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Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1950. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1950 film. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter stumbles into the home of a forgotten silent film star, quickly becoming enmeshed in her deranged plan for a comeback. A kingpin in the pantheon of films about fame and Hollywood, and Billy Wilder's urban noir counterpart to the daylight rural… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1942. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1942 film. Michael Curtiz's breakthrough masterpiece, consistently ranked among the greatest films in history, about an American expatriate who sets aside his love for a woman in order to help both her and her resistance-fighter husband escape Nazi-controlled Casablanca. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three,… 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

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

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

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1980. Revised Final script for the 1948 film. Reproduced by Warner Brothers in-house in the 1980s, with a reader's carbon typescript report from 1948 summarizing the film's plot laid in, dated 5/11/48. Based on the 1927 novel by B. Traven, about two American drifters who join forces with an aging prospector to search for… 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

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Collection of five vintage reference photographs from the 1955 film. Two with provenance labels affixed to the versos. Perhaps the ultimate film noir in the classic cycle, and by far the best (and most insanely interpreted) Spillane adaptation. Director Robert Aldrich spins the hard boiled source material into a symphony of speed, violence, and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage reference photograph of Cleavon Little talking with director Mel Brooks on the set of the 1974 film. Brooks' slapstick homage to the Western, in which an escaped African American railroad construction worker becomes the sheriff in an all-white town, and must protect it from politicians and railroad tycoons looking to raze it. A satire… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1959. Vintage studio still photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock talking with actor Cary Grant on the set of the 1959 film. An innocent man is pursued across the US by a group of foreign spies, who have mistaken him for a government agent. Widely considered one of Hitchcock's best films, the last… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1944 film noir, showing actors Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer entering Bergman's aunt's long-vacant London townhouse. Based on Patrick Hamilton's 1938 play, and a remake of the 1940 British film starring Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynard. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning two, including Best Actress for… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1978 film, showing director Claudia Weill with actress Melanie Mayron on the set. Annotations in manuscript ink on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A young, single photographer struggles to maintain her friendship with her former roommate after the woman marries and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film, showing James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo walking down a stairway together, with a suit of armor in the foreground. 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… Read more about this item

London: National Film Archive, 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the 1944 film, showing director Preston Sturges filming a railroad scene on a camera crane. National Film Archive stamp on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil, identifying subjects. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Sturges' eighth and last film… 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

Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Collection of seven vintage reference photographs from the 1940 film. MGM stamps on the versos. Based on the successful 1939 Broadway play written by Philip Barry, starring Katharine Hepburn. A screwball classic about a socialite who must contend with the arrival of her ex-husband and a nosy tabloid reporter on the eve… Read more about this item

West Hollywood: The Ladd Company, 1982. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1982 film, showing actress Joanna Cassidy. Based on the 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. A classic of the genre, building on the claustrophobic, dystopian vision director Ridley Scott previously established in "Alien" (1979), and setting a new standard… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actress Liza Minnelli. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical, which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera," which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye to Berlin." A decadent, beautiful story of… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1968. Four vintage color studio still photographs from the 1968 film. Provenance stamps on the versos. Based on the 1967 novel by Ira Levin. A seminal horror film, one of the best genre pictures ever made, from the earliest days of the New Hollywood cinema, bringing together newcomer Roman Polanski as director, established producer William… Read more about this item

N.p.: Cinema V., 1964. Four vintage borderless double weight reference photographs, two vintage reference photographs, and one vintage studio still photograph from the 1964 film. Several with manuscript annotations regarding layout and provenance stamps to the verso, and two with stamped snipes. An African American railroad worker attempts to maintain his dignity and self-respect in the face… Read more about this item