Charles Lederer Screenwriter (8 results)

Three vintage double weight studio still photographs from the 1959 film. With a stamp for The Silver Screen Archives stamp and separate mimeo snipe to the verso. A comedy about an Air Force sergeant who meets a beautiful model at a raffle for a new car. After a whirlwind romance, he marries her before shipping off to Spain. When the new wife promises him in a letter "the most wonderful surprise that could happen to two people," he naturally assumes that she's pregnant. To his surprise it turns out to be the new car (the prototype Lincoln Futura that eventually became the "Batmobile" for the 1966 television series), causing the new couple problems with the military, local populace, and IRS. Set and partially shot on location in Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, slightly wavy, with some faint soil and light edgewear.…

Five vintage studio still photographs from the 1959 film. Three with mimeo snipes to the verso. A comedy about an Air Force sergeant who meets a beautiful model at a raffle for a new car. After a whirlwind romance, he marries her before shipping off to Spain. When the new wife promises him in a letter "the most wonderful surprise that could happen to two people," he naturally assumes that she's pregnant. To his surprise it turns out to be the new car (the prototype Lincoln Futura that eventually became the "Batmobile" for the 1966 television series), causing the new couple problems with the military, local populace, and IRS. Set and partially shot on location in Spain. 8 x 10 inches. Four Very Good plus, with light creasing and light edgewear, one Very Good, with a light diagonal crease running from bottom left to top right.…

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Howard Hawks (director) Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (play), Charles Lederer (Screenwriter) Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant (Actors). HIS GIRL FRIDAY. Hollywood, CA: Columbia Studios, 1940. Original gelatin silver, glossy, double weight, 8.25" by 10" candid image of Howard Hawks with his camera crew filming a scene from the one of the greatest screwball comedies in cinema history, an adaptation of the 1928 novel THE FRONT PAGE by Hecht and MacArthur. The film is set in a New York newspaper office and tells its tale of romance and mayhem with some of the wittiest dialog of any screenplay of the era. The photo is in Near Fine vintage condition with some light handling wear . Reverse with studio photographer Irving Lippman's stamp, a studio snipe, a dated green "approved stamp," and a collector's sticker. Irving Lippman (Photographer) (illustrator).…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1947 film, showing a blonde Rita Hayworth perched on the railing of Errol Flynn's yacht "Zaca," during filming on location in Mexico. Stamp of Columbia Pictures on the verso. Director Orson Welles promised to write, produce, and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55,000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film, based on Raymond Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake," courted controversy, not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release, it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. Shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, lightly toned overall, with brief wear at the corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Seven vintage reference photographs from the 1962 film. Two photographs with a mimeo snipe printed onto the verso. Two photographs with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer snipes affixed to the verso, one with cropping annotations. All photos with one provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1932 novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. A sadistic Captain abuses his seamen on their journey to Tahiti until they mutiny, putting the Captain on a small boat in the ocean. Shot on location in French Polynesia, Hawaii, California and the Pacific Ocean. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1951 film, showing actor James Arness in costume as the titular Thing, with his stunt double just behind. Annotations in manuscript ink noting the same on the verso. Based on John W. Campbell's 1938 novella "Who Goes There?," which also served as the basis for John Carpenter's 1982 masterpiece "The Thing." US Air Force crew and scientists at an arctic research station accidentally thaw out the still-living body of a humanoid alien, which promptly begins to attack them. Set in Anchorage, shot on location throughout Los Angeles and in Glacier National Park, Montana. 8 x 10 inches. Fine.…

Vintage reference photograph of director Orson Welles and his then-estranged wife, actress Rita Hayworth, on the set of the 1947 film. Manuscript ink annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Welles promised to write, produce, and direct a film for Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn in exchange for an emergency $55,000 to help finance costuming for his 1946 Broadway musical "Around the World." The resultant film, based on Raymond Sherwood King's 1938 novel "If I Die Before I Wake," courted controversy, not least due to Welles' decision to have Hayes cut and bleach her iconic red hair for her performance. Although the film was a commercial failure in the US upon release, it is now considered a touchstone of the noir genre. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, lightly toned overall, with brief wear at the corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterwork. Silver and Ward Classic Noir. Spicer US.…

Vintage studio portrait photograph of actors Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell from the 1940 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. One of the greatest of the screwball comedies, an acidic, nonstop satire set in New York City newspaper culture of the 1930s, adapted from the classic play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and MacArthur. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. National Film Registry. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films. Criterion Collection 849.…