Gone with the Wind final shooting script presented by David O. Selznick to assistant director Eric G. Stacey. ...

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Gone with the Wind final shooting script presented by David O. Selznick to assistant director Eric G. Stacey. Gone with the Wind final shooting script presented by David O. Selznick to assistant director Eric G. Stacey. (MGM, 1939) Vintage final shooting script for the epic American romance film Gone With the Wind. This 256-page script was custom bound in leather and cloth and personally presented by producer David O. Selznick to the film's assistant director, Eric G. Stacey and inscribed in blue ink, in full: "For Eric, who kept his sanity in spite of even DOS [David O. Selznick] / with appreciation for a splendid job, Xmas, 1939". It was Stacey's idea to assemble the film's existing sets into a replica of Atlanta and then burn them for the camera creating the film's most dramatic scene. Tipped into the script pages at various places are black and white 7.5 x 9.5 black and white production photos of scenes and behind-the-scenes shots including a photo of Stacey on the frontispiece. The script, credited to writer Sidney Howard, was affected by many more writers but is known to have been primarily written by Selznick himself. The book's red and brown cover bears gold gilt lettering of film title, "Screenplay" on front and spine and "Eric G. Stacey" in lower right corner. Exhibits a seven inch split between the front cover and spine, but cover remains attached and intact. Minor corner bumping and edge fraying. Content in very good condition.

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