Echo Park (Original screenplay for the 1986 film)

Beverly Hills, CA: Walter Shenson-Robert Dornhelm, 1984. Second Draft script for the 1986 film. With a single manuscript ink annotation on the front wrapper and a few copied manuscript annotations to page 59 and 60, noting grammatical revisions.

A young pizza delivery worker falls for his new roommate, a single mother who wants to be an actress but can only find work as a telegram-singing stripper. Meanwhile, their next door neighbor, an Austrian bodybuilder, idolizes Arnold Schwarzenegger and dreams of true love.

Set and shot on location in Echo Park, Los Angeles, and Vienna, Austria.

Blue untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated May 1, 1984, noted as Second Draft, with credits for screenwriter Michael Ventura. 122 leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with three gold brads.