N.p. N.p., Circa 1969. Draft script for an unproduced play. Copy No. 9 noted in holograph ink on the title page.Based on screenwriter Abby Mann's original screenplay for Stanley Kramer's 1961 film "Judgment at Nuremberg," about an American court trial of four war criminal Nazis.Set in occupied Germany.Teal titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 US production of the 1973 play.The final play in "The Norman Conquests" trilogy, preceded by "Table Manners" and "Living Together," a series of comic melodramas set in different parts of the same countryside house. The play made its US debut at the Morosco Theatre on December 7, and was first staged.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced play. With a single holograph annotation (the letter "B") in green pencil to the title page.In the vein of "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice" (1969), two middle-aged couples navigate the changing social and sexual norms of the 1970s.Set in Chappaqua, New York. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers, with.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced play. A two act drama set in ancient Rome featuring Herod the Great, a Greek chamberlain named Philaeas, and Lentius the nephew of the powerful Augustus and Salome. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for playwright Amand Fey. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered 133. Xerographically reproduced.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Working Draft script for the 1975 Andy Warhol-produced musical, copy belonging to Monique van Vooren. Includes 36 additional unbound pages, primarily revisions, as well as twelve pages, staple bound, containing the bulk of dialogue for van Vooren's character, Venus, with name repeatedly circled in holograph pencil. Annotations throughout, both copied and in holograph ink and pencil.....

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for an unproduced musical. With holograph ink and pencil annotations to the title page and cast leaf noting the names of prospective actors for each role, including Diana Ross and Jack Gilford.Loosely based on the ninth century Japanese folk tale "Taketori Monogatari" ("the tale of the bamboo cutter"), the story of a baby found inside.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play "There Was a Little Girl," here under both that title and the working title "Madhouse." With a holograph pencil notation of copy No. 18 on the title page. Laid in with the script is a four page copied budget proposal.Nothing is known about whether the play was produced, but it.....

New York: Richard Fields, Circa 1968. Draft script for the musical which premiered in 1968 by the Lincoln Center Workshop at the Forum Theatre. Numeric holograph annotation in holograph pencil on verso of last leaf.One of two musical plays written by actor Austin Pendleton. "Booth is Back in Town!" was first performed, with music by Jim Massengale, by the Yale.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered on April 17 at the McAlpin Rooftop Theatre in New York. A stubborn young woman is sent to live at her aunt's hotel in Cape Cod after her father discovers she is pregnant out of wedlock, leading to deeper and deeper animosities between the two women.Set in Cape.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1977. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered March 2,1977, at the Little Theatre, for only 6 performances, closing on March 6, 1977. Copy belonging to director and producer Charles Grodin, whose name, address, and phone number are printed on the bottom of the title page.A comedy about a man who comes home to find his.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script of playwright Christopher Bond’s 1973 take on the Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd. Steven Sondheim saw the performance at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London the same year, and wrote his own musical stage version, a wildly successful hit that came 5 years later.  Bond was the first to give Sweeney Todd.....

Los Angeles: David O. Selznick, circa 1945. Selznick studio printing of Clemence Dane's modern stage adaptation of Friedrich [Frederick] Schiller's 1801 play, "Mary Stuart." Issued internally by the studio for consideration as a film adaptation, though ultimately unproduced. Gray titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 0103, with credits for Schiller and Dane. Title page present with credits for Schiller and Dane.....

N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1937. Draft script for an unproduced play.Based on the 1937 novel by Daniel Fuchs, about a small-town racketeer who suffers a mental breakdown when his turf is threatened by a ruthless, sinister gangster. The novel was later adapted into the 1947 film noir "The Gangster," with a screenplay written by Fuchs and Dalton Trumbo.Set in the fictional.....

N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 Broadway play, which premiered on May 3, 1988 at the Royal Theatre and ran for 279 performances. David Mamet's incendiary take on the world of Hollywood movie-making, a black comedy that stands alongside Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" in the subtlety and accuracy of its indictments. Nominated for three Tony.....

New York: Clifford Hayman, 1966. Draft script for an unproduced play. Laid in is an ALS to actor Peter Lawford (here associated with Chrislaw Productions), from producer Hayman, in which Hayman requests Lawford consider funding the project for both a play and a film. A philandering husband is found out by his wife, who has an affair in order to.....

N.p. Self published, 1986. Draft script for the an unproduced three-act play called "Purr Poor Richard," or "Franklin in France," with both titles on the title page, written by Dennis Whelan. The play opens with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and follows Benjamin Franklin to France to negotiate a peace treat with the Crown. Notable characters include Major.....

