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Paul Bowles correspondence with Tom Christie
American writer and composer Paul Bowles corresponded with writer Tom Christie from 1981 through 1985. Letters in the collection discuss Christie’s ideas and progress on turning stories by Bowles into screenplays, especially “The Hours After Noon” and “The Frozen Fields.”
Richard Hoffman Beth Henley collection
The Richard Hoffman Beth Henley collection spans the dates 1981-1984 and comprises eight items, including six playscripts and two film posters.
A Girl Like I: typescript
This prepublication typed manuscript of American screen writer and author Anita Loos's (1893-1981) autobiography A Girl Like I (1966) bears typed and handwritten editorial markings. Some of the pencil notations are in Loos's hand.
The untouchables : screenplay
Original screenplay by David Mamet of The Untouchables, 125 pages plus 25 rewrite pages. Mamet's holograph additions, deletions, and corrections are evident throughout as he advances the storyline to an interim stage that would be reworked further into the film form.
Brian Phelan papers
The Brian Phelan papers document forty years of the literary career of Irish-born playwright and screenwriter Brian Phelan (born 1934). Phelan's adaptations and docudramas focus on Irish characters, the issues of Irish emigration, socialist and feminist themes, and major world events. The collection, which spans from the 1960s to the 2000s, comprises Phelan's working and project files and include correspondence, screenplays, scripts, contracts, photographs, and research.
I ought to be in pictures : screenplay
American playwright Neil Simon wrote this screenplay for I Ought to Be in Pictures.
Murder by death : screenplay and shooting calls
A mechanically reproduced typescript of the second draft of Neil Simon's screenplay, Murder by Death, which has laid in three shooting call sheets.
The informer : screenplay
Dudley Nichols screenplay based on Liam O'Flaherty's novel The Informer.
University of Delaware Library collection of websites relating to the Library’s literary collections
This collection documents websites and social media related to authors, playwrights, and other literary figures and organizations which complement and enrich existing literary collections held in Special Collections. This collection includes sites related to University of Delaware Library holdings in American literature; Irish literature; and theatre.
A song for St. Cecilia : playscript
Playscript of Calder Willingham's, "A Song for St. Cecilia." Includes typescript and typescript carbon pages, signed by Willingham, in red studio wrappers. Includes autograph renumbering of pages, and a few word changes by the author. Title page indicates "Second Draft #2."