Swerling Abe Burrows (19 results)

Paper Back. Condition: Acceptable.

Pages unnumbered. Stapled soft cover with title and picture of a scene. Small smudge on cover. Joseph Marshall on percussion.

Theatre programme, 50pp., very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDStarring: Norma Donaldson, Robert Guillaume, James Randolph, Ernestine Jackson. Directed and Choreographed by Billy Wilson. Ran for 239 performances. All-black cast. Little age darkened else very good.

Original stapled colour illustrated souvenir theatre brochure programme. 10'' x 6''. Contains 52 pages with photographs of the characters from the production. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

Original stapled colour illustrated souvenir theatre brochure programme. 10'' x 6''. Contains 20 pages with photographs of the characters from the production. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE PROGRAMMES.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers (soft bak). Quarto. 9¾'' x 7½''. Contains 128 pp with monochrome photographic stills throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps.

Draft script for the 1965 production of the play, a revival run at New York City Center April 28 to May 9, 1965 for a total of 15 performances. Props and costume plot bound in. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two short stories by Damon Runyon. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. Won five Tony Awards in 1951, including Best Musical. 1965 production starred Alan King as Nathan Detroit, Sheila MacRae as Adelaide, Jerry Orbach as Sky and Anita Gillette as Sarah. Set in Broadway, Save-a-Soul Mission, Havana, Cuba, and The Hot Box Club. Black titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for story writer Damon Runyon, music and lyricist Frank Loesser, book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. 141 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-7-50. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Vintage script for the 1965 musical production. Single copied manuscript annotation on the title page, noting copy No. 27. Based on the 1950 Broadway play about a gambler who wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. The play ran from April 28 to May 9, 1965, at New York City Center. Set in New York and Havana. Blue titled Studio Duplicating Service wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for playwrights Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, and Abe Burrows. 92 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-7-36. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Vintage oversize satin finish borderless photograph of actor Marlon Brando on the set of the 1955 film. Stamp of Dell Publishing on the verso, with annotations in manuscript pencil crediting photographer Peter Basch. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers (as well as those still living in Europe) and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 11 x 14 inches, with wide top and bottom margins, archivally matted in a 16 x 20 inch 8-ply white mat. Very Good plus, with a small splash on the bottom edge.

Vintage script for the 1955 production of the play, staged at New York City Center from April 20 to May 1, 1955, and May 31 to June 12, 1955. Bound in at the rear of the script are a five-page props list and an eight-page costuming list for the play. Based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure," two short stories by Damon Runyon. Originally staged on Broadway in 1950 at the 46th Street Theatre, the play had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine. Lavender titled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for Runyon, composer Frank Loesser, and writers Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. 108 leaves, with last page of text numbered 2-7-43. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Mimeographed sheets bradbound in pink stiff paper wrappers. Fine. Script for the original performance of this important musical play, which originally ran for 1200 performances with a splendid cast that included Robert Alda, Isabel Bigley, Vivian Blaine, and Sam Levene. The show's success begat the 1955 Joseph L. Mankiewicz-directed film version featuring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine and Stubby Kaye (the latter two reprising their inimitable Broadway performances). Co-author Swerling was one of Hollywood's best kept secrets; he contributed to the screenplays for many excellent films. Rare. Ex-Carter Burden.

Vintage reference photograph taken on the set of the 1955 film, showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz handing a cup of coffee to actress Jean Simmons. Provenance label on the verso, along with manuscript ink annotations. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mimeographed bound Broadway script with soft cover, circa 1950's. Additions at rear of script: Working Prop Plot and Costume Plot. Pages clean save for some pencil notations in the margin on some pages. Cover edges rubbed/bumped. Bottom edges, starting at "Props 3", have tiny bumps or cracks along bottom edges. Last 5 pages plus the rear cover have a 1" high by 2" loss at the center bottom edge.

Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1955 film, one showing director Joseph L. Mankiewicz with actors Jean Simmons and Stubby Kaye and wardrobe designer Irene Sharaff, and the other showing Sharaff, Mankiewicz, and choreographer Michael Kidd. Mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine, one with three hole punches on the left edge.

An undated rehearsal script issued by Music Theatre, Inc. Now known as Music Theatre International, the licensing agency was founded in 1952 by Frank Loesser and the orchestrator Don Walker. The script presented here has a few textual differences from the version currently distributed. For example, Sarah Brown's first line, as printed here, immediately introduces the locale of Damon Runyon's New York: "Brothers and sisters, I am standing here, in the Devil's own city, on the Devil's own street, prepared to do battle with the forces of evil. Hear me, you gamblers!" The revised version centres first on Sarah's religious convictions: "Brothers and sisters, resist the Devil and he will flee from you. That is what the Bible tells us. And that is why I am standing here, in the Devil's own city." The show opened on Broadway on 24 November 1950. It ran for 1,200 performances and won five Tony Awards, including the award for Best Musical. The film version starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and Jean Simmons was released in 1955. Quarto. Original light purple wrappers, front wrapper lettered in black, mimeographed leaves comprising title page, cast list, musical numbers, synopsis of scenes, 104 leaves of book and lyrics printed on rectos only, together with 14 additional leaves, comprising "Working Prop Plot" and "Costume Plot", three punched holes secured by split pins. Playbill (2 copies) for original Broadway Production at 46th Street Theatre loosely inserted. Housed in a custom red cloth folding box. Slight toning to extremities of wrappers: a near-fine copy.

Four vintage candid reference photographs from the 1955 film, showing variously, actors Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, composer Frank Loesser, and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz on the set. The first photo, double weight, shows Marlon Brando, as Skye Masterson, surreally socking one of his gangster companions in the nose. The second photo shows Brando rehearsing "Luck Be a Lady," with sheet music in hand, and with the song's composer Frank Loesser at the piano. The third photo shows Sinatra and Brando in a candid moment. The fourth photo, single weight, shows director Joseph L. Mankiewicz and dancer Carey Leverette relaxing contemplatively, Mankiewicz sitting and smoking his pipe, Leverette inside a large industrial exhaust pipe. Based on the 1950 Broadway musical, which was in turn based on Damon Runyon's short stories "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure." A serial gambler wins a bet that he can get a Christian missionary to travel with him to Havana, where the pair begin to fall for each other. Nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in New York and Havana. All photos: 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Near Fine overall, variously with a few pinholes and very shallow creasing.

Condition: Good. 4to. Mimeographed typescript. Approx. 150 leaves bound with brads. Very good. Scarce.