Richard Schickel Papers, 1953-2006

Container Title
M86-401
Part 2 (M86-401, Audio 1706A/15-30, VBB 489, VBB 490): Additions, 1953-1986
Physical Description: 9.0 cubic feet (9 records center cartons), 28 photographs, 11 cassette and 5 reel-to-reel tape recordings, and 2 videorecordings 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1953-1986, including Schickel's writings, interviews and research for books, television, films, magazine reviews, and articles; as well as correspondence, movie and television proposals, and other papers. This accession includes M85-019.
Use Restrictions: The estate of Richard Schickel retains copyright, to those materials in which Schickel's intellectual property rights apply, and sets a “fair use” limit, defined as 40 adjoining words or less from a single document; use beyond this limit may be subject to a reprint fee as determined by the trustee of his estate.
Biographical materials
Box   1
Folder   1
“Dick's juvenilia,” circa 1953-1955
Box   1
Folder   2
Interviews of Schickel
Box   1
Folder   3
Awards
Box   1
Folder   4
Tax returns and other business information
Box   1
Folder   5
Life folding, 1972
Box   1
Folder   6
“The Criticism of Richard Schickel” / David Appleby, 1974
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   7-26
Chronological, 1968-1985
Individuals
Box   1
Folder   27
Dunning, Kate
Box   1
Folder   28
Eames, Kilty
Box   1
Folder   29
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
Box   1
Folder   30
Freeman (Roche), Judy
Box   1
Folder   31
Gidney, Nelsa
Box   1
Folder   32
Hornisher, Tina
Box   1
Folder   33
Noll, Elizabeth
Box   1
Folder   34
Rimes (Rimer?), Bevo
Box   1
Folder   35
Rodd, Marcia
Box   1
Folder   36
Rubinstein, Carol
Box   1
Folder   37
Schickel (Eames), Julia Whedon
Box   1
Folder   38
Wynter, Dana
Subject
Box   1
Folder   39
Arguments: Letters to the editor, etc., 1970s-1980s
Box   1
Folder   40-45
Business, 1970-1975, 1977-1979, 1981-1982
Box   1
Folder   46
Divorce, 1976
Box   1
Folder   47
Fan mail
Box   1
Folder   48
General literary, 1970-1980
Box   2
Folder   1-2
General personal, 1970-1979
Box   2
Folder   3
General TV, 1975-1980
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Personal, 1980-1982, 1984
Box   2
Folder   6
Miscellaneous weird cinema section letters
Books
Box   2
Folder   7
Movies: The History of an Art and an Initiation (1964)
Box   2
Folder   8-12
Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter (1974)
Box   2
Folder   13-15
His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1974)
Box   2
Folder   16-20
The Men Who Made the Movies (1975)
Box   2
Folder   21-24
Another I, Another You: A Novel (1978)
Box   2
Folder   25-27
Singled Out: A Civilized Guide to Sex and Sensibility for the Suddenly Single Man-or Woman (1981)
Box   3
Folder   1-3
Singled Out (1981) (continued)
Cary Grant: A Celebration (1983)
Box   3
Folder   4-23
D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984)
Box   4
Folder   1-5
D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984) (continued)
Box   4
Folder   6-8
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity (titled Common Fame abroad) (1985)
Box   4
Folder   9-14
James Cagney: A Celebration (1986)
Box   4
Folder   15
Gary Cooper (1986)
Box   4
Folder   16-17
The Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney epilogue (revised edition, 1984)
Television
The Men Who Made the Movies (1973)
Box   4
Folder   18
Beginnings/Hitchcock pilot and rebroadcast, 1980
Box   4
Folder   19
Transcript of Raoul Walsh
Box   4
Folder   20
Pieces by Schickel: obits for rebroadcasts
Box   4
Folder   21
Production correspondence
Box   4
Folder   22
