Going Places (Original Screenplay For The 1938 Film, Presentation Copy Belonging To Screenwriter Jerry Wald) Ray Enright (Director); Victor Mapes, William Collier Sr. (Play); Sig Herzig, Jerry Wald, Maurice Leo (Screenwriters); Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Reagan (Starring) 1930S Cinema,Academy Awards,Comedy,Film Scripts,Musical

Final Draft script for the 1938 film, with manuscript pencil annotations on page 2 striking two shots. Presentation copy belonging to screenwriter Jerry Wald, with his name in gilt on the front board. 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 the 1920 Broadway play "The Hottentot" by Victor Mapes and William Collier, Sr. Previously made as the 1922 silent film "The Hottentot," directed by James W. Horne and Del Andrews, and starring Douglas MacLean and Madge Bellamy, and in 1929 as the early talkie "The Hottentot," directed by Roy Del Ruth, and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller, now lost. Dick Powell stars as a sports store salesman who poses as a famous jockey to advertise a line of riding clothes. He keeps up the charade to impress the young Anita Louise, only to become entangled in his lies when two gamblers try to fix him up with a wild horse named Jeepers Creepers. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jeepers Creepers" by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, and sung by Louis Armstrong. Bound in maroon leather with gilt titles on the front board and spine. Distribution page integral with the title page, with receipt intact, dated 7/28/38, noted as FINAL. 134 leaves, with last page of text numbered 131. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with blue revision pages throughout, dated 8/4/38. Pages Near Fine, binding Very Good plus, with light rubbing at the extremities.