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Lou Greenspan papers, 1903-1969

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Greenspan, Lou
Title
Lou Greenspan papers
Dates
1903-1969 (inclusive)
Quantity
8.03 cubic feet (18 boxes)
Collection Number
02922
Summary
Collection contains correspondence, scripts and manuscripts, publications, and clippings related to Greenspan's career in the motion picture industry.
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.

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Additional Information

Finding aid available in repository.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Lou Greenspan (1906-1981) was, according to his obituary in the "Los Angeles Times," a former executive director of the Motion Picture Industry Council who first came to Los Angeles as a journalist in 1926. He later became a writer and then editor for both "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter." In the 1950s and 1960s, he served as director of the Screen Producers Guild and editor of its journal, “The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild.”

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Content Description

Scope and Content

Collection contains correspondence, scripts and manuscripts, publications, including books, magazines, and programs, and clippings. Also included are materials related to “The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild," as well as research materials and Greenspan's drafts of scripts for "Mission of Mercy," based on the true story of four Catholic nuns who escaped from the Japanese in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Included are typed transcripts of the nun's letters and diaries, as well as photographs of the nuns and islanders.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

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

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Lou Greenspan as of the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

The American Heritage Center received the materials in this collection from Lou Greenspan in 1968 and 1969.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Roger Simon in August 2026.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Container List

  • I. Correspondence

    • Description: 1935-1958

      Includes correspondence to or from Ivan Goff, Jack Lait, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Sol C. Siegel.

      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Correspondence

    • 1959

      • Description: January-May

        Includes correspondence to or from Fred Astaire, Kirk Douglas, Nunnally Johnson, Gene Kelly, Ronald Reagan, Mark Robson, Rod Serling, George Stevens, David Susskind, Harry S. Truman, Jerry Wald, and Hal Wallis.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1959
      • Description: June-December

        Includes correspondence to or from Ray Bradbury, Jerry Bresler, Frank Capra, Rene Clair, Delmer Daves, Sam Ervin, Leonard Freeman, Jacob Javits, Meyer Levin, Walter Mirisch, Gottfried Reinhardt, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jerry Wald, and Hal Wallis.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1959
    • Description: 1960

      Includes correspondence to or from Hall Bartlett, Jerry Bresler, Art Buchwald, Frank Capra, Delmer Daves, William O. Douglas, W. Averell Harriman, William Holden, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan, Walter Mirisch, Malcolm Muggeridge, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Nugent, Dilys Powell, Ronald Reagan, Jean Renoir, Mark Robson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eric Sevareid, Melville Shavelson, Adlai E. Stevenson, Lowell Thomas, Jerry Wald, Hal Wallis, and Cornel Wilde.

      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Correspondence

    • 1961

      • Description: January-June

        Includes correspondence to or from Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Brelser, Bosley Crowther, Edward R. Murrow, Otto Preminger, and Walter Reade, Jr.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1961
      • Description: July-December

        Includes correspondence to or from Jerry Bresler, Roger Corman, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Knight, Joseph E. Levine, Robert L. Lippert, Anthony Mann, Otto Preminger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Fred Zinnemann.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1961

    • 1962

      • Description: January-June

        Includes correspondence to or from Ronald Reagan, Allen Rivkin, Hall Wallis, and Fred Zinnemann.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1962
      • Description: July-December

        Includes correspondence from Irwin Allen, Charles Chaplin, Joan Crawford, Jules Dassin, William Dieterle, Philip Dunne, Philip Dunning, George Englund, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Richard Fleischer, Carl Foreman, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Hunter, John Huston, Nunnally Johnson, Garson Kanin, Norman Krasna, Frederic March, Robert Mitchum, Robert Montgomery, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Robert Parrish, Otto Preminger, Irving Rapper, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Robert Rossen, Dore Schary, Charles H. Schneer, Rod Serling, Robert Siodmak, Franchot Tone, Gore Vidal, and Philip Yordan.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1962

    • 1963

      • Description: January-June

        Includes correspondence to or from Hollis Alpert, Eddie Cantor, Carl Foreman, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Ross Hunter, Nunnally Johnson, Garson Kanin, Nunnally Johnson, Walter Mirisch, Dore Schary, Aubrey Schenck, Walter Wanger, Cornel Wilde, and Darryl F. Zanuck.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1963
      • Description: July-December

        Includes correspondence to or from Carl Foreman, Leonard Freeman, Arthur Knight, Allen Rivkin, Geoffrey Shurlock, and George Stevens, Jr.

