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His girl Friday : screenplay with manuscript corrections : [California], 1939 June 20.

BIB_ID
91531
Accession number
MA 22010
Creator
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976.
Display Date
1939 June 20.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (181 pages), bound ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Typed on front cover: "'The Bigger They Are' / Estimating Script / June 20 1939 / 2nd Draft Revised."
Written in unknown hand on front wrapper: ["The Bigger They Are" crossed out] / Final Title: / HIS GIRL, FRIDAY [double underlined] / starring Cary Grant [double underlined] and Rosalind Russell [double underlined] / By: / Charles Lederer."
Annotations and corrections in ink in unknown hand and in pencil in a second unknown hand throughout.
This film's screenplay was by Ben Hecht [uncredited] and Charles Lederer, based on the play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
The final draft of the screenplay was 191 pages and ran 92 minutes in the film, directed by Howard Hawks in 1940.
"Mr. Cohn" written in pencil in top lefthand corner of front wrapper.
Provenance
Harry Cohn; Carter Burden.
Housed in
Black cloth clamshell box (30 cm)