Screenwriters -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3762 Collections and/or Records:
Original treatment with correspondence
File — Box 39, Folder: 2
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is also divided into Produced and Unproduced work. The Produced sub-series is arranged by production date. It contains similar materials: drafts, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials and press clippings. The three projects Shrake was most closely involved with — Kid Blue, Songwriter and Pair of Aces — contain the most materials. The Beverly Hills Cop II folders...
Dates:
1985-1989, undated
Original typescript, contains deleted first chapter, undated
File — Box 4, Folder: 1-2
Series Description
From the Series:
This series surveys Harrigan's creative works from his work as ad writer at the University Co-op to the publication of his book, Water and Light. It includes manuscript drafts, notes, notebooks, galley proofs, correspondence, magazines, clippings, financial and legal papers, screenplays, photographs and artifacts. In some cases Harrigan added notes and inscriptions describing the materials and providing background information....
Dates:
undated
Original typescript of partial draft, undated
File — Box 289, Folder: 8
Sub-Series Description
From the Sub-Series:
A film loosely based on Wittliff’s mother’s life about a young, divorced mother of two sons working as a telephone operator in small-town Texas during World War II. Starring Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, and Eric Roberts. Early drafts are titled "Nita, Henry and Harry."
Dates:
undated
Found in:
The Wittliff Collections
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William D. Wittliff Papers
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Screenwriting
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Raggedy Man
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Scripts
Oscar Wilde by Stephen Harrigan
Sub-subseries
Description
From the Sub-Series:
6 part series, five of which aired August 1993 on CBS-TV.
Dates:
1973 - 1995
Other festival materials
File — Box 28, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates:
1978, 1992-1997
Other Writers, 1968-2007, undated
Series
Series Description
Shrake kept files of works by various writers, which are kept in this series. Some of these files contain editing notes by Shrake or correspondence from the writer. The series is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name. Included are the production files for Another Pair of Aces, a TV movie written by Rob Gilmer that was a sequel to Shrake and Cartwright’s Pair of Aces. Shrake was a co-producer of this movie. In the late...
Dates:
1968-2007, undated
Found in:
The Wittliff Collections
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Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers
Outline, undated
File — Box 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
These papers represent drafts of several of Gipson’s short stories, screenplays, and one nonfiction autobiographical piece, arranged by genre and in chronological order, with dates ranging from 1948-1957, and many items having no date. For each item there is typically one annotated typescript and one final draft typescript, along with a custom made folding box for the items related to each title. Of particular note is the 1957 shooting script for the Walt Disney film production of Gipson’s...
Dates:
undated
Outline and drawing instructions
File — Box 8, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The papers of filmmaker and writer Severo Perez span 1972-2010 and document his career in film and television, and as a writer. The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Film; 2) Television; 3) Plays; 4) Books; 5) The National Endowment for the Humanities; and 6) Audio and Video Materials. Perez also donated an extensive amount of audiovisual material which includes film reels and prints for …and the earth did not swallow him as well as many of...
Dates:
undated
Outline of book about Willie by Scobey
File — Box 78, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Though essentially consisting of only three projects, all published, this sub-series contains a voluminous amount of research on its subjects, especially Willie Nelson. Included in the Willie materials are numerous tapes and transcripts of interviews Shrake and others did with Nelson and his acquaintances. Also included are clipping files on Nelson and country music going back to 1978 (when Shrake was writing the Songwriter screenplay), and many files of...
Dates:
1978-2002, undated
Outlines and notes
File — Box 28, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Produced works comprise the bulk of the collection. It consists of screenplays, notes, publicity, and other production material for the films Bad Company, Kramer vs. Kramer, Still of the Night, Nadine, Places in the Heart, Billy Bathgate, and Nobody’s Fool.
Dates:
1993 - 1994
Outlines, annotated
File — Box 3, Folder: 4-5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Produced works comprise the bulk of the collection. It consists of screenplays, notes, publicity, and other production material for the films Bad Company, Kramer vs. Kramer, Still of the Night, Nadine, Places in the Heart, Billy Bathgate, and Nobody’s Fool.
Dates:
1976 - 1981
Ovals, man & rifle
Item — Box 868
Sub-Series Description
From the Sub-Series:
Original carved and inked woodblocks created by Barbara Whitehead commissioned by the Encino Press. These blocks have been scanned and printed on plain paper for ease of access. See print-outs and accompanying zip-disks in box 877. Print-outs are annotated with either a title taken from the block or simply a descriptive cataloger-assigned title; these are the titles listed in this quide. Prnt-outs are also annotated with the titles of books in which the images appeared, such as: Deep Like...
Dates:
undated
Pacheco, Ferdie – “The Great T and A Travelling Circus...” , undated
File — Box 143, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
Shrake kept files of works by various writers, which are kept in this series. Some of these files contain editing notes by Shrake or correspondence from the writer. The series is arranged alphabetically by author’s last name. Included are the production files for Another Pair of Aces, a TV movie written by Rob Gilmer that was a sequel to Shrake and Cartwright’s Pair of Aces. Shrake was a co-producer of this movie. In the late...
Dates:
undated
Page proofs
File — Box 5, Folder: 4
Series Description
From the Series:
This series surveys Harrigan's creative works from his work as ad writer at the University Co-op to the publication of his book, Water and Light. It includes manuscript drafts, notes, notebooks, galley proofs, correspondence, magazines, clippings, financial and legal papers, screenplays, photographs and artifacts. In some cases Harrigan added notes and inscriptions describing the materials and providing background information....
Dates:
1977-1980, undated
Page proofs, 1995
File — Box 13, Folder: 1
Series Description
From the Series:
Many of the short stories represented in this series were published in short story compilations Motel Chronicles(1982) and Cruising Paradise(1996). The series has been arranged by those compilation titles. Volador was a working title for Cruising Paradise; those files immediately precede the files labeled Cruising Paradise. The...
Dates:
1995
Page proofs "Dead Dog Blues"; title page signed by Barrett , 1958-2008
File — Box 1072, Folder: 4
Dates:
1958-2008
Page proofs for UT Press reprint
File — Box 8
Series Description
From the Series:
The series is composed of two sub-series Published and Unpublished material. Published material starts with the first short story Shrake published, in 1959, and ending with his last novel to be published, in 2006, this sub-series is arranged chronologically according to publication date. It contains handwritten, typewritten and computer-generated drafts, proofs of all kinds, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials, research files, and press clippings. The book with the...
Dates:
1966-2001, undated
