Original Screenplay/ Script The Mocking Bird -- for the Tod Browning / Lon Chaney film Blackbird MGM, 1925.

Published by Metro Golden Mayer Studios, 1925

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Apparent final draft; Metro Golden Mayer -- October 10, 1925 Story by Tod Browning / Scenario by Waldemar Young Pale yellow covers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped file copy /with typed notation The Mocking Bird / complete OK script by Waldemar Young . Copy no. 1537 stamped at upper right; copy no. 4 on the label. Two-hole punch, brass brads. Approximately 119 spirit-duplicated pages -- purple ink on glossy white paper. Penciled name Sullivan at top right. Also a penciled notation, added later, that the film was released under the title Blackbird. Inked and penciled notations throughout. They appear to indicate the numbering for title cards and occasional continuity notes, such as whether a scene was retaken, not shot [see p. 8] Scene 44: Take 1 dissolve gummed up; no forcing [p. 14]; scene 66: 6 takes [p. 21] Condition: Covers poor; heavily chipped with several very large open and closed tears, partially detached; 1/3 of spine paper missing. Interior pages are very good with occasional edgewear, page 1 partially detached. The Blackbird is a master criminal who stages daring robberies in London's Limehouse district, and between crimes disguises himself as The Bishop, a kindly, crippled keeper of a rescue mission. He and another thief, West End Bertie, fall in love with the same woman, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each tries to outdo the other to win her heart.…

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Title
Original Screenplay/ Script The Mocking Bird -- for the Tod Browning / Lon Chaney film Blackbird MGM, 1925.
Author
Tod Browning / Scenario by Waldemar Young
Publisher
Metro Golden Mayer Studios
Publication year
1925
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
Poor
Binding
Soft cover
Edition
1st Edition

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Books, Historical Documents, Autographs, and Ephemera -- Burns Bizarre specializes in the eclectic. We are a merger of two former booksellers 'Books on Main' [Ventura CA] and Armadillo & Dicker [Sacramento CA.] Most of our stock is rare or out-of-print - dating from the 18th century to the present. We do not sell reprint editions or book club editions unless they differ from the original in some way that makes them independently collectible. The name Burns' Bizarre comes from one of our father's enterprises in Chicago during the 1930's -- we are proud to continue his tradition of what is now eighty years of selling things people could easily live without.…

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