Adrian and Joan Scott papers, 1940-1972

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Adrian and Joan Scott papers, 1940-1972

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah03238.xml

Adrian Scott was a screenwriter, televisionwriter, playwright, and motion picture producer from the 1930s to the 1970s.Joan Scott, who sometimes wrote under the pen name "Joanne Court" was a filmand television writer from the 1950s to the 1970s.

17.5 cubic ft. (41boxes)

eng,

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6405266

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68b1wv3 (corporateBody)

From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Adrian Scott and Joan Scott

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61104j9 (person)

Adrian Scott (1911-1972) was a screenwriter and motion picture producer with MGM and RKO from 1930-1947. In 1947 he was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, where he refused to answer the Committee's question if he was a member of the Communist Party. Scott was jailed for one year for Contempt of Congress and also fired by RKO. He was blacklisted as a member of the "Hollywood Ten," movie directors and writers who refused to testify. In 1957, Scott...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...