The Hard Way (Original screenplay for the 1943 film, presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald) Ida Lupino, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie (starring); Daniel Fuchs, Peter Viertel (screenwriters); Vincent Sherman (director) 1940s Cinema,Film Scripts,Romance,Specially bound scripts

Draft script for the 1943 film. Specially bound 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. 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). An ambitious woman forces her talented younger sister to marry a traveling song-and-dance man in order for them both to escape their hardscrabble life in their small hometown. Although both women gain money and power as the sister's star rises, their personal relationships suffer as a result of the fame. Loosely based on Ginger Rogers' relationship with her first husband, Jack Pepper (whom Rogers married at the age of 17), and her mother Lela. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Title page present, undated, with credits for director Vincent Sherman, and screenwriters Irwin Shaw and Daniel Fuchs. 161 leaves, with last page of text numbered 146. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 5/12/42 and 7/3/42. Pages Near Fine, binding Near Fine.