lillian hellman playwright (5 Ergebnisse)

Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1963 film. Based on the 1960 play by Lillian Hellman. Two sisters who have always taken care of their younger brother are surprised when he returns to New Orleans married and with a large amount of money. One of the sisters suspects him of having an affair. Set and shot on location in New Orleans, Louisiana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, one photograph with pin holes at the corners.

Vintage black-and-white reference photograph from the US release of the 1966 film noir. An underrated, key film for director Penn, something of an intellectual thriller, made between two better known films, "Mickey One" (1965) and "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967). Also, very much an acting tour de force, with early performances by Robert Duvall, Jane Fonda, and Robert Redford, and an exceptional turn by Brando as a town sheriff facing painful choices. The film itself was the subject of am acrimonious struggle for creative control between the director and studio, coincidentally making the production mirror the themes of upheaval of the social order and the fight for freedom within the film story. A story set in Texas, shot partially on location there. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US.

Revised First Draft script for the 1948 film. With faint manuscript pencil annotations, and watermarked CONTRACT FILE COPY throughout. Based on the 1946 Broadway play, and a prequel to the 1941 film "The Little Foxes." In the fictional town of Bowden, Alabama, the wealthy Hubbard family holds onto their old-South prominence and prestige through exploitation and cruelty. A searing portrayal of racism and class privilege in the post-Civil War American South. Set in Alabama. Green titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 7494, dated June 9, 1947, with credits for screenwriter Vladimir Pozner. Title page integral on the front wrapper. 178 leaves, with last page of text numbered 169. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing to the left edge, bound with three gold brads.

Vintage photograph on Jane Fonda taking a peek through a camera during shooting on the set of the 1966 film. With a Columbia Pictures stamp on the verso. Based on the 1952 Broadway play by Horton Foote, about a small town sheriff on the look out for an escaped prisoner he believes is innocent, while the townspeople whip themselves into a vigilante frenzy. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US. Twilight Time 242.

Three page Autograph Letter Signed from writer Lillian Hellman to producer and longtime friend Herman Shumlin. Letter written in Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1944. Shumlin first met Hellman, then an aspiring playwright working as a reader in Shumlin's office, in 1934. Sensing Hellman's talent after reading early drafts of "The Children's Hour," Shumlin agreed to produce and direct the play. The resulting production, Hellman's debut, launched her into the public eye, and nearly won her the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Shumlin would go on to produce and direct four other Hellman plays, including "The Little Foxes," "Watch on the Rhine," and "The Searching Wind." Hellman received a passport to Russia in August, 1944, as part of a goodwill program managed by the Society of Cultural Relations with the Soviet Union. On the first leg of the journey Hellman flew from Hollywood to Seattle to Fairbanks, Alaska, where she was picked up by the Russians for the voyage to Moscow. The story of her trip later became the subject of her article "Metropole Hotel," published in the Spring 1969 issue of the "Partisan Review." Hellman's letter to Shumlin begins with an entreaty to forget a previous dispute, and goes on to describe a recent visit to the Kobers in Los Angeles-presumably referring to her ex-husband Arthur Kober and his second wife, Margaret Frohnknecht. She also notes that "[Hal] Wallis and I worked quietly together [.] The conferences about the picture went well-he is a shrewd man, sometimes too slick about stories". Wallis was then in works with Hellman on a film adaptation of her 1944 play "The Searching Wind," which would be released in 1946. Hellman then briefly discusses the difficulties of her time in Fairbanks, as well as her trepidation about the trip to come: "There is no sense not saying that I'm scared. I am. I will try to cable you when I reach where I hope I will reach." Her fears would ultimately be justified-Hellman later described the flight across Russia as one of the most physically demanding journeys of her life, the result of a rudimentary plane that made frequent stops due to bad weather and lack of heating in the passenger cabin. She would stay in Moscow from November 5, 1944, to January 18, 1945. Altogether, an engaging and illuminating letter sent during a tumultuous time in the life of one of the foremost playwrights of the twentieth century. 6.25 x 10 inches. Three manuscript leaves, rectos only. Near Fine. Signed.