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Bob Hope Signed "Road to Zanzibar" Script

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Autographs - Original Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
Bob Hope Signed  Road to Zanzibar  Script
<B>Bob Hope Signed "Road to Zanzibar" Shooting Script.</B></I> Paramount executives owned the rights to a story by Sy Bartlett titled <I>Find Colonel Fawcett,</B></I> which they felt was too similar to Twentieth Century-Fox's recently released <I>Stanley and Livingstone.</B></I> Paramount turned the project over to Frank Butler and Don Hartman, the writers on the hugely successful <I>Road to Singapore</B></I> from the year before. The story was reborn as a comedy and what had been a one-off teaming of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby morphed into a hugely successful series of films. This hardbound copy of the shooting script, dated October 31, 1940, is inscribed "To Bill, thanks for a great memory" and signed by Hope in black ink on the title page. In Excellent condition with mild wear. <I>Accompanied by LOA from PSA/DNA.</B></I>