David Brown papers, 1934-2006.

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David Brown papers, 1934-2006.

The collection contains a wide range of material concerning the life and career of David Brown. There is correspondence, 1934-2006, with over 3,000 items including letters from Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, John Dos Passos, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. Edgar Hoover, Estes Kefauver, Spiro Agnew, Edward R. Murrow, Richard Nixon, John O'Hara among others. Production business files, covering several decades, contain production/shooting schedules, scripts and script drafts, screenings, crew lists, research, sketches, notes and clippings, and other documentation for numerous motion picture productions such as "The Robe", "The Sugarland Express" (1974), "Jaws" (1975) and its successors, "The Island" (1980), "The Verdict" (1982), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "A Few Good Men" (1992), and "The Saint" (1997). Production business files for stage productions are also included: "Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical" (2002), and "Showtune" (2003), among others. Manuscripts, notes, publisher's correspondence for Brown's books are contained including: "David Brown's Guide to Growing Gray", "Let Me Entertain You", among others. Biographical information is contained: resumes, psychological evaluation and study, and military records. There are also photographs from 1946-1990s with prominent figures such as Queen Elizabeth II and Hollywood personalities. Audio and video materials with radio and television appearances and some production material are included.

31.39 cubic ft. (39 boxes)

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Brown, David,

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Zanuck, Richard D.

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Brown, David, 1916-2010

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David Brown (b.1916) was a major motion picture and stage producer who partnered with Richard D. Zanuck, forming Zanuck/Brown Company (1972-1988). They produced numerous award-winning motion pictures including "The Sugarland Express" (1974), "Jaws" (1975), "Cocoon" (1985), and "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989). Stage productions of Brown include "Sweet Smell of Success: The Musical" (2002), "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (2005), and "Showtune" (2003). He published several popular books including "Let Me En...

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Brown, Helen Gurley

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Editor; Advertising copywriter; Journalist; Author; Secretary. Born Helen Gurley in Green Forest, Arkansas, 1922. She graduated from Woodbury Business College (Los Angeles) in 1941 and worked as a secretary and, later, as an advertising copywriter. She married editor and film executive, David Brown in 1959. She published her controversial best seller, Sex and the Single Girl (1962) and became editor of Cosmopolitan, formerly a failing general-interest magazine, in 1965. ...

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