James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961

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James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961

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James R. Webb (1909-1974) wrote fiction for such magazines as , , and . He later became a Hollywood screenwriter and won a 1963 Academy Award for the original screenplay of (1962). The collection consists of 7 variant scripts for the film , and related materials by Webb. Saturday evening post Collier's Cosmopolitan How the West was won How the West was won

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Webb, James R

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Webb 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), C...