BIB_ID
87290
Accession number
MA 8524
Creator
Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959, screenwriter, author.
Display Date
Burbank, California, 1956 February 20.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (170 pages), bound ; 29 x 24.6 cm
Notes
A mimeograph copy of the typescript screenplay for the 1956 American docudrama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Henry Fonda and Vera Miles. The film was released by Warner Bros. on December 22, 1956.
The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and in the magazine article "A Case of Identity" (Life magazine, June 29, 1953) by Herbert Brean.
Typed on cover sheet: "Unless Duplimatted (Blue Pages) / No dialogue changes, either additions or deletions, and no set or production changes are to be made in this script without the written approval of J.L. Warner or Steve Trilling." With inscription in ink "note (arrow pointing to passage) W.B."
Running caption "Final" with various dates between February and July 1956.
The film was drawn from the true story of an innocent man charged with a crime, as described in the book The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Maxwell Anderson and in the magazine article "A Case of Identity" (Life magazine, June 29, 1953) by Herbert Brean.
Typed on cover sheet: "Unless Duplimatted (Blue Pages) / No dialogue changes, either additions or deletions, and no set or production changes are to be made in this script without the written approval of J.L. Warner or Steve Trilling." With inscription in ink "note (arrow pointing to passage) W.B."
Running caption "Final" with various dates between February and July 1956.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (31 cm)
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