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Barratt, Watson, 1884-1962. |
Papers, 1915-1961. |
1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and
3 reels of microfilm (35mm); plus
additions of 3.0 c.f. |
Papers of Watson Barratt, an artist and theatrical set designer, consisting of reviews, playbills, and scripts of plays for which Barratt designed the sets. Biographical clippings refer not only to Barratt's career, but also to that of his wife, writer Louise Rand Bascom Barratt. |
theater, mixed collection |
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Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973. |
S.N. Behrman papers, 1911, 1924-1962. |
10.8 c.f. (27 archives boxes) and
1 reel of microfilm (35 mm) |
Papers of S. N. Behrman, a writer noted for his sophisticated comedy for the stage and motion pictures. Illustrating Behrman's writing techniques are detailed notes, drafts, and revisions of more than thirty plays, screenplays, and adaptations. Among the plays he wrote or adapted are Amphitryon 38, (1937) Biography (1932), The Cold Wind and the Warm (1958), End of Summer (1935), Fanny (1954), Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944), Jane (1952), No Time for Comedy (1939), The Pirate (1942), Rain from Heaven (1934), and The Second Man (1927); screenplays represented include Bonjour Tristesse (Columbia, 1958), Ninotchka (MGM, 1939), and Waterloo Bridge (MGM, 1940). In addition to script materials for some titles there are clippings, playbills, correspondence, and other related information. |
theater, film, screenwriter, playwright, radio, mixed collection |
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Bellamy, Earl. |
Papers, 1970-1971. |
0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) |
Papers of Earl Bellamy (1917-2003), a television producer-director, consisting of scripts and some shooting schedules for three series: Medical Center (CBS), The Partridge Family (ABC), and To Rome With Love (CBS). |
television, producer, director, manuscript collection |
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Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991. |
Ralph Bellamy papers, 1924-1988. |
2.2 c.f. (5 archives boxes),
1 reel of microfilm (35 mm), and
1 film. |
Papers of Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991), a noted actor whose career has spanned more than five decades and encompasses all major areas of entertainment--theater, motion pictures, radio, television, and writing. Documentation of Bellamy's theatrical work is especially rich, although all aspects of his career are covered. Included in the collection are biographical materials, an oral history interview transcript, awards and certificates, newspaper clippings and reviews, correspondence, and transcripts of Bellamy's congressional testimony concerning income tax averaging. Within the production files are programs from productions of the Ralph Bellamy Players (Des Moines, Iowa, 1926-1928); several programs, scripts, and other papers regarding plays, motion pictures, and television mini-series; and extensive information concerning Bellamy's portrayal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in "Sunrise at Campobello" (theater, 1958-1960; film, 1960). Also in the collection are drafts, typescripts, and a printed copy of Bellamy's memoirs, "When the Smoke Hit the Fan" (Doubleday, 1979). |
actor, theater, film, television, radio |
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Benjamin, Burton. |
Papers, 1957-1985. |
8.8 c.f. (22 archives boxes); plus
additions of 4.6 c.f. and
368 videorecordings. |
Papers of Burton Benjamin (1917-1988), a CBS vice-president and producer of news and documentaries, relating to his work on the award-winning CBS documentary series "The Twentieth Century," 1957-1966, and other news projects. Production files contain research materials; scripts; transcripts and notes from interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Robert Dole, Patty Hearst, Eric Sevareid, and others; a transcript of CBS coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy; files on the 1980 presidential election, and other materials. General files contain publicity, distribution figures, press releases, memoranda between Benjamin and production staff, and seven and nine-year reports. Also included are several undated scripts for "Robert Montgomery Presents" (NBC) and "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (CBS). Scripts, research files, staff correspondence, papers on Yuri Andropov, and materials regarding the Nuclear Arms Debate. Memos, notes, scripts, and transcripts for "CBS Reports" for which Benjamin is the executive producer. Additions, 1968-1985, including biographies, scripts, memoranda, clippings, and a speech. These are mainly production files for: "Honor, Duty, and a War Called Vietnam"; "Terrorism: War In the Shadows"; "Hiroshima Plus 40 Years... and Still Counting"; and a CBS News Special "Justice Black & the Bill of Rights: 1968"; the text of a February, 1972, speech given at the University of Michigan; and a memo re CBS coverage of national political conventions in 1980. Video tapes of several CBS News series such as "The Twentieth Century" and "The Twenty-First Century" (1957-1969) and "World War I" (1964-1965); videos of miscellaneous CBS News Reports, 1960s to 1980s; miscellaneous video on the CBS/Westmoreland lawsuit; two notebooks of collected quotations of Benjamin's on television and politics; and a copy of his book, "Fair Play." |
