[Rarebooks] FS: Clifford Odets Manuscripts

[Charles Agvent]

ODETS, Clifford. LARGE ARCHIVE OF TELEVISION TYPESCRIPTS, one SIGNED, 
with extensive corrections and annotations. 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. (#014075) 
$15,000.00

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