MGM and Twentieth Century-Fox screenplays, 1931-1963 (bulk 1937-1955). [1931-1963]

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983

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Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. Born in Brooklyn, the oldest of four children. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That A...

Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945

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Composer and songwriter Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is best remembered for his Broadway and film work including the lovely melodies from Showboat, "Old Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," and "Bill," as well as standards such as "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The collection consists primarily of show music, including some holograph sketches. There are many full and vocal scores in the hand of Kern's orchestrators and arrangers, especially Frank Saddler and Robert Russ...

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989

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Irving Berlin (1888-1989), a writer and composer of popular songs, wrote "I Like Ike", which was used by Eisenhower's staff during the 1952 presidential campaign. Eisenhower presented Berlin with a special gold medal from the U.S. Congress in 1955 in recognition of his patriotic and popular songs. ...

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

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George Gershwin was a composer and pianist; his best-known works are Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor....

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

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Richard Rodgers, composer and producer, was born in New York on June 28, 1902. He composed his first song, My Auto Show Girl when he was fourteen years old. (This is included in the collection Box 16, Folder 6) In 1918 Rodgers met his first professional partner, Lorenz Hart. Together they presented their first hit show, The Garrick Gaieties in 1925. In 1929 Rodgers and Hart appeared in a two-reel autobiographical short, Masters of Melodyproduced by Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and written and di...

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960

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Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, whose musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music....

Hovey, Tamara

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Macaulay, Richard, 1909-1969

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Ephron, Henry, 1912-1992

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Praskins, Leonard

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Ludwig, William, 1912-1999.

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Gomberg, Sydelle

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Sy Gomberg was a fiction writer, a film writer, and a television writer and producer. He was the creater of the television lawyer drama series, "The Law and Mrs. Jones", staring James Whitmore. From the description of Law and Mr. Jones Television film 1960-1962 (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 60664699 ...

Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a leading American film production company, was established in 1924, an amalgam of three older production companies: Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures, and was under the corporate control of the exhibiting concern, Loew's Inc. From the guide to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films and personalities scrapbooks, 1920-1944, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the ...

Larkin, John Francis, -1965

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Cahn, Sammy

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Composer of "Love and marriage" and other songs. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Beverly Hills, Calif., to Lucretia [Shaler?], 1976 June 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906654 ...

Englund, Ken

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Kenneth Arthur Englund was born and educated in Chicago, and lived in California. He was a playwright and magazine writer, but is best known as a screenwriter, working on more than twenty movies and the television shows My Three Sons and Bewitched. Everett Freeman was born in New York and worked as a writer and producer in movies, radio, and television. From the description of The secret life of Walter Mitty : [screenplay], 1946 March 15. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). Wo...

Hoffenstein, Samuel, 1889-1947

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Poet and screenwriter. From the description of Year in, you're out [manuscript], 1930 (ca.). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816305 Samuel Hoffenstein (1889-1947) graduated from Lafayette College is 1911. He had a successful career as a journalist, poet, and screenwriter. His humorous writing was featured in many newspapers, including the New York Herald Tribune. He published several popular books of poetry, and co-authored fifteen screenplays. Hoffenstein w...

Jessel, George, 1898-1981

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Entertainer and actor. From the description of Autograph card signed : [New York], to Irene [Gallagher], [192-]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270914791 ...

Comden, Betty

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Betty Comden, part of the successful team of Comden and Green, collaborated as a lyricists with Adolph Green from 1938 until the his death in 2002. Betty Comden was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from New York University, she began her career as a performer and writer in a cabaret act called The Revuers . Adolph Green was born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York. After a short career on Wall Street, Mr. Green joined The Revuers in 1938 and the Comden and Green team was formed. C...

Bullock, Walter, 1907-1953

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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

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American distribution and production corporation of motion pictures. From the description of Pressbooks, 1977-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391955 American film producing and distributing corporation formed by the merger of two companies in the early half of the century. In 1915 William Fox began the Fox Film Corporation; and in 1925, he bought controlling interest in the then largest theater in the world, the Roxy Theater of New York, N.Y. The Roxy boasted a seati...

Sale, Richard, 1911-1993

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Patrick, John, 1905-1995

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Froeschel, George

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Kingsley, Dorothy

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Manning, Bruce

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Logan, Helen, 1906-1989

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Ellis, Robert, 1892-1974

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Robert Ellis (1892-1974) was born in Brooklyn, New York and was an American film actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in 166 films between 1913 and 1934. He also wrote for a 65 films and directed a further 61. Ellis died in Santa Monica, California. From the description of Robert Ellis papers, 1913-1918. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 28083246 ...

