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Lilac time: novelized from the screen play adapted by Willis Goldbeck from the stage production with illustrations from the Colleen Moore-George Fitzmaurice photoplay.
[CINEMA -- PHOTOPLAY]. FOWLER, Guy; GOLDBECK, Willis & [ROGERS ST. JOHNS, Adela (scriptwriters)].
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, [1928]., New York:, 1928
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star seller8vo. [8], 271, [1] pp., plus 8 pp. publ. ads. Photo frontisp., 12 photo plates. Gray cloth, blue lettering, w/ d.j. great cover art of World War I aviator Gary Cooper and love interest Colleen Moore (very slight shelfwear, 1 tiny chip at lower right corner), still NF/VG bright copy. First photoplay edition of this excellent phot…oplay adapted from the 1928 synchronized sound World War I film directed by George Fitzmaurice, and featuring Gary Cooper in one of his earliest starring roles opposite Colleen Moore, and adapted from Jane Murfin & Jane Cowl's 1917 Broadway play. Although without dialogue, the film premiered to great success in Los Angeles's Cathay Circle Theatre, with a sound-on-disc Vitaphone process for the musical score, and featured the wreackage of one of the RAF biplanes crashed during production. Two years later Guy Fowler would novelie Howard Hawks famed "Dawn Patrol.".