BIB_ID
91253
Accession number
MA 8696
Creator
Hackett, Albert, screenwriter.
Display Date
Culver City, California, 1934 March 19.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (131 pages), bound ; 27.9 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Typescript for the screenplay for the 1934 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 25,1934.
Typed on front wrapper: "Script Okayed by / Mr. [Hunt] Stromberg / March 19, 1934. COMPLETE."
With a label on the front wrapper stamped with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Calif." Label is also numbered "0397" and stamped "Vault Copy."
Front wrapper with various penciled notes in an unknown hand including "Original before changes," "Mr. Stromberg," and "Annex."
Front wrapper stamped "File Copy," "Vault Copy," and "2013."
Typed on front wrapper: "Script Okayed by / Mr. [Hunt] Stromberg / March 19, 1934. COMPLETE."
With a label on the front wrapper stamped with "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Culver City, Calif." Label is also numbered "0397" and stamped "Vault Copy."
Front wrapper with various penciled notes in an unknown hand including "Original before changes," "Mr. Stromberg," and "Annex."
Front wrapper stamped "File Copy," "Vault Copy," and "2013."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Housed in
Red cloth drop-spine box (30 cm)
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