Waldo Jon (7 results)

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The front cover has the previous owner's mailing label. Articles include - MARGARET MITCHELL'S LOST MANUSCRIPT, PHOTOGRAPHS AND LETTERS BY DEBRA FREER, HIS AMERICAN ROOTS ARE SHOWING (JON WALDO) BY EDWARD GOMEZ, FIFTIES FURNITURE BY CARA GREENBERG, WHISTLER IN RETROSPECT BY RICHARD COVINGTON, MILLIENIUM OF AMERICAN ART, COLLECTING IN BANGKOK. …

Vintage reference photograph from a 1980 re-release of the 1969 film. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy, about the unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema, nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Set in New York City, shot on location in Miami, Manhattan, and Big Spring, Texas. 10 x 8 inches. About Fine. National Film Registry.…

Two vintage reference photographs from the 1978 film, one showing Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, the other showing Fonda and Bruce Dern. A key Vietnam-era film, and one of noted director Hal Ashby's finest efforts. Ostensibly a war film, "Coming Home" is really more about the lives of the women left behind during the war, tracking the progress of a housewife who finds herself unexpectedly liberated in her husband's absence, falling into an affair with a wounded veteran. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, and nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Best Director. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. 8 x 10 inches. About Fine.…

Draft script for the 1978 film. Copy belonging to Lucile Jones, credited in the film as a "friend who did everything," with her first name in manuscript ink on the title page. Laid in with the screenplay are three photographs from the set of the film: one black-and-white studio still photograph showing actors Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda, and two borderless color reference photographs of director Hal Ashby with an unknown woman (possibly Jones) on the set. A key Vietnam-era film, and one of noted director Hal Ashby's finest efforts. Ostensibly a war film, "Coming Home" is really more about the lives of the women left behind during the war, tracking the progress of a housewife who finds herself unexpectedly liberated in her husband's absence, falling into an affair with a wounded veteran. Winner of three Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay, and nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Best Director. Nominated for the Palme d'Or. Screenplay: Red titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Waldo Salt and Bob Jones and director Hal Ashby. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 132. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with four blue revision pages, dated 1/3/77. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold screw brads. Photographs: Two 7 x 5 inches, one 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.…

Draft script for the 1969 film. Copy belonging to the film's still photographer Ron Munkasci, with his name in red manuscript ink at the top right corner of the title page. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy about an unlikely friendship between a would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist. Cornerstone film of the New Hollywood cinema, nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Set in New York City, shot on location in Miami, Manhattan, and Big Spring, Texas. Dark blue titled wrappers, noted as DRAFT SCREENPLAY at the bottom right, and with the logo for JEROME HELLMAN PRODUCTIONS at bottom center. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Waldo Salt, novelist James Leo Herlihy, producer Jerome Hellman, and director John Schlesinger, noted as "A JEROME HELLMAN-JOHN SCHLESINGER PRODUCTION." 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine with some offsetting to the title page due to a newspaper clipping (still present) laid in, wrapper Very Good plus. National Film Registry. …

Vintage studio still photograph from the 1969 film, showing actors Jon Voight, Paul Rossilli, Viva, and Dustin Hoffman. French distributor stamp on the verso. Based on the 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy. One of the earliest films to receive an X rating and the only X-rated release to ever win an Academy Award for Best Picture, also winning for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Nominated for four other Academy Awards, including Best Actor for both Hoffman and Voight, and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Miles. Set and shot on location in Big Spring, Texas, New York City, and Miami, Florida. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with pinholes at the corners. National Film Registry.…

Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the US release of the 1969 film. Jon Voight plays a naive Texan who moves to New York to hustle his body and finds himself in an unlikely friendship with an ailing con artist played by Dustin Hoffman. Winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, and nominated for four others. Set in New York and Texas, shot on location in New York, Texas, Florida, and New Jersey. 8 x 10 inches. Fine. In a custom museum-quality frame, archivally mounted, with UV glass. National Film Registry.…