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Helen Hayes papers, 1817-1963, 1905-1963, dates

Title: Helen Hayes papers 1817-1963 1905-1963, dates

The Helen Hayes papers span the years 1817–1963 and consist of correspondence, the majority from friends and colleagues; speeches and writings, including drafts and handwritten index cards of speeches; clippings from her earliest days in theater and covering her work in film, television, and radio; programs for theatrical productions and awards ceremonies; awards and ephemera including her honorary degrees, appointments to committees, and citations for her charitable work; designs including costume designs for theatrical productions and artwork created by friends and colleagues; photographs, including family photographs, candid shots and professional portraits from childhood, production stills and publicity from theater, film, and radio, and portraits by famous photographers; and scrapbooks, some dedicated to particular theatrical productions and others that cover all aspects of her career and life.

ArchivalResource: 29 linear feet; 42 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21836 View

Dunning, Philip, 1890-1968. Philip Hart Dunning papers, 1915-1968.

Title: Philip Hart Dunning papers, 1915-1968.

The collection contains many of Philip Hart Dunning's personal scripts which include play, radio, TV, and film scripts, one novel, and a few short stories. While the collection represents a large portion of his work, it is by no means complete. A small amount of related material such as preliminary notes, correspondence, contracts, clippings, etc. is included in the collection and filed according to play title with the script. In cases where there is no script, a title is represented only by a synopsis. The collection comprises 94 titles in all, including some associated items, at least one of which is dated after Dunning's death. In a few cases there is more than one version of a given title. Many of the scripts are original typescripts, however, most are copies, and most have annotations.

ArchivalResource: 3.3 linear ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31128860 View

Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Trilby : screen play : mimeograph copy of typescript, 1948 Apr. 27.

Title: Trilby : screen play : mimeograph copy of typescript, 1948 Apr. 27.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 130 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270754498 View

Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Fun to be free, 1941-[ongoing].

Title: Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Fun to be free, 1941-[ongoing].

Includes programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for stage productions and film or video adaptations (if any) of the work, beginning with the October 1941 premiere at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Posters, photographic prints (for productions prior to 1983), and recordings are filed in other series.

ArchivalResource: <1> folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537813 View

Alfred Frueh caricatures, 1906-1962

Title: Alfred Frueh caricatures 1906-1962

Caricaturist, cartoonist and illustrator, Alfred Frueh, was born in Lima, Ohio in 1880. In his early career, he worked at the St. Louis post-dispatch and the New York world. From 1908 to 1909, Frueh studied art in Europe. In 1925, Frueh joined the staff of the New Yorker magazine, which published his work until 1962. Frueh died in Sharon, Connecticut in 1968. Black and white original caricatures and color linocuts of theatrical productions and personalities. Many of the caricatures of theatrical productions appeared in the New Yorker magazine between 1925 and 1962. Productions depicted include: The children's hour by Lillian Hellman, 1934 and 1953; Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, 1942 and 1953; Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, 1923 and 1935; Twentieth century by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (based on a play by Charles Bruce Milholland), 1933 and 1951; and the 1934 and 1936 editions of the Ziegfeld follies. Also included are 2 caricatures of the motion picture, City lights, 1931, with Charlie Chaplin, and 1 caricature of the Ziegfeld Theatre exterior, depicting the tower of the building as a woman's leg and foot, 1929.

ArchivalResource: ca. 34 linocuts some col 46 x 36 cm. or smaller; 15 boxes (ca. 530 drawings)

http://archives.nypl.org/the/22136 View

Helen Hayes papers

Title: Helen Hayes papers

The Helen Hayes papers span the years 1817–1963 and consist of correspondence, the majority from friends and colleagues; speeches and writings, including drafts and handwritten index cards of speeches; clippings from her earliest days in theater and covering her work in film, television, and radio; programs for theatrical productions and awards ceremonies; awards and ephemera including her honorary degrees, appointments to committees, and citations for her charitable work; designs including costume designs for theatrical productions and artwork created by friends and colleagues; photographs, including family photographs, candid shots and professional portraits from childhood, production stills and publicity from theater, film, and radio, and portraits by famous photographers; and scrapbooks, some dedicated to particular theatrical productions and others that cover all aspects of her career and life.

ArchivalResource: 29 linear feet (42 boxes)

https://archives.nypl.org/the/21836 View

Romero, Ramon. "Crescendo!!!" : a psychological play / by Ramon Romero & Harriet Hinsdale ; with thematic music by Sigmund Romberg.

Title: "Crescendo!!!" : a psychological play / by Ramon Romero & Harriet Hinsdale ; with thematic music by Sigmund Romberg. [194-]

ArchivalResource: [124] leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32173217 View

Frueh, Alfred Joseph, 1880-1968. Alfred Frueh caricatures, 1906-1962.

Title: Alfred Frueh caricatures, 1906-1962.

Black and white original caricatures and color linocuts of theatrical productions and personalities.

