Pandro Berman Papers, 1932-1977

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Part 1, Original Collection, 1935-1970
U.S. Mss 160AN
Subseries: Biographical Materials
Box   1
Folder   1
Interview with Pandro Berman, 1972, Feb. 3
Box   1
Folder   2
Seminar with Pandro Berman conducted by American Film Institute, 1972, Jan. 26
Box   1
Folder   3-5
Oral History interview with Pandro Berman conducted by Mike Steen, 1972, Aug. 4
Subseries: Motion Pictures
Production Files
A Patch of Blue(1965)
Box   1
Folder   6-8
Correspondence, 1964, June 23-1966, Jan. 4; undated
Box   1
Folder   9
Script, First Draft of screenplay, 1964, Nov. 23
Box   2
Folder   1
Script, 1965, Feb. 16
Box   2
Folder   2
Revised Shooting Script, 1965, March 29
Box   2
Folder   3
Casting, 1964, Nov. 19-1965, June 1
Box   2
Folder   4
Weekly Production Cost Log and Daily Progress Reports, 1965, March 6-July 17
Box   2
Folder   5
Picture Estimate, 1965, May 6
Box   2
Folder   6
Summary of the Budget Estimate and Shooting Breakdown, 1965, Jan. 6-March 11; undated
Justine(1969)
Box   2
Folder   7-9
General Correspondence, 1967, Jan. 30-1970, March 19
Box   2
Folder   10
Casting Correspondence, 1968, Jan. 10-Nov. 27
Box   3
Folder   1-2
Casting Correspondence, continued
Box   3
Folder   3
Correspondence with Saul Wurtzel (Prod. Manager), 1968, Feb. 1-Nov. 16
Box   3
Folder   4
Correspondence with Writers and Directors, 1966, Dec. 16-1969, July 11; undated
Box   3
Folder   5
Four Novels by Lawrence Durrell (Chronology, Breakdown, Index), 1959, Aug. 5
Box   4
Folder   1
Breakdown, Outline, 1967, Jan.; undated
Box   4
Folder   2-3
Character Analyses: Selections from four Durrell novels with descriptive notes, undated
Box   4
Folder   4
Revised Screenplay, 1967, June 12
Box   4
Folder   5
Screenplay, First Draft, 1968, Jan. 11
Box   5
Folder   1
First Mimeographed Script (first draft revised), Annotated by Kathryn Berman, 1968, Feb. 16
Box   5
Folder   2
Revised First Draft, Annotated, 1968, Feb. 16
Box   5
Folder   3
Revised First Draft, Annotated by Pandro Berman, 1968, Feb. 16
Box   5
Folder   4
Final Draft, annotated by P. Berman, 1968, July 2
Box   5
Folder   5
Screenplay, 1968, July 2
Box   6
Folder   1-2
Miscellaneous Notes and Research 1960, Apr. 3
Box   6
Folder   3
Egyptian Survey Report and Correspondence from John De Cuir, Otto Lang, 1967, Apr. 11-May 26
Box   6
Folder   4
Notes on Cutting, 1969, March 12-May 30; undated
Box   6
Folder   5
Loops and Narration, 1969, Jan. 17-June 2; undated
Box   6
Folder   6
Continuity by reels, cutting notes, Main Title, retakes, 1968, Dec. 2-1969, June 2; undated
Box   6
Folder   7
Music and Choreography, 1968, April 22-1969, June 9
Box   6
Folder   8
Daily Production Reports, 1968, Sept. 23-1969, Feb. 3
Box   6
Folder   9
Shooting Schedules, 1968, July 15-1969, Jan. 17
Box   7
Folder   1
Weekly Cost Reports, Picture Estimate, 1968, June 15-1970, Dec. 26
Box   7
Folder   2-3
Budget, 1967, Aug. 3-1970, Feb. 23
“John Brown's Body” (unproduced)
Box   7
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1967, March 1-1969, Jan. 30; undated
Box   7
Folder   5
Correspondence and Lists re Directors and Writers, 1967, Jan. 20-1969, May 20; undated
Box   7
Folder   6
Correspondence with Darryl F. Zanuck, 1966, Nov. 5-1967, Dec. 21; undated
Box   7
Folder   7
Historical Notes, undated
Box   8
Folder   1
Treatment of Narrative Poem, 1950, Oct. 17
Box   8
Folder   2
Outline, Breakdowns, Notes, 1967, June 28-1968, March 8; undated
Box   8
Folder   3
Revised Outline, 1968, April
Box   8
Folder   4
Summary Outline of Second Draft of Screenplay, 1967, Sept. 26
Box   8
Folder   5
