One Exciting Night [You Can't Do Without Love] [Music in the Night] (Original screenplay for the 1944 British film)
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- London: Columbia British Productions, 1944
London: Columbia British Productions, 1944. Final script for the 1944 British film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, here under the working title "Music in the Night," with a single manuscript ink annotation of the year "1944" on the title page. Also released under the title "You Can't Do Without Love." Provenance available upon request.
Not to be confused with the 1922 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith.
George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films.
Vera Lynn stars as an aspiring singer desperate to influence a producer played by Donald Stewart, who's a victim of an attempted kidnapping plot by a group of gangsters who assume Lynn is his girlfriend.
Shot on location in Surrey and London, England.
Tall blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as FINAL SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriters Peter Fraser and Howard Irving Young. 142 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with a prong binding.
Not to be confused with the 1922 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith.
George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films.
Vera Lynn stars as an aspiring singer desperate to influence a producer played by Donald Stewart, who's a victim of an attempted kidnapping plot by a group of gangsters who assume Lynn is his girlfriend.
Shot on location in Surrey and London, England.
Tall blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, noted as FINAL SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriters Peter Fraser and Howard Irving Young. 142 leaves, with last page of text numbered 140. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with a prong binding.