ArchivalResource: ca. 34 linocuts : some col. ; 46 x 36 cm. or smaller.15 boxes (ca. 530 drawings) : some col. ; 75 x 60 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778485489 View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - performance file.

Title: The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - performance file. 1994.

ArchivalResource: 7 files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626108340 View

Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Human interest story : typescript, [1935].

Title: Human interest story : typescript, [1935].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (14 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270705620 View

Florence Ryerson papers, 1924-1948.

Title: Florence Ryerson papers, 1924-1948.

Collection consists of Ryerson's diaries, correspondence, notes, and memoranda.

ArchivalResource: .9 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615889 View

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Ben Hecht papers, 1879-1983.

Title: Ben Hecht papers, 1879-1983.

Correspondence, works, subject files, legal and financial materials, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting the life and literary output of Ben Hecht, his wife Rose, and his actress daughter Jenny.

ArchivalResource: 94 cubic ft. (144 boxes and 19 oversize boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56617479 View

Florence Ryerson papers, 1924-1948

Title: Florence Ryerson papers 1924-1948

Florence Ryerson (1892-1965) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Collection consists of Ryerson's diaries, correspondence, notes, and memoranda. Work diaries kept by Ryerson, chiefly at her homes in Beverly Hills and Canoga Park, California, describe her life and work; the writing of her plays with the aid of her husband, Colin Clements, including "Harriet," based upon the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "June Mad," "Strange Bedfellows," and "Welcome Home"; her work as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; and her personal life. Also, correspondence with literary agents and producers, and production notes and memoranda relating to the staging of "Harriet" in New York City in collaboration with Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes. Includes references to stage and screen personalities and Ryerson's reaction to international events in the World War II period.

ArchivalResource: .9 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2657 View

MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956. Papers, ca. 1920-1957.

Title: Papers, ca. 1920-1957.

Papers of a noted playwright and screenwriter, consisting of scripts and related notes for motion pictures such as Gunga Din (RKO, 1939), Wuthering Heights (UA, 1939), and The Senator Was Indiscreet (Universal, 1947), and for plays such as Lulu Belle (1926).

ArchivalResource: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and.1 reel of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122417062 View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - reviews and articles.

Title: The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - reviews and articles. 1994.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626108345 View

Robert H. Davis Papers, 1905-1935

Title: Robert H. Davis Papers 1905-1935

Incoming correspondence from literary figures (Zane Grey, Edgar Lee Masters, H.L. Mencken, Mary Roberts Rinehart); politicians (Fred O’Connor, James Phelan); artists (Frederick MacMonnies, Frank O. Salisbury, Herb Roth), and various notables from the turn of the century through the 1930s, most of whom Davis photographed or wrote about in his New York Sun column. Two manuscript items: a typescript ’Synopsis of the Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss’ by E. Phillips Oppenheim, and typescript notes of a story to be called ’The Latchkey,’ attributed to A.E.W. Mason.

ArchivalResource: 97 items (SC)

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/d/davis_rh.htm View

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Papers of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald [manuscript] 1915-1935 (1971).

Title: Papers of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald [manuscript] 1915-1935 (1971).

The collection contains typescripts for The fiend, Her last case, and Magnetism by Fitzgerald, and Show Mr. and Mrs. F to Number ____, in collaboration with Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Letters to Ruth Howard Sturtevant Smith describe student life at Princeton, family and social life in St. Paul, Minn., his writings and publications, friends, religion, U.S. Army service, and marriage to Zelda Sayre. A number of nonsense poems, limericks, and satirical short, short stories, & pen and ink sketches are in these letters. Letters to other correspondents, including David Balch, Dayton Kohler, Joseph Hergesheimer, Charles MacArthur, George Northrop, and Herbert Simon concern his literary career, travels, Zelda's mental illness, his daughter Scottie, and recommendations for Alycia Wooton; the proof for Exiles from paradise, by Sara Mayfield is included. Sherwood Anderson, John Peale Bishop, Joan Crawford, Robert Frost, Ben Hecht, Ernest Hemingway, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, James Augustine Ryan, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Newton Booth Tarkington and Herbert George Wells are all briefly mentioned as are a variety of 1920s periodicals to which Fitzgerald contributed.

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647946025 View

Lillian Gish papers, 1909-1992

Title: Lillian Gish papers 1909-1992

The Lillian Gish papers (75 lf.) span the years 1909-1992 and consist of correspondence including letters from friends, family, fans and business associates, personal papers, business, legal and financial documents, scripts, writings, photographs including early D.W. Griffith silent film photographs both candid shots taken during shooting and film stills, portraits by famous photographers, personal and family photographs, publicity and production photographs and snapshots, scrapbooks on the careers of both Dorothy and Lillian Gish, programs for early silent films and theatrical productions, clippings and ephemera that document the life and career of Lillian and Dorothy Gish from the early 1900's until Lillian's death in 1993.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21463 View

Stevens, George, 1904-1975. Gunga Din / George Stevens, réal. ; Ben Hecht, Charles Mac Arthur, Rudyard Kipling, aut. adaptés ; Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, scénario ; Alfred Newman, comp. ; Cary Grant, Victor Mc Laglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr... [et al.], act.

