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Van Johnson's bound working screenplay of The Last Time I Saw Paris

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
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Van Johnson's bound working screenplay of The Last Time I Saw Paris

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1954. Mimeographed manuscript, no title page or writing credits (screenplay by Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, and Richard Brooks), 126 pp, bound in red leather with film's title stamped in gilt to front cover and spine and "Van Johnson" stamped in gilt to front cover, annotated throughout in pencil by Johnson, with six stills bound in, and with 3 letters and 2 telegrams laid in.
Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, Richard Brooks' romantic drama The Last Time I Saw Paris deals with the turbulent courtship and marriage of a World War II veteran (Van Johnson) and a bohemian (Elizabeth Taylor) living in Paris. The telegrams laid in to this script include one from "Liz and Mike" (Elizabeth Taylor and her then-husband, Michael Wilding), which reads "Dear Van Our love and best wishes to you"; another well-wishing telegram from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Dore Schary is postmarked Nice, France. One well-wishing letter on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stationery dated December 11, 1953, is signed ("Lillian")--likely Lillian Bronson, Johnson's co-star in In the Good Old Summertime (1949); another is on the stationery of the Office of the President of the Hearst Corporation.

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