Michael Douglas Papers, 1934-1980

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 147AN
Series: Part 1: (U.S. Mss 147AN) Original Collection, 1963-1973
Physical Description: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note

The original collection has been arranged into three series: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, BOOKS-PUBLISHED, and BOOKS-UNPUBLISHED.

The first series, BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, is very brief, containing only one folder with autobiographical notes written by McBride.

The bulk of Part 1 of the collection is contained in the second series, BOOKS-PUBLISHED. The material is segregated by each individual book and then arranged chronologically according to publishing date. The material provides excellent documentation of the logical fashion in which McBride prepared his books. Most of the material consists of the rough drafts of individual chapters, though some research material is also included. There is a small amount of correspondence, mostly between McBride and his publishers.

The final series, BOOKS-UNPUBLISHED, contains the correspondence, rough drafts, and research materials used in his early book, The Language of Baseball. Documentation on this work is also found in the files on the published book High and Inside in Part 2 of this register.

Subseries: Biographical Information
Box   1
Folder   1
Autobiographical notes
Subseries: Books - Published
Persistence of Vision (1969, Wisconsin Film Society Press)
Box   1
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1966 December 19-1968 October 3, undated
Box   1
Folder   3
Introduction (from “Critical Response” article and Principles of Film Criticism)
Box   1
Folder   4
Dale article: “Narrative, Fable & Dream in King Kong”
Donnely articles
Box   1
Folder   5
“Love & Death in Casablanca”
Box   1
Folder   6
“The Navigator”
Box   1
Folder   7
“A Random Sampling of Directors”
Box   1
Folder   8
“Vampyr”
Box   1
Folder   9
Koch article: “Notes on the Production of Casablanca”
Lennig articles
Box   1
Folder   10
“La Roue”
Box   1
Folder   11
“Merry-Go-Round”
Box   1
Folder   12
“Robert Flaherty”
Box   1
Folder   13
“True Heart Susie”
Box   1
Folder   14
McBride article: “Footlight Parade”
Box   1
Folder   15
Peary article: “W.C. Fields and the Absurd World”
Box   1
Folder   16
Stein article: “Robert Rossen's Last Interview”
Wilmington articles
Box   1
Folder   17
“The Birds”
Box   1
Folder   18
“Long Day's Journey Into Night”
Box   1
Folder   19
Zwickey article: “Orpheus”
Box   1
Folder   20
Notes, outlines
Box   1
Folder   21
Notes
Box   1
Folder   22
Research: “Fellini: A Poet of Reality”
Box   1
Folder   23
Clippings
Box   1
Folder   24
Articles not used in book: synopsis (“The March of Time”)
Box   2
Folder   1-2
Articles not used in book
Box   2
Folder   3
Covers, promotion, copy of “Toward an Understanding of Documentary”
Box   2
Folder   4-5
Manuscript sent to printer
Box   2
Folder   6
Pictures not used in book
Box   2
Folder   7
Galley proofs
Box   2
Folder   8
Manuscript for Persistence of Vision
Orson Welles (1972, Viking Press)
General correspondence and notes
Box   3
Folder   1
1967 January 1-1970 September 30
Box   3
Folder   2
1970 October 18-1973 April 29
Correspondence with book editors
Box   3
Folder   3
1970 May 5-1971 January 8
Box   3
Folder   4
1971 March 1-1973 May 18
Box   3
Folder   5
Correspondence and notes for Project Welles anthology and part of manuscript
Box   3
Folder   6
Early general notes
Box   3
Folder   7
General notes
Box   3
Folder   8
General outlines
Box   3
Folder   9
Chapter One: Introduction
Box   4
Folder   1
Chapter Two: Meeting Orson Welles
Box   4
Folder   2
Chapter Three: Apprentice Work
Chapter Four
Box   4
Folder   3-4
“Citizen Kane” notes
Box   4
Folder   5-6
“Citizen Kane” drafts
Box   4
Folder   7
Citizen Kane: third revised final script
Chapter Five
Box   4
Folder   8-9
“The Magnificent Ambersons”
Box   5
Folder   1
“The Magnificent Ambersons" (continued)
Box   5
Folder   2
The Magnificent Ambersons: screenplay
Box   5
Folder   3
Chapter Six: “Finding a New Style”
Box   5
Folder   4
Chapter Seven: “The Lady from Shanghai”
Box   5
Folder   5
Chapter Eight: “Macbeth and Othello”
Box   5
Folder   6
Chapter Nine: “Mr. Arkadin”
Box   5
Folder   7
Chapter Ten: “Touch of Evil”
Box   5
Folder   8
Chapter Eleven: “The Trial”
Box   5
Folder   9
Chapter Twelve: “Chimes at Midnight”
Box   5
Folder   10
Chapter Thirteen: “The Immortal Story”
Box   6
Folder   1-2
Appendix
Box   6
Folder   3
Magazines in which part of book appeared
Box   6
Folder   4
Script material: “The Other Side of the Wind”
Box   6
Folder   5
Article: “First Person Singular,” not in Welles book
Box   6
Folder   6
Research: “Rough Sledding with Pauline Kael”
Box   6
Folder   7-8
Research clippings and notes
Box   7
Folder   1
Research clippings and notes (continued)
Box   7
Folder   2
Clippings on book
Box   7
Folder   3
Part of manuscript for projected Welles anthology
Box   7
Folder   4
Manuscript as submitted and revised by author: carbon copy
Box   7
Folder   5
Semi-final draft
Box   7
Folder   6
Manuscript with editor and author revisions: photocopy
Box   7
Folder   7-8
Galley proofs
Box   7
Folder   9
Manuscript for Orson Welles
Focus on Howard Hawks (1972, Prentice Hall)
Correspondence
Box   8
Folder   1
1970 September 14-1971 September 21
Box   8
Folder   2
1971 September 27-1972 November 2, undated
Box   8
Folder   3
Outlines and notes
Manuscripts of individual chapters
Box   8
Folder   4
Belton-Ford
Box   8
Folder   5
Haskell-McBride
Box   8
Folder   6
Peary-Bibliography
Box   8
Folder   7
Manuscripts in French
Box   8
Folder   8
Index
Box   8
Folder   9
Research materials
Box   9
Folder   1
Research materials (continued)
Box   9
Folder   2
Manuscript: typed
Box   9
Folder   3
Manuscript for Focus on Howard Hawks
John Ford (1974, Secker and Warburg, London)
Box   9
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1969 June 10-1973 June 11, undated
Box   9
Folder   5
Chapter Two: “Himself”
Box   9
Folder   6
First rough notes
Box   10
Folder   1
Outlines, notes
Box   10
Folder   2-4
General notes
Box   10
Folder   5
“Young Mr. Lincoln”
Box   10
Folder   6
“My Darling Clementine”
Box   10
Folder   7
“They Were Expendable”
Box   10
Folder   8-9
“The Quiet Man”
Box   10
Folder   10
“Stagecoach”
Box   10
Folder   11
“The Long Gray Line”
Box   10
Folder   12
“The Rising of the Moon”
Box   11
Folder   1
“The Grapes of Wrath”
Box   11
Folder   1
“How Green Was My Valley”
Box   11
Folder   2
“The Sun Shines Bright”
Box   11
Folder   3
“The Fugitive”
Box   11
Folder   4
“Three Godfathers”
Box   11
Folder   5
“Straight Shooting”
Box   11
Folder   6
“Wagon Master”
Box   11
Folder   7
“Fort Apache,” “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,” “Rio Grande”
Box   11
Folder   8
“The Searchers”
Box   11
Folder   9
“The Wings of Eagles”
Box   11
Folder   10
“Sergeant Rutledge”
Box   11
Folder   11-12
“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Box   12
Folder   1
“The Civil War”
Box   12
Folder   2-3
“Seven Women”
Box   12
Folder   4
“The Ford Players” (discarded chapter)
Box   12
Folder   5
“The Informer,” “The Last Hurrah”
Box   12
Folder   6
“Cheyenne Autumn”
Box   12
Folder   7
“When Willie Comes Marching Home”
Box   12
Folder   8-9
“Vietnam! Vietnam!” (documentary)
Box   12
Folder   10
Research: United States Information Agency
Box   12
Folder   11-13
Last draft
Box   13
Folder   1-3
Revised pages of typescript
Box   15
Folder   1-2
Typescript: final
Subseries: Books - Unpublished
Language of Baseball
Note: See also Part 2 files on the book High and Inside
Box   13
Folder   4
Correspondence, 1964 June 21-1967 July 18, undated
Box   13
Folder   5-6
Notes
Box   13
Folder   7
Research books
Box   13
Folder   8
“Nicknames”: first draft
Box   13
Folder   9
“Quotes”: first draft
Box   13
Folder   10
“Words”: first draft
Box   14
Folder   1
“The Language of Baseball” by Joseph Pierce
Box   14
Folder   2
“The Language of Baseball”: manuscript, final draft
Box   14
Folder   3
“Baseballese”: looseleaf manuscript
U.S. Mss 147AN
Series: Part 2 (U.S. Mss 147AN, Audio 1036A): 1985 Additions, 1960-1983
Physical Description: 35.6 c.f. (90 archives boxes) and 66 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note

The 1985 Additions to the Joseph McBride Papers primarily document his career as a critic and writer in film, television, and theater during the years 1977-1982, and consist of script drafts and revisions, source material, storyboards, notes, correspondence, and interview transcripts, from more than 90 projects. Also, included are drafts from a number of books he authored, as well as newspaper and magazine articles. The audio tapes primarily contain interviews conducted by McBride with numerous actors and actresses concerning specific Hollywood personalities. The tapes are RESTRICTED, however, and may not be listened to without the written consent of Joseph McBride.

The additions are divided into eight subseries: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, BOOKS, MAGAZINE ARTICLES, NEWSPAPERS, SCRIPTS (FILM, TELEVISON, and THEATER), UNRELATED COMPOSITIONS, SCRIPT PROJECTS, and AUDIO RECORDINGS.

The GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE subseries contains both personal and professional correspondence, mostly incoming and dating from 1960 to 1982. The bulk of the personal correspondence is from McBride's immediate family. One folder consists of letters from his wife, Linda Detra McBride (whom he divorced in 1973) and daughter, Jessica. Another contains letters from his father, Raymond McBride. A third folder consists of correspondence, 1960-1964, to McBride's mother Marian, from well-known politicians and statesmen.

The BOOKS subseries contains scripts, drafts, galleys, edited manuscripts, promotion, and other papers concerning nine books McBride authored from 1972 to 1983, arranged chronologically by publication date. The majority of this material covers the 1980 publication of High and Inside: The Complete Guide to Baseball Slang, which underwent numerous revisions over the years. First entitled “Baseballese,” it was subsequently known as “The Language of Baseball,” “Baseball Talk,” “Speaking of Baseball,” and “The Complete Book of Baseball Slang.” There are also several boxes of material on the book Hawks on Hawks, published in 1982.

The MAGAZINE ARTICLES subseries is comprised of notes and information on nearly 35 pieces on television and film, written by McBride from 1960 to 1982. The articles are arranged chronologically by publication date.

The NEWSPAPERS subseries consists primarily of material collected by McBride during his years on Daily Variety and Variety, roughly from 1974 to 1981, including press releases; obituaries; general news and features; and film, television, theater, and concert reviews. Only the general news, feature articles, and reviews, however, were written by McBride. In addition, there are some drafts, unpublished articles, and research notes produced by McBride during his years on the University of Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal, the Wisconsin State Journal, and the Riverside Press-Enterprise. The material is arranged chronologically.

The SCRIPTS subseries provides a detailed look at the steps involved in the creation of a working script (in the media of film, television, and theater) and includes source material, treatments, outlines, interview transcripts, page proofs, galleys, and drafts. The series is sub-divided into Scripts-Film, Scripts-Television, and Scripts-Theater, although the majority of the scripts were written for film. However, only three film scripts actually were produced: Blood and Guts (1978), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), and Prom Night (1980). The television script material concerns McBride's involvement with The American Film Institute's salutes to Jimmy Stewart (1980), Fred Astaire (1981), Frank Capra (1982), and John Huston (1983), which he wrote or co-wrote. It also documents the production Let Poland Be Poland, which was broadcast by satellite around the world in January 1982. The theater scripts include American National Theatre and Academy Tribute to James Stewart (1981), plus some unproduced pieces. It is important to note that although scripts often underwent title changes during the draft stages, they are listed according to final titles.

The UNRELATED COMPOSITIONS subseries contains articles, notes, reviews, and the like written by McBride from 1962-1977, arranged chronologically. Most concern films and filmmakers.

The SCRIPT PROJECTS subseries contains undated notes, sketches, and ideas for more than 60 potential scripts written by McBride. They are arranged alphabetically by title.

The AUDIO RECORDINGS subseries contains 66 tape recordings, most of which are interviews conducted by McBride during the early 1980s. They include sessions with Frank Capra, Billy Wilder, Jimmy Stewart, Jacqueline Bisset, Donna Reed, Audrey Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, and Robert Mitchum, among others. As many of the interviews were conducted over the telephone, the audio may be of inferior quality.

