World War II from Royal Books, Inc.

New York: Jeffrey Richards, 1979. Vintage photograph from the 1979 Broadway play, which originally premiered on December 2, 1979, at the New Apollo Theatre, running for 241 performances. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, crediting photographer James Hamilton. A gay man in 1930s Berlin is captured by the Gestapo and taken to Dachau concentration camp, where… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1966. Collection of 13 vintage oversize borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1966 French film. Loosely based on the 1946-1950 memoirs of Gilbert Renault writing as Colonel Remy, about a small town in the Jura divided by a narrow river which forms the border between Nazi-occupied France and the free zone. The first of four… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1946. Collection of six vintage borderless reference photographs from the UK release of the 1946 film, all six showing actor Groucho Marx. London photograph agency stamps, Picture Surveys stamps crediting photographer Fred Bonnard, and cropping annotations in manuscript pencil on the versos. An escaped Nazi war criminal wants to reclaim the stolen valuables he has… Read more about this item

New York: Barovick Konecky Braun Schwartz and Kay, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film. With a single annotation in manuscript pencil on the first page. Based on the 1978 novel by Michael Barak. In order to win World War II and understand where Nazi Germany's bombs are going to fall, Winston Churchill tasks his intelligence service… Read more about this item

London: National Film Archive, 1944. Vintage reference photograph from the 1944 film, showing director Preston Sturges filming a railroad scene on a camera crane. National Film Archive stamp on the verso, along with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil, identifying subjects. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Sturges' eighth and last film… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1940. Vintage press portrait of actress Jane Wyman and her daughter Maureen, circa 1940s. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Wyman's husband at the time, then-actor Ronald Reagan, was ordered to active duty in 1942, and served in the US Air Force and the First Motion Picture Unit until the end of the war in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1943. 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… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1957. Revised Shooting Final script for the 1957 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 16 reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1972. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actress Liza Minnelli. Based on Joe Masteroff's 1966 musical, which was based on John Van Druten's 1951 Broadway play "I Am a Camera," which was in turn based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood from his collection "Goodbye to Berlin." A decadent, beautiful story of… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal International Pictures, 1962. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1962 film. The true story of George Ray Tweed, the only US naval officer to avoid capture by the Japanese while stationed in Guam during World War II. One of the only American film appearances by noted Filipina actress Barbara Perez. Set in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1953. Revised Final Draft script for the 1953 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Annotations in manuscript pencil on three leaves, noting substantive changes. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Screenwriter Gunnar Hellstrom's address on the title page in manuscript ink. German and Italian ambassadors meet in Stockholm in discuss how neutral Sweden will work for the Axis war effort in 1943, with a particular focus on acquisition of the Swedish steel industry. Set in Stockholm. … Read more about this item

Venice, CA: Capricorn Productions, 1975. Treatment script for an unproduced film. With an annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper noting the title of the script, and another on the first page of text, noting an editorial revision. The jazz-loving navigator of a small Japanese submarine finds himself accidentally stranded in a small American town in… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Draft script for an unproduced film. The true story of Moe Berg, a baseball player who was commonly known as the smartest man in the game, having graduated from Princeton and Columbia. Berg, who spoke several languages and read ten newspapers a day, was contracted by the United States government to use his fame… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1980. Treatment script (here called a "Prospectus") for an unproduced film. The story of Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS and one of the most powerful men in the Nazi regime. Set in Germany. Clear mylar front wrapper, black rear wrapper. Title page present, noted as PROSPECTUS, with credits for screenwriters Philip… Read more about this item

Munich [Munchen]: Roxy Film, 1978. Draft script for the 1978 German film. Text in English. Based on the 1968 novel by George Saiko. In 1934, a young archaeologist returns to his home in Austria only to discover rising social and political tensions, complicating his relationship with his fiancee, an indecisive woman who wants to remain neutral throughout… Read more about this item

London: Galactacus Productions, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 film. Laid in with the script are two letters addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from producer Antony Rufus Isaacs, introducing the script and suggesting the part of Grabinski for actor Charles Bronson, as well as a four-page typed synopsis of the script. Based on the 1955 novel… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1977. Draft script for an unproduced film. Text in French. Laid in are a three-page synopsis of the film and a letter from the screenwriter. In the winter of 1934, a French woman living by the seaside with two mysterious older men gets wrapped up in the politics of the times, ultimately forcing all three… Read more about this item

Tel Aviv: Bar Kochba, 1968. Treatment script for the 1975 Polish film. Text in English. The true story of Janusz Korczak, an educator, doctor, children's book author, and caretaker of an orphanage for Jewish children in Warsaw. During World War II, Korczak refused to leave the city, instead choosing to stay at the orphanage to protect the… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1992. Revised Draft script for the 1993 film. Several months before the outbreak of World War II, a group of German teenage boys band together over their shared love of forbidden swing music from the US. As the Nazi party tightens its grip over the country, the boys must decide where their loyalties lie. … Read more about this item