A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Two Original Scripts for the 1945 Film)
Slesinger, Tess and Frank Davis (screenwriters); Elia Kazan (director); Betty Smith (novel, 1943); Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and James Dunn (starring)
Published by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Los Angeles, 1944
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Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-198 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Final draft script for the 1945 film. Blue titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three), typed spine label. Noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, copy number 190, dated April 5, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 190, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated April 5, 1944 and noted as Final Script, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages very good with a few pencil annotations throughout, damp-staining to the bottom right, not touching text, wrappers with some splits and creasing. [AND] Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-178 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Shooting final script for the 1945 film. Repurposed (wartime conservation efforts?) decorative beige titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped (on a label covering a stamp for "The Purple Heart"), internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three). Noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper (second revised final crossed out), production number 944, copy number 121, dated May 1, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 121, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated May 1, 1944 and noted as Shooting Final, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages near fine with only the slightest toning, wrapper with creasing, short tears, pencil marks, and staining to the spine, else very good. Ex-Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom double cloth box (for both scripts). Based on the classic coming of age novel by Betty Smith, in early twentieth-century Brooklyn, a bright, book-loving girl navigates poverty and family hardship alongside her pragmatic mother and her charming but alcoholic father, whose death forces the family to confront both grief and the sacrifices required for survival. Through resilience and reconciliation, the family endures, with the young heroine emerging stronger; symbolized by the tenement courtyard tree that, as her father once promised, refuses to die. Set in Brooklyn, shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.…
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- Title
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Two Original Scripts for the 1945 Film)
- Author
- Slesinger, Tess and Frank Davis (screenwriters); Elia Kazan (director); Betty Smith (novel, 1943); Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and James Dunn (starring)
- Publisher
- 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 1944
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