http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6q2nb47s No online items Finding Aid for the Donald Spoto Papers LSC.1563 Finding aid by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé, 1999. UCLA Library Special Collections Online finding aid last updated on 2021 March 18. Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections Finding Aid for the Donald Spoto LSC.1563 1 Papers LSC.1563 Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Title: Donald Spoto papers Creator: Spoto, Donald, 1941- Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1563 Physical Description: 17 Linear Feet(34 boxes and 6 oversize boxes) Date (inclusive): circa 1940-1988 Abstract: Donald Spoto (1941- ) wrote biographical studies of film and theater personalities. The collection contains files relating to Spoto's biographies and includes books, magazines, interviews, bibliographies, holograph notes, cassette recordings, film scripts, letters, and galley proofs covering the lives of Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock, Lotte Lenya, Preston Sturges, and Laurence Olivier. Spoto's doctoral dissertation and two of his original screenplays are included as well. Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. For information about the access status of the material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed audiovisual materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page. Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright. Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use Papers cannot be photocopied, recorded, duplicated, or otherwise reproduced without written permission of Donald Spoto. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Donald Spoto papers (Collection 1563). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Provenance/Source of Acquisition Gift of Donald Spoto, 1988-92. Processing Information Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices. Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, 1999. UCLA Catalog Record ID UCLA Catalog Record ID: 3222234 Biography Spoto was born June 28, 1941 in New Rochelle, New York; BA, Iona College, 1963; MA (1966) and Ph.D. (1970), Fordham University; taught at New School for Social Research, New York City, 1975-86; began teaching at University of Southern California in 1987; visiting lecturer, British Film Institute, National Film Theatre, London, 1980-86; published biographical studies of filmmakers Stanley Kramer, Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, playwright Tennessee Williams, and actors Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Lotte Lenya, Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor, Ingrid Bergman, and James Dean. Scope and Content Collection contains files relating to Spoto's biographies of film and theater personalities. Research material is organized first by personality, then by work. Includes books, magazines, interviews, bibliographies, holograph notes, cassette recordings, film scripts, letters, and galley proofs covering lives of Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock, Lotte Lenya, Preston Sturges, Finding Aid for the Donald Spoto LSC.1563 2 Papers LSC.1563 and Laurence Olivier. Also includes Spoto's doctoral dissertation and two of Spoto's original screenplays. Organization and Arrangement Arranged in the following series: 1. Series 1. Biographical 2. Series 2. Tennessee Williams 3. Series 3. Alfred Hitchcock 4. Series 4. Lotte Lenya 5. Series 5. Preston Sturges 6. Series 6. Laurence Olivier 7. Series 7. Screenplays Items Removed from Collection Books Removed for Cataloging: • Leavitt, Richard F. The world of Tennessee Williams. With an introduction by Tennessee Williams. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c. 1978. First edition, signed by Richard Freeman Leavitt and Tennessee Williams. Copy number: 226/250. • Leavitt, Richard Freeman, comp. and ed. Ave atque vale! memorial pages preserving the final notices. .of Tennessee Williams . 1983?. Limited edition. .copy number 7. .is presented to Dakin Williams. • Van Antwerp, Margaret A., and Sally Johns, eds. Tennessee Williams . Afterword by Louis Auchincloss. Detroit: Gale Research Company. c. 1984. A Bruccoli Clark book. Dictionary of literary biography, documentary series, an illustrated chronicle, vol.4. • Williams, Tennessee. It happened the day the sun rose. Los Angeles, Sylvester & Orphanos, 1981. Copy 95 of 350. Subjects and Indexing Terms Motion picture producers and directors -- Research. Motion picture actors and actresses -- Research. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Archives. Olivier, Laurence Spoto, Donald, 1941- --Archives. Sturges, Preston. Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983. Hitchcock, Alfred Lenya, Lotte Biographical Series 1 box 10, folder 3 Christ's preaching to the dead: an exegesis of I Peter 3,19 and 4,6 . 1970. Scope and Content Spoto's dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Theology at Fordham University. Tennessee Williams Series 2 Books box 12 Wood, Audrey, with Max Wilk. Represented by Audrey Wood . Garden City: Doubleday. 1981. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. Where I live: selected essays . Edited by Christine R. Day. [New York]: New Directions. c. 1978. Finding Aid for the Donald Spoto LSC.1563 3 Papers LSC.1563 Tennessee Williams Series 2 Books box 12 Williams, Tennessee. The night of the iguana . 5th printing. [New York]: New American Library. c. 1961. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. Eight mortal ladies possessed: a book of stories . 2nd printing. New York: New Directions [1973]. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. In the winter of cities . New York: New Directions. 1964. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 12 Yacowar, Maurice. Tennessee Williams on film . New York: Frederick Ungar. c. 1977. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. The knightly quest: a novella and four short stories . [New York]: New Directions. c. 1966. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a hot tin roof . 5th printing. New York: New Directions. c. 1975. box 12 Williams, Edwina Dakin. Remember me to Tom . St. Louis: Sunrise. c. 1963. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 12 The Tennessee Williams newsletter. [vol.1 no.1], vol.1 no.2, vol.2 no.1-2, vol.3 no.2. 1979 Spring Scope and Contents note Minor annotations. box 12 Hirsh, Foster. A portrait of the artist: the plays of Tennessee Williams . Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1979. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 12 Bowles, Jane. Feminine wiles. Introduction by Tennessee Williams. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press. 1976. box 12 Williams, Tennessee. A streetcar named desire . With an introduction by the author. [New York]: New American Library. 21st printing. c. 1947. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 12 Tharpe, Jac, ed. Tennessee Williams: 13 essays . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1980. Scope and Contents note Holograph note by DS in back of book. box 13 Maxwell, Gilbert. Tennessee Williams and friends: an informal biography . Cleveland and New York: the World Publishing Company [1965]. Scope and Contents note Minor annotations. Inscribed: For Irwin T. Holtzman, sincerely, Gilbert Maxwell, New York, May 4, 1966. box 13 Williams, Tennessee. One arm. 5th printing. [New York]: a New Directions book. n.d. Scope and Contents note Annotations. Finding Aid for the Donald Spoto LSC.1563 4 Papers LSC.1563 Tennessee Williams Series 2 Books box 13 Weales, Gerald. Tennessee Williams. Minneapolis, University of Minnestoa Press. University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. c. 1965. General note (Catalog[?] / Gifts) box 13 Williams, Tennessee. Camino real. [New York]: a New Directions book. [?]. 1970 Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 13 Williams, Tennessee. Clothes for a summer hotel: a ghost play . [New York]: a New Directions book [1983]. box 13 Williams, Tennessee. Moise and the world of reason . New York: Simon and Schuster [1975]. General Physical Description note: Lacks dust jacket. Scope and Contents note Annotations. box 13 Williams, Tennessee. Androgyne, mon amour. Second printing. [New York]: New Directions [1977]. Scope and Contents note Minor annotations.