WAR AND PEACE, 1956

WAR AND PEACE, 1956
Audrey Hepburn’s final shooting script for the 1956 Paramount production War and Peace, dated 28 June, 1955, the script bound with two brass brads in blue paper covers and comprising approximately 309 pages of mimeographed typescript including deleted scenes and cut dialogue, with 12 pages printed on pink paper representing revisions to the script, the title page inscribed in an unknown hand Mrs. Audrey Hepburn, the majority of the parts for the character of Natasha Rostov marked in pencil and various inks, with words underlined in pencil for emphasis, deletions to dialogue and directions, and approximately 30 pages annotated in Hepburn's hand with question marks, copied out lines, minor amendments and notes including:
- pp.79-80 when Nicholas returns on leave and the script calls for ad lib greetings, Hepburn has prepared her dialogue Nicholas, Nicholas, it's you, oh dear, dearest Nicholas, but how did you get here we did not know you were coming, my brother my own big brother... Nicholas - I want a kiss - O I'm so happy
- p.295 (verso) Hepburn has sketched her costume for the final scene in pencil
11 ¼ x 9 ¼ in. (28.6 x 23.5 cm.)

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