Films With Literary Sources from Royal Books, Inc.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1945. Vintage reference photograph of actors Angela Lansbury and Hurd Hatfield from the 1945 film. Based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde, about a man whose portrait magically takes on the ability to absorb the sins of his debauched life while he remains unaged. Nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one… Read more about this item

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

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Two vintage studio still photographs from the seminal 1941 film noir, here under its original release title "Hot Spot." Based on the 1941 novel by Steve Fisher, about a man seeking to prove his innocence in a murder case while being railroaded by an obsessed detective. Set and shot on… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. With censorship stamp on the verso. Based on the 1929 novel "Brown on Resolution" by C.S. Forester. During World War I, a British ship is sunk by the Germans, leaving only two survivors. The two men do everything they can to delay the Germans… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1950. Vintage studio still photograph of actress Marlene Dietrich from the 1950 film. Based on the 1948 novel "Man Running" by Selwyn Jepson, published as "Outrun the Constable" in the US, and originally serialized in "Colliers" the previous year. A key Hitchcock film, made during his brief return to the UK between 1948… 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

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Vintage reference photograph from the 1950 film, showing actors Esther Williams and Howard Keel. Censorship stamp on the verso. Based on William S. Stone's 1946 novel "Tahiti Landfall." A Tahitian woman with a dream of living in the US falls in love with a visiting schoolteacher from Ohio. Shot on… Read more about this item

Rome: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece, a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1939. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1939 film. One photograph with a stamp on the verso identifying the film and actors Clark Gable and Hattie McDaniel. The legendary adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, about the headstrong daughter of an affluent confederate plantation owner whose family is brought low during the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil throughout, marking scene numbers. Based on Richard Llewellyn's 1939 novel. The men of the Morgan family earn a living working in their small Welsh town's mine, where they face dangerous and unhealthy conditions, and exploitation at the hands of the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. First Draft script for the 1979 film. Agency script, machine-hole punched and with no copied hole shadows. Based on the classic 1952 novel by Flannery O'Connor, about an ambitious veteran who arrives in a small southern town, where he begins preaching for a religious organization of his own creation, the Church of Truth Without Christ.… 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

N.p.: N.p., 1957. Two vintage medium format color negatives from the 1957 film, both showing dance sequences. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A musical remake of "Ninotchka," adapted for the stage by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath, and Abe Burrows, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The play and the… 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

N.p.: N.p., 1971. Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1971 film. Based on the 1968 novel by Thomas Rogers, about a college student who is convicted of vehicular manslaughter, subsequently deciding to go on the run to Canada with his girlfriend to avoid prison. Shot on location in New York. 10 x 8 inches.… Read more about this item

San Diego: Schanes and Schanes, 1981. Vintage "The Heavy Metal Original Pencil Art Portfolio" from the 1981 animated film, one of 1000 copies, this being number 0823. The portfolio, housed in an illustrated folder with an Introduction and credits, features seven original graphite and non-photo blue pencil drawings created during the film's production. Each of the 1000… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1969. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the stark 1969 neo-noir film, both showing actress Rita Moreno. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on Lionel White's 1953 novel "The Snatchers," about a wealthy young woman who is kidnapped and held hostage in a remote French beach house. Set and shot on location in Le… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1964. Four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1964 Japanese film. Three with faint censorship blindstamps on the versos. A masterpiece of 1960s Japanese cinema, based on the novel by K b Abe and adapted by Abe for the screen, about an amateur entomologist who is held captive in a small, impoverished seaside village. 7.25… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1974 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos. Based on the 1959 novel. While living in Bangkok, a naive French diplomat's wife experiences a whirlwind of sexual discovery. The first film in the wildly successful, much-emulated series. Set and shot on location in Thailand and the Seychelles. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Vintage reference photograph taken during shooting on location for the 1980 film, showing actors Gene Davis (in drag) and Randy Jurgensen. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1970 novel by Gerald Walker, about a cop who goes undercover in the leather scene in New York to catch a serial killer targeting gay men.… Read more about this item