Yentl

Wembley, Middlesex: Lee International Film Studios, 1982. Draft script for the 1983 film. Copy belonging to an unidentified crew member, with their annotations in manuscript pencil and ink on the title page and throughout the script.

Loosely based on a short story by Jewish-American novelist and poet Isaac Bashevis Singer, about a young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to receive an education in Talmudic law. Actress Barbra Streisand determined to adapt Singer's story after first reading it in 1968, working for the next 15 years to realize the production. Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one.

Set in Poland in 1904, shot on location in Prague and Zatec, Czech Republic, in Merseyside, Oxfordshire, and Wembley, England, and in New York City.

Purple untitled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated March 18, 1982, with credits for Streisand, screenwriter Jack Rosenthal, writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. 146 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with pink, blue, and green revision pages throughout, dated variously between March 19 and May 24, 1982. Pages Near Fine, wrapper about Near Fine, bound internally with two silver brads.

Twilight Time.

[Book #165387]