Melvyn Douglas Papers, 1892-1983

Container Title
Series: Acting Files
U.S. Mss 100AN
Subseries: Theatre
Quality Street (high school performance)
Box   1
Folder   1
Program, photograph, 1914
Stock company work, 1920's
Micro 1181
Reel   1
Segment   1
Theatrical program scrapbook, 1905-1929
U.S. Mss 100AN
Box   1
Folder   2
Miscellaneous loose programs, 1920's
Theatrical photograph scrapbook, 1920's
Box   17
Original copy
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   1
Microfilmed copy
Reel   2
Segment   2
Xeroxed pages from undentified photo album, 1920's
U.S. Mss 100AN
Tonight or Never
Box   1
Folder   3
Clippings, 1930
Micro 1181
Within the Gates
Reel   2
Segment   3
Clipping scrapbook, 1934
No More Ladies
Reel   2
Segment   4
Clipping scrapbook, 1934
U.S. Mss 100AN
Call Me Mister, 1946
Box   1
Folder   4
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   5
Agreement with Herman Levin, 1945
Box   1
Folder   6
Clippings
Box   1
Folder   7
Programs
Box   1
Folder   8
Sheet music, n.d.
Two Blind Mice
Box   1
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1948-1950
Box   1
Folder   10
Contracts, 1950
Box   1
Folder   11
Box office statements, 1949-1950
The Bird Cage
Box   1
Folder   12
Contracts, 1949
Box   1
Folder   13
Script by Arthur Laurents (annotated), n.d.
Box   1
Folder   14
Box office statements, 1950
Let Me Hear the Melody
Box   1
Folder   15
Script by S.N. Behrman (annotated) and pages, n.d.
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   5
Clipping scrapbook, 1951
Glad Tidings
U.S. Mss 100AN
Box   1
Folder   16
Script by Edward Mabley (annotated), n.d.
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   6
Clipping scrapbook, 1951 (Continuation)
U.S. Mss 100AN
Recurrent Dream
Box   2
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1951
Time Out for Ginger
Box   2
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1952
Box   2
Folder   3
Contracts, 1952
Box   2
Folder   4
Script by Ronald Alexander (annotated), n.d.
Box   2
Folder   5
Script (annotated), n.d.
Box   2
Folder   6
Programs, 1952
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   7
Clipping scrapbook, 1952
U.S. Mss 100AN
Box   2
Folder   7
Australian clippings, 1955
Inherit the Wind
Box   2
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1955
Box   2
Folder   9
Contract, 1955
Box   2
Folder   10
Script by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (annotated), n.d.
Box   2
Folder   11
Playbill, 1956
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   8
Clipping scrapbook
Reel   2
Segment   9
Loose clippings
WCFTR C-44
Drawings
WCFTR B55
Two 14×17 charcoal sketches of Douglas by artists LeRoy Neiman and S. Cotsworth
U.S. Mss 100AN
Waltz of the Toreadors
Box   2
Folder   12
Contracts, box office statements, clippings, 1957
Box   2
Folder   13
Playbills, 1957, n.d.
Maiden Voyage
Box   2
Folder   14
Box office statements, 1957
The Man in the Dog Suit
Box   2
Folder   15
Correspondence
Box   2
Folder   16
Contracts, 1957
Box   2
Folder   17
Script by William H. Wright and Albert Beich, [May 10, 1957?]
Box   3
Folder   1
Script (annotated)
Box   3
Folder   2
Clippings
Sweet and Sour
Box   3
Folder   3
Contracts, Box office statements, 1958
Box   3
Folder   4
Script by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke (annotated), June 28, 1958
Box   3
Folder   5
Playbills, 1958
Box   3
Folder   6
Clippings, 1958
Juno
Box   3
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1959
Box   3
Folder   8
Contracts, 1959
Box   3
Folder   9
Script by Joseph Stein, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   10
Script “Daarlin' Man” (annotated), n.d.
