reginald beckwith (6 risultati)

[4] pp. Approx. 5-1/2 x 4-1/4 inches. Place and date noted in ms. ink at head of title. Narrow hinge strip on p. [4]. Printed in red and black. E.N.S.A. Entertainmenrs for H.M. Forces.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. First Edition. 81 pages. Book in good to very good condition. Dust-jacket is torn with a major portion missing.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Beckwith. Reginald, Boys in Brown. Percival Marshall, no date Circa 1948. 8vo. Card Covers, balck titles to front. Pp 81. Some small loss to cover spine and back cover. Tight, bright and clean. Scarce soft cover edition.

Draft script for the 1962 film. With a few annotations in manuscript pencil. A manager at a razor factory grows a beard after developing a rash due to shaving. His superiors are displeased. The manager then decides to organize a strike in order to get his point across. Green titled wrappers, dated May 1953, with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman, and George Moore. Title page present, dated May 1953, with credits for screenwriters John O'Gorman and George Moore. 101 leaves, with last page of text numbered 100. Mimeograph duplication. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads.

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.

Collection of 38 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1952 UK film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of about half of the stills, and a few with ink annotations on the versos. A small country in Europe faces bankruptcy, after surviving only by evading its debt. A rich American visits and agrees to save the place by purchasing the entire country, but he dies prematurely, and his next of kin, a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, resumes control. 8 x 10 inches, some stills slightly smaller, with no borders as issued. Faint toning, else Near Fine.