Naughty But Nice [The Professor Steps Out]

N.p. N.p., 1938. Draft script for the 1939 film, seen on the title page under the working title "The Professor Steps Out." 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).

During a business trip to New York, a sober, strict-minded university professor is drunkenly persuaded to market his orchestral masterpiece as a swing number, to the chagrin of his college dean.

Bound in red cloth with dark red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine and front board. Title page present, dated 10/25/38, with credits for director Ray Enright, screenwriters Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald, and songwriters Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 132. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10/28/38 and 11/2/38. Pages Near Fine, binding Near Fine.

[Book #161383]