        Container: Box 1
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1963
    • Description: 1964

      Includes correspondence to or from James T. Aubrey, Jr., Ray Bradbury, Jack Dempsey, Philip Dunne, Jacob K. Javits, Howard W. Koch, George Murphy, Newton N. Minow, Nelson Rockefeller. Rod Serling, Eric Sevareid, and George Stevens, Jr.

      Container: Box 2
      Location: I. Correspondence

    • 1965

      • Description: January-August

        Includes correspondence to or from Judith Crist, George Cukor, Newton Minow, George Murphy, George Schaefer, and David O. Selznick.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1965
      • Description: September-December

        Includes correspondence to or from Ray Bradbury, Jerry Bresler, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Freed, Penelope Houston, Nunnally Johnson, Pauline Kael, Ernest Lehman, George Murphy, Jean Renoir, George Seaton, Charles H. Schneer, Hal Wallis, and Colin Young.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1965

    • 1966

      • Description: January-July

        Includes correspondence to or from Judith Crist, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Freed, Ján Kadár, Pauline Kael, Henry King, Carl Laemmle, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Dick Richards, Charles H. Schneer, Jack Valenti, and Lew Wasserman.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1966
      • Description: August-December

        Includes correspondence from Niven Busch, Carl Foreman, Pauline Kael, George Murphy, Norman Panama, Nelson Rockefeller, Dore Schary, Jack Valenti, and Colin Young.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1966

    • 1967

      • Description: January-April

        Includes correspondence to or from Thorold Dickinson, Roy O. Disney, Carl Foreman, Margaret Herrick, Delbert Mann, Haig Manoogian, Geoffrey Shurlock, Jack Valenti, and Philip Yordan.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1967
      • Description: May-August

        Includes correspondence to or from Samuel Z. Arkoff, Richard N. Goodwin, Jacob Javits, Henri Langlois, Groucho Marx, George Murphy, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., George Seaton, Geoffrey Shurlock, George Stevens, Jr., Jack Valenti, Gore Vidal, and Colin Young.

        Container: Box 2
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1967
      • Description: September-December

        Includes correspondence to or from Robert Aldrich, Warren Beatty, Jerry Bresler, Albert R. Broccoli, Vincent Canby, Charles Champlin, Roger Corman, Judith Crist, Bosley Crowther, Saul David, Carl Foreman, John Houseman, Nunnally Johnson, Pauline Kael, Ernest Lehman, George Murphy, Walter Reade, Jr., George Seaton, Melville Shavelson, Geoffrey Shurlock, Sam Spiegel, John Sturges, Dimitri Tiomkin, Jack Valenti, Fredric Wertham, and Darryl F. Zanuck.

        Container: Box 3
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1967

    • 1968

      • Description: January-May

        Includes correspondence to or from Robert Aldrich, Melvin Belli, Albert R. Broccoli, Bosley Crowther, Saul David, Carl Foreman, Margaret Herrick, Charlton Heston, Hubert Humphrey, Pauline Kael, Sol Lesser, Abby Mann, Walter Mirisch, George Murphy, Gregory Peck, Ronald Reagan, Allen Rivkin, Mark Robson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Charles H. Schneer, Melville Shavelson, Margaret Chase Smith, Daniel Taradash, Jack Valenti, Fredric Wertham, and Fred Zinnemann.

        Container: Box 3
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1968
      • Description: June-November

        Goldwyn, Louis Nizer, Gregory Peck, Geoffrey Shurlock, Margaret Chase Smith, Jack Valenti, and Fredric Wertham.

        Container: Box 3
        Location: I. Correspondence / 1968
    • Description: Undated
      Container: Box 3
      Location: I. Correspondence
    • Description: Screen Producers Guild Member Letters
      Dates: 1960, undated
      Container: Box 3
      Location: I. Correspondence

  • II. “The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild”

  • III. Publications

    • A

      • Description: American Guild of Authors and Composers – 35th Anniversary Book – 1931-1966
        Dates: 1966
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / A
      • Description: “ASCAP [The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers] Today” (ASCAP Public Relations Committee, NY, NY) (two issues)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / A

    • C

      • Description: “Catholic Film Newsletter” (National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, NY, NY) (three issues)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C
      • Description: “Chicago’s Tribute to His Excellency Most Rev. Bernard J. Sheil D.D. on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of His Consecration”

        Includes as inserts a press release, the text of an address by Sheil, a photo of Sheil with Pope Pius XII and Dr. Karol Ripa, and a business card for Ripa.

