John Wexley Papers, 1929-1963

Container Title
Series: Stage plays
The Last Mile (N.Y., 1930, Feb. 13)
Note

Prod: Herman Shumlin

Dir: Chester Erskin

Cast: Spencer Tracy, James H. Bell, Howard Phillips

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Holograph mss., titled All the World Wondered, 1929
Revisions for first draft
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Folder   2
Act I
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Act II
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Folder   4
Act III
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Folder   5
Copyrighted typescript, titled All the World Wondered, 1929
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Folder   6
Third draft, titled All the World Wondered
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Folder   7
Revisions, Act III
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Folder   8
Revised draft with stage manager's annotations
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Folder   9
Galleys for Samuel French edition
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Folder   10
Samuel French edition, 1930
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Folder   11
Samuel French paperback edition
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Folder   12
Samuel French edition, one-act version, 1931
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Folder   13
Contract
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Folder   14
Playbills for stage play and for film
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Folder   15
Photographs
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Folder   16
Political cartoons
Steel
Note

New York, 1931, Nov. 18

Prod: Richard Geist, Inc.

Dir: John Wexley

Cast: Egon Brecher, Lili Zehner, Eleanor Phelps, Barton MacLane, Paul Guilfoyle


New York, 1937, Spring

Prod: Labor Stage, Inc.

Dir: Mark Schweid

Cast: I.L.G.W.U. Players (Local 10 Group)

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Original holograph draft, 1931, May 18
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Original typed draft, 1931, May 21
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Carbon typescript, annotated
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Typescript: , 1931 Broadway production
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Carbon typescript, annotated for 1937 Labor Stage production
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Revised carbon typescript, used for 1937 production
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Folder   7
Prompt script, 1937 production
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Folder   8
Correspondence, 1937, Jan. 25 - Feb. 18
Photographs, playbill
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Folder   9
1931 production
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Folder   10
1937 production
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Folder   11
Prospectus, Labor Theatre Committee for touring Steel
They Shall Not Die (New York, 1934, Feb. 21)
Note

Prod: The Theatre Guild

Dir: Philip Moeller

Set designer: Lee Simonson

Cast: Claude Rains, Tom Ewell, Ruth Gordon, Dean Jagger

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Folder   1
Holograph outline, acts and scenes, with some dialogue, 1933, April 29 - May 17
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Original typescript, annotated by author
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Folder   3
Deleted or revised scenes
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Folder   4
Revised first draft
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Original second draft, annotated by author
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Script from which last draft was made, annotated
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Folder   7
Production script with cuts and revisions
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Folder   8
Cut prologue and epilogue, explanation of Act I, unused final scene
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Folder   9
Discarded pages
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Folder   10
Script for book publication
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Galley proofs for Alfred Knopf edition
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Alfred Knopf edition, 1934
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Folder   3
Alfred Knopf paperback edition, revised and rewritten (1950)
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Scene designs
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Folder   5
Photograph, playbill
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Folder   6
John Wexley, “White Supremacy,” Fight, April, 1934, p. 7.
Screenplay
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First draft with annotations, 1949, Sept. 30 (unproduced?)
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Folder   8
Final draft, 1949, Dec. 28
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Folder   1
Revised final draft, 1950, Jan. 25
Carrot and Club (Walnut Theater, Philadelphia, 1947, Feb. 4)
Note

Prod: William Herz, Jr.

Dir: John Wexley

Cast: Polly Rowles, Diane Chadwick, Bert Lytell

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Holograph sections, 1945
Holograph
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Act 1, Scene 1, incomplete
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Act 1, Scene 2, incomplete
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Act II, Scene, 1, incomplete
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Typed revisions for Act I, Scene 2
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Mimeograph script, 1946, Oct. 26
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Folder   8
Revised mimeograph script, 1947, Jan. 19
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Folder   9
Final prompt script, 1947, Feb. 8
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Folder   10
Misc. production notes, blueprint of set
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Folder   11
Photographs, clippings
Running Dogs! (unproduced?)
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Typescript, with annotations
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Typescript
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One-act version, mimeographed
Prometheus Tempted (unproduced?)
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Typescript, annotated
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Folder   5
Mimeograph script
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Mimeograph script
Comes the Dreamer
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Carbon typescript
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Folder   8
Galleys for First Stage publication
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Folder   9
Published version: First Stage, Winter, 1962-1963, pp. 7 - 36.