Finding aid for the Bernard Gordon papers 2387

Marissa Chavez & Brandon Werts for History Associates Incorporated

USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library

2022 February

Doheny Memorial Library G4

3550 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, California 90089-0185

ctlibarc@usc.edu

URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/cinematic-arts-library

Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library

Title: Bernard Gordon papers

Creator: Gordon, Bernard, 1918-2007

Identifier/Call Number: 2387

Identifier/Call Number: 522

Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/5/resources/1262

Physical Description: 26.125 Linear Feet 24 boxes

Date (bulk): 1920s-2000s

Abstract: This collection consists of the papers of American writer and producer Bernard Gordon (1918-2007), including scripts, personal papers, books, floppy disks, photographs, and personal finance records. Gordon was a blacklisted writer who often wrote screenplays under the name Raymond T. Marcus. He wrote films like Flesh and Fury (1952), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and 55 Days at Peking (1963). He also wrote two autobiographical books about his blacklisting and the government surveillance that ensued.

Language of Material: English .

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Biographical / Historical

Bernard Gordon (1918-2007) was an American writer and producer who was blacklisted and often credited under the pseudo name Raymond T. Marcus. He wrote screenplays for Flesh and Fury (1952), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Gordon worked on a number of films in Madrid, Spain after being blacklisted in Hollywood, until moving back to the United States in the 1970s. He then wrote two autobiographical books about his blacklisting and the government surveillance that ensued.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of American writer and producer Bernard Gordon (1918-2007), including scripts, personal papers, books, floppy disks, photographs, and personal finance records. Gordon was a blacklisted writer who often wrote screenplays under the name Raymond T. Marcus. He wrote films like Flesh and Fury (1952), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), and 55 Days at Peking (1963). He also wrote two autobiographical books about his blacklisting and the government surveillance that ensued.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is currently unavailable for access because of its size and current level of processing. Contact the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu for details.

Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Bernard Gordon estate, November 1, 2007.

Preferred Citation

[Box/folder no. or item name], Bernard Gordon papers, Collection no. 2387, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Processing Information

This collection is unprocessed.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources

Screenwriters -- United States -- Archival resources

Authors -- 20th century -- Archival resources

Scripts

Photographs

Books

Notes

Receipts (financial records)

Gordon, Bernard, 1918-2007 -- Archives

Box 1

Various scripts, books, transcripts, and a scrapbook /repositories/5/archival_objects/675941 1950s-1970s

Box 2

Various scripts, newspaper clippings, publications, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675942 1950s-1960s

Box 2, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675945 1950s-1960s

Box 2, Folder 1

Newspaper clippings, magazines, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675943 1950s-1960s 1981

Box 2, Folder 2

The Day of the Triffids incomplete screenplay /repositories/5/archival_objects/675944

Box 3

Various scripts and an issue of Academy Report /repositories/5/archival_objects/675946 1950s-1960s 2006

Box 4

Set stills and various scripts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675947 1950s-1960s

Box 5, Box 6

Various scripts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675948 1940s 1950s-1970s

Box 7

Various scripts, production budgets, newspaper clippings, magazines, press kits, and contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675949 1970s-1980s

Box 7, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675951 1970s-1980s

Box 7, Folder 1

Surfacing press kits, scripts, and contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675950 1977-1981

Box 8

Ledgers, address books, newspapers, publications, business cards, and floppy discs /repositories/5/archival_objects/675952 1980s-2000s

Box 9

First draft of The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance book and a copy of the FBI file on Bernard Gordon /repositories/5/archival_objects/675953 1960s 2000s

Box 10

Final draft, first proof of Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist; final draft and edited drafts of The Gordon File: A Screenwriter Recalls Twenty Years of FBI Surveillance; and screenplay drafts of Queen of the Night /repositories/5/archival_objects/675954 1990s-2000s

Box 11

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book files /repositories/5/archival_objects/675955 1997-2005

Box 11, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675966 1997-2005

Scope and Contents

Bernard Gordon's FBI file via the Freedom of Information Acti and Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist drafts

