Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1972
ISBN 10: 0670019348 ISBN 13: 9780670019342
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], Los Angeles, 1980
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Draft script for the 1980 television film. A well-to-do woman with high social standing falls for a construction worker with a gambling addiction. Red untitled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Ruth Gordon, and Garson Kanin. 132 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Xerographically duplicated. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads.
Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952
Anbieter: Walter Reuben, Inc., ABAA, ILAB, West Hollywood, CA, USA
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin (screenwriters) George Cukor (director) Vintage original film script, USA. Culver City: MGM, June 6, 1951. Quarto, printed wrappers, brad bound, mimeograph, chipping to blank back wrapper, 142 pp., overall NEAR FINE. PAT AND MIKE was the second romantic comedy written for director George Cukor by the married screenwriting team of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin that was specifically tailored for its stars, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who were friends of Gordon and Kanin. The first film written by Gordon and Kanin for the Cukor/Hepburn/Tracy team was the very successful ADAM'S RIB (1949) about a pair of married lawyers. Prior to that, Gordon and Kanin had written the screenplay for Cukor's A DOUBLE LIFE (1947) starring Ronald Coleman as a contemporary actor who identifies too closely with Shakespeare's Othello. All three of the Gordon/Kanin screenplays mentioned above received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. With respect to PAT AND MIKE, Gordon and Kanin were inspired by Ms. Hepburn's formidable athletic abilities, particularly with regard to golf and tennis, and the film was designed to show off those abilities, with Hepburn performing most of her own stunts. Ruth Gordon (1896-1985) was a Jewish-American stage and film actress, as well as a screenwriter, most fondly remembered for the mischievous elderly women she played in ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski, 1968), for which she received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, and HAROLD AND MAUDE (Hal Ashby, 1971). After PAT AND MIKE, Gordon and Kanin co-wrote the screenplay for Cukor's THE MARRYING KIND (1952), while Gordon received sole screenplay credit for writing Cukor's THE ACTRESS (1953), based on her own autobiographical stage play Years Ago. Garson Kanin (1912-1999) was a stage and film director, as well as a playwright and novelist, best known for his 1946 play Born Yesterday (filmed by George Cukor in 1950), and for directing the films, BACHELOR MOTHER (1939), MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940), THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED (1940), and TOM, DICK AND HARRY (1941). He was married to Ruth Gordon from 1942 until her death in 1985. While both ADAM'S RIB and PAT AND MIKE have strong feminist overtones, PAT AND MIKE is more overtly concerned with class. In PAT AND MIKE, the street-wise sports promoter played by Tracy is clearly not in the same social class as Hepburn's upper-crust athlete, so much so that he doesn't even consider having a romantic relationship with her until late in the film. PAT AND MIKE is also the more purely feminist of the two movies. ADAM'S RIB ends with Tracy putting Hepburn "in her place" (the usual outcome of most of the Hepburn/Tracy films), while at the end of PAT AND MIKE, the Hepburn and Tracy characters have achieved a relationship that is truly "50-50," as Tracy's character describes it, thanks to the pair's shared enthusiasm for sports and their gradually learned mutual respect. This particular draft of PAT AND MIKE is in some ways quite different from the completed movie. Both this draft and the completed film are structured around a romantic triangle consisting of Hepburn's athlete, her significant other, and Tracy's sports promoter, and in both versions Hepburn's significant other is the major obstacle preventing her from reaching her full potential as an athlete and woman -- until she dumps him and replaces him with the more understanding and supportive Tracy. However, the role of the significant other has been completely reimagined in the completed film. In this screenplay draft, the significant other is Hepburn's husband named Joseph P. Ford, and he owns a car dealership, Consolidated Motors. In the movie, the significant other is Hepburn's fiancé, he has an upper-crust name, Collier Weld, and he is the handsome but patronizing Assistant Administrator at a college where Hepburn (a widow) is working as a physical education instructor. Consistent with the radical differences between the significant.
Verlag: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA, 1949
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage double weight photograph of Katharine Hepburn lounging on the set of the 1949 film. Mimeo snipe and Advertising Code "Approved" stamp, dated "Sep 9 1949" on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best. Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, the same writing team who produced "Pat and Mike" the following year. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Newtown, Connecticut. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to right edge and tiny chip at the bottom right margin. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).
Verlag: N.p., N.p., 1949
Anbieter: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, USA
Vintage reference photograph of Will Wright, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy from the 1949 film. "Jacques Moreau" collection stamp and two "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer France, Inc." stamps on verso. For many, this sixth entry in the Hepburn-Tracy canon was the peak for the duo, a non-stop, brainy battle-of-the-sexes gabfest that epitomized the two at their very best. Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, the same writing team who produced "Pat and Mike" the following year. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Set in and shot on location in New York City and Newtown, Connecticut. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to corners. National Film Registry. Rosenbaum 1000. Byrge & Miller, The Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography (1934-1942).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1961
Anbieter: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, USA
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Rare Frankfurter Items About Harold Laski with Presentation Inscriptions to Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. [Gordon, Ruth [1896-1985]. "Foreword to Holmes-Laski Letters." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. xiii-xvi pp. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4" bifolium. Light toning, two horizontal fold lines, two pinholes to upper margin, small rust marks to head of first page along with presentation inscription from Frankfurter: "Ruthie-stop inhaling the/ blue sky and liquid amber air of/ Paris for a few days and/ write us a review of these/ letters. Thine, Felix." [Boxed with] Frankfurter, Felix. [Kanin, Garson (1912-1999)]. "Justice Felix Frankfurter's Contribution to the BBC's Harold Laski Programme, [London], November 15, 1961." 7 ff. 10-1/2" x 8" single-sided printed sheets with transmittal envelope. Light toning, two horizontal fold lines, traces of removed staples from upper-left corners, a few tiny spots to first leaf, which has an inscription from Frankfurter to its upper-right corner: "Dear Gar:/ You're no mean/ teacher yourself./ Thine,/ FF." Items housed in cloth clamshell box, morocco lettering piece to spine, bookplate of Donald Scott Carmichael to inside front. $1,250. * Laski [1893-1950], the English political theorist, economist and correspondent of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [1841-1935], was one of Frankfurter's friends and an important intellectual influence. Kanin and Ruth Gordon [1896-1985], his wife, were close to Frankfurter in his later years. Both had successful careers in theater and film. Kanin was a playwright and film director. Gordon, the more famous of the two, was an actress, screenwriter and playwright.