A script for Marilyn Monroe's final, uncompleted movie Something's Got To Give that features annotations throughout in Monroe's handwriting. The 149-page mimeographed typescript which also contains blue revision pages, is inside a blue paper cover printed with the words "Final...Confidential...Something's Got To Give, March 29, 1962." The frontispiece inscribed in Marilyn's hand reads "Edith Evanson, 4303 Agnes Ave...," the majority of the parts for the character of Ellen circled or checked in red pencil, with approximately 10 pages annotated in pencil in Monroe's hand with amendments and additions to the script, notes include: - p. 66, Monroe has written "Sentimental Schmaltz" next to Ellen's line about men in the South Sea Islands; - p. 68, Monroe has added "deep breath then...that's what he thinks..." next to Lita's line "Daddy says we're going to get a new Mommy"; - p. 75, Monroe has added a question "Ellen - skin tones? next to Bianca's line "These colours...they threaten me..."

10 x 12 inches

PROVENANCE Ex-lot 491, "The Personal Property Of Marilyn Monroe," Christie's New York, 27-28 October, 1999