Three Comrades: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay (Screenplay Library)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Re: Remarque, Erich Maria (edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli)
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL, 1978
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Very good with no markings, no bookplate, no remainder mark. In good to very good dust jacket with some rubbing. No jacket chips or tears. Not price-clipped. Script by Fitzgerald based on novel by Remarque. Not illustrated.
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- Title
- Three Comrades: F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay (Screenplay Library)
- Author
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott Re: Remarque, Erich Maria (edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli)
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809308541
- ISBN 13
- 9780809308545
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 1 pound
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- cinema
Much of the magic surrounding his legendary name had vanished by the time F. Scott Fitzgerald—forty-one years old, deeply in debt, full of remorse that “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most things left in my hands, even of mytalent”—mounted a third assault on the money of Hollywood and, by writing this adaptation of Remarque’s Three Comrades, proved that the writer, if not the man, had survived the famed “crack-up.”
The screenplay for Three Comrades,starring Robert Young, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, and Robert Taylor, ultimately was the result of the collaboration of E. E. Paramore and producer Joseph Mankiewicz, though Fitzgerald fought to salvage as much of his original script as possible. By his own reckoning, only about a third of the final script was his, and “all shadows and rhythm removed.”
The script published here is the one Fitzgerald tried desperately to save. Neither Mankiewicz nor Paramore has written a line. This script is, of course, valuable to those who would know the complete Fitzgerald. It also proves fascinating as a study of adaptation, showing which scenes Fitzgerald chose to dramatize to catch the essence of the Remarque story as well as showing how he made visual what the novelist could placein theheads of his readers.
Series editor Matthew J. Bruccoli provides the background in an illuminating Afterword and in an appendix containing eight scenes that resulted from the collaboration of Mankiewicz, Paramore, and Fitzgerald.
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About the Author
Matthew J. Bruccoli, Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is the leading authority on F. Scott Fitzgerald. Among his recent books is “The Last of the Novelists”: F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Last Tycoon.”
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