Screenplay D-Day. The Sixth of June. Film script
réf. 74846USA: Twentieth Century Fox 1955. Movie memorabilia Original Final Shooting Script for the film adaptation based on the award-winning novel by Lionel Shapiro starring Robert Taylor Richard Todd who had participated in the Normandy landings Dana Wynter and Edmond O'Brien. Octavo 29 x 23cm pp.150 mimeograph bound in textured salmon-coloured printed wrappers fastened internally with three metal pins. Together with FIRST UK EDITION book Collins 1956 hardback in jacket. Script; contents clean and fresh preliminary tipped-in leaf clipped oversized covers an little worn to unsupported edges. Book; edges spotted ink inscription jacket dusty with a few short tears. Lionel Shapiro was a Canadian journalist and novelist. As war correspondent for The Montreal Gazette he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces. The Sixth of June filmed as D-Day. The Sixth of June was a romantic 'love triangle' story set against the events of Operation Overlord. Script marked copy 178 indecipherable pencil surname to cover possibly that of Lee Garmes director of photography. USA: Twentieth Century Fox, 1955 unknown
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