Jerry Lewis - LADIES MAN - *original script* and similar items

THE SCRIPT: You are looking at a PARTIAL (complete up to page 80) draft of Jerry Lewis and Bill Richmond's script for The Ladies Man, dated September 28, 1960. This comes from John Fulton's effects department and belonged to his associate Ivyl Burks [see name on page corner in photos]. It's conceivable that partial drafts were circulated around departments to give production members a sense of what was going to be needed from them, and that some were kept as souvenirs. This script is mostly yellow pages, constituting the Sept 28 draft. Blue page revisions range in dates from Sept 29 to Oct 14. Five revised pages are bound, while three were not bound but simply tucked inside the front cover. For the first half of the movie represented here, scenes are mostly identical with the final film structurally but dialogue and action are different or longer-running, such as the hilariously extended mother and father conversation after graduation [only hinted at in the page 7 photo included]. Notably there is no character of Katie (Kathleen Freeman) -- yet most of her scenes are there, Baby's feeding, the butterflies, Marvin, etc, except they are performed by the Wellenmellen character instead. And Wellenmellen is not Traubel's character's name here! She is first labeled in the script as Traubel [see page 17 photo], but once she says her character name to Herbert the script then refers to her by that alternate name exclusively. There are some added resident characters in the mail delivery sequence, such as a pair of twins [or, for another example, see page 54 photo], and several entirely unused scenes, such as an elaborate beach outing [see page 71 photo] involving Herbert's revenge on a group of bodybuilders, or a bit where Herbert relays a crying woman's side of the conversation to her date over the phone. And the scenes between Herbert and Fay are much longer and also include cut scenes. This script ends just as the "Up Your Street" producers arrive. Equally fascinating as alternate gags and segments are the non-dialogue asides contained in the script action that are purely for the reader, ranging from quips about movie-making to mild innuendo and jokes about Hal Wallis' sister. There are almost no mark-ups in the pages (only two that I can find), one underlining Herbert flying out of his seat at graduation and the other his rear getting stuck in a trashcan [see page 17 photo] -- both pencil. The binder has two sticker remnants on the inside flaps, the one in front was clearly a Paramount sticker. There has also been glue damage to the upper area of the inside front cover, and staining to a spot on the top page edge [see photos]. The three loose pages are somewhat crimped and edgeworn, but inside pages are otherwise clean and crisp with no tears. Original Jerry Lewis-penned scripts are exceedingly rare! SET PHOTOS MEMOS: These items come from set dresser James (Jim) Payne. The main attraction is the set of 44 reference photos of each room or hall of the house (plus several wide views, plus the Milltown sets and exteriors). They measure 4x5 and show remarkable detail. Please feel free to request a high quality sample. They will be shipped in preservation grade (polypropelene) album sleeves as shown. Three additional reference photos of boarding house rooms (including the forbidden white room) were printed as 8x10s and are dated on the backs. No dates are on the 44 4x5s, and there are no duplicate images. Also included is an 8x10 photo of a storyboard artist's concept painting of the full set that Payne saved. The memoranda items are a 2-page breakdown of expenses (minus furniture) for dressing and painting the set, and an interoffice telegram from Jerry thanking Payne for his good job. Finally, there is the studio manilla envelope with Payne's name on it which originally housed the room photos.