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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 119, scene 192A, in which the public demands that Roark be punished for dynamiting Cortlandt Homes, with some dialogue added by Rand: "'We don't read Wynand!' 'Down with Gail Wynand!'"; page 124, scene 205, in which Wynand falters under pressure from his board of directors, with Rand adding a line for the "Second Director"—"We can't permit this to go on. After all, we are your board of directors—we have something to say"—and for the "First Director," "We've lost all our advertizers—we've lost"; and page 128, scene 217, in which Dominique confesses that she has always loved Roark, with Rand amending a prosecutor's line to read "Cortlandt Homes" instead of "the future home of the poor," with some further erased pencil notations at the bottom. 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, October 22, 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.'
