Petulia

Various cities: Raymond Wagner / Petersham Films, 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Copy belonging to one of the film's production designers, with their annotations regarding specific needed objects written in manuscript pencil and ink on the first and last pages of the script.

Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase, about an unhappy, newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco, with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead.

Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 17, 1967, with credits for novelist John Haase and screenwriter Larry Marcus. 101 leaves, with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.

Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #161281]