Gregory Ratoff TAXI Original screenplay for the 1953 film 1952 #148414

Description

Taxi (Original screenplay for the 1953 film)
Author:
Gregory Ratoff (director); D.M. Marshman Jr., Daniel Fuchs (screenwriters); Dan Dailey, Constance Smith, Mark Roberts (starring)
Title:
Taxi (Original screenplay for the 1953 film)
Publication:
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952
Description:
Revised Draft script for the 1953 film. With screenwriter Daniel Fuchs' holograph pencil and ink annotations throughout, most noting substantive revisions and deletions.
Loosely based on Jean-Paul Le Chanois' 1951 French film "Without Leaving an Address." An ill-tempered New York cabbie helps an Irish immigrant with an infant son locate her missing husband.
Set and shot on location in New York.
Blue titled wrappers, noted as Revised and WRITER'S WORKING SCRIPT on the front wrapper, dated June 14, 1952, noted as production No. 473. Title page present, dated June 14, 1952, noted as Revised Writer's Working Script, with credits for screenwriter Daniel Fuchs. 116 leaves, with last page of text numbered 115. Mimeograph duplication on yellow stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, with a small dampstain to the bottom edge of the front wrapper, bound internally with three gold brads.
Seller ID:
148414
Subject:
1950s Cinema, Film Scripts, Irish Interest, New York, Romance
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Baltimore, MD
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