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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1948 British film. Based on Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel, wherein a young woman's loveless marriage leads her to begin an affair with a dashing Czarist officer. Set in St. Petersburg. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1967. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1967 film, showing actors Trini Lopez, John Cassavetes, and Jim Brown waiting out the rain on the set. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by E. M. Nathanson, about a US Army Major who is assigned a group of dozen convicted murderers to execute… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Associated British Picture Corporation, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 British film noir, showing actress Diana Dors in the tub. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso, and a small stamp on the bottom corners of the recto. Based on Joan Henry's 1954 novel "Yield to the Night," about a woman who… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1983. Vintage borderless matte-finish color reference photograph from the 1983 film, showing actor David Bowie preparing to face the firing squad. Printed snipe, provenance label, and ink annotations regarding cropping on the verso. Based on Laurens van der Post's 1963 novel "The Seed and the Sower," about Post's experiences as a prisoner of war during… 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

Slough, England: Century 21 Productions, 1968. Draft script for the 1969 film, here under the UK release title "Doppelgänger." Copy belonging to actress Lynn Loring, here referred to by her married name Lynn Thinnes, with the manuscript marker annotations of her name on the title page and "L.T." on the top left of the front wrapper, with manuscript ink… Read more about this item

London: British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC], 1985. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1985 television movie, which originally aired in the UK on November 10, 1985, on BBC and in the US on March 29, 1986, on PBS. Based on the 1967 play by Noel Coward, about the struggle for control between a young playwright overseeing the production… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the classic 1969 British science fiction film, including one borderless, and three double weight. A womanizing secret agent uncovers a secret race of beautiful alien superwomen who are kidnapping human women to help repopulate their planet. Shot on location in London. 10 x… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film, both showing Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton. With the stamps of Top magazine on the verso, along with cropping annotations in manuscript pencil. The third James Bond film overall, but the first to achieve blockbuster status, introducing many of the elements that would become staples… Read more about this item

London: Hammer Film Productions, 1967. Final Draft script for the 1968 British film. Copy belonging to an unknown crew member, with their annotations throughout, noting substantive revisions and deletions. Based on the classic 1934 novel by Dennis Wheatley, about two men in 1920s England who must battle a group of devil-worshippers in order to defend their friends… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1968. Two vintage photographs from the 1968 film, including one studio still portrait of actress Shirley Knight and one borderless reference photograph of Knight and actor George C. Scott. Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase, about an unhappy, newlywed socialite who relentlessly… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Vintage borderless portrait photograph of actress Kay Kendall circa 1950s. Kendall is most known for her work in "The Reluctant Debutante" (1958), Quentin Durward (1955), and "Les Girls" (1957), the last of which she won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Her career was cut short as she died… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1953. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1953 film. One borderless, with mimeo snipe affixed to the verso and folded over the recto. Based on Charles Major's 1898 novel "When Knighthood was in Flower," which had been adapted to film twice before in the silent era, once in 1908, a D.W.… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs taken on the set of the 1957 film, one showing Marilyn Monroe having her makeup touched up, the other showing Laurence Olivier and a camera crew. Based on Terence Rattigan's 1953 play "The Sleeping Prince," about the visiting prince of a small (fictional) Balkan nation who falls… Read more about this item

London: Hemisphere Productions, 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. A dramatization of the life of infamous English aristocrat Jane Elizabeth Digby, who married four times and had a succession of unusual lovers, including an earl, two European kings, an Arabian sheik, an Austrian statesman, and the generals of India and Austria. English screenwriter Arthur Hopcraft was best… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage two color program and invitation to a preview screening for the 1972 film. Preview screening held at the MGM Theatre in Culver City on Tuesday, October 17, 1972. Based on the 1971 biography by H.S. Ede. A fictionalized account of the fervent relationship between French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, who… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Convention, 1979. Vintage program for three days of screenings of the classic British science fiction television series at the 1979 Los Angeles Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Convention. Program includes an introduction, a brief history of the television series, synopses of the episodes starring Tom Baker, and a biography of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1973. Vintage French mini-poster for the 1973 French film. Based on the groundbreaking 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen. Nora leads a quiet existence with her authoritarian husband Torvald, but is forced to reconsider her marriage when a blackmailer threatens to reveal secrets from her past. Shot on location in Reros, Norway. 8.5 x… Read more about this item

Buckinghamshire: London Film Productions, 1980. Small archive of material relating to Denham Film Studios (also known as London Films), circa 1980. A number of notable films were shot at Denham Studios through the 1940s and 1950s, including "Great Expectations" (1946), "Hamlet" (1948), and "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940), before closing in 1952. The studios would be rented… Read more about this item

London: Grenadier Productions, 1976. Second Draft script for the 1978 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation to the first leaf, noting copy No. 14. Based on John Willard's 1922 play. The greedy relatives of a recently deceased millionaire gather in the man's mansion to hear the reading of the will, only to discover the entire fortune… Read more about this item