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Auction History Result 9d045 BLUE BIRD revised final draft script September 1, 1939, signed by Darryl F. Zanuck! Date Sold 8/27/2017 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], 159 pages) (Learn More) Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, the 1940 Walter Lang fantasy melodrama (based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck) starring Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, Sterling Holloway, Scotty Beckett, Sybil Jason, Laura Hope Crews, and Johnny Russell. Note that this was 20th Century-Fox's "answer" to MGM's huge success with "The Wizard of Oz"! Shirley Temple had been considered for Dorothy, and Gail Sondergaard was the original choice for the Wicked Witch (she quit days before filming, because the Wicked Witch was made ugly instead of beautiful!). However, this movie was not very successful at the box office, even with Miss Temple in the lead role, and she had been 20th Century-Fox's number one star through the mid to late 1930s. Note that Sybil Jason was born in South Africa, but was a singing and dancing child prodigy in England from the age of 2. When she was 6, Jack Warner saw her perform, and signed her to a contract hoping she could be a child star for Warner Bros. to equal Shirley Temple at 20th Century-Fox. However, after a few movies, including starring opposite Al Jolson in "The Singing Kid", she did not deliver the hoped for results, and Warner Bros. did not renew her contract in 1938. Daryl Zanuck signed her at 20th Century-Fox, putting her with Shirley Temple in "The Little Princess". She was supposed to have a major role in this movie, opposite Shirley Temple, but most of her scenes were cut from the movie (perhaps because it was feared she would "upstage" Shirley Temple, who was "getting old"!), and she "retired". In 1947, at the age of 18, she married a Navy man, and they had a child and were married for 58 years until his passing in 2006, and she passed away in 2011 at the age of 83! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script has been personally autographed (signed) by Darryl F. Zanuck! Also note that this script is the revised final draft from September 1, 1939. There are blue revision pages from 9/8/39. The writers are not credited on this but that the movie credits Ernest Pascal. The first interior page 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! Our consignor purchased this script in with a collection of 30 scripts from 20th Century-Fox that were the personal scripts of Darryl F. Zanuck, and each has his initials on the cover. However, our consignor does not have a certificate of authenticity, but we have no reason to doubt that this is not in fact Darryl Zanuck's personal copy of the script. Condition: 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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