Title: Gunga Din / George Stevens, réal. ; Ben Hecht, Charles Mac Arthur, Rudyard Kipling, aut. adaptés ; Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, scénario ; Alfred Newman, comp. ; Cary Grant, Victor Mc Laglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr... [et al.], act.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767351573 View

Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Wuthering heights : mimeograph copy of typescript, [1937].

Title: Wuthering heights : mimeograph copy of typescript, [1937].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 120 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270835552 View

Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Swan song : typescript, [19--].

Title: Swan song : typescript, [19--].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 100 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270702040 View

New Yorker records

Title: New Yorker records

Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.

ArchivalResource: 1058.76 linear feet; 2566 boxes; 7 microfilm reels; 18 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2236 View

Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Title: Robert E. Sherwood papers, 1917-1968 (inclusive), 1934-1955 (bulk).

Letters, compositions, and other papers of the American writer Robert E. Sherwood.

ArchivalResource: 78 boxes and 1 oversize vololume (27 linear ft.).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00564/catalog View

Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Wuthering Heights : [screenplay / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur].

Title: Wuthering Heights : [screenplay / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur]. 1938.

ArchivalResource: 123 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4024861 View

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993,. An oral history interview with Helen Hayes / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Nyack, New York, 1991 July 25 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Helen Hayes / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Nyack, New York, 1991 July 25 : recording and transcript.

Hayes gives the history of her acquaintance with Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; and relates her experiences in recording Mine eyes have seen the glory (1942), and in touring with Lenya in A candle in the wind. Discussion relates to Maxwell Anderson, Ben Hecht, Lotte Lenya, Charles MacArthur, Archibald MacLeish, and Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (16 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579830 View

Rouben Mamoulian Papers, 1740-1987, (bulk 1906-1987)

Title: Rouben Mamoulian Papers 1740-1987 (bulk 1906-1987)

Theatrical and film director. Correspondence, diaries, scripts, production material, speeches, writings, printed matter, scrapbooks, memorabilia and other papers relating to Mamoulian's life and career.

ArchivalResource: 59,000 items; 209 containers plus 48 oversize and 12 artifacts; 102 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010225 View

Stevens, George, 1904-1975. Gunga Din / George Stevens, réal. ; Ben Hecht, Charles Mac Arthur, Rudyard Kipling, aut. adaptés ; Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, scénario ; Alfred Newman, comp. ; Cary Grant, Victor Mc Laglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr... [et al.], act.

Title: Gunga Din / George Stevens, réal. ; Ben Hecht, Charles Mac Arthur, Rudyard Kipling, aut. adaptés ; Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol, scénario ; Alfred Newman, comp. ; Cary Grant, Victor Mc Laglen, Douglas Fairbanks jr... [et al.], act.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/690957614 View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - house program.

Title: The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - house program. 1994.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626108343 View

Kauser, Alice, ca. 1872-1945. Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Title: Papers of Alice Kauser, ca. 1895-1940 (inclusive).

Contains mostly correspondence and some scripts.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5,000 letters (17 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612377100 View

Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939. Salvation; a play in three acts, by Sidney Howard and Charles MacArthur.

Title: Salvation; a play in three acts, by Sidney Howard and Charles MacArthur. c1927.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44165319 View

Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964. Trilby : screen play : mimeograph copy of typescript, 1949 Apr. 15.

Title: Trilby : screen play : mimeograph copy of typescript, 1949 Apr. 15.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (ca. 130 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270754502 View

MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956. Ladies and gentlemen; [a comedy by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht; from a drama by L. Bush-Fekete]

Title: Ladies and gentlemen; [a comedy by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht; from a drama by L. Bush-Fekete] [1939?]

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (various pagings) 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44426390 View

Thomas J. Dodd Papers, undated, 1919-1971.

Title: Thomas J. Dodd Papers undated, 1919-1971.

The Thomas J. Dodd Papers illuminate the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years (1959-1971) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-1946.

ArchivalResource: 220.0 Linear feet

http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/Dodd_Thomas/MSS19940065.html View

Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980. Papers, 1799-1995 and undated

Title: Edwin Way Teale Papers undated, 1799-1995

Edwin Way Teale, Connecticut-based naturalist, was the author of thirty-two books. His papers include field notes and drafts for each of his books, early childhood writings, professional writings for magazines, newspapers and book reviews, correspondence- both personal and professional, personal and family documents, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as his photographs (prints, negatives, and transparencies) and his personal library. There is also one box of original John Burroughs material Teale collected over the years.

ArchivalResource: 238.0 Linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860134418 View

Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

Title: Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978.

20th century souvenir programs primarily of motion pictures.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02211/catalog View

Shaw Festival Collection (University of Guelph). The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - teachers' study guide.

Title: The Front Page / by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur ; directed by Neil Munro, 1994 - teachers' study guide. 1994.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626108342 View