Those Were the Days! [At Good Old Siwash]

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939. Draft script for the 1930 film, here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash," with "Those Were the Days" written in manuscript pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period. Missing one page, likely as used or issued.

Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha (William Holden, Bonita Granville) reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met.

Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.

Self wrappers, front wrapper dated October 23, 1939, rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

[Book #147689]