Access Restrictions: The audio tapes may not be listened to without the written consent of Joseph McBride.
Subseries: General Correspondence
Personal
Box   16
Folder   1-3
1969-1981
Box   16
Folder   4-5
undated
Box   16
Folder   6
From Linda Detra McBride and Jessica McBride, undated
Box   17
Folder   1
From Raymond McBride, undated
Box   17
Folder   2
To Marian McBride, 1960-1964
Professional
Box   17
Folder   3-7
1964-1982, undated
Subseries: Books
Orson Welles (1972)
Box   18
Folder   1
“Bright Lucifer”: script, 1933
Box   18
Folder   2
“The Other Side of the Wind”: script, undated
John Ford (1974)
Box   18
Folder   3
Chapter One: “Bringing in the Sheaves”
Box   18
Folder   4
Chapter Two: “Half Genius, Half Irish”
Box   18
Folder   5
Galleys, undated
Box   18
Folder   6
Page proofs, undated
Box   18
Folder   7
Publicity
Box   18
Folder   8
Revisions, undated
Box   18
Folder   9-14
Source material
Kirk Douglas (1976)
Box   19
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1975-1976
Box   19
Folder   2-3
Source material
Box   19
Folder   4-5
Notes, 1976
Box   20
Folder   1
Draft fragments, undated
Box   20
Folder   2
Draft, complete, undated
Box   20
Folder   3
Edited manuscript, undated
Box   20
Folder   4
Galleys, undated
Orson Welles: Actor and Director (1977)
Box   20
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1976-1978
Box   20
Folder   6-9
Source material
Box   21
Folder   1-2
Notes, undated
Box   21
Folder   3
Draft fragments, undated
Box   21
Folder   4
Draft fragments, pp. 1-15, undated
Box   21
Folder   5
Draft, incomplete, pp. 1-131, undated
Box   21
Folder   6
Draft, complete, undated
Box   21
Folder   7
Galleys, undated
Box   21
Folder   8
Page proofs, undated
Box   21
Folder   9
Promotion
Box   21
Folder   10
Review, 1977
High and Inside: The Complete Guide to Baseball Slang (1980)
Box   22
Folder   1-2
Correspondence, 1964-1980
Box   22
Folder   3
Notes, 1978
Box   22
Folder   4
Potential publishers
Box   22
Folder   5
Royalty estimates
Box   22
Folder   6
References
Box   22
Folder   7-16
Source materials
“Baseballese”
Box   22
Folder   17
“Words”: first draft, 1963-1964
Box   23
Folder   1
“Quotes”: first draft, undated
Box   23
Folder   2
“Nicknames”: first draft, undated
“The Language of Baseball”
Box   23
Folder   3
Second draft, pp. 1-118, 1964-1965
Box   23
Folder   4
Second draft, pp. 1-93, 1964-1965
Box   23
Folder   5
Third draft, pp. 1-217, 1965-1966
Box   23
Folder   6
Fourth draft, 1966
Box   24
Folder   1
Fifth draft, 20 June 1967
Box   24
Folder   2
Draft fragments, undated
Box   24
Folder   3
“Baseball Talk,” pp. 1-217, 1978-1979
“Speaking of Baseball”
Box   24
Folder   4
First draft, pp. 1-242, 1978-1979
Box   24
Folder   5
Second draft, pp. 1-242, 1978-1979
Box   25
Folder   1
Third draft, pp. 1-242, 1978-1979
Box   25
Folder   2
Fourth draft, 1979 May 3
“The Complete Book of Baseball Slang”
Box   25
Folder   3
First draft, pp. 194-268, 1979 May 3
Box   25
Folder   4
First draft, revised, 1979
Box   26
Folder   1-2
Second draft, 1979 September 12
Box   26
Folder   3-4
Third draft, 1979 November
Box   26
Folder   5
Author's replies to queries, 1979 November
Box   27
Folder   1-8
Revisions, undated
Box   28
Folder   1
Revisions (continued)
Box   27
Folder   2
Galleys, pp. 9-254, undated
Box   27
Folder   3
Nickname index, pp. 1-66
Box   27
Folder   4
Promotion
Private Parts (unpublished)
Box   27
Folder   5
Correspondence, 1980-1982
Box   27
Folder   6
Research and clippings
Box   27
Folder   7
Notes and draft fragments, undated
Box   29
Folder   1
First draft, 1980 March-May
Box   29
Folder   2-3
Second draft, 1980 May 16
Box   29
Folder   4-5
Third draft, 1980 October 13
Box   29
Folder   6
Fourth draft, undated
Hawks on Hawks (1982)
Box   30
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1974-1982
Box   30
Folder   2-3
Source material
Box   30
Folder   4-10
Interviews with Hawks, 1970-1977
Box   30
Folder   11-12
Article on Hawks, by McBride, in Film Comment, 1978
Box   31
Folder   1
Organizational notes, undated
Box   31
Folder   2-8
Draft fragments, undated
Introduction
Box   31
Folder   9
Draft fragments, undated
Box   31
Folder   10
Draft, complete, undated
Box   31
Folder   11
Illustrations
Box   32
Folder   1
Filmography, notes, and drafts, undated
Box   32
Folder   2
Bibliography, notes, and drafts, undated
Box   32
Folder   3-4
Typescript #1, undated
Box   32
Folder   5-6
Typescript #2, undated
Box   32
Folder   7-8
Typescript #3, undated
Box   33
Folder   1-2
Final typescript, undated
Box   33
Folder   3
Galleys, undated
Box   33
Folder   4
Corrections
Box   33
Folder   5
Dummy
Box   33
Folder   6
Index, notes, and drafts, undated
Box   33
Folder   7
Final photocopy, undated
Box   33
Folder   8
Promotion
Filmmakers on Filmmaking, Volumes I and II (1983)
Box   34
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1979-1983, undated
Box   34
Folder   2-3
Notes, undated
Box   34
Folder   4-5
Volume I, annotated typescript, undated
Box   34
Folder   6
Volume II, typescript, pp. 1-147, undated
Box   34
Folder   7
Introduction, edited page proofs, undated
Subseries: Magazine Articles
Box   34
Folder   8
“The Lightfeet Top 'Em All,” 1960 May
Note: On Warren Spahn's son.
Box   34
Folder   9
“Shaw Impersonated,” 1967 Spring-Summer
Note: On Bramwell Fletcher.
Box   34
Folder   10
“Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Kauffmann, and Miss Kael,” 1967 Summer
Box   34
Folder   11
“Campus '69: The Quiet Year--So Far,” 1969 December
Note: On the University of Wisconsin.
Box   35
Folder   1
“A Long Way from Home,” 1969-1970 Winter
Note: On The Emigrants and The New Land.
Box   35
Folder   2
“Topaz,” 1969-1970 Winter
Box   35
Folder   3
“The Arrangement,” 1970 Summer
Box   35
Folder   4
“The Private Life of Billy Wilder,” 1970 Summer
Box   35
Folder   5
“The Ugliness of Belle de Jour,” 1970 November
Box   35
Folder   6
“The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” 1971 Spring
Box   35
Folder   7
“The Director as Superstar,” 1972 Spring
Note: On Fellini: A Director's Notebook.
Box   35
Folder   8
“Running, Jumping, and Standing Still: An Interview with Richard Lester,” 1973 Spring
Box   35
Folder   9
“What Price Hollywood?,” 1973 May-June
Box   35
Folder   10
“The Importance of Being Ernst,” 1973 Summer
Note: On Avanti!
Box   35
Folder   11
“Stepin Fetchit Talks Back,” 1974 Summer
Box   35
Folder   12
“Shooting The Front Page: Two Damns and One By God,” 1974 July
Box   35
Folder   13
“Coppola, Inc.,” 1975 November
Box   35
Folder   14
“George Cukor: The Blue Bird,” 1975 November-December
Box   35
Folder   15
“The Glory That Was Hollywood,” 1975 December
Box   35
Folder   16
The Bad News Bears,” 1975-1976 Winter
Box   36
Folder   1
“Life in the Snake Pit: Val Lewton,” 1976 January-February
Box   36
Folder   2
“Aren't You ... Jimmy Stewart?,” 1976 June
Box   36
Folder   3
“Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock,” 1976 Fall
Box   36
Folder   4
“Kid Stuff: François Truffaut on Small Change,” 1976 September-October
Box   36
Folder   5
“Song for Woody,” 1976 November-December
Note: On Bound for Glory.
Box   36
Folder   6
“The Wild Party: On the Arbuckle Case,” 1977 December-January
Box   36
Folder   7
“The Most Powerful Movie Actor in the World: He'll Blow Your Head Clean Off,” 1977 April
Note: On Clint Eastwood.
Box   36
Folder   8
“Olly Olly Oxen Free: On the Set with Katharine Hepburn,” 1977 August
Box   36
Folder   9
“Going for Extra Innings,” 1979 January-February
“A Piece of the Rock: George Stevens,” 1979
Box   36
Folder   10
Research material
Box   36
Folder   11
Notes
Box   36
Folder   12-13
Interview transcript
Box   36
Folder   14
Drafts
Box   36
Folder   15
Galleys, undated
“Bombshell Days at MGM,” 1980 March-April
Box   36
Folder   16
Interview transcript
Box   36
Folder   17
Drafts, undated
Box   37
Folder   1
“O'Toole Ascending,” 1981 March-April
“Carry On, Cukor,” 1981 September-October
Box   37
Folder   2
Interview transcript
Box   37
Folder   3
Drafts, undated
Box   37
Folder   4
Photographs: copies
Box   37
Folder   5
“Jacqueline Bisset on Rich and Famous,” 1981 September-October
Box   37
Folder   6
“Interview with Richard Sylbert,” 1982 January-February
Note: On Reds.
Subseries: Newspapers
Box   38
Folder   1
Daily Cardinal, 1967-1971, undated
Wisconsin State Journal
Box   38
Folder   2
Drafts and published articles, 1969-1972, undated
Box   38
Folder   3
Article on Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker, 1971
Riverside Press-Enterprise
Box   39
Folder   1
Memo, 1972
Box   39
Folder   2-6
Research notes and drafts, 1973-1974
Box   40
Folder   1-4
Research notes and drafts, 1973-1974 (continued)
Box   41
Folder   1-3
Research notes and drafts, 1973-1974 (continued)
Box   41
Folder   4
Unpublished article on Charles Ashman, 1974
Box   41
Folder   5
Published articles, 1973-1974
Daily Variety and Variety
Box   42
Folder   1
Correspondence and memoranda, 1974-1981, undated
Box   42
Folder   2-4
Telephone messages, 1974-1980, undated
Box   42
Folder   5-6
Tickets and screening invitations, 1974-1979
Box   43
Folder   1-4
Tickets and screening invitations, 1974-1979 (continued)
Press releases collected by McBride
Box   44
Folder   1-9
1974 January-November
Box   45
Folder   1-6
1974 December-1975 April
Box   46
Folder   1-7
1975 May-November
Box   47
Folder   1-6
1975 December-1976 January
Box   48
Folder   1-5
1976 February-March
Box   49
Folder   1-5
1976 April-May
Box   50
Folder   1-4
1976 June-July
Box   51
Folder   1-5
1976 August-October
Box   52
Folder   1-3
1976 October-November
Box   53
Folder   1-5
1976 December-1977 February
Box   54
Folder   1-5
1977 February-April
Box   55
Folder   1-4
1977 April-June
Box   56
Folder   1-6
1977 June-1978 March
Box   57
Folder   1-6
1980 January-1981 January
Box   58
Folder   1
1980 December-1981 January
General news and features
Box   58
Folder   2
1974 July-October
Box   59
Folder   1-5
1975 January-April
Box   60
Folder   1-8
1975 May-November
Box   61
Folder   1-4
1975 circa July-November
Box   62
Folder   1-2
1976 April-May
Box   63
Folder   1-6
1976 July-December
Box   64
Folder   1-6
1977 January-June
Box   65
Folder   1-2
1977 July-August
Box   65
Folder   3
circa 1977
Box   65
Folder   4-6
circa 1980-1981
Box   66
Folder   1-6
Film and television reviews, 1974 August-1980 December, undated
Box   66
Folder   7-10
Theater and concert reviews, 1975 July-1977 July, undated
Box   67
Folder   1-5
Film production charts, 1975 December-1977 August
Box   68
Folder   1-3
Obituaries, 1974-1981
Box   69
Folder   1-2
Business news, circa 1980-1981
Box   69
Folder   3
Stock market reports, circa 1980-1981
Subseries: Scripts
Scripts-Film
A Moveable Feast (unproduced)
Box   70
Folder   1
Notes and correspondence, 1966 September
Box   70
Folder   2
Story boards
Box   70
Folder   3
First draft, 1966 August 26
Box   70
Folder   4
Script, undated
Box   70
Folder   5
Revisions, undated
Box   70
Folder   6
Final draft, undated
To Build a Fire (unproduced)
Box   70
Folder   7
Notes and draft fragments, undated
Box   70
Folder   8
First draft, 1967 January 8
Box   70
Folder   9
Second draft, 1967 January 9
Diamond (unproduced)
Box   70
Folder   10
Notes, circa 1967 March-May
Box   70
Folder   11
Treatment, 1967
Box   70
Folder   12
Source material
Box   70
Folder   13
First draft, 1967 September 12
Box   70
Folder   14
Second draft, 1967 October 2
Box   70
Folder   15
Script, undated
Silverheels (unproduced)
Box   71
Folder   1-3
Notes and draft fragments, undated
Box   71
Folder   4
First draft, 1968 January 14
Box   71
Folder   5
Second draft, 1968 March 3
Box   71
Folder   6
Draft, revised, undated
Box   71
Folder   7
Final draft, undated
Hell (unproduced)
Box   71
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1969 September-October, undated
Box   71
Folder   9
Source material
Box   71
Folder   10-12
Notes, undated
Box   71
Folder   13
Synopsis, undated
Box   71
Folder   14-15
Notes and draft fragments, circa 1970
Box   71
Folder   16
Partial draft, undated
Box   72
Folder   1
Draft, undated
Box   72
Folder   2
Draft, revised, undated
Box   72
Folder   3-4
Rough story board, undated
Box   72
Folder   5
Novel notes, circa 1970
Box   72
Folder   6
Novel fragment, circa 1970
Man Bites Dog (unproduced)
Box   73
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1973 March-September
Box   73
Folder   2
Source material
Box   73
Folder   3
Notes, undated
Box   73
Folder   4
Draft, pp. 1-24, 114-130, undated
Box   73
Folder   5
First draft, undated
Box   73
Folder   6
Second draft, undated
Box   73
Folder   7
Third draft, undated
Box   73
Folder   8
Final draft, undated
The Authentic Life of Cheyenne Harry (unproduced)
Box   74
Folder   1
Script registrations and work schedules
Box   74
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1974 April-November, undated
Box   74
Folder   3
Source material
Box   74
Folder   4-7
Notes, undated
Box   74
Folder   8-9
“The Last Outlaw”: treatment, undated
Box   74
Folder   9
“The True Story of Cheyenne Harry”: treatment, undated
Box   74
Folder   10-11
Draft fragments, undated
“California Here I Come”
Box   74
Folder   12
Draft, undated
Box   75
Folder   1
Draft, revised, undated
“The Buffalo Picture Company”
Box   75
Folder   2
First draft, undated
Box   75
Folder   3
Second draft, undated
Box   75
Folder   4
Third draft, undated
Box   75
Folder   5
Fourth draft, undated
“The Extra”
Box   76
Folder   1
Script, undated
Box   76
Folder   2
Draft, revised, undated
Box   76
Folder   3
Draft, complete, 1974
Box   76
Folder   4
Manuscript corrections, undated
Box   76
Folder   5
Suggested revisions by Gerald Peary, undated
Rock City (unproduced)
Box   77
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1977 February-1978 July
Box   77
Folder   2-3
Source material
Box   77
Folder   4
Treatments, undated
Box   77
Folder   5
Notes, undated
Box   77
Folder   6
Outlines, undated
Box   77
Folder   7-10
Notes and draft fragments, undated
Box   77
Folder   11
Draft, undated
Box   77
Folder   12
Second draft, 1976 October 18
Box   78
Folder   1
Third draft, pp. 1-56 and 64-124, 1976 October 25
Box   78
Folder   2
Fourth draft, 1976 December 5
Box   78
Folder   3
Fourth draft, revised, 1976 December 5
Box   78
Folder   4
Final draft, undated
Hard Time Aces (unproduced)
Box   79
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1977 December-1979 September, undated
Box   79
Folder   2
Diary notes, 1977 November-December
Box   79
Folder   3
Notes, undated
Box   79
Folder   4
Potential directors and cast
Box   79
Folder   5
Source material
Box   79
Folder   6
Outline by Cirio Santiago, undated
Box   79
Folder   7
Revised outline by McBride, 1977 December 27
Box   79
Folder   8
Treatment, undated
Box   79
Folder   9
Treatment fragments, undated
Box   79
Folder   10-12
Draft fragments, undated
Box   79
Folder   13
Second draft of script by James Watkins and David Osterhout, undated
Box   79
Folder   14
First draft of rewrite by McBride, 9 March 1978
Box   79
Folder   15
Aviation action sequence, 19 December 1978
Big Money (unproduced)
Box   80
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1978 October-1981 August, undated
Box   80
Folder   2
Source material
