Wharf Angel [The Man Who Broke His Heart]

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933. Final script for the 1934 film, here under the working title "The Man Who Broke His Heart," with an annotation in manuscript pencil, and Paramount "Return to Story Dept.," "Master File," and "File Copy" stamps on front wrapper. Script written prior to casting Dorothy Dell, whose "Cast" page lists all principal actors except Dell. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period.

Two stokers, "Turk" (Victor McLaglen) and Como Murphy (Preston Foster), who is fleeing the law, aboard the freighter "The Coyote" are unknowingly in love with the same girl, "Toy," (Dell) who lives above "Mother Bright's," the toughest saloon on the lawless, waterfront 'Barbary Coast' district of San Francisco.

Dell's debut, a rapidly rising star who would tragically die at nineteen in an auto accident, three months after the release of "Wharf Angel's."

Set in the 'Barbary Coast' district, San Francisco.

Tall self wrappers, dated December 26, 1933, rubber-stamped production No. 1988, with credits for screenwriters Samuel Hoffenstein and Frank Partos, dialogue Stephen Morehouse Avery, playwright Frederick Schlick, associate producer Albert Lewis, and directors Wm. Cameron Menzies and George Somnes. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered F-8. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, front wrapper separated, saddle-stapled with three staples.

[Book #147726]