Du Bose Heyward Typed Letter Signed

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DU BOSE HEYWARD - TYPED LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 250989. DU BOSE HEYWARD Following the stage success of Porgy and Bess, he signs a typed letter (with handwritten postscript) to a fellow writer, suggesting collaboration on a film adaptation of another of his novels, Lost Morning.

Typed Letter signed: "DuBose", 2 pages (front and verso), 7¼x10½. Hendersonville, North Carolina, circa 1936.

On personal letterhead to "Dear Elizabeth". I wish, though, that you hadn't seen those proofs, but the corrected copy.

I did a lot for it in little ways - pulling it together - toning it down where I had let my vice of purple writing get the better of me. It will be manufactured now in about ten days and I'll try to get a copy right out to you. But I suppose all of that is paternal pride stuff and has nothing to do with picture value. Translating it into terms of action from its present telling in terms of psychological effect of action upon character will be one hell of a job. You would know what it is about, and I don't think many of the slick, successful Coast writers would, or care. But if you had a chance of interesting some sympathetic producer in some sort of hook-up by which the story and you and I could all be acquired in a sweeping gesture, and we could take a swing at it together, I'd like that.

Idea being that you would sweat early and late, while I would indulge my Southern nature to the full, loaf about the studio, offer trite and useless ideas, then - having learned at least one Hollywood lesson - come screaming for the full credit when it was all over. And I shall write to Miss Sherer and ask her not to close definitely (if she gets an offer) if it is possible to hold off for you to have a chance to think it over and do what you can. And bless you for liking it. I suppose any negotiations for my services should be handled through Arthur Landau, and for the story, of course through Farrar & Rinehart. " Postscript in Heyward's hand: "If you couldn't - or would rather not - tie me in on it, but could take it on solo, that would be quite ok and my blessings upon you.

Porgy and Bess, which opened on Broadway in 1935, followed the play very closely. While the music is George Gershwin's, most of the lyrics are by Heyward, even though the more famous Ira Gershwin commonly receives more credit for them. Heyward's sympathetic and informed portrayal of southern African-Americans was unusual for white Americans of his era.

Heyward wrote several other books, as well as the screenplays for the film adaptations of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. His hopes for a film version of Lost Morning (936) were not fulfilled, however. DuBose Heyward is included in Stephen Sondheim's Invisible Ghosts: Fifty Americans Who Shaped History but Missed the History Books.

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Signed by: Du Bose Heyward
Autograph Type: Typed Letter Signed
Autograph: Authentic Original