John Wexley Papers, 1929-1963

Contents List

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

Box   1
Folder   1
Holograph mss., titled All the World Wondered, 1929
Revisions for first draft
Box   1
Folder   2
Act I
Box   1
Folder   3
Act II
Box   1
Folder   4
Act III
Box   1
Folder   5
Copyrighted typescript, titled All the World Wondered, 1929
Box   1
Folder   6
Third draft, titled All the World Wondered
Box   1
Folder   7
Revisions, Act III
Box   1
Folder   8
Revised draft with stage manager's annotations
Box   1
Folder   9
Galleys for Samuel French edition
Box   1
Folder   10
Samuel French edition, 1930
Box   1
Folder   11
Samuel French paperback edition
Box   1
Folder   12
Samuel French edition, one-act version, 1931
Box   1
Folder   13
Contract
Box   1
Folder   14
Playbills for stage play and for film
Box   1
Folder   15
Photographs
Box   1
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)

Box   2
Folder   1
Original holograph draft, 1931, May 18
Box   2
Folder   2
Original typed draft, 1931, May 21
Box   2
Folder   3
Carbon typescript, annotated
Box   2
Folder   4
Typescript: , 1931 Broadway production
Box   2
Folder   5
Carbon typescript, annotated for 1937 Labor Stage production
Box   2
Folder   6
Revised carbon typescript, used for 1937 production
Box   2
Folder   7
Prompt script, 1937 production
Box   2
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1937, Jan. 25 - Feb. 18
Photographs, playbill
Box   2
Folder   9
1931 production
Box   2
Folder   10
1937 production
Box   2
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

Box   3
Folder   1
Holograph outline, acts and scenes, with some dialogue, 1933, April 29 - May 17
Box   3
Folder   2
Original typescript, annotated by author
Box   3
Folder   3
Deleted or revised scenes
Box   3
Folder   4
Revised first draft
Box   3
Folder   5
Original second draft, annotated by author
Box   3
Folder   6
Script from which last draft was made, annotated
Box   3
Folder   7
Production script with cuts and revisions
Box   3
Folder   8
Cut prologue and epilogue, explanation of Act I, unused final scene
Box   3
Folder   9
Discarded pages
Box   3
Folder   10
Script for book publication
Box   4
Folder   1
Galley proofs for Alfred Knopf edition
Box   4
Folder   2
Alfred Knopf edition, 1934
Box   4
Folder   3
Alfred Knopf paperback edition, revised and rewritten (1950)
Box   4
Folder   4
Scene designs
Box   4
Folder   5
Photograph, playbill
Box   4
Folder   6
John Wexley, “White Supremacy,” Fight, April, 1934, p. 7.
Screenplay
Box   4
Folder   7
First draft with annotations, 1949, Sept. 30 (unproduced?)
Box   4
Folder   8
Final draft, 1949, Dec. 28
Box   5
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

Box   5
Folder   2
Holograph sections, 1945
Holograph
Box   5
Folder   3
Act 1, Scene 1, incomplete
Box   5
Folder   4
Act 1, Scene 2, incomplete
Box   5
Folder   5
Act II, Scene, 1, incomplete
Box   5
Folder   6
Typed revisions for Act I, Scene 2
Box   5
Folder   7
Mimeograph script, 1946, Oct. 26
Box   5
Folder   8
Revised mimeograph script, 1947, Jan. 19
Box   5
Folder   9
Final prompt script, 1947, Feb. 8
Box   5
Folder   10
Misc. production notes, blueprint of set
Box   5
Folder   11
Photographs, clippings
Running Dogs! (unproduced?)
Box   6
Folder   1
Typescript, with annotations
Box   6
Folder   2
Typescript
Box   6
Folder   3
One-act version, mimeographed
Prometheus Tempted (unproduced?)
Box   6
Folder   4
Typescript, annotated
Box   6
Folder   5
Mimeograph script
Box   6
Folder   6
Mimeograph script
Comes the Dreamer
Box   6
Folder   7
Carbon typescript
Box   6
Folder   8
Galleys for First Stage publication
Box   6
Folder   9
Published version: First Stage, Winter, 1962-1963, pp. 7 - 36.
Series: Motion picture scripts
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse(1938)
Note