        Dates: 1953-1958, undated
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C
      • Description: “The Children’s Film Library and Special Children’s Programs” (two editions)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C
      • Description: “CoA [Company of Artists] Monthly Newsletter” (Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Beverly Hills, CA) (three issues)
        Dates: 1960
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C
      • Description: Comédie-Française (Paris, France) – Program
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C
      • Description: “Cosmopolitan” (The Hearst Corporation, NY, NY) (two issues)

        One issue includes as an insert a press release.

        Dates: 1956-1958
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / C

    • F

      • Description: “The Film Daily” (NY, NY) (one issue)
        Dates: 1964
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / F
      • Description: “Film Reports” (“The Green Sheet”) (The Film Board of National Organizations, NY, NY) (eleven issues)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / F
      • Description: Fischer’s Theatre (San Francisco, CA) – Program
        Dates: 1903
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / F
      • Description: “Freedom of the Movies” (uncorrected proofs) by Ruth A. Inglis (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / F

    • G

      • Description: “Guide to Current Films/Recent Classifications” (National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, NY, NY) (two issues)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 5
        Location: III. Publications / G

    • H

      • Description: “Hollywood Close-Up” (Los Angeles, CA) (three issues)
        Dates: 1958-1959
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / H
      • Description: “The Hollywood Reporter” (Los Angeles, CA) (one issue)
        Dates: 1963
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / H
      • Description: “The Hollywood Reporter Fact Booklets”

        1. “Facts About Hollywood, U.S.A. – Information for the Nation” - 1947
        2. “How to Arrange Advertising Testimonials with Hollywood Motion Picture Studios – Information for American Business” - undated (three copies)
        3. “Now is the Time to Win Hollywood Sales and Influence National Buying Habits” - undated (two copies)

        Dates: 1947, undated
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / H

    • I

      • Description: “International Newsletter” (International Committee Association of Motion Picture Producers and Motion Picture Export Association of America, Hollywood, CA) (two issues)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / I

    • J

      • Description: “Jerry Wald Productions Newsletter” (Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Beverly Hills, CA) (one issue)
        Dates: 1960
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / J

    • L

      • Description: “Lifelong Learning” (University of California Extension Division) (one issue)

        Contains “a catalogue of educational 16mm motion picture films offered for loan.”

        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / L

    • M

      • Description: MGM promotional publication
        Dates: 1960-1961
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / M
      • Description: “The Moving Image – A Guide to Cinematic Literacy” (uncorrected proofs) by Robert Gessner (E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., NY, NY)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / M
      • Description: “Music in Latin American – A Brief Survey – Volume III of the Series on Literature – Art – Music” (Club and Study Series No. 3) (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.)
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / M
      • Description: “The Music of Argentina” by Albert T. Luper (Music Series No. 5) (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.)
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / M
      • Description: “The Music of Brazil” by Albert T. Luper (Music Series No. 9) (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.)
        Dates: 1943
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / M

    • N

      • Description: “The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Newsletter” (The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY, NY) (one issue)
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / N

    • O

      • Description: Orpheum Theatre (San Francisco, CA) – Programs (fifty-three)
        Dates: 1905-1922
        Container: Box 6
        Location: III. Publications / O

    • P

      • Description: “Partial List of Latin American Music Obtainable in the United States, with a Supplementary List of Books and Phonograph Records” by Gilbert Chase (comp.) (Music Series No. 1) (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.)
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / P
      • Description: “The Private Eye, the Cowboy, and the Very Naked Girl – Movies from Cleo to Clyde” (uncorrected proof) by Judith Crist (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / P

    • R

      • Description: “Radio and Television News Résumé” (The Broadcasting and Film Commission, NY, NY) (one issue)
        Dates: 1962
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / R
      • Description: “Recordings of Latin American Songs and Dances – An Annotated Selected List of Popular and Folk Music” by Gustavo Duran (Music Series No. 3) (Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.)
        Dates: 1942
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / R

