Screenwriters -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3419 Collections and/or Records:
Signed manuscript “Pink Vodka Blues”, 1958-2008
File — Box 1076, Folder: 12-13,16-17
Dates:
1958-2008
Signed manuscripts “Highbrow” and “The Parkehurst Retreat” and a writer’s agreement from Lancer Books, Inc. 1970; signed page proofs for “The Lizard Shope”; and two page letter about science fiction writing, 1958-2008
File — Box 1078, Folder: 15
Dates:
1958-2008
Signed program pages of other plays
File — Box 75, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...
Dates:
1999-2007, undated
Signed program, photocopied pages
File — Box 75, Folder: 4
Series Description
From the Series:
Again, this series is divided into Produced and Unproduced material.The sub-series of produced works is arranged by production date. The bulk of the sub-series consists of Pancho Villa’s Wedding Day, which, after Shrake turned it from a film script into a play script, underwent more incarnations, including as a musical. Numerous, corrected drafts are included, from 1977 to 1994, when he stopped revising it. The play was staged in 1984. The...
Dates:
1999-2007, undated
Signed typescript photocopy, circa August 1973
File — Box 42, 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:
circa August 1973
Signed, unpublished draft of “Tom Swift: Chaos on Earth”; includes note from Barrett on "Tom Swift", 1958-2008
File — Box 1078, Folder: 13
Dates:
1958-2008
Signed, unpublished draft of “Tom Swift: The Micro World”, 1958-2008
File — Box 1078, Folder: 14
Dates:
1958-2008
Silent Tongue (1992)
Sub-subseries
Series Description
From the Series:
This series is divided into two subseries. The first, films for which Shepard wrote the screenplay, includes: notes, annotated drafts, dialogue rewrites, publicity, correspondence, contracts, music notes, production notes and schedules. Of the films in this subseries, Silent Tongueincludes the most information (1 linear foot), followed by Far North(.25 linear feet.), Onibaba(.25 linear feet),...
Dates:
1982-1992
Simmons, David, 1964-1972, undated
File — Box 113, Folder: 1
Series Description
From the Series:
Two main subseries constitute the Correspondence series: Alphabetical and Chronological. This arrangement reflects Shrake’s, in that he filed some of his letters by correspondent, and some by year. Most correspondence in the Alphabetical sub-series are with friends, collaborators, and family members. The Chronological sub-series contains correspondence from a far wider range of addressors, some strangers to Shrake and others intimate friends. A name index for the chronological...
Dates:
1964-1972, undated
Simon and Schuster Publishing, includes publishing agreement, 1983-1984, 1991
File — Box 16, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
Within this series is correspondence relating to Harrigan's writing. The letters range from requests for articles from magazines and journals to letters of interest from agents and publishers, "Letters to the Editor" forwarded to Harrigan from Texas Monthly, letters from other writers and friends, fan mail, and correspondence from organizations like the Texas Institute of Letters, of which Harrigan is a former president. The series is arranged...
Dates:
1983-1984, 1991
Simon & Schuster catalogs
File — Box 100, Folder: 2
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:
1948-2001, undated
Simpatico (1993)
Sub-Series
Series Description
From the Series:
The series for Plays is the largest of Shepard’s works and includes notes, annotated typescripts, playbills, programs, correspondence, sound recordings, rehearsal schedules, reviews, and publicity. This series is notable in that Shepard meticulously identified each annotated draft with the date and place (by city and state) of each revision, and there tend to be multiple drafts of each work represented.
Dates:
1982-1999
Skeleton Dance, undated
Sub-subseries
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:
undated
Sketch by César Martínez
File — Box 8, Folder: 12
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
Sketches of Texas (mimeo)
Item — Box 16, Folder: 4
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:
1976-2008, undated
Skyriter portable typewriter, 1953
File — Box 147
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains materials belonging to Shrake of a more personal nature and is arranged chronologically. The oldest item in this series, and in the collection, is Shrake’s father’s baby dress. Also included are certificates, clippings about Shrake and friends, photographs of Shrake, family and friends, scrapbooks, short stories written for class, two typewriters, a briefcase Shrake used for traveling on Sports Illustrated assignments, Artwork by Shrake...
Dates:
1953
Sleepyhead, undated
Sub-subseries
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
Slides, circa 1966
File — Box 133, Folder: 5
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains materials belonging to Shrake of a more personal nature and is arranged chronologically. The oldest item in this series, and in the collection, is Shrake’s father’s baby dress. Also included are certificates, clippings about Shrake and friends, photographs of Shrake, family and friends, scrapbooks, short stories written for class, two typewriters, a briefcase Shrake used for traveling on Sports Illustrated assignments, Artwork by Shrake...
Dates:
circa 1966
Slim and None, 1981-1985
Sub-subseries
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:
1981-1985
Slusher, Katherine (a.k.a. “Candy Barr”) – poetry, undated
File — Box 144, Folder: 9
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
University Archives
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San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
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Room 580, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
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The Wittliff Collections
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu
7th Floor, Alkek Library
601 University Drive
San Marcos Texas 78666 USA
Wittliff_Ref@txstate.edu