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Williams, Tennessee Typescript constituting the draft of Oscar Saul's film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's drama, A Streetcar Named Desire annotated by Williams, Oscar Saul, and Elia Kazan, some 163 pages (11 x 8 1/2 in.; 280 x 217 mm), [Hollywood and Key West], [early 1950]; brittle and browned, chipping and marginal tears. Accompanied by: the transcript of a wire sent to the Screen Writers' Guild offering Oscar Saul the assignment to adapt A Streetcar Named Desire to the screen; Oscar Saul's final draft pasted together from the typescript draft, essentially becoming the shooting script; photocopies of some of Williams's correspondence containing production comments as well as an unproduced opening sequence later cut from the script.