Noel Behn papers >circa 1950-1998

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Noel Behn papers >circa 1950-1998

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The papers feature the materials from Noel Behn's career as an author and a producer; and, include manuscripts (by him and other authors), personal notebooks, appointment books, research materials (clippings, magazines, printouts, off-prints, related to Hauptman-Lindbergh case and other famous criminal cases, and books by other authors, heavily annotated), annotated texts and proofs, actors' portfolios, Writers' Guild of America documents, legal and financial papers, and Correspondence.

93.0 Linear feet; (183 manuscript boxes, 1 carton, 2 flat boxes)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6650512

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Behn, Noel

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Biography Noel Behn was a novelist, screenwriter, theatrical producer, and actor who spent his whole creative life in Manhattan. A graduate of Stanford University, class of 1950, Behn was active in the New York Theater Community for more than 50 years as the producing director of the Cherry Lane Theater, a pioneer of the off Broadway theater movement. Among the influential works premiered there under his direction were Sean O’Casey’s "Purple ...

Fontana, Tom, 1951?-....

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Television writer-producer. Buffalo, N.Y. native and 1973 graduate of Buffalo State College. Writer-producer of the television series St. Elsewhere (1983-1988), Homicide: Life on the Street (1992-1999), Oz, and others. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Emmy, Peabody, Writers Guild of America, and Humanitas Prize. Also honored by his alma mater as Distinguished Alumni in 1997. From the description of Collection, 1983-[ongoing]. (Buffalo State College...