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A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights '56" draft script

 Collection — Box: BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589271]
Identifier: MSS 16120

Scope and Contents

A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights 56" draft script, (typescript)1956, for a television show based on a three-part scenario from short stories of Ernest Hemingway, and .03 cubic feet. This episode was unproduced but the series "Playwrights 56 produced by Fred Coe) ran on the National Broadcasting Company in 1955 for about a year.

Dates

  • Creation: 1956

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Biographical / Historical

A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll draft script for an unproduced episode of the television series "Playwrights 56" produced by Fred Coe and based on stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hotchner and Hemingway were friends and informal business partners.

The show featured small scale dramas, often set in small towns or working class city neighborhoods. Writers included Gore Vidal, Sumner Locke Elliott, and J. P. Miller.

Extent

0.03 Cubic Feet (One folder.)

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Royal Books by the Small Special Collections library at the University of Virginia on March 15, 2016.

Title
A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights '56" draft script
Status
Completed
Author
Ellen Welch
Date
5/10/17
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository

Contact:
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States