Box   80
Folder   3
“The Face of Fame”: synopsis of story by Patrick McGilligan, Debra Weiner, and Bob Taylor
Box   80
Folder   4
Notes, undated
Box   80
Folder   5
First draft, 1978 October 23
Box   80
Folder   6
First draft, revised, 1978 November 1
Box   80
Folder   7
Second draft, undated
Box   80
Folder   8
Second draft, revised, 1979 April 1
The Broken Places (unproduced)
Box   81
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1978 August-1981 February
Box   81
Folder   2
Notes and source material
“Disembodied Voices”
Box   81
Folder   3
First draft, 1978 May 30
Box   81
Folder   4
Draft fragments and revisions, undated
Box   81
Folder   5
Final draft, undated
Box   81
Folder   6
Final draft, revised, undated
Blood and Guts (Melvin Simon Productions, 1978)
Box   82
Folder   1-2
Correspondence, 1975 September-1980 February, undated
Box   82
Folder   3
Related material
Box   82
Folder   4-5
Notes, undated
Box   82
Folder   6
“Gorgeous George”: treatment, 1975
Box   82
Folder   7
Script pages by Paul Lynch, undated
Box   82
Folder   8
Early draft pages, undated
Box   82
Folder   9
Notes for first draft, undated
Box   82
Folder   10
First draft, pp. 1-44, undated
Box   82
Folder   11
Revised pages, 1975
Box   82
Folder   12
Early second draft pages, undated
Box   82
Folder   13
Second draft, undated
Box   82
Folder   14
Second draft, retyped, undated
Box   83
Folder   1
Second draft, revised, undated
Box   83
Folder   2
Third draft, circa 1975
Box   83
Folder   3
Third draft, retyped, undated
Box   83
Folder   4
Notes for semi-final revision, 1977
Box   83
Folder   5
Semi-final draft, revised, 1977
Box   83
Folder   6
Draft, revised, 1977
Box   83
Folder   7
Draft by William Gray and John Hunter, undated
Box   83
Folder   8
Notes on McBride's draft and on draft by Gray and Hunter, undated
Box   83
Folder   9
Draft by McBride, William Gray, and John Hunter, undated
Box   84
Folder   1-2
Draft, revised, by McBride, William Gray, and John Hunter, pp. 1-119, 1977 August 12
Box   84
Folder   3
Draft, revised, pp. 2-119, 1977 September 2
Box   84
Folder   4-6
Revised draft pages, undated
Box   85
Folder   1
Journal, 1977 August
Box   85
Folder   2
Notes, shooting schedules, and call sheets, 1977 August
Box   85
Folder   3
Publicity
Box   85
Folder   4
Reviews and clippings, 1977-1982, undated
Box   85
Folder   5
Transcript of interview with Paul Lynch and Joseph McBride, 1978 February
Box   85
Folder   6
Programs, 1978
Rock 'n' Roll High School (New World Pictures, 1979)
Box   85
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1979 January-1981 September, undated
Box   85
Folder   8
Source material
Box   85
Folder   9
Notes and treatments, undated
Box   85
Folder   10
Outlines, undated
Box   85
Folder   11
Notes on McBride's drafts and on drafts by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, undated
“Girls' Gym”
Box   85
Folder   12
First draft by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, undated
Box   86
Folder   1
First draft by McBride, 1977 July 31
Box   86
Folder   2
Second draft scene breakdown, undated
Box   86
Folder   3
Second draft, 1977 September 1
“California Girls”
Box   86
Folder   4
Third draft, 1977 October 13
Box   86
Folder   5
Third draft, revised, undated
Box   86
Folder   6
Fourth draft, 1977 October 19
Box   87
Folder   1
Fifth draft, 1977 October 25
Box   87
Folder   2
Final draft, 1977 October 25
Box   87
Folder   3
Final draft, retyped, pp. 1-40, 110, 112, 1977 October 25
Box   87
Folder   4-5
Revised pages, undated
Box   87
Folder   6
Draft by Richard Whitley and Russ Dvonch, undated
Box   87
Folder   7
Shooting schedules, 1978 November-December
Box   87
Folder   8
Press kit
Box   87
Folder   9
Clippings and reviews, 1976 August-1982 July, undated
No More Mr. Nice Guy (unproduced)
Box   88
Folder   1
Script, undated
Box   88
Folder   2
Final script, undated
Don't See the Doctor (unproduced)
Box   89
Folder   1
Notes from Paul Lynch, 1979 January
Box   89
Folder   2
Notes by McBride, undated
Box   89
Folder   3
Treatment fragments by Paul Lynch, undated
Box   89
Folder   4
Draft treatment by Paul Lynch, undated
Box   89
Folder   5
Treatment by McBride and Paul Lynch, 1979 March 7
Prom Night (Avco Embassy Pictures, 1980)
Box   89
Folder   6
Draft by William Gray, June 1979
Box   89
Folder   7
Press kit, clippings, and reviews, 1979-1981
Box   89
Folder   8
“Remember Bobby”: correspondence and story drafts, 1978
Catman and the Kid (unproduced)
Box   90
Folder   1
Notes, undated
Box   90
Folder   2
First draft by William Gray and Jacob Barnes (McBride's pseudonym), 1978 December 4
Box   90
Folder   3
“Catman,” First draft, undated
Box   90
Folder   4
Notes and revised pages, undated
Box   90
Folder   5
Draft, undated
Box   90
Folder   6
Script by William Gray, undated
Box   90
Folder   7
Script by McBride, undated
The Hurricane (unproduced)
Box   91
Folder   1
Source material
Box   91
Folder   2-3
Notes and draft fragments, undated
Box   91
Folder   4
Partial draft, undated
Box   91
Folder   5
Draft, undated
Red Gold (unproduced)
Box   91
Folder   6
Draft, incomplete, pp. 1-36, 1979
Box   91
Folder   7
Synopsis, 1981
Box   91
Folder   8
Navajo Story (unproduced), partial draft, 1981 March 16
Television
The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart (CBS, March 16, 1980)
Box   92
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1979 December-1980 March
Box   92
Folder   2-6
Source material
Box   92
Folder   7
Draft fragments, undated
Box   92
Folder   8
Final draft, 1980 February 27
Box   92
Folder   9
Final script, 1980 March 16
Production
Box   92
Folder   10
Film sequences and rundowns, 1980 February
Box   92
Folder   11
Notes, undated
Box   92
Folder   12
Tribute book and guest seating
The American Film Institute Salute to Fred Astaire (CBS, April 10, 1981)
Box   93
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1980 November-1981 June, undated
Box   93
Folder   2
Source material
Box   93
Folder   3
Transcripts of interviews with Astaire, 1976, 1981
Box   93
Folder   4
Transcripts and interview notes with Barrie Chase, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cyd Charisse, Bob Fosse, Gene Kelly, undated
Box   93
Folder   5
Transcripts and interview notes with Hermes Pan, Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, undated
Box   93
Folder   6
Clippings and articles on Astaire, 1935-1937, 1951-1983
Box   93
Folder   7
Lists of Astaire's credits and film clip selection
Box   93
Folder   8
Program, 1973
Box   93
Folder   8 (continued)
American Film Institute Annual Report, 1979-1980
Box   93
Folder   9
Notes, undated
Box   93
Folder   10
Draft fragments, undated
Box   94
Folder   1-2
Speech drafts, undated
Box   94
Folder   3
Production notes
Box   94
Folder   4
Production records
Box   94
Folder   5-8
Tribute book
Box   94
Folder   9-10
Clippings, 1981
Box   95
Folder   1
Draft, 1981 April
Box   95
Folder   2
Final draft by George Stevens Jr. and McBride, 1981 April 10
Let Poland Be Poland (United States International Communication Agency, January 31, 1982)
Box   96
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1982 January
Box   96
Folder   2
USICA notes, memoranda, and reports, 1981-1982
Box   96
Folder   3-4
Source material
Box   96
Folder   5
Magazine articles
Box   96
Folder   6
Notes, undated
Box   96
Folder   7
Draft, undated
Box   96
Folder   8
Draft, revised, 1982 January 28
Box   96
Folder   9
Additions to script, 1982 January 30
Box   96
Folder   10
Pasetta productions, contact lists and production schedules
Box   96
Folder   11
Rundown of segments, 1982 January 17-24
Box   96
Folder   12
McBride's expenditures
Box   96
Folder   13
Press releases
The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra (CBS, April 4, 1982)
Box   97
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1981 June-1982 April, undated
Box   97
Folder   2
Transcripts and interview notes with Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart, 1982
Box   97
Folder   3
Transcripts of unpublished interviews with Capra, 1941, 1982
Box   97
Folder   4
Writings by Capra, 1917-1975, undated
Box   97
Folder   5
Miscellaneous material
Box   97
Folder   6
Transcripts of seminars with Capra, 1968-1978
Box   97
Folder   7-8
Articles and clippings on Capra, 1932-1982
Box   97
Folder   9
Capra's film credits
Box   97
Folder   10
Notes and draft fragments regarding Jimmy Stewart, undated
Box   98
Folder   1
Draft fragments
Box   98
Folder   2
Revisions
Box   98
Folder   3
Final draft for awards dinner by George Stevens Jr. and McBride, notes and schedules, undated
Box   98
Folder   4
Final draft for telecast by George Stevens Jr. and McBride, undated
Production
Box   98
Folder   5
Notes and rundowns, undated
Box   98
Folder   6
Still and film lists
Note: Including key to photocopies of stills.
Stills: photocopies
Box   98
Folder   7
Unnumbered, 51-105
Box   98
Folder   8
106-227
Box   98
Folder   9
Expenses
Box   98
Folder   10-12
Tribute book
The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston (CBS, May 3, 1983)
Box   99
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1982-1983, undated
Box   99
Folder   2
Interview notes and quotations, undated
Box   99
Folder   3-4
Articles and clippings, 1937, 1950-1983, undated
Box   99
Folder   5
Transcript of AFI Seminars with Ray Bradbury, 1969 October
Box   99
Folder   6
Program, Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to John Huston, 1980 May
Box   99
Folder   6 (continued)
AFI Annual Report, 1981-1982
Box   99
Folder   7
Draft fragments, undated
Box   99
Folder   8
Drafts, undated
Box   99
Folder   9
Drafts of Lauren Bacall's script, undated
Box   99
Folder   10
Revisions, 1983 March 2
Box   100
Folder   1
Final draft by George Stevens Jr. and McBride, 1983 March 3
Production
Box   100
Folder   2
Notes, 1982-1983
Box   100
Folder   3
Film sequence selection
Box   100
Folder   4
Rehearsal schedules and rundowns
Box   100
Folder   5
Financial records, 1982-1983
Box   100
Folder   6-11
Tribute book
Theater
The Mess in the Kitchen (unproduced)
Box   101
Folder   1
Notes, 1966-1967
“James Twice”
Box   101
Folder   2
First draft, 1966 November 27
Box   101
Folder   3
Second draft, 1967 January 16
Box   101
Folder   4
Final draft, undated
Chessman (unproduced)
Box   101
Folder   5
Notes and first draft, undated
Box   101
Folder   6
Second draft, 1968 January 15
Box   101
Folder   7-8
Second draft, revised, undated
Box   101
Folder   9
Final draft, revised, undated
Box   101
Folder   10
Final draft, revised and retyped, undated
American National Theatre and Academy Tribute to James Stewart (November 13, 1981)
Box   102
Folder   1
Correspondence and clippings, 1981 November
Box   102
Folder   2
Notes, undated
Box   102
Folder   3
Draft fragments, undated
Box   102
Folder   4
Drafts of host's introduction, undated
Box   102
Folder   5
Drafts of the Tevye sketch, undated
Box   102
Folder   6
Drafts of the Kowalski sketch, undated
Box   102
Folder   7-8
Drafts of the Hamlet sketch, undated
Box   102
Folder   9
Script draft, undated
Box   102
Folder   10
Draft, revised, 1981 November 6
Box   102
Folder   11
Invitation, program, and souvenir journal
Subseries: Unrelated Compositions
Television and Motion Picture Projects and Scripts by Others
Box   107
Folder   1
Because of the Cats, undated
Box   107
Folder   2
Police Story, “Line of Fire”: revised final script by E. Arthur Kean, 1973 October 23
Box   107
Folder   3
Rich and Famous: final draft by Gerald Ayres, 1980 April 9
Box   107
Folder   4
Rolling Thunder: revised script by Paul Schrader, 1973 December 28
Box   107
Folder   5
Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy: first draft by Isaac Bashevis Singer, undated
Box   107
Folder   6
Wyatt Earp in Hollywood: outline, undated
Box   103
Folder   1
Baseball articles, 1962-1963
Box   103
Folder   2-3
High school and college essays, undated
Box   103
Folder   4
Translations from Latin, 1965-1966
Box   103
Folder   5
The Tragedie of MacHale, King of Atlanta: script drafts, circa 1964
Box   103
Folder   6
Cicero: research notes, summary, and incomplete script, pp. 1-30, circa 1964
Box   103
Folder   7
Wisconsin Film Society, Studio Film, and Wisconsin Union Film Committee: notes, undated
Box   103
Folder   8
Roger Corman in a Nickelodeon: correspondence, notes, and drafts, circa 1968
Box   104
Folder   1-2
Film reviews, histories, and criticisms, undated
Box   104
Folder   3
“The Private World of Fahrenheit 451”: correspondence, notes, and drafts, 1973
Box   104
Folder   4
Milwaukee Journal articles by McBride, 1969, undated
Box   104
Folder   5
The Late Great Planet Earth: preface to movie edition, undated
Box   104
Folder   6
Two Cheers for Hollywood: notes, circa 1976
Box   104
Folder   7
“The McCarey Treatment”: source material, notes, and drafts, undated
Box   104
Folder   8
“The Original Ending Sequence” of Exorcist II: The Heretic, 1977 September-October
Box   104
Folder   9
“The Other Side of Orson Welles,” drafts, undated
Note: On The Other Side of the Wind.
Subseries: Script Projects
Box   105
Folder   1
List of projects, undated
Box   105
Folder   2
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, undated
Box   105
Folder   3
Brouhaha, undated
Box   105
Folder   4
Burn, Baby, Burn!, circa 1967
Box   105
Folder   5
Can a Martian Help It If He's Colored Green?, undated
Box   105
Folder   6
The Captain Hates the Sea, undated
Box   105
Folder   7
Civil War Project, undated
Box   105
Folder   8-9
Close But No Cigar: notes and storyboards, 1968
Box   105
Folder   10
Close Call, undated
Box   105
Folder   11
Coitus Interruptus, undated
Box   105
Folder   12
Commercial, undated
Box   105
Folder   13
Concentration Camp Project, undated
Box   105
Folder   14
Donner Lake, undated
Box   105
Folder   15
The End of a Perfect Day (Lazy Afternoon), undated
Box   105
Folder   16
L'Étranger: first draft, 1966 December
Box   105
Folder   17
Everybody Loves a Parade, undated
Box   105
Folder   18
The Executioner: notes and treatment, 1967 November
Box   105
Folder   19
The Family Tree, undated
Box   105
Folder   20
The FBI Story, undated
Box   105
Folder   21
Happiness, undated
Box   105
Folder   22
Helter Skelter, undated
Box   105
Folder   23
Hitler's Mustache, undated
Box   105
Folder   24
I'm Nobody, undated
Box   105
Folder   25
Indian Giver, undated
Box   105
Folder   26
Jessica, undated
Box   105
Folder   27
Lady Under Glass, undated
Box   105
Folder   28
The Last Tycoon, undated
Box   105
Folder   29
The Legion, undated
Box   105
Folder   30
The Little Red Book, undated
Box   105
Folder   31
Lysistrata: notes, undated
Box   105
Folder   32
A Man in the Way, undated
Box   105
Folder   33
Mental Hospital: short film, undated
Box   105
Folder   34
The Million-Dollar Face, undated
Box   105
Folder   35
The Missionary Position, undated
Box   105
Folder   36
Montgomery, undated
Box   105
Folder   37
Ms. America, undated
Box   105
Folder   38
The Next President of the United States, undated
Box   105
Folder   39
One Fine Morning, undated
Box   105
Folder   40
One Moment, Please, undated
Box   105
Folder   41
The Party's Over, undated
Box   105
Folder   42
Plastic Man, undated
Box   105
Folder   43
