Albert Maltz Papers, 1932-1985

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Biographical Information
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   1
Folder   1
Biographical miscellany
WCFTR Name File
Photographs
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   1
Folder   2
Interview, 1940
Micro 2009
Scrapbooks (filmed without a counter)
Reel   1
New Masses controversy, 1946-1957
Reel   1
HUAC, 1947-1950
Reel   1
General, 1938-1960
Reel   1
1959-1963, 1970, Sinatra and the Blacklist
Tape 1239A
No.   3
Recording of Maltz funeral service, 1985.
Note: Speakers include George Sklar and Norman Corwin.
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   1
Folder   2A
Notes on Maltz manuscripts, n.d.
Series: Theatre
The Black Pit, 1935
Box   1
Folder   3
Typescript by AM, ca. 1955
Box   1
Folder   3A
Publicity
Note: See also item A373.
WCFTR Title File
Photographs of foreign and TU production
Poster 2.4.004
Poster for foreign production
U.S. Mss 17AN
The Exile
Box   1
Folder   4
Notes
Box   1
Folder   5
Handwritten scenario, n.d.
Box   1
Folder   6
Handwritten scenario, n.d.
Box   1
Folder   7-8
Handwritten script by AM, May 11, 1958
Box   1
Folder   9
Revisions, May 14-June 11, 1958
Box   1
Folder   10
Typed script (anno.), June 2, 1958
Box   1
Folder   11
Revisions, n.d.
Box   1
Folder   12
Typed script, n.d.
Merry-Go-Round, 1932
Box   2
Folder   1
Typed script by AM and George Sklar, ca. 1955
WCFTR Title File
Photograph of German production, n.d.
U.S. Mss 17AN
The Morrison Case
Box   2
Folder   2
Mimeo script by AM, 1952
Peace on Earth
WCFTR Title File
Photographs of London production
Note: See also item A373.
U.S. Mss 17AN
Private Hicks, 1936
Box   2
Folder   3
Typed script by AM, ca. 1955
Rehearsal
Box   2
Folder   4
Notes, n.d.
Box   2
Folder   5
Handwritten script by AM, 1937
Box   2
Folder   6
Typed script, ca. 1955, and advertisement, , 1938
The Sublime Child
Box   2
Folder   7
Notes re characters, n.d.
Box   2
Folder   8-11
Handwritten script and working notes
“Portrait of a Man” handwritten script, 1957
Box   2
Folder   12
Acts I & II
Box   3
Folder   1
Acts III & IV
Box   3
Folder   2
Typed script, 1957
Underground Stream
WCFTR Title File
Photographs, French production
Poster 2.4.003
Poster, French production
U.S. Mss 17AN
Zero Hour (Revised version of Peace on Earth)
Box   3
Folder   3-4
Handwritten script by George Sklar and AM, ca. 1940
Micro 2009
Theatrical clipping scrapbooks
Reel   1
General, 1932-1954
Reel   1
Foreign productions, 1948-1954
Series: Radio
U.S. Mss 17AN
Red Head Baker, 1937
Box   3
Folder   5
Notes, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   6
Handwritten script (incomplete), n.d.
Box   3
Folder   6
Typed script (anno.) by AM, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   6
Typed script (anno.), n.d.
Box   3
Folder   7
Typed script, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   7
Mimeo script (anno.) June 20, 1937
Series: Motion Pictures
Broken Arrow
Box   3
Folder   8
“Blood Brother,” typed script (anno.) by AM, n.d.
Charly, 1968
Box   3
Folder   9
Notes, n.d.
Destination Tokyo, 1943
Box   3
Folder   10
Award, 1944
Box   3
Folder   11
Handwritten scenario and notes, n.d.
Box   3
Folder   12
Mimeo script by Delmer Daves, May 14, 1943
Typed script by Delmer Daves (handwritten annotations by AM), post May 14, 1943
Box   3
Folder   13
Part I
Box   4
Folder   1
Part II
Box   4
Folder   2
Typed script, n.d.
Dounia Ourisson's Escape
Box   4
Folder   3
Typed scenario, 1961
Execution of Private Slovik
Box   4
Folder   4
Notes, n.d.
Exodus
Box   4
Folder   5-7
Typed script, n.d.
Box   4
Folder   8
Notes for rewrite, n.d.
Box   4
Folder   9
Research, n.d.
Great Bank Robbery, 1969
Box   4
Folder   10
Notes, n.d.
