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[Lewis Carroll] Joseph L. Mankiewicz Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass… screen play by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. [Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1933] Folio, mimeographed typescript, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE ACTRESS WHO PLAYED ALICE (“To | Ann Waddington | from | Alice in Wonderland | Charlotte Henry”) on first photograph, 642 illustrations by William Cameron Menzies extra-illustrated with 44 black and white production photographs, SIGNED BY 27 MEMBERS OF THE CAST on half-title, full red morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments The script to the 1933 Paramount Pictures adaptation of Carroll’s classics appears to have been available in a numbered edition (number 22 sold in these rooms, 27 February 1975) and, apparently, an un-numbered edition (cast-member Ronald “Baby LeRoy” Overacker’s sold at Bonhams, Los Angeles, 10 December 2019). Both were bound in wrappers. The present copy is a sumptuously bound extra-illustrated edition which features 44 black and white production photographs. The 1933 adaptation proved to be an unsuccessful experiment by Paramount, despite an all-star cast including Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, Gary Cooper as The White Knight, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.The actress Charlotte Henry (1914-1980) enjoyed her first leading role as Alice, beating over 6,800 other actresses who auditioned. The recipient of this sumptuous extra-illustrated edition, Ann Waddington, is unidentified. It was given to the present owner’s family over three decades ago. The American film director, screenwriter, and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) had a long Hollywood career. He is best remembered for All About Eve (1950) which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957) was a hugely influential production designer and art director. He received an Honorary Academy Award "for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood" in Gone With the Wind.