Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 167

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(FILM.) Fredric March's personal shooting script and other papers from the film Christopher Columbus. 3 volumes. Script: [132] irregularly paginated mimeograph or carbon leaves, most legal-sized, housed in a cloth gilt spring binder embossed in gilt "Script, Fredric March"; moderate wear and foxing; heavily annotated in pencil throughout. Loose papers: 75 promotional photographs, most with inked stamps in verso of the film production company, the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, and/or the photographer, some with captions affixed to verso, generally in strong condition; and 28 pages of assorted memoranda (shootings schedules, crew list, etc.), generally worn from use, many annotated and with March's name as recipient penciled in upper margin. Loose papers are laid into a pair of contemporary full morocco folders, worn and rebacked, embossed in gilt "Christopher Columbus", one embossed with March's name, the other "Florence Eldridge," who played Queen Isabella. (MRS) Np, 1948 and undated