Box 11, Folder 1

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book reviews and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675956 2004

Box 11, Folder 2

Correspondences and clippings about FBI survelliance /repositories/5/archival_objects/675957 2002-2003

Box 11, Folder 3

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book proposal correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675958 2001

Box 11, Folder 4

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book title proposal correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675959 2003

Box 11, Folder 5

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book permissions /repositories/5/archival_objects/675960 2003

Box 11, Folder 6

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book photographs /repositories/5/archival_objects/675961

Box 11, Folder 7

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675962 2003-2005

Box 11, Folder 8

Freedom of Information Act requests and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675963 1997-2001

Box 11, Folder 9

Newspaper clippings about the Blacklist /repositories/5/archival_objects/675964 2000-2001

Box 11, Folder 10

Computer and printer manuals /repositories/5/archival_objects/675965

Box 12

The Spanish Crossing proposals and Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist drafts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675967 1985-2004

Box 12, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675969 2001-2004

Scope and Contents

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book drafts; Written By magazine issues; newspapers; clippings; and Bogman screenplay

Box 12, Folder 1

The Spanish Crossing miniseries proposal /repositories/5/archival_objects/675968 1985

Box 13

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book files and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675970 1950s 1996-2001

Box 13, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675982 1996-2001

Scope and Contents

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book press kits, correspondences, book reviews, newspapers

Box 13, Folder 1

Correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675971 1996-1997

Box 13, Folder 2

University of Texas Press Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675972 1998-2001

Box 13, Folder 3

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist agent and publisher correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675973 1997

Box 13, Folder 4

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book tour correspondences and schedules /repositories/5/archival_objects/675974 2000-2001

Box 13, Folder 5

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book signings /repositories/5/archival_objects/675975

Box 13, Folder 6

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book photographs and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675976 2000

Box 13, Folder 7

Photographs of Bernard Gordon /repositories/5/archival_objects/675977 1950s

Box 13, Folder 8

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book promotions and sales correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675978 1999-2000

Box 13, Folder 9

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book reviews /repositories/5/archival_objects/675979 1998-2001

Box 13, Folder 10

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book excerpts /repositories/5/archival_objects/675980

Box 13, Folder 11

Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist book correspondence /repositories/5/archival_objects/675981 1998-1999

Box 14

Appointment books, agendas, tax returns, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675983 1953-1967

Box 14, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/675986 1960-1967

Scope and Contents

Appointment books and agendas

Box 14, Folder 1

Tax returns /repositories/5/archival_objects/675984 1960-1964

Box 14, Folder 2, Box 14, Folder 3, Box 14, Folder 4

Correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675985 1953-1967

Box 15, Box 16

Appointment books and agendas /repositories/5/archival_objects/675987 1974-2007

Box 17

Address books and agendas /repositories/5/archival_objects/675988 1966-1972

Box 18

Correspondences, clippings, medical records, and publications /repositories/5/archival_objects/675989 1886-2006

Box 18, Folder 1

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675990 1986-1987 2004

Box 18, Folder 2

Car insurance paperwork /repositories/5/archival_objects/675991 2005-2007

Box 18, Folder 3

Correspondences with John Appendino /repositories/5/archival_objects/675992 1971-1985

Box 18, Folder 4

Audiology files /repositories/5/archival_objects/675993 2001-2006

Box 18, Folder 5

Birth certificates /repositories/5/archival_objects/675994 1886-1918

Box 18, Folder 6

Publications with articles about the Blacklist /repositories/5/archival_objects/675995 1996-2000

Box 18, Folder 7

Alter newspaper /repositories/5/archival_objects/675996 1951

Box 18, Folder 8, Box 18, Folder 9

Newspaper clippings and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/675997 1955-1964 1983-1984 1996-1997 2000-2001

Box 18, Folder 10

Newspaper clippings and publications /repositories/5/archival_objects/675998 1981-2002

Box 18, Folder 11

Correspondences and notes related to Elia Kazan /repositories/5/archival_objects/675999 1999

