N.p. N.P., 1950. Draft script for the 1950 play. An English language adaptation by Christopher Fry of Jean Anouih's 1947 play "Invitation to the Castle." A story about two twins, a cold, manipulative playboy named Hugo and his sensitive brother Frederic. Frederic is in love with Diana, the daughter of a self-made millionaire, but Diana desires Hugo rather than Frederic.....

London: Triumph Theatre, 1976. English language script for the 1976 French play "Le scenario" by Jean Anouilh, translated by writer and actress Lucienne Hill, who was responsible for translating many of his works for the London stage. File copy, with a "please return label" for the International Copyright Agency in London on the title page. Brown wrappers with title window.....

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.....

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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1973 production of Philip Barry's 1928 play. With a few substantive holograph ink emendations throughout. The play opened on December 26, 1973 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York.The story of a Wall Street corporate lawyer who, while on vacation at Lake Placid, falls in love with the snobby eldest daughter.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1946. Draft script for the 1946 Broadway musical, which premiered at the Imperial Theatre on May 16, 1946 and ran for 1,147 performances through February 12, 1949. An unusual script in terms of size, style, and purpose, made custom for the character of Tommy Keeler, with the character name on the front wrapper, and containing only the.....

New York: Philip Rose, 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered at the Longacre Theatre on January 4, 1977 and played for 70 performances, closing on March 5, 1977, with annotations on two pages in holograph pencil and marker highlighting dialogue.Professional race car driver Bobby Horvath returns to his hometown after eight years away and reminisces on 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.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1972. Draft script for the 1972 play, which premiered at the Arena Stage in Washington DC. With copy No. 23 notated in holograph pencil on the title page.Basis for the 1982 television movie directed by Rudi Goldman, about the serpentine network of misdeeds performed by US government officials.Set in Washington, DC. Maroon titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1953. Draft script for the 1953 Broadway stage musical. Working copy of an unknown cast member, with his profuse holograph pencil annotations throughout. "Can-Can" was one of the most successful musicals of the early 1950s. It ran at New York's Shubert Theatre, opening on May 7, 1953 and closing on June 25, 1955, for a total.....

Prague: Ceskoslevenske Divadelni a Literarni Jednatelstvi, 1954. Draft script for a 1954 production of the play originally written in 1920 by Karel Capek, produced in Prague. Rubber stamped production No. 5460 on the front wrapper. Issued by the Czechoslovak Theater and the original Prague literary agency for Capek’s groundbreaking sci-fi play, the first fictional work to introduce the word “robot”.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970. Draft script for an unproduced play. With a single holograph ink annotation to the title page.A rock musical comedy about a young dislikable man's move to New York City, where he manages to lose 48 jobs and 26 roommates—until he meets the groovy urbanite Elvira.Set in New York.Green titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present.....

New York: Arthur Cantor and E.E. Fogelson, 1963. Draft script for the 1964 Broadway play. INSCRIBED by Chayefsky to the play's producer, Kip Cohen on the title page in the year prior to the play's debut: "Nov 9/63 / To Kip Cohen / Without whom there would be no 'Passion of' / Paddy." "The Passion of Josef D." opened at.....

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. "Dr. Jan Van Loewen International Copyright Agency" label affixed to front wrapper and on title page over previous copyright of Jean Cocteau & Charles Frank. One annotation in.....

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.....

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.....

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., circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway musical, which opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22, 1956, and ran for 383 performances before closing on February 23, 1957. With a three page “prop inventory” bound in at the rear. Based on a story by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein about an entertainer, and his struggles in.....

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., 1939. Draft script for the 1939 play. Carbon typescript on onionskin. With the name of actress May Hallatt in holograph ink on front wrapper, and holograph annotations in pencil throughout. We could not verify her involvement in the 1939 production, although it seems reasonable to infer from this script that the prolific stage and screen actress indeed had.....

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.....

New York: The Lambs, 1946. Draft script for an unproduced 1946 play. A Parisian scientist working on a serum to revive the dead finds out that his wife has been having an affair with a colleague who was recently accused of murdering a patient. The doctor gets his revenge by reviving the guillotine'd head of his rival and revealing it.....

1980. Draft script for the 1980 stage version of "Harold and Maude," adapted by Colin Higgins from his 1971 novel and screenplay. Actress Ruth Ford's copy, effusively inscribed to her on the title page by Higgins, actress Janet Gaynor (who played Maude, 23 years after her last film appearance), Keith McDermott (who played Harold), and director Robert Lewis. The film.....

New York: Lansbury-Duncan Productions, 1971. Draft script for 1972 play which premiered on April 5, 1972 at the Lyceum Theatre, for a short run of five performances, closing on April 8, 1972. Copy No. "22" noted in holograph marker on title page.Set in the late Sixteenth century, a touring company of Elizabethan players perform a bawdy, burlesque version of "Elizabeth.....

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.....

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.....

Hollywood: Lionheart Productions, 1982. First Draft script for an unproduced play called "Doesn't Everyone?" by Stuart Forman Fleming, based on an original play by Norman Spencer Graham. Fleming's film credits include "Werewolves on Wheels" (1971), "Funny Lady" (1975), "A Star Is Born" (1976), and "Breathless" (1983), while Graham's include "Once Upon a Scoundrel" (1974). Set in a mountain lodge, this.....

Calabasas Park, CA: Self published, 1982. Draft script for an unproduced stage play called, "The Call," written by Bill Hare, about a German general plotting against Adolf Hitler at the Battle of Stalingrad. Printed blue titled wrappers, with swastika symbol and title on the front wrapper. Title page present, dated 11/30/82, with a credit for playwright Hare. 102 leaves, with.....