Prod: None listed

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley, John Huston

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart

Box   7
Folder   1
Mimeo script, 1938, Jan. 26
Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)
Note

Prod: Sam Bischoff

Dir: Michael Curtiz

S. Play: John Wexley, Warren Duff

Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan

Mimeo script
Box   7
Folder   2
1938, May 27
Box   7
Folder   3
1938, June 22
Confessions of a Nazi Spy(1939)
Note

Prod: None listed

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: Milton Krims, John Wexley

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders

Box   7
Folder   4
Mimeo script, 1939, Jan. 27
The Roaring Twenties(1939)
Note

Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod.: Samuel Bischoff

Dir: Raoul Walsh

S. Play: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Rossen

Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George

Box   7
Folder   5
Treatment, proposed by John Wexley, titled The World Moves On, 1939 May 9
Footsteps in the Dark(1941)
Note

Exec. Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod: Robert Lord

Dir: Lloyd Bacon

S. Play: Lester Cole, John Wexley

Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Alan Hale

Box   7
Folder   6
Mimeo script, temporary, 1939, March 25
Box   7
Folder   7
Second revised final, 1940, Oct. 1
Box   7
Folder   8
Clippings
City for Conquest(1940)
Note

Prod: Hal B. Wallis

Assoc. Prod: William Cagney

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley

Cast: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven

Carbon typescript
Box   8
Folder   1
1940, Jan. 19
Box   8
Folder   2
1940, Jan. 26
Box   8
Folder   3
1940, May 8
Mimeo script
Box   8
Folder   4
1940, May 15
Box   8
Folder   5
1940, July 15
Danger Signal(1945)
Note

Prod: William Jacobs

Dir: Robert Florey

S. Play: Adele Commandini, Graham Baker

Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott

Box   8
Folder   6
Treatment, proposed by John Wexley, 1940, May 20
Carbon typescript, draft by Wexley
Box   8
Folder   7
1940, August 3
Box   8
Folder   8
1940, August 9
Knockout (1941)
Note

Assoc. Prod: Edmund Grainger

Dir: William Clemens

S. Play: M. Coates Webster

Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn

Box   9
Folder   1
Treatment, by Wexley and Warren Duff
Box   9
Folder   2
Carbon typescript, by Wexley and Warren Duff
Box   9
Folder   3
Mimeo script, 1940, Nov. 7, by M. Coates Webster
Mackintosh (unproduced?)
Box   9
Folder   4
Treatment, 1941, Feb. 13
Box   9
Folder   5
Revised treatment, 1941, March 15
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
Note

Prod: Fritz Lang

Assoc. Prod: T. W. Baumfield

Dir: Fritz Lang

S. Play: John Wexley (from an original story by Fritz Lang and Berthold Brecht)

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart

Box   9
Folder   6
Mimeo shooting script, 1942, Oct. 16
Malta (unproduced?)
Box   9
Folder   7
Carbon typescript, 1943, April 1, written for Joe Pasternak
Cornered (1945)
Note

Prod: Adrian Scott

Dir: Edward Dmytryk

Author: John Wexley

S. Play: John Paxton

Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel

Box   9
Folder   8
Typescript, 1945, April 15
The Long Night (1947)
Note

Prod: Robert Hakim

Dir: Anatole Litvak

S. Play: John Wexley

Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price

Box   10
Folder   1
Carbon typescript, 1946, June 19
Mimeo script
Box   10
Folder   2
With annotations, 1946, Aug. 16
Box   10
Folder   3
1946, Sept. 18
Box   10
Folder   4
Photograph (group photo of cast and production team)
Series: Miscellany
Box   10
Folder   5
Choate, Edward and John F. Matthews, “Theatre Incorporated Has the Honor To Present the Old Vic Theatre Company May 6th to June 15th, 1946: A Report and a Reaction”--Second mimeo edition, with photos, copyrighted Nov. 13, 1946.
Box   10
Folder   6
Archer, William and Granville Barker, Scheme and Estimates for a National Theatre (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908).