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A Tod Browning-owned screenplay of Dracula's Daughter
30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
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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
9 ½ x 14 ½ in




