“Playboy”: notes, undated
Box   106
Folder   1
Politics Is Applesauce, undated
Box   106
Folder   2
Ramblin' Around, undated
Box   106
Folder   3
Revolution for the Hell of It, undated
Box   106
Folder   4
The Second Coming, undated
Box   106
Folder   5
Snowball, undated
Box   106
Folder   6
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You, undated
Box   106
Folder   7
Space Invaders: synopsis and notes, circa 1982
Box   106
Folder   8
Untitled projects, undated
Box   106
Folder   9
Vibrator script, undated
Box   106
Folder   10
The Walking Curse, undated
Box   106
Folder   11
What Kind of Man Reads Playboy?, undated
Box   106
Folder   12
Where Is Anybody?, undated
Box   106
Folder   13
Worst Foot Forward, undated
Box   106
Folder   14
Wrong-Way Corrigan, undated
Audio 1036A
Subseries: Audio Recordings
Access Restrictions: The audio tapes in Audio 1036A may not be listened to without the written permission of Joseph McBride.
1036A/1-2
Billy Wilder interview, undated
1036A/3-4
Frank Capra at La Quinta, 1981 November
1036A/5
Cyd Charisse interview, 1981 Febuary
1036A/6-8
Jimmy Stewart interview, 1983 July
1036A/9-13
Hank Worden interview, 1983 July-August
1036A/14-15
“Hurricane,” undated
1036A/16
Ginger Rogers interview, 1981 April
1036A/17
[Unidentified], 1981 March
1036A/18-19
“Good Sam,” 1981 March
1036A/20
Eleanor Powell interview, 1981 March
1036A/21
Mikhail Baryshnikov interview, 1981 April
1036A/22
Rich Little impersonations of Frank Capra characters, undated
1036A/23-24
Jacqueline Bisset interview, undated
1036A/25
Donna Reed interview, 1982 January
1036A/26
Jimmy Stewart interview, undated
1036A/27
David Niven and Ginger Rogers interviews, 1981 March
1036A/28
Dolores Del Rio interview, 1981 March
1036A/28 (continued)
Audrey Hepburn interview, 1981 April
1036A/29
Audrey Hepburn and David Niven interviews, 1981 March
1036A/30
Barbara Walters interviews Fred Astaire, ABC-TV, 1980 March
1036A/30-31
Fred Astaire interview, 1981 January
1036A/32
Gene Kelly interview, 1981 Febuary
1036A/33-34
Hermes Pan interview, 1981 March, undated
1036A/35
Robert Mitchum interview, 1982 November
1036A/36-39
George Cukor interview, 1981 August
1036A/40-41
Richard Sylbert interview, 1981 November
1036A/42
Bud Yorkin interview, 1981 March
1036A/43
Chuck Hayward interview, undated
1036A/44
Discussion by Abraham Polonsky on Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, at Filmex, 1980 March
1036A/45
“Directed by John Ford, Parts I and II,” undated
1036A/46
John Lee Mahin interview, undated
1036A/47
Chuck Hayward interview, undated
1036A/48
Neil Simon interview, undated
1036A/49
Sherman Beck interview, undated
1036A/50
Interview with unidentified stuntman, undated
1036A/51
Fredric March interview, undated
1036A/52
J. Hart and B. Laird interviews, undated
1036A/53
Claudette Colbert interview, undated
1036A/54
Billie Wallace interview of Billy Wilder, circa 1970
1036A/55
Howard Hawks interview, undated
1036A/56-59
Joseph McBride, Howard Hawks, and Peter Bogdanovich on works of Hawks, undated
1036A/60-62
Howard Hawks interview, undated
1036A/63
Barrie Chase interview, 1981 March
1036A/64
“Dyke--Taxes, Budget, Daycare”: interview by a woman reporter with Madison Mayor Bill Dyke, undated
1036A/65
“What Price Hollywood”: interview with Howard Hawks and part of the film The Great Race, undated
1036A/66
Speeches regarding a Madison program to hire Vietnam veterans
MCHC80-018
Series: Part 3 (MCHC80-018): Additions, circa 1964-1979
Physical Description: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Scripts, circa 1964-1979, and the transcript of an interview with John Boorman, 1977
Scripts
Box   1
Folder   1
The Black Marble / Joseph Wambaugh, 1979 July
Box   1
Folder   2
Bound for Glory: The Woody Guthrie Story, 1974 December
Box   1
Folder   3
Images / Robert Altman, 1968 March
Box   1
Folder   4
Brewster McLeod's (Sexy) Flying Machine, 1964
Box   1
Folder   5
Oh Death, Where is Thy Sting-A-Ling-A-Ling, 1964 September
Box   1
Folder   6
The Short Night, 1978 June
Box   1
Folder   7
That Cold Day in the Park, 1968 September
Box   1
Folder   8
Something Wicked This Way Comes / Ray Bradbury, 1976 December
Box   2
Folder   1
The Drowning Pool, 1973 July
Box   2
Folder   2
Exorcist II: The Heretic, 1977
Box   2
Folder   3
M.A.S.H. (film), 1968 December
Box   2
Folder   4
The Heretic, 1976
Box   2
Folder   5
John Boorman interview: transcript, 1977 June
MCHC82-041
Series: Part 4 (MCHC82-041): Additions, circa 1963-circa 1983
Physical Description: 7.0 c.f. (7 record center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, circa 1963- circa 1983, of film treatments and scripts, copies of book manuscripts and research, and material relating to The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart in 1980.
Box   1
Film treatments, 1973-1982
Box   2
Copies of manuscripts
Note: Hawks on Hawks, High and Inside, and 2000 Year Old Man.
Box   3
The American Film Institute Salute to James Stewart, 1980
Box   4
Orson Welles: Actor and Director, research and drafts, 1976
Box   5
Film scripts, 1972-1981
Note: Big Money, Man Bites Dog. Also includes an untitled novel.
Box   6
No More Mr. Nice Guy, 1981
Box   7
Cheyenne Harry
M2011-037
Series: Part 5 (M2011-037): Additions, 1960-2008
Physical Description: 55.6 cubic feet (137 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 card file box), 11 audio cassettes, 19 computer discs, and 1 computer game on 3 DVDs 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1960-2008, to the Joseph McBride Collection, containing research notes, and records of book and article preparation. The additions mainly cover four broad areas: Frank Capra (McBride biography published in 1992); John Ford (McBride biography published in 2001); Steven Spielberg (McBride biography published in 1997); Orson Welles (McBride books published in 1972, 1977, 1996, and 2006). Research materials consist of notes on archival collections, clippings, interviews with the subjects and their associates (family, friends, and professional colleagues), and notes on their films and other works. In addition there are research notes, drafts, and correspondence about other books and articles by McBride, including his file on his articles, 1960-2008.
Access Restrictions: The audio tapes in M2011-037 may not be listened to without the written consent of Joseph McBride.
Personal
Box   1
Folder   1
Vita, 1993
Correspondence
Box   1
Folder   2-3
Greeting cards, letters from family and friends
Box   1
Folder   4
Phone messages, 1992 January-February
Box   1
Folder   5
Miscellaneous business correspondence
Box   1
Folder   6-7
Email correspondence, 2001-2002
Box   1
Folder   8
Correspondence with Michael Coyne regarding the proofs of his book, American Political Films, 2007
Box   2
Folder   1
Stephen Humphries, “Movie Trends: Films Push Boundary of Onscreen Sex,” Christian Science Monitor (2004 September 3): 13 and 15, clipping of article on the film Brown Bunny which cites an interview with McBride; card with note of thanks by Humphries.
Box   2
Folder   2
Correspondence with Jean Oppenheimer and notes on discussion
Box   2
Folder   3
Correspondence with Abraham Polonsky, Roger Corman, and Burt Kennedy, mostly 1995 July
Box   2
Folder   4
Correspondence with Lelia Ruckenstein, regarding her becoming his agent, 1995
Box   2
Folder   5-7
Correspondence with Richard Parks (McBride's agent), 1997-2001
Box   2
Folder   8
Correspondence with Janice Gallagher of Lowell House Press asking about opportunities as a copy editor, 1993
Box   2
Folder   9
Notes, correspondence, clippings on Hollywood-related projects
Box   2
Folder   10
Miscellaneous correspondence on book and article projects
Box   2
Folder   11
List of submissions of scripts by McBride, 1982
Box   2
Folder   12
To the Smithsonian Institution regarding permission for their use of extracts from McBride's books in their catalogs
Box   2
Folder   13
Profile of Joseph McBride by Joe Cinciotti, New York Times, 1992 April
Note: Also includes correspondence.
Box   2
Folder   14
Research on literary awards, 1992
Box   3
Folder   1
Job applications
Note: For a post at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1996; for the editorship of the Almanac Calendar, 2000; for the editorship of Written By, 1998.
Box   3
Folder   2
Letters of recommendation
Note: Letter to Judge Terry Friedman regarding Michael Dare; blurb for Ray Greene's book Hollywood Migraine; blurb for Stephen Crane; letter of recommendation for Tom Thurman, 2005.
Box   3
Folder   3
Correspondence with David Weddle, including providing a blurb for his book on Sam Peckinpah, 1994
Box   3
Folder   4
Correspondence with Hubert Cornfield regarding his draft autobiography, 2001
Box   139
Appointment books, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1992-2001, and 2003
Entries on Joseph McBride in directories
Box   3
Folder   5
Contemporary Authors, 1979 and 2008
Box   3
Folder   6
Gale Research vita
Box   3
Folder   7
Who's Who in Entertainment questionnaire, 1988
Box   3
Folder   8
Writers Guild of America, West, directory, 1979
Invitations to events, lectures, etc.
Box   3
Folder   9
The Filmex Society, An Evening with Elizabeth Taylor: brochure, 1981 November 8
Box   3
Folder   10
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), interview of McBride by Geoff Pevere, 1993 January
Note: Includes correspondence, notes.
Box   3
Folder   11
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Centennial Tribute to Fred Astaire: program brochure, 1999 May 14
Box   3
Folder   12
Talk to Palo Alto High School Journalism class, 2001 October 4
Box   3
Folder   13
Invitation to Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, 2001 October 13-20
Box   3
Folder   14
Talks at Pacifica Library, Pacifica, California
Note: On Fahrenheit 451, October 17, 2003 and Primary and Unprecedented, October 22, 2004.
Box   3
Folder   15
Appearance at San Francisco Korean-American Film Festival, 2006 February 7-12
Box   3
Folder   16
50th anniversary celebration of Vertigo, Mission San Juan Bautista, California, 2007 October 5-7
Employment and Professional Service
American Film Institute
Box   138
Folder   1
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Motion Pictures and Television: John Ford, 1973
Note: Brochure.
Box   41
Folder   7
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Motion Pictures and Television: John Ford, 1973 (continued)
Box   138
Folder   2
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Motion Pictures and Television: James Cagney, 1974
Note: Brochure.
Box   138
Folder   3
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Motion Pictures and Television: Orson Welles, 1975
Note: Brochure.
Box   138
Folder   4
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: Bette Davis, 1977
Note: Brochure.
Box   3
Folder   17
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: Alfred Hitchcock, 1979
Note: Brochure; award dinner guest seating list; text of presentation by George Stevens Jr.; photocopies of four 8x10 black-and-white photographs (for originals, see Photographs).
Box   138
Folder   5
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: James Stewart, 1980
Note: Brochure.
Box   3
Folder   18
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: Fred Astaire, 1981
Note: Brochure.
Box   11
Folder   25
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: Frank Capra, 1982 March 4
Note: Brochure, press book and clippings.
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: John Huston, 1983
Box   3
Folder   19
Clippings book
Box   3
Folder   20
Correspondence
Box   4
Folder   1
AFI Award for Life Achievement in Film and Television: Lillian Gish, 1984
Note: Correspondence with Kevin Brownlow of Thames Television, George Stevens Jr., and Fay Wray regarding the awards ceremony; certified copy of Lillian Gish's birth certificate.
Box   72
Folder   3
AFI Life Achievement Award: Steven Spielberg, 1995
100 Years . . . 100 Movies: War and Peace
Note: Cable TV special written by McBride for the AFI and TNT, 1998.
Box   4
Folder   2
Correspondence, outline
Box   4
Folder   3-4
Interview transcripts
Note: Interviews by Richard Schickel with Curtis Hanson, Oliver Stone, Clint Eastwood, Robert Towne, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg; as well as Mel Stuart interview with Woody Allen.
Box   4
Folder   5
Correspondence, 2006
Note: Regarding book of interviews at AFI life achievement awards.
Daily Variety
Box   4
Folder   6
McBride's application for re-employment by Cahners Publishing Company, the publishers of Daily Variety, 1989 March 5
Box   4
Folder   7
Correspondence and telephone messages, 1980-1981
Box   4
Folder   8
Photocopy of Catherine Siepp, “Here's to the Trades!,” Buzz (March 1997): 48-52
Note: Including discussion of McBride's Variety review of Patriot Games.
Box   4
Folder   9-11
Clippings of articles and reviews in Variety by McBride, 1980-1981
Box   4
Folder   12
Photocopies of Variety reviews, credited to “Mac” (McBride), 1990
Box   4
Folder   13
Correspondence with Lem Dobbs about the credits for The Hard Way, 1992 June
Box   4
Folder   14
Review by McBride of Beauty and the Beast, 1991
Note: Draft, film notes, pressbook.
Box   5
Folder   1
Review of The Prince of Tides, 1991
Note: Drafts, film notes, pressbook.
Box   5
Folder   2
Article on Philippe Mora's Hitler film project, 1992
Note: Drafts.
Box   5
Folder   3
News story on the Directors Guild of America granting Charles Champlin life membership, 1992 February
Box   5
Folder   4
Letter from Gilbert Cates on a Variety article on him by McBride, 1992 May 29
Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)
Box   5
Folder   5
LAFCA stationery
Box   5
Folder   6
Membership list and card, 2000
Box   5
Folder   7
Correspondence and clippings regarding LAFCA's refusal to give Elia Kazan a lifetime achievement award in 1996 and in 1999
Box   5
Folder   8-9
Correspondence regarding 1995 LAFCA Achievement Awards, 1995-1996
Box   5
Folder   10
Opening speeches and introduction of Joan Allen at the 1995 Awards
Note: Speeches given by McBride.
Box   6
Folder   1
Correspondence regarding 1996 LAFCA Achievement Awards, 1996-1997
Box   6
Folder   2
Invitations and replies to invitations to 1996 Awards
Box   6
Folder   3
Voting for 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award to Roger Corman
Box   6
Folder   4
Coverage of the 1996 Awards on Cinemania website
Box   6
Folder   5
LAFCA members' meeting, 1997 June
Box   6
Folder   6
Correspondence with Manohla Dargis about the administration of the LAFCA Achievement Awards, 1997
Box   6
Folder   7
Correspondence, 1999-2001
Note: With program booklets for 1998 and 1999 Awards ceremonies.
Box   6
Folder   8
Joseph McBride, “Remarks on Billy Wilder,” 1995 January 17
Note: Speech at presentation of Los Angeles Film Critics' Association's career achievement award: computer-printed typescript.
Teaching
Box   6
Folder   9
Workshop on “The Depiction of the Irish and Irish-Americans in Film,” New College of San Francisco, 1998 November 21
Note: Includes syllabus; correspondence with Ruth O'Hara; courses, 2003.
Research and Publications
Frank Capra
Box   6
Folder   10
Writings by Frank Capra

