Gerald Mayer Director (2 results)

Set of 4 original lobby cards for the 1953 film "Bright Road," based on the Christopher Award winning story "See How They Run," written by Mary Elizabeth Vroman, and first published in 1951 in the Ladies' Home Journal. Notable for its nearly all-black cast, "Bright Road" stars Dorothy Dandridge as an Alabama schoolteacher intent on motivating one of her more lackluster students. Dandridge is said to have accepted the role because of the film's lack of racial tension as a central theme. As a result, she hoped that young women of all colors could identify with her character. Harry Belafonte's debut feature film. 14 x 11 inches. Both lobby cards quite clean with no pinholes, about Near Fine.…

Draft script for the 1955 film. With occasional manuscript annotations throughout Based on an unpublished novel by Alan Marcus. A family is caught in a conflict between a squatter and mercenaries hired to remove the squatter from the land. Set in Arizona. Goldenrod titled wrappers, rubber-stamped copy No. 118 and noted as production No. 1664, dated Oct 2, 1954 with credits for producer Arthur Loew Jr., director Gerald Mayer, and screenwriter Earl Felton. Distribution receipt removed from front wrapper. 92 leaves, with last page of text numbered 75. Mechanical duplication, dated variously between 8-16-54 and 9-15-54. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good, bound with two gold brads.…