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Three hand-annotated pages from Ayn Rand's personal copy of the screenplay for The Fountainhead, 8.5 x 11, each amended in pencil by Rand. Includes: page 99, scene 151/152, when Roark first sees how badly his vision for Cortlandt Homes has been corrupted, with Rand adding a line of dialogue for the "First Official," "You'll find that you can't sue us"; page 100, scene 152A, where Rand amends Keating's line to read: "They got themselves such a set-up"; and page 102, scene 153A, where Dominique reveals she is going to leave Gail, and Roark asks for her help in solving his problem, with Rand adding to Dominique's affirmation: "Roark, Anything you wish." In overall fine condition.
Provenance: from the estate of Ayn Rand, auctioned as part of a larger lot by the Ayn Rand Institute in 1993 and accompanied by a photocopy of their letter; then sold by Bonhams, December 4, 2007.
After the publication and initial success of The Fountainhead in 1943, Rand adapted the novel into a screenplay—a format with which she was well familiar, as she worked as a reader and script-doctor for Paramount. She completed the screenplay in 1944, and the film was released some five years later by Warner Bros., starring Gary Cooper as Howard Roark. Despite her early soft feelings towards the film, Rand later exclaimed that she 'disliked the movie from beginning to end.'
