Dore Schary Papers, circa 1920-1980

Container Title
Subseries: Biographical and Personal Material
Interviews
Box   75
Folder   1-2
Correspondence and transcripts, 1944-1972
Recorded interviews
Audio 920A
Turning Point (UCLA, Television-Radio Division, Department of Theatre Arts, 1959 August 19
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Dore Schary covering the entire span of his career. He discusses his work with the major motion picture studios and in the theater.
920A/16
Part 1
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his pre-Hollywood career; his work as a writer at Columbia, as a writer and head of the B picture unit at MGM and a dispute there over Storm in the West; his work at Vanguard Pictures for David Selznick; at RKO for Howard Hughes and their dispute over Battleground; and Schary's eventual return to MGM.
920A/17
Part 2
Scope and Content Note: Comparison of Schary's position at MGM with that of Irving Thalberg; discussion of his career at MGM and his differences with Louis B. Mayer; the role of independent producers in Hollywood.
920A/18
Part 3
Scope and Content Note: Comparison of workings of and final products of motion pictures, television, and theater; discussion of film and theatrical productions of Sunrise at Campobello; description of theatrical focus of his then current activities.
920A/19
U.S. Steel Concert House. (BB & D, air date 1960 December 14)
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Dore Schary regarding the relationship between art and business.
920A/4
The Barry Gray Show Production information unknown, circa 1972
Scope and Content Note: Interview with Dore Schary regarding his role as president of TelePremier, a pay television company. Focuses on its product, TheatreVision, and describes how the system works. Discusses economics of pay TV; the attitude of commercial network television; and the eventual goal of pay TV to produce.
U.S. Mss 37AN
Box   75
Folder   3
Magazine articles and notices, 1947-1955
Box   75
Folder   4
Miscellaneous, including biographies, birth certificates, awards, 1933-1972, undated
Box   75
Folder   5
Newspaper clippings, 1936-1955, 1980
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Folder   6
Oral history for Columbia University, 1959-1961
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Folder   7
Thesis, “A Biography of Dore Schary: His Contribution to the Motion Picture Industry and Theatre...” / by Naomi Fink, 1968
General file
Box   76
Folder   1
Anniversary, 25th, 1957
Box   76
Folder   2
Appraisals of property, 1966
Birthdays
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Folder   3
1950-1965
Box   200
Folder   2
Schary Manor souvenir booklet
Box   76
Folder   4
60th brithday, 1965
Camp Flagler
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Folder   5
Social calendar, 1929
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Folder   6
Flagler News, circa 1929 June-August
Christmas lists, cards, and correspondence
Box   76
Folder   7-9
1949-1965
Box   77
Folder   1-2
1965-1972
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Folder   3
Dore Schary Day at the World's Fair, 1965
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Folder   4
Entertainment, 1951-1968, undated
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Folder   5
Genealogy, circa 1920-1961, undated
Residences
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Folder   6
Leases, 1935-1937
Box   77
Folder   7
Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1941-1966, undated
Box   77
Folder   8
House, correspondence and estimates, 1950-1952, undated
Apartments
Box   77
Folder   9
New York, 1957-1958
Box   77
Folder   10
33 East 70th Corporation, 1958-1966
Box   78
Folder   1
Vineyard Haven, 1962-1965, undated
Box   78
Folder   2
Fire, 1964, undated
Box   78
Folder   3
School activities, high school and college, circa 1929-1944
Box   78
Folder   4
Surgery, 1968, undated
Family file
Schary, Miriam Svet
Box   81
Folder   5-9
Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1947-1969, undated
Painting career
Box   81
Folder   10
Clipping, reviews, and catalogs, 1952-1956, undated
Exhibitions
Associated American Artists
Box   82
Folder   1-3
General file, 1947-1957, undated
Box   82
Folder   4
Mailing lists, 1952, 1955
Box   82
Folder   5
Brenon and Morgan, 1955
Box   82
Folder   6
Janet Nessler Gallery, 1962-1964, undated
Box   82
Folder   7
Lane Galleries, 1956
Box   82
Folder   8
Los Angeles Art Association, 1956, undated
Box   82
Folder   9
Los Angeles Art committee, 1955, undated
Box   82
Folder   10
Portraits Inc., 1953-1954
Box   82
Folder   11
Sagitarius Gallery, 1955
Box   82
Folder   12
Miscellaneous, 1952-1956, undated
Micro 1062
Reel   14
Segment   2
Scrapbook, 1952-1963
U.S. Mss 37AN
Box   82
Folder   13
Shipping, 1951-1957
Box   82
Folder   14
Vigeveno Gallery, circa 1952-1954
Writings
Et Cetera
Box   82
Folder   15
Diary draft (incomplete), circa 1952-1959
Box   83
Folder   1
Typescript, circa 1955
Box   83
Folder   2-3
revised typescript, circa 1959
Box   83
Folder   4
Stories, undated
Schary, Samuel (Stanley), Fay, and Susan
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Folder   5
Correspondence, 1943-1971
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Folder   6
Funeral of Samuel, 1964
Box   83
Folder   7
Schary, Saul, Correspondence, 1948-1973, undated
Box   83
Folder   8
Schary, William, Correspondence, 1972-1973
Small Family (Paul and Lillian)
Box   83
Folder   9
Correspondence and clipping, 1947-1962, undated
Box   84
Folder   1
Funeral of Lillian, 1961-1962
Box   84
Folder   2
Funeral of Paul, 1954, undated
Box   84
Folder   3
Family (Jane, Beth, Edgar, Bobbe), 1948-1974, undated
Box   84
Folder   4
Svet, Mandell and Rosalie, Correspondence, 1951-1958, undated