Scope and Content Note
  • “The Master Mind”: photocopy of handwritten copy of short story written by Capra while at college
  • “The Gag Man”: photocopies of original (also Harry Langdons contribution to the same book) and reprint in Richard Koszarski, Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (Oxford University Press, 1976), pp. 181-185
  • “Did I Make You Laugh?” (no source given)
  • “What Is Smut Worth?”, Hollywood Reporter (May 31, 1934)
  • “Frank Capra Tells All,” New York Times (December 16, 1934): 4X
  • “Sacred Cows to the Slaughter,” Stage (July 1936): 40-41
  • “An Onion Can Make You Cry, But There Is Yet to Be Invented a Vegetable that Can Make You Laugh”: typescript of article for Isskustvo Kino (January 1964)
  • “Fun in a Sicily Madhouse,” Philadelphia Daily News (March 31, 1972): 3F and F9
Box   6
Folder   11
Published interviews with Capra
Box   6
Folder   12
Drafts of speeches by Capra (“LAA speech notes”)
Box   6
Folder   13
Letters to and from Capra
Note: Correspondents include Eugene DeRue, Edward Bernds, Gary Cooper, and Kevin Thomas.
Box   6
Folder   14
Clippings about Capra
Critical articles on Capra
Box   7
Folder   1
General
Box   7
Folder   2
Articles by Neil Hurley, S.J.
Box   7
Folder   3
Special issue of Positif, 1971 December
Note: Photocopy of pp. 4-75 and 88-93.
Box   7
Folder   4
Special issue of Film Comment, 1972 November-December
Research
Box   7
Folder   5
Chronology
Box   7
Folder   6
Meet Frank Capra: A Catalog of His Work / filmography by AFI catalogers, 1990
Box   7
Folder   6
“Bio-filmographie de Frank Capra” / Olivier Comte and Olivier Eyquem
Box   7
Folder   7
McBride's correspondence with Kevin Brownlow about Capra
Box   7
Folder   8
Kevin Brownlow/Philip Jenkinson interview with Capra
Box   7
Folder   9
Correspondence with Patrick McGilligan about Capra
Box   7
Folder   10
Correspondence with Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives about Capra
Box   7
Folder   11-12
Miscellaneous research notes and correspondence
Box   7
Folder   13
Marriage certificates and associated correspondence
Box   7
Folder   14
Early life in Sicily
Box   7
Folder   15
Immigration to the United States
Box   7
Folder   16
“Downtown L.A. (E. 1st St.) Landsearch”: Capra's Los Angeles residences
Throop College of Technology (now California Institute of Technology)
Box   8
Folder   1
Miscellaneous, circa 1981
Note: Includes correspondence; clippings; list of instructors and students, undated; alumni directory, 1981; photocopies of Caltech publications on Caltech history; and Caltech oral history project interviews.
Box   8
Folder   2-3
Throop Tech Annual, 1916, 1917
Box   8
Folder   4
Throop Tech Graduation Number, 1918 September
Box   27
Folder   7
The Throop Tech (student magazine): photocopies, 1917 October-December
Box   27
Folder   8
The Throop Tech (student magazine): notes, 1918 January
Box   8
Folder   5
The Tech (Throop student magazine), 1918
Box   8
Folder   6
“Reno”: clippings, notes and photocopies of documents regarding Capra and Tri-State, Motion Pictures in Reno, Nevada, 1919
Box   8
Folder   7
Clippings, early 1920s
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Box   8
Folder   8
Columbia Pictures, and Harry and Jack Cohn
Box   8
Folder   9
Script department: miscellaneous photocopies
Note: Film continuities filed with film title files.
Box   8
Folder   10
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library photocopies
Note: Including telegrams to the President from Capra as AMPAS Vice President, mostly to do with the wartime documentaries.
Box   8
Folder   11
Directors Guild of America
World War II
Box   8
Folder   12
Capra and the War
Box   8
Folder   13
The Army-Navy Screen Magazine: photocopies
Box   9
Folder   1
Capra's property in Fallbrook, California
Box   9
Folder   2
House Committee on Un-American Activities and blacklisting
Box   9
Folder   3
Obituaries
Box   26
Folder   1
Miscellaneous notes
Box   26
Folder   2
Notes, mainly on references in the journals Variety, Film Daily, and Moving Picture World
Box   26
Folder   3
Critical articles on Capra's career and films
Box   26
Folder   4
Clippings: “early articles”
McBride interviews with Capra: transcripts and notes
Box   26
Folder   5
Handwritten interview notes
Box   26
Folder   6
Transcripts and notes, Capra tapes
Box   26
Folder   7
Typed transcripts
Box   26
Folder   8
Interview transcripts, after 1984
Box   26
Folder   12
“His Stroke,” 1985
Box   26
Folder   13
Frank Capra tapes, 1985 May 16
Name Above the Title (NAT) / Frank Capra
Note: Notes on manuscript of Capra's autobiography.
Box   26
Folder   9
“NAT uncut and other”
Box   26
Folder   10
“NAT uncut transcriptions 5-8”
Box   26
Folder   11
“NAT uncut transcriptions (Later)”
Box   27
Folder   1
Sicilian background
Box   27
Folder   2
Journey to America
Box   27
Folder   3
Childhood sites
Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles
Box   27
Folder   4
Miscellaneous notes and photocopies
Box   27
Folder   5
Manual Arts Yearbook, 1915 Winter
Note: With notes on interview with Frank Capra on AMPAS and the DGA, May 1, 1985, on reverse of 23 pages.
Box   27
Folder   6
Notes
Box   27
Folder   9
Pasadena, including Anoakia and the Pasadena Playhouse
Box   27
Folder   10-11
Filmmaking in San Francisco
Note: Including extensive correspondence and notes on conversations with Geoffrey Bell, author of The Golden Gate and the Silent Screen.
Box   28
Folder   1
Silent Cinema: notes on films
Box   28
Folder   2
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Box   28
Folder   3
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Box   28
Folder   4
World War II
Box   28
Folder   5
Visit to Italy for the USIS, 1977
People
Note: Research into and interviews with relations, friends and professional associates of Capra. Unless otherwise stated, the interviewer is McBride; some interviews are written records of phone conversations.
Box   9
Folder   4
Lists of actual and potential interviewees
Box   28
Folder   6
Interview lists
Box   9
Folder   5
Correspondence regarding interviews
Box   28
Folder   7
Olin L. Armstrong: interview (with Mrs. Vivian Rule Armstrong)
Jean Arthur
Box   28
Folder   8
Interviews, 1984 August 26, 1986 April 2, 1987 October 14, 17, November 19
Note: Clippings (including obituary by Joseph McBride, Daily Variety, June 21, 1991).
Box   28
Folder   9
Steven L. Bauer, Jean Arthur: photocopy, 1987
Box   28
Folder   10
Baldwin M. Baldwin: research correspondence, clippings
Box   9
Folder   6
Geoffrey Bell: interview, 1985 May 26, July 11
Box   28
Folder   11
Ralph Bellamy: interviews, 1984 August 16-17
Edward Bernds
Note: See also Box 145, folder 13; Box 120, folder 1; Box 134, folder 4.
Box   28
Folder   12
Diaries: photocopies, 1935-1943
Box   29
Folder   1-2
“Edited interview with Ed Bernds, by Leonard Maltin and Joseph McBride, for his book Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood” hand-written redaction of interview, 1984 July 17
Note: Also includes notes on interview and diaries.
Box   29
Folder   3
Typescript extracts from Edward Bernds' autobiography
Note: Published as Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood, Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1999; notes on conversations.
Box   29
Folder   4
Articles photocopied for Ed Bernds, 1994 April
Note: Hal Hall, “An Interview with Frank Capra,” American Cinematographer (February 1931): 20 and 38; Joseph Walker, “Putting the Realism into Dirigible,” American Cinematographer (1931 August): 15 and 20; Edward Buscombe, “Notes on Columbia Pictures Corporation 1926-41,” Screen (August 1975): 65-82.
Box   29
Folder   5
Obituaries
Box   9
Folder   7
Herbert Biberman: correspondence
Note: From WCFTR collection.
Box   9
Folder   8
Joe Biroc: interview, 1984 August 10
Box   29
Folder   6
David Blangsted: interviews, 1988 April 23-24
Box   29
Folder   7
Josephine Bondi: interview, 1985 February 21
Box   29
Folder   8
Frank Bonfiglio: interview, 1985 February 13
Box   29
Folder   9
Lyman Bonner: interviews, 1985 April 24, 26
Box   29
Folder   10
Priscilla Bonner: notes on conversation, undated
Box   9
Folder   9
Harold Buchman: Variety obituary by McBride and research notes
Note: Includes material on Harold's brother Sidney.
Box   9
Folder   10
Sidney Buchman: interview with Bertrand Tavernier
Box   9
Folder   11
Carol Bugé: interview
Box   9
Folder   12
Earle A. Burt and Mrs. Burt: interviews, 1984 September 6
Box   9
Folder   13
John Byers: interview, 1986 May 6
Box   9
Folder   14
Isabel Martin Campbell: interview, 1984 August 9
Box   29
Folder   11
Josephine (Giuseppina) Leone Campiglia: interviews, 1985 February 13, June 15
Box   29
Folder   12
Josephine Campisi: interviews, 1985-1987
Note: Including dates: January 22, 1985; February 1, 1985, with Joe Finochio; February 19, 1985; June 16, 1985; August 12, 1985; October 12, 1985; January 21, 1986; February 22, 1986; April 3, 26, 1986; May 12, 1986; May 17, 1987.
Box   29
Folder   13
Ben Capra: interview by Joe Finochio, 1965 June 15
Box   29
Folder   14
Bernadette Capra (Mrs. Remo Capra): interviews, 1985 February 25, October 29
Box   9
Folder   15
Chris Capra: interview, 1986 October 25
Box   29
Folder   15
Everest (Evaristo) Capra: interview, 1986 October 30
Box   29
Folder   16
Frank Capra Jr.: interview, 1987 October 30
Box   9
Folder   16
Julio (Joe) Capra: clipping and notes, 1988 May 2
Box   9
Folder   17
Lucille Capra Bruch: interview, 1987 November 5
Box   9
Folder   18
Lucille Reyburn Capra: clippings, mostly obituaries
Box   29
Folder   17
Marguerite Capra (Mrs. Tony Capra): interviews, 1985 February 10, 1986 October 25
Box   29
Folder   18
Remo Capra: interview, 1986 October 25
Box   29
Folder   19
Samuel W. Capra: interviews 1985 February 2, 1986 April 3
Box   29
Folder   20
Tom Capra: correspondence, interviews, 1986 May 7, 1987 November 5
Box   29
Folder   21
Tony Capra: interview by Joe Finochio, 1982-1983
Note: Transcript of earlier tape.
Box   9
Folder   19
Harry Carey and Harry Carey Jr.: clippings
Box   29
Folder   22
Fanya Graham Carter: interview
Box   29
Folder   23
Phyllis Chapman: interview, 1986 April 26
Box   29
Folder   24
Philip S. Clarke: interviews, 1985? September 27, 1986 January 23
Box   29
Folder   25
Harry Cohn: notes on Bob Thomas' book King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn (New York: Putnam, 1967)
Box   9
Folder   20
Claudette Colbert: interview, 1981 December 19
Box   9
Folder   21
C.C. Coleman Jr.: interview, undated
Box   29
Folder   26
Shirley Collier: interview, 1986 October 4
Box   29
Folder   27
Gay Collins (Mrs. Richard Collins): interview, 1986 January 23
Box   9
Folder   22
Ned Comstock: notes
Box   9
Folder   23
Scoop Conlon: notes on Conlon's autobiography
Box   9
Folder   24
Robert W. Craig: interview
Box   9
Folder   25
Dresser Dahlstead: interview, undated
Box   29
Folder   28
Viola Dana (Viola Dana Thompson): interviews, 1985 January 27, February 8, July 9
Box   29
Folder   29
James D'Arc: interview, undated
Box   9
Folder   26
Eugene DeRue: interviews, 1984? July 24, 28, 31, 1985 January 26
Box   29
Folder   30
James H. Doolittle: interviews, clippings, 1984 July 30, 1987 October 6
Box   29
Folder   31
Josephine Daniels Doolittle: interview
Box   29
Folder   32
Millson William Downs: interview, 1984 July 31
Box   29
Folder   33
Lillian Shattuck Draves: interview
Box   29
Folder   34
Edward Dryhurst: interview, correspondence, 1986 March 16
Box   29
Folder   35
Philip Dunne: interview, undated
Box   29
Folder   36
Helen Jerome Eddy: Motion Picture Magazine 18, no. 8 (1919 September), including Elizabeth Peltret, “An Untroubled Eddy in the Silverscreen Stream,” pp. 58-59 and 111; interview
Box   9
Folder   27
Julius Epstein: notes
Box   29
Folder   37
Louis Essick: interview with Harry Rex, speaking with Essick; interview recorded by Harry Rex, sent to McBride, 1985 March 14
Box   29
Folder   38
Joe Finochio (see also Josephine Campisi): interviews
Note: Including dates: February 10, 1985; February 11, 1985, with Victoria Buchellato Finochio, his wife; February 12, 1985, with Mrs. Finochio and Joe D'Amico; May 2, 1985, with Mrs. Finochio; April 8, 1985, with Mrs. Finochio; August 12, 1985, Mrs. Finochio alone; August 13, 1985.
Box   29
Folder   39
Tony Finochio: interview, 1985 February 21
Box   29
Folder   40
Robert Flaherty: notes
Box   29
Folder   41
Robert W. Flory: interviews, 1984 July 31, August 1, 2, 9
Box   30
Folder   1
George Folsey: interviews, 1984 July 25, August 3
Box   30
Folder   2
Lewis Foster: notes from AMPAS Library
Box   9
Folder   28
Mike Frankovich: clippings
Box   9
Folder   29
Henry Freulich: interview
Box   9
Folder   30
Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss): interview
Box   30
Folder   3
Robert Gitt: interview, 1986 March 16
Box   9
Folder   31
Percy Goodell: interview, 1984 September 12
Box   30
Folder   4
Stephen Goossn: transcript of interview by Kevin Brownlow, 1971
Isabelle Daniels Griffis
Box   9
Folder   32
Correspondence
Note: Between Griffis and McBride; letters to Griffis from others sent by her to McBride; letters from Capra to Griffis; clippings.
Box   9
Folder   33
Interview notes
Note: Copies and transcripts of correspondence between Griffis and Capra, 1920-1979; interviews, October 21, 1986, September 20, 1987.
Box   10
Folder   1
Interview notes in spiral-bound notebooks, 1986 October 26, November 9
Box   10
Folder   2
Karolyn Grimes: “Zuzus Petals,” Gadfly 1, no. 10 (1977 December): 16-19
Box   30
Folder   5
Kevin Gunn: interview, 1984 August 4
Box   10
Folder   3
Frank R. Hale and Jeanette Hale: interview, 1985 June 16
Box   30
Folder   6
Ruth Hammond: interview, notes and clippings, 1984 August 5
Box   30
Folder   7
Harold Harris: interview, 1986 February 23
Box   10
Folder   4
Kenneth J. Harrison: interview, August 31
Box   30
Folder   8
Rudy Hartman: interview, 1986 April 27
Box   30
Folder   9
Henry Hathaway: interview, 1984 September 13
Box   30
Folder   10
Katharine Hepburn: interviews, 1985 August 7, 10
Box   10
Folder   5
Lynford E. Hess: interview, 1984 August 8
Note: Also includes interview with his daughter, Dorothy Nelson, August 8, 1984.
Box   30
Folder   11
James E. Hill: interviews, 1985? September 11, 1986 January 23
Box   10
Folder   6
Paul Horgan: interview, 1984 November 19
Box   10
Folder   7
E.V. Hounsell: interview
Box   10
Folder   8
Helen Edith Howell (Capra): correspondence, clippings and notes
Note: Includes material on Helen Munro, eventually established as not Helen Edith Howell.
Box   30
Folder   12
Edwin Hubble: notes and clippings
Box   10
Folder   9
Ian McLellan Hunter: interview, 1984 November 16
Box   10
Folder   10
Madeleine Hurlock (Mrs. Robert E. Sherwood): interview, 1985 June 15
Box   30
Folder   13
John Huston: interview, 1986 November 13
Box   30
Folder   14
Virginia Titus Ives: interviews, 1984 August 8, July 31
Box   10
Folder   11
Altha Mudgett Jackson: interviews, 1984 August 9, 15
Box   30
Folder   15
“Jenny at Capra's” and “Josie” (Frank Capra's nurses?) interviews, 1986 February 22, 1987 August 9
Box   10
Folder   12
Don Jones: interview, 1984 November 15
Box   30
Folder   16
Donald Jones: interview, 1985 February 10
Box   30
Folder   17
Frank Keeler: interviews, 1984 September 13, 14
Box   30
Folder   18
Al Keller: interviews, 1984 July 9, August 6, 31, 1987 November 2
Box   10
Folder   13
Bill Kircher: interview, 1988 April 13
Box   10
Folder   14
Eric Knight: correspondence with Geoff Gehman and extracts from Knight's letters to Paul Rotha
Box   30
Folder   19
John and F.V. Knox: interviews, 1985 October 20, 22
Harry Langdon
Box   10
Folder   15
Correspondence and extracts from William Schelly, Harry Langdon: His Life and Films (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2008)
Box   30
Folder   20
Clippings, notes, interviews
Box   30
Folder   21
Mabel Langdon (Mrs. Harry Langdon): interview
Box   10
Folder   16
Hope Lange: interview
Box   10
Folder   17
Walter Lantz: interview, 1984 September 4
Box   10
Folder   18
Robert Lees and Fred Rinaldo: McBride obituary of Rinaldo and interview with Lees
Box   30
Folder   22
Irving “Buster” Libott: interview, undated
Box   30
Folder   23
Evelyn and Bill Loftin interviews
Note: Joint interview, 1986 February 28; interviews with Evelyn Turner Loftin, 1985 January 18, 28, 1986 February 7.
Box   10
Folder   19
Joanne Merlo Luchetta (Mrs. Frank Luchetta): interview, 1985 June 19
Box   10
Folder   20
Virginia Lynn: interviews, 1987 November 3, 1988 January 29
Box   10
Folder   21
Mickey McAdam: interview, undated
Box   10
Folder   22
G.R. McDonald: interview, 1984 September 2
Box   30
Folder   24
Bonnie Houston McLaren: interview, 1986 February 9
Box   30
Folder   25
Fred MacMurray: interview, 1984 September 13
Box   30
Folder   26
Rouben Mamoulian: interviews, 1984? July 28, 1985 February 5
Box   30
Folder   27
Samuel Marx: interview, 1985 January 31
Box   30
Folder   28
Fr. Walter Mattiato: interview, 1988 April 15
Box   30
Folder   29
Al Menasco: interview
Box   10
Folder   23
Earl Mendenhall: interviews, 1984 August 14, 16
Box   10
Folder   24
Renee Messner: interview
Note: Daughter of Tom J. Harris.
Gene Milford
Box   30
Folder   30
Interview, 1986 February 10
Box   10
Folder   25
Obituary by Joseph McBride, Daily Variety and correspondence, 1991 December 4
Box   30
Folder   31
June Mohney: interview, 1986 September 2
Box   30
Folder   32
Colleen Moore (Colleen Moore Hargrave): interview, 1986 March 8
Box   10
Folder   26
Lloyd E. Morrison: interview, 1984 August 24
Box   10
Folder   27
Carleton Moss: interview, undated
Box   10
Folder   28
Charles Newton: interview, January 29
Box   10
Folder   29
Maria (Mary) Lanza Oddo: interview, 1985 January 24
Box   30
Folder   33
Edward Paramore III: interview, January 30
Box   10
Folder   30
Dorothy Parker: clippings
Box   30
Folder   34
Edgar Peterson: interview
Box   10
Folder   31
Fred L. Poole: interview, 1984 September 4
Box   30
