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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of Spencer's Mountain
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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of Spencer's Mountain
Warner Brothers, 1963. Mimeographed manuscript, Final screenplay by Delmer Daves, 132 pp, June 11, 1962, bound in brads in yellow Warner Brothers wrappers, with 7 pages of correspondence partly related to the film, and a 4-page Staff and Cast contact list with notes in O'Hara's hand with a business card for the River View Ranch, Riverside, California, paper-clipped to it, many pages folded over, title page, front matter, last three pages, and front and back wrappers heavily annotated in O'Hara's hand.
Delmer Daves wrote and directed this adaptation of Earl Hamner, Jr's eponymous novel, a coming-of-age story of an ambitious rural teenager and his large family, headed by Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) and his wife, Olivia (O'Hara).
This lot also includes a folded map by Delmer Daves labeled, "Imaginary Map / for directional purposes / Spencer's Mountain / Locations," laying out the film's fictional landscape; O'Hara wrote a recipe on its verso. The correspondence in this lot includes a letter from Warner Brothers' president Jack Warner on his personal stationery discussing Spencer's Mountain and the film Kisses for My President (1964). Warner discusses O'Hara's efforts lobbying for a role in the latter film and her recent meeting with its director, Curtis Bernhardt. (Bernhardt reportedly didn't cast her out of spite for Warner.)
Delmer Daves wrote and directed this adaptation of Earl Hamner, Jr's eponymous novel, a coming-of-age story of an ambitious rural teenager and his large family, headed by Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) and his wife, Olivia (O'Hara).
This lot also includes a folded map by Delmer Daves labeled, "Imaginary Map / for directional purposes / Spencer's Mountain / Locations," laying out the film's fictional landscape; O'Hara wrote a recipe on its verso. The correspondence in this lot includes a letter from Warner Brothers' president Jack Warner on his personal stationery discussing Spencer's Mountain and the film Kisses for My President (1964). Warner discusses O'Hara's efforts lobbying for a role in the latter film and her recent meeting with its director, Curtis Bernhardt. (Bernhardt reportedly didn't cast her out of spite for Warner.)