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Mansfield Theatre/Brooks Atkinson Theatre Records (owned and managed by Michael Myerberg)

Productions of Michael Myerberg

Container	Title
	Series: Productions of Michael Myerberg
	After I'm Gone (play)
Box 12 Folder 24	Script, by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore, undated
	Aladdin (play)
Box 12 Folder 25-27	Scripts (3), by Emile Littler, 1956, undated
	All Honorable Men (musical)
Box 12 Folder 28	Script, by Joseph Kramm, 1963
	The American Flotilla (exhibition)
Box 12 Folder 29	Script, by Albert R. Johnson, 1964
	Angel, Angel, Down We Go (play, film)
Box 12 Folder 30	Script, by Robert Thom, undated
Box 12 Folder 31	Screenplay, by Robert Thom, 1963
	Anna Lucasta (N.Y., 1944 August 30) Note Prod: John Wildberg Dir: Harry W. Gribble Writer: Phillip Yordan Cast: Theodora Smith, Frederick O'Neal, George Burke
Box 3 Folder 1	Correspondence 1944, July 31-1946, November 13
Box 3 Folder 2	Contracts , 1944 July 21-23
Box 3 Folder 3	Finance: production costs
Box 3 Folder 4	Promotion: advertising 1944, August 31-November 28
Box 3 Folder 5	Tickets
Box 3 Folder 6	Clippings
	Any Wednesday (play)
Box 12 Folder 32	Revised Script, by Muriel Resnik, October 22, 1963
	Attraction (formerly “Black on White”) (film)
Box 12 Folder 33	Contracts and Correspondence re: Distribution, 1968-1969
	Babes in Toyland and The Bluebird
Box 13 Folder 1	Copyright Reports, 1954
	The Ballad of Baby Doe (music drama)
Box 13 Folder 2	Contracts, Correspondence, SEC Notification, Notes, 1956-1957
Box 13 Folder 3	Script, by John Latouche and Douglas Moore, undated
	Balloon (play)
Box 13 Folder 4	Script, by Padraic Colum, undated; Playbill, , 1946
Box 3 Folder 7	Correspondence, contract: 1944 February 7-1947 April 14
	Bellevue Is My Home (proposed television series)
Box 13 Folder 5	Contract, Correspondence, 1956-1960
	The Bishop's Jaegers (unproduced)
Box 3 Folder 8	Correspondence and contract: , 1944 February 28-March 3
	The Borrowers (film project)
Box 13 Folder 7	Correspondence and Agreements re: Acquisition of Literary Property Rights, 1955
	Calypso (Calypso Revue) (dance/musical revue)
Box 13 Folder 8	Contracts, Correspondence, Cost Estimates, 1957
	Compulsion (play and film)
Box 13 Folder 9	Partnership Agreements and Overcall Correspondence, 1957-1960
Box 13 Folder 10	Box Office Statements, November 1957-February 1958
Box 13 Folder 11	Production Budgets and Estimates
Box 13 Folder 12	Cast and Staff Lists
Box 13 Folder 13	Production Contracts, 1957
Box 13 Folder 14	General Correspondence, 1957-1960
Box 13 Folder 15	Partnership Correspondence, 1957
Box 13 Folder 16	Financial Statements, 1957-1960; Tax Return, , 1957
	Lawsuits
Box 13 Folder 17	Michael Myerberg, Leonard S. Gruenberg and Compulsion Co. vs. Meyer Levin-Correspondence and Legal Papers, August-November 1957
Box 13 Folder 18-20	Robert Thom vs. Meyer Levin, Michael Myerberg, and Leonard S. Gruenberg-Legal Papers and Correspondence, November 1957-March 1959
Box 13 Folder 21	Lawsuit with 20th Century-Fox-Correspondence and Legal Papers, 1958-1969
Box 13 Folder 22	Opening Night Ticket Sales
Box 13 Folder 23	Playbills
