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191. Add MS 89015/4

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Title:
Scripts considered and performed by Alec Guinness
Scope & Content:
This series contains scripts that were sent to Alec Guinness. They were either plays or screenplays he had a role in, scripts sent to him to consider a role or were sent to him for critical commentary. Included is one book manuscript, all the others are dramatic scripts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930-2000
Extent:
17 files

192. Add MS 89015/4/1

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Title:
At Base by Graeme Campbell
Scope & Content:
Graeme Campbell sent three plays to Alec Guinness for his critical opinion, and possibly in the hope he could get one of them staged.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1930-2000
Extent:
1 file

193. Add MS 89015/4/2

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Title:
Barnes People by Peter Barnes
Scope & Content:
Scripts by Peter Barnes, with names of suggested actors to read the piece at the top of the page. A selection of monologues for famous people to read on a radio show for BBC Radio 3. [ca. 1989-1990]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1989-1990
Extent:
1 file

194. Add MS 89015/4/3

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Title:
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, screenplay by Lindsay Anderson and Frank Grimes, first draft script
Scope & Content:
Typed first draft screenplay. Lindsay Anderson had directed a production of The Cherry Orchard in 1983 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. This script appears to be his attempt to develop a film version, possibly with Alec Guinness in a role. The screenplay appears to not have been used or made as ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1991-1997
Extent:
1 file

195. Add MS 89015/4/4

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Title:
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, adapted screenplay by Lindsay Anderson and Frank Grimes, second draft script
Scope & Content:
Typed second draft script, March 1993. With one print and twenty photocopy images of different productions of the play and staging. Lindsay Anderson had directed a production of The Cherry Orchard in 1983 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. This script appears to be his attempt to develop a film ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933
Extent:
1 file

196. Add MS 89015/4/5

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Title:
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov, screenplay by Michael Cacoyannis
Scope & Content:
This film adaptation was released in 1999. Guinness was approached for the role of Firs in 1996, but in My Name Escapes Me (1996) he notes his doubts about whether he could play an eighty year old at eighty-two. This script was presumably sent to him so that he could consider whether he would acc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996-1999
Extent:
1 file

197. Add MS 89015/4/6

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Title:
Dr. Bean, screenplay by Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll & Rowan Atkinson
Scope & Content:
With a post-it note on the front cover "2 days wk 9 Dec Pinewood" in autograph script. This appears to be an early version of the Bean (1997) movie script, in which it seems Alec Guinness was offered a short role. He never appeared in the final film. There is no indication as to which role he ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996
Extent:
1 file

198. Add MS 89015/4/7

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Title:
A Family and A Fortune adapted from the novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett by Julian Mitchell,
Scope & Content:
Alec Guinness's working copy of the script, with his part underlines and some edits marked. Rehearsals and runs in Bath, Brighton and London from Feb-Oct 1975.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1996
Extent:
1 file

199. Add MS 89015/4/8

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Title:
The Master of Santiago by Henry de Montherlant, translated by Val Stavridi, top copy script with notes
Scope & Content:
A translation of a script which appears not to have been produced. Typed script of Val Stavridi's translation of Henry de Montherlant's The Master of Santiago, written by Montherlant in 1947. Two copies of Act 1, with a note from Val Stavridi in regards to some changes required in the script. P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1952
Extent:

1 file

200. Add MS 89015/4/9

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Title:
The Master of Santiago by Henry de Montherlant, translated by Val Stavridi, No.2 copy typed script
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1952
Extent:

1 file