Script, Third Draft, 1967, Nov. 24
Box   8
Folder   6
Fourth Revised Outline, 1968, Sept. 8
Box   8
Folder   7
Script, First Draft, 1968, Nov. 21
Box   8
Folder   8
Sixth Revised Breakdown, 1968, Dec. 6
Box   9
Folder   1
First File Copy of Script by Paul Osborn (unused), undated
Box   9
Folder   2
Second Draft of Osborn Script, with notes, 1967, Aug. 8
Box   9
Folder   3
Second Draft of Stewart Stern Script, 1969, Jan. 29
Box   9
Folder   4
Second Draft of Stern Script, undated
Box   9
Folder   5
Script, Stern-Green Version, undated
SC-0 30
Photostatic copies of production crossplots
U.S. Mss 160AN
Box   10
Folder   1
Casting Correspondence, 1968, Jan. 15-1969, March 3; undated
Box   10
Folder   2
Casting Lists, 1967, Jan. 26-1968, Oct. 22
Box   10
Folder   3
Budgets, 1967, Sept. 21-1968, May 2; undated
Move(1969)
Box   10
Folder   4-5
Correspondence, 1968, Feb. 28-1970, Sept. 28
Box   10
Folder   6
The original book by Joel Lieber, 1968
Box   10
Folder   7
Summaries and Comment, 1968, Feb. 5-1969, July 14
Box   10
Folder   8
Treatment, 1968, April 10
Box   11
Folder   1
Script Outline based on book 1968, May 20-1969, August 7
Box   11
Folder   2
Script, First Draft, undated
Box   11
Folder   3
Script, Second Draft, 1968, Oct. 10
Box   11
Folder   4
Shooting Breakdown, 1969, May 21
Box   11
Folder   5
Cutting Notes, Reports, 1969, June 10-1970, June 15; undated
Box   11
Folder   6
Revised Shooting Breakdown, 1969, Sept. 11
Box   11
Folder   7
Script Notes and Correspondence, 1969, July 31-Sept. 11
Box   11
Folder   8
Final Script, 1969, Aug. 26-Sept. 11
Box   12
Folder   1
Partial Screenplay Revision, 1969, Sept. 25
Box   12
Folder   2
Final Shooting Script, 1969, Nov. 25
Box   12
Folder   3
Casting Correspondence, 1968, March 12-1969, Sept. 30; undated
Box   12
Folder   4
Casting Lists, Staff and Crew Lists, 1969, July 11-Nov. 14; undated
Box   12
Folder   5
Title Song, 1970, May 8
Box   12
Folder   6
Budget and Schedule Breakdown, 1969, May 29-Nov. 25; undated
Box   12
Folder   7-8
Weekly Picture Cost Reports, 1969, Dec. 6-1970, Dec. 19
Box   12
Folder   9
Daily Production Reports, 1969, Sept. 15-Dec. 5
Box   13
Folder   1
Book Reviews, 1968, May 27-July 14
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958)
Box   13
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1955, June 23-1959, Jan. 15
Box   13
Folder   3
Script, 1958, Jan. 24
Scripts
Box   13
Folder   4
The Little Minister, 1934
Box   13
Folder   5
Living in a Big Way, 1935, June 8
Box   13
Folder   6
Stage Door, 1937, July 31
Box   13
Folder   7
Ziegfeld Girl, 1940, Oct. 31
Box   14
Folder   1
Love Crazy, 1941, March 3
Box   14
Folder   2
Honky Tonk, 1941, June 17
Box   14
Folder   3
Rio Rita, 1941, Nov. 21
Box   14
Folder   4
Somewhere I'll Find You, 1941, Dec. 18
Box   14
Folder   5
Slightly Dangerous, 1942, Sept. 2
Box   14
Folder   6
Dragon Seed, 1943, August 24
Box   15
Folder   1
The Seventh Cross, 1943, Oct. 22
Box   15
Folder   2
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1943, Nov. 5
Box   15
Folder   3
Marriage Is a Private Affair, 1943, Dec. 7
Box   15
Folder   4
National Velvet, 1944, Jan. 14
Box   15
Folder   5
Undercurrent, 1946, Jan. 29
Box   16
Folder   1
Sea of Grass, 1946, May 9
Box   16
Folder   2
If Winter Comes, 1947, April 28
Box   16
Folder   3
The Three Musketeers, 1947, Dec. 19
Box   16
Folder   4
The Bribe, 1948, May 24
Box   16
Folder   5
Madame Bovary, 1948, Oct. 13
Box   16
Folder   6
The Doctor and the Girl, 1949, May 10
Box   17
Folder   1
Father of the Bride, 1950, March 29
Box   17
Folder   2
Father's Little Dividend, 1950, April 15
Box   17
Folder   3
Soldiers Three, 1950, Dec. 9
