Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties Annotated Screenplay Archive....

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Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties Annotated Screenplay Archive. Includes the original typed manuscript of The Roaring Twenties, bearing its original title The World Moves On; Hellinger's typed and annotated notes on the screenplay; two carbon copies of the manuscript and one of the treatment; two copies of the film's screenplay dated June 2, 1939, and the other June 9, 1939; final copy of the shooting script dated June 15, 1939 (with original title) with Hellinger's typed notes; a final revised shooting script (with original title) dated July 7, 1939, bound with Hellinger's name stamped in gold letters on the cover and "The Roaring Twenties" on the spine. Also included is Hellinger's forward to the film, "It may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay. If that happens, I pray that the events, as dramatized here, will be remembered..." Slight edge chipping to Hellinger's notes and light wear to the covers of the bound screenplay, else Fine. From the Mark Hellinger Archive. Accompanied by James Spence Authentication auction LOA.


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