[Rarebooks] FS: Lillian Hellman Pro-Soviet Script INSCRIBED to Pro-Soviet Journalist Kenneth Durant

[Charles Agvent]

HELLMAN, Lillian. THE NORTH STAR. A Motion Picture About Some Russian 
People. New York: The Viking Press, 1943. First Edition. Introduction by 
Louis Kronenberger. The printed script for the film THE NORTH STAR 
starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Erich Von Stroheim, 
and Farley Granger in his debut performance. Nominated for 6 Academy 
Awards including for Hellman's script. The House Committee on 
Un-American Activities would later cite THE NORTH STAR as one of three 
noted examples of pro-Soviet movies made by Hollywood. This copy is 
INSCRIBED "For Jed & Kenneth/with much love" and SIGNED by the author as 
"Lillian" to American pro-Soviet journalist Kenneth Durant and his wife, 
poet Genevieve "Jed" Taggard, who died at the age of 54 in 1948. A fine 
association copy. Durant's ink stamp at the top of the front free 
endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some internal 
staining and foxing, not visible on the exterior. (#020244)      $500

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