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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of The Rare Breed
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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of The Rare Breed
Universal, 1966. Mimeographed manuscript, Revised Final screenplay, 121 pp, January 7, 1965, housed in yellow Universal wrappers within a blue cloth three-ring binder, with blue, yellow, and pink revision pages dated from January 26th to February 26th, 1965, some folded pages, signed boldly ("Maureen O'Hara") in ballpoint pen to front wrapper, heavily annotated in O'Hara's hand in pencil and pen, with a clipped newspaper article folded in, and an empty envelope clipped to binder's inner front cover. Several pages are folded over, many pages have a pencil slash across them, and versos of last several pages are heavily annotated.
Andrew V. McLaglen's western The Rare Breed starred O'Hara as a widow determined to breed her Hereford bull in the Old West, with the help of an ace wrangler (James Stewart). The screenplay was by Ric Hardman, who gets no credit on O'Hara's script. There are many revision pages in this script; in her autobiography, 'Tis Herself, O'Hara recalled Stewart always making sure that his scenes with her were focused on him—in at least one instance, going so far as to have a scene rewritten overnight.
Interestingly, O'Hara wrote her name and address on the inner back cover of this script's binder under her real name, "Maureen FitzSimons."
Andrew V. McLaglen's western The Rare Breed starred O'Hara as a widow determined to breed her Hereford bull in the Old West, with the help of an ace wrangler (James Stewart). The screenplay was by Ric Hardman, who gets no credit on O'Hara's script. There are many revision pages in this script; in her autobiography, 'Tis Herself, O'Hara recalled Stewart always making sure that his scenes with her were focused on him—in at least one instance, going so far as to have a scene rewritten overnight.
Interestingly, O'Hara wrote her name and address on the inner back cover of this script's binder under her real name, "Maureen FitzSimons."


















