KELLY, George
The Show-Off: A Transcript of Life in Three Acts
First edition. Preface by Heywood Broun. Fine in a presentable, good plus dustwrapper with some chipping at the top of the rear panel, affecting some text, and a scrape on the front panel, also affecting the text of a blurb. A wildly successful Broadway comedy that made Kelly the most talked-of playwright on Broadway (a few decades later his niece, Grace, would reign first in Hollywood and then in Monaco). It was the basis for three films: a 1926 Malcolm St. Clair version featuring Louise Brooks and Ford Sterling; a 1934 Charles Resiner version re-scripted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and featuring Spencer Tracy; and finally a 1946 Harry Beaumont version with Red Skelton and Marilyn Maxwell. Rare in jacket.
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