Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell letters to Leonard and Sylvia Lyons, 1938-1945.

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Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell letters to Leonard and Sylvia Lyons, 1938-1945.

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The collection consists of fifteen items of correspondence, including letters, telegrams, and a postal card, written by Dorothy Parker and/or Alan Campbell to Leonard and Sylvia Lyons, 1938-1945. The letters include news of Parker and Campbell, including her bursitis, what they are working on, with often wry anecdotes about their friends and activities, mentioning Philip Barry, Alexander Woolcott, Leo McCarey, Gene Fowler, Garson Kanin, Lillian Hellman, the movie version of The Grapes of Wrath, Darryl Zanuck, Ruth Gordon, Sinclair Lewis, Alfred Lunt, Robert Sherwood, Robert Benchley, Gertrude Stein, David Niven, John O'Hara, and Pablo Picasso.

15 items.

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Campbell, Alan, 1905-1963

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Alan Campbell was an American actor and screenwriter who, with his wife, author Dorothy Parker, wrote screenplays for Hollywood studios during the 1930s. From the description of Alan Campbell and Dorothy Parker collection, [1930]-1949. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68804997 ...

Lyons, Leonard, 1906-1976

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Leonard Lyons, born Leonard Sucher, September 10, 1906, New York, New York, attended the City College of New York from 1924 to 1925, and received his Bachelor of Law degree from St. John's University College of Law in 1928. He was admitted to the New York Bar the same year, then to the Federal Bar in 1929, practicing law in New York City from 1929 to 1934. He married Sylvia R. Schonberger on November 29, 1934. From 1934 to 1974, he wrote The Lyons Den, a syndicated column for the New York Post. ...

Lyons, Sylvia

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Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967

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Author; interviewee married Alan Campbell. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Rothschild Parker : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86158240 Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in an upper-middle-class family of mixed heritage. Estranged from her parents due to her dislike of her strict, devout stepmother, she read voraciously and wrote verse. Seeking a career in literature, she worked for Vogue,...