television, television documentary, producer, mixed collection |
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Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996. |
Papers, 1932-1977. |
11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder) |
Papers of Pandro Berman (1905-1996), a leading motion picture producer associated with RKO during the 1930's and later with MGM. The collection is composed of extensive production files of correspondence, script drafts, reports and logs, and financial information for A Patch of Blue (1965) and two other films Berman produced between 1964 and 1970. Also included are scripts, clippings, and publicity for many of his earlier films, most notably Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Butterfield 8 (1960), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Dragon Seed (1944), Father's Little Dividend (1951), Father of the Bride (1950), and Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939). Also included are Ivanhoe (1952), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), National Velvet (1944), Rio Rita (1941), Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Tea and Sympathy (1956), and The Three Musketeers (1947). Seven boxes contain notes, correspondence, scripts, and negotiations for unproduced films. The remainder of the collection consists of clippings, miscellaneous personal and business correspondence, financial records, and promotional and biographical information. |
film, producer, manuscript collection |
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Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904- . |
Papers, 1929-1991. |
17.2 c.f. (42 archives boxes and 1 card box),
5 reels of microfilm (35mm),
6 tape recordings,
2 disc recordings,
6 reels of 35mm film, and
1 reel of 16mm film; plus
additions of 6.9 c.f.,
13 photographs, and
64 tape recordings. |
Papers of Alvah Cecil Bessie (1904-1985), a novelist, screenwriter, literary and film critic, and one of the Hollywood Ten who was blacklisted for his refusal to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The collection documents Bessie's writing career; the impact of the blacklist on him; his recollections of his service with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a unit of the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War; and his continuing interest in similar issues and causes. Included are personal and professional correspondence; biographical information; recorded interviews; and a large section of draft and printed copies of writings in many genre. Among the writings represented are novels based on Bessie's own experiences such as Bread and a Stone, Inquisition in Eden, Men in Battle, One for My Baby, and The Un-Americans; The Symbol, which was suggested by the life of Marilyn Monroe; scripts for Espana Otra Vez, Objective Burma, Ruthless, Smart Woman, The Very Thought of You, and numerous unproduced films; and numerous book and film reviews. Bessie's correspondents include representatives of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Limelighters, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the Hungry i nightclub, the National Writers Union, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the San Francisco Film Festival; foreign and American publishers and editors such as Curtis Brown Ltd., Chandler and Sharp, Holt Rinehart and Winston, and Seven Seas Books; and individuals such as Woody Allen, Herbert Aptheker, Ed Asner, James Aronson, Carlos Baker, Kaye Ballard, Angus Cameron, Jaime Camino, Morris Carnovsky, Lester Cole, Bette Davis, John Henry Faulk, Martha Gellhorn, Ralph Gleason, Lillian Hellman, Stefan Heym, Warren Hinckle, Paul Jarrico, Robert Kenny, Paul Krassner, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Maxim Lieber, Cyra MacFadden, Albert Maltz, Herbert Matthews, Arthur Miller, Clifford Odets, Vladimir Pozner, Carlos Rojas, Norman Rosten, George Seldes, Studs Terkel, Dalton Trumbo, and Jerry Wald. |
film, screenwriter, blacklist, mixed collection |
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Bessie, Dan. |
Papers, 1966-2006. |
9.2 c.f.,
136 photographs,
106 negatives,
257 transparencies,
8 tape recordings,
47 reels of film (16mm), and
92 videorecordings. |
