Terry Southern LOVED ONE Original screenplay for the 1965 film crew #131051

  
The Loved One (Original screenplay for the 1965 film, crew member copy with shooting schedule). Author: Terry Southern (screenwriter); Christopher Isherwood (screenwriter); Tony Richardson (director); Evelyn Waugh (novel) Title: The Loved One (Original screenplay for the 1965 film, crew member copy with shooting schedule) Publication: Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1964. Description: Draft script for the 1965 film, based on the 1948 novel by Evelyn Waugh, legendarily co-written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. Laid in is a corner stapled, three-page Staff and Crew list, with two name additions in manuscript red ink on the second page. Included is a vintage studio still photograph from the film. An early draft, issued nearly two years prior to the film's October 1965 release, with substantial differences from the finished film. The sister film to Dr. Strangelove, and in the eyes of many, just as much a masterpiece of exquisitely wrought black humor. Made in the US, but in a dense, British-American style. Ostensibly a satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet winds up in a Hollywood cemetery as part of an inheritance arrangement-but in reality a satire of Hollywood itself, as well as the Western malaise of the mid 1960s. Script: Self wrappers, presumably as this draft was issued. Title page present, rubber stamped copy No. 70, dated July 21, 1964, with credits for screenwriters Southern and Isherwood. 158 leaves, mimeograph duplication, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 7-22-64.

Pages Fine, wrapper Fine, bound with two gold brads. Staff and Crew listing: two leaves, slightly worn, with annotations on the second page. Subject: Comedy, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Screenwriters. Royal Books is located in the midtown area of Baltimore, Maryland.

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