Maybe It's Love [Saturday's Children] (Original screenplay for the 1935 film, presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald) Maxwell Anderson (play); Gloria Stuart, Ross Alexander (starring); William C. McGann (director); Jerry Wald, Harry Sauber (screenwriters) 1930s Cinema,Film Scripts,Films Based on Plays,Romance,Specially bound scripts

Revised Final script for the 1935 film, seen here under two working titles, "Saturday's Children" and "Half Way to Heaven." Specially bound copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board, and his annotations in manuscript ink identifying actors on the cast page. 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). Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Maxwell Anderson's 1927 drama, "Saturday's Children," about a love triangle between two young coworkers and the spoiled son of their boss. Remade by Warner Brothers in 1940 under the play's original title, starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and Anne Shirley. Bound in full red leather, with gilt titles on the front board and spine. Distribution page present, with receipt intact. Title page integral with distribution page, dated 8/28/34, noted as REV. FINAL, stamped copy No. 63. 119 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between 8-28-34 and 9/6/34, and three blue revision pages bound in at the end of the text, dated 9/7/34. Pages Near Fine, binding about Near Fine, with front board slightly warped and a small closed tear on the upper portion of the spine.