Script for Purlie

Source catalog description

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A script for the television adaptation of Purlie. The script consists of roughly 107 facsimile copies of typewritten pages bound in a black plastic cover with two metal screws. At center of the front cover in gold text is [Purlie]. The title page has been autographed by Clarice Taylor by hand in blue ink. The printed text on the title page reads, in part: [PURLIE / A Musical Based on the Play PURLIE VICTORIOUS / by / OSSIE DAVIS]. At the bottom right corner is [PROPERTY OF: / PHILIP ROSE / 157 West 57th Street / N.Y., N.Y. 10019 / CI 5-2255]. The title page is followed by a page with quotes from the “Purlie’s I.O.U.” and then a page listing the cast members. The script text pages are numbered by section in the top right corner, beginning with the prologue and ending with the epilogue.

Catalog date

1981

Recorded places

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Actors; Hollywood (Film); Musical Theatre; Segregation; Television; Theatre

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