Box   3
Folder   11
Musical score and notes, 1959
Box   3
Folder   12
Playbills and program. , 1959
WCFTR 2.5.0012
Poster
U.S. Mss 100AN
Box   3
Folder   13
Clippings, 1959
The Gang's All Here
Box   3
Folder   14
Correspondence, 1959
Box   3
Folder   15
Contracts, 1959
Box   3
Folder   16
Script by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, n.d.
Box   4
Folder   1-2
Script (annotated), September 19, 1959
Box   4
Folder   3
Clippings, 1959
Box   4
Folder   4
Programs and photos, 1959.
The Best Man
Box   4
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1961
Box   4
Folder   6
Contracts, 1961
Box   4
Folder   7
Typescript (annotated), n.d.
Box   4
Folder   8
Script by Gore Vidal (annotated) and pages, n.d.
Box   4
Folder   9
Clippings, 1960
School For Scandal
Box   4
Folder   10
Script (annotated), 1966
Spofford
Box   4
Folder   11
Correspondence, 1967
Box   4
Folder   12
Contract and operating statement, 1967
Box   4
Folder   13
Script “I've Been Thinking” (annotated, with revised pages), November 23, 1967
Box   5
Folder   1
Script by Herman Shumlin, December 14, 1967
Box   5
Folder   2
Playbill, 1967
Box   5
Folder   3
Clippings, 1967
The Great American Fourth of July Parade
Box   5
Folder   4
Published script by Archibald MacLeish (annotated), 1975
First Monday in October
Box   5
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1976-1977, and actor's notes
Box   5
Folder   6
Contracts, 1975
Box   5
Folder   7
Script by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee annotated , (n.d.)
Box   5
Folder   8
Script (annotated), n.d.
Box   5
Folder   10
Revised script, April 1976
Box   5
Folder   9
Revised script, August, 1977
Box   6
Folder   1
Revised script, October 1978, and clipping
Box   6
Folder   2
Playbill, 1976
Box   6
Folder   3
Clippings, 1975-1977
Subseries: Motion Pictures
Tonight or Never
Box   6
Folder   4
Contract, 1931
Box   6
Folder   5
Script by Ernest Vajda (annotated), September 1, 1931
Micro 1181
As You Desire Me(1932)
Reel   2
Segment   10
Clipping scrapbook
U.S. Mss 100AN
Ninotchka
Box   6
Folder   6
Clippings
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
Box   6
Folder   7
Clipping
Billy Budd
Box   6
Folder   8
Contract, 1961
Hud
Box   6
Folder   9
Contracts, 1962
Box   6
Folder   10
Clippings, 1963
I Never Sang for My Father
Box   6
Folder   11
Correspondence, 1969-1971
Box   6
Folder   12
Script by Robert Anderson, n.d.
Box   6
Folder   13
Script, January 23, 1969
Box   6
Folder   14
Script (annotated), March 20, 1969, with revisions of May 1, 1969
Box   6
Folder   15
Box office statements, 1970
Box   6
Folder   16
Clippings, 1971
One Is a Lonely Number
Box   7
Folder   1
Contract, 1971
The Candidate
Box   7
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1971
Box   7
Folder   3-4
Chapters from The Genuine Article, ca. 1972
The Tenant
Box   7
Folder   5
Contract, clippings, 1976
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Box   7
Folder   6
Correspondence, 1976
Box   7
Folder   7
Script, with revisions of January 9 and February 13, 1976
Portrait of Grandpa Doc
Box   7
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1976-1978
Box   7
Folder   9
Script by Randal Kleiser, June 29, 1976
Being There
Box   7
Folder   10
Correspondence, 1980-1981
Box   7
Folder   11
Contract, 1979
Box   7
Folder   12
Script by Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jonas (annotated), January 10, 1979
Box   7
Folder   13
Clippings
The Changling
Box   7
Folder   14
Correspondence, contract, 1979
Box   7
Folder   15
Clippings, 1980
Tell Me a Riddle
Box   8
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1980
Box   8
Folder   2
Script by Joyce Eliason, September 19, 1978
Box   8
Folder   3
Script, November 2, 1979
Box   8
Folder   4
Press kit, n.d.
