J. Fred Coots Papers, 1912-1980

Container Title
New York and Regional Productions, 1942-1964
Count Me In (New York, 1942 October 8
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Shubert, Olsen and Johnson in association with Krakeur and Schmidlapp

Director: Robert Ross

Writer: Walter Kerr and Leo Brady

Music: Ann Ronell

Cast: Charles Butterworth, Luella Gear, June Preisser, Mary Healy, Hal Leroy

Box   31
  Folder   5
Correspondence, 1942-1953
Volume   8
Script, 1942 August 7
Box   31
  Folder   6
Photographs, Catholic University 1942 May 10
Box   31
  Folder   7
Playbill, notes
Box   31
  Folder   8
Clippings
Box   31
  Folder   9
Contracts; financial information; box office statements, 1942-1944
Stardust (Philadelphia, 1943 September 9
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Michael Myerberg

Director: Herb Polesie

Writer: Walter Kerr

Cast: Rose King, Gloria Hallward, George Ives, Susan Douglas, Chick Chandler

Box   31
  Folder   10
Correspondence; clippings; Catholic University poster, 1940-1966
Volume   6
Original script as played at Catholic University; contains revisions for Philadelphia
Volume   6
Script
Box   31
  Folder   11
Contracts, 1942-1946
Box   31
  Folder   12
Photographs of Catholic University productions
Box   31
  Folder   13
Financial statements, 1942-1962
Sing Out Sweet Land (New York, 1944 December 27
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Walter Kerr

Music: Walter Kerr, with special music by Elie Siegmeister

Cast: Burl Ives, George Cassidy, Peggy Campbell, Ethel Mann, Charles Hart

Box   31
  Folder   14
Correspondence, 1953-1968
Volume   9
Original script-as played at Catholic University
Volume   9
Script, 1944 October
Volume   9
Script material
Volume   9
Script, 1944 December
Volume   10
Musical score
Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   32
  Folder   1
Contracts, 1944-1953
Box   32
  Folder   2
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   32
  Folder   3
Playbills, photographs
Box   32
  Folder   4
Production notes and manuscript suggestions
Volume   19
Plan for television program
Box   32
  Folder   5
Financial and legal information, 1944-1968
Lien under the Sky, 1945
Scope and Content Note: By Jean Kerr (unproduced)
Volume   11
Script
The Song of Bernadette (New York, 1946 March 26
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Victor Payne-Jennings and Frank McCoy

Director: Walter Kerr

Script: Jean and Walter Kerr, adapted from the novel by Franz Werfel

Cast: Jean Mann, Elizabeth Ross, Pamela Rivers, Christina Soulias

Box   32
  Folder   6
Correspondence, 1943-1966
Box   32
  Folder   7
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   32
  Folder   8
Clippings, Boston poster, Commentary by Franz Werfel, tryout schedule
Box   32
  Folder   9
Contract, financial statements 1943-1969
All Gaul Is Divided (New York, 1947 October 19
Scope and Content Note

Producer: John F. Golden and John Michael Lambur

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: John I. McGiver

Cast: Doris Dowling, William Terry, Hilda Vaughn, Edward Andrews

Volume   13
Script
Box   32
  Folder   10
Photographs of Catholic University production, financial information, correspondence
Jenny Kissed Me (New York, 1948 December 23
Scope and Content Note

Producer: James Russo, Michael Ellis, Alexander Cohen, in association with Clarence Shapiro

Director: James Russo

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Leo G. Carroll, Alan Baxter, Jean Jordan, Bonnie Alden, Francis Bavier

Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   32
  Folder   11
Correspondence, 1947-1956
Volume   15
Script as played at Catholic University
Volume   15
Script
Box   32
  Folder   12
Contracts, 1948-1949
Box   32
  Folder   13
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   33
  Folder   1
Clippings, programs
Box   33
  Folder   2
Financial and legal information, 1948-1965
Touch and Go (New York, 1949 October 13
Scope and Content Note

Producer: George Abbott

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Jean and Walter Kerr

Music: Jay Gorney

Lyrics: Jean and Walter Kerr

Cast: Kyle MacDonnell, Peggy Cass, Louis Nye, Dorothy Scott, Jonathan Lucas

Box   33
  Folder   3
Correspondence, 1949-1955
Volume   16
Script (titled Thank You, Just Looking) as played at Catholic University
Volume   16
Sketches and lyrics
Volume   16
Script and lyrics, 1949 September
Volume   16
Script; program; plots, 1949 October
Volume   16
Script fragments
Box   33
  Folder   4
Sketch
Volume   17
Musical scores
Box   33
  Folder   5
Musical scores and arrangements
Box   33
  Folder   6
Contracts, 1949
Box   33
  Folder   7
Photographs of Catholic University production
Box   33
  Folder   8
Photographs of New York and London productions
Box   33
  Folder   9
Clippings, programs
Box   33
  Folder   10
Financial statements, 1949-1965
Happy Ending, 1950
Scope and Content Note: By Jean and Walter Kerr (unproduced)
Volume   18
Script and lyrics
Box   33
  Folder   11
Copyright form
John Murray Anderson's Almanac (New York, 1953 December 10
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Michael Grace, Stanley Gilkey, Harry Rigby

