A Girl, a Guy and a Gob [Harold Lloyd #1]

Culver City, CA: RKO Radio Pictures, 1940. Revised Estimating script for the 1941 film, here under the working title "Harold Lloyd #1." Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman who played Cecilia Grange, with her name in manuscript pencil on the title page. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout.

Steve (O'Brien), a quiet executive at a shipping firm, meets a woman (Ball) at the opera, leading him to see his current life and girlfriend (Chapman) as boring. Despite this woman having a significant other (Murphy) who is being discharged from the Navy soon and is planning to propose, Steve quickly falls for her and sets about romancing her.

Yellow titled wrappers. Blue revision leaves bound in at the beginning of the document, never inserted into the principal script. Distribution page laid in, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated September 25, 1940, noted as Revised Estimating Script. 178 leaves, with last page of text numbered 147. Mimeograph duplication.

Principal script pages all dated between 9/25/40 and 9/27/40. Blue revision pages dated between 10/2/40 and 10/30/40. Pages Very Good, wrapper Very Good, encapsulated in mylar, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #140008]