CINEMA - Henri FESCOURT (Béziers 1880-1966,... - Lot 230 - Vermot et Associés

CINEMA - Henri FESCOURT (Béziers 1880-1966, film director)/ Nice set: 1°) 2 signed autograph manuscripts, one 22 p in-4 (film script with precise indications for music and images), the other a short story "Le Mariage de Mlle Alice" (9 p in-8 in titled folder) / 2°) Complete file on "La Maison de la Licorne", film project in 1943: Henri Fescourt wanted to make a film from the novel "La Maison de la Licorne" by Yves Dartois (1901-1975, author of adventure novels); he first approached Maurice Gagneur (1878-1964) for a stage adaptation, then screenwriter Jean-Louis Bouquet (1898-1978, also known by the pseudonym Jean d'Ansennes) for the film adaptation: Letter from Bouquet (double unsigned) proposing the film adaptation to Fescourt of Dartois's novel, for which he holds the option of the rights (August 20, 1941); Autograph letter signed by Yves Dartois, April 29, 1943, authorizing the theatrical adaptation of his novel to Fescourt; Contract signed by the 2 between Fescourt and Bouquet authorizing a film adaptation; Contract signed by the 2 between Fescourt and Gagneur (May 10, 1943) for the theatrical adaptation; Letter-contract between Fescourt and Bouquet for the film adaptation (May 10, 1943); Autograph signed draft of a letter from Fescourt to actress Marcelle Géniat for the role of Grandmother Van Osten in the future film; Typescript (2 p in-4) about the changes the adaptation will make to the roles of the nurse and Jean Verger vis-à-vis the novel; Typescript (25 p in-4) "Exposé pour une adaptation cinématographique par Jean d'Ansennes", with some autograph corrections by Fescourt and 4 inserted pages of autograph notes by Fescourt (Joint: another copy of this typescript); Typescript (165 p in-4) of the final screenplay with letter from the Association des Auteurs de Film acknowledging receipt of the screenplay and deposit registration form (September 2, 1943)