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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt8k4039d4 No online items Inventory of the Film and Television Screenplay Collection Katie Duvall William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 Los Angeles, CA 90045-8200 Phone: (310) 338-5710 Fax: (310) 338-5895 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.lmu.edu/specialcollections.htm © 2011 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Inventory of the Film and 102 1 Television Screenplay Collection Inventory of the Film and Television Movie Screenplay Collection Collection number: 102 William H. Hannon Library Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California Processed by: Katie Duvall Date Completed: 2011 Encoded by: Katie Duvall © 2011 Loyola Marymount University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Film and Television Movie Screenplay collection Dates: 1924-2005 Collection number: 102 Creator: Unknown Collection Size: 63 archival document boxes26.25 linear feet Repository: Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90045-2659 Abstract: This collection consists of screenplays, dating from 1924-2005, donated by Father Michael Mandala, S. J., of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Hollywood, CA. The provenance of the materials is unknown, but it is thought that Blessed Sacrament Church gained possession of the scripts through a parishioner. Blessed Sacrament then sought out the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount University, as the repository for these screenplays. Included in this collection are film scripts, made-for-television movie scripts and non-script materials including press packets, storyboards, preliminary production information and treatments. Physical location: Collection is stored on site. Appointments are required to research the collection. Languages: Languages represented in the collection:English Access Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University. Publication Rights Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or executors. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Series number, Box number, Film and Television Movie Screenplay Collection, Collection 102, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University. Acquisition Information Father Michael Mandala, S.J., Blessed Sacrament Church, Hollywood, California. Accession number: 2011.9. Custodial History The donation of the screenplays to Blessed Sacrament Church was made by an unknown parishioner. Collection Description Included in this collection are film screenplays, made-for-television movie screenplays and non-screenplay materials including press packets, storyboards, preliminary production information and treatments dating from 1924-2005. The Inventory of the Film and 102 2 Television Screenplay Collection provenance of the materials is unknown, but it is thought that Blessed Sacrament Church may have gained possession of the scripts through a parishioner. Notations in some of the screenplays indicate they may have been purchased in used bookstores or at auctions or photocopied from local library collections. Others may be screenplays received by a professional in the entertainment industry over the normal course of business as indicated by highlighting and notations within the screenplays and script covers from talent agencies. The screenplays include some of the great films of Hollywood history: "Dark Victory", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and "the Godfather", are just some examples. Arrangement The collection is divided into series based on type of screenplay: those for the cinema (Series 1) and those for television (Series 2). In addition to these series, Series 3 accounts for loose material that came with the collection, eg, storyboards and press packets, mostly for films from the 1980s and the 1990s. Series 1. Film Screenplays Subseries a. 1920's Subseries b. 1930's Subseries c. 1940's Subseries d. 1950's Subseries e. 1960's Subseries f. 1970's Subseries g. 1980's Subseries h. 1990's Subseries i. 2000's Subseries j. undated Series 2. Made for Television Movie Screenplays. Series 3. Non-Screenplay Materials Indexing Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog. Motion picture plays Film and Television Television Scripts Separated Material Water damaged screenplays were removed from the collection. Series 1 Film Screenplays 1924-2005 Physical Description: 57 boxes Scope and Content Note This series contains screenplays for feature films. The version or draft of the screenplay is indicated in the item record where relevant. Subseries A. 1920's 1924-1929 Physical Description: 1 box Box 1 Ella Cinders. Screenwriter: Louis Stevens 1926 Box 1 Fast Company. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Florence Ryerson 1929 Box 1 Monsieur Beaucaire. Copy of annotated version. probably 1924 Box 1 The Wild Party. Continuity and dialogue. Screenwriter: E. Lloyd Sheldon 1929 Subseries B. 1930's 1930-1939 Physical Description: 9 boxes Box 1 A Man From Wyoming. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Albert Shelby Le Vino and John V.A. Weaver 1930 Box 1 Anything Goes 1936 Box 1 Blonde Trouble. Release dialogue script. 1937 Box 1 Blonde Venus. Release dialogue script. 1932 Box 1 Bluebeard's Eigth Wife. Release dialogue script. 2 copies. 1938 Box 1 Cradle Song. Release dialogue script. 1933 Box 1 Dark Victory. Screenwriter: Casey Robinson probably 1938 Box 2 Desert Gold. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Stuart Anthony and Robert Yost 1936 Box 2 Dude Ranch. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Percy Heath, Grover Jones and Lloyd Corrigan 1931 Box 2 Easy Living. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Preston Sturges 1937 Inventory of the Film and 102 3 Television Screenplay Collection Series 1Film Screenplays 1924-2005 Subseries B.1930's 1930-1939 Box 2 Give Me Your Heart. Final. Screenwriter: Casey Robinson 1936 Box 2 I'm No Angel. First white script. Paramount Studios stamp on cover. Screenwriter: Mae West 1933 Box 2 Invitation to Happiness. Release dialogue script. 1939 Box 2 Jamaica Inn. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Sidney Gilliat and Joan Harrison 1939 Box 2 Love Me Tonight. First white script. Paramount Studios stamp on cover. Screenwriter: Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young and George Marion, Jr. 1932 Box 2 Madame Racketeer. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Harvey Gates 1932 Box 3 Madison Square Garden. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson 1932 Box 3 Murder on a Bridle Path. Auction slip enclosed: "a Xerox copy probably created around 1970. A lot of work for a nothing film. Mint condition." Screenwriter: Dorothy Yost 1936 Box 3 Murder on the Blackboard. Cutting continuity. Auction slip enclosed: "Max Steiner war musical director on this film, and Walter Plunkett did the costumes. This is a studio xerox of the cutting continuity, created around 1970. Mint condition." Screenwriter: Willis Goldbeck 1934 Box 3 Rendezvous at Midnight 1934 Box 3 The Beachcomber. 2 copies. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Bartlett Cormack 1938 Box 3 The Cat and the Canary. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Walter DeLeon and Lynn Starling 1939 Box 3 The Crusades. Release dialogue script. 1935 Box 3 The Hatchet Man (aka The Honorable Mr. Wong). Final. Screenwriter: J. Grubb Alexander 1931 Box 4 The Magnificent Fraud. Release dialogue script. Screenwriter: Gilbert Gabriel and Walter Ferris 1939 Box 4 The Old Fashioned Way. 2 copies. Original Paramount cover and stamp. 1934 Box 4 The Old Maid. Parts 1, 2, 3 revised final. Photocopy (possibly from copy at USC). Screenwriter: Casey Robinson 1939 Box 4 The Penquin Pool Murder. Cutting continuity. Auction slip enclosed: "A Xerox copy of the original cutting continuity. Mint condition." Screenwriter: Willis Goldbeck 1932 Box 4 The Petrified Forest. Revised final. Auction slip enclosed: ""A xerox script done by the studio around 1970." 1935 Box 4 The Roaring Twenties. Continuity and dialogue. Screenwriter: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay and Robert Rosson probably 1939 Box 5 The Sisters. Dialogue transcript. Screenwriter: Milton Krims 1938 Box 5 The Sisters. Revised final. Screenwriter: Milton Krims 1938 Box 5 The Way to Love. Release dialogue script. 1933 Box 5 The Working Man. Final. Screenwriter: Charles Kenyon 1932 Box 5 The World Moves On. Part 1 revised final. Screenwriter: Jerry Wald and Richard Mccaulay 1939 Box 5 Tillie and Gus (or Odds are Even). First script. 2 copies. Original Paramount cover and stamp. Screenwriter: Walter DeLeon and Francis Martin 1933 Box 6 Union Pacific. Details shots and dialogue. Screenwriter: Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan, and Jesse Lasky, Jr. 1939 Box 6 We Shall Meet Again. Part 1 final. Note included w/ script "pgs. 78 and 79 missing in USC copy xeroxed from (scenes 111 through beginning of 116)." Screenwriter: Warren