Typed letter : [Beverly Hills, Calif.], to John Steinbeck and Elia Kazan, 1950 May 3.

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Typed letter : [Beverly Hills, Calif.], to John Steinbeck and Elia Kazan, 1950 May 3.

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Concerning the script for the film Viva Zapata!, remarking that it is "exciting, dramatic, and enlightening" but that it will be expensive to produce and that not many pictures about Mexico have been financially successful. Noting that he likes the script because "it is a great story regardless of background or nationality" and suggesting that it be cast with unknown actors. Discussing five points at length: 1. on whether to use a Corrida singer as the narrator; 2. a confusing plot point in scene 162; 3. Zapata's search for a leader; 4. reinserting Zapata's premonition that he is about to die; and 5. the need to shorten the script by twenty pages. Followed by several precise edits, suggestions and queries regarding specific points in the script.

1 item (17 p.) ; 28 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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