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Adolph Schaumer papers, 1929-1965

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Schaumer, Adolph, 1898-1977
Title: Adolph Schaumer papers
Dates: 1929-1965 (inclusive)
19291965
Quantity: 8.80 cubic ft. (20 boxes)
Collection Number: 06081
Summary: Adolph Schaumer was an assistant director and second unit director in the American motion picture and television industry. The collection contains screenplays and other documents related to the production of movies, most of them produced by Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century-Fox.
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: There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
Languages: English

Historical Note

Adolph Schaumer was an assistant director and second unit director in the American motion picture and television industry.

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Content Description

Collection contains drafts of scripts for film and television program, as well as documents related to the production of film and television programs, including set breakdown sheets and cross plots. Most of the materials in the collection are from films produced by Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century-Fox, including "Bachelor Flat" (1962), "Blue Denim" (1959), "Daddy Long Legs" (1955), "The Egyptian" (1954), "Fantastic Voyage" (1966), "The Girl Can't Help It" (1956), "Hell and High Water" (1954), "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943), "The Proud Ones" (1956), "Shock Treatment" (1964), "Sons and Lovers" (1960), "State Fair" (1962), "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1954), "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961), "Warlock" (1959), and "The Young Lions" (1958).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

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

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Adolph Schaumer as of the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Adolph Schaumer in 1976.

Processing Note

Processed by Roger Simon in October 2025.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List

I. Movies
- Description: “Almost Married” (Fox Film Corp.) (“Circumstances (Devil’s Triangle”)) – First Treatment by William Cameron Menzies
  
  Dates: 1931
  
  Container: Box 1
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Bachelor Flat” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final Script by Frank Tashlin (two copies)
    One copy includes handwritten annotations and a staff list.
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Bachelor Flat” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Set breakdown with index
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Bachelor Flat” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “The Bachelor’s Baby”(Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Temporary by Wendell Mayes
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Bachelor’s Baby”(Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Set breakdown
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Bachelor’s Baby”(Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
- Description: “Born to Fight” (“The Cross Pull”) (Fox Film Corp.) by Marion Jackson
  
  Dates: 1932
  
  Container: Box 1
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Blue Denim” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: First Draft Continuity by Edith Sommer and Philip Dunne
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Blue Denim” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final cross plot
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Blue Denim” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Bottoms Up” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Final Shooting Script by G.B. DeSylva, David Butler, and Sid Silvers
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Bottoms Up” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Working progress schedule
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 1
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Bottoms Up” (Fox Film Corp.)
- Description: “Business and Pleasure” (“The Plutocrat”) (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by Booth Tarkington, adaptation and dialogue by William Conselman and Gene Towne
  
  Dates: 1931
  
  Container: Box 2
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Captain January” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – set breakdown with index
  
  Dates: 1935
  
  Container: Box 2
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Charlie Chan in Paris” (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by Philip MacDonald
  
  Dates: 1934
  
  Container: Box 2
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “A Connecticut Yankee” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: script “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Hayden Talbot and Emmett Flynn (adaption continuity and dialogue)
    
    Dates: 1930
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “A Connecticut Yankee” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: script “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by William M. Conselman
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “A Connecticut Yankee” (Fox Film Corp.)
- “Daddy Long Legs” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final by Phoebe and Henry Ephron
    
    Dates: 1954
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Daddy Long Legs” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Set breakdown sheets
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Daddy Long Legs” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Delicious” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Final Shooting Script by Guy Bolton and Sonya Levien
    
    Dates: 1931
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Delicious” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Routine of: “New York Rhapsody”
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 2
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Delicious” (Fox Film Corp.)
- Description: “Do It Again” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Final by Edmund Hartmann (unproduced)
  
  Dates: 1961
  
  Container: Box 3
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Down to Earth” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Second Run by Homer Croy, first dialogue and continuity by Edwin Burke
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 3
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Down to Earth” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Final Shooting Script by Homer Croy, first dialogue and continuity by Edwin Burke (two copies)
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 3
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Down to Earth” (Fox Film Corp.)
- “Do You Love Me”
  - Description: Script “Kitten on the Keys” – Revised Shooting Final by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box 3
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Do You Love Me”
  - Description: Script “Kitten on the Keys” – Second Revised Shooting Final by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan, additional dialogue by Dorothy Bennett
    
