Sweet Music (Original screenplay for the 1935 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
by Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvorak, Allen Jenkins (starring); Alfred E. Green (director); Jerry Wald, Carl Erickson, Warren Duff (screenwriters)
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About This Item
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 a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
A college bandleader decides to keep his band together after graduation. They rise to fame, and he falls in love with a beautiful dancer along the way.
Bound in full maroon leather, with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page integral with the distribution page, dated 9/11/34, noted as FINAL, with a Warner Bros. stamp and a stamp noting copy No. 23. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with 16 blue revision pages bound in at the rear, dated between 10/11/34 and 10/13/34. Pages about Fine, binding Very Good plus, lightly scuffed and edgeworn.
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" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
A college bandleader decides to keep his band together after graduation. They rise to fame, and he falls in love with a beautiful dancer along the way.
Bound in full maroon leather, with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page integral with the distribution page, dated 9/11/34, noted as FINAL, with a Warner Bros. stamp and a stamp noting copy No. 23. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 124. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with 16 blue revision pages bound in at the rear, dated between 10/11/34 and 10/13/34. Pages about Fine, binding Very Good plus, lightly scuffed and edgeworn.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 161394
- Title
- Sweet Music (Original screenplay for the 1935 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
- Author
- Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvorak, Allen Jenkins (starring); Alfred E. Green (director); Jerry Wald, Carl Erickson, Warren Duff (screenwriters)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Warner Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Burbank, CA
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Film Scripts | Presentation Scripts | 1930s Cinema | Musical | Romance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Scripts; 1930s Cinema; Musical; Presentation Scripts;
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