Stanley And Livingstone (1940)

Published by Ward, Lock, 1940, hardcover,  large format,16 full-colour plates and roughly 100 black-and-white illustrations or photographs,, condition: very good.

A  book adaptation to serve as a film tie-in for the famous Twentieth Century Fox movie Stanley and Livingstone starring Spencer Tracy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. The text is a dramatic retelling heavily based on the 1939 Hollywood screenplay rather than a strict historical diary. It follows the Welsh journalist Henry Morton Stanley on his grueling African expedition to locate the missing Scottish missionary and explorer, Dr. David Livingstone. 

According to Philip Dunne, the film was originally envisioned as a vehicle for Tyrone Power as Stanley with the script prepared accordingly. Darryl F. Zanuck, head of production at 20th Century Fox was sent a memo suggesting the project be changed to be about a more cynical Stanley who looks for Livingstone as a publicity stunt, then becomes idealistic after meeting him. Zanuck agreed and got Dunne and Julien Josephson to rewrite it

Dunne later recalled: "Every time Spencer Tracy as the reporter said, 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume,' he started to laugh hysterically, to roll around the studio floor. And Cedric Hardwicke, as the missionary, laughed so hard tears rolled down his cheeks. We did it as an aside, we had to."

The safari sequences were shot in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The American scenes set in Wyoming were shot in Sun Valley, Idaho.