To Be or Not to Be

Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Tim Matheson (starring)
Alan Johnson (director)
Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan (screenwriters)

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox / Brooksfilms, 1982. Final Draft script for the 1983 film.

A remake of the classic 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film starring Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their costumes to aid the resistance effort. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Charles Durning.

Red titled Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, dated October, 1982. Title page present, dated October, 1982, noted as FINAL DRAFT, with credits for screenwriters Thomas Meehan and Ronny Graham. 152 leaves, with last page of text numbered 147. Xerographic duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 11/5/82. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with two gold brads.


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