Edward Lewis papers, 1966-2017

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Lewis, Edward
Title
Edward Lewis papers
Dates
1966-2017 (inclusive)
Quantity
43.74 cubic ft. (47 boxes) + 367.35 MB
Collection Number
09628
Summary
Edward Lewis was a motion picture and television producer between the 1940s and 1980s. Collection contains production files of manuscripts, correspondence, notes, promo materials, music scores, books, audio and video recordings, and motion picture film and personal files of biographical information, appointment books, photographs, and memorabilia regarding Mr. Lewis' career and life.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Edward Lewis was a motion picture and television producer between the 1940s and 1980s. Lewis's productions included "Spartacus" (1960), "Lonely Are the Brave" (1962), "Seven Days in May" (1964), "Executive Action" (1973), "Missing" (1982), "Crackers" (1984), "Hanna K" (1984), and "The River" (1984). He also produced the television movie "Ishi: The Last of His Tribe" (1978) and the mini-series "The Thornbirds" (1983). "The Thornbirds" received 4 Emmy awards. Lewis's films often explored social issues, including racism and anti-Semitism, or political issues, such as fascism and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. "Executive Action" explored the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "Spartacus" was notable for breaking the blacklist by giving on-screen credit to writer Dalton Trumbo.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection documents Edward Lewis' motion picture and television production career during the 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the collection consists of production files from movies and television series produced by Lewis, as well as production projects that were not produced. Production files contain correspondence, legal documents, financial files, scripts, notes, advertising and publicity, shooting schedules, photographs, viewer's comments, audio and video recordings. In addition, there is a novel and screenplays written by Lewis (some under pseudonyms), general files from his production company, and biographical information. Collection also holds 28 reels of 35mm film footage of "Ishi".

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is divided into three series and arranged alphabetically.

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Edward Lewis at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This collection was donated by Edward Lewis and the Edward Lewis Estate from 1988-2020.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Laura Jackson in November 2009 and updated by Jamie J. Greene in January 2022.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Production Files, 1966-1986Return to Top

