SPELLBOUND ('45-'61) Rare Hitchcock / Selznick Continuity Script Archive + COA

  
SPELLBOUND ('45-'61) Rare Hitchcock / Selznick Continuity Script Archive + COA! Guaranteed Vintage and Original - Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture. Not signed or noted, but this important script archive was David O. Selznick's personal property and was deaccessioned from the Selznick Archive by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin. This amazing lot consists of (4) different Continuity Scripts for Hitchcock's classic SPELLBOUND. Dialogue Continuity / Rerun / May 31, 1949. Cutting Continuity Script / Rerun / June 10, 1949. Combined 16mm Continuity / May 15, 1961 - Pen notes on Cover as to contents. No notice of writers, but IMDB credits Ben Hecht, John Palmer and Hilary St. George Saunders, Palmer and Saunders having written the novel. Page numbers restart with each reel. Complete Script in Six Reels. This Dialogue Continuity Script is a rather fascinating read - There are no shots or actions noted - Just the complete dialogue from the film! This Rare Continuity Script provides an unprecedented view into the study of this classic. Enjoy a deeper reading of this Selznick / Hitchcock noir thriller! This archive offers a terrific opportunity to study this important film in the greatest detail. OVERALL CONDITION: Very Fine to Extra Fine! Last page loose on 16mm script. You won't be disappointed. HISTORICAL CONTEXT: Spellbound is a 1945 American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, and Michael Chekhov. It follows a psychoanalyst who falls in love with the new head of the Vermont hospital in which she works, only to find that he is an imposter suffering dissociative amnesia, and potentially, a murderer. The film is based on the 1927 novel The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Filming of Spellbound took place in the summer of 1944 in Vermont, Utah, and Los Angeles. Spellbound was released theatrically in New York City on Halloween 1945, after which its U. Release expanded on December 28, 1945. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Best Director, and won in the category of Best Original Score. Spellbound was made over contract disagreements between Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O.

Hitchcock's contract with Selznick began in March 1939, but only resulted in three films: Spellbound, Rebecca (1940) and The Paradine Case (1947). In December 1943, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, began working on a treatment of the novel, and consulted prominent British psychologists and psychoanalysts to accurately represent the psychological elements of the story. However, the following month, in January 1944, Hitchcock hired Angus MacPhail, with whom he had collaborated on several war-related short films, to co-author the treatment. MacPhail was ultimately given the adaptation credit, and the extent to which Reville was involved in the final product is unknown.

Following the completion of the treatment, screenwriter Ben Hecht began writing the screenplay. Between May and July 1944, Selznick submitted numerous drafts of Hecht's screenplay for approval from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), who objected to various words and phrases in it, including "sex menace, " "frustrations, " "libido, " and tomcat. This resulted in some alterations in the screenplay, including the removal of most of a character named Mary Carmichael, a violent nymphomaniac at Green Manors. However, the suicide of Dr. Murchison in the screenplay-which typically violated the MPAA's rules against depicting suicide-was allowed to remain, as it was reasoned by Selznick that the character was clearly "of unsound mind, " rendering him an exception.

STORYLINE: A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. HAPPY TO COMBINE - SEE MORE CLASSIC SCREENPLAYS IN OUR COMPANION AUCTIONS! NOTE: Poster and Photo Screen Grabs not included - Added for visual reference only - Thanks! We truly are a mom and pop business.

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