The Very Thought of You (Original screenplay for the 1944 film, presentation copy belonging to producer Jerry Wald) Delmer Daves (director, screenwriter); Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Andrea King, Dennis Morgan (starring); Alvah Bessie (screenwriter) 1940s Cinema,Film Scripts,Romance,US Army,War Film

Final script for the 1944 film. Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the spine. 14 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). Two Army sergeants spend a three-day holiday pass in Pasadena, where they fall for two young women working in a parachute factory. Bound in beige cloth with tan quarter leather binding, with five raised bands and gilt titles on the spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact, dated 3/2/44, noted as FINAL. Title page present, with credits for director Delmer Daves, and screenwriter Alvah Bessie. 197 leaves, with last page of text numbered 158. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 3/3/44 and 4/10/44. Pages about Near Fine, binding Poor, with front and rear boards detached from the hinges.