BIB_ID
97195
Accession number
MA 22176
Display Date
Hollywood, California, 1936 October 16.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 volume (120 pages), bound ; 28.1 x 21.7 cm + 18 photographs (black & white ; approx. 18.8 x 25.8 cm or smaller)
Notes
Screenplay for the 1937 American Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick, directed by William A. Wellman from a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, and starring Janet Gaynor (in her one and only Technicolor film) as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March (in his Technicolor debut) as a fading movie star who helps launch her career. The supporting cast features Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander and Owen Moore. Selznick became more involved in the creative process, requesting the film be made in the new three-color Technicolor process and demanding a title change from It Happened In Hollywood which was rumored to be the name of a competing project at Columbia Studios. A Star Is Born was filmed from October to December 1936 and premiered in Los Angeles, California, on April 20, 1937, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The film's New York premiere took place two days later at Radio City Music Hall. It is not known how much Dorothy Parker contributed to the finished script.
Typed on cover sheet: "Directed by / William A. Wellman / Produced by / David O. Selznick. FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / October 16, 1936."
Typed on cover sheet: "Directed by / William A. Wellman / Produced by / David O. Selznick. FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT / October 16, 1936."
Provenance
Daniel M. Selznick; Carter Burden.
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