BUGSY (4/23/74) Scarce Howard Sackler 1st Draft withNotations (Unmade) + COA

  

BUGSY (4/23/74) Scarce Howard Sackler 1st Draft w/Notations (Unmade) + COA! PLEASE NOTE: This is not an early draft of the 1992 Barry Levinson film, Bugsy, but is the script for a Bugsy Seigel film from 20 years before that was never produced.

Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture to Guarantee Authenticity! 124 White Pages - Dated 4/23/74 in pencil at top right of the title page - Revised First Draft - Written by Howard Sackler. Additionally, this script has locations added in pencil at each location slug line, ostensibly for the next draft or rough scheduling / budget considerations. OVERALL CONDITION: Fine to Very Fine!

Title Page and Last page are loose with damage at brad holes. Also note that a fragment of a stiff, color production cover remains beneath the top brad of the script. Looks like this script offers a grand read! Howard Oliver Sackler (December 19, 1929 - October 12, 1982) was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for having written The Great White Hope (play: 1967; film: 1970). The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and, as a film adaptation, in movie theaters.

James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander both starred in the original Arena Stage production of the play in Washington, DC, then brought their roles to Broadway and later to the film version. Both Jones and Alexander received Academy Award nominations for their work in the movie. Sackler was the recipient of many awards and prestigious grants including both a Pulitzer Prize (1969), a Tony Award for Drama (1969), and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for The Great White Hope. Prior to this, Sackler won the Maxwell Anderson Award (1954) and Chicago's Sergel Award. In addition, he was the recipient of grants from both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Littauer Foundation.

The original production for The Great White Hope, produced at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, was substantially funded by two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sackler's work encompassed many other films and plays including the play Goodbye Fidel in 1980 and Jaws 2 in 1978, as well as Stanley Kubrick's first two feature films Fear and Desire in 1953 and 1955's Killer's Kiss. His filmography also includes Gray Lady Down (1978) and Saint Jack (1979), which he co-wrote with Paul Theroux for Peter Bogdanovich. Sackler was also responsible for an uncredited rewrite of Peter Benchley's script for Jaws (1975), and conceived of Quint's "Indianapolis" monologue about the sinking of USS Indianapolis during World War II. SEE MORE CLASSIC PLAYS, MUSICALS AND SCREENPLAYS FROM THIS AMAZING 150K SCRIPT ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME! If it is a birthday or emergency, we can make special arrangements. We love to combine, but if you win more than one item, wait for us to pack and weigh your total order and invoice you for that total. We use UPS for higher-grade material unless there is some kind of specific issue such as size.