Box   5
Folder   1
Typed scenario by Frank O'Rourke, n.d.
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
Box   5
Folder   2
Notes, 1968
The House I Live In, 1945
Box   5
Folder   3
Handwritten script, ca 1945
Box   5
Folder   4
Awards
Long Shadow
Box   5
Folder   5
Notes, n.d.
Box   5
Folder   6
Notes and outline, n.d.
Box   5
Folder   7-8
Handwritten draft, n.d.
Box   5
Folder   9
“Count Seven” typed script (anno.), n.d.
Box   5
Folder   10
Typed script by John Wexley and AM, ca. 1958
Box   6
Folder   1
Miscellaneous revised pages, n.d.
Box   6
Folder   2
“Short Weekend” mimeo script by James W. Tinicum (AM, Wesley, and Dalton Trumbo), 1958, ca. April
Box   6
Folder   3
Mimeo script (anno.), n.d.
Box   6
Folder   4
Mimeo script by Tinicum, January 20, 1959
Box   6
Folder   5
Typed script (incomplete), n.d.
Moscow Strikes Back
WCFTR Title File
Photographs and advertising brochure
U.S. Mss 17AN
Naked City, 1948
Box   6
Folder   6-7
Handwritten script, n.d.
Box   6
Folder   8
Mimeo script by AM and Malvin Wald, May 22, 1947
Box   7
Folder   1
Award, 1948
WCFTR Title File
Photographs
U.S. Mss 17AN
Pride of the Marines, 1945
Box   7
Folder   2-3
Handwritten script (incomplete), n.d.
Box   7
Folder   4
“This Love of Ours” mimeo script by AM (incomplete), n.d.
Box   7
Folder   5
Award, 1945
Note: Original in Item file, A373.
WCFTR Title File
Photographs
U.S. Mss 17AN
The Robe, 1953
Box   7
Folder   6
Notes, 1945
Box   7
Folder   7-8
Mimeo script by AM, August 3, 1945
Box   7
Folder   9
Typed and handwritten revisions, September 20, 1946
Box   8
Folder   1
Typewritten script by AM (anno.), November 11, 1945
Box   8
Folder   2
Typed and mimeo script, December 11, 1946
Tape 1239A
No.   1
David Talbot, April 29, 1978, speaking on the role of Phil Dunne and AM in scripting The Robe
U.S. Mss 17AN
Seven File
Box   8
Folder   3
Notes re characters, n.d.
Box   8
Folder   4
Notes re breakdown of novels, scenario
Box   8
Folder   5
Notes re dialogue and ending
Box   8
Folder   6
Notes re scene development
Handwritten script, n.d.
Box   8
Folder   7-9
Pages 1-231
Box   9
Folder   1
Pages 232-322
Box   9
Folder   2-3
Pages and working notes not used in first draft
Box   9
Folder   4
Typewritten script (anno.), n.d.
Box   9
Folder   5
Notes re second draft
Box   9
Folder   6
Pages discarded from second draft, 1964, March
Box   9
Folder   7
Typed outline for third draft (anno.)
Box   9
Folder   8-9
Typed script (anno.), 1964, April
Box   10
Folder   1
Notes for third draft
Box   10
Folder   2
Pages discarded in third draft
Box   10
Folder   3
Typed script (anno.) by AM, May 15, 1965
Silver Nutmeg
Box   10
Folder   4
Notes re budget, 1966
Box   10
Folder   5
Treatment by David Miller, Bernard Smith, and AM, February 14, 1966
Box   10
Folder   6
Notes for revision of treatment
Box   10
Folder   7-12
Notes
Box   10
Folder   13
Research
Box   10
Folder   14
Typed revisions before first draft, 1959, February-March
Box   11
Folder   1-3
Handwritten script by AM, April 1959
Box   11
Folder   4-5
Typewritten script (anno.), April 1959
Box   11
Folder   6
Revisions of second draft, Discarded, n.d.
Box   12
Folder   1-2
Notes, June 1962
Box   12
Folder   3
Notes, December, 1962-January, 1963
Box   12
Folder   4-5
Typed script (anno.) by AM, January 22, 1963
Box   12
Folder   6
Notes, November-December, 1963
Handwritten script, December, 1963
Box   12
Folder   7
Pages 1-172
Box   13
Folder   1-3
Pages 173-564
Simon Bolivar
Box   13
Folder   4
Notes, 1966
Story of Varney (Based on A Long Day in a Short Life)
Box   13
Folder   5
Notes, 1967-1968
Box   13
Folder   6
Treatments, 1968, n.d.