Folder   35
Tom Pryor: interview
Box   10
Folder   32
Donna Reed: clippings, interview, 1982 January 28
Note: Also includes notes for speech; interview by George Stevens Jr., January 18, 1982.
Box   10
Folder   33
Anne Revere: correspondence and casting list for It's a Wonderful Life
Robert Riskin
Box   30
Folder   36-38
Notes, correspondence, clippings
Box   30
Folder   39
Drafts of Joseph McBride, “Riskinesque,” Written By (1998): drafts, correspondence, photocopy of reprint in The Best American Movie Writing 1999, editors Jason Shinder and Peter Bogdanovich (New York St. Martins Press/Griffin paperback, 1999), pp. 190-202
Box   31
Folder   1
Allan Rivkin: interview, 1984 July 10, 20
Box   10
Folder   34
Hal Roach: interview
Box   31
Folder   2
Beatrice Rosenfeld: notes; interview
Box   10
Folder   35
Elaine St. Johns: interview, 1985 February 18
Box   10
Folder   36
Howland H. Sargeant: clippings
Box   31
Folder   3
Augie Scavo: interview, 1985 February 20
Box   31
Folder   4
Teresa Scavo Guzzeta: interview, 1985 February 14
Box   31
Folder   5
Philip Scheuer interview, 1985 January 30
Note: Also includes clipping of Los Angeles Times obituary, 1985 February 19.
Box   31
Folder   6
Esther Gleason Schlinger: interviews, 1985 June 15, 1986? January 19
Box   31
Folder   7
Irene Selznick: interview, 1985 July 26
Box   31
Folder   8
Mack Sennett: research notes, and notes on films
Box   31
Folder   9
David Shepard: interviews
Box   31
Folder   10
Cathy Silva: interview, 1986 January 23
Box   10
Folder   37
Charles F. Simpson: interview, 1984 August 23
Box   31
Folder   11
Alexis Smith: interview, 1985 February 1
Box   10
Folder   38
Leonard Spigelgass: clipping of obituary, New York Times, 1985 February 16
Box   31
Folder   12
John Springer: interview
Note: Including information related to Myrna Loy.
Box   10
Folder   39
Lionel Stander: interview
Box   10
Folder   40
Barbara Stanwyck: Variety obituary by McBride: research, proofs, clippings; interviews, 1984 September 10, 11
Box   10
Folder   41
George Stevens: notes on the George Stevens papers at the AMPAS Library
Box   31
Folder   13
George Stevens Jr.: interview, 1986 November 4
Box   31
Folder   14
James Stewart: interviews, notes for speech, 1982 February 3, 1988 February 9
Box   31
Folder   15
Chester Sticht: interviews, 1984?-1985
Note: Including dates: September 1, 1984?, with wife Bett Sticht; September 13, 1984?; September 15, 1984?, with Mrs. Sticht; September 16, 1985; December 17, 1985; December 19, 1985.
Box   31
Folder   16
Julie Sweeney: interviews, 1984 September 12, 1985 April 16
Box   10
Folder   42
Ted Tetzlaff: interview
Box   10
Folder   43
Irene Thill: interview
Box   31
Folder   17
Bob Thomas: interviews, 1985 April 23, May 3, July 9
Box   10
Folder   44
Kevin Thomas: interview, 1985 October 24
Box   31
Folder   18
Lois Keener Thome: interviews, 1985 January 19, 20, June 13, 22
Box   31
Folder   19
Antonino Troncale: correspondence
Note: Includes a certified copy of Frank Capra's birth certificate.
Box   31
Folder   20
Rose Troncale (Mrs. Samuel Capra): interview, 1985 February 13
Box   10
Folder   45
Dalton Trumbo: clippings
Box   31
Folder   21
Eugene Vale: interviews, 1984 August 7, 31
Box   31
Folder   22
Charles Varney Jr.: interview
Box   10
Folder   46
Howard G. Vesper: interview
Box   31
Folder   23
Gore Vidal: interview
Box   31
Folder   24
Joseph Walker: interviews, 1984 July 9, 22, 1985 January 26, undated
Note: Also includes interview with Mrs. Joseph Walker, September 4, clippings, including Daily Variety articles by McBride about Walker and the zoom lens.
Box   10
Folder   47
Irving Wallace: clippings of articles
Box   31
Folder   25
James Warner: interview
Box   10
Folder   48
Lester O. Warner: interview, 1984 September 13
Box   31
Folder   26
Roscoe (Rocky) Washington: interviews, 1986 May 11, 27
Box   31
Folder   27
Evelyn Weldon: interview, 1985 January 22
Box   31
Folder   28
Martin Wesseler: interview, 1984 September 13
Box   10
Folder   49
Irvin Willat: notes on Willat from Robert Birchards The Western in the 1920s
Box   31
Folder   29
Mabel Walker Willebrandt: clippings
Box   10
Folder   50
Gwynn Wilson, and Marion Bemis Wilson: interviews, 1984 August 15, 16
Box   31
Folder   30
Fay Wray: interviews, 1984 August 2, 13
Note: Also includes notes, November 10, 1992; clippings and correspondence regarding Wray's defense of Robert Riskin.
Box   31
Folder   31
George and Marge Yackey: interviews, 1985 December 19, 1992 January 11
Box   31
Folder   32
Max Youngstein: interview, 1991 April 12
Box   10
Folder   51
Colleen Gray Zeiser: interview, 1985 February 5
Box   10
Folder   52
Paul Ziffren: Variety obituary (by McBride?)
Works
Radio
Box   11
Folder   24
Can We Forget? (directed by Frank Capra, WABC-CBS, clipping, 1939)
Films: directed by Frank Capra unless otherwise stated
Box   10
Folder   53
Various
Box   32
Folder   1
Silent short films (pre-Columbia)
Box   32
Folder   2
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (directed by Harry Edwards, 1926)
Box   32
Folder   3
Strong Man, The (1926)
Box   32
Folder   4
Long Pants (1927)
Box   10
Folder   54
Matinee Idol, The (1928)
Box   10
Folder   55
Miracle Woman, The (1931)
Box   10
Folder   56
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Box   11
Folder   1
American Madness (1932)
Box   11
Folder   2
Forbidden (1932)
Box   11
Folder   3
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)
Box   11
Folder   4
Lady for a Day (1933)
Box   32
Folder   5
Lady for a Day (1933) (continued)
Box   11
Folder   5
Broadway Bill (1934)
Box   11
Folder   6
It Happened One Night (1934)
Box   11
Folder   7
Whole Towns Talking, The (directed by John Ford, 1935)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Box   11
Folder   8
General
Box   11
Folder   9
Clarence Budington Kelland short story, “Opera Hat,” American Magazine: photocopy, source of the film, 1935 April to September
Box   11
Folder   10
Lost Horizon (1937)
Box   11
Folder   11
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Box   32
Folder   6
You Can't Take It with You (1938) (continued)
Box   11
Folder   12
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Box   11
Folder   13
Meet John Doe (1940)
Box   32
Folder   7
Meet John Doe (1941)
Box   32
Folder   8
Why We Fight series: The Nazis Strike; The Battle of Russia; The Battle of Britain; War Comes to America; Prelude to War (1942-1945)
Box   11
Folder   14
At the Front in North Africa (1943)
Box   11
Folder   15
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Box   32
Folder   9
Negro Soldier, The (1944)
Box   11
Folder   16
Stilwell Road The (1945)
It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
Box   11
Folder   17
Clippings
Box   11
Folder   18
Script
Box   11
Folder   19
State of the Union (1948)
Box   32
Folder   10
State of the Union (1948) (continued)
Box   32
Folder   11
Riding High (1950)
Box   11
Folder   20
Fallbrook Story The (1952)
Box   11
Folder   21
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Box   32
Folder   12
A Hole in the Head (1959), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), Rendez-vous in Space (1964)
Box   11
Folder   22
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Box   11
Folder   23
Marooned (directed by John Sturges, 1969)
Awards and Tributes
Box   11
Folder   25
The American Film Institute Salute to Frank Capra, 1982 March 4
Note: Brochure, press book and clippings.
Box   12
Folder   1
Columbia Pictures Frank Capra Luncheon, 1985 January 23
Note: Pressbook.
Box   12
Folder   2
ACLU Torch of Liberty Awards, 1987 September 17
Note: Presskit.
Box   12
Folder   3
Directors Guild of America memorial tribute, 1991 October 25
Box   12
Folder   4
McBride's San Francisco State University courses on Frank Capra
Note: Syllabuses; examination papers; notes.
Book Preparation
Box   12
Folder   5
Proposed titles, including one by Ruth O'Hara
Box   12
Folder   6
First pages, 1983 March 1
American Madness: The Life of Frank Capra
Note: Version submitted to publisher Alfred Knopf of New York in 1987-1989, but not published.
1984-1988 draft
Box   12
Folder   7
Foreword
Box   12
Folder   8
Chapter 1
Box   12
Folder   9
Chapter 2
Box   12
Folder   10
Chapter 3
Box   12
Folder   11
Chapter 4
Box   12
Folder   12
Chapter 5
Box   12
Folder   13
Chapter 6
Box   12
Folder   14
Chapter 7
Box   12
Folder   15
Chapter 8
Note: Incorporates former Chapter 9 and 10.
Box   12
Folder   16
Chapter 9
Box   13
Folder   1
Chapter 10
Box   13
Folder   2
Chapter 11
Note: Incorporates former Chapter 12.
Box   13
Folder   3
Chapter 12
Box   13
Folder   4
Chapter 13
Box   13
Folder   5
Chapter 14
Box   13
Folder   6
Chapter 15
Box   13
Folder   7
Chapter 16
Box   13
Folder   8
Chapter 17
Box   13
Folder   9
Chapter 18
Box   13
Folder   10
Chapter 18, notes for Appendix
Box   13
Folder   11
Chapter 19
Box   14
Folder   1
Chapter 19, notes for Appendix
Box   14
Folder   2
Chapter 20
Box   14
Folder   3
“Final FN PP”
Box   14
Folder   4
“Chronology and Capra's Credits, rough notes”
Box   14
Folder   5
Filmography
Box   14
Folder   6
Draft of notes
Box   14
Folder   7
Notes for original draft
Box   14
Folder   8
Notes revised, semifinal draft
Box   14
Folder   9
Notes and acknowledgments, final revised draft
Box   15
Folder   1
Notes on sources, notes 1-20, filmography typescript drafts
Box   15
Folder   2
Worksheets, facts to check-library: worksheets
Permissions
Box   15
Folder   3
General
Box   15
Folder   4
Regarding quotations from Graham Greene
Box   15
Folder   5-7
Typescript
Box   16
Folder   1-5
Revised final draft, 1987 September 28
Box   17
Folder   1-2
Revised final draft, 1987 September 28 (continued)
Box   17
Folder   3
Notes on galleys
Box   17
Folder   4
Galley-proof correction research
Box   17
Folder   5
Correspondence regarding preview publication of extracts
Final Research
Box   32
Folder   13
Miscellaneous
Box   32
Folder   14
Final library research
Box   32
Folder   15
Capra notes
Box   32
Folder   16
Miscellaneous notes
Box   32
Folder   17
Miscellaneous data for revisions
Box   32
Folder   18
Revisions
Box   32
Folder   19
Final revisions
Box   33
Folder   1
Gwenn O'Hara, researcher, notes on various chapters
Box   33
Folder   2
Notes for statistics
Box   33
Folder   3
Chapter notes 1-17 and 19
Box   33
Folder   4
Chapter 2 notes
Box   33
Folder   5
Chapter 2 and 3 notes
Box   33
Folder   6
Chapter 3 notes
Box   33
Folder   7
Chapter 4 notes
Box   33
Folder   8
Chapter 5 notes
Box   33
Folder   9
Chapter 8 notes
Box   33
Folder   10
Chapter 10 notes
Box   33
Folder   11
Chapter 12 notes
Box   33
Folder   12
Chapter 13 (Lost Horizon) notes
Box   33
Folder   13
Chapter 15 notes
Box   33
Folder   14
Chapter 17 and 18 outlines and notes
Box   33
Folder   15
Chapter 20 notes
Box   33
Folder   16
Chapter 20 notes for Appendix
Box   33
Folder   17
Chapter 21 outlines
Box   33
Folder   18
Fixes (major)
Box   33
Folder   19
Fixes (minor)
Box   33
Folder   20
Final fixes
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success
Note: Version published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.
Revised typescript
Note: Includes correspondence with Robert Bender of Simon & Schuster.
Box   17
Folder   6
Chapter 1
Box   17
Folder   7
Chapter 2
Box   17
Folder   8
Chapter 3
Box   17
Folder   9
Chapter 4
Box   17
Folder   10
Chapter 5
Box   17
Folder   11
Chapter 6
Box   18
Folder   1
Chapter 7
Box   18
Folder   2
Chapter 8, cut
Box   18
Folder   3
Chapter 9 (8), revised
Box   18
Folder   4
Chapter 10 (9), revised
Box   18
Folder   5
Chapter 11 (10), revised
Box   18
Folder   6
Chapter 12 (11), revised
Box   18
Folder   7
Chapter 13 (12), revised
Box   18
Folder   8
Chapter 14 (13), revised
Box   18
Folder   9
Chapter 15 (14), revised
Box   18
Folder   10
Chapter 16 (15), revised
Box   19
Folder   1
Chapter 17 (16), earlier revised
Box   19
Folder   2
Chapter 17 (16), final revised
Box   19
Folder   3
Chapter 18 (new), revised
Box   19
Folder   4
Chapter 18 (17), revised
Box   19
Folder   5
Chapter 19 (new), revised
Box   19
Folder   6
Chapter 19, revised
Note: Before being broken into 2 chapters.
Box   19
Folder   7
Chapter 19, “Bender edit”
Box   20
Folder   1
Chapter 20, “My edit and Bender cut”
Box   20
Folder   2
Revised notes sections
Box   20
Folder   3
Filmography, revised
Box   20
Folder   4-6
Copy-edited typescript
Box   21
Folder   1-4
Copy-edited typescript (continued)
Box   21
Folder   5
Miscellaneous changes to make
Box   21
Folder   6
Changes made
Box   21
Folder   7
Final things to check
Box   22
Folder   1
Fixes done or skipped as not necessary
Box   22
Folder   2
Final Fixes
Box   34
Folder   1
Editing notes, 1991-1992
Box   34
Folder   2
Simon & Schuster correspondence, 1991
Box   34
Folder   3
Copy-editing: correspondence with Virginia Clark of Simon & Schuster
Box   34
Folder   4
Notes on final editing and proofing
Box   34
Folder   5
Notes and correspondence on proofs
Proofs
Box   22
Folder   3
Bound galley
Box   22
Folder   4-5
Corrected page proof
Box   23
Folder   1
Corrected page proof (continued)
Box   23
Folder   2
Proof-stage check
Index
Box   23
Folder   3-4
Drafts, proofs and notes
Illustrations
Box   23
Folder   5
Correspondence
Box   23
Folder   6
San Francisco Chronicle and California Historical Society
Box   23
Folder   7
Photocopies
Box   23
Folder   8
Notes and correspondence regarding final still selection, 1991 November-December
Box   23
Folder   9
Final still selection: photocopies of illustrations and texts of captions
Box   24
Folder   1
Revised captions, 1991 December
Box   34
Folder   6
Miscellaneous research
Box   34
Folder   7
California State Library
Box   34
Folder   8
George Eastman House
Box   34
Folder   9
Various sources
Box   34
Folder   10-11
Notes on illustrations
Cover
Box   24
Folder   2
Proposals and proof
Permissions
Box   24
Folder   3
General
Box   24
Folder   4
Correspondence with the editors of Positif regarding permission to quote an interview in the magazine with Sidney Buchman
Box   24
Folder   5
Correspondence with Isabelle Griffis
Box   24
Folder   6
Correspondence regarding permissions with San Francisco Chronicle
Publicity material
Box   24
Folder   7
General
Box   24
Folder   8
Drafts
Box   24
Folder   9
Press kit
Promotion
Box   34
Folder   12
Notes and correspondence about the promotion of the book, 1993
Box   35
Folder   1
Correspondence with Simon & Schuster (also Faber and Faber)
Note: About promotion of the book, reviews, and royalty payments.
Box   35
Folder   2
Gift copies: lists of addresses of personalities to whom to send gift copies of the hard-cover version
Box   35
Folder   3
Advertising
Box   35
Folder   4
Promotion, 1992 April
Box   35
Folder   5
Promotion, 1992 May
Box   35
Folder   6-8
Promotional correspondence: arrangements for appearances in bookshops, media interviews, and reviews of the book
Box   36
Folder   1
Promotional correspondence: arrangements for appearances in bookshops, media interviews, and reviews of the book (continued)
Box   36
Folder   2
Reactions to publicity and publication
Paperback edition (Touchstone Press, 1993)
Box   24
Folder   10
Proof pages
Box   24
Folder   11
Revised index
Box   24
Folder   12
Index and illustration proofs
Post-publication
Box   24
Folder   13
Talk on Capra by McBride: notes, 1993 October 18
Box   25
Folder   1
Reviews: photocopies
Box   25
Folder   2
Letters to McBride in response to the book
Box   25
Folder   3
Correspondence with Robert Bender of Simon & Schuster
Box   25
Folder   4
Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz, You Can't Leave Home Again, film treatment about Capra's life, correspondence with McBride, typescript, 1994
Box   25
Folder   5
Correspondence with Eric Menninger of Four Square Films regarding a possible documentary film on Capra, 1999
Box   34
Folder   1
Editing notes, 1991-1992
Box   34
Folder   2
Simon & Schuster correspondence, 1991
Box   34
Folder   3
Copy-editing: correspondence with Virginia Clark of Simon & Schuster
Box   34
Folder   4
Notes on final editing and proofing
Box   34
Folder   5
Notes and correspondence on proofs
Box   36
Folder   3
Simon & Schuster Catalogs including the book: draft and copies of the catalogs
Box   36
Folder   4-5
Touchstone Press Paperback edition: correspondence with Simon & Schuster
Faber and Faber (British) edition
Box   36
Folder   6
Correspondence
Box   36
Folder   7
Catalogs including the book
Box   36
Folder   8
Peter Owens, 1992 May
Note: Correspondence regarding sales in Ireland, marketing brochure, correspondence between Noel and Ruth O'Hara about Owens and the campaign for the book.
John Ford
Note: See also Audio recordings #7-8.
Research
Box   37
Folder   1
Research contacts
Box   37
Folder   2
John Ford Papers, Lilly Library, Indiana University
Note: Register of the collection and other library materials; letters from librarian.
Spiral-bound notebooks of Ford research
Box   37
Folder   3-11
Number 1, number 3-10
Note: Unknown location for number 2.
Box   38
Folder   1-7
Number 11-17
Box   39
Folder   1-8
Number 18-25
Box   39
Folder   9
Spiral-bound notebooks documenting trip to Portland, Maine, 1998 July 8-15
Box   40
Folder   1-7
Research notes
Box   41
Folder   1
John Ford: miscellaneous photocopies, notes, correspondence
Clippings on John Ford's life and career
Box   41
Folder   2
General
Box   41
Folder   3
Margaret Herrick Library Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California, clipping files
Box   41
Folder   4
Articles on John Ford's life and career: photocopies
Box   41
Folder   5
John Ford web page printouts, circa 1998 March-April
Note: As of September 2012, this site appears to have moved or no longer exists. [http://www.arts.ryerson.ca/~jzalken/johnford.html]
Box   41
Folder   6
Published interviews with John Ford: photocopies
Box   41
Folder   7
AFI Life Achievement Award for Ford, 1973
Box   41
Folder   8
Special issues of journals on John Ford and brochures of retrospective screening series

