A draft script for The Other Side of the Wind with handwritten notes fetched $4,250 at a recent auction.
Terry Putz, a one-time personal assistant to director Orson Welles, sold the script, dated September 9, 1974, through Heritage Auctions‘ online Hollywood Entertainment Signature Auction. The lot included two folders of pages removed from the script, featuring his handwritten notes and edits. The lot also included a March 19, 1976 letter by Welles referencing Filming Othello.
The buyer was not identified.
A group of unpublished manuscripts including Crazy Weather, The Honorary Consul, Somebody Else, Arizona Story and Blind Window and an unfinished script by Oja Kodar with Welles edits and annotations went for just $625.
In addition, a personal cigar box, sunglasses, and more than a dozen various personal effects were sold for $2,375.
Putz called the Welles and Kodar authored scripts and his personal items a “remarkable and historically significant collection that offers insight into Orson’s creative process,” adding that Welles enthusiasts would “find the collection both meaningful and significant.”
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