[Rarebooks] FS: Important CLIFFORD ODETS Archive of Early Television Typescripts, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $10,000 NET

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" [ Boone was best known for 
starring in "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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