    Dates: 1945
    
    Container: Box 3
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Do You Love Me”
- “The Dud Avocado” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  
  Container: Box
  
  Based on the novel by Elaine Dundy.
  - Description: Fourth Draft Screenplay by Edith Sommer and Philip Dunne
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 3
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Dud Avocado” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Fourth Draft Screenplay with revised pages and handwritten annotations
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 4
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Dud Avocado” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes set breakdown sheets and lists of interior and exterior sets.
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 4
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Dud Avocado” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
- Description: “The Egyptian” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Shooting Final Script by Philip Dunne
  
  Dates: 1954
  
  Container: Box 4
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Elopement” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – first temporary production cross plot
  
  Dates: 1951
  
  Container: Box 4
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: First Draft by Harry Kleiner (three-ring notebook)
    Includes a call sheet and handwritten notes.
    
    Dates: 1964
    
    Container: Box 4
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Script (three-ring notebook)
    Includes revised script pages, a list of “starting dates and length of run for the principal characters," and handwritten notes.
    
    Dates: 1965
    
    Container: Box 4
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index (three-ring notebook)
    Includes handwritten notes.
    
    Dates: 1964
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1964
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: final production cross plot
    
    Dates: 1964
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fantastic Voyage” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Fate is the Hunter” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised First Draft Screenplay by Harold Medford
    
    Dates: 1963
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fate is the Hunter” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: final production cross plot
    
    Dates: 1964
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Fate is the Hunter” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: First Draft Screenplay by Charles Bennett, Irwin Allen, and Albert Gail
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Flaming Star” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: script “The Brothers of Flaming Arrow” – Final by Nunnally Johnson
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 5
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Flaming Star” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: script “Flaming Lance” – Revised Final by Nunnally Johnson
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Flaming Star” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Flaming Star” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “The Gay Caballero” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – script “Ghost of the Cisco Kid” – Revised Final by Albert Duffy
  
  Dates: 1940
  
  Container: Box 6
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Girl Can’t Help It” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: script “Do Re Mi” – Shooting Final by Frank Tashlin
    Includes revised script pages, staff and cast lists, and set breakdown sheets with index.
    
    Dates: 1956
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Girl Can’t Help It” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: “Do Re Mi” – revised final production cross plot
    
    Dates: 1956
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Girl Can’t Help It” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Good Morning, Miss Dove” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – revised final production cross plot
  
  Dates: 1955
  
  Container: Box 6
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Handle with Care” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: script “The Chaplin Story” by Frank Craven and Sam Mintz
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Handle with Care” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: script “Divided by Two” – Final Shooting Script by Frank Craven and Sam Mintz
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 6
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Handle with Care” (Fox Film Corp.)
- Description: “Have a Heart” (MGM) – Script
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 7
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Heartbreak”(Fox Film Corp.) – Script – adaptation and dialogue by William Conselman
  
  Dates: 1931
  
  Container: Box 7
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Hell and High Water” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final
    
    Dates: 1953
    
    Container: Box 7
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hell and High Water” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final
    
    Dates: 1953
    
    Container: Box 7
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hell and High Water” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes set breakdown sheets, a cast list, an advance schedule, and a final production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1953, undated
    
    Container: Box 7
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hell and High Water” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “High Heels” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: First Draft Screenplay by Lloyd Shearer and Daniel Fuchs
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 7
    
    Location: I. Movies / “High Heels” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 7
    
    Location: I. Movies / “High Heels” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
- Description: “High Society Blues” (Fox Film Corp.) – Script by Howard J. Green
  
  Dates: 1929
  
  Container: Box 7
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Hold Me Tight” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: manuscript “Department Store” by Gertrude Rigdon
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hold Me Tight” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: “Department Store” – Third version continuity and dialogue by Gladys Lehman
    
    Dates: 1932
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hold Me Tight” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: “Department Store” – Final Shooting Script by Gladys Lehman
    
    Dates:
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hold Me Tight” (Fox Film Corp.)
- Description: “Hold That Girl” (Fox Film Corp.) – Revised Final Shooting Script by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Trotti
  
  Dates: 1933
  
  Container: Box 8
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Hoopla” (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by Bradley King and Joseph Moncure March
  
