Summary Information

Title: Nedrick Young Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1947-1968

Creator:

• Young, Nedrick, 1914-1968

Call Number: U.S. Mss 132AN; Audio 1265A

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 archives boxes) and 1 disc recording

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Papers of Nedrick Young, a screenwriter who refused to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953 and was blacklisted as a result. Most of the collection documents his career as a screenwriter through biographical material, screenplays for motion pictures and television, and unproduced story ideas for various genres; there is extensive documentation for several unproduced films and for The Defiant Ones (UA, 1958) and Inherit the Wind (UA, 1960). Some were written under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. In 1961, Young joined others in a lawsuit against the Motion Picture Producers' Association for damages incurred in their blacklisting. Concerning the lawsuit, there are files of correspondence, legal documents, exhibits and research materials, clippings, and public relations items. A recorded 1961 Carnegie Hall speech by Young on the threat of the blacklist to young writers is also present.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us0132an