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1947-1948. Draft script for an unknown touring version, circa 1947-1948, of the stage musical originally produced on Broadway. In Tams-Witmark wrappers, a duplicating service associated with scripts printed for touring stage productions.Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member, Donald Burr, with his name in holograph pencil annotation to the title page and annotations to.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Vintage script for an unproduced play. Stapled on the front wrapper of the script is a typed letter, dated August 29, 1979, addressed to casting agent Paul Kohner from agent Harold Cohen, seeking Kohner's input on casting for a potential stage production or television adaptation. Pages (but not wrapper) second generation, internally reproduced prior to being.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1982 play, which premiered Off-Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York. The former members of a clubhouse gang from the Bronx are summoned back after 25 years apart, in search of clarity at the hands of their former gang leader, the eponymous Meegan. They begin to realize, however, that their.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Script archive, undated, for the 1973 Broadway production of the play "Full Circle," here under Erich Maria Remarque's original title "The Last Station." The archive contains two copies of Part II of the play, the first clean and the second with dialogue annotations in holograph ink on all but two pages. "Full Circle" premiered on November.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1930. Draft script for the 1930 Hungarian play, issued circa 1970s. Text in English.Basis for Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy "One, Two, Three." A bank president is informed by his wealthy young ward Lydia that she has eloped with her Communist taxi driver boyfriend Harry Foot—and moreover, that the two are expecting. When he hears that Lydia's posh.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft ribbon copy typescript for a circa 1950s translation of the 1912 play by Ferenc Molnar, likely for consideration as a film. Text in English. Basis for the 1917 Hungarian film "The Wolf." An insecure, jealous man cannot overcome his anxieties around his wife's imagined infidelities. Yellow untitled wrappers with the logo for the Paul Kohner casting.....

New York: Lyceum Theatre, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 Broadway play. The play ran at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City from December 29, 1977 until June 4, 1978, for a total of 180 performances. A man who works in the financial sector of New York meets a cancer-stricken Armenian in a rooftop garden of a hospital. The.....

New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations in holograph ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing complications when he wants to make donations to her cause.....

N.p. N.p., 1974. Bound set of promotional materials for the 1974 Canadian production of the 1968 Indian play. The bound material includes reviews, and information about the play's early performance history, beginning in November 1970 at the Ashoka Chamber Theatre in New Delhi to performances between 1972-1974 in the Fiji Islands, Australia, and a 15-city tour of the United States.....

New York: Roger L. Stevens / Joel Schenker, 1963. Two draft revisions of the script for the 1963 play. Based on the 1961 memoir, "My Life in Court," by Louis Nizer. Copies belonging to actor Van Heflin, with his noted throughout. Van Heflin played the lead character in the play, lawyer Robert Sloane. Nominated for a Tony Award. The play.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Original script for two plays by Academy Award winning screenwriter Howard Koch. Copy belonging to an unknown actor who played the character of Norm in "Dead Letters," with his lines highlighted and holograph annotations regarding dialogue and action throughout. In a preliminary note, Koch describes "Dead Letters" and "The Campers" as "two plays, each approximately an.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1978. Draft script for the 1978 play, which premiered on May 1 at the Morosco Theatre in New York. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page.Basis for the 1988 film, directed by Matt Clark. In 1968, a young expatriate writer returns to his childhood home in Dalkey after the death of his adoptive father.....

New York: N.p., 1967. Draft script for an unproduced play. Although not indicated on the script, copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who was presumably considering a role in the play. From the estate of the actor. A comedy about a con man who founds a fictional, absurdist island-based country. Orange titled wrappers with credit for playwright Wallach. Title page.....

New York: Tams-Witmark Music Library, Circa 1959. Vintage script for the 1959 musical, which debuted on October 22 at the Shubert Theatre.Based on Eugene O'Neill's 1933 play "Ah, Wilderness." A light comedy following the romantic misadventures of a family in Connecticut in the early 20th century. The musical ran for 448 performances, and was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre in New York. Laid in with the script are several handwritten pages regarding promotional materials for the play. Also became the basis for the 2002 film directed by and starring Steve Guttenberg.After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar.....

Paris: Editions Georges Marton, circa 1938. Original carbon typescript for the 1938 play in agency wrappers. The play debuted at the Theatre des Mathurins in Paris on January 11, 1938 and ran for 100 performances. First published in the collection "Pieces noires" (Calmann-Levy, 1942) and published in English as "Restless Heart" (Methuen, 1957). Beige agency wrappers, 108 leaves, with last.....

London: N.p., circa 1951. Draft script for the 1951 London production of Jean Cocteau's 1938 play "Les Parents Terribles," translated by Charles Frank, under the title "Intimate Relations." Carbon typescript on onionskin. Copyright agency label affixed to front wrapper and on title page over previous copyright of Jean Cocteau & Charles Frank. One annotation in holograph pencil striking a word.....

