Frankie Howerd Archive Box 24

Bound screenplays and play texts, for both stage and film projects. The scripts are unmarked and were presumably offered to Frankie Howerd, however it appears that most were declined. Includes:
● ‘Camelot’ by Lerner and Lowe - unused play text but with a monologue in Howerd's hand to versos of several pages;
● ‘The Night of the Blue Demands’ - a comedy thriller by Frank Launder and Ivor Herbert. Includes a covering letter to Howerd from Frank Launder offering him the play (1 January 1961);
● ‘Die Laughing (The House in Nightmare Park)’ by Clive Exton and Terry Nation. Screenplay;
● ‘Robinson Crusoe’ by John Morley – play text with Howerd's pencilled annotation and signature to front wrapper;
● ‘Without a Paddle’ (sequel to ‘Up the Creek’) - film treatment, no author;
● ‘Alice in Wonderland’ - bound typescript of new musical version by Philip Beresford with music by Arthur Furby;
● ‘The Snowdropper’ by Alun Richards – play text;
● ‘Love Locked Out’ - book and lyrics by Diana Morgan, based on Aristophanes' ‘Lysistrata’;
● ‘The House on Dartmoor’ - film treatment by Val Guest;
● ‘The Magicians’ by Denis Lipman – screenplay; and
● ‘And So To Bed’ - screenplay by Dave Freeman. Includes a letter from Beryl Vertue to Frankie Howerd, dated 4 December 1973, explaining the project has been offered by Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers of Carry On fame.

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