Henry Koster SINGING NUN Original screenplay for the 1966 film actor #151469

  
The Singing Nun (Original screenplay for the 1966 film, actor Juanita Moore's presentation copy, with two inscriptions from Debbie Reynolds). Author: Henry Koster (director); John Furia Jr.

Sally Benson (screenwriter); Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, Juanita Moore (starring) Title: The Singing Nun (Original screenplay for the 1966 film, actor Juanita Moore's presentation copy, with two inscriptions from Debbie Reynolds) Publication: Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Description: Draft script for the 1966 film. Specially bound copy belonging to actress Juanita Moore, bound in full red leather, with twelve reference photographs from the film tipped in, and containing two inscriptions from actress Debbie Reynolds. The first inscription by Reynolds, on the verso of the first leaf in manuscript ink, is Juanita, I Love you! My deepest Thanks, Love Debbie, " the second, on a the recto of a photograph of Reynolds and Moore from the film, in manuscript marker and making reference to Reynold's character, is "What feeling!

" A fanciful biography on the life of Belgian nun Jeanine Deckers, who recorded the number one hit pop song "Dominique in 1963. Nominated for an Academy Award. Set in and shot on location in Gent, Belgium. Red full leather binding with gilt titles and with actor Juanita Moore's name in gilt at the bottom right corner of the front board. Title page integral with first page, dated 9-2-65.

150 leaves, with last page of text numbered 130-135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink, blue, green, and gray revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11-4-65 and 11-24-65. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good with front wrapper detached. Subject: 1960s Cinema, Academy Awards, Comedy, Family Film, Film Scripts, Musical, Specially bound scripts. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland.

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