THEY ALL LAUGHED (1979) Peter Bogdanovich 1st Draft + Fact Sheet COA For Sale

Peter Bogdanovich 1st draft screenplay for They All Laughed (1979), representing early development of the film. Material from Bogdanovich’s late-70s work remains increasingly collectible, with early drafts and supporting documents appearing infrequently. Includes fact sheet. COA included.
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*Stiff White Covers - 146 White Pages + Additional White Pages - Includes unusual Fact Sheet with Synopsis as First Page - Second Page is Title Page - Script is the First Revised Draft - Nov. 20, 1979.
*Script is a Xerox, but there are no copy shadows by the punch holes. This means this script was printed from the original, by the production or by Bogdanovich, himself, for distribution. This piece appears to have been created early in the process.
*Not Signed or Noted, but Consignor states this script was the property of veteran actor/athlete, Jim Brown.
*HISTORICAL INFORMATION: They All Laughed is a 1981 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, John Ritter, Colleen Camp, Patti Hansen, and Dorothy Stratten. The film was based on a screenplay by Bogdanovich and Blaine Novak. It takes its name from the George and Ira Gershwin song of the same name.The film is set in New York City, largely filmed outdoors on the streets, and tells the story of three private detectives investigating two beautiful women for infidelity. The detectives eventually wind up romantically pursuing the women, who turn the tables on them. The film is also a candid look at love and sex in New York City in the early 1980s.
THE SCRIPT: \"The genesis of They All Laughed was that Benny [Gazzara] and I talked a lot about romances and affairs and the battle of the sexes\", said Bogdanovich later. \"[I wanted] to try to make a personal picture, but not a personal picture like an indie prod. I wanted to hide it, like the old filmmakers in the studio system did. Hide it behind a genre. The genre was private detectives\". \"I didn\'t do any research about detectives\", said Bogdanovich. \"I never even went into a detective\'s office, but that didn\'t matter to me. That\'s not what it was about, that was just the disguise I hung my hat on.\"\"Audrey Hepburn\'s story in the movie is Audrey Hepburn\'s story in life\", said the director. \"She was living with a man, her second husband, he was cheating on her, and she basically stayed with him because of the child.\"The film was shot on location in New York City during the spring and summer of 1980. Bogdanovich would often write scenes and give them to the actors just before they were shot, to give the film a feeling of freshness.Country music is prominently featured. According to Bogdanovich, in the first version of the script, the character of Christy was going to be a jazz singer, singing jazz standards, but then: \"There was a short, very short, very brief, vogue of country music in New York. About 30 seconds. And so I changed it. I like country music. I fell in love with it on Last Picture Show. In fact, I wrote a couple of country songs. The phrase \"One Day Since Yesterday\" was something Dorothy said to me in a card. I liked the phrase.THE MURDER OF DOROTHY STRATTEN:Dorothy Stratten had begun an affair with Bogdanovich during filming. Paul Snider, her estranged husband and manager, hired a private detective to follow her. They separated and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich, planning to file for divorce. When Snider was certain he had lost his wife and protégé, he murdered her and then committed suicide. These events were depicted in Bob Fosse\'s 1983 film Star 80 (where Bogdanovich\'s counterpart was named Aram Nicholas, played by Roger Rees) and the television film Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981).Bogdanovich says Frank Sinatra let him have the rights to several of his songs for a cheap price because Sinatra felt sorry for Bogdanovich after Stratten\'s murder.They All Laughed was the last theatrical film in which Hepburn played a lead role (she later starred in the television film Love Among Thieves and had a cameo role in Steven Spielberg\'s Always). According to an interview conducted by Wes Anderson in the DVD features for the film, director Bogdanovich claims Hepburn and Gazzara fell in love and had an affair while shooting Bloodline (1979). Though the affair was short-lived, it inspired the characters they each played in They All Laughed.Along with Heaven\'s Gate, Cruising, and One from the Heart, They All Laughed generally is regarded as the end of the New Hollywood period, and the director-driven studio films of the 1970s. Since the very public failures of these four films, Hollywood studios rarely allow directors to control the films they finance.\"It was a very loving picture\", said Bogdanovich in 2011. \"It was the happiest time of my life. I look back on it now and it\'s been like thirty years or so – it was definitely the high point in my life.\"
*STORYLINE: A madcap private-eye caper about a team of detectives who are following, and are being followed by, a group of beautiful women.
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*OVERALL CONDITION: Fine to Very fine! See Photos.
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