Allen Boretz (21 results)

- Softcover
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.The Yard Sale Store
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Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. THE SCRIPT! Not so pretty. ACTING EDITION SCRIPT will serve as a useful Starving Student Edition when you need an extra! Some shelf wear and edge wear to the covers.THE FORMER ACTOR HAS MARKED UP THE SCRIPT including name.highlighting, underlining and sidebar notes. Economically priced ACTING ED…ITION for your performance needs. Book.
Language: English
Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc., UNITED STATES, 1964
- Softcover
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.The Yard Sale Store
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Good. THE SCRIPT! Presentable ACTING EDITION. Some shelf wear and scuff to the covers. Some tanning to the inside cover page. Former actor name. Enjoy this ACTING SCRIPT Reliable for your performance.

Language: English
Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc., UNITED STATES, 1998
- Softcover
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.The Yard Sale Store
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Paperback. Condition: Good. THE SCRIPT! Reliable ACTING EDITION SCRIPT with a good binding and plenty of clear text. Some shelf wear to the covers. Enjoy this useful ACTING SCRIPT for your dramatic and theatrical needs. Book.

- Softcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Dramatists Play Service
- Softcover
Seller: MPBookstore, New Ulm, MN, U.S.A.MPBookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover, Wraps. Condition: Good. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Room Service John Murra…y And Allen Boretz 1964 Dramatists Play. Service. There is some wear to the cover. The book has wear on the corners. There may be some marks in or on the book. Books are stored on a bookshelf in A/C. They are in a dark room and are well maintained. If you have any questions or concerns about this book please contact me. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog. Modified Item: No. Topic: Poetry & Plays. Binding: Softcover, Wraps. Author: Allen Boretz. Subject: Performing Arts. Language: English. Publisher: Dramatists Play Service.
Published by NY: Olman Music., 1931
- Sheet Music
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.Basement Seller 101
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Add to basketSheet music. Condition: Very Good.

Published by Olman Music Corporation, New York, NY, 1931
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Sheet Music
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.Bloomsbury Books
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Add to basketSheet Music. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Sheet music containing six pages, including front and rear covers, with three internal pages of music and lyrics. With splendid front cover photograph of a young Kate Smith. Inside pages age-tanned; covers show narrow scuff to upper right corner area; light wear from use.

- Softcover
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Language: English
Published by Dramatists Play Service, USA, 1944
- Softcover
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United KingdomRIVERLEE BOOKS
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Good. Good condition with some yellowing of pages, but binding tight. Generally good copy.
- Softcover
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
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Add to basketCondition: Good. Piano music score with lyrics. Music by Suess, words by Boretz. 4to., 5pp., photo portrait of Guy and Carmen Lombardo on front, color wraps. Good Plus, some fraying of edges. Faint owner signature (by the singer?) on front cover of Arlette or Ailette Abell.
Published by Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 1956
- Softcover
Seller: Joe Collins Rare Books, Dublin, IrelandJoe Collins Rare Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages (8). Illustrated. 215x140mm. Original printed wrappers. The first Irish production of this classic American play, which was made into a film featuring the Marx Brothers This Gaiety Theatre programme includes portraits of the lead actors: Joe Lynch, Donal Donnelly and Geniveve Lyons. Light…wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. Postage will be reduced on this item.
Published by Paris, L'Avant-Scène Théâtre n° 404, pas de date.
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Seller: Le Cabinet d'Amateur, Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandLe Cabinet d'Amateur
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Add to basketBroché, couverture illustrée. In-4°, 48p. Illustrations en noir et blanc.Adaptation d'Albert Husson et de Francis Blanche.
Published by Paris, L'Avant-Scène Théâtre n°404, [1968]., 1968
- Softcover
Seller: Le Cabinet d'Amateur, Neuchâtel, SwitzerlandLe Cabinet d'Amateur
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Add to basketBroché, couverture illustrée. In-4°, 46p. Illustrations en noir et blanc.Adaptation d'Albert Husson et Francis Blanche.Mise en scène de Jacques Charon.

