Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

A Tod Browning-owned screenplay of Dracula's Daughter image 1
A Tod Browning-owned screenplay of Dracula's Daughter image 2
Lot 870

A Tod Browning-owned screenplay of Dracula's Daughter

30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

US$1,500 - US$2,000

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Popular Culture specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A Tod Browning-owned screenplay of Dracula's Daughter

Mimeographed manuscript, folio, screenplay by Garrett Fort, 155 pp (divided into alphabetical sections), February 3, 1936, "Garrett Fort" written in pencil to title page and to the first page of Sequence "N"; bound in black leather, Universal Pictures Corporation library stamp to title page with script copy number ("10"). In 1931, Tod Browning's Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, kicked off Universal Studio's hugely popular monster movie cycle. In 1933, producer David O. Selznick bought the rights to Bram Stoker's short story, "Dracula's Guest," a sequel featuring a female vampire; Selznick developed a film treatment of it, but sold the rights to Universal in 1934. In 1935, Universal announced Dracula's Daughter, written by R.C. Sheriff and to be directed by James Whale (Frankenstein). The story prominently featured Count Dracula, and Lugosi was meant to reprise the role. Writer Peter Dunne worked on the script, then Garrett Fort rewrote it, deleting Count Dracula almost completely from the story. Fort's script still states below his writing credit on the title page, "As a sequel to / Dracula / by / Bram Stoker." Browning had no direct involvement with the project; how he came to possess this script is unknown. The eventual film was directed by Lambert Hillyer and did not feature Lugosi.
9 ½ x 14 ½ in

Additional information

Bid now on these items

An Omega Pocket Watch Engraved to Spencer Tracy from Joan Crawford Date: c. 1937

Gary Moore: A Gibson Les Paul Standard Electric Guitar, known as 'Stripe', 1959,

Marianne Faithfull: Two Passports and a Selection of Personal Ephemera, Qty

Bernie Krause (b. 1938) Day & Night in Gombe, 2025

Marianne Faithfull: A diary, a large collection of archival notes and lyrics, and other personal items, Qty

Marianne Faithfull: A Selection of Personal Books, with inscriptions, Various publishers and dates, Qty

Marianne Faithfull: A large collection of personal correspondence, Various dates, Qty

Marianne Faithfull: A Large Collection of Photographs, some professional and some personal,

Marianne Faithfull: A Large Annie Leibovitz campaign poster of Marianne Faithfull for GAP, 1990,

Anita Pallenberg (Italian, 1942-2017): Work on paper, titled "Babylon", 1994, 2

Marianne Faithfull: a Dyptich by Giuseppe Romeo, titled "Falsehood I" and "Falsehood II", Paris, 1995-96, 2

Carrie Fisher (1956-2016): Her personal trunk, Gifted to Marianne Faithfull,

Marianne Faithfull: Two paintings, one by Thierry Bisch, titled 'Butterflies', 2003, and undated, 3