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A Blazing Saddles screenplay
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A Blazing Saddles screenplay
Warner Bros., 1974. Mimeographed manuscript, screenplay by Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, and Alan Uger, 123 pp, dated February 6, 1973, with working title "Black Bart" and "Final" to title page, with some annotations on the back page in black ink by choreographer Alan Johnson, bound with brads in yellow Warner Bros. wrappers. Accompanied by a 29 pp shooting schedule dated February 23, 1973 with annotations in green by Johnson and details regarding props, sets, scenes, and locations; a 2 pp musical score, 3 pp typed lyric sheet, and 1 p handwritten (by Johnson) lyric sheet on yellow legal paper for "I'm Tired"; and a 1 p typed lyric sheet for "The French Mistake." This is Alan Johnson's personal script of the Mel Brooks' musical Western spoof. Johnson was responsible for Madeline Kahn's hilarious parody of an exhausted Marlene Dietrich singing "I'm Tired" next to a danceline of chorus infantrymen, as well as other dance sequences in the film. His association with Brooks and his ability to stage dance numbers complementing Brooks' zany storylines made them a peerless team.
Provenance: the estate of Alan Johnson.
9 x 11.5 in.
Provenance: the estate of Alan Johnson.
9 x 11.5 in.


















