Walter Bernhardt Bullock papers

The collection contains biographical information from the alumni office, a notice of a play he wrote and items relating to the movie, Moon Over Her Shoulder, for which he wrote the screenplay.

The movie, Moon Over Her Shoulder, was produced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1941. The screenplay was written by Mr. Bullock as “Detour to Love." This copy of the screenplay is bound in beige cloth and gilt-stamped brown leather. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets printed on the rectos only; 131 pp. This is the Final Script dated June 18, 1941, with inserted blue revision pages dated June 20, 1941, June 23, 1941, and June 24, 1941 [the film was in production between July 8 and August 1, 1941, and had a U.S. release date on October 24, 1941]. The production included the song “The Girl With The Sugar Brown Hair” (with music by Alfred Newman and lyrics by Walter Bullock). Screenplay by Walter Bullock, based on a story by Eve Golden and Helen Vreeland Smith. Produced by Walter Morosco and directed by Alfred L. Werker, the cast included Lynn Bari, John Sutton, Dan Dailey, Alan Mowbray, Leonard Carey, Irving Bacon, Joyce Compton, Lillian Yarbo, Eula Guy, Shirley Hill, and Sylvia Arslan. Lyricist and screenwriter Walter Bullock was born in Shelburn, Indiana on May 6, 1907. After graduating from DePauw University, Bullock started writing for Hollywood in 1936 and was to collaborate with many film composers. In 1936, he had two successes with “Magnolias in the Moonlight” with music by Victor Schertzinger, and “When Did You Leave Heaven?” with composer Richard A. Whiting. Bullock was nominated for two Academy Awards, and he died in Los Angeles in 1953. This is Dan Dailey’s personal copy of the script. Covers scuffed; internally near fine. [reprinted in part from the dealer's catalog, Clouds Hill Books]