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More imagesTake a Giant Step (Original screenplay for the 1959 film)
Johnny Nash, Estelle Hemsley, Ruby Dee (starring); Philip Leacock (director); Louis S. Peterson (play, screenwriter); Julius J. Epstein (screenwriter)
Published by N.p., N.p., 1958
- Softcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Royal Books, Inc., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFinal Draft script for the 1959 film. Based on the first play on Broadway to have been written by an African American playwright, about the challenges of a Black youth growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In 1991, "Jump Cut" magazine reassessed the play (and subsequent screenplay), calling it a pioneering work. Yell…ow titled wrappers, with credits for production company Hecht-Hill-Lancaster along the bottom edge of the front wrapper. Title page present, dated October 1, 1958, noted as Final Draft, with credits for screenwriters Julius Epstein and Louis Peterson. 119 leaves, with last page of text numbered 108. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, pages dated variously between 10/1/58 and 10/2/58, rectos only, with blue and eye-rest green revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10/22/58 and 11/3/58. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.