Box 13 Folder 24	Promotional Materials; Royalties, 1968-1970
Micro 1020 Reel 1	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN	Scripts
Box 13 Folder 25	Rewritten Pages of Act I, by Meyer Levin, July 30, 1957
Box 13 Folder 26	Partial Drafts, by Meyer Levin, circa August 13, 1957
Box 13 Folder 27	Original Copy of Act I, by Meyer Levin, circa August 13, 1957
Box 13 Folder 28	Partial Draft of Act I, Annotated, by Meyer Levin, undated
Box 13 Folder 29	Early Draft, by Meyer Levin, undated
Box 13 Folder 30	Pre-Cut Script, by Meyer Levin, undated
Box 14 Folder 1	Producer's Version of Script, by Meyer Levin, undated
Box 14 Folder 2-3	Scripts, by Meyer Levin, undated
	Conversations at Midnight (play)
Box 14 Folder 4	Script, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, undated; Playbill, , circa 1964
	Conversations in the Dark (play)
Box 14 Folder 5	Script, by William Hanley, circa November 1, 1963
	The Cradle Will Rock (N.Y. December 26, 1947) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg Dir: Howard da Silva Writer: Marc Blitzstein Cast: Estelle Loring, Alfred Drake, Muriel Smith, Will Geer
Box 3 Folder 9	Correspondence, 1947 December 8-1948 February 16
	Contracts
Box 3 Folder 10	Actor's Equity: 1947 December 12, 13; Equity Agreement , 1947 December 12
Box 3 Folder 11	Agents and Managers, 1947 December 11; Musicians, , 1947 December 16; Production, , 1947 December 3
Box 3 Folder 12	Finance
Box 3 Folder 13	Technical production: costume plot
Box 3 Folder 14	Promotion: programs, billing, theater parties
	Dear Judas (N.Y., 1947 October 5) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg Dir: Esther Junger Writer: Michael Myerberg (adapted from original story by Robinson Jeffers) Cast: Ferdi Hoffman, Margaret Wycherly, Roy Hargrave, Harry Irvine
Box 3 Folder 15	Correspondence, 1943 March 8-1948 January 29
Box 3 Folder 16	Contracts: Actors Equity, 1947 September 22; Agents and Managers, , 1947 August 11-September 15; Chorus, , 1947 September 25; Production, , 1947 July 1-September 26
Box 3 Folder 17	Participation, 1947 September 12-29
Box 3 Folder 18	Finance, 1945 November 13-1948 February 11
Box 3 Folder 19	Casting, 1943 March 29-1947 October 11
Box 4 Folder 1	Technical production: estimates, costume plots, lighting plots
Box 4 Folder 2	Promotion
Box 4 Folder 3	Clippings and reviews, 1947 July 18-August 8
Box 14 Folder 6	Script, by Michael Myerberg, undated
	Desert Highway (unproduced)
Box 4 Folder 4	Correspondence, 1944 June 22
	The Enemy Camp (play)
Box 14 Folder 8	Correspondence and Other Papers, 1958-1960; Photograph
	Face with No Place (unproduced)
Box 4 Folder 5	Correspondence, 1949 April 15-August 22
	Fairytale or A Man Is Definitely Better Than a Book (play)
Box 14 Folder 9	Box Office Statements, Contracts, Correspondence, Clippings, 1966
Micro 1020 Reel 1	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN Box 14 Folder 10	Script, by Melanie York, 1965
	Family Kingdom (play)
Box 14 Folder 11	Correspondence, 1959-1960, 1963
Box 14 Folder 12	Script, by Lynn Root and Samuel W. Taylor, undated
	The Frog Pond (play)
