Webb, James R
Variant namesWebb was born on Oct. 4, 1909 in Denver, CO; graduated from Stanford Univ., 1930; from 1936 wrote fiction for such magazines as Saturday evening post, Collier's, and Cosmopolitan; became a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1930s writing for Roy Rogers westerns; served as secretary of the Screen Writers' Guild in 1950; won 1963 Academy Award for the original screenplay of How the West was won (1962); other script credits include: South of Santa Fe (1942), Apache (1954), The big country (1958), Cape Fear (1963), Cheyenne autumn (1964), They call me Mr. Tibbs (1970), and The organization (1971); he died in 1974.
From the description of Papers, 1960-1961. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40159999
Biography
Webb was born on October 4, 1909 in Denver, Colorado; graduated from Stanford University, 1930; from 1936 wrote fiction for such magazines as Saturday evening post, Collier's, and Cosmopolitan ; became a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1930s writing for Roy Rogers westerns; served as secretary of the Screen Writers' Guild in 1950; won 1963 Academy Award for the original screenplay of How the West was won (1962); other script credits include: South of Santa Fe (1942), Apache (1954), The big country (1958), Cape Fear (1963), Cheyenne autumn (1964), They call me Mr. Tibbs (1970), and The organization (1971); he died in 1974.
From the guide to the James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.)
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| creatorOf | Webb, James R. The long flight : screenplay / by James R. Webb. | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | |
| creatorOf | Webb, James R. The organization : screenplay, 1971 Mar. 22 / by James R. Webb. | Ohio State University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Souvenir programs of motion pictures, 1915-1978. | Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
| creatorOf | Webb, James R. Papers, 1960-1961. | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| creatorOf | James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961 | University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections. |
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| associatedWith | Mirisch Productions, Inc. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966. | person |
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| California, Southern |
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| Screenwriters |
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