Howard Koch Papers, 1937-1976

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Book
The Panic Broadcast (Published by Little, Brown and Company)
Box   5
Folder   1
Typescript Draft and Miscellany, 1913, 1970, undated
Series: Motion Pictures
Casablanca
Box   1
Correspondence, 1942, August 31 - 1944, March 3; with Koch notes on production, [, 1964, Jan.?], undated
Box   1
“Everybody Comes to Rick's” original screenplay by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
Box   1
Script, 1942, May 11
Box   1
Story outline, revised, undated
Box   1
Photographs and clippings
The Cloud (unproduced)
Box   4
Folder   13
Script
Note: Suggested by Washington Irving's “Rip Van Winkle,” contemporary version.
Conquistador (Production information unknown)
Box   5
Folder   2
Treatment and Correspondence, May, 1943
Fire from Heaven (Unproduced.)
Box   5
Folder   3
Script, undated
Note: Based on material from the novel “The Woman at Otowi Crossing” by Frank Waters.
The Fox (, 1967)
Note

Producer: Raymond Stross

Director: Mark Rydell

Screenplay: Lewis John Carlino, Howard Koch

Cast: Anne Heywood, Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea

Box   4
Folder   1
Reference notes by Koch
Box   4
Folder   2
Option agreement, 1966, July 27 (A)
Box   4
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1965, July 13--Nov. 12 (B)
Box   4
Folder   4
Notes by Mark Rydell and response by Koch (C)
Box   4
Folder   5
Script by Lewis John Carlino and comments by Koch (D)
Box   4
Folder   6
Statement of the case before the Screen Writers Guild; brief history of The Fox development to the screen (E)
Box   4
Folder   7
Pauline Kael, New Yorker review, 1968, Feb. 10; response by Koch, , 1968, Feb. 11 (F)
Box   4
Folder   8
Koch's original script (G)
Box   4
Folder   9
Koch's script with revisions (H)
Box   4
Folder   10
Newspaper and magazine articles, reviews and publicity
The Greengage Summer
Box   1
Correspondence, 1959, December 9 - 1961, April 10; with Koch notes, [, 1964, Jan.?]
Box   1
Script, 1959, April 30
Box   1
Story outline, undated
Box   1
Clippings
In Our Time
Box   1
Script, 1943, May 29
Box   1
Clippings
In This Our Life
Box   2
Script, 1941, October 1
The Letter
Box   2
Correspondence, 1940, February 14
Box   2
Script, 1940, May 15
Box   2
Clippings
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Box   2
Correspondence, 1948, February 13 - 1948, October 29
Box   2
Script, 1947, July 25
Box   2
Photographs and clippings
Mission to Moscow
Box   2
Correspondence, 1942, November 13 - 1945, August 31 with Koch notes, [, 1964, Jan.?]
Box   2
Script, 1942
Box   2
Set notes, 1942; suggestions for further cuts, , 1943, January 18
Box   2
Dewey-LaFollette letter, New York Times, 1943, May 9; Koch's reply to Dewey's attack, , 1943
Box   2
Photographs
Box   2
Clippings
No Sad Songs for Me
Box   2
Correspondence, [ 1948]
Box   2
Script, 1948, April 15
Box   2
Clippings
Box   2
Photographs
Rhapsody in Blue
Box   3
Correspondence, 1943, February 15; clipping
Box   3
Script, 1943, June 16
A Ride on the Milky Way (Unproduced)
Box   5
Folder   4
Script, undated
The Savage (Production information unknown)
Box   5
Folder   5
Treatment, “Fallen Angel,” undated
The Sea Hawk
Box   3
Script, 1940
Box   3
Story outline, undated
Box   3
Technical notes, undated; song, “Donna Maria's Song,” , undated
Box   3
Photographs and clippings
Sergeant York
Box   3
Correspondence, 1941, February 21
Box   3
Script, 1941, January 31
Box   3
Photographs
Box   3
Clippings
The Singing and the Gold (Unproduced)
Box   5
Folder   6
Script, co-authored by Anne Froelick, undated
The Southern Double Cross (Production information unknown)
Box   5
Folder   7
Script, co-authored by Ann Green, undated
Summer World (Unproduced)
Box   5
Folder   8
Script, First Draft, January 12, 1961
Three Strangers
Box   3
Script, 1944, December 12
Box   3
Photographs and clippings
To the Last Man (Unproduced)
Note: Portrays the exploits of a German, Oskar Schindler, who save 1300 Jews from Nazi extermination; based on a series of interviews with Schindler and the surviving Jews.
Box   6
Folder   1-2
Script, “The Story of Oskar Schindler,” undated
The Travelers (Unproduced)
Box   6
Folder   3
Script, circa 1965
The War Lover (, 1962)
Note

Producer: Arthur Hornblow

Director: Philip Leacock

Screenplay: Howard Koch

Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Ann Field, Gary Cockrell

Box   4
Folder   11
Correspondence, 1961, Oct. 5--1962, May 30; stills
Box   4
Folder   12
Script, with revisions
Series: Radio
Orson Welles Mercury Theatre (CBS Radio, October 30, 1938)
“War of the Worlds”
Box   6
Folder   4
Script, circa October, 1938
Box   1
Correspondence, 1964, Jan. 5 (Koch letter); court opinion, , 1962, Jan. 3; misc. notes, , 1962
Box   1
Final script, 1938, Oct. 30
Box   1
Working script with original script pages, 1938
Box   1
Story, “Invasion from Inner Space,” undated
Box   1
Clippings
Series: Television
The Night that Panicked America (Made-for-TV movie, Paramount Television, October 31, 1975, Original telecast on ABC)
Box   6
Folder   5
Correspondence and Miscellany, March-June, 1975, undated
Box   6
Folder   6
Script, Revised Final, “The Night the Martians Landed” and “Please Stand By,” by Nicholas Meyer from the radio broadcast by Koch, June 13, 1975
Series: Theater
Dead Letters (NY: Lincoln Center Library Theatre)
Box   6
Folder   7
Script, undated
In Time to Come (NY: Mansfield Theatre, December 28, 1941)
Note: A play about the League of Nations which, despite good reviews, was aborted after Pearl Harbor.
Box   6
Folder   8
Script, co-authored by John Huston, circa 1941
The Lonely Man (Chicago: Blackstone Theatre, 1937)
Note: A production done under the sponsorship of the Federal Theatre and in which John Huston had his first important starring role.
Box   7
Folder   1
Script, undated
Love Is a Four-Letter Word (Unproduced)
Box   7
Folder   2
Script, undated
Skywarn (Unproduced)
Box   7
Folder   3
Script, undated
Straight Jacket (San Miguel de Allenele, Mexico: [other production information unknown])
Box   7
Folder   4
Script, “Lovebind,” undated
Box   7
Folder   5
Script, “The Albatross,” undated
The Trial of Richard Nixon (Unproduced)
Note: About a theoretical trial of Richard Nixon after his resignation.
Box   7
Folder   6
Script, 1976
Series: Hollywood Blacklist
Box   3
Correspondence, 1947, October 1 - 1964, January 29, including Koch letter
Box   3
Transcript of House Un-American Activities Committee Hearings, 1947, October 21
Box   3
Koch statements, undated
Box   3
Clippings