Orson Welles Personally Owned Script from The Long, Hot Summer....

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Orson Welles Personally Owned Script from The Long, Hot Summer. 20th Century Fox, 1958. Maroon leather binding, embossed in gold on the cover with the film title plus "Orson Welles" in the lower right corner, film title further embossed on spine, screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., dated August 26, 1957, marked "Final", 148 pages, numerous colored script change pages throughout, 12 original print black and white stills from the film (all showing Welles with co-stars) interspersed throughout; bound library copy presented to the actor likely from the producer of this film based on various William Faulkner stories that co-starred Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Lee Remick, and Angela Lansbury; consigned directly by Welles' daughter, Beatrice Welles. (Please note the inner pages exhibit light toning, and pages featuring stills show creasing from adhesive. Back endpaper chipped.) 11" x 8 1/2" x 1"

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