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Van Johnson's bound working screenplay of Brigadoon, with a bound book of stills
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Van Johnson's bound working screenplay of Brigadoon, with a bound book of stills
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1954. Mimeographed manuscript, 73 pp, October 14-20, 1953, with pink revision pages dated 12/11/53 bound in, annotated throughout in pencil, bound in red leather with "Brigadoon" stamped in gilt to front cover and spine and "Van Johnson" gilt to cover, with 2 letters and 3 telegrams to Johnson laid in to prelims.
WITH: 35 8 x 10 in gelatin silver print photographs, tipped to leaves and bound in full red calf album, spine stamped in gilt "Brigadoon," in slipcase.
Vincente Minnelli's film version of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway hit Brigadoon starred Gene Kelly and Van Johnson as Americans who discover an enchanted Scottish village and find ghostly romance there. Along with Johnson's personal script, this lot includes his correspondence from colleagues laid in to the script's front, including a letter from M-G-M's head of production, Dore Schary, where Schary states in part: ". . . With you / and Gene and Cyd [Charisse] and all the others doing / what comes naturally we should have one / helluva show." A Western Union telegram from "Rick" (likely Richard Brooks, who had recently directed Johnson) wishes Johnson luck on this new film. The other, from director Vincente Minnelli, reads "Dear Van: At last, stop, luck & love = / Vincente=." Minnelli's is dated December 14, 1953; the start of shooting Brigadoon had been delayed until that month. The separate book of portrait, scene still, and candid photographs from Brigadoon all feature Johnson; at least half also feature Gene Kelly.
WITH: 35 8 x 10 in gelatin silver print photographs, tipped to leaves and bound in full red calf album, spine stamped in gilt "Brigadoon," in slipcase.
Vincente Minnelli's film version of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway hit Brigadoon starred Gene Kelly and Van Johnson as Americans who discover an enchanted Scottish village and find ghostly romance there. Along with Johnson's personal script, this lot includes his correspondence from colleagues laid in to the script's front, including a letter from M-G-M's head of production, Dore Schary, where Schary states in part: ". . . With you / and Gene and Cyd [Charisse] and all the others doing / what comes naturally we should have one / helluva show." A Western Union telegram from "Rick" (likely Richard Brooks, who had recently directed Johnson) wishes Johnson luck on this new film. The other, from director Vincente Minnelli, reads "Dear Van: At last, stop, luck & love = / Vincente=." Minnelli's is dated December 14, 1953; the start of shooting Brigadoon had been delayed until that month. The separate book of portrait, scene still, and candid photographs from Brigadoon all feature Johnson; at least half also feature Gene Kelly.
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