Levien, Sonya, 1888?-1960

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Sonya Levien was born in Russia, most likely around 1888, although her "official" birthdate is usually given as December 25, 1898. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was eight years old, settling on the East Side of New York City. She worked her way through New York University Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1909. Temperamentally unsuited to the practice of the law, she secured a position on the Woman's Journal. She joined the staff of Metropolitan magazine and married ...

Reinhardt, Betty.

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Ware, Darrell, 1906-1944

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Sheldon, Sidney

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Reisch, Walter

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Kanin, Michael, 1910-1993

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Michael and Fay Kanin were one of the most prominent husband-wife collaborative teams in the performing arts responsible for writing, directing and producing hundreds of motion pictures, plays and works of fiction. Michael Kanin was born in Rochester, NY, studied at the Arts Students League in New York City and at the New York School of Design. He was an artist and musician before turning to writing, producing, and directing for the stage and screen. Michael, along with Ring Lardner...

Connell, Richard Edward, 1893-1949

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Goode, Ruth Ann

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Ruby, Harry

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Songwriter; interviewee b.1895, d.1974. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry Ruby : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684149 American composer. From the description of Harry Ruby letter to Irving Brown, 1963 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 722849700 From the description of Harry Ruby letter to Irving Brown, 1961 Sept. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 722849664 From the de...

Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979

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American location manager for Twentieth Century-Fox. From the description of Preservation photocopy of a telegram : Los Angeles, Calif., to John Steinbeck, 1949 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777685508 Epithet: of Twentieth-Century-Fox Film Corporation British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0001ac Screenplay writer, author, and motion picture director. From the guide ...

Baldwin, Earl, 1901-1970

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Deutsch, Helen

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Raine, Norman Reilly, 1895-1971

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American screenwriter. From the description of Norman Reilly Raine collection, 1922-1976. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969175 ...

Johnson, Nunnally

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American screenwriter. From the description of Typed letter signed: Beverly Hills, Calif., to John [Steinbeck], 1950 Jan 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 777866986 Screenwriter, producer, director. From the description of Reminiscences of Nunnally Johnson : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481575 From the description of Reminiscences of Nunnally Johnson : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University ...

Previn, André, 1929-

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American conductor, pianist, and composer of German birth. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [s.l., 26 January 1968], to Ray Pitts [1968, Jan. 26]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270952249 Conductor, composer, pianist. From the description of Interview conducted by Dick Cavett, Apr. 27, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861658 ...

Lennart, Isobel

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Lennart (1915-1971) started working as a screenwriter in the early 1940s and is best known for writing the book and motion picture biography of Fanny Brice, "Funny Girl" which later appeared on Broadway. From the description of Papers, 1942-1969. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30847104 ...

Cork, Harry.

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Minnelli, Vincente

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Siegel, Sol C., 1903-1982

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Kanter, Hal

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Lewis, Albert, 1884-1978

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Binyon, Claude, 1905-1978

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Werris, Snag

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Cooper, Dorothy, 1912-

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Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990

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Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971

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Author, screenwriter. From the description of Reminiscences of Samuel Loebel Spewack : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131679 Authors, screenwriters; interviewees are married. From the description of Reminiscences of Samuel Loebel and Bella Cohen Spewack : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308382 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Samuel Spewack, 1899-1971 (Co...

Mahin, John Lee, 1902-1984

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Lewin, Albert E. (Albert Elmar)

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Albert E. Lewin was born on July 29, 1916 in New York City, New York. Lewin attended the Art Institute of Chicago and Los Angeles Valley College. He developed an early interest in comedy writing working as a cartoonist and comic artist for Colliers, Saturday evening post, and other magazines. He began writing for radio in 1938, writing jokes for Billy House's Wrigley Laughliner on the Columbia network. He contributed to radio programs working with a variety of talent including Don Ameche, Edgar ...

Hurok, Sol

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Wells, George, 1909-2000

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George Wells was a well known motion picture screenwriter and producer. Wells was born in New York City in 1909 and educated at New York University. He wrote the screenplays for a number of movies between the 1940s and 1970s, including "Merton of the Movies" (1947), "Designing Woman" (1957), "Where the Boys Are" (1960), and "Cover Me Babe" (1970). Wells won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay with "Designing Woman". In addition to his screenwriting activities, Wells also produce...

