Search Results: 1950s Cinema from Royal Books, Inc.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1957. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1957 film. Based on the 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose, about a jury of white men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. Nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Set in New York. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned, and slightly curled. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 591. Ebert II. Grant US. Rosenbaum 1000.

Nice: Self published, 1957. Sixteen vintage photographs from the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. On the versos of 11 photos is a rubber-stamp for photographer "L. Mirkine," photographer "Pierre Manciet" on the versos of remaining 5, and names corresponding to the image subjects on the versos in manuscript ink. Housed in a manila envelope with "Festival 1957 Cannes" on the recto in manuscript ink. The collection features images of Jean Cocteau (in the arms of Ann Heywood and June Laverick as he talks to James Robertson Justice), Patricia Smith, Izolda Izvitskaya, Roman Karmen, Don Murray, Grigoriy Chukhray, Oleg Strizhenov, Jacqueline Pagnol, Giuletta Masina, Eleanor Rossi Drago, Nadia Gray, Nicole Berger, Maurice Ronet, Melina Mercouri, William Wyler, Maëa Flohr, Mylene Demongeot, and John Kitzmiller, among others. The 1957 festival marked it's tenth anniversary, prominent jurors included André Maurois, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Pagnol, Michael Powell, Dolores del Río, Claude Aveline, and Alberto… Read More

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1959. Vintage reference photograph from the 1959 film, showing actor Lou Costello giving a more than suggestive shower to Dorothy Provine, his new gargantuan girlfriend. A rare appearance of Lou Costello without Bud Abbott, wherein a junk collector and inventor accidentally turns his girlfriend into a giantess. Shot on location at Iverson Ranch in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: Screen Gems Inc, 1962. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1957 film, struck in 1962 for the film's re-release. Based on Elmore Leonard's 1953 short story "Three-Ten to Yuma." One of the first revisionist Westerns, with a classicism that stands up to "High Noon," but an cynical attitude toward good and evil that was years ahead of its time. Glenn Ford's ambivalent character from "Gilda" is transplanted to a Western setting, placed against Van Heflin's warmer but still hard boiled persona, with unforgettable results. Shot on location in Arizona. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine, with some faint creasing in margins. National Film Registry. Criterion Collection 657.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1953. Collection of eight vintage reference photographs from the 1953 film. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures and still photographer Van Pelt. A Technicolor musical fantasy about a boy who dreams he is a world ruled by a diabolical piano teacher who enslaves children and forces them to play a piano so immense, it takes 500 children to play it. The only feature film written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), who co-wrote the screenplay and song lyrics. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Rosenbaum 1000.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1957. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1957 British film, one showing actress Mai Zetterling, the other showing Zetterling tending to actor Tyrone Power. With printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of Columbia Pictures. 20 survivors of a sunken luxury liner find themselves crowded onto a lifeboat fitted for 9 people, causing no small consternation as their food and water run out and a hurricane approaches. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, one with manuscript ink annotations on the right edge of the recto. Both photos with a serrated edge at the left margin from where they were once attached to a keybook tab.

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1954. Vintage six sheet poster for the 1954 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Vina Delmar. Boarding house owner Mrs. Vivien Leslie (Shirley Booth) reminisces on her affair with the secretive George Leslie (Robert Ryan) and their annual retreats at an Big Sur. Set in Beverly Hills, California. 80 x 80.5 inches. Four panels, folded as issued. About Very Good overall, silverfish damage to center right of top left panel with loss along crease, splitting in creases and some small closed tears at the extremities.