Micro 1181
Reel   2
Segment   11
Clippings
U.S. Mss 100AN
Ghost Story
Box   8
Folder   5
Contracts, 1981
Box   8
Folder   6
Miscellany, 1981
Subseries: Television
“The Plot to Kill Stalin,” Playhouse 90
Box   8
Folder   10
Clippings, 1958
“The Lamp at Midnight,” Hallmark Hall of Fame
Box   8
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1966, 1972
Box   8
Folder   8
Clippings and publicity, 1965
Box   8
Folder   9
“Galileo,” Script by Bertolt Brecht, English version by Charles Laughton, n.d.
WCFTR (CT5)35
Color transparency
WCFTR A388
Miscellaneous publicity
U.S. Mss 100AN
“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” CBS Playhouse
Box   8
Folder   11
Script by Loring Mandel, March 6, 1967
Box   8
Folder   12
Published script, 1967
Box   8
Folder   13
Clippings, 1967
“The Choice,” Prudential's On Stage
Box   9
Folder   1
Script [by Henry Denker] (annotated), n.d.
Box   9
Folder   2
Clipping, advertising brochure, n.d.
The Four Lives of Benjamin Franklin: The Statesman
Box   9
Folder   3
Script, March 6, 1974, with revised pages, , March 19, 1974 and actor's biographical research
Box   9
Folder   4
Clippings, 1975
Box   9
Folder   5
“A Gift to Last,” publicity, 1976
Oral interpretation and disc recordings
Box   9
Folder   6
“Dear Adolf” scripts (annotated), June 28, 1942
Note: Autographed by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Box   9
Folder   7
“The Front Page,” Program, January 27, 1946
Lincoln Portrait by Aaron Copland, recorded 1946
Box   9
Folder   8
Published orchestral score
Erskine Johnson's Hollywood Story
Box   9
Folder   9
Scripted interview (anno.), September 1, 1948
Disc 192A
No.   1
“Quote and Unquote,” March 28, 1946
No.   2
“Quote and Unquote,” May 20, 1946
No.   3-4
“Franklin Roosevelt,” Institute for Democratic Education, June 24, 1947
No.   5-6
Americans for Democratic Action-Hollywood Division, 1948
Disc 102A
No.   1-2
The Eternal Light, 1948
Disc 192A
No.   7-8
“Eyewitness,” Narrated by MD, 1950
No.   9-10
“Eyewitness '52,” Narrated by MD, January 2, 1953
U.S. Mss 100AN
Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky, recorded 1960
Box   9
Folder   10
Correspondence, contract, and published narration (annotated), n.d.
Disc 192A
No.   11
Interview of Sen. Robert Wagner by MD, n.d.
No.   12-13
“General Motors Hour” (Australia), n.d.
No.   14-15
“Current Account,” United Nations Radio production, narrated by MD, n.d.
Disc 102A
No.   3-4
“The Little Boy,” Institute for Democratic Education, n.d.
U.S. Mss 100AN
Box   9
Folder   11
Subseries: Miscellaneous scripts submitted to Douglas
Box   9
Folder   12
“Tomorrow's Children,” by Jan Leman, 1958
Box   9
Folder   13
“Tonight! Lincoln versus Douglas, by Norman Corwin, n.d.
Box   9
Folder   13
“Live Life Again,” by Dan Totheroh, n.d.
Box   9
Folder   14
“Schweitzer's Way,” by James Brabazon, n.d.
Box   9
Folder   15
“Morning's at Seven,” published script by Paul Osborn, with letter from author, n.d.
Subseries: Contracts
Box   10
Folder   1
Television contracts, 11955-1976
Box   10
Folder   2
William Morris contracts, 1955-11980
Box   10
Folder   3
Miscellaneous contracts, 1928-1950