A 125-page script for the film The WIld Party (American Internaional Pictures, 1975) that's annotated throughout in pencil by Raquel Welch, who portrayed Queenie, a silent film starlet, in the Merchant-Ivory production. The script is inside a burnt orange and white cardboard cover with the logo for International Famous Agency (IFA) printed across the bottom. The title page reads in part "The Wild Party / A Film / Screenplay, Music, And Lyrics / by / Walter Marks / Adapted from a poem / by Joseph Moncure March." The script is dated "Revised / April 5, 1974" and "66" is handwritten in ink in the top right corner. Welch has handwritten notes on the inside front and back covers and on nearly every page in which her character is mentioned. She has marked through some typewritten dialogue, handwritten new dialogue next to it or in the margins, and folded many pages inward. Also included are four pages of revisions, dated 5/6/74.

Together with two black and white stills of Welch with costars James Coco and David Duke and two pages of the shooting schedule.

An early production from the esteemed Merchant-Ivory filmmaking duo, The Wild Party focuses on an event in 1929 at the home of a fading silent film comedian Jolly Grimm (James Coco) and his mistress Queenie (Welch) that ends in tragedy.

8.75 x 11.5 inches

PROVENANCE From The Estate of Raquel Welch

Memorabilia