Val Lewton Papers 1924-1982 (bulk 1926-1951)

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Val Lewton Papers 1924-1982 (bulk 1926-1951)

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Motion picture producer, screenwriter, and novelist. Correspondence, film scripts, scrapbooks, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Lewton's career as a publicity writer and as a story editor for David O. Selznick at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1928-1942); as scriptwriter and producer of and other horror films for RKO Radio Pictures (1942-1947); and as novelist, especially as author of (1932). Cat People No Bed of Her Own

90 items; 3 containers plus 4 oversize; 6.2 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a leading American film production company, was established in 1924, an amalgam of three older production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and was under the corporate control of the exhibiting concern, Loew's Inc. From the guide to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks, 1920-1944, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the ...

Selznick, David O., 1902-1965

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Selznick was an American film producer. Chapman was an American playwright, theatrical consultant, professor of English literature, and Director of the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University. From the description of Letters to Robert Harris Chapman, 1956. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79662527 From the guide to the Letters to Robert Harris Chapman, 1956., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) The power companie...

RKO Radio Pictures

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RKO can be traced to a Milwaukee nickelodeon (1909); after a series of mergers it became the nucleus of Mutual Film Corp.; in 1928, it emerged as Radio-Keith-Orpheum and was involved in production, distribution, and exhibition; the studio employed many of the top creative talents of the 1930s and 40s and was responsible for film classics such as Citizen Kane, Bringing up baby, Suspicion, Gay divorcee, and The magnificent Ambersons; additionally RKO was the distributor of many of Samuel Goldwyn, ...

Lewton, Val

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Motion picture producer, screenwriter, and novelist. Born 1904; died 1951. From the description of Papers of Val Lewton, 1924-1982 (bulk 1926-1951). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81163531 Motion picture producer, screenwriter, and novelist; b. 1904; d. 1951. From the description of Papers, 1924-1982 (bulk 1926-1951). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149522 Biographical Note ...