Jack Conway Director (11 results)

First edition. Softcover. Cinegram No 41. Jack Conway's 1938 film starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. 16pp. stapled wraps. Illustrated throughout. V.g.

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1940 film, showing actors Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy getting a faceful of crude. Two oil riggers work together over the course of ten years to become oil tycoons, but their friendship is strained by their love for the same woman. 8 x 10 inches. Good, moderately faded, with a chip at the bottom left corner. …

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1944 film. With mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1942 novel by Pearl S. Buck. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a small Chinese village is invaded by the Japanese Imperial Army. One woman decides to stand up to the Japanese, and her defiance soon spreads to the other villagers. Set in China, shot on location in Calabasas and Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage photo setup for an unknown publication of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont from the 1943 film. Aumont's American film debut. Based on the 1942 serialized novel by Helen MacInnes. A French army captain is in Brittany with the task of finding where Nazis are hiding their U-boats. He meets a woman who he takes a great liking to, not knowing that she is a Nazi spy. Set in Brittany, France. 7.75 x 6.25 inches. Near Fine.…

Four vintage reference photographs and one studio still photograph from the 1935 film. Based on Charles Dickens' 1859 novel, which follows a love triangle between a French aristocrat, an alcoholic English lawyer, and a young woman named Lucie in the years before and during the French Revolution. Set in France and England. 10 x 8 inches. Most Near Fine.…

Draft script for the 1928 silent film, seen here under the title "Chinatown." Lon Chaney is an undercover police detective who attempts to catch a thief notorious for slipping out of criminal charges by killing any witnesses set to testify against him, though Chaney can't help but simultaneously get wrapped up with an attractive flapper along the way. Chaney hand-picked co-star Anita Page as his leading lady after seeing her performance in the 1928 film "Our Dancing Daughters." Now a partially lost film, as two reels and the soundtrack for the picture have now been lost. Pale blue titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 925 and production No. 1658, dated March 19, 1928, with credits for screenwriter A.P. Younger. Title page integral with the first page of the text, dated March 19, 1928, with credits for screenwriter Younger. 169 leaves, with unnumbered leaves. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1931 pre-Code film, showing Constance Bennett and Robert Montgomery in an embrace. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Based on the 1909 play by Eugene Walter, about a poor woman who leaves her boyfriend for a wealthier match, only to find herself falling in love with an up-and-coming journalist. An early appearance by Clark Gable, in his second sound film. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good, moderately toned.…

Vintage reference photograph from the Spanish release of the 1942 film noir, showing William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, and Basil Rathbone. Mimeo snipe and title in Spanish on the verso. After suffering traumatic amnesia, a diplomat encounters a number of shady individuals claiming to be from his past, and eventually finds himself implicated in a decade-old robbery. A remake of the 1938 French film "Carrefour." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US. …

Vintage reference photograph of William Powell and Myrna Loy sitting together on the set of the 1941 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. A man pretends to be crazy in order to delay his forthcoming divorce. The eleventh of fourteen films to pair Powell and Loy. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Byrge and Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing an ice skating scene with Robert Taylor and Maureen O'Sullivan. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. A hot-blooded American aristocrat falls in love with his enemy's sister during his time studying at Oxford University. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first British production, and an early screen appearance by Vivien Leigh. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, lightly toned. …

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1947 film, showing actors Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Gloria Holden, and Adolphe Menjou sitting around a nightclub table, with director Jack Conway and two crew members in the foreground. With a mimeo snipe on the verso and manuscript pencil annotations regarding layout. Based on the 1946 novel. A World War II veteran wants to return to his former life as an advertising executive, but finds the business world has changed while he was away. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with light edgewear.…