Screenplays
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Written forms of stories prepared for motion picture productions, including description of characters, details of scenes and settings, dialogue, and stage directions.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
In Our Time screenplay
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032571418]
Identifier: MSS-16850
Content Description
This collection features a single screenplay for an unproduced film based on John H.N. Hemingway's memories of his parents Ernest and Hadley Hemingway. The script was written in 1984 by Denne Petitclerc (1929-2006), a journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway. "In Our Time" is based on the primary source material and recollections of John H.N. Hemingway and Petitclerc described in the first three pages of the script titled " A Note on the Sources of this Screenplay." The...
Dates:
January 16, 1984
In Our Time screenplay
Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032571418]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0098
Jamal Joseph "Liberated Territory" screenplay
Collection — Box BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16605
Robert L. Joseph screenplay of "The Sun Also Rises"
Collection — Box BW 37, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16606
Jerzy J. Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski screenplay As I Lay Dying
Collection — Box BW 38, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16609
Jacques Letellier script for film, "The Lottery in Babylon"
Collection — Box BW 8, Folder: 1 [X031589307]
Identifier: MSS 16194
Scope and Contents
Jacques Letellier script for film, "The Lottery in Babylon" 1960's, .03 cubic feet, a typed draft for an unproduced film based on the 1941 short story by Jorge Louis Borges.
Dates:
1960's
Dick Miller copy of "The Premature Burial" screenplay
Collection — Box BW 52, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16771
Content Description
This collection contains Dick Miller's working copy of the original screenplay for the 1962 film "The Premature Burial." Miller's only annotation to the script is blood dripping from the title in red holograph ink. Miller played the part of "Mole" in the film. This film was the director Roger Corman's third of seven Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, known collectively as the "Poe Cycle." Based on the 1844 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, and adapted to the screen by Charles Beaumont, noted horror...
Dates:
c. 1962
Michael Murphy "Seance" screenplay
Collection — Box BW 6, Folder: 1 [X031589270]
Identifier: MSS 16119
Scope and Contents
Michael Murphy's original screenplay Seance (1966; 0.03 cubic feet) was written for a television episode. It was part of a series but this episode was never produced. Each show was a seance, given by four "distinquished guests," and the specter they attempt to "recall." This episode is about Ernest Hemingway. Throughout the episode the guests converse with Hemingway, asking him questions about his youth and his writing career. The episode ends with a hint at the following week's episode...
Dates:
1966
Dennis Palumbo "The Grande Game" screenplay
Collection — Box BW 40, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16649
Content Description
Script for an unproduced film, "The Grande Game" about Edgar Allan Poe.
Dates:
1985-01-20
Denne Bart Petitclerc A Farewell to Arms screenplay
File — Box BW 37, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16603
Denne Bart Petitclerc, "A Farewell to Arms" dialogue continuity and Ben Hecht screenplays
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: X032669136]
Identifier: MSS 16571
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a dialogue and three screenplays of Denne Bart Petitclerc's film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway "A Farewell to Arms" starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones adapted by Ben Hecht from the Selznick Studio in Hollywood, California. The first screenplay is called Script 82,Quarto, mimeographed typescript printed on rectos bradbound in yellow production company wrappers, dated October 22, 1956, and begins with two ambulance drivers playing cards when the main character...
Dates:
1956 - 1958
Claude Rains annotated script
Collection — Box BW 44, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16661
Content Description
This collection contains Claude Rains' copy of the Jefferson Heritage with extensive annotations and emendations. This bound volume is contemporary buckram with two leaves and old cello tape repairs. In 1952, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters received funding from the Ford Foundation for The Jefferson Heritage, a 13 part series on Thomas Jefferson's influence on American life. Dr. Dumas Malone, professor of history at Columbia University, collaborated with...
Dates:
1952
William Roberts "The Slave Stealer" screenplay
Collection — Box BW 39, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16632
The Old Man and the Sea film materials
Collection — Box BW 40, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 16636
Content Description
Screenplay by Peter Viertel and a representative selection of seventeen original 8 x 10 inch black and white glossy stills, with studio cutline in lower border for publicity to promote this adaptation of Hemingway's Pulitzer-Prize winning novella, based on the screenplay by Peter Viertel, starring Spencer Tracy as the Old Man, a role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, under the direction of John Sturges.
Dates:
1957-1958