Box 14 Folder 13	Cast and Casting Records, Contracts, Payrolls, Playbills, Photographs, and Other Production Records, 1965-1966
Box 14 Folder 14	Correspondence, 1964-1965
	The Game Is Up (play)
Box 14 Folder 15	Script, by Samuel Beckett, undated
	The Gentleman from Athens (N.Y., 1947 December 9) Note Prod: Martin Gosch, in association with Eunice Healy Dir: Sam Wanamaker Writer: Emmet Lavery Cast: Anthony Quinn, Edith Atwater, Lon Polan
Box 4 Folder 6	Contract, program, 1947 November 6
	Hansel and Gretel (film)
Box 14 Folder 16	Partnership Agreements and Correspondence; Lists of Investors, 1952-1954
Box 14 Folder 17	Production Contracts and Correspondence, 1952-1953, 1957
Box 14 Folder 18	Contracts and Correspondence re: Release of Film in Germany, 1954-1961
Box 14 Folder 19	General Correspondence, 1952-1959
Box 14 Folder 20	Correspondence and Draft Agreements re: Formation of New Production Co. with Fabian Enterprises, Inc., 1952
Box 14 Folder 21	Financial Statement, 1954
Box 14 Folder 22	Licensing Contracts and Correspondence, 1953-1956
Box 14 Folder 23	Loans and Correspondence, Other Papers, 1954-1955
Box 15 Folder 1	Photographs
Box 18	Photographs, Posters, Press Book, and Publicity
Box 15 Folder 2	Promissory Notes and Patent Rights, Correspondence, Records of Assignments and Transfers, 1953-1954
Box 15 Folder 3-4	Programs and Publicity , 1952-1953
Box 15 Folder 5	RKO Radio Pictures-Correspondence and Other Papers re: Distribution, 1954-1963
Micro 1020 Reel 1	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN Box 15 Folder 6	Script, by Padraic Colum, undated
Box 15 Folder 7	Storyland Village-Contracts and Promotional Material, 1956-1957
	The Headshrinkers (play)
Box 15 Folder 8	Script, by Max Regnier and Andre Gillois, undated
	Hickory Stick (N.Y., 1944 May 8) Note Prod: Marjorie Ewing, Marie Louise Elkins Dir: J. B. Daniels Writer: Frederick Stephani, Murray Burnett Cast: James Kirkland, Steve Cochran
Box 4 Folder 7	Correspondence, 1944 May 5-10
Box 4 Folder 8	Clippings and reviews, 1944 May 9
	Janie (N.Y., 1942 September 10) Note Prod: Brock Pemberton Dir: Antoinette Perry Writer: Josephine Bentham, Herschel V. Williams Cast: Gwen Anderson, Frank Amy, Herbert Evers
Box 4 Folder 9	Correspondence, contract, 1943 November 8-13
Box 4 Folder 10	Promotion, advertising, 1943 October 29-1944 January 29
	Kathleen (N.Y., 1948 February 3) Note Prod: Bea Lawrence Dir: Coby Raskin Writer: Michael Sayers Cast: Whitford Kane, Henry Jones, Andrea Wallace
Box 4 Folder 11	Correspondence, contract, 1947 December 9-1948 January 29
	The Lament for Ignatio Sanchez Mejias (unproduced)
Box 4 Folder 12	Correspondence, contracts, 1947 December 30-1948 January 20
	The Late Christopher Bean (Chicago, 1947 October 20) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg in association with Gilbert Miller Dir: Michael Myerberg Writer: Sidney Howard Cast: Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee
Box 4 Folder 13	Correspondence, 1947 September 11-November 14
Box 4 Folder 14	Contracts, 1947 September-October
	Line of Duty (formerly “Incident in an Alley”)
Box 15 Folder 9	Casting and Credits, Contracts, Correspondence, and Legal Documents, 1955-1958
