signed
1936 · N.p.
by Joan Blondell, Joe E. Brown, Mischa Auer, Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore (starring); Lloyd Bacon (director); Jerry Wald, Julius J. Epstein (screenwriters); Fred Thompson, Jack Donohue (play)
N.p.: N.p., 1936. Revised Final script for the 1936 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. SIGNED by actor Joe E. Brown on the distribution page.
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).
Based on the successful 1929 Broadway play by Jack Donahue and Fred Thompson/ A stage actor joins the US Army during World War I, where he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as a spy.
Bound in dark red cloth, with gilt title on the front board. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, dated 1/13/36, noted as REV. FINAL. 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding lightly worn at the spine ends, else Near Fine. (Inventory #: 161343)
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).
Based on the successful 1929 Broadway play by Jack Donahue and Fred Thompson/ A stage actor joins the US Army during World War I, where he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as a spy.
Bound in dark red cloth, with gilt title on the front board. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, dated 1/13/36, noted as REV. FINAL. 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding lightly worn at the spine ends, else Near Fine. (Inventory #: 161343)