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Auction History Result 9s0001 STAR IS BORN final draft script Oct 7, 1953, Lucy Marlow's personal copy, which she signed! Date Sold 9/5/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 110 pages) (Learn More) A Star Is Born, the classic 1954 George Cukor theater stage acting musical romantic melodrama ("We believe there hasn't been before, even once, such a performance by a motion picture star, such perfection in motion picture entertainment!"; "There has been no performance like Judy Garland's. There has been no picture like 'A Star is Born'."; about an aging star who marries an up-and-coming star; partially based on the true story of Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, which had been previously somewhat covered in "The Jolson Story" in 1946) starring Judy Garland (nominated for of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; her loss to Grace Kelly was famously quipped by Groucho Marx as "the biggest robbery since Brink's"!), James Mason (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Lucy Marlow, Amanda Blake, Irving Bacon, James Brown, Lotus Robb, Richard Webb, and Sam Colt. Note that this movie was loosely remade in 1976, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristoffersen in the lead roles, and they were updated to being rock 'n' roll (rock and roll) performers. It was remade again in 2018, with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script is the final draft from October 7, 1953 and the screenplay was written by Moss Hart, and Lucy Marlow played Lola Lavery in this movie (and she signed the first page of the script below the title, and her daughter has confirmed to us that she did indeed hand sign the script!). Also note that there are many yellow revision pages. Also included with the script are four 8x10 stills, all of which show Lucy Marlow, and they were her personal stills (and three have snipes on the back and one is credited to photographer Bert Six, and three are credited to Pat Clark). Also included is a program from when the movie was shown on its 30th anniversary in several major cities. The first interior page of this script had a form that was signed by the person receiving the script and it had perforations in the bottom one-third of that page, and that form has been removed from that page (which is as intended, and is typical with such scripts). This was the way the studio kept track of who had these scripts! It is one of eleven scripts that is the personal property of actress Lucy Marlow, who appeared in this production (we are auctioning the eleven scripts in eleven separate auctions). Miss Marlow started acting in 1954, and after an uncredited appearance in "Lucky Me", she got a giant break playing Lola Lavery in "A Star is Born" in 1954. That same year, she met James Dean and they became good friends until his sad passing the following year. After A Star is Born, she appeared in five more movies and several TV appearances, but in 1955, she married Andy Carey, who was the third baseman for the New York Yankees, and she mostly retired and had two children. She remained retired and passed away in December 2018. She spent her last few years with her daughter, who has consigned these scripts to us, and it is a 100% certainty that these were her personal scripts (and some include very rare stills from those productions, and her name is written on some, and this information is noted above). One wonders what kind of career Lucy Marlow would have had had she not married and retired, and of course, we can never know that, but this auction gives one person a very rare opportunity to own her own personal script from this production! Condition: good to very good. The perforated receipt is missing from the first page (see above). See our multiple images to get a good sense of the exact condition of this script. Learn More about condition grades 
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