Overview
Typescript photocopies and mimeographs of screenplays and scripts for American television and film productions.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1994
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
15 linear feet (33 boxes)Mimeographed and photocopied typescripts of film and television scripts and screenplays for production. Includes scripts for Airplane, Animal House, Atlantic City, That Championship Season, The Deerhunter, Nijinsky, An Officer and a Gentleman, Popeye, Pretty Baby, Romancing the Stone, About Last Night, The Sure Thing, Casablanca, Chinatown, The River, The Dreamer, Star Trek, Top Gun, Remember the Night, Raging Bull, Once Upon a Time in America, Much Ado, Nashville, Aliens, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, and many others. Script authors include: Steven L. Bloom, Jonathan Roberts, Michael McDowell, David Lynch, Paddy Chayefsky, Buck Henry, Harold Ramis, David Mamet, John Guare, Franco Zeffirelli, Nora Ephron, Thomas Babe, Larry Gelbart, James L. Brooks, Robert Towne, Preston Sturges, Orson Welles, and Larry McMurtry. Original Broadway casts include: Olive Stanton; Peggy Coudray; Charles Niemeyer; Maynard Holmes, and others.
Arrangement
Arranged primarily alphabetically by title of production; end of collection is not in alphabetical order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of various sources; received at various dates. See items for accession information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt and Melanie Wisner
- Title
- Screenplays and scripts, 1939-1994: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02391
Repository Details
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