Box 15 Folder 10	Correspondence with Rod Serling re: Script Changes, 1955-1956
Box 15 Folder 11	Financial Records, Loan and Collateral Records, 1956-1957
Box 15 Folder 12	Script, by Rod Serling, undated
Box 15 Folder 13	Tax Returns, 1956-1957
	Lunatics and Lovers (play)
Box 15 Folder 14	Script, by Sidney Kingsley, 1954
	The Lute Song (N.Y., 1946 February 6) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg Dir: John Houseman Writer: Sidney Howard, William Irwin (based on the Chinese play Pi-Pa-Ki) Cast: Mary Martin, Yul Brynner
	Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 15	1947 May 12-1950 May 2
Box 15 Folder 15	1957-1963
Box 4 Folder 16	Finance: insurance, 1946 January 5-1947 August 15; miscellaneous costs, , 1945 October 27-1946 September 6
Box 4 Folder 17	Technical Production: scenery, costume plots
Box 15 Folder 16	Sheet Music
Box 15 Folder 17	Photographs
Box 15 Folder 18	Playbills
Box 4 Folder 18	Promotion, advertising
Micro 1020 Reel 1-2	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN Box 15 Folder 19	Script, undated
	Mary, Mary (play)
Box 15 Folder 20	Script, by Jean Kerr, 1960
	Mary Rose (unproduced)
Box 5 Folder 1	Correspondence, 1944 January 20-September 13
	The Mask and the Face (play)
Box 15 Folder 21	Contract and Correspondence, 1957
	The Men We Marry (N.Y., 1948 January 16) Note Prod: Edgar Lukenback Dir: Martin Manulis Writer: Elizabeth Cobb, H. Williams Cast: Shirley Booth, Neil Hamilton, Ann Sargent
Box 5 Folder 2	Correspondence, clippings, 1947 January 3-1948 November 30
	Minotaur (play)
Box 15 Folder 22	Correspondence, Playbill, 1956
	Nathan Weinstein's Daughter (play)
Box 15 Folder 23	Script, by David Rayfiel, undated
	The Nineteenth Hall of Europe (unproduced)
Box 5 Folder 3	Correspondence, 1942 August 10-1948 October 16
	Once Upon a Mattress (play)
Box 15 Folder 24	Script, by Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, and Dean Fuller, circa 1959
	Our Land (N.Y., 1947 September 27) Note Prod: Eddie Dowling Dir: Edward Mitchell Writer: Theodore Ward Cast: William Veasy, Muriel Smith
Box 5 Folder 4	Correspondence, 1947 April 30-May 8
	Paddle Your Own Canoe (play)
Box 15 Folder 25	Correspondence, 1958
	Parnasse (play)
Box 15 Folder 26	Contracts, Correspondence, 1960-1961
	Patterns (film)
Box 15 Folder 27-29	Correspondence and Other Papers, 1954-1958
Box 16 Folder 1	Correspondence with Fielder Cook re: Cutting and Editing of Film, 1955-1956
Box 16 Folder 2	Lawsuits-Jed Harris vs. 42 E. 73rd St. and Michael Myerberg vs. Jed Harris-Legal Papers and Correspondence, 1955-1962
Box 16 Folder 3	United Artists Distribution Statements, 1957, 1968-1971
Box 16 Folder 4	Third Revised Script (“The Bitch Goddess-Success”), by Rod Serling, May 31, 1955
	Postmark-Zero (play)
Box 16 Folder 5	Script, by Robert Nemiroff, undated
	Public Relations (N.Y., 1944 April 6) Note Prod: Robert Blake Dir: Edward Carpenter Writer: Dale Eunson Cast: Ann Andrews, Phillip Merivale
Box 5 Folder 5	Correspondence, clippings, 1944 March 31-April 30
	Puss in Boots (play)
Box 16 Folder 6	Script, by Emile Littler, undated
