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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of How Green Was My Valley

29 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of How Green Was My Valley

Twentieth Century-Fox, 1941. Mimeographed manuscript, Second Revised Final, screenplay by Philip Dunne, 169 pp, April 18, 1941, bound in brads in red Twentieth Century-Fox wrappers, with blue revision pages dated May 19, 1941, signed ("Maureen O'Hara") boldly to front wrapper in pencil and annotated throughout; includes a call sheet dated June 13, 1941, and a small Twentieth Century-Fox visitors' sign-in sheet annotated by O'Hara.
How Green Was My Valley was John Ford's poignant story of the lasting changes the life of a Welsh mining family undergoes. O'Hara costarred as Angharad Morgan, the family's sole daughter. O'Hara wrote poems in ink on the script's inner back wrapper: "I am happy now / here is a mist every morning / and later a little breeze / that ruffles the pidgeons [sic] breast / and blows my hair in my eyes + mouth / then lifts it gently out again"; "Time flys [sic] (swiftly), the sun is gone / and the mists are here again / the long drive home is full / of dreams and whispered thoughts"; and more. Right on the cusp of stardom, O'Hara also wrote: "Oh I am so happy / preparing for happiness."
The film was O'Hara's first of five major collaborations with Ford and an early major critical and financial hit for her. It received ten Academy Award® nominations, winning five, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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