Papers of Dan Bessie (1932- ), a writer and filmmaker, consisting of correspondence, film scripts and outlines, book manuscripts and proofs, storyboards and artwork, films, and photographs, documenting films and books made or written by Mr. Bessie alone or in collaboration. Many of the projects involve his father, Alvah Bessie, either as collaborator or as subject. The largest single group of materials relates to the film "Hard Traveling." Additions, 1971-2000, scripts, storyboards and production proposals for films and books by Dan Bessie, including script drafts, publicity materials, notes and photographs for the film "Hard Traveling." Also includes scripts for unproduced works. Additions, 1969-2006, consisting of a few personal papers; drafts, proofs and correspondence relating to the books Rare Birds (2000) and Reeling through Hollywood (2006); script, production, distribution and exhibition files relating to films written, produced, and directed by Dan Bessie, especially Hard Traveling (1985), Turnabout (1992), and Nobody's Boy (unproduced); similar materials relating to stage plays and television programs and series. Film, video, and sound consists of viewing prints and videocassettes of Dan Bessie's films and elements relating principally to Turnabout. Additions, 1977-1995, consisting of three programs for events organized by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, outline for a book on Ring Lardner and his children, proposal and draft script (with Anna Vracin) for the educational film Hokusai, and correspondence and outlines for a film adaptation of "The House with a Clock in its Walls." |
film, director, industrial, mixed collection |
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Binyon, Claude, 1905-1978. |
Papers, 1932-1963. |
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes) |
Papers of Claude Binyon (1905-1978), a journalist and motion picture writer-director, chiefly relating to films he wrote for Paramount during the 1930's and later for other studios. Scripts and drafts, notes, production information, music and lyrics, and clippings present in varying completeness relate to films such as The Bride Comes Home (Paramount, 1935), Holiday Inn (Paramount, 1942), I Met Him in Paris (Paramount, 1937), Incendiary Blond (Paramount, 1945), North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox, 1958), Pepe (Col., 1961), and Rally Round the Flag, Boys (20th Century-Fox, 1958). Smaller files contain material on unproduced motion pictures, scripts and agreements for five teleplays, and scripts and related material for four stage plays. Subject files contain correspondence, studio contracts, clippings, two early scrapbooks, and materials on Army-Navy Screen Magazine and the Screen Writers Guild. |
film, director, manuscript collection |
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Blair, Harry N., 1902-1949. |
Scrapbook, ca. 1927-1942. |
1 reel of microfilm (35mm) |
Scrapbook of articles written by a film critic and studio publicist. The articles relate to the motion picture industry in general, the lives of individual stars, and contract arrangements between the studios and their actors. |
film, microfilm collection |
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Blitzstein, Marc. |
Marc Blitzstein papers, 1918-2004. |
40.0 c.f. (113 boxes),
71 reels of microfilm (35 mm),
23 tape recordings, and
114 disc recordings; plus
additions of 0.5 c.f.,
7 disc recordings, and
1 CD-ROM. |
Personal and professional papers of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964), a talented and innovative composer, lyricist, and librettist, best known for his concern with making his work socially as well as artistically significant. The collection provides particularly interesting documentation of the creative process of composition and of Blitzstein's efforts to reconcile the political, psychological, and musical aspects of composition. Blitzstein was most famous for his operas "The Cradle Will Rock," a controversial work produced for the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, "Regina" (1949), "Reuben, Reuben" (1955), and "Juno" (1959); his motion picture score for "Native Land" (Frontier Films, 1942); "The Airborne Symphony" (1946); and his very successful adaptation of "The Threepenny Opera" (1954). The collection is comprised chiefly of scores and scripts, with related correspondence, research material, and clippings, pertaining to Blitzstein's work in motion pictures, opera, ballet, theater, and symphonic orchestra. Also included are personal papers such as correspondence, contracts, notebooks, and journals concerning his travels, writings and lecture materials, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and memorabilia. Among the prominent correspondents are Eric Bentley, Leonard Bernstein, Nadia Boulanger, Bertolt Brecht, Cheryl Crawford, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Billy Rose, Victor deSabata, Alexander Siloti, and Deems Taylor. Papers of Blitzstein's wife, Eva Goldbeck (1901-1936), including many personal letters, journals, and unpublished writings, are also present. There are tape and disc recordings of performances or excerpts of many of Blitzstein's works, including "The Airborne Symphony" (complete 1946 recordings of its world premiere performance by the New York Symphony Orchestra, and by the NBC Symphony Orchestra for "General Motors' Symphony of the Air"), "The Cradle Will Rock," "Freedom Morning," "I've Got the Tune," "Juno," "Mother Courage," "Native Land," "No for an Answer," "Reuben, Reuben," "Regina," "This Is the Garden," and "Valley Town." Also on tape are interviews with Blitzstein, July 29, 1943, and with opera singer Lina Abarbanell. |