Box   17
Folder   4
The Light Touch, 1951, March 14
Box   17
Folder   5
Ivanhoe, 1951, May 25
Box   17
Folder   6
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1952, Feb. 11
Box   18
Folder   1
Battle Circus, 1952, Dec. 1
Box   18
Folder   2
All the Brothers Were Valiant, 1953, March 18
Box   18
Folder   3
The Knights of the Round Table, 1953, April 20
Box   18
Folder   4
The Long, Long Trailer, 1953, April 29
Box   18
Folder   5
The Blackboard Jungle, 1954, Oct. 7
Box   18
Folder   6
Quentin Durward, 1954, Dec. 27
Box   18
Folder   7
Bhowani Junction, 1955, August 9
Box   19
Folder   1
Tea and Sympathy, 1956, March 26
Box   19
Folder   2
Something of Value, 1957, Jan. 14
Box   19
Folder   3
Jailhouse Rock, 1957, March 15
Box   19
Folder   4
The Brothers Karamazov, 1957, May 20
Box   19
Folder   5
The Reluctant Debutante, 1958, March 5
Box   19
Folder   6
All the Fine Young Cannibals, 1959, May 22
Box   20
Folder   1
Butterfield 8, 1960, March 18
Box   20
Folder   2
Sweet Bird of Youth, 1961, May 16
Box   20
Folder   3
The Prize, 1963, April 25
Box   20
Folder   4
Honeymoon Hotel, 1963, Sept. 3
Unproduced
“The Beauty Contest”
Box   20
Folder   5
Notes and Correspondence, 1963, July 16-1964, May 7
“Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones”
Box   20
Folder   6
Negotiations, 1964, July 30-Nov. 18
“Everything in the Garden”
Box   20
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1967, Aug. 29-1968, Sept. 21
“The Forty Days of Musa Dagh”
Box   20
Folder   8
Book Breakdown, 1962, Sept. 7
Box   20
Folder   9
Script, 1964, Aug. 6
“Gabriela”
Box   21
Folder   1
Negotiations, 1962, Sept. 20-1964, April 22
“Husbands Are Funny People”
Box   21
Folder   2
Negotiations, 1962, Nov. 1-1963, May 1
“The Sergeant”
Box   21
Folder   3
Negotiations, 1961, Sept. 14-1962, March 13
Miscellaneous
Box   21
Folder   4
Correspondence from Actors and Agents, 1968, May 3-1969, Sept. 2
Box   21
Folder   5
Actor/Actress Popularity Poll, 1966, Aug 2
Box   21
Folder   6
Correspondence and Notes, re Writers, 1958, Aug. 4-1969, Aug. 7
Box   21
Folder   7
Story Files, Notes and Correspondence, 1939, March 1-1958, July 7; undated
Box   21
Folder   8
20th Century-Fox Contract Players, 1966, Dec. 20-1970, January
General Financial Files
Box   21
Folder   9
Films of the 1930s, Profit and Loss Sheets
Box   21
Folder   10
Berman Income from RKO Films , 1933-1947
Box   21
Folder   11
RKO Participation Statements, Periods ending 1944, July 1 and 1949, Jan. 1
Accounting Statements
Box   22
Folder   1-5
For Reluctant Debutante and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1963, Feb. 14-1970, Aug. 25
Box   22
Folder   6
For Butterfield 8, 1961, Aug. 9-1963, Dec. 2
Box   23
Folder   1-4
For Butterfield 8, continued
Box   23
Folder   5-7
For All the Fine Young Cannibals and Ada, 1963, May 17-1975, Jan. 13
Box   23
Folder   8
For Jailhouse Rock, Don't Go Near the Water, and The Brothers Karamazov, 1963, Feb. 21-1965, July 14
Box   24
Folder   1
For Jailhouse Rock, Don't Go Near the Water, and The Brothers Karamazov, continued
Box   25
Folder   1-3
For Sweet Bird of Youth and The Prize, 1962, Sept. 20-1970, March 9
Box   25
Folder   4-6
For Honeymoon Hotel and A Patch of Blue, 1963, April 8-1970, April 6
Box   26
Folder   1
For Honeymoon Hotel and A Patch of Blue, continued
Box   26
Folder   2-3
For The Gazebo and Key Witness, 1964, March 23-1967, Jan. 30
Box   26
Folder   4
MGM Accounting Tabulations, 1966, Oct. 22-1967, Sept. 2
Box   26
Folder   5
Story Cost Reports, 1967, March 4-1969, Nov. 29
Box   26
Folder   6
T.V. Properties, 1961, March 22-May 8
Box   26
Folder   7
