Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT.) The Great Gatsby. Copy of the Release Dialogue Script September 1, 1948 [cover title]. Cyril Hume, screenwriter. Tall folio, cover sheet and 95 stapled leaves, printed recto only, contents curled along spine, first and final leaves wrinkled, cover heavily so and with repaired tear, pencil and notes on the cover; custom green cloth folding box with calf spine label, large dampstained area to lower front cover, not affecting interior. [Hollywood]: Paramount Pictures, 1948

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The film was directed by Elliot Nugent and produced by Richard Maibaum who produced all but three of the James Bond films. It starred Alan Ladd as Jay Gatsby, Betty Field as Daisy Buchanan, Shelly Winters as Myrtle Wilson, MacDonald Carey as Nick Carraway, and Barry Sullivan as Tom Buchanan, among others.