Desperately Seeking Susan (Original screenplay for the 1985 film)

Author: Madonna, Rosanna Arquette, Aidan Quinn (starring); Susan Seidelman (director); Leora Barish (screenwriter)
Title: Desperately Seeking Susan (Original screenplay for the 1985 film)
Publication: New York: Desperate Films, 1984

Description: Revised Second Draft script for the 1985 film. Copy belonging to production coordinator Shelley Houis, with her name in manuscript ink on the title page.

A bored New Jersey housewife gets involved in the life of a free spirited New Yorker through a series of events involving farcical elements such as amnesia and mistaken identity. Madonna's first major screen role, and a breakthrough turn for Rosanna Arquette.

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 9/5/84, noted as Revised Second Draft. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 114. Xerographic duplication, rectos only, with white and pink revision pages throughout, dated variously between 9/10/84 and 10/9/84. Pages Very Good plus, bound with two gold brads.

Carlson and Connolly, Destroy All Movies.

Seller ID: 160250

Subject: 1980s Cinema, Comedy, Film Scripts, Women Directors, Women Screenwriters



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