Navy Blues

N.p. N.p., 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter and associate producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Eleven reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages, with nine pages of song lyrics ribbon copy typescript pages, and manuscript pencil annotations on two pages, and copied annotations on five pages.

Two Navy seamen borrow money to wager on their ship for the upcoming gunnery practice with the knowledge that the current gunnery champ has just transferred aboard their ship, unaware his enlistment is ending before the contest.

Shot on location in Honolulu and San Diego.

Bound in beige cloth with brown quarter leather binding. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay, music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Al Dubin. 182 leaves, with last page of text numbered 138. Mimeograph duplication with the exception of ribbon copy typescript song lyric pages, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/12/41 and 6/13/41. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good, with moderate rubbing to the spine and corners.

[Book #161382]