Scope and Content Note
  • Focus on Film
  • The Velvet Light Trap 2 (August 1971)
  • Seattle Film Society
  • Movietone News no. 26 (October 1973)
  • Action 8, no. 6 (November-December 1973)
  • Cinéma de John Ford, 48th Festival International du Film, Cannes (1995)
  • American Movie Classics Magazine (1999 August)
  • UCLA Film and Television Archive brochure (April-May 2001)
Box   41
Folder   9
Critical articles on John Ford as director: photocopies
Box   42
Folder   1
Tag Gallagher: articles (including one on Ford) by Gallagher and correspondence between him and Joseph McBride on Ford
Joseph McBride on Ford
Note: Articles, documentaries, lectures, and proposals for the same by Joseph McBride on John Ford (similar materials on particular Ford films or on actors, scriptwriters, etc. who worked with Ford are filed in the film title and associates folders).
Box   42
Folder   2
Sight and Sound: photocopies

Scope and Content Note
  • “County Mayo Gu Bragh,” 40, no. 1 (Winter 1970/71): 43-44 and 52
  • “Bringing in the Sheaves,” 43, no. 1 (Winter 1973/74): 9-11
Box   42
Folder   3
Notes on Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington, John Ford (London: Secker & Warburg/New York: Da Capo, 1974)
Box   42
Folder   4
Ford retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and UCLA, 1994 August-September
Note: Brochure, program notes for various films, notes on Darlene Ramirez of LACMAs introductions to the film and a UCLA course on Ford accompanying the film by Jonathan Kuntz; correspondence regarding book signing and introduction to a Ford film by Joseph McBride, 1995.
Box   42
Folder   5
Lecture for the CinemaGael festival, San Francisco, California, 1996 November
Note: Correspondence, notes.
Box   42
Folder   6
Proposed lecture on Ford and Ireland, 1997 November 26
Box   42
Folder   7
“John Ford, the Quiet Man,” Irish America magazine (October-November 1999): 94-5: photocopy of article
Box   42
Folder   8
“John Ford Irish American Filmmaker,” course at New College of California, San Francisco, 2000 January-May
Note: Prospectus and notes.
Box   42
Folder   9
Article on Ford's contemporary relevance for the Irish Herald (February 22, 2000)
Note: Correspondence and drafts.
Box   42
Folder   10
Becoming John Ford, documentary film directed by Nick Redman, featuring Joseph McBride, 2007
Note: Notes and program of Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, California, February-March 2008, featuring the film.
Subject files
Note: Photocopies, research notes, correspondence on topics related to John Ford and the book, Searching for John Ford.
Box   42
Folder   11
“On Biography” photocopies and notes on problems of writing biography
Ireland
Box   42
Folder   12
Ford's Irish background
Box   42
Folder   13
Ford's visit to Ireland in 1921
Portland, Maine
Box   42
Folder   14
Ford's birth records
Box   42
Folder   15
Pages from Portland, Maine, city directories featuring Ford's kin
Box   42
Folder   16
Maine and alcohol: pamphlet and notes
Box   42
Folder   17
The theater in Portland, Maine
Box   43
Folder   1
Ford's kin
Box   43
Folder   2
Portland High School
Note: Many clippings also include information on theater in Portland, Maine.
Box   43
Folder   3
Ford's school reports
Box   43
Folder   4
Clippings from Portland, Maine, publications about Ford, 1920-1995
Box   43
Folder   5
Clippings from Portland, Maine, publications about the local commemoration of Ford in 1998
Box   43
Folder   6
Universal Pictures: photocopy of director's instruction sheet, 1917 July 16
Box   43
Folder   7
Fox Film: photocopy of Douglas Gomery, “Problems in Film History: How Fox Innovated Sound,” Quarterly Review of Film Studies (1976 August): 317-330
Ford's work for the U.S. Navy and the OSS during World War II
Box   43
Folder   8
Notes and photocopies on Ford's wartime activities
Box   43
Folder   9-10
National Archives listings of films made by Ford or his associates for the Navy and the OSS; notes and correspondence
Box   44
Folder   1
Article by Joseph McBride on Ford and D-Day for the New York Review of Books, 1998
Note: Notes, correspondence, research photocopies.
Ford and Hollywood politics
Box   44
Folder   2
Truman Committee hearings, 1944
Note: Notes and photocopies.
Box   44
Folder   3
The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
The Screen Directors Guild
Box   44
Folder   4
Proceedings of the Board of Directors: photocopy of typescript record, 1947 December 1
Box   44
Folder   5-6
Notes and clippings, 1936-47
Box   44
Folder   7
Daily Variety clippings, 1947
Box   44
Folder   8
Campaign for recall of Joseph Mankiewicz as Director, 1951
Box   44
Folder   9
General clippings, 1951
Box   44
Folder   10
Daily Variety clippings, 1951
Box   44
Folder   11
David Robb, “Directors Guild Born out of Fear 50 Years Ago,” Daily Variety 209, no. 39 (October 29, 1985): 1-8: photocopy
Joseph McBride, “Fellow Traveler or Redbaiter?” Los Angeles Times Magazine (June 3, 2001): 18-21, 34-5
Note: Prepublication article adapted from Searching for John Ford.
Box   44
Folder   12
Correspondence, drafts, with Barbara Epstein about possible publication extract in The New York Review of Books, 1998-2000
Box   45
Folder   1
Correspondence, drafts, with New York Times and Los Angeles Times; LA Times proof and copy of the magazine
Box   45
Folder   2
Ford and landscape: Monument Valley
Box   45
Folder   3
The Western: photocopy from Kevin Brownlow, The War, the West and the Wilderness
Box   45
Folder   4
The Navajo
People
Note: Papers relating to associates of John Ford (members of casts and crews of his films, personal friends, relations), arranged alphabetically by name, including research notes, clippings, drafts of articles by McBride on such people, and in many cases transcripts of interviews (some notes taken during phone interviews).
Box   45
Folder   5
Interview lists
Note: Names and addresses of potential interviewees, drafts of letters requesting interviews.
Box   45
Folder   6
John Agar: clipping
Box   45
Folder   7
Eddie Albert: interviews and letter, 1998 February
Box   45
Folder   8
Lindsay Anderson: clipping on Part Two of Anderson's tribute to John Ford in BBC One's Omnibus series, 1992
Box   45
Folder   9
Mark Armistead: contact information for his daughter
Box   45
Folder   10
Jean Arthur: interviews, 1987 November 19, 20
Box   45
Folder   11
Carroll Baker: clipping from Baby Doll: An Autobiography (Ann Arbor: 1983)
Box   45
Folder   12
Anne Bancroft: clipping
Box   45
Folder   13
Edward Bernds: interview, 1998 February 22
Box   45
Folder   14
Ward Bond: information about the death of Ford's widow; clippings
Box   45
Folder   15
Beulah Bondi: clipping
Box   45
Folder   16
Priscilla Bonner: interview, 1987 November 5
Box   45
Folder   17
Henry Brandon: interview, typed extracts, 1987 November 9
Bulkeley, John D.
Box   45
Folder   18
Correspondence, clippings, 1987-1988
Box   45
Folder   19
Interviews, 1988 August 7
Box   46
Folder   1
Corinne Calvet: photocopy of extract from autobiography Has Corinne Been a Good Girl?: The intimate Memoirs of a French Actress in Hollywood (St. Martin's Press, 1983)
Box   46
Folder   2
Yakima Canutt: extract from typescript autobiography
Box   46
Folder   3
Harry Carey Sr.: clippings
Box   46
Folder   4
Harry Carey Jr.: interview, 1987 October 36
Note: Contact information about other people; transcript of taped interview; clippings; correspondence.
Box   46
Folder   5
Olive Carey: interviews, 1984 July 22, 1985 May 19, October 6, 9, 1987 November 6
Note: Also includes clippings of obituaries, March 1998.
Box   46
Folder   6
John Carradine: clippings
Box   46
Folder   7
T.E.B. Clarke: clipping
Box   46
Folder   8
Ruth Clifford: interview, clipping, 1987 November 5
Box   46
Folder   9
Katherine Cliffton: interviews, 1987 October 29, November 2
Box   46
Folder   10
William Clothier: clipping of interview by Scott Eyman
Box   46
Folder   11
Dorothy Gordon Cooper: record of attempted phone contact, photocopy of article, 1987 October 28
Box   46
Folder   12
Merian C. Cooper: credits from IMDB; clippings
Box   46
Folder   13
Ken Curtis: credits from IMDB; Variety obituary, 1991 April 30
Box   46
Folder   14
Jeremiah Denton: clippings, pressbook and notes on film Return with Honor (directed by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, 1998)
Box   46
Folder   15
James H. Doolittle: clipping
Box   46
Folder   16
Amanda Dunne: notes on lunch conversation, 1987 October 23
Box   46
Folder   17
Philip Dunne: clippings, interviews, 1987 October 19
Note: Also includes correspondence, 1991.
Box   46
Folder   18
Walter Edmonds: clipping of obituary, 1998 January 28
Box   46
Folder   19
Blake Edwards: letter, 1998 April 28
Box   46
Folder   20
Howard Fast: filmography from IMDB; clippings of extracts from books; typescript pages by McBride
Box   46
Folder   21
Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Theodore Perry): contact information, 1998 February 10
Note: Also includes McBride correspondence with editors of Film Quarterly, 1998; clippings (including McBride's Milwaukee Journal article, December 10, 1979).
Box   46
Folder   22
James Fitzsimmons: contact information, 1987 October 28
Box   46
Folder   23
Henry Fonda: clippings
Box   46
Folder   24
Barbara Ford: clippings
Box   46
Folder   25
Dan Ford: clipping of television interview by Scott Eyman
Box   46
Folder   26
Francis Ford: research notes, including notes on an unpublished autobiography; clippings
Box   46
Folder   27
Mary Ford: clippings, cyclostyled typescript of interview with Anthony Slide and June Banker, 1977 April 23
Note: Annotated by McBride.
Box   46
Folder   28
Patrick Ford: credits from IMDB
Box   46
Folder   29
Samuel Fuller: interview, 1997 November 23
Note: Photocopy excerpt from Lee Server, Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1994).
Box   46
Folder   30
Althea Gibson: correspondence
Box   46
Folder   31
Hoot Gibson: clipping
Box   46
Folder   32
Katharine Hepburn: clippings, pages from typescript of Searching for John Ford
Box   46
Folder   33
Ben Johnson: clippings: interview, 1995 June 16
Box   46
Folder   34
Burt Kennedy: clipping; interview, 1995 July 5
Box   46
Folder   35
Fred Kennedy: clippings of obituaries, 1958 December
Box   46
Folder   36
Michael Morris, Lord Killanin: clippings
Box   46
Folder   37
Larry Kleno: notes on phone conversation, 1987 October 28
Box   46
Folder   38
Anna Lee: correspondence; interviews, 1987 November 3
Box   46
Folder   39
Jack Lemmon: interview
Box   46
Folder   40
Roddy McDowall: notes on phone conversation, clipping, 1987 October 28
Box   46
Folder   41
Jack P. Mackenzie Jr.: clipping
Box   46
Folder   42
John Lee Mahin: clipping
Box   47
Folder   1
Karl Malden: letter from McBride to Malden, 1998 February 23
Box   47
Folder   2
Vera Miles: notes, 1981 February 20
Box   47
Folder   3
Winston Miller: clipping
Box   47
Folder   4
Pauline Moore (Watkins): clipping; letter from Moore to McBride, 1998 April 9
Note: Also includes interview, April 3, 1998.
Box   47
Folder   5
Friedrich Murnau: draft typescript of Janet Bergstrom's “Murnau in America,” 1991 September 19
Box   47
Folder   6
Dudley Nichols: clippings
Box   47
Folder   7
Richard M. Nixon
Note: Includes copy of Nixon letters to John Ford, March 28, 1953, August 16, 1973; Nixon, “Reflections on John Ford,” January 6, 1988; letters from Nixon to McBride, January 5, 1987; and McBride to Nixon, January 9, 1988.
Box   47
Folder   8
Jeanette Nolan: clipping of obituary, 1998 June 9
Box   47
Folder   9
Eva Novak: clipping of obituary, 1988 April 21
Frank S. Nugent
Box   47
Folder   10
Clippings
Box   47
Folder   11
Notes on Nugent-scripted films and books and articles about Nugent
Box   47
Folder   12
Proof, drafts and correspondence regarding McBride's article “The Pathological Hero's Conscience,” Written By (2001)
Box   47
Folder   13
Expenses lists regarding the Written By article
Box   47
Folder   14
George O'Brien: clippings
Box   47
Folder   15
Pat O'Brien: clipping
Box   47
Folder   16
Sean O'Casey: notes and clipping
Box   47
Folder   17
Maureen O'Hara: clippings
Box   47
Folder   18
Peter Ortiz: clipping of obituary, 1988 May 24
Box   47
Folder   19
Betsy Palmer: interview, 1998 March 19
Box   47
Folder   20
Tom Pryor: notes on phone conversation, 1997 November 5
Box   47
Folder   21
Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller: clippings
Box   47
Folder   22
Waverly Ramsey: interview, 1987 November
Box   47
Folder   23
Ronald Reagan: clippings
Box   47
Folder   24
Russell Reeder: clipping of obituary, 1988 March 1
Box   47
Folder   25
Irene Rich: clippings of obituaries, 1988 April 25
Box   47
Folder   26
Will Rogers: clippings, research notes
Box   47
Folder   27
Bernard Smith: notes on phone conversations, 1987 November
Note: Also includes obituary, December 31, 1999.
Box   47
Folder   28
Laurence Stallings: clipping
Box   47
Folder   29
George Stevens: research notes on George Stevens Papers, AMPAS, 1988 April 21
Box   47
Folder   30
James Stewart: interview, 1987 November
Note: Also includes obituary, May 11, 1998.
Box   47
Folder   31
Woody Strode: notes on phone conversation, clippings, 1987 October 28
Box   48
Folder   1
Gloria Stuart: clippings
Box   48
Folder   2
James Stuart: clipping
Box   48
Folder   3
Shirley Temple (Black): clippings
Box   48
Folder   4
Bob Thomas: notes on phone conversation, 1987 June 28
Box   48
Folder   5
Constance Towers: clippings, research notes
Box   48
Folder   6
Claire Trevor (Bren): clippings, taped interview, 1998 April 1
Box   48
Folder   7
Raoul Walsh: clipping, notes on They Died with Their Boots On (1942)
Box   48
Folder   8
John Wayne: notes and correspondence regarding McBride, “Hail to the Duke,” American Movie Classics Magazine 14, no. 7 (July 2001): 4-5; clippings; photocopies of articles on Wayne
Box   48
Folder   9
Frank “Spig” Wead: clippings
Box   48
Folder   10
Albert Wedemeyer: clippings
Box   48
Folder   11
Richard Widmark: clippings
Box   48
Folder   12
Hank Worden: interviews, undated
Box   48
Folder   13
Billy Yellow: interview; clippings
Note: Includes material on other Navajo appearing in Ford's films.
Box   48
Folder   14
Loretta Young: letter from McBride to Young, 1988 February 17
Box   48
Folder   15
Darryl Zanuck: clippings, draft pages from Searching for John Ford
Works
Film files
Note: Materials on films directed by John Ford and a few with which he had other connections (films directed by Ford unless otherwise stated), arranged alphabetically by title. Materials consist of clippings, copies of critical articles, and film viewing notes by McBride. See critical articles on Ford's work as a whole in Boxes 41 and 42.
