The Blue Veil (Original screenplay for the 1951 film, presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald)

Los Angeles: RKO Studios, Inc, 1951. Revised Final Draft script for the 1951 film. Presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. Eight reference photographs from the film bound in variously among the script pages, each with an RKO stamp on the versos and four with a mimeo snipe on the versos. Original wrapper bound in, with the manuscript ink annotation of Wald's name on the top right, as well as six pink revision pages of an "Optional Ending," following the script.

Jerry Wald is best remembered for his long and successful association with Warner Brothers as both a screenwriter and producer of a number of notable films, including "Mildred Pierce" (1945), "Humoresque" (1946), "Key Largo" (1948), and "Flamingo Road" (1949). In the 1950s he moved to Twentieth Century-Fox, and was the producer there for "An Affair to Remember" (1957), "Peyton Place" (1957), and "Sons and Lovers" (1960).

Remake of the 1942 French film "Le volle bleu," direced by Jean Stelli, and starring Gaby Morlay and Elvire Popesco. Jane Wyman stars as a WWI war widow who, after loosing her only child, spends her life as a children's nurse.

Bound in light green cloth with dark green quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page integral with title page, with receipt removed, dated April 9, 1951, noted as REVISED FINAL SCRIPT, with credits for screenwriter Norman Corwin and story credit for Francois Campaux. 163 leaves, with last page of text numbered "143-146." Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 4/23/51 and 5/25/51. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, with light rubbing and edgewear.