[circa 1938].
Price: $375.00
Softcover. Carbon typescript. Six pages typed rectos only. Stapled blue wrappers with typed paper title label on front wrap. Light crease at one corner of front wrap, else about fine. Headed "Memo To: Lester Cowan From: Walter Ferris Subject: Suggested Treatment for Sinclair Lewis' Angela is Twenty-Two." Ferris gives his reasons for liking the play as a potential film, and laying out his best plan to treat the characters and action.
Cowan was a producer of mostly lighthearted independent films including *You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, My Little Chickadee, Love Happy* and *One Touch of Venus.* Ferris was a prolific screenwriter best known for the English adaptation of *Death Takes a Holiday*. "Angela is Twenty-Two* was a short play that Sinclair Lewis co-authored (and starred in during a New England Summer Tour) with Fay Wray in 1938, but which never made it to Broadway.
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