Original Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screenplay for the Technicolor film “The Mysterious Island” (1929), dated July 24, 1928 and credited to Lucien Hubbard; personal copy of leading actress Jacqueline Gadsden

A$2,750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Culver City, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], July 24, 1928. Original yellow wrappers preserved (with some marginal loss) on later card covers (303 x 230 mm), front wrapper with typed title at centre The Mysterious Island / Screen Play / by / Lucien Hubbard ; at top right is typed Prod. No. 273 , and at lower right Script Okayed by Mr. Thalberg. July 24, 1928 ; above the title is the original MGM studio label rubber-stamped No. 4664 , with the typed film title and same date of July 24, 1928; the pencilled name Jane Daly [i.e. Jacqueline Gadsden] above the label appears to be written in the film star s own hand, while her name is also written in pencil (but in a different hand) near the foot of the front wrapper; 121 leaves (280 x 215 mm), mimeograph duplication; the film s title, crediting Hubbard as the screenwriter and dated July 24, 1928, is integral with the first page of the script; contents very clean throughout (corners a little dog-eared), with the two original brads in place. Rare and important draft shooting script for the Hollywood film The Mysterious Island. Loosely adapted from Jules Verne s science fiction novel L’ile mystérieuse , this MGM production a part-talkie was filmed in two-strip Technicolour and had a checkered production history: shooting had commenced in 1926 but the film was not released until 5 October 1929. Lucien Hubbard (1888-1971) was officialy credited as the writer of the screenplay and as director, even though scenes shot earlier by Mauri

• Binding: Hardcover

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