![[SCRIPTS] Collection of stage, film, and television scripts.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/422/1351422.jpg?itok=3BAxu5fF)
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Lot 157
[SCRIPTS] Collection of stage, film, and television scripts.
Approximately 50 scripts, many of them Ms. Miles's working copies, of stage, film, and television productions dating between 1960 and the early 2000s. Some of the highlights include: a shooting script for Murder, Inc. (1960), which was Miles's screen debut; her very amusing bit part in an episode of Sex and the City ("Anchors Away", 2002), including Miles's marked-up pages, call sheet, a photocopy of the check she received in payment, and other associated notes; script for Parrish (1961) starring Troy Donahue and Claudette Colbert; script for The Riot Act (1963), for which she originated the role of Rose on Broadway; script for The Last Movie (1971), written and directed by Dennis Hopper; script for Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana, which Miles performed as Maxine alongside Richard Chamberlain and Dorothy McGuire at Circle in the Square (1976); script for Vieux Carré (1978), in which Miles originated the role of Mrs. Wire at the St. James Theatre (this particular script is for the 1978 London revival at the Playhouse Theatre in Nottingham; she was nominated for Actress of the Year for this role); and script for the Bollywood film Shalimar (1978), in which Miles was joined in supporting roles by Rex Harrison and John Saxon. Others include: Ninety-Two in the Shade; She-Devil (playing Meryl Streep's mother); Ruthless! The Musical (Miles was one of the few women to play the role of Sylvia St. Croix); Crossing Delancey; Silk Stockings (including a marked-up script and separate libretto with the vocal part for Ninotchka); and Infancy by Thornton Wilder.
A fine large group of Miles' scripts (of which Andy Warhol wrote in Exposures, "There's always a pile of scripts on the floor next to the rocking chair.") These scripts represent much of Miles' professional life, many with annotations (including her observations about the character, changes to lines, notes on blocking) and associated material (such as call lists, notes from directors/producers, photographs from set, etc.). Taken together, a really fantastic collection reflecting a vivid career in show business. The lot approximately 50 scripts.
C Estate of Sylvia Miles
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