Joan Blondell William Bendix DON JUAN QUILLIGAN TWO FACED QUILLIGAN #152860

Description

Don Juan Quilligan [Two Faced Quilligan] (Original screenplay for the 1945 film, presentation copy belonging to William Bendix)
Author:
William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers (starring); Frank Tuttle (director); Herbert Clyde Lewis (story); Arthur Kober, Frank Gabrielson (screenwriters)
Title:
Don Juan Quilligan [Two Faced Quilligan] (Original screenplay for the 1945 film, presentation copy belonging to William Bendix)
Publication:
N.p. N.p., 1944
Description:
Shooting Final Draft script for the 1945 film, here under the working title "Two Faced Quilligan," in maroon leather presentation binding belonging to William Bendix, with his name in gilt on front board, and title in gilt on spine.
William Bendix was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor whose New York accent and burly physique helped make him one of the most popular character actors of the 1940s and 1950s, often playing lugs, both loveable and dangerous. Perhaps best remembered as one of television's archetypal patriachs, the blundering Chester A. Riley in "The Life of Riley," first on the 1944 to 1951 ABC and NBC radio serial, then in the 1949 film, directed by Irving Brecher, then finally in the 1953 to 1958 NBC television series. Bendix was nominated for an Academy Award in 1942 for his supporting role in the WWII drama "Wake Island," directed by John Farrow.
Patrick Michael Quilligan (Bendix), captain of a barge named Mary (named after his mother), meets and falls for two women (Joan Blondell and Mary Treen) who remind him of his beloved deceased mother, and inadvertently marries both.
Set in Brooklyn and Utica, New York.
Maroon three quarter leather binding over brown leather boards with title in gilt on spine and William Bendix in gilt on lower right of front board with endpapers crediting BooKraft Hollywood. Title page present, dated December 21, 1944, noted as Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriter Arthur Kober. 131 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125. Mimeogarph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 1/2/45 and 1/8/45. Pages Near Fine, leather binding Near Fine.
Seller ID:
152860
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Actors, Comedy, Film Scripts, Films with Literary Sources, Maritime Interest, New York, Presentation Scripts, Romance
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Baltimore, MD
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