Ben Solomon Audits of Various Pictures, 1959
Box   26
Folder   8
Avon Productions - Solomon Audits, 1959, Jan. 30-1962, Jan 8
Box   26
Folder   9
Miscellaneous, 1962, Feb. 20-March 30; undated
Box   27
Folder   1-2
Correspondence re RKO Pictures, 1933-1949
Box   27
Folder   3
Contracts with Leo McCarey, 1938
Box   27
Folder   4-5
Contracts and Agreements with Loew's, Inc., 1940-1954
Box   27
Folder   6
RKO Studios Participation Correspondence, 1941-1949
Series: Part 2: 1977 Additions, 1932-1977
Subseries: General File
Box   28
Folder   1
Financial Statements re various films, 1939, April 12-1958, August 20, undated
Box   28
Folder   2
Magazine and Newspaper Notices, 1937, June 16-circa 1968, undated
Box   28
Folder   3
Miscellany, including letters and program sheet music, 1935, November-1977, February
Box   28
Folder   4
Personal Tax Information, 1943, March 4-September 7
Subseries: Motion Pictures
Box   28
Folder   5
Age of Consent, undated (RKO, 1932)
Box   28
Folder   5
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men, undated (RKO, 1933)
Box   28
Folder   5
Alice Adams, 1935, September. (RKO, 1935)
Box   28
Folder   5
All the Fine Young Cannibals, “Ever for Each Other,” undated (MGM, 1960)
Box   28
Folder   5
All the Brothers Were Valiant, 1953, February 8 undated (MGM, 1953)
Box   28
Folder   5
Allegheny Uprising, undated (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   5
Bachelor Mother, undated (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   5
Battle Circus, 1952, June 2-July 24 (MGM, 1953)
Box   28
Folder   5
Battleground, 1948, October 12 (MGM, 1949)
Box   28
Folder   6
Bhowani Junction, 1956, May 5-28 (MGM, 1956)
Box   28
Folder   6
The Blackboard Jungle, 1955, March 21-June 10, undated (MGM, 1955)
Box   28
Folder   6
The Bribe, 1949, February 16 (MGM, 1949)
Box   28
Folder   7
The Brothers Karamazov, 1947, March 27-1958, February 24 (MGM, 1958)
Box   28
Folder   7
Butterfield 8, 1960, February 27-1966, October 5 (MGM, 1960)
Box   28
Folder   8
Carefree, undated (RKO, 1938)
Box   28
Folder   8
Dragon Seed, 1944, July 18-1945, January 6, undated (MGM, 1944)
Box   28
Folder   9
“Everything in the Garden,” 1967, October 11 (Unproduced)
Box   28
Folder   9
Father of the Bride, 1950, May 25-1954, August 4 undated (MGM, 1950)
Box   28
Folder   9
Father's Little Dividend, 1951, October 21-1952, January 7 (MGM,1951)
Box   28
Folder   9
“The Female,” undated (Unproduced)
Box   28
Folder   9
Fifth Avenue Girl, 1939, September 2-October 20 (RK0, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   9
Flying Down to Rio, 1953, December 11 (RKO, 1933)
Box   28
Folder   9
Follow the Fleet, 1936, January 11-February 17 (RKO, 1936)
Box   28
Folder   9
“Follow the Ladies,” undate (Unproduced)
Box   28
Folder   9
The Fountain, undated (RKO, 1934)
Box   28
Folder   9
“Gabriella,” undated (Unproduced)
Box   28
Folder   9
Gay Divorcee, circa 1934, October 20 (RKO, 1934)
Box   28
Folder   9
Green Mansions, 1945, June 9 (MGM, 1959)
Box   28
Folder   9
Gunga Din, undated (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   9
Having Wonderful Time, 1938, July (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   9
Honeymoon Hotel, circa 1963, May (MGM, 1964)
Box   28
Folder   10
Honky Tonk, 1941, October 24-circa 1942 (MGM, 1941)
Box   28
Folder   10
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939, December 27-1957, November 13 (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   11
I Dream Too Much, undated (RKO, 1935)
Box   28
Folder   11
In Name Only, 1939, August 12 (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   11