New York: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play. Based on actual events, a boy in the American Southwest has a magnetic personality, and the mindset of a psychopath. He lures two young girls to him and murders them both. William Hauptmann is best known for the musical "Big River" and is the winner of a......

N.p. N.p., 2002. Vintage script for the 2004 one-act play, playfully INSCRIBED by playwright Denis Johnson on the title page: "For Chris Offutt— / You never paid me for the sex... / Denis." Laid in with the script is a manuscript letter from Johnson to Offutt, discussing a forthcoming performance of the play at Reed College in 2004. From the.....

New York: International Plays, 1964. Draft script for an unproduced play. A marriage psychoanalyst and confirmed bachelor suddenly marries a parapsychological expert and yogi, and various high jinx ensue. Set in a large American city. Pale blue titled wrappers, with credits for screenwriter Joudry. Title page present, dated Sept. 8, 1964, noted as copy No. 18, with credits for screenwriter.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for the 1975 play, which premiered on April 7 at the John Golden Theatre. Copy No. 67 notated in holograph ink on the title page. After coming home to find a muscular Italian burglar in the process of robbing his apartment, a depressed young actor ties the burglar to his kitchen sink and attempts.....

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. Joseph, son of the biblical Jacob, is sold into slavery when he brothers begin to feel jealous that their father loves him more than all of them. He is brought to Egypt where he serves the Pharoah and a judge's wife lusts for him. He rises to a position of great esteem.....

New York: N.p., 1952. Draft script for the 1952 play production. Copy belonging to actor Van Heflin, who starred in the Broadway production. Set in the ward of a mental hospital, the play follows one of its patients, a theatrical director driven to attempted suicide by his domineering wife, Anne. Outwardly, Anne is sweet and caring, but beneath her docile.....

New York: NR Productions, 1969. Draft script for the 1972 play, which opened on March 26, 1972 at the Martinique Theater. Not listed in the Internet Broadway Database.Parishioners at St. Thomas's on-the-Green Episcopal Church in the cozy Connecticut town of Westwood suddenly erupt in a rash of glossolalia - speaking in tongues.Set in Westwood, Connecticut. Orange Studio Duplicating Service titled.....

Florida: Three Arts Productions, 1956. Draft script for an unproduced play called "Rope," adapted for stage by Walter Lawrence from Arthur Laurents' screenplay for the 1948 film, which in turn was based on the 1929 play by Patrick Hamilton. Copy belonging to an uncredited cast member who played Phillip, with annotations in holograph pencil and ink at his inclusions. Hamilton's.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1951. Vintage script for the 1951 musical play. Copy belonging to cast member Steve Elmore, who was an uncredited understudy or replacement in the role of Sandy, with his name and character's name in holograph ink and pencil to the title page, and several substantive holograph pencil annotations throughout.Basis for the 1969 film, made 18 years later.....

Germany: Folmer-Hansens Teaterforlag, Circa 1940s. Carbon typescript Draft script for the 1941 Swedish play, "Ett Spel om en Wag som till Himla bar," by Rune Lindstrom. German translation, circa 1940s. The play would be the basis for Alf Sjoberg's 1942 Swedish film, "Himlaspelet," or the English title, "The Heavenly Play." Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink. Lindstrom's play has been.....

N.p. N.p., 1987. Vintage script for the 1988 play, which premiered on May 3 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.Set in Los Angeles.Pink titled wrappers, with.....

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 1967. Vintage script for the 1967 one-act play, which debuted off-Broadway at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut on July 16. A middle-aged divorcee who has accidentally been called to service by the draft butts heads with the no-nonsense career officer. One of prolific, acclaimed playwright Terrence McNally's earliest productions, and the one that brought him.....

N.p. N.p. Draft script for an unproduced play. No relation to the Ben Bova science fiction novel of the same name. A tragedy that takes place in a dump, where the residents are workers, digging up turn-of-the-century artifacts housed in now-buried ships on a landfill belonging to a foul, conniving woman. A fugitive murderer is discovered on their property and.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play, which debuted at the Circle Repertory Company in New York on November 4. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Milton Katselas. A small town's slow way of life is disrupted by the arrival of a unstable, drug-trafficking Vietnam veteran whose car has broken down en route to Mexico. Set in.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Original typescript screenplay for an unproduced film called "After the Fall," based on Arthur Miller's 1964 play about a Jewish intellectual living in New York. Miller's play opened on Broadway in 1964, at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre, ran for 208 performances, and closed on May 29, 1965. A television movie of the play was released.....

N.p. N.p., Unknown. Draft script for a circa 1950s translation of the 1912 play by Ferenc Molnar. Laid in with the script is a ten page typed summary of the play on onionskin stock, with English translation credited to Melville Baker. Text in English. Basis for the 1917 Hungarian film "The Wolf." An insecure, jealous man cannot overcome his anxieties.....

N.p. N.p., circa 1960s. A re-typed script, circa 1960s, of the English translation of Ferenc Molinar's 1928 play. Translator Sidney Howard was a client of Paul Kohner's agency and it is believed this script was prepared in hopes of making it into a film after Kohner opened his agency in 1938. It was later adapted into two films, 1929's "His.....

N.p. N.p., 1975. Draft script for the 1977 play, which premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1977, at the John Golden Theatre, directed by Mike Nichols. The play had a run of 517 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Actor Hume Cronyn's copy, with his printed name and address at the bottom right corner of the title page. Noted as.....

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 1985. Draft script for the 1984 play, which premiered at The Pit on May 28th, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. With a small holograph ink annotation to the front wrapper, and a single copied annotation to page 2.II.14A.Loosely based on the life of playwright Stephen Poliakoff's grandfather in post-revolutionary Russia, who harbored a dream of becoming.....