eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 1a096 HERE COMES MR. JORDAN final script April 7, 1941, with the working title Heaven Can Wait! Date Sold 7/9/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 156 pages) (Learn More) Here Comes Mr. Jordan, the 1941 Alexander Hall (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) boxing sports fantasy reincarnation romantic comedy ("The year's big surprise entertainment"; "You will laugh... you will cheer... you will be deeply, strangely stirred!"; "Get set for one of the years greatest comedies!"; "One of the year's greatest comedies!"; "Daring! Different! Delightful!"; "Here comes rich laughter! Here comes warm emotion!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a boxer who is killed "by mistake", and an angel gives him a new body, because his old one was destroyed; he becomes a rich man, but he doesn't like his new life, and it is complicated by him finding the love of his life, but fortunately, the head angel finds a solution to all his problems) starring Robert Montgomery (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, James Gleason (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Edward Everett Horton, Rita Johnson, and John Emery. Note that Warren Beatty remade this movie in 1978, very closely following the original plot, but changing boxing to football, and he changed the name to "Heaven Can Wait", which was the name of the source play for this movie (it was not used for this movie, and it was used two years later on a different major 1940s comedy, starring Don Ameche) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script is the final script from April 7, 1941. Note that someone wrote the top five character names and the actors who played them on the title page in pencil and then within the script when each of those five characters first appear, they wrote the actor's name again. Also note that the writers are not credited on this but that the movie credits Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller. Note that this movie had the working title "Heaven Can Wait", but the studio went with "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" instead. Two years later, screenwriter Samson Raphaelson used that working title for a classic fantasy movie with Don Ameche. In 1978, Warren Beatty decided to remake "Here Comes Mr. Jordan", and he insisted on changing the title to the original working title "Heaven Can Wait", which greatly confused movie buffs, because they assumed he was remaking the classic 1943 movie, when actually he was remaking the 1941 "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"! Condition: good. The cover has much paper loss and the title page is fragile, darkened, and has paper loss in the right edge. The other pages have slight darkening around the edges but are otherwise in good condition. Learn More about condition grades 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST) |
|||||||||||||
