Too Young to Love (Original screenplay for the 1959 British film) Muriel Box (director, screenwriter); Elsa Shelley (playwright); Sydney Box (screenwriter); Thomas Mitchell, Pauline Hahn, Joan Miller (starring) British Cinema,Film Scripts,Juvenile Culture,Mystery and Crime,Women Screenwriters

Draft script for the 1959 British film, copy belonging to Art Director George Provis, with manuscript pencil annotations in Provis' hand on six pages. Laid in are over 50 pages of notes, prop requirements, and original set drawings, as well as a three-page Unit List, three carbon-typescript copy pages listing props, and a 1959 typed letter signed to Provis from J. Crichton Slagg of Anglo-Scottish Pictures Limited regarding matte painting for the film. Provenance available upon request. George Provis was a British Art Director and Production Designer who began his career working on quota quickies (low budget features made to comply with Britain's Cinematograph Films Act of 1927) in the 1930s. After the Second World War, Provis was appointed by British film producer Sydney Box to head the art department at Gainsborough Pictures, and is credited on over 120 films. Based on the 1944 play "Pick-Up Girl" by Elsa Shelley. A New York juvenile court judge (Thomas MItchell) hears a case of a 15 year-old girl (Pauline Hehn) caught with a 47 year-old man, and reveals in flashback the girl's neglectful parents and her life's downward-spiral which lead to prostitution and abortion. A rather troubling time capsule of victim blaming and the social and sexual politics of the 1950s, wherein the casualty of pedophelia is on trial with nary a accusation leveled at of the perpetrator of the crime. More so disturbing as the film was directed and co-written by a woman, Muriel Box, and based on a play by a woman, Elsa Shelley. Tall maroon untitled wrappers with a die-cut window in the British style. Title page present, with credits for playwright Elsa Shelley. 99 leaves, with last page of text numbered 98. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound internally with three flat metal brads. Script and laid-in materials Near Fine overall.