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Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole 1961 ORIGINAL James & William Goldman Play Script
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'Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole' Scriptby James and William Goldman
Original
, production-used
play script for the 1961
original production, which
starred Peter Fonda (in his New York stage debut) and Darren McGavin, and was directed by Jerome Chodorov.
The Goldman brothers had served in the army and the play is about a supply sergeant at an army post in the south. The play opened at the Morosco Theatre, NYC on 10/5/61. Interestingly, the script text differs from the version published in 1962 by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
William Goldman went on to become a highly successful novelist and screenwriter, penning
All the President's Men, The Princess Bride and
Butch Cassidy
and
The Sundance Kid (
which won the
Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.)
Notably, brother James also won an
Academy Award (for
The Lion in Winter
) and had a similarly successful career writing plays, novels and
screenplays.
Script dated April, 1961.
Brad-bound in the original covers, with the title embossed on the front.
Contains minor actor's notations, but is largely unmarked.