Excess Baggage (Original screenplay for the 1928 early sound film)
- Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1928. Draft script for the 1928 film. An early sound film, today considered lost, released with no dialogue, but with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, using sound-on-disc and sound-on-film processes.
Based on John McGowan's 1927 play, about a cocky small-time acrobat who marries a talented dancer, then struggles with resentment as her star begins to rise while his does not (essentially the plot of "A Star is Born").
Beige titled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wrappers, dated April 3, 28, stamped copy No. 1765, noted as production No. 372, with credit for screenwriter Frances Marion. Title page integral with the first page of text, dated April 3, 1928, with credit for Marion. 100 leaves, with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, bound with two gold brads.
Based on John McGowan's 1927 play, about a cocky small-time acrobat who marries a talented dancer, then struggles with resentment as her star begins to rise while his does not (essentially the plot of "A Star is Born").
Beige titled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wrappers, dated April 3, 28, stamped copy No. 1765, noted as production No. 372, with credit for screenwriter Frances Marion. Title page integral with the first page of text, dated April 3, 1928, with credit for Marion. 100 leaves, with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, bound with two gold brads.