Martin Landau "Abe" personal shooting script and production documents Tucker: The Man and His Dream....

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Martin Landau "Abe" personal shooting script and production documents Tucker: The Man and His Dream. (Lucasfilm, 1988) Vintage original studio-bradded 127-page script by Arnold Schulman dated March 9, 1987 for the Francis Ford Coppola biopic of automotive entrepreneur Preston Tucker. Landau has written his name and signed the title page, and marked the role of Abe throughout with hand-annotations and cross-outs after scenes were shot. Landau earned a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for his performance of Abe, which is still today widely considered to be a career highlight. Includes a plethora of additional production material, including rehearsal and shooting schedules, (20+) call sheets, a prop "Tucker Corporation" business card for his character, and studio screening reports from advance showings of the film. The script exhibits some creases, tears, brad breaches, wrinkling - the type of wear consistent with daily use on set by a principal actor in a feature film. In production used good condition.

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