This series also contains novels and screenplays written by Lewis.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
37
A Matter of Time
 2013
38
Belle Glade screenplay by Randy Kline and Sally Sherman
 undated
47
The Blue Birds poster
 undated
37 and 46-47
Brothers (manuscript, promo material, and poster)
 1977
1
Bug Jack Baron
 1982-1986
1
Butcher's Boy, The
 1982-1985
1 and 38
Carbo Rio (Storm Warning)
 1981-1986
39
The Capa Story - Robert Capa #1-2
 1983-1986
1-4, 27, and 46
Crackers (scripts, drawings and promo materials)
 1982-1986
36
Epitaph for Glory
 undated
4-5 and 28
Executive Action
 1971-1983
37
Eye of the Beholder (2009-#6)
 2010
38
Family
 undated
5
Fields of Vision
 1985
35
Fortune's Dame (manuscripts)
 1988-1989
5-6
General Production Files
 1971-1986
6,35 and 47
The Good Life (manuscripts, notes, music, auditions, promo materials, and drawings)
 1986-1989
39 and 47
Grand Prix (photo album and poster)
 undated
6
Hanna K
 1982-1986
38
Happy Days are Here Again
 undated
Folder
6,37 and Digital ahcdm_09628_006
Harold and Maude (manuscripts, music, and notes)(5" floppy disc)
 1970-2010
38
Heads You Loose and Kirk Douglas (2009-#2)
 2009
35
The Hungry Heart: A Musical in Three Acts
 1990-1992
Folder
Digital ahcdm_09628_004
Hungry - Eddie (5" floppy disc)
 1985-1995
6-7
I, Robot
 1969-1983
7
Interrupted Life, An
 1984-1986
7-8 and 38
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (scripts, general and executive documents)
 1966-1986
Folder
Digital ahcdm_09628_002 and 005
Life (2 5" floppy disc)
 1989-1991
38
Looking from the Outside In: Growing up with the Hollywood Blacklist by Robert Rinaldo
 undated
8
Magic City
 1981-1986
38
Make Believe and A Murder Story (2010-#2 revised versions)
 2010
38
Man Call aka Germinal screenplay by Edmond and Moly Murphy (based on the novel, Germinal, by Emile Zola)
 undated
38
Masquerade
 2006
37
Mirror Mirror on the Wall (2010-#1)
 2010
8-11 and 46-47
Missing (scripts, promo materials, and Cannes Film Festival Best Film plaque)
 1978-1983
40
Music scores and script notes - miscellaneous
 1993-2011 and undated
38
The Music Swells
 2014
11 and 39-40
Novels and screenplays - miscellaneous (unidentified manuscripts, stories started, notes, interest publishers in novella, contacts w/ agents)
 1960-2011
38
Oh Say Can You See (2009-#1 and 2009-#3 James Cass Rogers Option)
 2009
39
Polychrome - Tails 3 doc
 undated
Folder
37 and Digital ahcdm_09628_002
Rendezvous (5" floppy disc)
 1989-1991
34 and Digital ahcdm_09628_004
Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosy (manuscripts, musical roughs, and notes)(5" floppy disc)
 1993-1996
12-14
The River
 1982-1985
38
Shooting Star by Sherman Kline
 1988
14 and 38
The Snipers by Edmond and Molly Murphy
 1975-1984
38
Spartacus and Kirk Douglas
 1960-2012
Folder
36 and Digital ahcdm_09628_005
Spring Street (manuscripts and notes)(5" floppy disc)
 1988-1989
14,37 and Digital ahcdm_09628_003
The Street Where The Heart Lies (5" floppy disc)
 1982-1993
15
Thornbirds
 1977-1986
15
Throwback (South African Project)
 1985-1986
38
What Does a Producer Do?
 2006
37
The White Bandana
 1985 and undated
Folder
36 and Digital ahcdm_09628_005
Zone D (manuscripts and notes)(5" floppy disc)
 1989-1990
40
ACLU Bill of Rights celebration
1983
40
Contracts: publication and correspondence
1987-2014
40
Correspondence: Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins productions, Inc.
 1965-1982
41
Correspondence and film rights
 1988-2012
Books relating to screenplays:
Box
43
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Arthur H. Landis
 1967-1968
43
The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck
1910
43
The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey
 1993
43
The Cinema of John Frankenheimer by Gerald Pratley
 1969
43
Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning by Kirk Douglas
 1997
43
The Dungeon Master by William Dear
 1984
43
The Execution of Charles Horman by Thomas Hauser
 1978
43
Executive Action by Donald Freed and Mark Lane
 1973
43
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
 1966
43
Grand Prix by Louis T. Stanley
1964
43
Guerrillas of Peace, On the Air by Blasé Bonpane
 2000
43
The Gypsy Moths by James Drought
 1964
44
Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins (3 copies)
 1971, 1983, and 2015
44
Heads You Lose by Edward and Mildred Lewis (3 copies)
 2002
44
The Horsemen by Joseph Kessel
 1968
44
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neil
 1967
44
The Irish Uprising, 1916-1922
 1966
44
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
 1950
44
Ishi: Last of His Tribe by Theodora Kroeber
 1964
44
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (Inscription to Ed Lewis)
 1939
44
Letters From Attica by Samuel Melville
 1971
44
The Los Angeles Review, Number 2
 2005
44
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorki
 1964
44
Making Musicals by Tom Jones
 1998
44
The Marxist and the Movies by Larry Ceplair
 2007
44
Medea: Harlan's World edited by Harlan Ellison
 1985
44
Missing by Thomas Hauser
 1978
44
Nostalgia del Futuro by Ernesto Cardenal
 1982
44
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
 1962
44
The Ragman's Son by Kirk Douglas
 1988
44
Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane
 1966
44
Seconds by David Ely
 1963
44
Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel
 1962
44
Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson
 1970
44
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
 1961
44
The Scalpel, The Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune by Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon
 1952
45
Spartacus by Howard Fast
 1952
45
Spartacus: The Illustrated Story of the Motion Picture Production
 1960
45
The Street Where the Heart Lies by Ludwig Bemelmans (2 copies)
 1962 and 1964
45
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
 1977
45
War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
 1984

Series II. Personal Papers, 1930-2017Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
41
Address and telephone directories
 1980-2010
41
Appointment books and calendars
 1994-2013
42
Artifacts: Ed Lewis war medals and dog tags
 undated
45
Bel Air house (L.A. Times article)
 1953
41
Biographical information: Edward Lewis BHO
 1984-2017
42
Bohemian Grove
 undated
42
Diplomas and early business ventures - Edward Lewis
1930-1945
47
Newspaper: Los Angeles Times
September 6, 1946
Photographs:
Box
42
Edward Lewis
 undated
46-47
Ed and Mildred Lewis
 1950-1990
46
Motion picture productions
 1960-1990
Box
46
Plaque: ACLU, Bill of Rights celebration
 December 10, 1983
42
Scrapbook: The Visit of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewis to Honk Kong
September 1960
42
UCLA Library - Edward Lewis Oral History interviews and transcripts
 2013