Director: John Murray Anderson

Writer: Jean Kerr, Summer Locke Elliot, Arthur Macrae, Herbert Farjeon, Lauri Wylie

Music: Michael Grace, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy, Henry Sullivan, John Rox and Bart Howard

Cast: Polly Bergen, Harry Belafonte, Orson Bean, James Jewell

Box   33
  Folder   12
Correspondence; clippings, 1951-1954
Volume   19
Sketches by Jean Kerr
Box   33
  Folder   13
Contracts, financial information 1953-1954
King of Hearts (New York, 1954 April 1
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Elaine Perry

Director: Walter Kerr

Script: Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke

Cast: Donald Cook, Jackie Cooper, Rex Thompson, Hilda Haynes, Cloris Leachman

Box   33
  Folder   14
Correspondence; cast list, 1954-1966
Volume   20
Script (titled Comic Strip)
Volume   21
Script, notes
Volume   21
Script, 1957
Volume   21
Three Scripts
Box   34
  Folder   1
Contracts, 1951-1955
Box   34
  Folder   2
Photographs
Box   34
  Folder   3
Financial statements, 1951-1966
The Last Resorts, 1956
Scope and Content Note: By Jean Kerr (unproduced)
Box   34
  Folder   4
Correspondence, 1956-1957
Volume   22
Three Scripts
Box   34
  Folder   5
Script
Goldilocks (New York, 1958 October 11
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Robert Whitehead

Director: Walter Kerr

Writer: Jean and Walter Kerr

Music: Leroy Anderson

Lyrics: Jean and Walter Kerr, Joan Ford

Cast: Don Ameche, Elaine Stritch, Russell Nype, Pat Stanley

Box   34
  Folder   6
Correspondence, 1954-1968
Volume   23
Three Scripts
Volume   23
Script fragments
Volume   13
Notes, lyrics
Volume   23
Script, 1957 February 15
Box   34
  Folder   7
Musical scores and arrangements
Note: See also Audio recordings series.
Box   34
  Folder   8
Contracts, 1954-1958
Box   34
  Folder   9
Photographs
Box   34
  Folder   10
Financial statements, 1954-1968
Mary, Mary (New York 1961 March 8
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Roger L. Stevens in association with Lyn Austin and Victor Samrock

Director: Joseph Anthony

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie

Box   35
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1960-1969
Volume   24
Script
Volume   24
Three Scripts, 1960
Volume   24
Notes, script fragments
Box   35
  Folder   2
Script
Box   35
  Folder   3
Script, 1963
Box   35
  Folder   4
Proofs of Samuel French Acting Edition, 1963
Box   35
  Folder   5
Script from Mexican production
Script, motion picture version 1963 February 6
Box   35
  Folder   7
Prop list
Box   35
  Folder   8
Contracts, 1960-1962
Box   36
  Folder   1
Photographs, New York production and motion pictures
Box   36
  Folder   2
Programs and production posters
Financial and legal information
Box   36
  Folder   3
1960-1961
Box   36
  Folder   4
1962
Box   36
  Folder   5
1963
Box   36
  Folder   6
1964-1965
Box   36
  Folder   7
1965-1967
Box   37
  Folder   1
Financial statements, 1968-1969
Poor Richard (New York, 1964 December 2
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Stevens Productions Inc., in association with Lyn Austin and Victor Samrock

Director: Peter Wood

Writer: Jean Kerr

Cast: Alan Bates, Gene Hackman, Joan Alexander, Joanna Pettet, Colgate Salsbury

Box   37
  Folder   2
Correspondence, 1963-1968
Box   37
  Folder   3
Script
Box   37
  Folder   4
Script fragments
Box   37
  Folder   5
Script
Box   37
  Folder   6
Script
Box   37
  Folder   7
Script
Box   37
  Folder   8
Script
Box   37
  Folder   9
Script, 1964 October 3
Box   38
  Folder   1
Script
Box   38
  Folder   2
Script revisions
Box   38
  Folder   3
Script
Box   38
  Folder   4
Script (New York)
Box   38
  Folder   5
Script (Boston)
Box   38
  Folder   6
Script
Box   38
  Folder   7
Script revisions
Box   38
  Folder   8
Script, 1965
Box   38
  Folder   9
Script
Box   39
  Folder   1
Galley proofs, 1965
Box   39
  Folder   2
Script, published copy 1965
Box   39
  Folder   3
Two Scripts, published copies 1965
Box   39
  Folder   4
Galley proofs
Box   39
  Folder   5
Contracts, 1964-1965
Box   39
  Folder   6
Photographs
Box   39
  Folder   7
Notes
Box   39
  Folder   8
Posters
Box   40
  Folder   1
Financial statements, 1963-1969