Papers, 1934-1968.

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Papers, 1934-1968.

Collection consists of 40 screenplays and related material by Edmund H. North. Includes One night of love, Young man with a horn, Flamingo road, Dark canyon (released as Colorado Territory), In a lonely place, Only the valiant, The day the earth stood still, Blue horizons (released as The far horizons), Destry, The proud ones, Reminiscences of a cowboy (released as Cowboy), Pilots for hire (released as The lady takes a flyer), and Sink the Bismarck!, and several drafts of the screenplay, Patton, written with Francis Ford Coppola. Also contains eleven scripts of orientation films made by the Signal Corps for the War Department during World War II, some of which were written by North, who also produced them.

4 boxes (2.0 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7429372

University of California, Los Angeles

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North, Edmund H., 1911-1990

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Edmund Hall North was born Mar. 12, 1911, in New York City; attended Stanford Univ. (1928-30); became a free-lance screenwriter in 1934, when he won the Screen Writers Guild Award for, "One night of love;" served as president of the screen branch of the Writers Guild of America, West (1956-57); won Screen Writers Guild Award and Academy Award for best story and screenplay for "Patton" in 1970; he died on Aug. 18, 1990 in Santa Monica, CA. From the description of Papers, 1934-1968. (U...