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Auction archive: Lot number 40

A group of screenplays: The Magnificent Ambersons; Mourning Becomes Electra; Blackbeard, the Pirate; and The Big Country

TCM Presents ... Little Treasures
15 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2020
Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$4,825
Auction archive: Lot number 40

A group of screenplays: The Magnificent Ambersons; Mourning Becomes Electra; Blackbeard, the Pirate; and The Big Country

TCM Presents ... Little Treasures
15 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2020
Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$4,825
Beschreibung:

Comprising a mimeographed manuscript of The Magnificent Ambersons, screenplay by Orson Welles 183 pp, dated August 15, 1941 and marked "Estimating Script" to cover, with blue and pink revision pages bound in and a "Mr. Greenspan" ownership signature to cover, bound with brads in yellow wrappers (back wrapper missing), accompanied by a California Labor School invitation to a reception honoring Orson Welles; a mimeographed manuscript of Mourning Becomes Electra, 199 pp, dated February 25, 1947 and marked "Final Script" to cover, with blue revision pages bound in and a "Bob Belcher" ownership signature to cover, bound with brads in pink wrappers; a mimeographed manuscript of Blackbeard, the Pirate, screenplay by Alan LeMay and story by DeVallon Scott and Frank Cavett, 145 pp, dated May 29, 1952 and marked "Revised Final Script" to cover, with blue revision pages bound in and a "Bob Belcher" ownership signature to cover, with original studio receipt intact on title page, bound with brads in yellow RKO wrappers, accompanied by 3 pages of typed notes pertaining to stock shots; and a mimeographed manuscript of The Big Country, screenplay by Leon Uris, 107 pp, dated June 20, 1957 and marked "#2" to cover, bound with brads in green wrappers, accompanied by an 8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph of a Native American girl, 4 pp of promotional material, and a small handwritten notecard to editor Bob Belcher inscribed, "For Bobby / Just a token of appreciation / for all the swell bottlenecking / of those sound / tracks. / With regard / Benny." Each: approximately 8.5 x 11 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles
Beschreibung:

Comprising a mimeographed manuscript of The Magnificent Ambersons, screenplay by Orson Welles 183 pp, dated August 15, 1941 and marked "Estimating Script" to cover, with blue and pink revision pages bound in and a "Mr. Greenspan" ownership signature to cover, bound with brads in yellow wrappers (back wrapper missing), accompanied by a California Labor School invitation to a reception honoring Orson Welles; a mimeographed manuscript of Mourning Becomes Electra, 199 pp, dated February 25, 1947 and marked "Final Script" to cover, with blue revision pages bound in and a "Bob Belcher" ownership signature to cover, bound with brads in pink wrappers; a mimeographed manuscript of Blackbeard, the Pirate, screenplay by Alan LeMay and story by DeVallon Scott and Frank Cavett, 145 pp, dated May 29, 1952 and marked "Revised Final Script" to cover, with blue revision pages bound in and a "Bob Belcher" ownership signature to cover, with original studio receipt intact on title page, bound with brads in yellow RKO wrappers, accompanied by 3 pages of typed notes pertaining to stock shots; and a mimeographed manuscript of The Big Country, screenplay by Leon Uris, 107 pp, dated June 20, 1957 and marked "#2" to cover, bound with brads in green wrappers, accompanied by an 8 x 10 in. silver gelatin photograph of a Native American girl, 4 pp of promotional material, and a small handwritten notecard to editor Bob Belcher inscribed, "For Bobby / Just a token of appreciation / for all the swell bottlenecking / of those sound / tracks. / With regard / Benny." Each: approximately 8.5 x 11 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 40
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 2020 - 29 Jun 2020
Auction house:
Bonhams London
Los Angeles
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