George Waggner THE CLIMAX Original screenplay for the 1944 film 1943 #146446

Description

The Climax (Original screenplay for the 1944 film)
Author:
George Waggner (director); Curt Siodmak, Lynn Starling (screenwriters); Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey (starring)
Title:
The Climax (Original screenplay for the 1944 film)
Publication:
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943
Description:
Draft script for the 1944 Universal horror film. With holograph pencil annotations to the front wrapper and throughout, mostly noting deletions and page number changes. Included with the script is a bound set of revision pages attributed on the front wrapper and at the top of numerous leaves to dialogue director Gene Lewis, dated from 1/6/43 to 1/14/44.
Ostensibly based on the play by Edward Locke, but bearing little resemblance in plot, the film follows a physician who becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice reminds him of his late wife's, whom he murdered because of a similar obsession. Originally intended to be a sequel to Universal Pictures' "Phantom of the Opera" (1943). Nominated for an Academy Award.
Set in Vienna.
Beige titled wrappers, rubber-stamped production No. 7203, dated DECEMBER 6, 1943. Title page integral with the front wrapper, as issued. 156 leaves, with last page of text numbered 147. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only, with yellow revision pages throughout, dated variously between 12/22/43 and 12/28/43. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.
Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors.
Seller ID:
146446
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Film Scripts, Films Based on Plays, Horror, Opera, Women Screenwriters
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