Bess Meredyth Screenwriter (3 results)
A Woman of Affairs (Original photograph from the 1928 film)
Clarence Brown (director); Michael Arlen (novel, play, screenwriter); Bess Meredyth (screenwriter); Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (starring)
Published by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], Beverly Hills, CA 1928
- Photo
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage reference photograph from the 1928 film, showing actress Dorothy Sebastian. Based on screenwriter Michael Arlen's 1924 novel "The Green Hat," which he also adapted for theatre in 1925, about two childhood sweethearts who are banned from marriage due to class differences. Arlen's novel was considered so daring in the US t…hat producers attempted to distance the film from the source text as much as possible in order to placate the Hays Commission, eliminating all references to drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, and homosexuality, which were key points within the original narrative. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, with light edgewear.
The Affairs of Cellini [The Firebrand] (Original photograph from the 1934 film)
Gregory La Cava (director); Bess Meredyth (screenwriter); Edwin Justus Mayer (play); Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray (starring)
Published by 20th Century Pictures / United Artists, Beverly Hills, CA 1934
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Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage studio still photograph from the 1962 film, here advertised under working title, "The Firebrand." Based on the 1945 play by Edwin Justus Mayer. A duke and duchess both have their eyes on other people, but do not want the other to know. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with one small tear to the top left corner and a small…chip missing from the top right corner.
More imagesDon Juan (Original program for the 1926 film)
John Barrymore Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor (starring); Alan Crosland (director); Lord Byron (poem); Bess Meredyth (screenwriter)
Published by Warner Brothers, Burbank, CA 1926
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerVintage program for the 1926 silent film. Based on the 1821 epic poem by Lord Byron, about legendary womanizer Don Juan. The first feature-length film to use the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system to provide a musical soundtrack and sound effects (but not spoken dialogue). 12 x 9 inches. Six leaves, saddle stapled. Near Fine, with l…ight fading to the edges of the wrappers.
