Tender Is The Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald (novel)
Henry King (director)
Ivan Moffat (screenwriter)
Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine (starring)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961. Final script for the 1962 film. Annotation in manuscript ink on the front wrapper, noting the name of an unknown crew member, and another ink annotation on page five, noting a deletion. Laid in with the script are two vintage studio still photographs.

Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's final 1934 novel, about an esteemed psychiatrist who sacrifices his career to marry his patient, an emotionally unstable young woman. Nominated for an Academy Award. Director Henry King's final film.

Set and shot on location in France, Italy, and Switzerland.

OCLC locates one holding. AMPAS shows no holdings.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, copy No. 737, dated January 31, 1961. Title page present, with credits for author F. Scott Fitzgerald and screenwriter Ivan Moffat. 178 leaves, with last page of text numbered 172. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 2/28/61. Pages Very Good plus, with light foxing, wrapper Very Good Plus, with yapping on the fore-edges.


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