TRUE TO THE ARMY 1941 Original Paramount Movie Script Sequence Drafts COA

  

A Paramount sequence draft archive from 1941 - the kind of working document that shows the film being built scene by scene. Wartime Hollywood studio material in this form is increasingly scarce. Guaranteed Vintage and Original as issued. Comes with COA from the Museum of Mom and Pop Culture! This unusual lot is for 3 successive elemental Drafts of this film.

Written by veteran Art Arthur - Draft 1 is Sequence A with Pink pages numbered up to A-39 with pencil notes on back of last page. Draft 1 is dated Oct. Draft 2 Includes name of "SULLIVAN" top right in pencil and includes pencil checkmarks. 23, 1941 and has pages numbered to A-44.

Draft 3 is Dated Oct. 28, 1941 (Noted as Revised White Script). This draft includes pages A-1 to A-43, B-1 to B-16, and ends with C-1 to C-26 for a total of 85 pages.

The last page does not look like the last eventual page of the script, but must be pretty close. Interesting to see how this project was written, evolved and put together in the old-Hollywood manner. Not noted or signed, this material was personal property of veteran writer, Al Schwartz.

OVERALL CONDITION is VG to VF. HISTORICAL INFORMATION: True to the Army is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Albert S. Rogell, written by Art Arthur, Bradford Ropes, Edmund L. Hartmann and Val Burton, and starring Judy Canova, Allan Jones, Ann Miller, Jerry Colonna, Clarence Kolb, Edward Pawley and William Wright.

It was released on March 21, 1942, by Paramount Pictures. The film was based on a 1933 play by Howard Lindsay that was based on the 1933 novel She Loves Me Not by Edward Hope. Paramount had previously filmed the property as She Loves Me Not (1934) starring Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins. 20th Century Fox remade the property in 1955 as How to Be Very, Very Popular. STORYLINE: While doing her tightrope act in a local circus, Daisy Hawkins (Judy Canova), sees the owner shot by gangsters.

The killers are after her to eliminate the only eyewitness and the police chase her to testify against the gangsters. Daisy goes to the nearby army camp where her sweetheart, J. Wethersby "Pinky" Fothergill (Jerry Colonna), is the chief carrier pigeon trainer. Rehearsal for the big army show is being held by Private Stephen Chandler Allan Jones. Daisy, looking like just another female impersonator to him, is mistaken for one of the boys in the chorus. Pinky sets him straight and they cut Daisy's hair and get her into a uniform, but have to work hard to convince Sergeant Butts (William Demarest) she is one of the boys. Some honest-to-goodness pulchritude comes to the show when Vicki Marlowe (Ann Miller), the daughter of General Marlowe (Clarence Kolb), becomes interested in Chandler. Daisy wins a medal for marksmanship and the soldiers insist on taking "him" to celebrate at the town's hot spot. There, she is spotted by the gangsters when they see him/her polishing his/her nose. SEE MORE CLASSIC PLAYS, MUSICALS AND SCREENPLAYS FROM THIS AMAZING 150K SCRIPT ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME! PLEASE NOTE: Screen Grab of poster NOT INCLUDED - IMAGE ADDED AS VISUAL REFERENCE ONLY - THANKS! If it is a birthday or emergency, we can make special arrangements.

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