  Dates: 1933
  
  Container: Box 8
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Hound-Dog Man” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final by Winston Miller and Fred Gipson (two copies)
    One copy includes handwritten annotations.
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hound-Dog Man” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hound-Dog Man” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: production cross plot – for preproduction planning only
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 8
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Hound-Dog Man” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “The Hunters” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final by Wendell Mayes
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Hunters” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Hunters” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: revised set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Hunters” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Iris” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Temporary Script by Max N. Benoff
    
    Dates:
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Iris” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes a list of “scenes required from stock library” and a list of process plates for following sets.”
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Iris” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)
- Description: “Jimmy and Sally” (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by Marguerite and Paul Schofield, revised by William Conselman
  
  Dates: 1933
  
  Container: Box 9
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Just Imagine” (Fox Film Corp.) – Script
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 9
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Last Wagon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Final Script by Delmer Daves, based on a screenplay by James Edward Grant
    
    Dates: 1956
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Last Wagon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    A map of locations for the movie and a list regarding second-unit work.
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 9
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Last Wagon” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “The Last Years” (apparently unproduced) – Script
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 9
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Lost World” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final Draft Screenplay by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett (three-ring notebook)
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Lost World” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final Screenplay by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett
    
    Dates: 1960
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Lost World” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Love That Brute” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Script “Turned Up Toes” – Final Script by John Lee Mahin
  
  Dates: 1949
  
  Container: Box
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final by Nunnally Johnson
    
    Dates: 1935
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: “Monte Carlo” – set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1935
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Final by Winston Miller
    Includes documents related to the music in the movie.
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final by Hal Kanter
    Includes five sets of additional and revised pages.
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 10
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final by Hal Kanter (two copies)
    Includes blue revised script pages.
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final by Hal Kanter
    Includes two sets of additional and revised pages.
    
    Dates: 1958
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1958, undated
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mardi Gras” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Mister Scoutmaster” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: script “Be Prepared” – Revised Final by Leonard Praskins and Barney Slater
    
    Dates: 1953
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mister Scoutmaster” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes Includes cast, staff, bit, lists, location sheet, list of process shots, Art Department breakdown and set list, a shooting schedule, a script breakdown with index, final produection cross plot, and typewritten notes with annotations.
    
    Dates: 1953, undated
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Mister Scoutmaster” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Move Over, Darling” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  
  Container: Box
  - Description: Final by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher
    
    Dates: 1963
    
    Container: Box 11
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Move Over, Darling” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes shooting schedule, set breakdown sheets with index, and second revised final production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1963, undated
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Move Over, Darling” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – “Mr. Belvedere Blows His Whistle” – final production cross plot
  
  Dates: 1951
  
  Container: Box 12
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “My Heart Tells Me” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced) – set breakdown sheets with index
  Gregory Ratoff is listed as director, and Schaumer is listed as assistant director. According to an article published in “The New York Times” on August 27, 1946, "Twentieth Century-Fox has named Nancy Guild to replace Jeanne Crain as leading woman opposite Victor Mature in 'My Heart Tells Me,' formerly labeled 'I Live Alone' and originally called 'No Wedding Ring.' Gregory Ratoff will direct the picture from a story by Gene Markey which deals with the problems of a returning veteran."
  
  Dates: 1946
  
  Container: Box 12
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “My Weakness” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: First Rough Draft by B.G. De Sylva
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “My Weakness” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Script by B.G. De Sylva (dialogue) and David Butler (continuity)
    
    Dates: 1933
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “My Weakness” (Fox Film Corp.)
- “On the Threshold of Space” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final Script by Simon Wincelberg
    
    Dates: 1955
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “On the Threshold of Space” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1955
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “On the Threshold of Space” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: revised final production cross plot (two copies)
    One copy includes handwritten annotations.
    
    Dates:
    
    Container: Box 12
    
    Location: I. Movies / “On the Threshold of Space” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “The Ox-Bow Incident” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Final Script by Lamar Trotti
  
  Dates: 1942
  
  Container: Box 12
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Paris Underground” (United Artists) – Script by Boris Ingster and Gertrude Purcell
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 12
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Proud Ones” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Script
    
    Dates: 1955
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Proud Ones” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes set breakdown sheets with index, a one line schedule, a final production cross plot, a shooting schedule, and cast, staff, and bit lists.
    