theater, film, composer, mixed collection |
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Bloomgarden, Kermit, 1904-1976. |
Kermit Bloomgarden papers, 1938-1977. |
63.8 c.f. (53 record center cartons, 7 archives boxes, 6 oversize boxes, and 3 index boxes),
4 reels of microfilm (35 mm),
21 tape recordings,
1 disc recording, and
2 film reels. |
Papers of Kermit Bloomgarden, a producer of many award-winning Broadway plays and musicals. Although the amount and type of documentation present varies for each play, the collection includes correspondence, scripts, promotion and reviews, and various kinds of production files. For several titles there are floor plans, elevations, drawings and sketches, costume materials, light plots, property and furniture plots, and prompt books. In addition, legal and business aspects of production are extensively documented by financial statements, budgets, contracts and agreements, tax forms, and royalty statements. Among the productions treated are "Another Part of the Forest" (1946), "The Autumn Garden" (1951), "The Children's Hour" (1952), "Command Decision" (1947), "The Crucible" (1953), "Death of a Salesman" (1949), "Deep Are the Roots" (1945), "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1955), "Equus" (1974), "Hot L Baltimore" (1973), "The Lark" (1955), "Look Homeward, Angel" (1957), "The Most Happy Fella" (1956), "The Music Man" (1957), "The Shrike" (1952), and "Toys in the Attic" (1960). Prominent correspondents in the files include Jean Anouilh, Leonard Bernstein, Melvyn Douglas, Ketti Frings, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Julie Harris, Rex Harrison, Lillian Hellman, George Roy Hill, Garson Kanin, Joshua Logan, and Anthony Perkins. Also present are correspondence, reports, and scripts for plays which Bloomgarden only considered for production, many of which were written by noteworthy playwrights. Personal papers and general business records document Bloomgarden's investments and finances, his work with various theatrical and other organizations, the Kergan Corporation, and Kermit Bloomgarden Productions, Inc. Correspondence with Melina Mercouri, Arthur Miller, and John and Marguerite Sanford is also included. |
theater, mixed collection |
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Blum, Daniel C. |
Papers, ca. 1860-1965. |
55 reels of microfilm (35mm) |
Scrapbooks kept by Daniel Blum, theatrical producer and publisher of Theatre World (1944-1965), Screen World (1950-1965), and Opera World (1952-1954). These microfilmed scrapbooks contain playbills, reviews, clippings, and obituaries of famous actors, actresses, and film and theater personalities. A small group of the scrapbooks concerns athletes, and another group contains "Autograms," stars' answers to a few short questions posed by Blum. Most of the theatrical performances documented were for legitimate theater performances in New York City, though other cities are represented as are some revues and vaudeville productions. |
theater, microfilm collection |
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Boleslavsky, Richard, 1889-1937. |
Richard Boleslavsky papers, undated. |
4.0 c.f. |
Business and personal papers of film director Richard Boleslavsky. Correspondence, scripts, legal documents, research materials for films,
diary, address book, books he authored, photos, drawings, reviews, and
film. 4.0 c.f. |
film, studio system, manuscript collection |
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Bordwell, David. |
Bordwell Empire Theater Film Collection |
80 35mm film prints |
A collection of Hong Kong films donated by film historian, former WCFTR director and University of Wisconsin Professor David Bordwell. |
film collection |
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Boretz, Alvin. |
Alvin Boretz papers, 1942-1998. |
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes); plus
additions of 17.2 c.f.,
2 tape recordings, and
8 photographs. |
Papers of Alvin Boretz (1919-), a writer of dramatic series, specials, and quiz programs for radio and television. Documentation present includes scripts and drafts for radio series such as Big Town (CBS) and for television programs such as Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS and NBC), Big Story (NBC), Kraft Television Theatre (NBC), Martin Kane: Private Eye (NBC), and Treasury Men in Action (NBC). Some of the television files contain related correspondence and notes. Also included are six scripts prepared for the Voice of America in 1949.