- Softcover
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Step Lively (Original photograph from the 1944 film)
Fred Hendrickson (photographer); Tim Whelan (director); Warren Duff, Peter Milne (screenwriters); Allen Boretz, John Murray (play); Frank Sinatra, George Miller, Gloria DeHaven (starring)
Published by RKO Radio Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1944
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage reference photograph of the original poster for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus. Manuscript ink notation to the recto, image not affected. Lightly toned, with diag…onal creases to the upper corners. Hirschhorn, p. 244.
More imagesPublished by Dramatists Play Service Inc.
- Softcover
Seller: Homeless Books, Berlin, GermanyHomeless Books
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Gut. German actor Volker Spenglers private copy. Contains his signature, and some highlighting on the role of Leo Davis, later played by Jack Lemmon.
More imagesPublished by Random House, New Yotk, 1937
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A bright example of the very scarce first edition of this humorous play about a theatre producer, in the vibrant original dust wrapper. From the library of Clive Hirschhorn. The very scarce first edition, first printing of this work. In the pu…blisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A farcical three act comedy from Allen Boretz and John Murray, following a producer living on credit with a group of actors in a New York hotel, looking for an angel investor with $15,000. It was made into a film of the same name in 1938, and then adapted into a musical film in 1944 starring Frank Sinatra, called 'Step Lively'. From the library of Clive Hirschhorn, theatre critic at the Sunday Express from 1966 to 1995, and a noted book collector of 20th century authors, with his collection including all the major works of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck and others. With Clive's characteristic inscription with his date of acquisition to the upper corner of the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptional, with minor closed tear to back strip head. Pencil inscription to front pastedown head. Dust wrapper back strip a touch age toned, with small loss to back strip head, and closed tears to centre of back strip. Tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse at flyleaf folds, with front flyleaf tenderly held due to closed tear at fold. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.

Published by N.p., N.p., 1937
- Softcover
- Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerDraft script for an unproduced play. Based on the 1937 novel by Daniel Fuchs, about a small-town racketeer who suffers a mental breakdown when his turf is threatened by a ruthless, sinister gangster. The novel was later adapted into the 1947 film noir "The Gangster," with a screenplay written by Fuchs and Dalton Trumbo. Set in t…he fictional boardwalk town of Neptune Beach, Brooklyn. Tan titled wrappers, with a sticker for Rialto Service Bureau Typing and Mimeographing on the front wrapper. Title page present, with credits for playwright Allen Boretz and novelist Daniel Fuchs. 149 leaves, with last page of text numbered 3-2-33. Mimeograph duplication on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads.
More imagesPublished by [1942-1943], 1942
Seller: Monkey House Books, Miller Place, NY, U.S.A.Monkey House Books
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Add to basketNo binding. Condition: Very Good. This play produced by Special Service, SOS, NATOUSA Entertainment Branch. Single-page folded theatrical program from a USO performance in North Africa early in the war. Cast with brief biographies includes several actors-turned-servicemen and 2 actresses courtesy of USO-Camp. Shows, Inc., namely… Brooke Fleming and Virginia Robinson. Directed by George Abbott, theatrical and film producer whose career spanned 8 decades. Room Service was a 1937 screwball comedy about show business set in the White Way Hotel in New York City. It was the basis for the 1938 Marx Brothers film and was remade as Step Lively in 1944 with George Murphy and Frank Sinatra. Playwright John Murray served as a Captain in the Signal Corps during the war. Unusual piece of World War II ephemera, from the estate of a veteran. Creased, folded.
More imagesIt Ain't Hay (Original publicity photograph from the 1943 film)
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway (starring); Erle C. Kenton (director); Damon Runyon, Allen Boretz, John Grant (screenwriters)
Published by Universal Pictures, Universal City, 1943
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage publicity photograph from the 1943 film, showing actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Partial printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. After accidentally killing a hack horse, a cab driver and his friend unknowingly replace the horse with a show champion named Tea Biscuit. Based on "Princess O'Hara," a short story by Dam…on Runyon, previously adapted by Universal in 1935. 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. 10 x 8 inches. Tiny nick at the bottom left corner, else Near Fine.

Step Lively (Original photograph of Frank Sinatra, director Tim Whelan, and actress Gloria DeHaven from the set of the 1944 film)
Fred Hendrickson (photographer); Tim Whelan (director); Warren Duff, Peter Milne (screenwriters); Allen Boretz, John Murray (play); Frank Sinatra, George Miller, Gloria DeHaven (starring)
Published by RKO Radio Pictures, Culver City, CA, 1944
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage reference photograph for the 1944 film musical, based on the 1937 Broadway musical "Room Service" by Allen Boretz and John Murray, previously adapted in 1938 as a Marx Brothers vehicle. Date stamped "June 1944," with stamp crediting photographer Hendrickson, copyright stamps for RKO Pictures and Culver Services, and a st…icker for the later on the verso, along with manuscript annotations. Director Tim Whelan leans in, with crew members in the background, as Gloria DeHaven sings to a piano playing Frank Sinatra. 10 x 8 inches. Light edgewear. Very Good plus. Hirschhorn, p. 244.