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A Baby LeRoy personal script of Alice in Wonderland
10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
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A Baby LeRoy personal script of Alice in Wonderland
Paramount Pictures, 1933. Mimeographed manuscript, screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 642 pp with an additional 8 pp prologue and 4 pp epilogue, with complete title, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" on title page (the film combined both of these Lewis Carroll books into one story), with an illustration on each page by production designer William Cameron Menzies, bound in brown paper wrappers, with the cover and two title pages loose. Though Menzies and Mankiewicz went on to bigger and better projects (Menzies as production designer on Gone With the Wind (1939) and Mankiewicz as screenwriter and director of All About Eve (1950), among dozens of other triumphs), this early collaboration confirms the versatility of each. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, the film was actually frightening to children because of the characters' grotesque but fascinating visages. The production was star-studded and included Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, and many others, with Baby LeRoy looking adorable as the Joker. This personal script belonging to Baby LeRoy is a rare complete version that highlights Menzies' genius as a production designer.
Provenance: the estate of Ronald "Baby LeRoy" Overacker.
8.5 x 14 x 2.75 in.
Provenance: the estate of Ronald "Baby LeRoy" Overacker.
8.5 x 14 x 2.75 in.


















