Walter Lang SITTING PRETTY Original screenplay for the 1948 film 1947 #147754

  
Sitting Pretty (Original screenplay for the 1948 film). Author: Walter Lang (director); Gwen Davenport (novel); F. Hugh Herbert (screenwriter); Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Web (starring) Title: Sitting Pretty (Original screenplay for the 1948 film) Publication: Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947. Description: Revised Final Draft script for the 1948 film, with manuscript annotations in pencil on the distribution page listing actors and annotations of names on verso of final page in manuscript pencil. Harry and Tracey King (Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara) put an ad in the paper for a live-in babysitter which is answered by Lynn Belvedere (Clifton Webb), who turns out not only to be a man, but a most eccentric man at that, and one with a mysterious past. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for Clifton Webb. Red titled wrappers, noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. Distribution page present, with receipt removed. Title page present, dated September 19, 1947, noted as Revised Final, with credits for screenwriter F. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with three gold brads. Subject: 1940s Cinema, Academy Awards, Comedy, Family Film, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources. 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. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.