Beschreibung:

Columbia, 1955. Mimeographed manuscript, Final Draft screenplay by Edward Hope, 181 pp, dated December 14, 1953 to front wrapper, December 11, 1953 to front page, bound in brads in green Columbia wrappers, "Columbia Story No. 2450" printed to front cover, with yellow revision pages dated February 12, 1954, signed ("Maureen O'Hara") in pencil to front wrapper, many annotations in pencil in O'Hara's hand, pencil drawing of a bathroom to title page, many pages with a pencil line across them, with a magazine clipping of a dress pressed in. Together with a mimeographed manuscript, Final Draft screenplay by Edward Hope, dated December 11, 1953 on title page, bound in green leather with "The Long Gray Line" and "Maureen O'Hara" stamped in gilt to front cover and "The Long Gray Line" stamped in gilt to spine, with yellow revision pages dated February 12, 1954 and blue revision pages dated March 27, 1954, with four 8 x 10 in. black-and-white stills of O'Hara and Tyrone Power laid in, with a typed letter signed ("Jerry") from producer Jerry Wald, which originally accompanied the presentation copy, dated October 19, 1954; a letter from agent George Chasin, dated October 21, 1954, congratulating O'Hara on the film; and a note from Brandt Bros. Theatres. Set at West Point Military Academy, O'Hara stars as the wife of Irish immigrant Martin "Marty" Maher (Tyrone Power). In her autobiography, O'Hara described how director John Ford singled her out for intense verbal abuse and humiliation during filming. O'Hara's deep anger at Ford seems to come across in a note she wrote in pencil on this script's final page: "God forgive me for humbling my body to you - / Better that I was an ass to an apple man - / or the mother of a gentleman bastard." Provenance: The Estate of Maureen O'Hara 8.5 x 11 in.