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Footlights / by Charles Chaplin - ECCI00312552

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'Footlights' was Limelight's original title. The first drafts were written in the form of a novel. Includes the opening scene with the flashbacks on Terry's childhood and the Queenshead bar sequence with Claudius 'the armless wonder'. The final scene has been crossed out.

Typescript with corrections and revisions (carbon copy)
185 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.
On recto and verso of leaves ms. and stenographic notes. Part of the text on leaf 14 has been ripped off and taped to leaf 12.
ECCI00312552, CHM00