Charles MacArthur Papers, circa 1920-1957

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 90AN
Series: Motion Pictures
Box   1
Folder   1
Gunga Din, 1939
Note

Producer: George Stevens

Director: George Stevens

Screenplay by: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Joel Sayre, Fred Guiol

Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontaine

Script, third draft, by Hecht and MacArthur, incomplete, 1937, March 3
Box   1
Folder   2
“Public Debutant #1”: treatment, by MacArthur and L. Bus Fekete
Box   1
Folder   3
The Senator was Indiscreet, 1947
Note

Producer: A. Nunnally Johnson

Associate Producer: Gene Fowler, Jr.

Director: George S. Kaufman

Screenplay by: Charles MacArthur

Cast: William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes

Script
Box   1
Folder   4
“The Ten Dollar Trunk”: treatment
Box   1
Folder   5
Trilby (unproduced?): Script, second draft by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, 1948, June 19
Box   1
Folder   6
The World's Our Oyster (unproduced?): Script by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, 1938, June 9
Box   1
Folder   7
The World's Our Oyster: Script, by Hecht and MacArthur, 1940, Aug. 6
Box   1
Folder   8
Wuthering Heights, 1939
Note

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

Director: William Wyler

Screenplay by: Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Cast: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson

Script, first draft
Series: Stage Plays
Box   2
Folder   1
Jumbo (N.Y., 1935, Nov. 16)
Note

Producer: Billy Rose

Staged by: John Murray Anderson

Book directed by: George Abbott

Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (book); Richard Rodgers (music); Lorenz Hart (lyrics)

Cast: Jimmy Durante, Poodles Hanneford, Gloria Grafton, Donald Novis

Script
Box   2
Folder   2
Ladies and Gentlemen (N.Y., 1939, Oct. 17)
Note

Producer: Gilbert Miller

Director: Charles MacArthur, Lewis Allen

Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Cast: Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale

Script
Box   2
Folder   3
Lulu Belle (N.Y., 1926, Feb. 9)
Note

Producer: David Belasco

Director: David Belasco

Writers: Edward Sheldon, Charles MacArthur

Cast: Lenore Ulric, Henry Hull

Script
A Stag at Bay (unproduced), by Nunnally Johnson and Charles MacArthur
Box   2
Folder   4
Scripts, Act I
Box   2
Folder   5
Scripts, Act II
Box   2
Folder   6
Script
Box   2
Folder   7
Script, notes
Twentieth Century
Note

N.Y., 1932, Dec. 29

Producers: George Abbott, Philip Dunning

Director: George Abbott

Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Cast: Eugenie Leontovich, Moffatt Johnston, Roy Roberts


N.Y., ANTA, 1950, Dec. 24

Producer: Jose Ferrer

Director: Jose Ferrer

Writers: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Cast: Gloria Swanson, Jose Ferrer, Hobert Strauss

Box   2
Folder   8
Script, 1932 production
Box   2
Folder   9
Script, undated, annotated, bound with light cues, costume and prop lists
Box   2
Folder   10
Clippings for 1950 ANTA production and for , 1950-1951 ANTA season
Micro 585
Reel   1
Microfilm copy
U.S. Mss 90AN
Series: Stories
Box   3
Folder   1
“Cherie”
Box   3
Folder   2
“The Chosen Vessel”
Box   3
Folder   3
“Elegie”
Box   3
Folder   4
“The Ragged Stranger”
Series: Miscellaneous
Box   3
Folder   5
Program, “It's Fun To Be Free,” St. Louis Chapter, Fight for Freedom Committee to Defend America, 1941, Dec. 10
Scope and Content Note: Includes the printed text for “Fun to Be Free,” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
Micro 585
Reel   1
Microfilm copy
U.S. Mss 90AN
Box   3
Folder   6
“He Passed This Way,” Newsweek, 1957, June 17, pp. 120-121
Micro 585
Reel   1
Microfilm copy
U.S. Mss 90AN
Box   3
Folder   7
Photograph
Micro 585
Reel   1
Microfilm copy