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Auction History Result 9d365 WUTHERING HEIGHTS script December 12, 1938, screenplay by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur! Date Sold 8/27/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Script (measures 8 1/2" x 11" [22 x 28 cm], 123 pages) (Learn More) Wuthering Heights, the classic 1939 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic unrequited love melodrama ("I am torn with Desire -- Tortured by hate!"; "....The strangest love story ever told... burning emotional fury!"; "I am Heathcliff I love a woman who belongs to another man by law... My love was fierce... My hate is burning... I Will Have My Vengeance!"; "I am Heathcliff... I married a woman I loathe... to spite the one woman I love!"; "A Story of Vengeful Thwarted Love"; "Adapted by Ben Hecht and Charles Mac-Arthur from the powerful novel by Emily Bronte [actually, they only adapted the first 22 chapters!]"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a poor beggar who is 'adopted' by a kindly rich man and when he grows up, he falls in love with the man's daughter, but is hated by the rich man's son who has inherited his father's wealth, and he runs away to become rich so that she will feel free to love him, but when he returns rich, he discovers she has married someone else!) starring Merle Oberon (as Cathy), Laurence Olivier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Heathcliff), David Niven (as Edgar), Flora Robson (as Ellen Dean), Donald Crisp (as Dr. Kenneth), Hugh Williams (as Hindley), Geraldine Fitzgerald (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Isabella), Leo G. Carroll (as Joseph), Cecil Humphreys (as Judge Linton), and Miles Mander (as Lockwood) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this script is from December 12, 1938. Also note that the writers are not credited on this but that the movie credits Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. Note that this script confirms something that has long been stated, which is that the movie originally ended with the finding of the dead Heathcliff alone in the snow (see our image of the last page of the script)! Apparently, this ending was filmed, but when it was seen, producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted a happier finale, and the ending we all now know was filmed, which shows a ghostly Heathcliff and Cathy walking off together! Also note that the third interior page of this script reads "This mimeograph copy is the property of The Department of Motion Pictures, Washington Square College of Arts and Sciences, New York University. The copyright is held by Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. This script is lent to you upon the understanding that it is used exclusively in connection with the work in this course. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES are any copies to be made... No passing grade in the course will be given until all scripts have been returned." This indicates to us that this script was originally given by the studio to the above college for use in one of their college courses. It is slightly different from a regular script in that, although it does have a title page at the beginning, it is square bound at the spine in a professional manner. We imagine that the studio made these scripts especially for this college, but we would be surprised if it was not made when the movie was made, or soon after. Please read the above carefully before bidding on this script. Condition: good to very good. Some of the cloth binding is frayed and partially detached. The pages have darkened around the edges. See our multiple images to get a good sense of the exact condition of this script. Learn More about condition grades 
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