Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965.

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Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965.

The collection contains multiple drafts, revision, carbons, and a final script, 1951, for " Requiem for a Nun," many with corrections by William Faulkner. Correspondence among Faulkner, Ford, Saxe Cummins and Zachary Scott discusses the play. The collection also includes a radio program tape of Scott and Ford discussing the play, New York and London production scripts (props, actors, lights, prompters), and business. The collection also includes some personal correspondence regarding the productions; photographs of Faulkner, including some by Anthony Armstrong Jones, 1st earl of Snowden; box office statements for U.S. productions; English translations of reviews of European productions; and John J. Burke's "Guilt and Redemption: an Analysis of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun." Miscellaneous items include a script and some publicity items for "William Faulkner's Mississippi," narrated by Scott and Montgomery Clift, a carbon typescript of "The wishing Tree, " 1948, inscribed to Shelley Scott, and an electrostatic copy of David McCain's essay on "Absalom, Absalom."

300 items (3 cubic ft.)2 sound reels (T-592)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337461

University of Virginia. Library

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McKain, David W.

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Award winning author and educator, McKain grew up in rural Pennsylvannia and attended the University of Connecticut. After a brief stint working for Holt, Rinehart & Winston and McGraw-Hill, McKain returned to the University of Connecticut to pursue his doctorate, which he completed in 1969. McKain is a retired University of Connecticut (at Avery Point) faculty member and he also served as a visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1989. From the description of D...

Burke, John J.

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Scott, Zachary, d. 1965.

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Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of, 1930-

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Cummins, Saxe,

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Scott, Shelley

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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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Ford, Ruth, 1911-2009

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Actress. From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford [manuscript], 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647845310 From the description of Papers of Ruth Ford, 1947-1965. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32136577 Actress Ruth Ford was born on July 7, 1911 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to Charles and Gertrude Cato Ford. Her parents owned and managed hotels in several southern towns; as a result Ford and her brother, the poet, novelist and...

Clift, Montgomery

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Montgomery Clift was born in Omaha, Nebraska on October 17, 1920, hours after his twin sister Roberta (Ethel). He lived with his father William Brooks Clift, his mother Ethel "Sunny" Fogg Clift, and his older brother William Brooks, Jr. In the mid 1920s his family moved to Chicago and later, in the early 1930s the family settled in New York City. At the age of twelve, Montgomery Clift made his first stage appearance in an amateur production of As Husbands Go in Sarasota,...