	Rape of Lucretia (N.Y., 1948 December 29) Note Prod: Marjorie and Sherman Ewing, Giovanni Cardelli Dir: Agnes de Mille Writer: Ronald Duncan Cast: Edward Kane, Brenda Lewis, Kitty Carlisle
Box 5 Folder 6	Correspondence, 1947 September 27-1948 January 28
Box 5 Folder 7	Finance: Budget, 1947 October 15
Box 5 Folder 8	Casting, 1947 December 5-15
	Rebels in the Street (film)
Box 16 Folder 8	Screenplay, by Richard Bernstein and Frederick Sykes, undated
	Requiem for a Heavyweight (film)
Box 16 Folder 9	Script, by Rod Serling, undated
	Romeo and Juliet (unproduced) Note Prod: H. W. Gribble Writer: Shakespeare, adaptation by Frederick O'Neal Cast: Frederick O'Neal, Earle Hyman
Box 5 Folder 9	Correspondence, 1945 March 11-1946 September 15
Box 5 Folder 10	Contracts, 1946 February 9, July 23
	Roots (play)
Box 16 Folder 10	Script, by Arnold Wesker, undated
	Rub Dub Dub (play)
Box 16 Folder 11	Script, by Bertrand Castelli and Lorees Yerby, undated
	Proposed Lillian Russell Production
Box 16 Folder 12	Correspondence and Story Ideas, 1959-1960
	“A Screenplay from a Novel” (play)
Box 16 Folder 13	Fourth Revised Script, by Alan Paton, June 24, 1958
	The Skin of Our Teeth (play, N.Y., 1942 November 18) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg Dir: Elia Kazan Writer: Thornton Wilder Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Florence Reed
	Correspondence
Box 5 Folder 11	1942 January 2-October 21
Box 5 Folder 12	1942 October 27-December 5
Box 5 Folder 13	1942 December 14-1943 January 31
Box 5 Folder 14	1943 February 1-July 10
Box 6 Folder 1	1943 July 12-August 11
Box 6 Folder 2	1943 August 13-1949 September 16
Box 6 Folder 3	Undated
	Contracts
Box 6 Folder 4	Technical production
Box 6 Folder 5	Technical staff
Box 6 Folder 6	Actors Equity security agreement
Box 6 Folder 7	Foreign production rights
	Finance
Box 6 Folder 8	Production background, investors
Box 6 Folder 9	Insurance, 1943 February 15-October 12
Box 6 Folder 10	Financial statements, 1942 December 3-1946 October 31
Box 6 Folder 11	Bills (paid), 1942 October 9-1943 September 15
Box 6 Folder 12	Payroll salary list
Box 6 Folder 13	Legal: Select Theatre Corp. papers
Box 7 Folder 1	Casting (employment requests), 1942 September 26-1943, July 27
	Technical production
Box 7 Folder 2	Production estimates
Box 7 Folder 3	Plots, sets, properties
Box 16 Folder 14	Playbills
	Promotion
Box 7 Folder 5	Programs, souvenir program
Box 7 Folder 6	Printing, advertising
Box 7 Folder 7	Royalties, 1943 January 3-May 17
Box 7 Folder 4	Script (partial)
Box 7 Folder 8	Tickets, 1942 February 27-1943 July 29
	Weekly Settlements
Box 7 Folder 9	Baltimore 1942 October 19-24, New Haven , 1942 October 15-17, Philadelphia , 1942 October 26-November 7
Box 7 Folder 10	Washington
Box 7 Folder 11	New York
Box 7 Folder 12	Clippings and reviews, 1942 November 10-23
Micro 1020 Reel 2	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN Box 7 Folder 13	Tour: contracts, schedules, seating chart
	Sooner or Later (formerly “Jo” and “Bishop's Jaegers”) (musical)
Box 16 Folder 15	Casting and General Correspondence, 1958-1961
Box 16 Folder 16	Contracts and Correspondence, 1959-1960
Box 16 Folder 17-20	Early Draft Scripts (4) (“Jo”), by Thorne Smith, undated
