Papers, ca. 1925-2001 1955-1989.

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Papers, ca. 1925-2001 1955-1989.

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The collection consists of production and business files, original production drawings, posters, press clippings, sound recordings, and scripts documenting Stanley Chase's forty-year career as a producer in theater, film, and television. The production files contain contracts, correspondence, legal documents, memoranda, photographs, publicity materials and other miscellaneous papers. Of particular interest are the files pertaining to Chase's off-Broadway production of Kurt Weill and Berthold Brecht's The threepenny opera, and the Broadway plays, A moon for the misbegotten, The potting shed, and The cave dwellers at the Bijou Theatre. Important materials from the film series include production files, original production design drawings, and photographs for The hell with heroes (1968) and Colossus: the Forbin Project (1970), both created while Chase was an executive producer at Universal Studios. The collection also contains voluminous files related to Stanley Chase Productions, Inc. projects and Chase's work in television, including screenplays, story pitches, and memoranda.

105 boxes (52.5 linear ft.)12 oversize boxes.27 map folders.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Chase, Stanley Perkins, 1884-1951

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Stanley Chase was born Stanley Cohen on May 3, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New Utrecht High School in 1944, and enlisted in the Navy at age 17. He received his B.A. from New York University in 1949, and immediately pursued graduate study in drama at Columbia University. In 1950 Chase went to work for CBS Television and met Carmen Capalbo, with whom he eventually produced the record-breaking musical off-Broadway hit, The threepenny opera. Chase followed the success of that produ...

Stanley Chase Productions.

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