    • S

      • Description: “Saturday Review” (Saturday Review, Inc., NY, NY) (one issue)
        Dates: 1959
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / S
      • Description: Screen Producers Guild – Milestone Awards – Program
        Dates: 1966
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / S

    • T

      • Description: “Together” (Los Angeles Area News Edition) (The Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, TN) (one issue)
        Dates: 1961
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / T

    • U

      • Description: “United Nations Film Footage Library Index” (United Nations, NY, NY)
        Dates: 1955
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / U
      • Description: “Universal International Studio Club News” (Universal City Club, Inc., Universal City, CA)
        Dates: 1952
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / U

    • W

      • Description: “What’s Right with Hollywood?” by Dick Pitts (reprint – Motion Picture Association of America, Washington, D.C.) (two copies)
        Dates: 1948
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / W
      • Description: “Writers Guild of America/West Newsletter” (one issue)
        Dates: 1968
        Container: Box 7
        Location: III. Publications / W

  • IV. Scripts and Manuscripts

    • A

      • Description: “The Angry Guns” (script) by Charles Bennett and Jack Denove
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / A

    • B

      • Description: “Bailando en las Nubes” [“Dancing in the Clouds”] (Spanish-language script) by William J. Thiele and Laszlo Gorog

        Includes one issue each of three Spanish-language publications – “El Cine Grafico,” “Cine Producción,” and “Cine Mexicano.”

        Dates: 1945, undated
        Container: Box 7
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / B
      • Description: “Better Than Thou”/“Prince Dollar-Sign”/“John Smith”/“The Thoroughbred” by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / B
      • Description: “Black Sheep” (script) by Sy Bartlett and Rian James
        Dates: 1934
        Container: Box 7
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / B

    • C

    • D

      • Description: “The Day Capone ‘Talked’” by Greenspan (two drafts)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / D
      • Description: “The Dingo” (script) by Jesse Lasky, Jr., and Pat Silver
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / D

    • E

      • Description: “The Entertainment Industry’s Future Potential in Education” by Jack L. Copeland
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / E

    • F

      • Description: “Follis & Leroy” (script) by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / F
      • Description: “The Four Horsemen of Atlantic City” (story outline) by Greenspan

        Includes an article of the same name from “The Reader’s Digest,” which was the basis for the story outline.

        Dates: 1954-1956, undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / F

    • G

    • H

      • Description: “Heat Wave” (script) by Simon and Anita Wincelberg

        “Attempt to crossbreed Hitchcock & Leo Fuchs. Unfortunately, so far only one of them is ready to go along with it. Since then been sharpened -up and novelized under title ‘The Anxious-Seat.’”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “He’s My Uncle” by Greenspan

        “Original film story.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “Holiday” by Jack Emanuel and Ed James

        Includes a note from E.J. Hudson of the American Broadcasting Co.

        Dates: 1956, undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “Hollywood By-Line” (a television series) by George Draine and Harvey Jacobson

        Includes a note from Draine and Jacobson.

        Dates: 1957, undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “Hollywood Dreamhouse” by Fritz Blocki

        “A Star Studded Television Program Format.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “Hollywood Fights Back” (from “The Kiplinger Magazine”)
        Dates: 1950
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H
      • Description: “The Hollywood Myth” by Cap Palmer
        Dates: 1951
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / H

    • I

      • Description: “Idea for a Television Anthology Show” by Lou Greenspan (two drafts)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / I
      • Description: “Impact” or “Stranger Than Fiction” by Greenspan

        “A television series.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / I
      • Description: “I Wish I Had Said That” by Harry Ruby
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / I

    • J

    • K

      • Description: “Kataki” (“Enemy”) (script) by Shimon Wincelberg (two drafts)

        One draft includes as inserts two reviews of two Los Angeles productions of the play, as well as a flier promoting the play.

