Sister, Sister [Sisters]

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Television, 1978. Draft script for the 1982 television movie, seen here under the working title "Sisters" Originally aired on June 7, 1982, on NBC. Rare.

One of only two original feature-length original screenplays written by Maya Angelou (the other being the 1972 television movie "Georgia, Georgia").

In a small town in North Carolina, a young schoolteacher's life is upended with the arrival of her younger sisters, who challenge her straitlaced, ultra-moral attitude towards life. Filmed in 1979 but not aired until 1982.

Set in North Carolina and shot on location in Montgomery and Opelika, Alabama.

Blue titled wrappers, dated June 12, 1978, and noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated June 12, 1978, noted as REVISED FINAL, with credit for screenwriter Maya Angelou. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 116. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

[Book #170959]