1940s Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Second Revised Final script for the 1941 film. 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 mine owners. Winner of five Academy Awards, including… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage double weight reference photograph from the 1940 film, showing actors James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. Mimeo snipe and MGM credit stamp for photographer Clarence Bull on the verso. Based on the 1937 novel by Phyllis Bottome. In Nazi Germany, an aging professor faces increased scrutiny for his pacifism and resistance to… Read more about this item

N.p.: RKO Radio Pictures, 1946. Vintage oversize double weight reference photograph from the classic 1946 film, showing actors James Stewart and Donna Reed. Stamp specific to RKO's French release on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript pencil. Based on Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story, "The Greatest Gift," about a man at the end of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Draft script for the 1940 film, seen here under the working title "Flight 8." Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board and in manuscript pencil on the title page. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1939. Second Revised Draft script for the 1940 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1944. Draft script for the 1944 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 12 reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Four vintage reference photographs from the landmark 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, "The Fountainhead." In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work, Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film, one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its characters' philosophies, motives, and… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1948. Draft script for the 1948 film musical. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Ten reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Twelve vintage studio still photographs from the release of the landmark 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, "The Fountainhead." In approaching the film adaptation of Rand's iconoclastic work, Vidor dispensed with typical Hollywood production techniques and focused on creating an expressionistic film, one that literally echoed the architectural underpinnings of its… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1949. Five vintage promotional photographs, four of which are in color, from the landmark 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel, "The Fountainhead." Each photo with the film's title logo at the bottom margin. One photo framed to look like a "book," to tie in with the popularity of the novel. In approaching… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Revised Temporary script for the 1941 film, seen here under the working title "Miss Wheelwright Discovers America." Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Six reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1930. Vintage publicity photograph of Mae West, circa 1930s. Likely issued by Paramount Pictures to promote West, who was a Paramount player at the time. West began her career in vaudeville, eventually moving on to write and star in Broadway plays, including "Sex" (1926)-for which she was arrested for moral indecency-before breaking into Hollywood.… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1940. Vintage reference photograph from the 1940 film. Release stamp on the verso. Based on Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II's 1928 operetta, about a French nobleman disguised as an indentured servant, who leads his fellow bondsmen in revolt against their ship's captain. Set in 18th century New Orleans, and… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1941. Vintage reference photograph from the 1941 film. Stamp on the verso misattributes the image to MGM's "Tarzan Finds a Son" (1939), the film prior to this one in the series. Loosely based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1914 novel "Tarzan of the Apes." The fifth film in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's six-film Tarzan series. The… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1945. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1945 film. Based on the 1912 play "Die Zarin" by Lajos Biro and Melchior Lengyel. A lieutenant starts an affair with Catherine the Great, despite his fiancée being one of her ladies-in-waiting. Set in 18th century Russia. 10 x 8 inches. Very… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1930. Vintage photograph of actor Richard Cromwell, circa 1930s. Cromwell is today best remembered for his roles in "Men of the Hour" (1935), "The Wrong Road" (1937), and "Come on Leathernecks!" (1938). He faded from the public eye after his return to Hollywood, following his military service in World War II. 8 x… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1942 film. A man goes to a tropical island to try and buy the land on behalf of his father, but when he falls for the current landowner's daughter his father arrives to try and break them up. Set on the fictional island of… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1930. Vintage publicity photograph of actress Alice Faye, circa 1930s. Likely issued by Twentieth Century-Fox to promote Faye, who was a Paramount player at the time. Faye was best known for her musical performances in "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938) and "Hello Frisco, Hello" (1943). She ended her career in 1945 after a disagreement with… Read more about this item