Ivanhoe, 1951, May 9-1953, July 8 undated (MGM, 1952)
Box   28
Folder   12
Jailhouse Rock, 1957, October 5-1961, December 1 (MGM, 1957)
Box   28
Folder   12
“John Brown's Body,” 1968, March 6 (Produced but unreleased)
Box   28
Folder   12
Justine, 1968, March 22-1969, August 18, undated (Fox, 1969)
Box   28
Folder   12
Key Witness, 1960, October 15 (MGM, 1960)
Box   28
Folder   13
Knights of the Round Table, 1953, April 12-1955, July 29, undated (MGM, 1953)
Box   28
Folder   13
“Liberty Street,” 1945, April 28 (Unproduced)
Box   28
Folder   13
The Little Minister, 1934, October (RKO, 1934)
Box   28
Folder   13
Little Women, 1935, May 15 (RKO, 1933)
Box   28
Folder   14
The Long, Long Trailer, 1951, August 30-circa 1954, August (MGM, 1954)
Box   28
Folder   14
Love Affair, circa late 1939 (RKO, 1939)
Box   28
Folder   14
Madame Bovary, 1949, April 27-September 30 (MGM, 1949)
Box   28
Folder   14
Man of Two Worlds, undated (RKO, 1934)
Box   28
Folder   14
Marriage Is a Private Affair, 1944, October 31-December 13 (MGM, 1944)
Box   29
Folder   1
Mary of Scotland, 1936, February 3-August 11, undated (RKO, 1936)
Box   29
Folder   1
Men of Chance, undated (RKO, 1932)
Box   29
Folder   1
Morning Glory, 1933, August 17 (RKO, 1933)
Box   29
Folder   1
Move, 1970, February 29-August 12, undated (Fox, 1970)
Box   29
Folder   1
National Velvet, 1944, December 13-1971, November 25, undated (MGM, 1944)
A Patch of Blue (MGM, 1965)
Box   29
Folder   2
Clippings and Publicity, 1965, October 29-1967, February 1 undated
Box   29
Folder   3
Financial Information, 1965, December 15-1966, June 1
Box   29
Folder   4
Penthouse, 1931, July 6 (MGM, 1933)
Box   29
Folder   4
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1944, July 31-1945, June 5 (MGM, 1945)
Box   29
Folder   4
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1951, June 9-1953, January 16, undated (MGM, 1952)
Box   29
Folder   5
The Prize, 1962, October 24-1966, June 14, undated (MGM, 1963)
Box   29
Folder   5
Quentin Durward, 1955, November 16 (MGM, 1955)
Box   29
Folder   5
The Reluctant Debutante, 1958, July 29-October 27 (MGM, 1958)
Box   29
Folder   5
Rio Rita, undated (MGM, 1942)
Box   29
Folder   5
Roberta, 1935, March 9-1972, October 9 (RKO, 1935)
Box   29
Folder   5
Sea of Grass, 1945, March 14 (MGM, 1947)
Box   29
Folder   5
The Seventh Cross, 1944, October 18-December 28, undated (MGM, 1944)
Box   29
Folder   6
Shall We Dance, undated (RKO, 1937)
Box   29
Folder   6
Soldiers Three, 1951, April 16, 1951 (MGM, 1951)
Box   29
Folder   6
Something of Value, 1955, April 24-1957, May 15 (MGM, 1957)
Box   29
Folder   6
Stage Door, 1937 (RKO, 1937)
Box   29
Folder   6
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 1939, May 24-1940, January 12 (RKO, 1939)
Box   29
Folder   6
Sweet Bird of Youth, 1962, February 14-1963, March 21 (MGM, 1962)
Box   29
Folder   7
Symphony of Six Million, 1932, April 16, undated (RKO, 1932)
Box   29
Folder   7
Tea and Sympathy, 1954, July 20-1956, October 1 (MGM, 1936)
Box   29
Folder   7
That Girl from Paris, 1936, December 19-1937, January 15 (RKO, 1936)
Box   29
Folder   7
The Three Musketeers, 1949, January 8-November 18, undated (MGM, 1948)
Box   29
Folder   7
Top Hat, 1935, August 16-1977, April 10 (RKO, 1935)
Box   29
Folder   8
“The Turning Wheels,” 1960, September 6 (Unproduced)
Box   29
Folder   8
Undercurrent, 1947, January 28 (MGM, 1946)
Box   29
Folder   8
Vigil in the Night, 1940, January 2, undated (RKO, 1940)
Box   29
Folder   8
Way Back Home, “Other People's Business,” 1931, November 14-December 6, undated (RKO, 1932)
Box   29
Folder   8
Ziegfeld Girl, 1940, April 26-1941, May 15 (MGM, 1941)