account of Polish pianist Frederic Chopin. As a young child, Chopin is playing a piece by Mozart when he notices Polish people being taken prisoner by Russian authorities. Years later, he works in secret for Polish patriotism, including coming late to… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film. Based on I.A.R. Wylie's 1949 story "Why Should I Cry?" A Broadway star refuses to take any criticism, until she meets a blind piano player who isn't afraid to challenge her. Nominated for an Academy Award. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1933. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1933 film. One of the most famous dance debuts in film history, featuring the iconic team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers performing "The Carioca." Not only was it their debut, and the highlight of the film, but it set off a dance… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1955. Vintage hand-tinted color studio still photograph from the 1955 film. With censorship stamp on the verso. Nicholas Ray's searing study of juvenile delinquency, generational divide, and moral decay in suburban America, loosely based on Robert Lindner's 1944 book "Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath." Released less than a… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1936. Vintage reference photograph of actors Wiliam Powell, Myrna Loy, and Asta from the 1936 film. Based on the 1934 novel by Dashiell Hammett. The first of five sequels to the 1934 film "The Thin Man," all starring Powell and Loy (and of course their dog Asta). Nominated for an Academy Award. … Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1951. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1951 film. Based on the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, who collaborated with screenwriter Oscar Saul and director Elia Kazan on the screenplay. Kazan, who also directed the Broadway stage production, cast all the actors from that production with the exception of Jessica Tandy. Nominated for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, with manuscript pencil annotations on page 2 striking two shots. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Three vintage medium format color photo negatives from the classic 1964 film, two showing Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke dancing, and one showing an airborne Andrews arriving at the Banks residence. Based on P.L. Travers' 1934 novel and subsequent books, about a magical English nanny whose care and influence transform the lives of those… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1971. Second Draft script for the 1972 film. Noted as copy No. 54 in blue manuscript ink on the title page. Copy belonging to hair stylist Philip Leto, with his annotations on several pages, and with several pages folded by Leto, indicating the completion of scenes during production. Based on the 1969 novel by… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Collection of vintage international promotional materials for the 1974 film. Included in the collection are: - 1974 Japanese Film Program handbill (printed on recto and verso), text in Japanese. An Israeli Orly Theater flyer for a week of screenings of the film in 1977, text in Hebrew. - French film festival… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1927. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1927 silent film, showing actor Emil Jannings enjoying a large cracker and a glass of milk. While transporting $1000 in securities, a bank clerk from Milwaukee falls for a blonde seductress, who proceeds to rob him of his valuables, ruining his life. Winner of the first Academy Award for… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1964. Vintage studio still photograph of designer and photographer Cecil Beaton standing next to his costume design illustration for the 1964 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. Beaton won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design for the film, and, alongside Gene Allen and George James Hopkins, won an Academy Award for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1959. Shooting Final script for the 1960 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 20 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Four vintage borderless press photographs, all irregularly trimmed for publication, of actress Piper Laurie and four other unknown people at an event, circa 1950s. Laurie has been working in film and television since her film debut in 1950's "Louisa" alongside then actor Ronald Reagan. She is most known for her roles in "Twin Peaks"… Read more about this item