PHANTOM LADY/LA FEMME FANTOME, IN FRENCH, WWII RADIO PLAY SCRIPT

[1944 PHANTOM LADY/LA FEMME FANTOME, IN FRENCH, WWII RADIO PLAY SCRIPT, ALLIED HOME FRONT] PHANTOM LADY, LA FEMME FANTOME, United States Government, Office of War Information (Overseas), Hollywood, Cal. U.S.A. For: N. Y. Radio Program Bureau, French Hollywood Unit, "LA FEMME FANTOME" From the Universal Picture "THE PHANTOM LADY", TIME: 30 [min.], Production: Gerald Kean, DATE: 11-24-44 [Nov. 24, 1944], JEAN GEIRINGER, JACQUES SURMAGNE [unidentified, but presumably having something to do with the production, possibly recording and/or sound], script 30 pages, original ribbon, right-hand pages only, held by clips in legal-size manila folder, director/producer Gerald Kean working script with annotations on every page including timing, stage directions, some text editing, before script are 5 pages with character list with respective actors in pencil, pencil signatures of actors with Social Security numbers (for payment), Auditions 11/17/44, Actors' Time for Phantom Lady [with] Rates to be Paid, Recorder - Special Effects noting "playback for bartender…slate pavement steps" and others, pencil hand-written signatures for Michele Morgan (French actress, 1920-2016, considered to have been one of the great French actresses of the 20th century. Morgan was the inaugural winner of the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival); Charles Andre (Belgium-born actor, 1901-66); Robert Laurent (spelling?); Gabrielle Harcourt; Maurice Marsac (French actor, 1915-2007); Roberta Danielle; Len Lenoir; Robert Appel; Georges Rigaud (Argentine film actor, 1905-84); unidentified signature; signatures authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; one-of a-kind item, original director/producer working script WWII radio play for French public home front /// NOTES: GERALD KEAN (sometimes Keane), 1915-2002, had a long and diverse career in the media during the heyday of radio and the emergence of television eventually supplanting radio, he held top positions not only with the United Nations, but also the U. S. Office of War Information (OWI) during World War II and radio programming in the decades after the War, notably working with the legendary Himan Brown in writing many radio scripts under different pen names for Brown's classic radio show "CBS Radio Mystery Theater; PHANTOM LADY, 1944 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, and Alan Curtis…Siodmak's first Hollywood noir and the first film produced by Joan Harrison, Universal Pictures' earliest female executive, who was associated with Alfred Hitchcock…film based on the novel of the same name written by Cornell Woolrich but published under the pseudonym William Irish; CONDITION: well-preserved, lightly worn director/producer working copy. keywords: WWII home front memorabilia, original radio script 1940s, entertainment history.