The Kid from Kokomo [Broadway Cavalier] (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
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- N.p.: N.p., 1938
N.p.: N.p., 1938. Final script for the 1939 film, seen on the title page under its working title "Broadway Cavalier." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board.
Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
A fight promoter cons a country bumpkin into the boxing ring by telling the young man that the increased exposure will help him find his long-lost mother. Based on a story by Dalton Trumbo.
Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, dated 11/14/38, noted as FINAL. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay and director Lou Seiler. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/25/38 and 12/17/38. Pages about Fine, binding Very Good, with front hinge starting.
Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).
A fight promoter cons a country bumpkin into the boxing ring by telling the young man that the increased exposure will help him find his long-lost mother. Based on a story by Dalton Trumbo.
Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, dated 11/14/38, noted as FINAL. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay and director Lou Seiler. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/25/38 and 12/17/38. Pages about Fine, binding Very Good, with front hinge starting.