FIRST OF APRIL (8/25/52) Unmade Talking Animal Live-Action? FINAL DRAFT + COA!

Description: FIRST OF APRIL (8/25/52) Unmade Talking Animal Live-Action? Fox Covers - FINAL DRAFT - Singed Frank Inn (Top Hollywood Animal Trainer) + COA! *The Museum is pleased to present scarce material from a large private archive of previously untapped original material. *GUARANTEED Vintage, Original and Complete as Issued - Comes with COA from THE MUSEUM OF MOM AND POP CULTURE! *Stiff, oversized Studio Steno Department Covers - Script is Hand-Stamped Script Number 180 on cover and Steno Page - Production # 533 also stamped on Cover - Top Right Cover has name "FRANK INN" - Frank was one of the biggest of the old-school Hollywood Animal Trainers - see his history below. *Screenplay is 120 Pages with Notes - Draft dated August 25, 1952 - Script opens to Fox Steno Dept. check-out sheet (Cut) with pencil notes listing pages where notes have been added. **PLEASE NOTE: This film made it through Revisions at Fox but does not appear to have been produced. From a read of it, nearly all characters are talking animals. If anyone can further ID, please email and we will post. This one's an interesting read for a movie that was perhaps ahead of its time. *CONDITION: See Photos. Script is in Very Good or Better Condition. As with many oversized covers, the covers are chipped, creased and brown at edges as shown with some staining as well - Title Page throughout Interior is lovely and clean. *HISTORICAL INFORMATION: Inn's career as an animal trainer spanned more than 50 years. His first professional work was as an assistant trainer of Skippy, the dog who played Asta in the Thin Man movie series. In 1943, he assisted Rudd Weatherwax in the training of Pal, the dog who originated the movie role of Lassie. In the early 1950s, Inn left the Weatherwax animal training organization and began to work as an independent trainer. His animal stars included Orangey, a cat who was in the films Rhubarb (1952), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and appeared in the television series Our Miss Brooks with Eve Arden, and in Batman as a cat belonging to Eartha Kitt's villain Catwoman; Cleo, a basset hound who was in the film Bell, Book and Candle (1957) and in Jackie Cooper's 1950s television show, The People's Choice; Arnold Ziffel, the pig from Green Acres; the chimps from Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, the dog and two cats from The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tramp the dog of My Three Sons and many of Elly May Clampett's exotic "critters" on The Beverly Hillbillies. He and Juanita additionally trained a captive male African lion for particular episodes of The Addams Family. Possibly his most famous animal was Higgins, a fluffy brown mutt he rescued from an animal shelter in Burbank, California. The dog, which Inn believed to be a cross between a miniature poodle, a cocker spaniel, and a small terrier (either a miniature Schnauzer or a Border terrier), starred in Petticoat Junction in the 1960s, and in the feature films Mooch Goes to Hollywood (1971) and Benji (1974). A sequel, For the Love of Benji (1977), starred Higgins's daughter Benjean, also trained by Inn. Benjean portrayed the title role in the following three Benji movies. A true animal lover, Inn could not bear to see healthy animals euthanized, so he took them in. Those with acting ability he and his assistants kept and trained; the others he gave to friends and admirers as pets. Inn said that at one time he and his helpers had one thousand animals under their care, and the feeding bills alone came to $400 per day. *SEE MORE CLASSIC SCRIPTS FROM THIS AMAZING ARCHIVE IN OUR OTHER AUCTIONS - AND IN THE WEEKS TO COME! *BID WITH CONFIDENCE AND ENJOY! 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Price: 85 USD

Location: Topanga, California

End Time: 2024-03-09T18:07:02.000Z

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