Where to find the screenplay for Orson Welles' "F is For Fake"?

[Owen A. Davies]

I am well aware that this hardly qualifies as a "cinematography" question, but I thought there might be a person on the site who had an answer. I am extremely interested in seeing the screenplay for Orson Welles' 1973 film "F is For Fake". There are a number of sequences in the movie that were crafted with such a specific and rapid back and forth style that made me curious as to how these ideas were articulated and expressed on the page. Thus far online I have only been able to find the film's transcript, no screenplay. Let me know. Thanks. 

[dan kessler]

Try the Margaret Herrick Library.

It's the Motion Picture Academy library in Beverly Hills.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

It also looks like Yale has got several scripts: https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/new-acquisition-orson-welles-scripts

(Unfortunately it looks like they have only got scripts from before 1950.)

[Mark Dunn]

Welles made his later films in the cutting room. I'd venture the script doesn't tell you a whole lot. He financed them himself so he didn't need it to satisfy investors.

Edited October 2, 2025 by Mark Dunn