Roy Rowland TENTH AVENUE ANGEL Original screenplay for the 1948 film #140087

  

Tenth Avenue Angel (Original screenplay for the 1948 film, copy belonging to Margaret O'Brien). Author: Roy Rowland (director); Anga Enters, Eleanore Griffen, Harry Ruskin (screenwriters); Craig Rice (novelist); Margaret O'Brien, Angela Lansbury, George Murphy, Phyllis Thaxter (starring) Title: Tenth Avenue Angel (Original screenplay for the 1948 film, copy belonging to Margaret O'Brien) Publication: Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1946.

Description: Draft script for the 1948 film. Copy belonging to Margaret O'Brien, who at the age of 9 played Flavia Mills in the film, with her name on the front wrapper in manuscript pencil. After having been told her aunt's fiance has been traveling around the world, when in reality he has been completing a term in prison, Flavia (O'Brien) loses all faith in her family and God.

Yellow titled wrappers, dated December 4, 1946, with credits for screenwriters Harry Ruskin, and Robert Nathan. Title page present, dated December 4, 1946. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 120. Mimeograph duplication, with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between December 4, 1946 and January 14, 1947. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good bound with two gold brads.

Subject: 1940s Cinema, Actors, Film Scripts, Religion and Spirituality, Women Screenwriters. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1996, we have specialized in rare books and paper relating to twentieth century literature, genre fiction, the arts, and popular culture, with a particular emphasis on cinema. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless indicated otherwise.

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