Jerome coopersmith (29 Ergebnisse)

First Draft script for Season 1 Episode 4 of the 1989 television series. Based on the 1985-1988 television series "Spenser: For Hire," which was based in turn on Robert B. Parker's long-running detective novel series. In this episode, Hawk helps an old friend, a defense attorney, who has taken on a seemingly hopeless murder case…

Final Draft script for Season 2 Episode 14 of the 1972-1977 television series. Based on characters that originally appeared in Carolyn Weston's 1972 detective novel "Poor, Poor Ophelia," the series followed two homicide detectives in San Francisco. In this episode, a young woman who has just given birth is told that her child wa…

Music and Lyrics script for the 1973 musical, created circa 2000s, likely for an unproduced revival. Includes only the musical numbers from the play. Based on the classic 1812 children's book by Johann David Wyss. The play was produced by Barry and Fran Weissler for their National Theater Company, a touring group founded in 1968…

Final Draft script for Season 3 Episode 17 of the 1969-1976 television series. A long-running medical drama that followed doctors Paul Lochner and Joe Gannon as they went about their daily lives at a university hospital in Los Angeles. In this episode, Gannon reconnects with an old flame, a doctor with a troubled past. Originall…

Draft script for an unproduced television movie. Brief editorial annotations in manuscript pencil on three leaves. A drama about several criminal figures at a bar who learn that one of their former conspirators has escaped from death row and is out for revenge. Self-wrappers. Title page present, copyright year noted as 1947, wit…

Draft script for an unproduced two-part play, both parts bound together. Playwright Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii Five-O" (1968-1980), and the 1974 Christmas television special "'Twas the Ni…

Revised script for a 1998 revival of the off-Broadway play, first staged the same year by the Arena Players at the Main Stage Theater in Long Island, New York. A ballerina is murdered, with her unstable son fingered as the key suspect. Winner of the Charlotte Repertory Theatre's New Plays in America competition. Playwrights Jero…

Draft script for an unproduced 2015 revival of the 1993 musical. Based on the 1992 book written by Ruth Gruber, recounting her real-life experience rescuing 1000 Holocaust refugees who were held at Fort Oswego, New York, after arriving in America. The play was first staged in 1993 at the California Institute of the Arts under th…

Two vintage unpublished memoirs written for family members by noted screenwriter and playwright Jerome Coopersmith, one titled "Jerry" and one titled "Final Draft: My Life as a Dramatist." The latter inscribed by Coopersmith to his daughter and her husband: "For my wonderful daughter Jill and her husband Bob who have helped me i…

Revised script for an unproduced film. A drama about a psychology professor who gets involved with a sexual abuse case against a respected therapist. Playwright Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii…

Draft script for a 2016 staging of the successful 1965 Broadway musical, held at 42nd Street Moon Theatre in San Francisco. The play made its Broadway debut at the Broadway Theatre in February of 1965, running through the end of October of the same year and later transferring to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (then known as the Marti…

Vintage script for an unproduced play, circa 2016. A comic drama about the Jewish community in early New York. Playwright Jerome Coopersmith wrote prolifically for television and the stage throughout the mid- to late-twentieth century. He is best remembered today for his writing for "Hawaii Five-O" (1968-1980), and the 1974 Chri…

Revised Draft script for the 1993 musical. Copy belonging to writer Jerome Coopersmith, with his annotations in manuscript pencil to the interior of the manila folder. Based on the 1992 book written by Ruth Gruber, recounting her real-life experience rescuing 1000 Holocaust refugees who were held at Fort Oswego, New York, after…

Revised script for Season 2, Episode 2 of the 1953-1954 ABC television series. Screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith's working copy, with his substantive annotations in manuscript ink throughout, marking deletions, editorial notes, and revisions. The "Johnny Jupiter" program appeared in two iterations throughout 1953 and 1954: the fir…

Draft script for the 1974 animated Christmas television special, originally aired on CBS on December 8, 1974. From the archive of screenwriter Jerome Coopersmith. A children's Christmas tale loosely based on Clement Moore's classic 1823 poem. Although produced in the US, the special was animated in Japan by Topcraft, an animatio…

Revised script for the 1965 Broadway musical. Loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia," with elements of "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" drawn in. The play was first staged at the Broadway Theatre in February of 1965, running through the end of October of the same year and…

Revised script for the off-Broadway 1968 staging of the 1967 musical, seen here under the alternate title "Ballad for a Firing Squad." Copy belonging to playwright Jerome Coopersmith, with his name in manuscript ink on the title page and his annotations in manuscript pencil throughout. Loosely based on the life of undercover Ger…

Revised Draft script for the 1992 play, first staged off-Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theater in the autumn of 1992. Copy belonging to Jerome Coopersmith, with annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout in his hand (as well as some annotations in another hand), denoting dialogue for multiple characters and provi…

Revised script for the debut staging of the 1967 musical. Loosely based on the life of undercover German spy and exotic dancer Mata Hari, about a French intelligence officer's quest to expose Hari's treachery, falling in love with her in the process. The play received a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre in Washington D…

Four vintage scripts for multiple stagings of the off-Broadway play. Two scripts dated 1970 and noted as First Draft and Revised, and two scripts undated, one circa 1970 and one circa 1984. Copies belonging to playwright Jerome Coopersmith, with his occasional annotations in manuscript ink and pencil to two scripts. Laid in with…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Lyrics by Martin Charnin. Music by Edward Thomas. Quarto. 134 mimeographed leaves printed on the rectos only in screwbound red Studio Duplicating Service wrappers titled in gilt. Small, neat handwritten control number ("#21") on titlepage, plasticized wrappers are lightly rubbed and with a modest t…

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 Mark Twain, t…

Revised Draft script for the 1992 play. Laid in with the script are approximately ten gatherings of revision pages, noted as "Outtakes" in manuscript pencil. First staged off-Broadway at the John Houseman Studio Theater in the autumn of 1992. A dramatization of the experiences of "Anna O.," the pseudonym given to Bertha Pappenhe…