New York: Chelsea Theater Center, Circa 1971. Draft script for the US premiere of Jean Genet's 1961 play, which opened on November 30, 1971 and ran through December 25, 1971 at the Chelsea Theatre Center in Brooklyn, NY. Genet began writing the play, about life in a poor village in French controlled Algeria, in 1955, and a version was published.....

N.p. N.p., 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theatre on January 3. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page.A satirical murder mystery set at a dinner party for the Washington elite at the home of an ambitious senator, his beautiful wife, and his mentally ill son. Playwright Jean-Claude Van Itallie.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for an unproduced play.A musical dramatization of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lyricist John Briley was best known for the 1982 musical "Gandhi," for which Briley won an Academy Award.From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye” (Robert Altman, 1973), "The Missouri Breaks".....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1980s. Draft script for the 1985 stage musical, which premiered at the American Place Theatre in New York City on November 29, 1985.A musical based on the life of tempestuous Belle Epoque artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.Set in Neuilly, France.Brown generic agency wrappers. Title page present, with credits for lyricist Michael Feingold and book credits to Jeff Wanshel. 98.....

New York: Arthur Langer Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced musical, circa 1970. Annotation in holograh marker of copy number "18" on title page.From the estate of actress Monique van Vooren. Book and lyrics written by Julian Barry, screenwriter and playwright, perhaps best known for his Academy Award nominated script for Bob Fosse's 1974 film "Lenny." Music written.....

London: Jimmy Wax, circa 1975. Draft British script for an unproduced play. New title label, "Play It By Ear," pasted over the old one, "Fish and the Foxes." The Internet Archive (archive.org) indicates a copyright filed the play under the title, "Fish and the Foxes" on February 22, 1975. Presumably this is a later draft from the same year, and.....

N.p. N.p., 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which premiered on October 7 at the Theatre de Lys in New York. Copy No. 38 notated in holograph ink on the title page.An open homage to Homer's "Odyssey," wherein a big game hunter returns home after eight years away only to discover he has been declared legally dead, his wife.....

New York: Chelsea-Candide Company, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 production of the play, noted on the title page as the "Playing Version."). "Candide" premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 10, 1974, playing for 740 performances, closing on January 4, 1976. Annotation in holograph marker of copy number "#13" on title page and several annotations in holograph pencil throughout.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1974. Draft script for the 1974 play, here under its working title, "Parto." With a few holograph ink annotations throughout, mostly by proofreading. Text in English. Based on the groundbreaking Portuguese feminist work, a compilation of letters, poems, puzzles, and excerpts written by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972. The.....

New York: Stuart Company, 1966. Draft script for the 1966 Broadway musical. A series of three playlets tied together by themes, such as dissatisfaction with getting what one wants, and repeated references or design elements, such as the color brown. Each playlet based on an existing work, with the first act based on "The Diary of Adam and Eve" by.....

New York: Meanie Herman, Morris Ashear, Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced play. Copy number "71" written in holograph marker on title page.Max Bourov has died and friends and associates attend the funeral and reminisce, with characters in freeze until their memories or commentaries animate them. Set in an old theatre on the Lower East Side of New York.....

New York: Goldmine Productions, 1983. Draft script for the 1985 Off-Broadway play. Laid in is a typed letter from Darlene Kaplan, Goldmine's casting director, addressed to Walter Kohner in Los Angeles, suggesting Vincent Price peruse the script and possibly star in the play. Kaplan has signed the letter, and the letter is dated twice: December 19, 1983, and Dec. 27.....

New York: Picket Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 play which premiered at the Bjijou Theater in New York. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database, but an early performance was reviewed by Clive Barnes for the New York Times on March 27, 1973.Playwright N. Richard Nash is best known for "The Rainmaker" (1954), adapted to the screen by.....

New York: Wroderick Productions, 1973. Draft script for a 1973 Roderick Cook adaptation of the 1929 Noel Coward musical, likely written after Cook's 1972 musical review of Coward's work, entitled "Oh, Coward!" A three act operetta in which a wealthy young woman elopes with her music teacher. Coward's original script was basis for the 1933 film directed by Herbert Wilcox.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1970 play, which was staged as a preview several times in New York in the early 1970s and eventually made its debut in the UK in 1972, with Ellen Burstyn directing.A raunchy comedy centering the exploits of the eponymous Bunny, a mid-thirties bon vivant and good-time girl. Playwright Norman Krasna was well.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage script for the 1972 musical, which debuted on November 16 at the Playhouse Theatre. Copy belonging to composer Addy O. Fieger, with her name in holograph ink on the title page and annotations in pencil and ink throughout. A musical rendition of the life of Irish poet, playwright, and author Oscar Wilde. The show ran for.....