peter rogers screenwriter (3 Ergebnisse)

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1974 film. With International Exchange Press slip affixed to the verso. Queen Christina of Rome abdicates the throne, converts to Catholicism, and goes to Rome where she falls in love. Set in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.

Revised Draft script for the 1954 film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his name written on the top of the front wrapper and a manuscript ink annotation of the date "9/6/54" on the bottom of the title page, here under the working title "To Dorothy - A Son," released in the UK as "To Dorothy a Son" and in the US as "Cash on Delivery." With a manuscript pencil annotation on one page (12A) underlining a needed prop, and one page (38) with a clipping of a revision page affixed over the previous dialogue. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1950 play "To Dorothy, a Son," by Roger MacDougall. Shelley Winters stars as Myrtle, an American woman who stands to inherit $2 million dollars from her uncle as long as she doesn't have any male heirs. The only thing standing in her way is John Gregson as her ex-husband, and his very pregnant new wife, played by Peggy Cummins. Tall untitled green wrappers. Title page present, with an annotated date of "9/6/54," noted as Revised Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Peter Rogers and playwright Roger MacDougall. 114 leaves, with last page of text numbered 106. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, undated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with a prong binding.

Eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1973 film, housed in their original brown paper envelope, stamped "The Homecoming 8 Stills." Based on the 1965 play by Harold Pinter, who also wrote the screenplay. Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife Ruth (Vivien Merchant) to visit his estranged and abrasive family in a dingy, claustrophobic North London flat, after a nine year absence. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.