Mitchell Leisen I WANTED WINGS Original screenplay for the 1941 film #140156

  
I Wanted Wings (Original screenplay for the 1941 film). Author: Leisen, Mitchell (director); Lieut. (book, screenwriter); Richard Maibaum and Sig Herzig (screenwriters); Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy (starring) Title: I Wanted Wings (Original screenplay for the 1941 film) Publication: Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Description: Draft script for the 1941 film. Based on the 1937 book by Lieutenant Beirne Lay, Jr. Veronica Lake's first major film, the role that would make her a star. Here she plays a seductress who attempts to woo two separate pilots in training (Ray Milland and William Holden), including one who already has a girl (Constance Moore), with unexpectedly deadly consequences.

The film encountered some resistance by the censor board for Lake's character, namely concerning a ploy in which she pretends to be pregnant to try to win Milland. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who would go on to write 12 James Bond films, was proud of his work on "I Wanted Wings" due to the way it brought Army aviation into the public eye on the eve of US involvement in World War II. Winner of an Academy Award for its special effects, which included unprecedented cooperation from the US Army, to the tune of 1,160 aircraft, 1,050 cadets, 450 officers and instructors, 2,543 enlisted men, and the first public footage of the inside of the B-17 Flying Fortress while in flight.

Set in Texas and California, and shot there on location. White titled self wrappers, noted as production No.

1279, dated August 16, 1940. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued.

191 leaves, with last page of text numbered G-33A. Mimeograph, with white and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8-16-40 and 11-25-40. Pages Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads. Subject: 1940s Cinema, Academy Awards, Actors, Film Scripts, US Air Force, War Film, World War II. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland.

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