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N.p.: N.p., 1988. Vintage oversize photograph of director Tim Burton on his couch in 1988. SIGNED, captioned, and dated July 20, 1988, by photographer Keith Dobney on the bottom margin of the recto. French provenance stamp on the verso. In 1988, Burton released his cult comedy-horror film "Beetlejuice." 16 x 12 inches. Very Good plus,… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1982. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1982 film, showing young actress Aileen Quinn posing with canine actor Bingo. Based on the popular Broadway musical, in turn based on Harold Gray's popular comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," about the rags-to-riches story of a peppy young girl and her pet mutt. Nominated for two… Read more about this item

Universal City: MCA / Universal, 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 re-release of the 1943 film, showing Akim Tamiroff, Franchot Tone, and Anne Baxter. Based on Lajos Biro's 1917 play "Hotel Imperial: Szinmu negy felvonasban." During World War II, a British soldier passes himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered by Nazis, later becoming… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of seven vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1978 film documentary, including images of The Band, Emmylou Harris, and Bob Dylan. Included with the collection is a flyer for the French release of the film at the Cannes Film Festival on June 14, 1978. Frequently hailed as one of the greatest… 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., 1966. Collection of 13 vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. Loosely based on the 1946-1950 memoirs of Gilbert Renault writing as Colonel Remy, about a small town in the Jura divided by a narrow river which forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone. The first of four… Read more about this item

New York: United Press International, 1959. Two vintage reference photographs from the set of the 1959 film, including one glossy and single weight, and one matte finish, borderless, and double weight. One photograph shows actor Sidney Poitier talking with producer Sam Goldwyn, and the other shows Poitier with actors Dorothy Dandridge and Brock Peters. One with a provenance stamp… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1979. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1979 French film, showing actress Dominique Laffin half-nude. An early effort by noted director Catherine Breillat, about a young filmmaker's aimless sexual conquests while editing her latest project. 7 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing seven black-and-white photographs, and eight gatherings of promotional reading material. A Polish rabbi ventures into the American West to lead a synagogue. Things don't go well along the road, where he is nearly burned at the stake and killed by outlaws,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1976. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1976 film. One with a stamp noting the film's French title on the verso, and all three with cropping annotations in manuscript ink. Loosely based on the 1967 novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, about a man who becomes romantically involved with a Parisian sex worker shortly… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Orion, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing two black-and-white photographs, and two gatherings of promotional reading material. A young, emotionally isolated doctor finds friendship and solace in her newest patient, a 17-year-old girl dying of cancer. Set and shot on location in Hartford, Connecticut. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Vintage reference photograph from the 1953 film, showing actresses Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. Based on the 1932 film "Red Dust" (also starring Clark Gable), which was in turn based on Wilson Collison's 1928 play. While on a safari in Kenya, a hunter is ensnared in a love triangle between a young American socialite… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Vintage reference photograph of director Russ Meyer and actor Charles Napier looking through Irving Wallace's 1969 source novel on the set of the 1971 film. Provenance label on the verso. Based on the 1969 novel by Irving Wallace, about an unassuming bookstore clerk who is pulled into a highly publicized pornography trial. 8… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1933. Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 film, showing actors Eugene Pallette, William Powell, and Robert McWade. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Easily the best entry in the series of the 15 Philo Vance film adaptations made between 1929 and 1947. Powell's second of four appearances as the great detective, setting… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1968. Small archive of five vintage photographs belonging to noted avant-garde filmmaker and writer Kenneth Anger, relating to his research into homosexuality, drugs, and murder for his notorious books "Hollywood Babylon" (1959) and "Hollywood Babylon II" (1984). Two photographs with Anger's ownership stamp and label on the verso, four with press stamps on the verso, and three… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Vintage color reference photograph from the 1985 film, showing a sex scene with actors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rutger Hauer. In sixteenth-century Italy, an army of mercenary peasants kidnaps a nobleman's fiancée as revenge for unpaid debts. Although disgusted by the brutality of the peasants, the woman soon falls in love with the group's… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1970 film. Two with the stamp of photographer Angelo Novi on the versos. A young upper-middle class Italian man joins Mussolini's Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Antifascism, and his first assignment is to assassinate his former teacher, a political dissident now residing in France. An intricate and… Read more about this item

Kyoto: Daiei Studios, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese. Copy belonging to an unidentified cast or crew member, with their annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on six leaves of the script, and on the rear wrapper. Based on two stories from Ueda Akinari's 1776 story collection. A classic of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1986. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1987 film, including one taken on the set, showing director Adrian Lyne talking with actors Glenn Close and Michael Douglas between takes. Cropping annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on screenwriter James Dearden's 1980 short film "Diversion." An enormous box office success and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1985. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1985 film, both showing actress Melanie Griffith. A former boxer turned nightclub promoter joins together with a police detective to investigate a serial killer targeting strippers. Set in Manhattan, and shot on location in New York and Los Angeles.