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Saraband for Dead Lovers: The Film and Its Production at Ealing StudiosLondon, Convoy Publications Limited. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4t. Publishers original cream boards with red decoration and black lettering to front cover, black lettering to spine. Dustwrapper: clipped, light chipping to top and base of spine, reinforced on rear of paper, chipping to corners, rubbing to edges, now protected in Brodart. White endpapers, no inscriptions. 106pp, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w photographs, line drawings of costumes, parts of script and board showing movement of characters throughout text. Pages clean and bright in firm binding. This book not only contains the detailed and full information as to the story of the film, the making of the film, the new techniques of drawing up the script and pages from the art director's notebook but also thirty pages of half-tone, nine pages in four colours, and several pages of line drawings. The book itself tells the story of the love affair between Princess Sophie Dorothea of Hanover and Count Philip von Konigsmark. She was the wife of George Louis of Hanover who later became King George I of Britain, and was imprisoned by him when her infidelity was discovered. Her lover was secretly murdered and she herself was finally tried, divorced, and imprisoned again, where she died after thirty-two years. The film was made by Ealing Studios and produced by Sir Michael Balcon. The two leading parts were played by Stewart Granger and Joan Greenwood. The original novel is by Helen Simpson. Very Good/Very Good.
Offered for AUD 40.00 = appr. US$ 31.88 by: Eccleston Books & Curios - Book number: 0006507
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