Anastasia (Original screenplay for the 1956 film)

  • Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956
By Anatole Litvak (director); Marcelle Maurette (play); Guy Bolton (adaptation); Arthur Laurents (screenwriter); Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes (starring)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1956. Final draft script for the 1956 film. Wrappers trimmed to conform to text block, separating spine from wrapper abd cropping copy number stamp "650" and re-written in manuscript ink. Production number adjusted in manuscript pencil with ."5." "#3" in manuscript in on edge of spine.

Based on Marcelle Maurette's 1952 stage play, about a scheme to conspiracy to extort ten million pounds from a bank by teaching a homeless girl to impersonate the missing Russian princess Anastasia.

Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her lead role.

Blue titled wrappers, noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, rubber-stamped copy No. 650 and production No. 2677, dated June 7, 1956. Title page present, dated June 7, 1956, noted as Final Script, with credits for screenwriter Arthur Laurents. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, trimmed to conform to text block with spine separate, bound with two gold brads.

Twilight Time 203.

Details

Title

Anastasia (Original screenplay for the 1956 film)

Author

Anatole Litvak (director); Marcelle Maurette (play); Guy Bolton (adaptation); Arthur Laurents (screenwriter); Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes (starring)

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Twentieth Century-Fox: Los Angeles

Date

1956


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