Theodore Reed THOSE WERE THE DAYS AT GOOD OLD SIWASH Original #147689

Description

Those Were the Days! [At Good Old Siwash] (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)
Author:
Theodore Reed (director); George Fitch (novel); Don Hartman (screenwriter); William Holden, Bonita Granville, Judith Barrett (starring)
Title:
Those Were the Days! [At Good Old Siwash] (Original screenplay for the 1940 film)
Publication:
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1939
Description:
Draft script for the 1930 film, here under the working title "At Good Old Siwash," with "Those Were the Days" written in holograph pencil above title. Paramount "Return to Story Dept" and "Master File" stamps on front wrapper. Script divided into sequences, as was customary for the period.
Middle-aged couple Petey and Martha (William Holden, Bonita Granville) reminisce on their 35th wedding anniversary about their days in college when they first met.
Set in and shot on location at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
Self wrappers, front wrapper dated October 23, 1939, rubber-stamped production No. 1811. 135 leaves, with last page of text numbered E-32. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 11-13-39 and 12-12-39. Pages Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.
Seller ID:
147689
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Comedy, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Romance
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