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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of The Wings of Eagles
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Maureen O'Hara's annotated screenplay of The Wings of Eagles
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1957. Mimeographed manuscript, screenplay by Frank Fenton, 123 pp, February 20, 1956, bound in brads in yellow Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wrappers within a separate black outer wrapper, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Script Department label to front wrapper with "Maureen O'Hara" written in pen to label and dated February 2, 1956, annotated throughout in pen and pencil in O'Hara's hand including a few sketches. O'Hara's costume notes in pencil to verso of p 66 is loose and is heavily annotated to verso of last page, with a page of notes in pencil and several small sheets of blank paper.
This John Ford biopic of his friend, Naval aviation pioneer/screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead (John Wayne) costarred O'Hara as Wead's wife, Minnie. O'Hara notes in her autobiography, "The picture gave Duke and me some wonderful dramatic scenes, although much of my best work was left on the cutting-room floor." O'Hara's scenes involving Minnie Wead's alcoholism were removed out of respect for Wead's children but are present in this script.
This John Ford biopic of his friend, Naval aviation pioneer/screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead (John Wayne) costarred O'Hara as Wead's wife, Minnie. O'Hara notes in her autobiography, "The picture gave Duke and me some wonderful dramatic scenes, although much of my best work was left on the cutting-room floor." O'Hara's scenes involving Minnie Wead's alcoholism were removed out of respect for Wead's children but are present in this script.


















