Paul Kohner (8 results)

DVD. Condition: New. NEW/SEALED; Gidget / Gidget Goes Hawaiian / Gidget Goes To Rome.

First Edition in English. Hardcover in dust jacket. Signed on front cover page from Paul Kohner to Sheila Benson in 1985. Photographs in middle section of book. Uneven sunning to front panel of dust jacket. Near fine copy in very good jacket.

Trade Paperback. Three 11x 8.5 inch typed sheets with title page: 'The Milky Way: A film of Luis Bunuel. Produced by Serge Silberman. Scenario by Luis Bunuel and Jean Claude Carriere. Eastmancolor. Wide screen. A Franco-Italian Coproduction: Greenwich Film Production, Paris; Medusa Distribuzione, Rome. Production and Foreign Sales Greenwich Film Production, Paris. Followed by two page synopsis of the film. Peter Bart is an American film producer who was working as an executive at Paramount Pictures when the letter was written. Paul Kohner (1902-1988) was a Czech-born American talent agent and producer who managed the careers of many stars of the golden age of Hollywod. In 1938 he founded the Paul Kohner Talent Agency. Typed letter signed, dated September 18, 1986, on Paramount Picture letterhead from Peter Bart to Paul Kohner: 'We have read 'the Milky Way' and discussed it with our distribution people as well. We would not be interested in making a deal for English Language distribution rights at this time. However, we would be glad to see the film when it is completed and, if you wish, discuss the film with you once again at that time, Sincerely, Peter'. Letter is tanned on right margin, 1 inch, with 1 inch closed tear. The accompanying synopsis (2 copies) is in plain wrappers, side-stapled, with chips and wear to wrappers edges.

Trade Paperback. 19 sheets: Remarks by Bill Cole (single sheet) summarizing the historical novel by Alfred Neumann (1895-1952) 'Gitterwerk des Lebens,' published in 1943 by Pazitischen Press in Los Angeles) about the life of William Walker, adventurer and filibuster, proposing 'This novel would be unqualifiedly recommended for screening.'. Single sheet presenting the Theme and Synopsis of the book. 17 sheets detailed proposal for screenplay. William (Bill) Cole (1919-2000) was editor, anthologist, and author. He was publicity director for Alfred A. Knopf and Simon & Schuster and publisher at Viking Press. Paul Kohner (1902-1988) founded the eponymous talent agency in 1938, managing the careers of the famous. First edition (first printing). Very good carbon copy on onionskin with edge wear, wrinkling and mild soiling. Movie never produced.

Großfoto (um 1960,8°, kl. Ecke) mit eigenhändiger Widmung,Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert To Wolfgang Best wishes. (dito : Großfoto (s/w-Porträt 4°) mit eigenhändiger Widmung to Victor, Empfehlung, Unterschrift signiert Euro 60,-).

Western Union telegram, date-stamped February 1, 1957, from Ben Hecht to his agent Paul Kohner, regarding ongoing publisher concerns relating to a novel to have been titled "The Red Balloon." It seems likely that Hecht is referring to a novelization of the 1956 film of the same name, written for for the screen and directed by Albert Lamorisse. In the telegram Hecht notes that some original intention he had for the book discussed with Kohner (unknown to us) has been obviated by French publisher Hachette completing an American publication deal with Harper and Brothers. Below the printed text of the telegram, a note in manuscript pencil-presumably written by Kohner-reads "Let's write Oliver anyhow." Standard size Western Union telegram (8 x 5.75 inches) on their trademark printed stock, with the content present in typescript on strips of matching stock. Near Fine.

Loose leaf. Condition: Very good condition. Original photographs. Film stills and production photographs (app. 9 x 7") of the 1933 German-US drama film directed by Arnold Fanck. Filmed on location in Uummannaq, Northwest Greenland, Island and the the Bernina Alps, on the border of Switzerland and Italy, it tells the story of an Arctic expedition in search of a party that went missing in the previous year. The film script was written by Tom Reed based on a story by Arnold Fanck and Friedrich Wolf (Wolf's credits were removed after the takeover by the Nazis due to the fact that he was Jewish and a member of the Communist Party). Starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod la Roque, and Ernst Udet, the film was shot simultaneously in German and English and released in Nazi Germany and the United States. The lead role in German played by Diessl, in English by Tod la Roque. Leni Riefenstahl costarred with Diessl and Udet in the German, with la Roque and Gowland in the English version. The collection features photographs taken before departure of the expedition, on various locations and group photographs including one with Paul Kohner and actors Gibson Gowland, Sepp Rist and Rod La Roque, Gowland and Sepp Rist, another with the movie cast including Leni Riefenstahl, and others featuring Arnold Fanck, respectively members of the cast and crew. Each original photograph measures appr. 9 1/4 x 6 3/4" All but four photographs are stamped on verso "Aus dem Weltfilm der Universal Der Paul Kohner Produktion S.O.S. Eisberg. Dieses Foto dart nur veröffentlicht werden mit dem Vermerk: Universal-Fanck-Grönland-Expedition Foto: Vogel-Sandau" and numbered in pencil. Two photographs are stamped and credited to Gisela Lindeck, Berlin-Halensee, on versos, one stamped "Aus dem Welfilm." but unnumbered, and one w/o stamp and inked number 14. [WITH] S.O.S. Eisberg. Mit Dr. Fanck und Ernst Udet in Grönland. Die Grönland-Expedition des Universal-Films S.O.S. Eisberg by Arnold Fanck. München. F. Bruckmann AG. 1933. First edition. Quarto. 68pp (text), 64pp (plates). Original photographic stiff boards, with white and green lettering on front cover. "S.O.S. Eisberg" documents the 1933 expedition in Northwest-Greenland, for the filming of the German-US drama film of the same name directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland, Rod La Roque, and Ernst Udet, the second-highest scoring German flying ace of WWI. In the same year that she directed "Sieg des Glaubens" (English: Victory of Faith) (1933), her first of several famous cinematic projects for the Nazi Party, German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl played a supporting role in this epic adventure, co-written and co-directed by her frequent "mountain film" collaborator Dr. Arnold Fanck. Rod La Rocque stars as Dr. Carl Lawrence, leader of a mission to Greenland to recover the lost records of the ill-fated, real-life Alfred Lothar Wegener polar expedition of 1929-30. Lawrence's party includes experienced explorer/guides, as well as an adventure-seeking financier, who is in over his head and slowly driven mad by the perils of the voyage. When Lawrence's band is trapped on an iceberg, Lawrence's wife Ellen (Leni Riefenstahl) - a famous female pilot fashioned after Amelia Earhart - takes off on a rescue mission, but she crashes her aircraft upon landing and is stranded along with the others. Before total disaster claims the Lawrence party, however, native eskimos and Major Ernst Udet (playing himself) arrive via kayak to save the day. Two surviving members of the Wegener party served as advisors for this well-received Man vs. Nature treatise, filmed on location in Greenland, Iceland, and in the Bernina Alps, on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It was filmed simultaneously in German and English, and released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the United States. The film premiered on August 30, 1933 in Berlin. Among its stars were Leni Riefenstahl, who had just made her directoria.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ("Paul") boldly penned in black on his Paul Kohner, Inc. letterhead, Hollywood, California, November 12, 1952. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2", 2 pages (recto only). Very good. To actress, agent, producer Jodi Desmond via de la Fontanelle, Interne 7 Rome 4, Italy Interesting letter commenting on his European trip and a possible business transaction. Signed by Author(s).