    Dates: 1956, undated
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Proud Ones” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Rackety Rax” (Fox Film Corp.) – First Treatment by William Conselman
  
  Dates: 1932
  
  Container: Box 13
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Raid” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final by Sydney Boehm
    
    Dates: 1953
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Raid” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets and set construction list
    
    Dates: 1953
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Raid” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “The Right Approach” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: “The Live Wire” – Revised Final by Oscar Brodney (two copies)
    
    Dates:
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Right Approach” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: “The Live Wire” – Revised by Oscar Brodney
    Includes handwritten annotations.
    
    Dates: 1960
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Right Approach” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes lists of cast, bits, staff, and crew, a call sheet, set breakdown sheets with index, and final production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1960, undated
    
    Container: Box 13
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Right Approach” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Roxie Hart” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Final Script by Nunnally Johnson
  
  Dates: 1941
  
  Container: Box 14
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Seven Thieves” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised First Draft Screenplay by Sydney Boehm
    
    Dates: 1959
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Seven Thieves” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Script with handwritten annotations
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Seven Thieves” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1959, undated
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Seven Thieves” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “She Learned about Sailors” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Fourth Draft by William Conselman and Henry Johnson
    
    Dates: 1934
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “She Learned about Sailors” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: working progress schedule
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “She Learned about Sailors” (Fox Film Corp.)
- “Shock Treatment” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Final by Sydney Boehm
    
    Dates: 1963
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Shock Treatment” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes cast and bit lists, financial documents, set breakdown sheets with index, a letter regarding the use of animals in the movie, furst temporary production cross plot, and final production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1963, undated
    
    Container: Box 14
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Shock Treatment” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Sons and Lovers” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Shooting Final by Gavin Lambert
  
  Dates:
  
  Container: Box 15
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “State Fair” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final by Richard L. Breen
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 15
    
    Location: I. Movies / “State Fair” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Shooting Final by Richard L. Breen with revisions by Hal Kanter
    Includes handwritten notes.
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 15
    
    Location: I. Movies / “State Fair” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 15
    
    Location: I. Movies / “State Fair” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “The Story on Page One” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Script – Final
  
  Dates: 1959
  
  Container: Box 15
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Straight, Place and Show” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Script – Revised Final by Allen Rivkin and M.M. Musselman, additional dialogue by Lew Brown
  
  Dates: 1938
  
  Container: Box 15
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Sunny Side Up” (Fox Film Corp.) – Script - First Version
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 16
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Swingin’ Along” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – “The Schnook” – first temporary production cross plot
  
  Dates: 1960
  
  Container: Box 16
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Final Script by Phoebe and Henry Ephron
    
    Dates: 1954
    
    Container: Box 16
    
    Location: I. Movies / “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes wardrobe plot, a list of inserts, set breakdown sheets, and revised final production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1954
    
    Container: Box 16
    
    Location: I. Movies / “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Three Little Girls in Blue” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Final Script by Valentine Davies
  
  Dates: 1945
  
  Container: Box 16
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Three on a Honeymoon” (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by Edward T. Lowe and Raymond Van Sickle
  
  Dates: 1934
  
  Container: Box 16
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  
  Container: Box
  - Description: Second Temporary Script by W.P. Lipscomb
    
    Dates: 1935
    
    Container: Box 16
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final, Part One
    
    Dates: 1935
    
    Container: Box 16
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final, Part Three
    
    Dates: 1936
    
    Container: Box 16
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Script
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Set breakdown sheets (Brower Unit – Lloyd A-23) and tentative production cross plot.
    
    Dates: 1935-1936
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Under Two Flags” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Revised Shooting Final by Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett
    Includes a set of revised script pages.
    
    Dates: 1961
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes three memos from director Irwin Allen regarding construction savings, animals, and miniature shooting, lists for characters, staff, cast, bit, interviews, and ship personnel as indicated working in control room, production schedule, shooting final production cross plot, final revised production cross plot, and handwritten notes.
    
