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Hollywood, 1940. First draft typescript (ribbon copy on Fidelity onion skin paper). 84 pages. Brad-fastened into textured paper covers from The Orsatti Agency, with typed cover label. Screen adaptation of the popular 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood, which itself was adapted from her 1908 classic mystery "The Circular Staircase". A silent version had been produced in 1926, and a 1930 version was entitled "The Bat Whispers" served as an inspiration to Bob Kane in the creation of Batman. James Roosevelt, son of the President, who had no experience in motion pictures, set up a production company in late 1939 and hired the Perelmans to write this first film he wanted to produce. They began work on January 29 and by February 26, when the picture (along with Roosevelt's entire plan to produce feature films) was abandoned, they had written 108 pages. (Cf. S.J. Perelman letter to Augustus Goetz, Jan. 27 and Feb. 26, 1940, published in Don't Tread On Me.). A comparison with the published…
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The Bat". Screenplay
by Perelman, S.J. and Laura Perelman
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The Day of the Locust. Screenplay by Waldo Salt from the novel by Nathanael West
by [West, Nathanael]; Salt, Waldo
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1975. Mimeographed, 118 pages, plus additional revised pages, dated , 9/26-10 /73, pinned in plain covers. Occasional pencil marks and dog ears reveal it was obviously used at some point in production. Directed by John Schlesinger. Signed by the cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, and inscribed and signed by Karen Black.
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Duel in the Sun. (Screen treatment of Busch's novel)
by Busch, Niven
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1946. Mimeographed, 23-page undated early treatment of Busch's novel, mimeographed cover, brad bound. Some spotting to cover; very good. Other than Busch's, no name appears in this treatment. The adaptation credit went to Oliver H.P. Garrett, and the screenplay was written by David O. Selznick (aided by uncredited Ben Hecht).
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Heaven Can Wait. 2nd Draft screenplay
by Coppola, Francis Ford
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1969. Screenplay by Coppola, based on the Harry Segall play (previously filmed as Here Comes Mr. Jordan, 1941, and then in 1978 under this its original title).115 pages. Mimeographed, brad-fastened, covers with light edge wear, title and date inked on spine. Unproduced. This script was written for Bill Cosby, and he was to play a boxer in his first film role, a black version of the classic. Cosby's manager, Roy Silver, had bought the rights, and commissioned the script, but before Cosby was available, he and Silver split up.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes. Screenplay
by Bradbury, Ray
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1983. Screenplay by Bradbury from his own novel. Cover title. 126 pages, brad-bound. Dated as "Revised 8/24/81". Title penned on spine edge. Inside rear cover notes this a the "prop shop copy" and there is a short handwitten "buy-list". Fine.
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The Symphony Story [Unfaithfully Yours]. Screenplay by Preston Sturges
by Sturges, Preston
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Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1948. Mimeographed sheets, 159 pages. Brad-fastened in covers stamped with the working title and the date, January 15, 1948; blue revised pages dated 1/19/1948. Copy number "16": stamped on cover and first page, distribution receipt removed. Covers show some use. The original screenplay for Sturges's first film for Fox. This classic dark comedy starred Rex Harrison in a character partly modeled on Sir Thomas Beecham. The copy of cinematographer Victor Milner, with his signature and notes on the front cover, and his ink or pencil notes about shots, lighting, etc. at various places in the margins. Besides his other work for Sturges (The Lady Eve, Christmas in July, The Palm Beach Story) Milner also filmed such classics as Trouble in Paradise (1932) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
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