Eric Thompson Director (6 results)

Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema', Upper Galilee, Israel, 1970-1972:
Edited by David Noel Freedman; Eric Meyers, Director of the Expedition, with A. Thomas Kraabel and James Strange as Associate Directors; Drawings by John Thompson; Contributions by Reuben Bullard, Richard Hanson, Michael Bates, Harold Liebowitz, and Carol Meyers.
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press for the American Schools of Oriental Research, Durham, North Carolina 1976
- Hardcover
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.Andover Books and Antiquities
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxvii, 297, Plates and Photographs pp. Annual for the American Schools of Oriental Research. Volume XLII. LCC: 7640864 Very good condition; traces of wear on edges of covers.
More imagesMy Fat Friend (Original script for the 1972 play)
Eric Thompson (director); Charles Laurence (playwright); Jennie Linden, Kenneth Williams, John Inman (starring)
Published by N.p., N.p. 1973
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDraft script for the 1972 play, which premiered at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, UK on November 6. Copy No. 61 notated in manuscript pencil on the title page. An overweight young woman decides to drastically change her figure with the help of her quirky roommates after a one-night encounter with a potential suitor. Followed by…a New York run in 1974, directed by Robert Moore and starring Lynn Redgrave and John Lithgow. Set in London. Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers with credits for playwright Charles Laurence. Title page present, dated Jan. 1973, noted as Corrected, with credits for playwright Charles Laurence. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-3-49. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

The Norman Conquests: Round and Round the Garden (Original script for the 1975 play)
Alan Ayckbourn (playwright); Eric Thompson (director); Richard Benjamin, Ken Howard, Barry Nelson, Estelle Parsons (starring)
Published by N.p., N.p. 1975
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- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDraft script for the 1975 US production of the 1973 play. The final play in "The Norman Conquests" trilogy, preceded by "Table Manners" and "Living Together," a series of comic melodramas set in different parts of the same countryside house. The play made its US debut at the Morosco Theatre on December 7, and was first staged in… the UK at the Library Theatre in Scarborough on July 2. Green titled card wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright Alan Ayckbourn. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered II-2-103. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.
More imagesStolen Babies [Stolen Children] (Original screenplay for the 1993 television film)
Eric Laneuville (director); Sharon Elizabeth Doyle (screenwriter); Lea Thompson, Kathleen Quinlan, Mary Tyler Moore, Brett Rice (starring)
Published by Sander/Moses, Atlanta, GA 1992
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- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerRevised Shooting script for the 1993 television film, here under the working title "Stolen Children," which originally aired on March 25 on Lifetime Network. A dramatization of the true story of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an adoption agency which secretly operated as a black market baby trafficking ring in the early…20th century, overseen by elusive socialite Georgia Tann (Mary Tyler Moore). Set in Tennessee, and shot on location in Macon, Georgia. Self wrappers. Title page integral with front wrapper, dated November 23, 1992, noted as Revised White Shooting Script, with credits for screenwriter Sharon Elizabeth Doyle. 114 leaves, with last page of text numbered 101. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with rainbow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/27/92 and 12/17/92. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Full provenance available.
More imagesSons o' Guns (Original screenplay for the 1936 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, signed by actor Joe E. Brown)
Joan Blondell, Joe E. Brown, Mischa Auer, Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore (starring); Lloyd Bacon (director); Jerry Wald, Julius J. Epstein (screenwriters); Fred Thompson, Jack Donohue (play)
Published by N.p., N.p. 1936
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- Signed
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerRevised Final script for the 1936 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. SIGNED by actor Joe E. Brown on the distribution page. 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 the successful 1929 Broadway play by Jack Donahue and Fred Thompson/ A stage actor joins the US Army during World War I, where he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as a spy. Bound in dark red cloth, with gilt title on the front board. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, dated 1/13/36, noted as REV. FINAL. 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding lightly worn at the spine ends, else Near Fine. Signed.

Published by New Haven: Long Wharf Theatre 1977
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Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. 28 x 18 inches on board.ABSENT FRIENDS AMERICAN PREMIEREBy Alan AyckbournDirected by Eric ThompsonSet Design by Edward BurbridgeCostume Design by Michele S. ReischLighting Design by Ronald WallaceFrom the collection of Alma Law, theater historian.