Post-production correspondence
Box   4
Folder   23
Armand Hammer documentary (NBC, 1974) (partial)
Box   4
Folder   24-25
Life Goes to the Movies (1976)
Box   5
Folder   1
The Horror Show (CBS, 1978)
Box   5
Folder   2
The Frank Capra Special (NBC, 1977/broadcast 1981 December 12)
Box   5
Folder   3-8
Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America (1978)
Box   5
Folder   9
Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981)
Box   5
Folder   10
From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (PBS, 1983)
Box   5
Folder   11
Lost and Found
Film reviews
Box   5
Folder   12-19
Life, 1965-1972
Box   5
Folder   20-29
Time, 1973-1978
Box   6
Folder   1-13
Time, 1976-1986
Magazine cover stories
Box   6
Folder   14-15
Kubrick (Time), 1976-1986
Box   6
Folder   16-17
King Kong (Time)
Box   6
Folder   18-19
Aliens (Time, July 1986)
Box   6
Folder   20
Kurosawa (never published)
Box   6
Folder   21
Look articles
Box   6
Folder   22-23
“The Great Second Chance,” Esquire, article and drafts, 1980 March
Book reviews
Box   6
Folder   24
Film books
Box   6
Folder   25
Nonfiction
Box   7
Folder   1
Fiction
Box   7
Folder   2
Short reviews, Harper's
Box   7
Folder   3
Unpublished, 1986
Note: For dummy issue of Discover.
Box   7
Folder   4
TV reviews
Movies
Box   7
Folder   5
Profiles, interviews
Box   7
Folder   6
Commentary
Box   7
Folder   7
General opinions
“Extras”
Box   7
Folder   8
TV
Box   7
Folder   9
Literary fiction
Box   7
Folder   10
Literary nonfiction
Box   7
Folder   11
Film
Proposals and treatments
Box   7
Folder   12
Book proposals, 1970s, 1980s
Box   7
Folder   13-14
TV proposals, 1970s, 1978-1985
Box   7
Folder   15
TV series proposal, Lost and Found
Box   7
Folder   16
Film treatments, 1970s
Box   7
Folder   17
Film treatments and proposals
Box   7
Folder   18
Proposals: dead or done
Box   7
Folder   19
Outlines: out of date
Contracts and agreements
Box   7
Folder   20-22
Book contracts, 1960s, 1970-1980
Box   7
Folder   23-24
TV contracts, 1970-1981
Box   7
Folder   25
TV, Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
Box   7
Folder   26
Magazine and miscellaneous agreements
Other writings
Box   7
Folder   27
Brochures/foundation work
Box   7
Folder   28
Dance in America, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc., 1964
Box   7
Folder   29
The Long Road to College: A Summer of Opportunity, Rockefeller Foundation Special Report, 1965 Spring
Note: Text by Schickel.
Box   7
Folder   30
“Theatre Survival Training” by Schickel, The Rockefeller Foundation Quarterly 3, 1969
Box   7
Folder   31
Films: specific-long essays
Box   7
Folder   32
General cultural commentaries
Box   7
Folder   33
General journalism: typescripts
Box   7
Folder   34
General journalism: published articles
Box   7
Folder   35
Introductions: China film program, USIA
Box   7
Folder   36
Manuscript by Schickel for John D. Rockefeller III, 1969 July 1
Box   7
Folder   37
Personal essays
Box   8
Folder   1
Profiles of writers
Box   8
Folder   2
Short story
Box   8
Folder   3
[Unlabeled]
Interviews, notes for writing, research
Box   8
Folder   4
D.W. Griffith interviews, original notes by Schickel
Box   8
Folder   5
Woody Allen, notes, 1986
Box   8
Folder   6-8
James Cagney interviews, TV show; research
Box   8
Folder   9-10
Interviews, NET ”You Must Remember This,” “The Movie Crazy Years,” 1972, 1974
Box   8
Folder   11
Unpublished interview with Leo Jaffe, Columbia Pictures executive (for American Heritage)
Box   8
Folder   12
George Lucas interview, 1983
Box   8
Folder   13
George Lucas interview (unknown author)
Box   8
Folder   14
Research for Raiders of the Lost Ark story, 1981
Box   8
Folder   15-16
