The Misfits : dialogue continuity and cutting continuity
Scope and Content Note
These two mimeographed typescripts are the post-production but pre-release dialogue continuity and cutting continuity scripts for Arthur Miller's screenplay titled The Misfits.
Dated January 10, 1961, the continuities, which are printed on the recto only of legal format paper, are the scripts for John Huston's film based on Arthur Miller's screenplay. The film premiered in February 1961. The title page of the Cutting Continuity bears a correction to the spelling of Huston's name and a penciled note "Miller, Arthur with Dialogue Continuity."
Dates
- Creation: 1961 January 10
Creator
- Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
American dramatist, writer, and essayist Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is considered a pioneer of expressionistic realism in post-World War II American theater.
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Miller's stage plays began receiving a number of awards, including the Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 1947, for All My Sons, and 1949, for Death of a Salesman; Tony Awards, 1947, for All My Sons, 1949, for Death of a Salesman, and 1953, for The Crucible; Donaldson Awards, 1947, for All My Sons, 1949, for Death of a Salesman, and 1953, for The Crucible; Pulitzer Prize for drama, 1949, for Death of a Salesman. Frequently cited as one of the central works of twentieth-century American drama, Death of a Salesman remains Miller's best known work.
Miller's life was affected by his marriage to the actress Marilyn Monroe, whom he wed in 1956. The public attention that surrounded the couple combined with Monroe's troubled fame proved difficult for Miller. However, his script for The Misfits (1961), based on a short story he first published in Esquire magazine in 1957, was written with Monroe in mind and reveals the admirable qualities he saw in her. The couple divorced in 1961.
Miller has received many honors for his writing, including an Obie Award, two New York Drama Critics' Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize (1949), the American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal (1959), a John F. Kennedy Award for Lifetime Achievement (1984), the Jerusalem Prize (2003), and many other honors.
"Arthur Miller." Contemporary Authors Online (reproduced in Biography In Context). http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ (accessed May 1, 2013)
Extent
1 item (55 pages)
1 item (62 pages)
Abstract
These two mimeographed typescripts are the post-production but pre-release dialogue continuity and cutting continuity scripts for Arthur Miller's screenplay titled The Misfits.
Source
Purchase, October 2012.
Shelving Summary
Box 64, F0939A-B: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0099 manuscript boxes.
Processing
Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, May 2013. Further encoded by George Apodaca, October 2015.
Subject
- Huston, John, 1906-1987 (Person)
- Seven Arts Productions (Organization)
- Title
- Finding aid for The Misfits : dialogue continuity and cutting continuity
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
- Date
- 2013 May 2
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository