AHJ_ah09628 Inventory of the Edward Lewis papers1966-2017 Lewis (Edward) papers Processed by Laura Jackson University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
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University of Wyoming

 Finding aid encoded by Laura Jackson November 2009 Finding aid is in English Collection Summary Lewis, Edward Edward Lewis papers 1966-2017 09628 43.74 cubic ft. (47 boxes) + 367.35 MB University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. English 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. Arrangement of the Collection

The collection is divided into three series and arranged alphabetically.

 Biography of Edward Lewis

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.

 Scope and Content

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".

Access Restrictions

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

 Copyright Information

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

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

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

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

 Access Terms Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- United States. Television -- Production and direction -- United States. Motion picture producers and directors. Television producers and directors. Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Motion pictures. Missing (Motion picture : 1982) Ishi (Television program) <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> <?xm-replace_text {Title as Subject}?> Container List Series I. Production Files 1966-1986

This series also contains novels and screenplays written by Lewis.

 37A Matter of Time2013 38Belle Glade screenplay by Randy Kline and Sally Shermanundated 47The Blue Birds posterundated 37 and 46-47Brothers (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 39The Capa Story - Robert Capa #1-21983-1986 1-4, 27, and 46 Crackers (scripts, drawings and promo materials) 1982-1986 36Epitaph for Gloryundated 4-5 and 28 Executive Action 1971-1983 37Eye of the Beholder (2009-#6)2010 38Familyundated 5 Fields of Vision 1985 35Fortune's Dame (manuscripts)1988-1989 5-6 General Production Files 1971-1986 6,35 and 47The Good Life (manuscripts, notes, music, auditions, promo materials, and drawings)1986-1989 39 and 47Grand Prix (photo album and poster)undated 6 Hanna K 1982-1986 38Happy Days are Here Againundated 6,37 and Digitalahcdm_09628_006Harold and Maude (manuscripts, music, and notes)(5" floppy disc)1970-2010 38Heads You Loose and Kirk Douglas (2009-#2)2009 35The Hungry Heart: A Musical in Three Acts1990-1992 Digitalahcdm_09628_004Hungry - Eddie (5" floppy disc)1985-1995 6-7 I, Robot 1969-1983 7 Interrupted Life, An 1984-1986 7-8 and 38Ishi: The Last of His Tribe (scripts, general and executive documents)1966-1986 Digitalahcdm_09628_002 and 005Life (2 5" floppy disc)1989-1991 38Looking from the Outside In: Growing up with the Hollywood Blacklist by Robert Rinaldoundated 8 Magic City 1981-1986 38Make Believe and A Murder Story (2010-#2 revised versions)2010 38Man Call aka Germinal screenplay by Edmond and Moly Murphy (based on the novel, Germinal, by Emile Zola)undated 38Masquerade2006 37Mirror Mirror on the Wall (2010-#1)2010 8-11 and 46-47Missing (scripts, promo materials, and Cannes Film Festival Best Film plaque)1978-1983 40Music scores and script notes - miscellaneous1993-2011 and undated 38The Music Swells2014 11 and 39-40Novels and screenplays - miscellaneous (unidentified manuscripts, stories started, notes, interest publishers in novella, contacts w/ agents)1960-2011 38Oh Say Can You See (2009-#1 and 2009-#3 James Cass Rogers Option)2009 39Polychrome - Tails 3 docundated 37 and Digitalahcdm_09628_002Rendezvous (5" floppy disc)1989-1991 34 and Digitalahcdm_09628_004Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosy (manuscripts, musical roughs, and notes)(5" floppy disc)1993-1996 12-14 The River 1982-1985 38Shooting Star by Sherman Kline1988 14 and 38The Snipers by Edmond and Molly Murphy1975-1984 38Spartacus and Kirk Douglas1960-2012 36 and Digitalahcdm_09628_005Spring Street (manuscripts and notes)(5" floppy disc)1988-1989 14,37 and Digitalahcdm_09628_003The Street Where The Heart Lies (5" floppy disc)1982-1993 15 Thornbirds 1977-1986 15 Throwback (South African Project) 1985-1986 38What Does a Producer Do?2006 37The White Bandana1985 and undated 36 and Digitalahcdm_09628_005Zone D (manuscripts and notes)(5" floppy disc)1989-1990 40ACLU Bill of Rights celebration 1983 40Contracts: publication and correspondence 1987-2014 40Correspondence: Mildred Lewis and Colin Higgins productions, Inc.1965-1982 41Correspondence and film rights1988-2012 Books relating to screenplays: 43The Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Arthur H. Landis1967-1968 43The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck 1910 43The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey1993 43The Cinema of John Frankenheimer by Gerald Pratley1969 43Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning by Kirk Douglas1997 43The Dungeon Master by William Dear1984 43The Execution of Charles Horman by Thomas Hauser1978 43Executive Action by Donald Freed and Mark Lane1973 43The Fixer by Bernard Malamud1966 43Grand Prix by Louis T. Stanley 1964 43Guerrillas of Peace, On the Air by Blasé Bonpane2000 43The Gypsy Moths by James Drought1964 44Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins (3 copies)1971, 1983, and 2015 44Heads You Lose by Edward and Mildred Lewis (3 copies)2002 44The Horsemen by Joseph Kessel1968 44The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neil1967 44The Irish Uprising, 1916-19221966 44I, Robot by Isaac Asimov1950 44Ishi: Last of His Tribe by Theodora Kroeber1964 44Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (Inscription to Ed Lewis)1939 44Letters From Attica by Samuel Melville1971 44The Los Angeles Review, Number 22005 44The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorki1964 44Making Musicals by Tom Jones1998 44The Marxist and the Movies by Larry Ceplair2007 44Medea: Harlan's World edited by Harlan Ellison1985 44Missing by Thomas Hauser1978 44Nostalgia del Futuro by Ernesto Cardenal1982 44One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey1962 44The Ragman's Son by Kirk Douglas1988 44Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane1966 44Seconds by David Ely1963 44Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel1962 44Soledad Brother The Prison Letters of George Jackson1970 44The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas1961 44The Scalpel, The Sword: The Story of Doctor Norman Bethune by Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon1952 45Spartacus by Howard Fast1952 45Spartacus: The Illustrated Story of the Motion Picture Production1960 45The Street Where the Heart Lies by Ludwig Bemelmans (2 copies)1962 and 1964 45The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough1977 45War Day by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka1984 Series II. Personal Papers 1930-2017 41Address and telephone directories1980-2010 41Appointment books and calendars1994-2013 42Artifacts: Ed Lewis war medals and dog tagsundated 45Bel Air house (L.A. Times article)1953 41Biographical information: Edward Lewis BHO1984-2017 42Bohemian Groveundated 42Diplomas and early business ventures - Edward Lewis 1930-1945 47Newspaper: Los Angeles Times September 6, 1946 Photographs: 42Edward Lewisundated 46-47Ed and Mildred Lewis1950-1990 46Motion picture productions1960-1990 46Plaque: ACLU, Bill of Rights celebrationDecember 10, 1983 42Scrapbook: The Visit of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lewis to Honk Kong September 1960 42UCLA Library - Edward Lewis Oral History interviews and transcripts2013 Series III. Audio Visual 1977-2012

Sub-series 1. Films 27 Crackers 1984 16-26 Ishi: The Last of His Tribe undated Sub-series 2. Audio 42Abracadabra (cassette tape)1993 42Adventures in Music: Ralph Ferraro (CD)undated Digitalahcdm_09628_015-017Avenue Edit: Caesar Chavez interview, tapes 1-2B (3 CDs)April 14, 2004 46Brothers, original sound track (2 vinyl records)1977 46Dean Reed Aktuell (vinyl record)1977 42Do You Like My Poem 101 (cassette tape)January 4, 1994 42Good Life music and critique (14 cassette tapes)1987 46Grand Prix - The Exciting Racing Sounds of Grand Prix Challenge of Champions (vinyl record)undated 42 and Digitalahcdm_09628_008-014Harold and Maude: The Musical music (4 cassette tapes and 7 CDs)2002-2012 Digitalahcdm_09628_007If You Can't Feel It - Lyrics: Tom Jones, Music: Joe Thalken (CD)2003-2008 42Into the Woods Original London Cast (CD)1991 42Merry X'Mas to Millie and Ed! John F. (cassette tape)1994 42Missing (cassette tape)undated 46Randy Edelman, Prime Cuts (vinyl record)1974 46Randy Edelman, Irving (2 vinyl records)undated 42Ring-A-Ring-A-Rosy music (3 cassette tapes)1993 46Rural Holiday, musical pictures (vinyl record)1984 46Spartacus, sound track (vinyl record)1960 46Spartacus-1888, Love Theme-M256 (vinyl record)1960 46Spartacus - Khachaturian, music from ballet (vinyl record)undated 42Spring Street (cassette tape)undated 42The Submission (cassette tape)1993 42Unidentified tape (cassette tape)undated 42Unidentified (micro cassette tape)undated Sub-series 3. Video 42Harold and Maude (Blu-Ray disc)1971 42Seconds, The John Frankenheimer film (Blu-Ray disc)1966 4260 Minutes: Interview with Mitt Romney (VHS) 42ATA Presents: "Spring Street" or "Justiceville" (2 copies, VHS)undated 42Beach exercise tape (VHS) 42The Blue Bird (VHS)undated 42Canto Libre - Hagamos Brotar el Momento (VHS)undated 43Charles Horman Truth Project: 2002 Human Rights Awards (VHS)2002 43Colin Higgins Memorial Service (VHS)August 9, 1988 43Crackers (VHS)1984 43Executive Action (2 copies, VHS)1973 43Fowley are the Brave (VHS)undated 43Fragments of a Journey: 150 Years of the Arts at Bucknell University (VHS)undated 43Hanna K. (VHS)1983 43IAC Press Conferences in Washington D.C. on C-Span (VHS)Aug 13-20 2001 43Life camera A and B - Hi8 Dailies Performance (2 VHS)March 12, 1990 43The List of Addison Messenger (VHS)undated 43Lonely are the Brave (VHS)undated 43Master (VHS)undated 43The River (VHS)1985 43Seconds, Rock Hudson in the John Frankenheimer film (VHS)undated 43Spartacus (VHS)1960 43Zone D (VHS)1990 Additional Container Lists

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.

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