Garden of the Moon

N.p. N.p., 1938. Revised Final script for the 1938 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board.

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).

A nightclub manager's secretary falls in love with a little-known bandleader her boss has booked to temporarily stand in for Rudy Vallee, but her boss objects to the romance.

Bound in full red leather, with gilt titles on the spine and front board. Distribution page present, dated 3/24/38, stamped copy No. 116 and noted as REV. FINAL, with receipt intact. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. 146 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Fine, binding Near Fine.

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