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Tyrone Power's bound working script of John Brown's Body, with volume of press clippings
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Tyrone Power's bound working script of John Brown's Body, with volume of press clippings
Mimeographed manuscript, stage script, no writing credit (written by Stephen Vincent Benet), 103 pp, n.d. (1952), annotated throughout in pencil, bound in ¼ calf leather, "John Brown's Body" to cover and spine. WITH: Mimeographed manuscript, 98 pp, bound in ¼ calf leather, "John Brown's Body" and "Press / 1952-53" stamped in gilt to spine, a collection of press on the play's run.
Tyrone Power starred opposite Raymond Massey and Judith Anderson in Charles Laughton's acclaimed staged dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic poem John Brown's Body. The troupe performed the show in forty states and in Canada. Their travels are reflected in the cross-country press clippings reproduced here from the show's first tour from November 1952 and February 1953, just before the show's eight-week Broadway run began.
Provenance: Bonhams & Butterfields, Entertainment Memorabilia sale 12904, lot 3061, March 16, 2003.
Tyrone Power starred opposite Raymond Massey and Judith Anderson in Charles Laughton's acclaimed staged dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benet's epic poem John Brown's Body. The troupe performed the show in forty states and in Canada. Their travels are reflected in the cross-country press clippings reproduced here from the show's first tour from November 1952 and February 1953, just before the show's eight-week Broadway run began.
Provenance: Bonhams & Butterfields, Entertainment Memorabilia sale 12904, lot 3061, March 16, 2003.




















