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*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED
*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED

*A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE Unpublished Treatment By Mary Eunice McCarthy SIGNED

$ 155.76

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Modified Item: No
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Condition: In very fine condition as described below.
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Notworthy: Signed by Mary Eunice McCarthy
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Screenwriter: Mary Eunice McCarthy (AKA Mary E. McCarthy)
  • Item Number: CS-MCCARTHY-TRT
  • Treatment Title: A Dead Man Tells a Tale
  • Item: Vintage original typewritten treatment
  • LOC: YB1
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    This is a vintage original treatment for a screenplay of an unproduced motion picture entitled
    A DEAD MAN TELLS A TALE
    , written by Mary Eunice McCarthy. Written in story form with lines of dialogue, this treatment consists of 69 typewritten pages on a buff-colored stock that are preceded by a single title page, all of which have been 3-hole punched and inserted into a light brown cardstock wrapper.
    Handwritten in pencil on the bottom of the title page is the name "Mary E. McCarthy" with a residential address of 8860 Lookout Mt. (Mountain) Rd. (Los Angeles) and the phone number "HE. 3984." which we believe was written by Mary Eunice McCarthy herself. The outer front cover also features this same information handwritten in cursive writing which we also believe to be that of Mary Eunice McCarthy.
    All of the interior pages are in very fine condition and the outer cardstock wrapper is in fine- condition with small creases on the bottom edges and a lesser amount of creases along the top edges.
    Also included with this treatment is a one-page poem typewritten on light yellow stock that has been 3-hole punched with a horizontal fold that was found inside this treatment (see final listing image). We are uncertain as to whether this was also written by Mary Eunice McCarthy or not.
    Mary Eunice McCarthy
    (not to be confused with Mary McCarthy, another screenwriter active around the same time) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and journalist born in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born to John McCarty and Catherine Lynch in San Francisco, California, Mary attended College of the Holy Names before embarking on a career as a journalist in the Bay Area. One of her positions in the early 1920's was as a reporter at The San Francisco Bulletin. Around 1922, she followed her brothers to Hollywood, where she'd devote her time to screenwriting. During the 1920’s and 1930's, she wrote (and occasionally acted in) a number of films and stage plays, residing in Los Angeles but frequently traveling to San Francisco for work. She also wrote two non-fiction books:
    Hands of Hollywood
    , published in 1929, while
    Kitty
    (a story about her mother) was published in 1957. She had two brothers who were writer-directors in the industry: John P. McCarthy and Henry McCarty. Another brother, Francis Joseph McCarthy, was credited with building the first wireless set in 1902. She was married to Edward G. Boyle, a set decorator.
    Selected filmography (writer):
    Hill Folk
    (1926)
    The Fighting Failure
    (1926)
    I Hate Women
    (1934)
    Woman Unafraid
    (1934)