ralph murphy director (7 resultados)

Censorship Dialogue script for the 1944 film. A group of sailors end up marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean where they meet a young woman who was raised there. Set on an unnamed island in the Pacific Ocean. Tall white self-wrappers, noted as Censorship Dialogue script on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped production No. 2890, dated June 14, 1944. 95 leaves, with last page of text numbered Reel 5B- page 10. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, originally bound with three staples, no longer bound. Hirschhorn, p. 246.

Vintage publicity photograph featuring Doris Nolan and George Murphy from the 1937 film, with two stamps, one studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones and one studio stamp noting Nolan and Murphy, and a mimeo snipe on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. Doris Nolan stars as an heiress who starts a high art nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper which bores the audience until someone starts the place swinging. Set in Manhattan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1951 film noir. After accidentally killing his ex-wife's suitor, a police officer, a man goes on the run, bringing his ex-wife with him as a hostage. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Grant US. Selby US. Spicer US.

First Estimating Script for the 1950 film. Released in the US under the title "The Lady and the Bandit." Based on the 1927 poem by Alfred Noyes, about the 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin. Louis Hayward stars as the highwayman who must ride 200 miles from London to York to save his wife from the gallows. One of two 1951 films based on the Noyes' poem, released one day apart, the other being "The Highwayman," directed by Lesley Selander and starring Philip Fiend. Titled blue wrappers, noted as 1st Estimating Script on the front wrapper, dated June 16, 1950. Title page present, dated June 16, 1950, noted as FIRST ESTIMATING SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriters Robert Libott and Frank Burt. 133 leaves, with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, with front wrapper with splashing, light soiling, and foxing at the extremities, bound with two gold brads.

Specially bound Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Script belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles on the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's ownership name in manuscript pencil on the title page. Throughout the script are Carr's annotations, accompanied by 17 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves. Missing two pages, likely as used or issued. Otto Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) and his sons, Bill (Richard Allen) and August (George Meeker), own a successful brewery, until August dies in World War I and Prohibition forces the brewery to close. The Hoffman's brew a "near-beer" beverage to keep the business out of bankruptcy, but soon the brewery is overcome by gangsters, and Otto is killed for refusing to sell out. Bill is forced to break the bad news to his mother, Emma, who in a fit of loss and rage, kills the lead gangster. The script was written in early 1933, the same year Prohibition was repealed, and the "near-beer" brewed by the Hoffman's foreshadows the 3.2 percent beer (thought to be too low an alcohol concentration to be intoxicating) and wine, authorized for legal sale by the Cullen-Harrison Act, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. The Twenty-first Amendment was fully ratified on December 5, 1933, repealing Federal laws enforcing Prohibition. "Song of the Eagle," like the same year's "The Little Giant" with Edward G. Robinson, would be one of the last films made about Prohibition before its repeal. Brown full sheepskin boards with gilt titles, bound by James Allen. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated February 1933, with credits for screenwriters Towne and Baker, director Murphy, and producers Rogers and Brown. 130 leaves, mimeograph duplication, with black and white publicity photos laid in throughout. Very Good.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1937 film, showing actress Gertrude Niesen and other cast and crew members on the set during a rehearsal. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil, Spanish printed mimeo snipe, and provenance stamps on the verso. A bleeding-heart heiress starts a high-art nightclub atop a 100-story skyscraper, but the venture is unsuccessful until a bandleader convinces her to jazz up the joint. The film debuts of both Niesen and actress Peggy Ryan. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1933 pre-Code musical film. A naïve painter from Tennessee moves to France, where he promptly falls in with a dubious crowd of abstract artists) in Montparnasse. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, with a faint ink mark on the upper right portion of the photograph.