The Disney Version, post-publication research material (revised edition, 1984)
Reviews, clippings, publicity, correspondence of Schickel's work
Books
Box   8
Folder   17
His Picture in the Papers: A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. (1974)
Box   8
Folder   18
The Men Who Made the Movies (1975)
Box   8
Folder   19
The Fairbanks Album (1976)
Box   8
Folder   20
Another I, Another You: A Novel (1978)
Box   8
Folder   21
Singled Out: A Civilized Guide to Sex and Sensibility for the Suddenly Single Man-or Woman (1981)
Box   8
Folder   22
Cary Grant: A Celebration (1983)
Box   8
Folder   23-24
D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984)
Box   8
Folder   25
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity (1985)
Box   8
Folder   26
James Cagney: A Celebration (1986)
TV
Box   8
Folder   27
Movies, Great Movies (1973)
Box   8
Folder   28
The Men Who Made the Movies (1973)
Box   9
Folder   1
Life Goes to the Movies (1976)
Box   9
Folder   2
Films of Persuasion (1977)
Box   9
Folder   3
Into the Morning: Willa Cather's America (1978)
Box   9
Folder   4
Funny Business (1978)
Box   9
Folder   5
Horror Show (1979)
Box   9
Folder   6
SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back (September 1980)
Box   9
Folder   7
Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981)
Other
Box   9
Folder   8
“The Great Second Chance,” (Esquire, March 1980) (precursor to book) correspondence
Box   9
Folder   9
Hollywood on Hollywood (1981)
Note: 17-minute film produced for Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
Box   9
Folder   10
Books and TV: miscellaneous reviews
Box   9
Folder   11
Clippings: general publicity
Writings by others
Box   9
Folder   12
The Camofleur, outline for a film by Art Kane, 1979
Box   9
Folder   13
Booth is Back in Town, book for a musical by Pendleton, Cryer, and Rubinstein (1984)
Box   9
Folder   14
Eye of the Eagle, TV series pilot, Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation, 1984
Note: Schickel advisor/interviewer?
Box   9
Folder   15
Time reporting regarding Arthur Miller and “Death of a Salesman” revival (1984)
Box   9
Folder   16
Tai Pan, screenplay by John Briley, 1985
Box   9
Folder   17
The Wrath of the Just Ones, manuscript of a novel by Raoul Walsh (published in France), undated
Publications
Box   9
Folder   18
Another I, Another You: A Novel (1978)
Box   9
Folder   19
The World of Tennis (1975)
Photographs
PH Box   9
Films of Persuasion (TV, 1977) publicity photos
Physical Description: 5 photographs 
PH Box   9
Portrait photograph, 1979
PH Box   9
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973), publicity
Physical Description: poster photo? 
PH Box   9
Life Goes to the Movies (1976), Richard Schickel, Henry Fonda, unknown
PH Box   9
D.W. Griffith: An American Life (1984), Book of the Week selection in B. Dalton window
PH Box   9
Schickel and Walt Disney, 1966
Physical Description: Photocopy 
PH Box   9
Personal
Physical Description: 18 photographs 
Audio 1706A
Audio recordings
Cassette tapes
1706A/15-17, 1706A/27-29
Larry King Show with Schickel, 1984 May 14
1706A/18
Intimate Strangers: interview with Schickel by Joseph Hurley on Arts Extra, WBAI-NY, 99.5 FM, 1985 June 14
1706A/23-25
Cukor on Maugham
Note: Duplicates of reels?
1706A/26
Interview of Schickel, author of D.W. Griffith, by Ken Bader (USIA Voice of America), undated
Reel-to-reel tapes
1706A/19-22
Cukor on Maugham
Physical Description: 3-inch reels 
1706A/30
Notes by G.C. for biography
Physical Description: 3-inch reel 
Videorecordings
VBB 489
“Showtime Presents Oscars: The Critics Pick 'Schickel'”
VBB 490
“A Master of Illusion,” Albert Whitlock