Lonesome Dove Television Miniseries Production Archives 1985-1990

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Lonesome Dove Television Miniseries Production Archives 1985-1990

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The archive contains scripts, memos, letters, notes, production forms, set and costume sketches, set blueprints, photographs, props, costumes, videotapes, audiocassettes and a laser videodisc. The material details every aspect of the production--from the writing of the teleplay through the budgeting, casting, planning, scheduling, filming, publicity and distribution. Lonesome Dove

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Southwestern Writers Collection, Special Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos

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Wittliff, William D.

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Award winning, Austin-based publisher, photographer, and screenwriter William D. "Bill" Wittliff is perhaps best known as the screenwriter and executive producer of the television miniseries, Lonesome Dove (1989). Mr. Wittliff and his wife Sally, are also the founding donors of the Southwestern Writers Collection (1986) and the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography (1996), both at the Albert B. Alkek Library, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. F...

Lonesome Dove Television Miniseries

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The Lonesome Dove miniseries originated from a chance meeting between Motown Productions president Suzanne de Passe and author Larry McMurtry in which de Passe asked McMurtry about his current project. McMurtry subsequently sent a copy of his unpublished Lonesome Dove to de Passe who quickly snatched up the film rights. The book was published in June 1985, and went on to spend 20 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. It received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize, the Spin Award for Be...