Box   13
Folder   7
Mimeo script by AM, n.d.
This Gun for Hire, 1942
Box   13
Folder   8
Notes on character development
Box   14
Folder   1-2
Handwritten script, n.d.
Box   14
Folder   3
Notes, 1941, October 16
Box   14
Folder   4
Mimeo script, October 25, 1941
Box   14
Folder   5
Mimeo script (anno.) [November 9, 1941]
Item A31
Sketches by Len Ward
Series: General Writings
Short stories
Micro 2009
Scrapbooks
Reel   1
1938-1952
Reel   1
The Way Things Are, Foreign reviews, 1949-1960
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   14
Folder   6
Miscellany
Novels
Micro 2009
Scrapbooks
Reel   1
Underground Steam, 1940
Reel   2
Cross and Arrow, Foreign reviews, 1947-1956
Reel   2
Journey of Simon McKeever, 1948-1956
Reel   2
Long Day in a Short Life, 1957-1958
Reel   2
Tale of One January
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   14
Folder   7
Historical notes and reviews of Journey of Simon McKeever
Speeches
Box   14
Folder   12
1947
Box   15
Folder   1
1948 Stop Censorship Committee meeting transcript
Box   15
Folder   2
1948-1959
Box   15
Folder   3
1959 Prison lecture notes and publicity
Box   15
Folder   4-6
1961-1964, 1975, n.d.
Other writings and statements
General
Box   14
Folder   8
ca. 1935
Box   14
Folder   9-10
1939-1947, 1977-1980, n.d.
Box   14
Folder   11
Hollywood Ten writings
Box   15
Folder   7
Writings for others, 1947-1950, n.d.
Series: Hollywood Ten Files
Tape 1239A
No.   2
Side   1
Herbert Biberman memorial service, August 15, 1971
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   15
Folder   8
Legal miscellany
Notes
Box   15
Folder   9
Amicus Curiae brief for Hollywood Ten
Box   15
Folder   10
Meetings of the Hollywood Ten, 1947-1949, n.d.
Box   15
Folder   11
Publicity
Box   19
Oversize publicity
Box   15
Folder   12
Questionnaire, 1969-1970
Tape 1239A
No.   2
Side   2
Adrian Scott memorial service, December 30, 1972
Note: Includes remarks by Maltz.
Series: Correspondence
U.S. Mss 17AN
General
Box   15
Folder   13-15
1936-1947
Box   16
1948-1973
Box   17
Folder   1-2
1974-1985, n.d.
Subject files and notes
Box   17
Folder   3
Cross and Arrow correspondence to Daily Worker, 1945
Box   17
Folder   4
Lardner correspondence notes, n.d.
Micro 279
Reel   1
Little, Brown & Co. correspondence
U.S. Mss 17AN
Box   17
Folder   4A
Mexican “witch hunt” statement and clippings, 1958
Box   17
Folder   5
New Masses notes, n.d.
Box   17
Folder   6
Solzhenitzen notes, n.d.
Box   17
Folder   7
William Stevenson, 1947-1950
Box   17
Folder   8
Trumbo notes, n.d.
Series: Margaret Maltz Papers
Box   17
Folder   9-11
Prison letters, 1950-1951
Box   17
Folder   12
Hollywood Ten speeches, 1948-1950, n.d.
Theatre Union
Box   17
Folder   13
Article on history
Box   17
Folder   14
Article on New Theatre Movement, 1939
Box   17
Folder   15
General publicity, n.d.
Box   17
Folder   16
Financial statement, 1937
Bitterstream
Box   18
Folder   1
Martha Dreiblatt press releases, n.d.
Box   18
Folder   2-3
Black Pit and miscellaneous correspondence, 1935-1937
Marching Song
Box   18
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1937
Box   18
Folder   5
Handbill
Box   18
Folder   6
Ruth Pearse press releases, 1937, n.d.
Mother
Box   18
Folder   7
Dreiblatt press releases, 1935
Box   18
Folder   8
Notes on musical score, n.d.
Peace on Earth
Box   18
Folder   9
Press releases, n.d.
Box   18
Folder   10
Posters
Stevedore
Box   18
Folder   11
Press releases, 1934
Box   18
Folder   12
Handbill