[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of Annotated Early Television Scripts by Clifford Odets

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest Internet Catalogue which contains a truly amazing array 
of TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, a 
total of 90 items, many quite scarce and remarkable as well as revealing 
of the creative process and personal lives of the subjects.  It includes 
a number of archives, some rather substantial, including Sherwood 
Anderson, W. H. Auden (SOLD), Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer (SOLD), John 
Masefield (SOLD), John O'Hara, Clifford Odets, Maxwell Perkins, E. H. 
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ODETS,  Clifford.  LARGE ARCHIVE OF  TELEVISION  TYPESCRIPTS,  one
SIGNED,  with  extensive  corrections and annotations.  1962  -  1963.
Exceptional  and important collection of five television  typescripts:
"The  Hollywood  Story",  "Goodbye Is for the  Birds",  "North  Star",
"Don't  Blow  Bugles  (The  Mafia Man)", and "Only  the  Young";  most
represented  in  more than one copy and all written for  "The  Richard
Boone  Show"  ["Have Gun Will Travel"].  Some scripts are clean; other
copies  have  extensive additions and deletions by Odets in  ink  with
one  script  designated  as  a  Work Copy and  SIGNED  by  him.  After
completing  much of the preliminary work for the series Odets died  in
August  1963.  The latest script is dated 17 June 1963. The  show  was
considered  one of the best dramatic programs on the air (Robert Blake
was  in  its  repertory) but only survived for two seasons  after  the
loss  of  its executive story editor. Odets gained fame in  the  1930s
for  two plays: WAITING FOR LEFTY and AWAKE AND SING.  Though he wrote
other  plays, including GOLDEN BOY and THE COUNTRY GIRL, he turned  to
Hollywood  in  the 1940s as both a writer and director (NONE  BUT  THE
LONELY  HEART,  one  of  Cary   Grant's  best  performances)  and  was
investigated  by  Congress  for Communist ties in the  1950s.  He  had
numerous  affairs with such actresses as Frances Farmer and Fay  Wray.
Odets  was  the  inspiration  for  the title  character  in  the  Coen
Brothers  film  BARTON FINK (1991). Extraordinary collection of  early
television  scripts  by  one of its best early writers with  the  many
corrections  revealing  much  about  the   process  of  creating  fine
television drama.  Very Good to Near Fine                   $15,000.00


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