BIB_ID
184646
Accession number
MA 5747
Creator
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975, screenwriter.
Display Date
Los Angeles, California, 1942 December 21.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (177 pages), bound ; 28.2 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Typescript for the screenplay for the 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. The film was released by Universal Pictures on January 12, 1943.
Typed on title page: "Dialogue Continuity / Skirball productions / presents / Teresa Wright / and / Joseph Cotten / in / Alfred Hitchcock's / Shadow of a doubt / with / Macdonald Carey / Henry Travers / Patricia Collinge / Hume Cornyn / Wallace Ford / Edna Mae Wonacott / Charles Bates / Director - Hitchcock / Picture No. 1264."
The project began when the head of David Selznick's story department, Margaret McDonell, told Hitchcock that her husband Gordon had an interesting idea for a novel that she thought would make a good movie. His idea, called "Uncle Charlie," was based on the true story of Earle Leonard Nelson, a mass murderer of the 1920s known as "the Gorilla Man."
Typed on title page: "Dialogue Continuity / Skirball productions / presents / Teresa Wright / and / Joseph Cotten / in / Alfred Hitchcock's / Shadow of a doubt / with / Macdonald Carey / Henry Travers / Patricia Collinge / Hume Cornyn / Wallace Ford / Edna Mae Wonacott / Charles Bates / Director - Hitchcock / Picture No. 1264."
The project began when the head of David Selznick's story department, Margaret McDonell, told Hitchcock that her husband Gordon had an interesting idea for a novel that she thought would make a good movie. His idea, called "Uncle Charlie," was based on the true story of Earle Leonard Nelson, a mass murderer of the 1920s known as "the Gorilla Man."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
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