Verlag: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, London, 1961
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Vintage black-and-white British front-of-house card from the 1961 UK film. A comedy based on the novel "Stop at a Winner," by R.F. Delderfield, starring Sean Connery as a hustler who is ordered by a judge to enlist in the armed forces. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine.
Verlag: Columbia Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1936
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fotografie
Vintage double-weight reference photograph from the 1936 film, with three stamps on the verso, one crediting photographer Ray Jones, and a mimeo snipe printed on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Llye Talbot is an earnest, intrepid inventor of a television system who inadvertently gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters out to steal his invention. 10 x 8 inches. Lightly faded, else Near Fine.
Verlag: Twentieth Century-Fox, Los Angeles, 1944
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
Final Draft script for the 1944 film, with name of actor and entertainer Phil Silvers, who played himself in the film, in manuscript pencil on top left of distribution page. Based on the popular radio series "Take It or Leave It" (1940-1949) starring host Phil Baker (which would later become the television game show "The $64,000 Question" [1955-1958]), young sailor Eddie Collins (Edward Ryan) finds out his wife (Madge Meredith) is pregnant while on shore leave and appears on the quiz show to raise money for his wife's obstetrician. Collins chooses "Films" as his category which serves as a framework for a compilation of clips from other Twentieth Century-Fox films. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 109 and production No. 988, dated MARCH 9, 1944. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page present, dated March 9, 1944, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Harold Buchman. 60 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/28/44 and 4/20/44. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.
Verlag: Columbia Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1936
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Fotografie
Three vintage double-weight reference photographs (two on-the-set Photographs Photographers) from the 1936 film. All three photographs with two stamps and a mimeo stamp on the verso, including one stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. A married couple who own a gambling club decide to quit the lifestyle and settle down when the wife becomes pregnant-only to discover the habit difficult to kick. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.