Going Places

N.p. N.p., 1938. Final Draft script for the 1938 film, with manuscript pencil annotations on page 2 striking two shots. 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).

Based on the 1920 Broadway play "The Hottentot" by Victor Mapes and William Collier, Sr. Previously made as a silent film in 1922, and in 1929 as an early talkie, both under the title “The Hottentot.” A sports store salesman poses as a famous jockey to advertise a line of riding clothes, only to become entangled in his lies when two gamblers try to fix him up with a wild horse named Jeepers Creepers.

Bound in maroon leather with gilt titles on the front board and spine. Distribution page integral with the title page, with receipt intact, dated 7/28/38, noted as FINAL. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 8/4/38. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, with light rubbing at the extremities.

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