Papers, 1960-1961.

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Papers, 1960-1961.

Collection consists of 7 variant scripts for the film How the West was won, and related materials by James R. Webb.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7419597

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...