Styler, Burt

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Pasternak, Joe, 1901-1991

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Motion picture producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Pasternak: oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343173 ...

Spigelgass, Léonard

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Author, playwright and screenwriter. In a long career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, Spigelgass authored such popular and award-winning plays as I was a male war bride (1949), Because you're mine (1952), A majority of one (1958 stage and 1961 screenplay), Gypsy (1962 screenplay) and Dear me the sky is falling (1963). From the description of Papers, [ca. 1949]-1985. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 21072352 ...

Moll, Elick

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Moll was born on Mar. 20, 1907 in New York City; attended the Univ. of IL and the Univ. of Chicago; became a screenwriter for Samuel Goldwyn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Twentieth Century-Fox, as well as a television writer; contributed short stories to various magazines; published works include Night without sleep (1950), Seidman and Son (1958), Memoir of spring (1961), Mr. Seidman and the geisha (1962), Image of Tallie (1964), and The perilous spring of Morris Seidman (1972). From the...

Ryskind, Morrie, 1895-1985

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Morrie Ryskind, playwright, poet, and columnist, was born on October 20, 1895 in Brooklyn. After high school he attended The Columbia University School of Journalism where he served as editor of Columbia's humor magazine The Jester . In 1917, six weeks from graduation, Ryskind was expelled for writing an editorial which called Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler, "Czar Nicholas". Ryskind was later awarded his degree in 1942. Ryskind's professional career as a write...

Ephron, Phoebe, 1914-1971

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Lehman, Gladys

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Davies, Valentine, 1905-1961

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Tuchock, Wanda

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Wanda Tuchock (1898-1985) was a screenwriter and director during the twentieth century. Born in Pueblo, Colorado and educated at the University of Colorado and the University of California - Berkeley, Tuchock wrote screenplays for a number of popular movies from the 1920s through the 1960s, including "Hallelujah!" (1929), "Finishing School" (1934), and "Nob Hill" (1945). Tuchock co-directed "Finishing School," becoming the second woman to direct a motion picture with sound. Tuchock also worked o...

Green, Adolph

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Adolph Green (1915-2002) was a lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, and performer. Working with his lifelong writing partner, Betty Comden, Green co-authored the books and lyrics to some of the most important works of musical theater and film. From the description of Adolph Green papers, 1944-2002. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468166 Adolph Green was born in the Bronx, New York on December 2, 1915. After a brief stint ...

Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison), 1915-

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Miller, Winston, 1910-1994

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McGowan, J. P. (John P.), 1880-1952

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Oppenheimer, George

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George Oppenheimer, drama critic was born in New York City on February 7, 1900. He was co-founder of the Viking Press, a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a playwright, author and editor. He wrote the play HERE TODAY (1932) and collaborated on numerous films, among them, DAY AT THE RACES, BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940, TWO-FACED WOMAN, and THE WAR AGAINST MRS. HADLEY, for which he received an Oscar nomination. He also wrote bookson theater including THE VIEW FROM THE SIXTI...

Kurnitz, Harry

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Cummings, Jack, 1900-1989

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Lewis, Arthur, 1916-2006

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Freed, Arthur, 1894-1973

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Songwriter, producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Arthur Freed : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122632022 ...

Trotti, Lamar, 1900-1952

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Lamar Jefferson Trotti (1900-1952), screenwriter, born in Atlanta, Georgia. From the description of Lamar Trotti screenplays, 1930-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476835 Screenplay writer, author, and motion picture director. From the description of Brigham Young, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367264476 From the description of Brigham Young, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122351664 From the guide to the Collection on Brigham ...

Townsend, Leo, 1908-1987

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Tugend, Harry, 1898-1989

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...

O'Neal, Charles, 1904-1996

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American television and motion picture screenwriter and novelist. Father of Ryan O'Neal. From the description of Papers of Charles O'Neal, 1942-1982. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233101713 ...

Kanin, Fay

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Davis, Jerry, 1917-1991

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Fields, Joseph A., 1895-1966

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Loos, Mary

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Fields, Sidney

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Tunberg, Karl

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Miller, R. D. (Ronald Duncan), 1915-

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Thompson, Marian, 1899-1983

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Seaton, George, 1911-1979

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Motion-picture writer and director. From the description of Reminiscences of George Seaton : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122684126 ...