Young Man with a Horn

N.p. N.p., Circa 1950. Draft script for the 1950 film. Specially bound copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Twelve reference photographs bound in variously among the script pages.

Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).

Based on the 1938 novel by Dorothy Baker, in turn loosely inspired by the life of famed jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke. A young trumpet player finds himself caught in a love triangle between a talented singer and a beautiful but disturbed heiress.

Set and shot on location in Los Angeles and New York.

Bound in light blue cloth with navy quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Carl Foreman and novelist Dorothy Baker. 158 leaves, with last page of text numbered 141. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 7/9/49 and 8/25/49. Pages Near Fine, binding Good only, cloth lightly foxed, significant wear to the leather quarterbinding, though spine titles can still be read.

[Book #161272]