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THE LITTLE PRINCE LOEWE, Frederick and LERNER, Alan Jay. "THE LITTLE PRINCE." Based on The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Movie by Paramount Pictures, Directed by Stanley Donen, starring Bob Fosse as "the Snake," and Gene Wilder as "the Fox," released 1974 THE LAST LERNER AND LOEWE COLLABORATION: "THE LITTLE PRINCE" In the early 1970s, Alan Lerner had been approached to consider a movie adaptation of the charming original modern fable by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Loewe found the screenplay by Lerner delightfully appealing and, although he was nominally retired, insisted on writing the score. The two, friends and collaborators since the war years, came together one final time, though it had been 11 years since their last joint project. Lerner recalled that their work in writing the show, mostly done in London, "was 'pre-Camelot again." Loewe, he said, "wrote the most beautiful score, filled with melody and bubbling with the innocence of youth." But the work, conceived in such optimistic circumstances, was disappointingly realized. Lerner later wrote that "it was never heard on the screen the way Fritz had composed it. The director took it upon himself to change every tempo, delete musical phrases at will and distort the intention of every song, until the score was unrecognizable. Unlike the theater, where the author is the final authority, in motion pictures it is the director. It undoubtedly was Fritz's [Loewe's] last score" (A.J. Lerner, The Street Where I Live, 1978). Loewe's personal archive includes 3 autograph melodic sketches, copyist's manuscripts which represent the composer's final versions of the musical numbers (several alternates for "Little Prince"), and separate and bound copies of those scores, for use in the filming. Totaling: 66 pages manuscript music; 84 pages separate mechanical copies, Loewe's bound score, 64 pages, 1 page typescript lyrics, 2 pages with Loewe's listing of the numbers in the show. Contents: "I Need Air," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 6 pages "Matters of Consequence," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 6 pages Interlude "I'm On Your Side," autograph piano-vocal score, with lyrics in Loewe's hand, 1 page, deleted melodic sketches by Loewe on verso "I'm On Your Side," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 7 pages "Be Happy," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 6 pages "You're A Child," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 6 pages "I Never Met A Rose," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 5 pages, several alternate bars "I Never Met A Rose, autograph manuscript melodic sketch, with lyrics, by Loewe, 1 page "Why Is The Desert," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 5 pages "A Snake In The Grass," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 7 pages "Little Prince (original)," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 5 pages "Little Prince (revised)," manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 6 pages, headed "Verse to Closer and Closer" "Little Prince (revised version), manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, 4 pages Untitled ("Losing my mind, is no one out there"), autograph melodic sketch with lyrics, by Loewe, 1 page. [With]: 1. A set of mechanical copies (xerographic) of the score versions of the above numbers, made during production, each in folder labelled with its title, including "I Need Air," 6 pages; "Matters of Consequence," 6 pages; "I'm On Your Side," 2 copies, 7 pages each; "Be Happy," 2 copies, 6 pages each; "You're A Child," 2 copies, 6 pages each; "I Never Met A Rose," two copies, 5 pages each; "A Snake In The Grass," 7 pages; "Closer and Closer and Closer," 2 copies, 5 pages each; "Verse To Closer and Closer," 1 page; "Little Prince," 5 pages. Together 83 pages. 2. Typescript lyrics for "Business Man" (apparently deleted song), 1 page 3. Loewe's list of the musical numbers (10 listed), headed "Tape," on music staff paper, 1 page 4. Loewe, partial list of musical numbers (6 only) headed "Little Prince," signe