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Auction History Result 3t065 BEAU GESTE revised white script January 13, 1939 signed by Cooper, Milland, Hayward & Naish! Date Sold 12/14/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Autographed Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 149 pages; also contains 16 4x5 stills; see below) (Learn More) Beau Geste, the classic 1939 William A. Wellman Northern Africa French Foreign Legion military war family relationship melodrama ("Gary Cooper is back at his fighting best in the most thrilling film of the Foreign Legion"; "Based on the Novel by Percival Christopher Wren"; about three brothers who all end up in the French Foreign Legion, serving together in the exact same location in North Africa) starring Gary Cooper (in the title role as Michael 'Beau' Geste), Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Susan Hayward (in her second credited movie role!), J. Carrol Naish, Donald O'Connor, James Stephenson, Heather Thatcher, and G.P. Huntley NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that right after this movie was made, the producers took some of the original scripts and had the first page of the script (which is the revised white draft from January 13, 1939) personally signed by the top five actors in the movie: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, AND J. Carrol Naish! The studio did this with approximately 10 of the original scripts, and then gave them out as special gifts to top stars. This was something that studios did with some of the top movies of the 1930s, but very few of them have survived from any of these movies! This particular script came from the estate of Maureen O'Sullivan and her husband John Farrow, so it was surely given to them. Also with the script was sixteen 3 3/4" x 4 1/2" stills, each of which has a caption written on the back, giving the dialog spoken in that scene, and there is writing on the back of the last still which says "the wording on these stills is from the Paramount Pictures script of Beau Geste", and that "these photographs from Beau Geste were taken from the screen Sept 1939 - by a Contaxt camera (1.5 at 25 of a sec)". That set of 16 small stills were also purchased from the same estate, and were surely given along with the script. Our consignor, who purchased this script and stills at the estate auction, had an incredibly elaborate binding created to hold the script and the 16 stills. This hardcover binding has the script is cradled in the special area of the binding created for it, and opposite it is a special area for the 16 small stills, and those are in plastic sleeves with a special binding device. The special binding is hardcover, and it has the name of the movie, the screenwriter (Robert Carson), and "signed by the cast Paramount 1939" all embossed on the spine! UPDATED 12/09/2014: Note that we have revised the Important Added Info section of the auction. Condition: very good to fine. The script is an actual script that was used in the movie. Note that there is an oddity. The cover page of the script is the page that has been autographed by the stars. Directly after that is the final page of the script (page 146), and then all of the rest of the pages, ending with page 145. We can't imagine why someone would have moved the final page to the first page, but we are sure it was done at the time this special script was created, because certainly no one would have done it at a later time! Learn More about condition grades 
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