        Dates: 1960-1961, undated
        Container: Box 8
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / K

    • L

    • M

      • Description: “Ma Barker’s Killer Brood” (1960) (feature film) [“Ma Barker and Her Killer Brood”]
        Dates: 1959
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Madam Vice President” (script) by Al Boasberg
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “The Millinery Man” (script) by Edward Clark
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Million Dollar Gate” by Greenspan

        “Based on the life of Jack Kearns.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Million Dollar Uncle” by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Mission of Mercy” by Greenspan

        The true story of four Catholic nuns who escaped from the Japanese in the Solomon Islands during World War II. In three parts. Also includes journal and diary entries, an issue of the publication “Maryknoll” that includes and article about the nuns, clippings, loose manuscript pages, a memorandum regarding the concealment of place names and locations, handwritten notes, and captioned photographs of nuns and islanders.

        Dates: 1943, undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Motion Pictures and the Hollywood Community” (speech – excerpts) by Dore Schary
        Dates: 1950
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Motion Pictures and Your Community” by Ronald Reagan
        Dates: 1951
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Movies and Morals” (two copies)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M
      • Description: “Movies and the Press” (two copies)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 9
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / M

    • N

      • Description: “Neuhoff & Phelps” (script) by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “Ninety Days” (script) by Al Boasberg
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “Nize Baby” (script) by Viola Brothers Shore (adaptation) and Madeleine Ruthven (continuity)

        Based on the book by Milt Gross.

        Dates: 1928
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “Noah” (script) by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “No Place to Park” (script) by Norman Shields
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “Notes on the American Negro Entertainer (in the Theatre and Motion Pictures)” by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N
      • Description: “No Tomorrow” (script) by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / N

    • O

      • Description: “Off the Deep End” (script) by Norman Shields
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / O
      • Description: “The Oklahoman” (script) by Jack DeWitt and Renault Duncan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / O
      • Description: “The Oscar” (1966) (feature film) – Shooting Final Screenplay by Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse, and Clarence Greene
        Dates: 1965
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / O
      • Description: “Our Front Porch” (script)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / O

    • P

      • Description: “The Pay-Off” (synopsis/storyline) by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / P
      • Description: “Performing Arts League” (PAL) presented by Hal Roach
        Dates: 1965
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / P
      • Description: “A Prospectus for the Establishment of an Entertainment Center” – University of Southern California of Law – prepared by Prof. Victor S. Netterville
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / P
      • Description: “Public Relations Proposals for the Motion Picture Industry” – Anna M. Rosenberg Associates
        Dates: 1963
        Container: Box 10
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / P

    • R

      • Description: “Railroad to the Moon” – The Life and Times of Henry Meiggs by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R
      • Description: “The Raven and the Sword” [“The Sword with Stars”] by Matthew Gant
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R
      • Description: “Red Ryan” (script) by Philip Yordan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R
      • Description: “Return to Peyton Place” by Grace Metalious

        Includes a copy of a letter to Metalious from Jerry Wald Productions.

        Dates: 1958-1959
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R
      • Description: “The Roaring 20s” (TV series) – Season 2, Episode 12 – “You Can’t Fight City Hall” [“Go Fight City Hall”] – Final Script by Ric Hardman
        Dates: 1961
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R
      • Description: “The Runaway” (1961) (feature film) [“Saint Mike”]
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / R

    • S

      • Description: “Sammy” (script) by Blanche Hanalis
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 11
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S
      • Description: “Silent Thunder” (script) by James Edwards

        Produced as an episode (season 1, episode 7) of the TV series “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.”

        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S
      • Description: “Song of Israel” by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S
      • Description: “Stan Laurel: The Little One” by Jerry Zimmer
        Dates: 1963
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S
      • Description: “Story in Hollywood” (transcript of radio broadcast) by Ralph Story (two copies)
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S
      • Description: “A Sudden Hush” (script) by Jameson Brewer
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / S

    • T

      • Description: “Talent Always Triumphs” by Dimitri Tiomkin
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T
      • Description: “Telephone Repairs” (script) by Jack Lait
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T
      • Description: “Theatre Square” by Greenspan
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T
      • Description: “This World of Ours” – A T.V. Presentation by Steve Sekely
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T
      • Description: “The Trap” (teleplay) by Norman Shields (two copies)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T
      • Description: “Types of General Information on Hollywood Which Should be Disseminated Abroad” by O.C. Anderson
        Dates: 1953
        Container: Box 12
        Location: IV. Scripts and Manuscripts / T

