BIB_ID
86140
Accession number
MA 8581
Creator
Cheever, John, author.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1982?
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (50 pages), bound ; 28.7 x 22.5 cm
Notes
Photocopy of the working draft of the teleplay for "The Shady Hill kidnapping." Aired as season 1, episode 1 of American Playhouse on January 12, 1982 at 9:00 pm on PBS.
Typed on title page: "The Shady Hill Kidnapping / (working title) / teleplay by / John Cheever. / (Note: Dialogue still to come or scenes as yet only sketched in are indiciated by CAPS.) WORKING DRAFT."
Written in pencil on title page: "Purchased from a PBS employee; some notes undoubtedly in Cheever's hand (see page 6); unknown hands. ... Unpublished to date: vastly different from how aired."
Corrected and revised in ink by various unknown hands and some by Cheever throughout.
Dating based on release date.
Typed on title page: "The Shady Hill Kidnapping / (working title) / teleplay by / John Cheever. / (Note: Dialogue still to come or scenes as yet only sketched in are indiciated by CAPS.) WORKING DRAFT."
Written in pencil on title page: "Purchased from a PBS employee; some notes undoubtedly in Cheever's hand (see page 6); unknown hands. ... Unpublished to date: vastly different from how aired."
Corrected and revised in ink by various unknown hands and some by Cheever throughout.
Dating based on release date.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (30.5 cm)
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