Essy Persson (4 results)

Eight vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1970 UK film. In Elizabethan England, a coven of witches is massacred by evil Lord Whitman (Price), but the coven's leader invokes a magical servant, a "banshee," for revenge. A prime vessel for Vincent Price, who basically carries the film. Shot on location in Middlesex, England. 8 x 10 inches. Light creases overall, else Near Fine.

Final Draft script for the 1970 British horror film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with his initials in rub-on transfer letters on the bottom of the front wrapper, and his name written on the top of revision page 31. With manuscript pencil annotations thoughout, and clippings of scene directions and props (often noting Provis' supplied props) affixed to the versos of the opposing page or laid in, throughout. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Vincent Price stars as Lord Whitman, who is waging an unending war on witchcraft, and massacres a coven, whose surviving member, Oona, played by Elisabeth Bergner, calls upon a banshee to destroy the lord's family. Shot on location in Middlesex, England. Blue untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, dated September/October 1969, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Tim Kelly and Christopher Wicking. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 105. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with undated blue and pink revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with two flat metal brads.

Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1968 Swedish film. Both photographs with provenance stamps on the verso, one with two labels obscuring a previous provenance stamp. One of a number of international films in the 1960s produced by Radley Metzger (as noted on these photographs) that today show no credit for him. Originally released in Sweden as Lejonsommar, the film was released world-wide under the title "Summer of the Lion," and in the US as "Vibration." Sven-Bertil Taube stars as a frustrated writer who travels to an island off the coast of Sweden and becomes involved with Essy Persson, as a sexy young temptress. Shot on location in Gotlands län, Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. One photograph with a wax pencil annotation on the top right, else Near Fine.

Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the US/European 1968 film. All three photographs with a provenance stamp on the versos. Based on the 1966 French novel "Thérèse et Isabelle" by Violette Leduc. Two young students, abandoned by their families in a Swiss boarding school for girls, experience a profound attraction for each other. Shot on location in Potsdam, Germany and Paris. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.