Lot 102
  • 102

Fitzgerald, F. Scott; and Charles M. Warren

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

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Typescript, being a screen treatment of Tender Is the Night, n.p., c. April/May 1934, 29 pages (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 283 x 220 mm), several photostats of Warren's musical compositions pasted into the typescript; minor browning on a few leaves, small chips to extremities of title-leaf. 

Literature

Tate, F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z, p. 269

Condition

Typescript, being a screen treatment of Tender Is the Night, n.p., c. April/May 1934, 29 pages (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 283 x 220 mm), several photostats of Warren's musical compositions pasted into the typescript; minor browning on a few leaves, small chips to extremities of title-leaf.
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Catalogue Note

Fitzgerald's screen treatment of Tender Is the Night, written in collaboration with Charles Marquis Warren.  Warren remains a controversial figure to Fitzgerald biographers and scholars, thanks to his unsubstantiated claim to have co-written the novel Tender Is the Night.  There is no question, however, that he collaborated on this screen treatment with the novelist.  Fitzgerald's agent, Harold Ober, was unable to sell this treatment.  Warren went on to create the television series Gunsmoke and Rawhide.

The treatment includes an amusing list of casting suggestions for the proposed film.  Candidates for the role of heroine Nicole Diver range from Katherine Hepburn to Helen Hayes to Dolores Del Rio to Marlene Dietrich.  Also appended to the the piece is a two-page note titles "Author's Suggestion about Handling Tender Is the Night, a Novel (Appended to which is a short summary of what might be done to the story.)"