Million Dollar Baby [Miss Wheelwright Discovers America] (Original screenplay for the 1941 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)

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Revised Temporary script for the 1941 film, seen here under the working title "Miss Wheelwright Discovers America." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). During the Great Depression, a young, working-class woman is met with an unexpected windfall when a wealthy woman decides to gift her a million dollars. Shot on location in New York and California. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, dated 10/23/40, noted as REV. TEMP. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay. 189 leaves, with last page of text numbered 183. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding Good, with front hinge detached from the binding, and light offsetting on the page edges. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 161396

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