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DÉSIRÉE (Oct 19, 1953) First Draft screenplay by Daniel Taradash

$300.00

[Hollywood]: Twentieth Century Fox, October 19, 1953. Vintage original film script, 11 x 9″ (28 x 23 cm.), printed wrappers, 1 page list of characters, 1 p. onionskin memo to Darryl Zanuck, 146 pp. Brad bound, mimeograph, with a few holograph crossings out and notes in an unknown hand, NEAR FINE in (as usual) wrappers with wear and creasing to edges of yapped, VERY GOOD- wrappers.

Romantic costume drama with Marlon Brando as Napoleon Bonaparte and Jean Simmons as Désirée Clary. This is a film which traces the rise and fall of Napoleon, and gave Brando a chance to test his acting chops in a historical role.