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Lot #549
Howard Hawks Document Signed for The Girl Who Almost Got Away

Estimate: $300+

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Description

DS, one page, 7.25 x 7.5, May 8, 1962. Agreement by which Howard Hawks grants Paramount Pictures and Laurel Productions his interest in a "certain motion picture treatment written by William Hawks and based upon the short story by Pat Frank entitled The Girl Who Almost Got Away." Double-matted and framed with an image to an overall size of 21.25 x 17.25. In fine condition.

Writer Pat Frank’s short story The Girl Who Almost Got Away was the basis for Howard Hawks' 1964 film Man's Favorite Sport?, a screwball comedy starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss that ultimately made $6,000,000 at the box office.

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