Lot 50
  • 50

Fitzgerald, F. Scott and Robert Spafford

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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • paper
Typescript, being a film treatment "Gracie at Sea" np, 1934, 15 pages and 1 page cover synopsis, 16 pages total (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 283 x 220 mm). Upper corner with minor lose from staple removal.

unproduced treatment for a george burns and gracie allen comedy.
After meeting Burns and Allen in 1934, Fitzgerald collaborated with Spafford on the present at their request, a farce for the duo that had Gracie as an eccentric heiress and Allen the PR man tasked with cleaning up her image enough that she finds a suitable husband. Featuring a found mystery infant, a frantic yacht race and fixed beauty pageant, hilarity ensues. It was never purchased.

Catalogue Note

Tate, F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z, pp. 98, 120