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes); plus additions of 17.2 c.f., 2 tape recordings, and 8 photographs. |
radio, television, mixed collection |
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Bright, John. |
John Bright writings, circa late 1940s-early 1950s. |
0.2 c.f. |
A screenplay for "The Charmer" (an unproduced film) and the manuscript of an unpublished novel, "The Paper World," both by John Bright (1908-1989), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter active in the late 1940s and early 1950s. |
screenwriter, film, blacklist, manuscript collection |
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Caesar, Irving, 1895-1996. |
Papers, 1905-1972. |
1.2 c.f. (4 archives boxes) and
6 disc recordings. |
Photocopied papers of Irving Caesar (1895-1996), a lyricist and composer of popular songs and Broadway musicals and a pacifist. The majority of the collection relates to Caesar's early career and his social concerns. Songs, 1937-c. 1970, include lyrics satirizing the military-industrial complex; songbooks and recordings of compositions for children about safety, friendship, and the United Nations; and sheet music for the Pledge of Allegiance. Correspondence includes exchanges with George Gershwin, Aldous Huxley, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Seldes, I. F. Stone, Lyle Stuart, Upton Sinclair, William English Walling, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Writings include an early journal; articles on the Cold War for the New York "Independent"; speeches; and papers regarding his Peace by Wireless plan. Also included are an undated autobiography, an article about song writing, and a transcript of an
oral history interview, 1971, for the William E. Wiener Oral History Library of the American Jewish Committee. |
theater, music, mixed collection |
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Cantor, Arthur, 1920- . |
Papers, 1951-1965. |
14.0 c.f. (34 archives boxes, 1 flat box) and
7 reels of microfilm (35mm) |
Papers of Arthur Cantor (1920-2001), a theatrical producer and press representative, consisting of photographs, scripts, and press releases.
Included is material on television programs which Cantor promoted including "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (CBS and NBC) and various programs sponsored by Aluminum Company of America (the Alcoa portion of "Alcoa-Goodyear Theatre," NBC; "One Step Beyond," ABC; and "Alcoa Premier," ABC).
There are also files of photographs and releases on plays produced by Cantor, some in association with Fred Coe, including "All the Way Home" (1960), "Gideon" (1961), "The Tenth Man" (1959), and "A Thousand Clowns" (1962). Similar files exist for other Broadway productions which Cantor publicized including "Auntie Mame" (1956), "The Autumn Garden"
(1951), "The Complaisant Lover" (1961), "The Lark" (1955), "Man of La Mancha" (1965), "The Miracle Worker" (1959), "The Music Man" (1957), "Toys in the Attic" (1960), and "Two for the Seesaw" (1958). |
television, producer, theater, mixed collection |
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Caspary, Vera, 1904-1987. |
Papers, 1929-1984. |
12.0 c.f. (29 archives boxes, 2 cartons, and 1 package) and
1 reel of microfilm (35mm); plus
additions of 1.1 c.f. and
2 reels of microfilm (35mm). |
Papers of a novelist, playwright, and writer of motion picture screenplays. Much of the collection consists of progressive drafts of her novels "A Chosen Sparrow" (1964), "The Man Who Loved His Wife" (1966), and "The Rosecrest Cell" (1968). Motion picture files include scripts and revisions, story ideas sold to studios, clippings, printed matter, and photographs for such films as "Laura" (20th Century-Fox, 1944), "Les Girls" (MGM, 1957), and "Letter to Three Wives" (20th Century-Fox, 1948). Writing for other media is less well represented but there are two television pilots; several short stories; and drafts of "Geraniums in My Window" (1934), a play written with Samuel B. Ornitz; "The Husband" (1957); and "Wedding in Paris" (1954). Two boxes of correspondence contain exchanges with studio executives and literary agents and include some contracts. |
screenwriter, film, theater, mixed collection |
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