Joan Wald (3 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 164 pp. Tightly bound copy with clean and crisp pages. Clean text. Cover shows moderate wear and slight creasing. Dyan Alleyne (Cover Photo) (illustrator).

Revised Final script for the 1936 film musical. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. SIGNED by actor Joe E. Brown on the distribution page. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). Based on the successful 1929 Broadway play by Jack Donahue and Fred Thompson/ A stage actor joins the US Army during World War I, where he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as a spy. Bound in dark red cloth, with gilt title on the front board. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, dated 1/13/36, noted as REV. FINAL. 111 leaves, with last page of text numbered 110. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, binding lightly worn at the spine ends, else Near Fine. Signed.…

Final script for the 1939 film, seen on the title page under its working title "Broadway Cavalier." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960). A fight promoter cons a country bumpkin into the boxing ring by telling the young man that the increased exposure will help him find his long-lost mother. Based on a story by Dalton Trumbo. Bound in red cloth with red quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, dated 11/14/38, noted as FINAL. Title page present, with credits for screenwriters Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay and director Lou Seiler. 151 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11/25/38 and 12/17/38. Pages about Fine, binding Very Good, with front hinge starting.…