Ernest Lubitsch ANGEL Original screenplay for the 1937 film #147541

  
Angel (Original screenplay for the 1937 film). Author: Ernest Lubitsch (director); Melchior Lengyel (play); Guy Bolton, Russell Medcaft (English translation play); Samson Raphaelson (screenwriter); Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas (starring) Title: Angel (Original screenplay for the 1937 film) Publication: N. Description: Draft script for the 1937 film. With the name of character Mary Field and actor Suzanne Kaaren (uncredited in the final film) added to the cast list in holograph pencil, and with a few minor holograph pencil emendations throughout. Screenplay divided into eight alphabetical Sequences, A through H. A melancholic romantic comedy by Ernst Lubitsch about a love triangle between Lady Maria Barker (Marlene Dietrich), her husband, the British diplomat Sir Frederich Barker (Herbert Marshall), and the charming traveler Anthony Halton (Melvyn Douglas), set throughout Europe with an oncoming war looming. Set in London, Paris, and Vienna. In a custom quarter leather clamshell box.

175 leaves, with last page of text numbered H-19. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with white revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/28/37 and 2-1-37. Pages Very Good plus, some front leaves with light soiling, wrapper Very Good, lightly soiled, dampstaining, separating at the spine, side stapled with three staples. Subject: 1930s Cinema, Comedy, Film Scripts, Films Based on Plays, Romance, World War II.

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