N.p.: Benagoss Productions, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on Alfred Hayes' novel, "The Girl on the Via Flaminia." A romantic drama set in south France during WWII. An American soldier begins a doomed romance with a French peasant woman. Shot on location in Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light toning and a chip to the top margin.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1950. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from a re-release (presumed) of the 1950 film. Wanda Hendrix plays a WAVE officer endlessly pursued by ex-airman Edmond O'Brien (among others). However, she only has eyes for her boyfriend Dick Erdman, who is on the lam from vengeful millionaire Rudy Vallee. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, several creases, a few tiny tears, annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1955. Vintage reference photograph from the 1955 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1823 novel by Walter Scott. The third film in an unofficial trilogy, following "Ivanhoe" (1952) and "Knights of the Round Table" (1953). A Scottish knight is sent to France to ask a countess if she will marry his uncle. Set in France, shot on location in East Sussex, England and France. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

N.p.: N.p., 1957. Shooting Final script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. With sheet music of five songs from the film bound in after the script, and nine reference photographs 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 a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). Based on Leo McCarey's 1939 film "Love Affair," about a man and a woman who fall in love aboard a transatlantic ocean liner, agreeing to meet again in six months at the top of the Empire State Building to prove their love. A CinemaScope classic, widely considered one of the most romantic films… Read More

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1950. Treatment script for the 1951 film. Copy belonging to Universal-International film executive Leo Spitz, with his name in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. A group of new recruits arrive at an Air Force training camp and experience the usual growing pains: hazing, romance, and rivalry. An early appearance by Golden Age heartthrob Rock Hudson as an aggressive upperclassman. Shot on location in Arizona, Florida, and Texas. Blue titled wrappers, noted as TREATMENT on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 7718, dated March 21, 1950. Title page present, noted as Treatment, with credits for screenwriter Robert W. Soderberg. 78 leaves, with last page of text numbered 77. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only, with yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/16/50 and 3/18/50. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound at the top left corner with one gold brad.

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. A yakuza boss and his right hand man escape from prison and examine their relationship, both matters of loyalty and betrayal, as well as the scams and crimes they pull in their criminal history. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Title page present. 41 leaves, with last page of text numbered 37. Mechanical duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine.

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists Pictures, 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film. A somewhat accurate biography of rise and fall of notorious crime boss Al Capone. Set in Chicago, shot on location in Chicago and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 film. A bumbling insurance agent unwittingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James, and discovers he must protect James in order to protect his company's investment. 15 pages, saddle stitched, 11 x 17 inches. Near Fine. Pitts 53.

Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1950. Vintage double weight studio still photograph of John Hodiak and Don Taylor, from the 1950 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the serial "Ambush" by Luke Short, which was published in "The Saturday Evening Post" (December 25, 1948 to February 12, 1949). Ward Kinsman (Robert Taylor), a prospector and Indian scout, is in search of a white woman, Mary Carlyle, a general's daughter, who has been abducted by Apaches. Sam Wood's final film. Shot on location in Arizona, New Mexico, and the Corrigan Ranch in Simi Valley, California. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with light edgewear.

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. A cowboy wrongfully convicted with a gang of burglars sets out to claim a portion of their hidden loot. Shot on location in California. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with a manuscript notation to the verso.

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Collection of 15 vintage reference and studio still photographs from the controversial and short-lived 1951-1953 television sitcom. Included in the set are five studio still photographs and ten reference photographs. 14 with printed mimeo snipes affixed to the verso, and all 15 with provenance stamps, including five representing the Cleveland Press. Based on the popular 1928-1960 radio show, following the misadventures of two African Americans from Georgia as they try to make it in the big city. The radio show was created and voiced by white actors Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, who had previously performed in the minstrel tradition. Aware that viewers would expect to see Black actors in the main roles, television producers cast Spencer Williams, Alvin Childress, and Tim Moore in the main roles, but instructed the actors to keep their voices and speech patterns close to Gosden and Correll's. Having long opposed the radio series for its stereotypical depiction of… Read More

London: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Collection of 7 vintage British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1956 US film. Based on Marcelle Maurette's stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. 8 x 10 inches. Tiny faint creases overall,and light soil to one still, else Near Fine.

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine. Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role. Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677, dated June 7, 1956. Title page present, dated June 7, 1956, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate, bound with… Read More