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Howe, Marybelle. No name, no blame : [1977] / by Marybelle Howe ... Christmas 1977.

Title: No name, no blame : [1977] / by Marybelle Howe ... Christmas 1977.

Memoir describing her work as an uncredited child extra in 1923 during the filming of a silent movie, Pied Piper Malone (1924) on location in Georgetown, S.C.; this film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, and distributed by Paramount Studios. Includes editorial comments and annotations by an unidentified hand. Howe's essay describes activities during the fall and winter of 1923 as seen by a second-grade girl, including names of school friends, relatives, and neighbors, including "Mum Dye ... as an ex-slave to quality people she set herself up to hold the children of the neighborhood (especially the girls) to high standards of social deportment" who was concocting medicinal teas and herbal remedies during Howe's visit, and Capt. Frank, who observed that "men who spent a lot of time with Mother Nature, so to speak - men who lived mostly in the woods or on the water - had a tendency to take wildlife seriously and the human race lightly." Howe discusses aspects of filming a silent movie, including evidence that some aspects of the plot did not become clear until she screened the completed production months later; Howe also describes her family and home in detail, including the furnishings of the large bathroom which had "the only stove upstairs" that served her family of six; details of the motion pictures production company, which arrived at Georgetown in four Pullman train cars; social events for the film makers held at Winyah Indigo Society Hall and various plantation hunting preserves; her family's Christmas celebration and traditional fireworks; and other actives.

ArchivalResource: 58 sheets ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/644282036 View

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1931.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1931.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from the members of this lawfirm, which agreed to defend the seven members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners that formed the Dreiser Committee. This firm also consulted on the Famous Players-Lasky suit.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (24 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898077 View

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1919-1929.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1919-1929.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the corporation Famous Players-Lasky.

ArchivalResource: 19 items (26 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155888906 View

Hart, William S. (William Surrey), 1864-1946. Papers, ca. 1889-1947.

Title: Papers, ca. 1889-1947.

Letters (including fan mail), literary productions, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, clippings, theater programs, and other materials relating to the life and career of William S. Hart. Hart's correspondence includes letters from Wyatt Earp and Thomas H. Ince. Paul Conlon's (Hart's publicist) correspondence with newspaper editors and others is also part of the collection. There are manuscripts and typescripts of many of Hart's writings, including the manuscript for his autobiography, My Life East and West. Legal documents relate to Hart's various lawsuits, including Hart vs. Thomas Ince and Hart vs. United Artists. Financial records include documents pertaining to Hart's life at his ranch in Newhall, California, and to his career (there are records from the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and from the William S. Hart Company). The clippings and scrapbooks describe, for example, Hart's film appearances, his marriage to and separation from Winifred Westover, and his decision to remain retired, rather than returning to films. Additionally, there are two Mary Ellen Hart (Hart's sister) diaries that contain only brief passages.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear feet (boxes: letter, legal, ov; mc drawer)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18438931 View

Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976. Reminiscences of Adolph Zukor : oral history, 1958.

Title: Reminiscences of Adolph Zukor : oral history, 1958.

Early life, arrrival in America; the fur business, penny arcades, nickelodeons; Famous Players and making the first feature picture; merger of Lasky and Famous Players to become Paramount Pictures, 1916; competition; evolution of the motion picture industry, including the star system, block booking, the independent producer.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 37 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86131591 View

Field, Rachel, 1894-1942. Correspondence with Northrop Morse / Rachel L. Field.

Title: Correspondence with Northrop Morse / Rachel L. Field. 1921-1922.

Letters to Morse during 1921 and 1922 usually on pesonal stationery with address of 102 East 32nd Street, New York. Most are about arrangements to visit Boston and to see plays at the 47 Workshop. The 47 Workshop was a playwrights' workshop taught by George Pierce Baker at Harvard. Field also encourages Morse's writing. She comments on working at Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, a predecessor to Paramount Pictures. She also mentions a novel she's writing and other writing she has sent to publishers. Field mentions seeing her friend Doris Halman during her visits to Boston and Halman's meeting Morse.

ArchivalResource: 16 items ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63110274 View

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. Agreement made and entered into this 12th day of March 1923 by and between F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and Famous Players -Lasky Corporation ... motion picture rights ... to a certain novel entitled "This side of paradise" : contract.

Title: Agreement made and entered into this 12th day of March 1923 by and between F. Scott Fitzgerald ... and Famous Players -Lasky Corporation ... motion picture rights ... to a certain novel entitled "This side of paradise" : contract.

Option agreement for "This side of paradise."

ArchivalResource: 1 item ([7] l.) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58722255 View

Swanson, Gloria. Papers. Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983.

Title: Papers. Series II. Career, ca. 1914-1983.

