Original Screenplay/ Script “The Mocking Bird” -- for the Tod Browning / Lon Chaney film “Blackbird” MGM, 1925

Metro Golden Mayer . Good. 1925. Final Draft. Apparent final draft; Metro Golden Mayer -- October 10, 1925 . ry by Tod Browning / Scenario by Waldemar Young . vers, paper label with MGM logo; stamped “file copy” /with ty ped notation “The Mocking Bird” / “complete OK script by Wa ldemar Young”. Copy no. 1537 stamped at upper right; copy no. 4 on the label. Two-hole punch, brass brads. Approximately 119 sp irit-duplicated pages -- purple ink on glossy white paper. Penci led name “Sullivan” at top right. Also a penciled notation, a dded later, that the film was released under the title Blackbird. . cate the numbering for title cards and occasional continuity note s, such as whether a scene was retaken, not shot [see p. 8] “Sc ene 44: Take 1 dissolve gummed up; no forcing” [p. 14]; scene 6 6: “6 takes” [p. 21] . pped with several very large open and closed tears, partially det ached; 1/3 of spine paper missing. Interior pages are very good w ith occasional edgewear, page 1 partially detached. . ird is a master criminal who stages daring robberies in London's Limehouse district, and between crimes disguises himself as The B ishop, a kindly, crippled keeper of a rescue mission. He and anot her thief, West End Bertie, fall in love with the same woman, a F rench nightclub performer named Fifi. Each tries to outdo the ot her to win her heart. .