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Joseph L. Mankiewicz's original notes and treatment for All About Eve
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz's original notes and treatment for All About Eve
Comprising:
Orr, Mary. "The Wisdom of Eve." Mimeographed Manuscript, 21 pp plus title and studio receipt page, 4to, n.p., copied May 6, 1949, in Twentieth Century-Fox studio wrappers. Accompanied by a TLS of story editor James Fisher forwarding the story to Mankiewicz in 1969. With a xerox copy of Orr's 20 pp radio adaptation of the story. Both items underscored in red ink by Mankiewicz.
Autograph Manuscript in pencil, 16 pp, 4to, n.p., July-August 1949, housed in Golden West theme book, marked "Best Performance / Notes (treatment)" on upper cover, additionally annotated throughout in colored ink by Mankiewicz. A short collection of character notes and plot ideas for the film. The first page posits alternative titles: "All About Eve" and "The Golden Girl." JLM contemplates whether the character of Eve is a pathological liar or a deliberate liar.
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Joseph L. Mankiewicz") in pencil, 92 pp, 4to, Los Angeles, August and September, 1949, Mankiewicz's full treatment of "Best Performance (Wisdom of Eve)," housed in 2 Golden West Theme notebooks paginated 1-42, 43-92. Mankiewicz calls this his screenplay adaptation, but it is really a treatment, written mostly in prose.
Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 79 pp, 4to, Los Angeles, n.d., the full draft of "Best Performance (Wisdom of Eve)" adaptation, heavily annotated in pencil by the author.
THE GENESIS OF A BRILLIANT FILM.
Mary Orr's original short story, "The Wisdom of Eve," a dishy story of a Broadway star who is betrayed by a fan she takes in, did not make much of a splash when it was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1946. Though her agent submitted it to the studios for consideration, no one bit. Three years later, after adapting the story into a short radio play (and introducing a dramatic plot twist involving the betrayal of the leading lady by her friend), Fox bought the property and passed it along to Joe Mankiewicz, who had been nurturing an idea about actresses on Broadway for his follow-up project to A Letter to Three Wives (1949). In the autograph and typed manuscripts present here, Mankiewicz organizes his ideas into a complete story, creates the Sarah Siddons Award as a narrative device, and introduces new characters, such as Addison de Witt and Max Fabian.
Orr, Mary. "The Wisdom of Eve." Mimeographed Manuscript, 21 pp plus title and studio receipt page, 4to, n.p., copied May 6, 1949, in Twentieth Century-Fox studio wrappers. Accompanied by a TLS of story editor James Fisher forwarding the story to Mankiewicz in 1969. With a xerox copy of Orr's 20 pp radio adaptation of the story. Both items underscored in red ink by Mankiewicz.
Autograph Manuscript in pencil, 16 pp, 4to, n.p., July-August 1949, housed in Golden West theme book, marked "Best Performance / Notes (treatment)" on upper cover, additionally annotated throughout in colored ink by Mankiewicz. A short collection of character notes and plot ideas for the film. The first page posits alternative titles: "All About Eve" and "The Golden Girl." JLM contemplates whether the character of Eve is a pathological liar or a deliberate liar.
Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Joseph L. Mankiewicz") in pencil, 92 pp, 4to, Los Angeles, August and September, 1949, Mankiewicz's full treatment of "Best Performance (Wisdom of Eve)," housed in 2 Golden West Theme notebooks paginated 1-42, 43-92. Mankiewicz calls this his screenplay adaptation, but it is really a treatment, written mostly in prose.
Typed Manuscript with Annotations, 79 pp, 4to, Los Angeles, n.d., the full draft of "Best Performance (Wisdom of Eve)" adaptation, heavily annotated in pencil by the author.
THE GENESIS OF A BRILLIANT FILM.
Mary Orr's original short story, "The Wisdom of Eve," a dishy story of a Broadway star who is betrayed by a fan she takes in, did not make much of a splash when it was published in Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1946. Though her agent submitted it to the studios for consideration, no one bit. Three years later, after adapting the story into a short radio play (and introducing a dramatic plot twist involving the betrayal of the leading lady by her friend), Fox bought the property and passed it along to Joe Mankiewicz, who had been nurturing an idea about actresses on Broadway for his follow-up project to A Letter to Three Wives (1949). In the autograph and typed manuscripts present here, Mankiewicz organizes his ideas into a complete story, creates the Sarah Siddons Award as a narrative device, and introduces new characters, such as Addison de Witt and Max Fabian.
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