Nearly all of Miss Swanson's sixty-six motion pictures, 1914-1975, are represented by film stills and other materials. This collection does include some of Swanson's film holdings, though most were acquired by George Eastman House in 1967. Coverage is sparsest for her beginnings at Essanay Studios, Sennett/Keystone Studios, and Triangle Company. The Famous Players-Lasky Corp./Paramount Pictures period, 1919-1926, is more comprehensively documented with groups of stills and scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, contracts, and publicity items. The substantial correspondence, financial, legal, and production records of the United Artists years, 1925-1933, occupy forty boxes, yet only meagre files for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Fox Films, and Columbia Pictures Corp. represent Swanson's career for the remainder of the 1930s. Records of the scattered later films with RKO Radio Pictures, Paramount Pictures Corp., Warner Brothers, Titanus-Lux Films, and Universal City Studios, Inc. complete this subseries. Of these, the fullest records exist for Swanson's famous appearance in Paramount's Sunset Boulevard in 1950. Also represented is Swanson's involvement in other entertainment branches, which extended to radio (1927-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Show, 1951), television (1944-1981, including The Gloria Swanson Hour broadcast during the "stone age" of television in 1948), and theatre (1937-1977, including three Broadway productions, Twentieth Century, Nina, and Butterflies Are Free). Correspondents in this series include Steve Allen, Eve Arden, Richard Banks, Vilma Banky, Beverly Bayne, Pierre A. Bedard, Francesca Bertini, Virginia Bowker, Walter Byron, James Card (George Eastman House), Richard Chamberlain, Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Chatterton, Dick Clark, Lenore J. Coffee, George Cukor, André Daven, Cecil B. DeMille, E. B. Derr, Marlene Dietrich, Allan Dwan, Ralph Edwards, Laurence Eyre, Douglas Fairbanks, José Ferrer, Blanche Friderici, Eva Gabor, Elinor Glyn, Samuel Goldwyn, Edmund Goulding, D. W. Griffith, Richard Griffith (Museum of Modern Art), Texas Guinan, Helen Hayes, Will H. Hays, Edith Head, Lance Heath, Hedda Hopper, René Hubert, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Arthur W. Kelley, Harold J. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Henri de La Falaise, Rod LaRocque, Jesse L. Lasky, Viola Lawrence, Evelyn Laye, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alan Jay Lerner, Mervyn LeRoy, Josephine Lovett, Clare Marafioti, Frances Marion, Somerset Maugham, Louis B. Mayer, Thomas A. Moore, Edward R. Murrow, Conrad Nagel, Condé Nast, Bertram S. Nayfack, Marshall Neilan, Dennis F. O'Brien, Albert Parker, Mary Pickford, ZaSu Pitts, Harry Poppe, Joseph M. Schenck, Clinton J. Scollard, Ted Shawn, Aaron Spelling, Charles E. Sullivan, Ed Sullivan, Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Irving G. Thalberg, Jack Valenti, Erich Von Stroheim, Irving R. Wakoff, Raoul Walsh, Jack Warner, Billy Wilder, Lois Wilson, Adolph Zukor, and others. The work of numerous writers (Gertrude Behanna, Lenore J. Coffee, James Ashmore Creelman, Laura Hope Crews, Delmer Daves, William Dufty, Laurence Eyre, Allan Jay Friedman, Leonard Gershe, Forrest Halsey, Ben Hecht, Lillian Kemble-Cooper, Harold J. Kennedy, Alan Jay Lerner, Josephine Lovett, Clare Boothe Luce, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Frances Marion, Richard Matheson, Preston Sturges, Erich Von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and others), photographers (Ernest A. Bachrach, Edward O. Bagley, Russell Ball, Marcus Blechman, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Harold Carter, William Eglinton, Eliot Elisofon, Ellen Graham, G. L. Manuel Frères, Donald Biddle Keyes, Jack Mitchell, Nickolas Muray, Alexander Phillips, Melbourne Spurr, Edward Steichen), and lyricists and composers (most notably Edmund Goulding, Dickson Hughes, Elsie Janis, Franz Lehar, Dorothy Parker, Richard Stapley, and Vincent Youmans) is included in this collection. Also included in this series are career-related materials from actors' groups, film and television organizations, libraries, museums, and universities. The largest group of files included here center around the later records of Queen Kelly, 1956-1985, documenting ownership, copyright, domestic and foreign showings, television rights, use in documentary films, etc. Also included are files containing repository agreements and correspondence concerning Miss Swanson's personal film collection at the Museum of Modern Art (ca. 1944-1967) and George Eastman House (1967-1982).

ArchivalResource: 118 boxes (49 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122419032 View

Haver, Ronald. Paramount and the coming of sound / by Ron Haver.

Title: Paramount and the coming of sound / by Ron Haver. c1979.

ArchivalResource: 98 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79091209 View