Box   48
Folder   16
Clippings and viewing notes on more than one Ford-directed film
Box   48
Folder   17
Soul Herder, The (Universal Pictures, 1917)
Box   48
Folder   18
Straight Shooting (Universal Pictures, 1917)
Box   48
Folder   19
Last Outlaw, The (Universal Pictures, 1919)
Box   48
Folder   20
Outcasts of Poker Flat, The (Universal Pictures, 1919)
Box   48
Folder   21
Marked Men (Universal Pictures, 1919)
Box   48
Folder   22
Desperate Trails (Universal Pictures, 1921)
Box   48
Folder   23
Iron Horse, The (Fox Film Corporation, 1925)
Box   48
Folder   24
3 Bad Men (Fox Film Corporation, 1926)
Box   48
Folder   25
Four Sons (Fox Film Corporation, 1928)
Box   48
Folder   26
Hangman's House (Fox Film Corporation, 1928)
Box   48
Folder   27
Men without Women (Fox Film Corporation, 1930)
Box   48
Folder   28
Up the River (Fox Film Corporation, 1931)
Box   48
Folder   29
Arrowsmith (Howard Productions, 1931)
Box   48
Folder   30
Air Mail (Universal Pictures, 1932)
Box   48
Folder   31
Flesh (MGM, 1932)
Box   48
Folder   32
Pilgrimage (Fox Film Corporation, 1933)
Box   48
Folder   33
Doctor Bull (Fox Film Corporation, 1933)
Box   48
Folder   34
Judge Priest (Fox Film Corporation, 1934)
Box   48
Folder   35
Informer, The (RKO, 1935)
Box   48
Folder   36
Steamboat Round the Bend (Fox Film Corporation, 1935)
Box   48
Folder   37
Prisoner of Shark Island, The (20th Century-Fox, 1936)
Box   49
Folder   1
Mary of Scotland (RKO, 1936)
Box   49
Folder   2
Plough and the Stars, The (RKO, 1937)
Box   49
Folder   3
Wee Willie Winkie (20th Century-Fox, 1937)
Box   49
Folder   4
Hurricane, The (Samuel Goldwyn, 1937)
Box   49
Folder   5
Four Men and a Prayer (20th Century-Fox, 1938)
Box   49
Folder   6
Stagecoach (Walter Wanger Productions / United Artists, 1939)
Box   49
Folder   7
Young Mr. Lincoln (20th Century-Fox, 1939)
Box   49
Folder   8
Drums along the Mohawk (20th Century-Fox, 1939)
Box   49
Folder   9
Grapes of Wrath, The (20th Century-Fox, 1940)
Box   49
Folder   10
Long Voyage Home, The (Argosy Corporation/United Artists, 1940)
Box   49
Folder   11
Tobacco Road (20th Century-Fox, 1941)
Box   49
Folder   12
How Green Was My Valley (20th Century-Fox, 1941)
Box   49
Folder   13
Sex Hygiene (directed by John Ford and Otto Brower, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1942)
Box   49
Folder   14
Battle of Midway, The (U.S. Navy, 1942)
Box   49
Folder   15
December 7th (U.S. Navy, 1943)
Box   49
Folder   16
They Were Expendable (MGM, 1945)
Box   49
Folder   17
My Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox, 1946)
Box   49
Folder   18
Fugitive, The (Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1947)
Box   49
Folder   19
Fort Apache (Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1948)
Box   49
Folder   20
3 Godfathers (Argosy Pictures/MGM, 1948)
Box   49
Folder   21
Pinky (directed by Elia Kazan, 20th Century-Fox, 1949)
Box   49
Folder   22
Mighty Joe Young (directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1949)
Box   49
Folder   23
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1949)
Box   49
Folder   24
When Willie Comes Marching Home (20th Century-Fox, 1950)
Box   49
Folder   25
Wagon Master (Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1950)
Box   49
Folder   26
Rio Grande (Argosy Pictures/RKO, 1950)
Box   50
Folder   1
This Is Korea (U.S. Navy/Republic Pictures, 1951)
Box   50
Folder   2
Quiet Man, The (Argosy Pictures/Republic, 1952)
Box   50
Folder   3
What Price Glory (20th Century-Fox, 1952)
Box   50
Folder   4
Sun Shines Bright, The (Argosy Pictures/Republic, 1953)
Box   50
Folder   5
Mogambo (MGM, 1953)
Box   50
Folder   6
Long Gray Line, The (Columbia Pictures, 1955)
Box   50
Folder   7
Mister Roberts (Orange Productions/Warner Bros., 1955)
Box   50
Folder   8
Searchers, The (C.V. Whitney Pictures/Warner Bros., 1956)
Box   50
Folder   9
Growler Story, The (U.S. Navy, 1957)
Box   50
Folder   10
Wings of Eagles, The (MGM, 1957)
Box   50
Folder   11
Rising of the Moon, The (Four Provinces Productions/Warner Bros., 1957)
Box   50
Folder   12
Last Hurrah, The (Columbia Pictures, 1958)
Box   50
Folder   13
Gideon's Day [United States title: Gideon of Scotland Yard] (Columbia [British], 1959)
Box   50
Folder   14
Horse Soldiers, The (Mirisch Company/United Artists, 1959)
Box   50
Folder   15
Sergeant Rutledge (Warner Bros./Columbia Pictures, 1960)
Box   50
Folder   16
Two Rode Together (John Ford Productions, 1961)
Box   50
Folder   17
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (Paramount Pictures, 1962)
Box   50
Folder   18
How the West Was Won, Part 3: The Civil War (MGM, 1963)
Box   50
Folder   19
Donovan's Reef (Paramount Pictures, 1963)
Box   50
Folder   20
Cheyenne Autumn (Ford-Smith Productions/Warner Bros., 1964)
Box   51
Folder   1
Young Cassidy (directed by Jack Cardiff, Sextant Films/MGM, 1965)
Box   51
Folder   2
7 Women (John Ford Productions/MGM, 1966)
Box   51
Folder   3
Vietnam! Vietnam! (directed by Sherman Beck, USIA, 1971)
Box   51
Folder   4
Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976)
Television
Box   51
Folder   5
Jane Wyman Presents, segment The Bamboo Cross (NBC, 1955)
Box   51
Folder   6
Screen Directors Playhouse, segment Rookie of the Year (NBC, 1955)
Box   51
Folder   7
Alcoa Premiere, segment Flashing Spikes (ABC, 1962)
Film about John Ford
Box   51
Folder   8
Proposed documentary to be directed by Joseph McBride: draft scripts and correspondence, 1997
Book Preparation
Searching for John Ford (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001)
Outlines
Box   51
Folder   9
Early outlines, circa 1980s
Box   51
Folder   10
Chapter outlines, 1998
Box   51
Folder   11
Outline, 1999 March
Draft typescripts
Box   51
Folder   12
Acknowledgments
Box   51
Folder   13
Introduction
Box   51
Folder   14
Chapter 1
Box   51
Folder   15
Chapter 2
Box   51
Folder   16
Chapter 6
Box   51
Folder   17
Section on The Informer
Box   51
Folder   18
Chapter 8
Box   51
Folder   19
Section on The Searchers
Box   52
Folder   1
Chapters 8 and 9
Box   52
Folder   2
Chapter 10
Box   52
Folder   3-4
Chapter 11
Box   52
Folder   5
Chapter 12
Box   52
Folder   6-7
Notes, general
Box   53
Folder   1
Notes, revised, 1999 October-November
Box   53
Folder   2
Notes, Chapters 1 and 2
Box   53
Folder   3
Notes, Chapter 3
Box   53
Folder   4
Notes, Chapter 13
Box   53
Folder   5
Notes, long version, 2000 January 18
Box   53
Folder   6
Notes, long version, annotated
Box   53
Folder   7
Notes, condensed
Box   53
Folder   8
Revisions, 2000 August
Box   53
Folder   9
Interview list
Box   53
Folder   10
Filmography
Box   53
Folder   11
Illustrations: photocopies
Box   53
Folder   12
Illustration captions
Box   53
Folder   13
Word counts
Box   54
Folder   1-3
Complete draft
Box   54
Folder   4
Fixes
Box   54
Folder   5
Fixes, Introduction and Chapters 1-9
Box   54
Folder   6
Fixes, Chapters 10-13
Box   55
Folder   1-2
Final Fixes
Box   55
Folder   3
Copy of beginning marked “3/1”
Box   55
Folder   4
“Copy for Ruth O'Hara” of Ford manuscript (pp. 1-120)
Correspondence with the publisher and comments on the typescript
Box   55
Folder   5
Comments by Peter Bogdanovich: record of a conversation, 1996 September 5
Box   55
Folder   6
Richard Parks: correspondence regarding the book with Parks, Joseph McBride's agent
Box   55
Folder   7
St. Martin's Press and Faber and Faber: correspondence, 1999
Box   55
Folder   8
St. Martin's Press: correspondence, 2001
Box   56
Folder   1
Henry Kaufman: legal review of the typescript, 2000
Copy editing
Box   56
Folder   2
St. Martin's Press style sheet for the book
Box   56
Folder   3-6
Correspondence with Julia Pastore of St. Martin's Press, draft pages proposed changes, photocopies of proposed illustrations, 2000
Box   56
Folder   7-8
Copy-edited typescript I, 2000 February
Box   57
Folder   1-3
Copy-edited typescript I (continued)
Box   57
Folder   4
Typescript changes, 2000 July 24
Box   57
Folder   5-6
Copy-edited typescript II, 2000 July-August
Box   58
Folder   1-3
Copy-edited typescript II (continued)
Box   58
Folder   4
Revisions after submission of the typescript
Permissions
Box   58
Folder   5
Drafts of letters seeking permissions for quotations from published works
Box   58
Folder   6
Permissions letters
Box   59
Folder   1
Permissions for citation of Variety: correspondence
Box   59
Folder   2
Cutting to bring quotations within the limits of fair use
Box   59
Folder   3
Photo permissions
Proofs
Box   59
Folder   4-6
Page proof, 2000 October-November
Box   60
Folder   1-5
Page proof, 2000 December
Box   61
Folder   1
Notes on proofs, 2001 January-March
Box   61
Folder   2-5
Page proof, 2001
Box   62
Folder   1
Page proof, backmatter
Box   62
Folder   2
Proof corrections, 2001 June
Box   62
Folder   3
Final proof of illustrations
Box   62
Folder   4
Cover art suggestions
Box   62
Folder   5
Book jacket copy
Box   62
Folder   6
Correspondence on proofs for the paperback edition, 2002
Publicity and Sales
Box   62
Folder   7
Proofs of publicity materials, 2001 May
Box   62
Folder   8
Correspondence
Box   62
Folder   9
St. Martin's Press publicity materials for the book
Box   62
Folder   10
Author's book signings
Box   62
Folder   11
Negotiations over publication of extract in New York Review of Books
Box   62
Folder   12
Clippings and photocopies of reviews
Box   62
Folder   13
Post-publication letters to the author about the book
Box   62
Folder   14
Email interview with McBride by Jason Walsh about the book, 2001 September
Box   62
Folder   15
Royalty statements, 2000-2001
A la recherche de John Ford / translated by Jean-Pierre Coursodon (Arles: Institut Lumiere/Actes Sud, 2007)
Note: French translation of Searching for John Ford
Box   62
Folder   16
Institut Lumiere correspondence
Box   63
Folder   1-3
Page proof
Box   63
Folder   4
Correspondence about French version with publishers, 2007 January-July
Box   63
Folder   5
Letter to McBride from Bertrand Tavernier, 2007 July
Box   64
Folder   1
List of proposed changes, 2007 July 17
Box   64
Folder   2
List of proposed changes, 2007 July 19
Box   64
Folder   3
List of changes and notes, 2007 July 20
Box   64
Folder   4
List of changes sent to Institut Lumiere, 2007 August 17
Box   64
Folder   5
Final correspondence about changes, 2007 October
Box   64
Folder   6
Copy of the book
Box   64
Folder   7
Publicity and reviews of the French edition
Ford-related materials subsequent to publication of book
Box   64
Folder   8
Correspondence about the book with proposals for articles by McBride on Ford; drafts of talks on Ford; notes and correspondence with Ford associates and others with Ford information and anecdotes; clippings
Box   65
Folder   1
Photocopies and clippings of articles about Ford after 2001
Box   65
Folder   2
John Ford Goes to War (FBN Productions, correspondence, clippings, including 1999 proposal to Harrison Engle of Signal Hill Entertainment, 2002), documentary co-produced by Joseph McBride
Box   65
Folder   3-4
“'Impetuous! Homeric!': The Quiet Man Turns Fifty,” Irish America (February-March 2002): 56-9: drafts
Box   65
Folder   5
Correspondence regarding introduction to Ford interview by Tag Gallagher in the online magazine Film Journal, 2005 April
Box   65
Folder   6
DVD commentary on The Informer, by Joseph McBride, for Sparkhill Productions and Warner Home Video (2006): correspondence and research materials
Box   65
Folder   7-8
DVD commentary on Cheyenne Autumn, by Joseph McBride, for Sparkhill Productions and Warner Home Video (2006)
Box   65
Folder   9
DVD commentary on Pilgrimage, by Joseph McBride, for the 20th Century-Fox Ford at Fox DVD box set (2006)
Box   65
Folder   10
“John Ford's Long Voyage to Homevideo” by Joseph McBride drafts of history of Warner Bros./20th Century-Fox's box set of Ford DVDs for Directors Guild of America Quarterly (2006)
“Ford at Fox,” by Joseph McBride, essay in Twentieth Century-Fox book and DVD collection Ford at Fox (2007)
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Agreements, correspondence, clippings, research
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Drafts
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Redline version and revisions, 2007 June 15
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As published
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Ford course taught by McBride at San Francisco State University, class assignment on The Quiet Man, 2007
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Becoming John Ford
Note: Video documentary produced by Boston Road Productions featuring and with consultancy by Joseph McBride, 2007. Includes: correspondence with Jamie Willett, Julie Kirgo and Janet Bergstrom on his appearance in the film and his audio commentary for the DVD presentation of Pilgrimage for 20th Century-Fox boxed set Ford at Fox; screening of the film, introduced by McBride, at the Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, California, March 1, 2008: correspondence and flyer for the event.
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Tiburon International Film Festival, screening of John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend (directed by Samuel Pollard, PBS American Masters video, 2006), introduced by Joseph McBride, 2008 March 13-21
Note: Festival program, notes, draft of speech.
Steven Spielberg
Research
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Miscellaneous notes, correspondence, clippings
Books on Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg Study Guide (Los Angeles: American Film Institute, 1979): photocopy
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John Baxter, Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorized Biography (New York: Harper Collins, 1996): clipping
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Tom Collins, Steven Spielberg: Creator of ET (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press, 1983): photocopy
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Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, The Future of the Movies: Interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1991): photocopy
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Marcial Cantero Fernandez, Steven Spielberg (Madrid, Spain: Ediciones Ctedra, 1993): photocopy
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Jim Hargrove, Steven Spielberg Amazing Filmmaker (Chicago: Childrens Press, 1988): photocopy