Petulia

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts, 1967. Draft script for the 1968 film. Noted as copy No. 24 in manuscript ink on the front wrapper, with additional annotations in manuscript pencil noting "basis of final."

Based on the 1966 novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia" by John Haase, about an unhappy, newlywed socialite who relentlessly pursues a physician for an affair. Shot on location during the Summer of Love in San Francisco, with appearances by Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead.

Black wrappers with a typed title label affixed to the front wrapper. Title page present, with a Warner Brothers - Seven Arts Story Department stamp, dated March 30, 1967, with credits for Haase, director Richard Lester, and screenwriter Larry Marcus. 106 leaves, with last page of text numbered 104. Pages Near Fine, wrapper about Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

Rosenbaum 1000.

[Book #171326]