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A Harper Goff Pete Kelly's Blues screenplay and teleplay

21 November 2017, 13:00 EST
New York

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A Harper Goff Pete Kelly's Blues screenplay and teleplay

Warner Bros., 1955. Mimeographic manuscript, bound with brads in beige Mark VII Productions wrappers, Shooting Final screenplay by Richard L. Breen, March 14, 1955, 113 pp, most pages folded inward to indicate completion, ownership signature ("Property of / Harper Goff") to front wrapper in ink. Teleplay: Mimeographic manuscript, teleplay by James E. Moser, 33 pp, May 16, 1958, with blue revision pages dated May 20, 1958, bound with brads in off-white Mark VII wrappers, annotated in pencil, ownership signature ("H. Goff") to cover and title page in pen, cast list bound in, most pages folded in half to indicate completion. Directed by and starring Jack Webb, Pete Kelly's Blues was Webb's adaptation of his own radio series about Kelly, a Prohibition-era bandleader who runs afoul of mobsters. Goff was production designer on the film and also cameos as a banjo player in it. Webb later produced a Pete Kelly's Blues TV series; Goff worked in some uncredited capacity on "The Gus Trumbo Story."
9 x 12 in.

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