Green Grass of Wyoming [Mary O'Hara's Green Grass of Wyoming]

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Revised Final script for the 1948 film, here under the working title "Mary O'Hara's Green Grass of Wyoming." Copy belonging to Robert Arthur, who play Ken McLaughlin, with his name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil, and manuscript pencil annotations to his scenes throughout. Laid in are three additional pages and two film negatives.

A mare has been lured away by a wild stallion, angering the mare's owner, Beaver Greenway, a horse owner with a drinking problem. Meanwhile, Ken McLaughlin (Arthur) returns home with a new horse who has developed altitude sickness. Based on the third book in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka" trilogy. Nominated for one Academy Award.

Set in Wyoming, shot on location in Wyoming, Utah, and Ohio, USA.

Red titled wrappers, noted as Revised Final on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 166 and production No. 133, dated May 16, 1947. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated May 16, 1947, noted as Revised Final, with credits for screenwriter Martin Berkeley. 123 leaves, with last page of text numbered 117. Mimeograph duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between June 25, 1947 and July 18, 1947. Pages Very Good with dampstaining, wrapper Fair to Good, complete with dampstaining (pages not affected) and fray at the extremities, bound with three gold brads.

[Book #140197]