" I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE" SCREENPLAY BY....
[Weidman, Jerome]: Polonsky, Abraham:
[Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century-Fox, 4 August 1950. [2],168 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Light use at overlap wrapper edges, check-out coupon clipped, otherwise about fine. Denoted a "Revised First Draft Continuity" script, but in fact, an early pre-production script, and not a continuity script in the regular sense. A screenplay by Polonsky, via an adaptation by Vera Caspery, of Weidman's novel (and later, musical play), released in April 1951, directed by Michael Gordon, starring Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey and Sam Jaffe. As screenwriter for BODY AND SOUL (1947) and writer/director of FORCE OF EVIL (1948), Polonsky was well on his way toward a distinguished career in film when he was blacklisted and fired by Fox for refusing to cooperate with HUAC in 1951. He continued to work during the Blacklist, either uncredited or pseudonymously, and in 1996 the Writers Guild restored his real name and credits. The degree of Caspary's involvement in this adaptation is unclear -- this draft is credited solely to Polonsky, and Caspary may have either done an earlier treatment, or had some involvement after this draft. Accompanied by a separately bound script breakdown, [6],82 leaves, dated 2 October 1950, bearing a few pencil annotations.
(Item ID: WRCLIT60496) $1,500.00