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Draft script for the 1934 film. With manuscript pencil and ink annotations on the front wrapper and first leaf. A wimpy, foppish clerk is fired from his job and, as a last resort, enlists in the Navy. Tall orange titled wrappers, noted as copy No. 1, dated 25th January 1934. Title page present, dated 25th January 1934. 139 leaves, with last page of text numbered 137. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good, wrapper Very Good, with soiling and dampstaining to both, and rusting near the page binding, with silver prong binding.

Draft script for the 1946 British film, here under the working title "Christmas Week-End." Copy belonging to uncredited Art Director George Provis, with his name in blue pencil along the top of the front wrapper. With manuscript pencil annotations on seven pages, including rough storyboard sketches and set sketches on the versos. Not to be confused with the 1934 US pre-Code film directed by John Cromwell. 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 hit West End play "A Soldier for Christmas" by Reginald Beckwith. The well-to-do Ferguson family's plans for a quiet Christmas are disrupted by the arrivals of their married eldest daughter, who had a row with her husband, a girl from the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), previously a servant in the house, and a Canadian soldier named Bill, who was sent by his Colonel as a punishment for getting into too many fights with British troops. Green untitled wrappers. 187 leaves, with last page of text numbered 187. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Very Good plus, bound internally with a prong binding.

Vintage publicity photograph from the set of the 1937 film, showing actors Chesney Allen, Graham Moffat, and other crew members posing around a camera setup. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Allen and Moffat were members of the Crazy Gang, a group of British entertainers formed in the 1930s and popular throughout the wartime years. The gang produced a string of comedy films directed by Marcel Varnel, "O-Kay for Sound" being the first, followed by "Alf's Button Afloat" in 1938, "The Frozen Limits" in 1939, "Gasbags" in 1941, and "Life is a Circus" in 1958. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, faintly toned.