[Rarebooks] FS: Large Archive of Television Scripts by CLIFFORD ODETS

[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" [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)        $7,500

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