Women Screenwriters from Royal Books, Inc.

Universal City: MCA TV, 2000. Vintage studio still photograph from the 2000 re-release of the 1938 film, showing actors Sylvia Sidney and George Raft. Two former convicts meet while working at a department store and fall in love, but their relationship soon sours when one suspects the other of infidelity, leading him to return to a life… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Touchstone, 1997. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1997 film, showing two images, one of actors Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow, and one of Sorvino and Kudrow with Janeane Garofalo. Based on screenwriter Robin Schiff's 1988 play "Ladies Room." Two party girl best friends decide to invent fake careers to impress their former high school classmates… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1949. Vintage reference photograph of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers between takes on the set of the 1949 film. A husband-and-wife musical comedy team decides to break up the act when the wife is persuaded to try her luck as a dramatic actress. The first film to reunite Astaire and Rogers after ten years apart… Read more about this item

New York: Cannon Films, 1985. First Draft script for the 1986 film. A hardened LAPD detective is framed by a vengeful ex-convict and sent to prison, where he befriends a foul-mouthed petty criminal, hatching a plot to escape together. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. Gray untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated… Read more about this item

United Kingdom: Associated British Picture Corporation, 1956. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1956 British film noir, showing actress Diana Dors in the tub. Annotations in manuscript ink and pencil on the verso, and a small stamp on the bottom corners of the recto. Based on Joan Henry's 1954 novel "Yield to the Night," about a woman who… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 2008. Vintage program for the 2008 film. Based on the 1922 short story by F. Scott Fizgerald. David Fincher's melancholic and surprisingly heart-warming saga of the life of a man (Brad Pitt) who is born old and ages in reverse, and the woman who he was always destined to love, Daisy (Cate Blanchett).… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Tristar Pictures, 1993. Draft script for the 1994 film, seen here under the working title "Cop Gives Waitress $2 Million Tip!" Single annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page. Short on cash for a tip, a cop vows that he will split his earnings of the lottery ticket he just purchased with a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A successful doctor suffers a mental breakdown due to her survivor's guilt after being the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. She becomes obsessed with a man four years older than her, whom she met previously in a refugee camp in France. Set… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Revised Draft script for an unproduced film. Single annotation in manuscript ink on page 106. Searching for deeper meaning in her life, a single mother with three daughters decides to research and write a book on sex, much to the chagrin of her friends and family. Set in Big Sur. Blue… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1995. Revised Shooting script for the pilot episode of the 1995 television series, which originally aired on September 28, 1995, on CBS. A fictional tabloid publication struggles to survive in the fast-paced world of New York journalism. The series ran for a brief single season, with 13 episodes total, only eight of which were… Read more about this item

Munich: N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in German. Alongside contemporaries Werner Herzog and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Percy Adlon is considered a member of the New German Cinema movement. He is best known for his film "Bagdad Cafe" (1987), written around the same time as this screenplay. Set in Mexico. … Read more about this item

London: Taliafilm II, 1984. Draft script for the 1986 film. Laid in with the script is a small "With Compliments" card bearing the name of screenwriter Michael Wadleigh in manuscript ink. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985. Hjortsberg is best known for the screenplay adaptation of "Angel… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Pictures, 2003. For Your Consideration screenplay for the 2003 film. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985. Hjortsberg is best known for the film adaptation of "Angel Heart" (1987), based on his 1978 novel. Two middle-aged women convince the members of their women's… Read more about this item

Quebec City: Radio-Quebec, 1987. Draft script for the 1987 French film, seen here under the English title "Deaf to the City." Text in English. Based on the 1979 novel by Marie-Claire Blais. A wealthy woman's husband leaves her so she moves into a dilapidated boarding house where she befriends the optimistic landlord and tends to a terminally ill,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. Laid in is a letter from the screenwriters to reader Ilse Lahn of the Kohner-Levy Agency, dated October 31, 1978. Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Summers Kelley, written in 1924 but not published until 1974. Kelley is best remembered for her 1923 novel "Weeds."… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Three pages with annotations in manuscript ink. Returning home from a trip to the fort, a man finds his friend and wife dead, and his money and livestock stolen. He searches for the men responsible in order to seek vengeance. Set in Arizona. Tan untitled wrappers.… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1986. Revised First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few copied annotations throughout, most substantive in content. From the collection of novelist William Hjortsberg, who worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood between 1977-1985, and is best known for the screenplay adaptation for "Angel Heart" (1987), based on his 1978 novel. A woman… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1994. Revised First Draft script for the pilot episode of the 1995 television series. With a single manuscript ink annotation to page 53. A legal drama following the workplace encounters and romantic experiences of an overworked, tough-minded woman judge. The episode originally aired on September 13, 1995, on CBS. The show aired for a single season,… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Annotation in manuscript pencil on the title page, noting an address. Gloria Goldsmith was known primarily as a writer of television movies, including "Girls on the Road" (1972) and "The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick" (1988). Goldenrod titled wrappers. Title page present, with credit for screenwriter Gloria… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1979. Vintage press kit for the 1979 film. Full-color illustrated pocketed folder, containing 5 black-and-white photographs, and 12 gatherings of promotional reading material. A bankrupt perfume magnate seeks to recoup her losses by sponsoring a washed-up boxer turned driving instructor, hoping to return him to his former glory in the ring. Folder,… Read more about this item