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THE PARADINE CASE DIALOGUE CUTTING CONTINUITY

1948 · WRCLIT68018 — Culver City: Selznick International Pictures 1948. Foliated by reel format. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript printed on rectos only. Bradbound in pale blue stencil printed wrappers. Wrappers a trace dust smudged short snag at one brad else near fine. A dialogue cutting continuity script for this adaptation to the screen of Hichens' 1933 novel. Selznick had acquired the film rights to the novel prior to its publication but submission of a preliminary script in 1934 to the Breen Office resulted in assurances that it would not pass muster according to the PCA. So the project was shelved until Selznick returned to it in 1946. It is clear that at that time scripts from the 1934 effort as well as from an adaptation attempted at MGM were consulted. Interim drafts of the script were written by Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville First Rough Draft April 1946 and James Birdie Third draft based on an adaptation by Reville August 1946 until finally in December a "Final Shooting Script" was reached with interim uncredited contributions by Ben Hecht. The final shooting script is credited solely to David O. Selznick but acknowledges dependence on the adaptation by Alma Reville. Final screen credit for the screenplay fell to Selznick and neither Hecht's nor Birdie's contributions were credited. Hitchcock directed and Gregory Peck Ann Todd Charles Laughton Ethel Barrymore in a role that earned an Oscar nomination and Louis Jourdan starred among others and a 29 December 1947 premiere brought to a conclusion the long and tangled series of attempts to bring Hichens' novel to the screen. One of a finite group of duplicates from the Selznick archive now entering the market via the Serendipity dispersal. Selznick International Pictures unknown books