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Draft script for the 1959 British film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes, prop requirements, and original set drawings, as well as a three-page Unit List, three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props, and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge (Thomas MItchell) hears a case of a 15 year-old girl (Pauline Hehn) caught with a 47 year-old man, and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s, wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman, Muriel Box, and based on a play by a woman, Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves, with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall.

See the recipient's entry in the Oxford DNB. Both letters signed 'Elsa'. ONE (7 December 1951): 1p, 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded three times. Thirty-eight lines of text. She received his letter while wishing to contact him, and wonders if this is a coincidence. 'And my wanting to write you grew out of an intense yearning to be in London again'. She asks after his family, and for information about what writing he has in hand: 'What, if anything, are you "in love with" on the London stage now?' She urges him to make 'a rip to these shores': 'hie yourself and your Stella [his wife] over here, so we can talk, and I'll appoint myself your guide in New York (as you did so thoughtfully in London), and you'll see our lovely Hudson River from my apartment here'. Having previously referred to her 'country home (in Margaretville, New York)', she adds, '(or, if you love the mountains as I do), we could go up to our home in the mountains, and listen to the silence there, and drink deeply of really pure air, and fill our souls with peace.' She ends with an enquiry after 'Swaff' and 'Mrs. Swaffer'. TWO (15 December [1947?]). 1p, 12mo. In good condition, folded twice. Begins: 'After six years I am now approaching the shore of England once more, and my heart beats faster in anticipation!' She will be in London in two days, and will be staying at the Dorchester. 'I'm eagerly looking forward to meeting you again!' After discussing telephone arrangements, and asking after his family, she ends: 'Perhaps you've heard that Stanley French has my play, "Tomorrow Is A Secret", under contract.?' (The Library of Congress gives the play's copyright date as 8 May 1947.) See image (Cunard Headed).

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1935 film, showing the newly awakened bride (Elsa Lanchester) consulting with Doctors Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) in the lab. With a distinctive claw stamp on the verso. Henry Frankenstein returns to his lab after the events of the first film, where he is tempted by his old mentor, Septimus Pretorius, into making a mate for his creation. The second entry in Universal's successful "Frankenstein" series, preceded by the titular film in 1931 and followed by "Son of Frankenstein" in 1939 and "The Ghost of Frankenstein" in 1942. 8.75 x 7 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors.