Lance Comfort BE MY GUEST BE MY GUEST Original screenplay for the 1965 #131832

Description

Be My Guest [Be My Guest] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film)
Author:
Lance Comfort (director, producer); Lyn Fairhurst (screenwriter); David Hemmings, David Healy, Jerry Lee Lewis (starring)
Title:
Be My Guest [Be My Guest] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film)
Publication:
London: Three Kings Films, 1964
Description:
Draft script for the 1965 film. With several substantive holograph emendations to dialogue throughout.
A British "teen" comedy, with a title that borrows the title (and spirit) of Conrad Hilton's 1957 autobiography. A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son's rock group begins bringing in the crowds. One of several British films from the mid-sixties which offered the added inducement of a guest appearance by "The Killer," Jerry Lee Lewis (who had more success in the UK than the USA after marrying his teenage cousin in 1958).
Magenta titled wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated 6-11-64 in holograph pencil, with credits for screenwriter and composer Fairhurst. 108 leaves, mechanical duplication on eye-rest green stock, with pink revision pages throughout, dated 23.11.64. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound internally with two silver brads.
Seller ID:
131832
Subject:
Film Scripts, Juvenile Culture, Music
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Baltimore, MD
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