A Nice Girl Like Me

Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1968. Draft UK script for the 1969 film. With several annotations in manuscript ink throughout.

Based on Anne Piper's 1959 novel, "Marry at Leisure," about Candida (Ferris), who goes to live with her relatives after the death of her father. Bored with life, she leaves for Paris where she meets a young student and becomes pregnant, but keeps the baby a secret from her family. Bored, yet again, with life, she leaves for Italy, where she meets an American, and is soon pregnant again. As she leaves Italy, a woman gives her baby to Candida at the train station. So with two babies and one on the way, her life is unraveling quickly, and her only confidant is Savage (Andrews), the caretaker of her late father.

Set in London and Paris, shot on location there, as well as Venice.

Pink blank wrappers with die cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated July 1968, with credits for screenwriter and author Anne Piper, and novelist Desmond Davis. 112 leaves, with last page of text numbered 111. Mechanical duplication. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with a pink ribbon.

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