    Dates: 1960-1963, undated
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- Description: “Warlock” (Twentieth Century-Fox) – Final Script by Robert Alan Aurthur
  
  Dates: 1958
  
  Container: Box 17
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The White Parade” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Script by Rian James and Jesse Lasky, Jr. (adaptation), Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal (screenplay)
    
    Dates: 1934
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The White Parade” (Fox Film Corp.)
  - Description: Revised Final Shooting Script by Rian James and Jesse Lasky, Jr. (adaptation), Sonya Levien and Ernest Pascal (screenplay)
    
    Dates: 1934
    
    Container: Box 17
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The White Parade” (Fox Film Corp.)
- Description: “Windblast”
  Apparently unproduced. Includes set breakdown sheets and two copies of "Air Force Requirements for 'Windblast.'"
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 18
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: “Young America” (Fox Film Corp.) – Final Shooting Script by William Conselman
  
  Dates:
  
  Container: Box 18
  
  Location: I. Movies
- “The Young Lions” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: First Draft Continuity by Edward Anhalt
    
    Dates: 1957
    
    Container: Box 18
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Young Lions” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Final Script by Edward Anhalt
    
    Dates: 1957
    
    Container: Box 18
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Young Lions” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: set breakdown sheets with index
    
    Dates: 1957
    
    Container: Box 18
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Young Lions” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  - Description: Assorted
    Includes lists for bits, characters, music, required stock shots, plates to be made, tentative departures, and World War II equipment to be used in France. Also includes wardrobe breakdown, temporary schedules, a memo regarding wardrobe for Montgomery Clift, a map of locations, an advance schedule, first temporary production cross plot, reviised final production cross plot, a letter to director Edward Dmytryk, and financial documents.
    
    Dates: 1957, undated
    
    Container: Box 19
    
    Location: I. Movies / “The Young Lions” (Twentieth Century-Fox)
- “Young People” (Twentieth Century-Fox) –
  - Description: Temporary Script by Edwin Blum and Don Ettlinger
    
    Dates: 1940
    
    Container: Box 19
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Young People” (Twentieth Century-Fox) –
  - Description: Final Script by Edwin Blum and Don Ettlinger
    
    Dates: 1940
    
    Container: Box 19
    
    Location: I. Movies / “Young People” (Twentieth Century-Fox) –
- Description: “You’re a Sweetheart” (Universal Pictures) – script “Young Man’s Fancy” – Revised Final
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 19
  
  Location: I. Movies
- Description: set breakdown sheets - unidentified projects
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 19
  
  Location: I. Movies
II. Television
- Description: “Adventures in Paradise” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) - season 3, episode 8 - “The Fires of Kanua”
  Includes the revised final script by Edward Lasko, revised script pages, and two call sheets.
  
  Dates: 1961
  
  Container: Box 19
  
  Location: II. Television
- Description: “Five Fingers” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) – season 1, episode 1 – “Station Break” – Final
  
  Dates: 1959
  
  Container: Box 19
  
  Location: II. Television
- Description: “Halls of Montezuma” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) (unproduced) – “The Pied Pipers of the Pacific” – Final by Samuel Fuller
  A "blueprint" for a TV series.
  
  Dates:
  
  Container: Box 20
  
  Location: II. Television
- “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) – season 1, episode 1 – “Eleven Days to Zero”
  - Description: Revised Final Script by Irwin Allen
    
    Dates: 1963
    
    Container: Box 20
    
    Location: II. Television / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) – season 1, episode 1 – “Eleven Days to Zero”
  - Description: Script (three-ring notebook)
    
    Dates: undated
    
    Container: Box 20
    
    Location: II. Television / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) – season 1, episode 1 – “Eleven Days to Zero”
  - Description: Assorted
    Set breakdown sheets with index and a call sheet.
    
    Dates: 1963
    
    Container: Box 20
    
    Location: II. Television / “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (Twentieth Century-Fox Television) – season 1, episode 1 – “Eleven Days to Zero”
III. Assorted
- Description: Handwritten notes and a blank document titled "Location Personnel and Requirements"
  
  Dates: undated
  
  Container: Box 20
  
  Location: III. Assorted

Adolph Schaumer papers, 1929-1965

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Overview of the Collection

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Related Materials

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Detailed Description of the Collection

I. Movies

“The Bachelor’s Baby”(Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)

“The Dud Avocado” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)

“High Heels” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)

“Iris” (Twentieth Century-Fox) (unproduced)

II. Television

III. Assorted

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