[Rarebooks] FS: Archive of Scarce Material for Radio Performance of DODSWORTH by Sinclair Lewis

[Charles Agvent]

LEWIS, Sinclair. ARCHIVE for Radio Performance of DODSWORTH. Collection 
of SIGNED contracts along with a copy of the original script for the 6 
October 1946 radio performance presented by The Theatre Guild on the 
Air. Included are a 15 July 1946 two-page contract SIGNED by Sinclair 
Lewis, Theatre Guild co-administrator Armina Marshall, and Polly 
Damrosch Howard, widow of Sidney Howard who wrote the script; 2 one-page 
contracts dated 24 September 1946 SIGNED by Marshall and actress Jessie 
Royce Landis; a one-page contract dated 13 September 1946 SIGNED by 
Marshall and actor Walter Huston; a two-page undated contract SIGNED by 
Marshall and writer Arthur Arent who adapted the script to radio; the 
65-page unmarked script for DODSWORTH; and a program from the Shubert 
Theater for the 1934 Broadway production of DODSWORTH starring Huston. 
Landis was a character actress appearing in many films including TO 
CATCH A THIEF and NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Huston won the Academy Award for 
Best Supporting Actor for his role in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, 
directed by his son John Huston. In addition to starring in the 1934 
Broadway adaptation of DODSWORTH, he starred in the play's film version 
released two years later, which was nominated for 7 Oscars. Sidney 
Howard was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the 
Sinclair Lewis novel ARROWSMITH and again in 1936 for DODSWORTH, which 
he had adapted for the stage in 1934. After dying in a tragic accident 
on his farm, he was the first posthumous winner of an Academy Award 
(1939) for his adapted screenplay for GONE WITH THE WIND. Scarce 
collection of original material related to this Lewis production. Near 
Fine. (#021392)        $2,500

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