    • W

    • Untitled & Unidentified

  • V. Festivals and Conferences

  • VI. Clippings

  • VII. Lists

    • Description: American Society of Cinematographers
      Dates: 1958-1965
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Basic Crafts
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Directors Guild of America
      Dates: 1963-1966
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Federation of Motion Picture Councils
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Hollywood Guild
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: I.A.T.S.E. [International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees] Locals
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Metropolitan
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: M.P.I.C. Allocations
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Screen Producers Guild
      Dates: 1959-1965, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Writers Guild of America, West
      Dates: 1964, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists
    • Description: Assorted
      Dates: 1965-1968, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VII. Lists

  • VIII. Other

    • Description: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences

      Includes press releases, documents related to the Documentary Awards Committee (Greenspan was on the committee in 1966, 1967, and 1968), membership requirements for various branches, clippings, and publications.

      Dates: 1961-1969
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Awards
      Dates: 1956-1964, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Eulogies
      Dates: 1948-1950, 1962-1967
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Film Advertising and Distribution

      Includes Product Release Schedules (Theatre Owners of America), a document on “Oscar Sweepstakes,” publications, clippings, and a list of movies from 1966 and 1967 that were “condemned” by the Legion of Decency.

      Dates: 1927, 1949-1968, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Film Industry in Foreign Countries
      Dates: 1942-1945, 1959-1966, undated
      Container: Box 15
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Greenspan Biographical Information

      Includes Greenspan’s resume, clippings about Greenspan, and clippings and writings by Greenspan.

      Dates: 1942, 1959-1968, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Handwritten Notes
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Hollywood Museum
      Dates: 1962-1963, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Insurance
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Kefauver Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee and Related
      Dates: 1955-1959, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Laskey’s Wagon Shows (framed handbill)

      “The above bill advertises one of the wagon shows which toured England a hundred years ago. These wagons were very large and formed the exhibition hall. It would frequently happen that after the audience was assembled, the police – or what corresponded to them in those days – would order the showman to move on. This he would do, taking his audience with him in the wagon to some quiet spot where the performance could be given in peace. The original of this photograph is in the collection of Fr3ederick Martin, Director of Publicity for Paramount in Great Britain.”

      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 18
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

      Includes an annual report, “What They Say About Us … The Impact of U.S. Motion Pictures Abroad,” and remarks by Jack Valenti titled “Movies: The New Questing Spirit.”

      Dates: 1958-1967
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Press Releases
      Dates: 1964-1967, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Resumes and Biographical Information – Assorted
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Screen Actors Guild

      Includes clippings, press releases, and publications.

      Dates: 1947, 1960-1965, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Students and Schools
      Dates: 1965-1967, undated
      Container: Box 16
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Teaching Film Custodians, Inc.
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Television
      Dates: 1956-1968, undated
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Theatre Owners of America
      Dates: 1960-1965, undated
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: 3D, Widescreen, and Sound Technology

      Includes clippings, publications, and texts of speeches.

      Dates: 1952-1958, undated
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Town Hall with Ronald Reagan, Ray Brewer, and Allen Rivkin (magnetic audiotape)
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 18
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Writers Guild of America/Screen Writers Guild
      Dates: 1954-1960, undated
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other
    • Description: Assorted
      Dates: 1967-1968, undated
      Container: Box 17
      Location: VIII. Other

Names and Subjects

Subject Terms

  • Missionaries.
  • Missions -- Soloman Islands.
  • Motion picture authorship.
  • Motion picture industry -- Employees -- Labor unions.
  • Motion picture industry -- Public relations.
  • Motion pictures -- Producers and directors -- United States.
  • Nuns.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.

Personal Names

  • Marie Celestine, Sister.
  • Mary Hedda, Sister.
  • Mary Irene, Sister.
  • Mary Isabelle, Sister.

Corporate Names

  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • Catholic Church -- Missions.
  • Screen Actors Guild.
  • Screen Producers Guild.
  • Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange, California.
  • Writers Guild of America.

Geographical Names

  • Japan -- History, Military -- 1868-1945.
  • Solomon Islands.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Diaries.
  • Photographs.
  • Scripts.

Occupations

  • Motion picture producers and directors.
  • Screenwriters.

Titles within the Collection

  • Journal of the Screen Producers Guild.

Other Creators

Roger Simon
2013

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