The Hairy Ape Film Treatment Carbon Typescript, 13 pages March 16, 1935

In green wrappers. "Copied by RKO Stenographic Dept. / MARCH 16, 1935"

O'Neill wrote in his Work Diary (Ridgefield, November 6, 1926), "worked on film scenario I got interested in for "The Hairy Ape" (finished it)  good stuff but they'll never do it!"  O'Neill had prepared a detailed synopsis of the drama, in which the original story was changed extensively, and publicized it with the aid of Richard Watts, Jr., movie critic of the Herald Tribune.  In 1935, O'Neill tried to market his scenario to RKO, where his friends Robert Sisk and Kenneth Macgowan were producers.  United Artists finally produced a very different film version of The Hairy Ape in 1944.