Box 16 Folder 21	Eleventh Revised Script, by Thorne Smith, November 12, 1959
	Some Angry Angel (film project)
Box 16 Folder 22	Correspondence, 1961-1962
	Star Dust (Philadelphia, 1943) Note Prod: Michael Myerberg Dir: Herb Polesie Writer: Walter Kerr Cast: Rose King, Chick Chandler, Gloria Hallward
	Correspondence
Box 8 Folder 1	General, 1942 April 16-1946 December 6
Box 8 Folder 2	Actors Equity, 1943 August 18-September 23
Box 8 Folder 3	Walter Kerr, 1942 April 12-1943 October 6
	Contracts
Box 8 Folder 4	Actors Equity, 1943 July-August
Box 8 Folder 5	Production, 1943 May 1-1944 September 1
Box 8 Folder 6	Theater contracts and settlements, 1943 August 23-December 16
Box 8 Folder 7	Finance, 1942 April 15-1943 October 15
Box 8 Folder 8	Casting, 1942 July 21-1943 October 4
Box 8 Folder 9	Technical production
Box 8 Folder 10	Scripts, script fragments
Box 8 Folder 11	Promotion, programs, tickets, 1943 July 7-September 22
Box 8 Folder 12	Royalties, 1942 April 27-1943 September 7
Box 8 Folder 13	Clippings, 1942 April 9
	A Strange Play (N.Y., 1944 June 1) Note Prod: Eugene Endrey Dir: Eugene Endrey Writer: Patti Spears Cast: Richard Gordon, Alicia Parnaby
Box 8 Folder 14	Correspondence, 1944 June 23-August 22
	Taps for Private Tussie (unproduced)
Box 8 Folder 15	Correspondence, 1944 January 26-June 25
	Thank You Svoboda (N.Y., 1944 March 1) Note Prod: Milton Baron Dir: H. S. Kraft, Mac Hark Writer: H. S. Kraft Cast: Sam Jaffe, Whitford Kane
Box 8 Folder 16	Contract and review, 1944 February-March
	There's a Girl in My Soup (play)
Box 16 Folder 23	Script, by Terence Frisby, undated
	They Got What They Wanted (unproduced)
Box 8 Folder 17	Correspondence, 1947 May 20-1949 July 15
Box 8 Folder 18	Contracts, 1949 June
	13 Daughters! (play)
Box 16 Folder 24	Contracts, Correspondence, Playbill, 1956-1961
Box 16 Folder 25	Script, by Eaton Magoon, circa 1955
	Three by Two (play)
Box 17 Folder 1	Script, by Gloria Vanderbilt, Annotated, 1961
Box 17 Folder 2	Script, by Gloria Vanderbilt, undated
	A Touch of the Poet (film project)
Box 17 Folder 3	Correspondence, 1959
	Twelfth Night (unproduced)
Box 8 Folder 19	Casting
	Victory Belles (N.Y., 1943 October 26) Note Prod: Henry Adrian Dir: Henry Adrian Writer: Alice Gerstenberg Cast: Mabel Taliaferro, Barbara Bennett, Marie Gale
Box 8 Folder 20	Correspondence, 1943 October 13-19
Box 8 Folder 21	Legal, arbitration papers, 1943 November 1-26
Box 8 Folder 22	Tickets
Box 8 Folder 23	Clippings, 1943, November 12-23
	Waiting for Godot (play)
Box 17 Folder 4	Playbills
Box 17 Folder 5	Publicity and Photographs
Box 17 Folder 6-7	Royalty Statements and Correspondence re: Rights, 1956-1962, 1964
Micro 1020 Reel 2	Scrapbooks
U.S. Mss 83AN	White Wings (unproduced play)
Box 9 Folder 1	Correspondence, 1943 June 28-1944 February 23
Box 9 Folder 2	Contracts, 1943 July 22-August
Box 17 Folder 8	Script, by Philip Barry, undated
	Years Ago (N.Y., 1946 December 3) Note Prod: Max Gordon Dir: Garson Kanin Writer: Ruth Gordon Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge
Box 9 Folder 3	Correspondence, 1946 November 12-1948 July 30
Box 9 Folder 4	Contracts, 1946 November
Box 9 Folder 5	Clippings, 1946 December 3