On Your Toes (Original screenplay for the 1939 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald)
- N.p.: N.p., 1939
N.p.: N.p., 1939. Final script for the 1939 film. 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).
Based on Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical. A former vaudeville star is forced to join a ballet company, whereupon he becomes romantically involved with the company's prima ballerina, whose jealous dance partner attempts to arrange the man's death.
Set in New York.
Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, dated 5/5/39 and noted as FINAL, stamped copy No. 102, with receipt intact. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay and playwrights Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with two blue revision pages dated 5/9/39. Pages Near Fine, binding Near Fine.
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).
Based on Rodgers and Hart's 1936 Broadway musical. A former vaudeville star is forced to join a ballet company, whereupon he becomes romantically involved with the company's prima ballerina, whose jealous dance partner attempts to arrange the man's death.
Set in New York.
Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, dated 5/5/39 and noted as FINAL, stamped copy No. 102, with receipt intact. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay and playwrights Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart. 138 leaves, with last page of text numbered 135. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with two blue revision pages dated 5/9/39. Pages Near Fine, binding Near Fine.