Presentation Scripts from Royal Books, Inc.

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1934. Final script for the 1935 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. With annotations in manuscript pencil throughout, checking off scenes. 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., 1938. Final script for the 1939 film, seen on the title page under its working title "Broadway Cavalier." Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. 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., 1942. Draft script for the 1942 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Six reference photographs from the film 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… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1935. Final script for the 1935 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board, and his annotations in manuscript ink on the distribution page, identifying actors. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1938. Revised Final Draft script for the 1938 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board. Script with manuscript pencil annotations on the registration page, and "Important! Return Story Dept." stamps on registration page, page 1, and page 156. Script followed by two pages (155-156)… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1948. Draft script for the 1949 film, seen here under the working title "Happy Times." Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine and in manuscript pencil on the title page. Six reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script leaves. Jerry Wald is best… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1955. Revised Final Draft script for the 1955 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque"… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1941. Final script for the 1942 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the pages. 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., 1953. Final Draft script for the 1954 film, seen here under the working title "A Name for Herself." Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1938. Final script for the 1938 film. Presentation copy belonging to story writer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce"… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Draft script for an English-language stage adaptation of Jean Renoir's 1960 French play that was ultimately produced as a televised stage production on the series program "Hollywood Television Theater" on WNET in New York, on February 3, 1973. The production starred Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer, and was produced by Norman Lloyd. Presentation copy, inscribed… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: National Broadcasting Company [NBC] / Top Gun Productions, 1961. Archive of 26 scripts from the early revisionist television Western, the working copies of producer Michael Kraike, consisting the second half of the first season (1959-1960) and the first half of the second season (1960-1961). These two halves are in two full red leather presentation bindings, each with… Read more about this item

Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1957. Revised Final script for the 1958 film. Based on the 1947 play "For Love or Money" by F. Hugh Herbert. Presentation copy belonging to producer Ross Hunter, bound in full navy calf with gilt titles and design, with Hunter's name on the front board. Veteran actor Curd Jurgens begins to have… Read more about this item

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1955. Final script for the 1956 film. Originally, screenwriter Michael Wilson went uncredited because he was on the Hollywood Blacklist. Credited here for screenwriting are novelist Jessamyn West and one of the film's producers Robert Wyler. Wilson was finally given the credit by the Screenwriters Guild in 1996. Based on the 1945 novel by… Read more about this item

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1944. Second Revised Final script for the 1946 film. Presentation copy belonging to actress Alexis Smith, with her initials in decorative gilt on the front board, bound in full calf. Throughout the script are 5 black-and-white film stills on tipped-in leaves, all featuring Smith and costar, Paul Henreid. Based on W. Somerset Maugham's… Read more about this item

Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Draft script for the 1933 film "Song of the Eagle," seen here partially under the early working title "The Beer Story." Presentation copy belonging to uncredited producer Harry Joe Brown, with his name in gilt titles on the front board, presumably gifted to Brown by prop man William Carr, as the script itself has Carr's… Read more about this item