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Varsity Show (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)

Varsity Show (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)

Varsity Show (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, presentation copy belonging
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Varsity Show (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)

by Dick Powell (starring); Busby Berekeley (choreographer); Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy, Rosemary Lane (starring); William Keighley (director); Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Sig Herzig, Warren Duff (screenwriters)

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N.p.: N.p., 1937. Second Revised Final Draft script for the 1937 film. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the bottom of the front board, with manuscript ink and pencil annotations on eight pages.

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).

College students rebel when their professor doesn't allow swing music in their varsity show. They enlist the help of an alumni, a big Broadway star (Dick Powell), not knowing his last three productions were flops.

The Busby Berkeley finale was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Dance Direction.

Bound in maroon leather, with gilt title on the front board and spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Distribution page integral with the title page, dated 4/23/37, noted as 2ND REV. FINAL. 157 leaves, with last page of text numbered 154. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding with light rubbing to the extremities, else Near Fine.

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Title
Varsity Show (Original screenplay for the 1937 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
Author
Dick Powell (starring); Busby Berekeley (choreographer); Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Ted Healy, Rosemary Lane (starring); William Keighley (director); Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Sig Herzig, Warren Duff (screenwriters)
Book Condition
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Date Published
1937
Keywords
Film Scripts | Presentation Scripts | 1930s Cinema | Musical | Romance | New York | Academy Awards
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Film Scripts; 1930s Cinema; Academy Awards; Musical; Presentation Scripts;

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