CROSS CREEK (Feb 9, 1982) Rev Final Shooting script by Dalene Young

CROSS CREEK (Feb 9, 1982) Rev Final Shooting script by Dalene Young Adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ memoir. Culver City, CA: Robert Radnitz Productions, 1982. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 5/8″ (28 x 22 cm.), brad bound, pictorial wrappers, mimeograph, 124 pp. Extreme edges of some pages lightly dog-eared, light occasional rippling, very good+. Revisions on various colors of paper are dated up through 4/10/82.

Martin Ritt directed Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, and Alfred Woodard in this adaptation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ memoir about her life as a writer in Florida, where she eventually wrote THE YEARLING. And this screenplay about the life of a woman writer was in turn written by another woman writer, Dalene Young.

This gentle film received four Academy Award nominations.