Series III. Audio Visual, 1977-2012Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-series 1. Films
Box
27
Crackers
 1984
16-26
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
 undated
Sub-series 2. Audio
Box
42
Abracadabra (cassette tape)
 1993
42
Adventures in Music: Ralph Ferraro (CD)
 undated
Folder
Digital ahcdm_09628_015-017
Avenue Edit: Caesar Chavez interview, tapes 1-2B (3 CDs)
 April 14, 2004
46
Brothers, original sound track (2 vinyl records)
 1977
46
Dean Reed Aktuell (vinyl record)
 1977
42
Do You Like My Poem 101 (cassette tape)
 January 4, 1994
42
Good Life music and critique (14 cassette tapes)
 1987
46
Grand Prix - The Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix Challenge of Champions (vinyl record)
 undated
Folder
42 and Digital ahcdm_09628_008-014
Harold and Maude: The Musical music (4 cassette tapes and 7 CDs)
 2002-2012
Digital ahcdm_09628_007
If You Can't Feel It - Lyrics: Tom Jones, Music: Joe Thalken (CD)
 2003-2008
42
Into the Woods Original London Cast (CD)
 1991
42
Merry X'Mas to Millie and Ed! John F. (cassette tape)
 1994
42
Missing (cassette tape)
 undated
46
Randy Edelman, Prime Cuts (vinyl record)
 1974
46
Randy Edelman, Irving (2 vinyl records)
 undated
42
Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosy music (3 cassette tapes)
 1993
46
Rural Holiday, musical pictures (vinyl record)
 1984
46
Spartacus, sound track (vinyl record)
 1960
46
Spartacus-1888, Love Theme-M256 (vinyl record)
 1960
46
Spartacus - Khachaturian, music from ballet (vinyl record)
 undated
42
Spring Street (cassette tape)
 undated
42
The Submission (cassette tape)
 1993
42
Unidentified tape (cassette tape)
 undated
42
Unidentified (micro cassette tape)
 undated
Sub-series 3. Video
Box
42
Harold and Maude (Blu-Ray disc)
 1971
42
Seconds, The John Frankenheimer film (Blu-Ray disc)
 1966
42
60 Minutes: Interview with Mitt Romney (VHS)
42
ATA Presents: "Spring Street" or "Justiceville" (2 copies, VHS)
 undated
42
Beach exercise tape (VHS)
42
The Blue Bird (VHS)
 undated
42
Canto Libre - Hagamos Brotar el Momento (VHS)
 undated
43
Charles Horman Truth Project: 2002 Human Rights Awards (VHS)
 2002
43
Colin Higgins Memorial Service (VHS)
 August 9, 1988
43
Crackers (VHS)
 1984
43
Executive Action (2 copies, VHS)
 1973
43
Fowley are the Brave (VHS)
 undated
43
Fragments of a Journey: 150 Years of the Arts at Bucknell University (VHS)
 undated
43
Hanna K. (VHS)
 1983
43
IAC Press Conferences in Washington D.C. on C-Span (VHS)
 Aug 13-20 2001
43
Life camera A and B - Hi8 Dailies Performance (2 VHS)
 March 12, 1990
43
The List of Addison Messenger (VHS)
 undated
43
Lonely are the Brave (VHS)
 undated
43
Master (VHS)
 undated
43
The River (VHS)
 1985
43
Seconds, Rock Hudson in the John Frankenheimer film (VHS)
 undated
43
Spartacus (VHS)
 1960
43
Zone D (VHS)
 1990

Additional Container ListsReturn to Top

The American Heritage Center is in the process of converting its older container lists to a more accessible format. These links are to older versions of container lists for Boxes 29-33 and Digital Folder ahcdm_09628_001.

Description
Link to Accessioning Worksheet 09628.2013-05-20 (PDF)Link to Accessioning Worksheet 09628.2013-08-12 (PDF)

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Motion picture producers and directors.
  • Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States.
  • Television -- Production and direction -- United States.
  • Television producers and directors.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Motion pictures.

Titles within the Collection

  • Ishi (Television program)
  • Missing (Motion picture : 1982)

Processed by Laura Jackson
2009

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