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  "For Jack, who was always willing to try the impossible-and who always achieved it! With gratitude for a great job": Rare Shooting Script of Gone With The Wind; Inscribed by David O. Selznick to His Special Effects Chief Jack Cosgrove in the Year of the Film's Release

  SELZNICK, David O. [Margaret Mitchell].

  Gone With the Wind Final Shooting Script.

  Hollywood: Selznick International, 1939.

  Rare final shooting script of the most celebrated film in Hollywood history, a remarkable presentation copy inscribed by producer David O. Selznick to his special effects chief Jack Cosgrove in the year of the film's release. Quarto, bound for Selznick in contemporary custom red half morocco for presentation, with Cosgrove's name stamped in gilt on the front board and the spine with five raised bands lettered in gilt, original yellow wrappers bound in titled "Gone With the Wind, from the novel by Margaret Mitchell... Screen Play by Sidney Howard. Produced by David O. Selznick. Directed by Victor Fleming. Final Shooting Script January 24, 1939," with six black-and-white movie stills inserted throughout - among them the burning of Atlanta, the sequence that crowned Cosgrove's achievement. Presentation copy, inscribed by Selznick on the first blank, "For Jack, who was always willing to try the impossible-and who always achieved it! With gratitude for a great job. DOS Xmas 1939." The recipient, Jack Cosgrove, was the leading special effects artist of Hollywood's golden age, nominated for five Academy Awards over the course of his career, for Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, The Pride of the Yankees, Since You Went Away, and Spellbound. Working day and night through the summer of 1939, Co...

  Price: $30,000.00     Item Number: 152173

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