Screenplay for Gretta, circa 1956-1980.

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Screenplay for Gretta, circa 1956-1980.

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The collection consists of the screenplay for First International Pictures' production of Erskine Caldwell's novel Gretta. The screenplay was written by Philip Yordan. Yordan has very freely adapted this work in his first draft, with little similarity to Caldwell's original. As of this date, the motion picture has not been produced.

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First International Pictures.

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Yordan, Philip

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American motion picture producer. From the description of Philip Yordan papers, 1977-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553647 From the guide to the Philip Yordan papers, 1977-1978, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Philip Yordan, an Oscar-winning writer, died on March 24 in San Diego, his family said. He was 88. Although he was most active in movies, Mr. Yordan's breakthrough came on Broadway in the 1940's with his play ''Anna Lucasta.'' It was t...

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...