Box 18, Folder 12

Blacklist speech notes for USC /repositories/5/archival_objects/676000 2001

Box 19

Personal documents, travel documents, correspondences, ephemera, photographs, and newspapers /repositories/5/archival_objects/676001 1960s-2006

Box 19, Folder 1

Tax paperwork for the city of Los Angeles /repositories/5/archival_objects/676002 2003-2005

Box 19, Folder 2

Lifeline medical paperwork /repositories/5/archival_objects/676003 2004

Box 19, Folder 3

Contracts, clippings, correspondences, and ephemera related to a trip to Madrid, Spain /repositories/5/archival_objects/676004 1960s

Box 19, Folder 4

Morgantown High School Reunion photographs, clippings, newspapers, correspondences, and ephemera /repositories/5/archival_objects/676005 1977

Box 19, Folder 5

Marriage certificate /repositories/5/archival_objects/676006 1946

Box 19, Folder 6

Drafts of Hollywood Exile, or How I Learned to Love the Blacklist; correspondences, and interviews /repositories/5/archival_objects/676007 1997

Box 19, Folder 7

Correspondences, newspapers, newletters, and schedules related to a visit to the University of Oklahoma /repositories/5/archival_objects/676008 2000

Box 19, Folder 8

Parking permits and citations /repositories/5/archival_objects/676009 2000-2003

Box 19, Folder 9

Passports of Bernard and Jeanetter Gordon /repositories/5/archival_objects/676010 1980s-1990s

Box 19, Folder 10

Correpondences and prints of Dimitri Perdikidis art exhibit /repositories/5/archival_objects/676011 2002

Box 19, Folder 11

Piano tuner contact information /repositories/5/archival_objects/676012

Box 19, Folder 12

Political articles /repositories/5/archival_objects/676013 1997 1999

Box 19, Folder 13

Credit card statement /repositories/5/archival_objects/676014 2007

Box 19, Folder 14

Correpondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676015 1977-1978

Box 19, Folder 15

Social security card and photocopy /repositories/5/archival_objects/676016

Box 19, Folder 16

Correspondences, ephemera, and travel materials related to Spain /repositories/5/archival_objects/676017 1970s

Box 19, Folder 17

Telephone operating manuals and California Telephone Access Program papers /repositories/5/archival_objects/676018

Box 19, Folder 18

Map of France /repositories/5/archival_objects/676019

Box 19, Folder 19

Western Terminator Company paperwork /repositories/5/archival_objects/676020 1980s-1990s

Box 19, Folder 20

Treepeople certificate /repositories/5/archival_objects/676021 1996

Box 19, Folder 21

University of Texas Press correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676022 2006

Box 19, Folder 22

Two copies of Communist Influence in Hollywood by John Weber /repositories/5/archival_objects/676023 1997

Box 19, Folder 23

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences membership and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676024 2003

Box 19, Folder 24

Skin cancer paperwork /repositories/5/archival_objects/676025

Box 20

Correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676026 1986-2007 1961

Box 20, Item 1

[loose items] /repositories/5/archival_objects/676027 2000

Scope and Contents

Vanity Fair April 2000 issue

Box 21

Correspondences, budgets, contracts, newspaper clippings, notes, and summaries /repositories/5/archival_objects/676028 1955-2003

Box 21, Folder 1

Court documents and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676029 1974 1982

Box 21, Folder 2

The Afrikan General contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676030 1964-1975 1986-1991

Box 21, Folder 3

The Afrikan General budget /repositories/5/archival_objects/676031 1978

Box 21, Folder 4

The Afrikan General contracts and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676032 1975

Box 21, Folder 5

Alter Ego contract /repositories/5/archival_objects/676033 1986

Box 21, Folder 6

Beachboys sales contract /repositories/5/archival_objects/676034 1960

Box 21, Folder 7

Bluebird and the Dead Lake correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676035 1975-1976

Box 21, Folder 8

Bogman production materials including budgets, personnel information, contracts, distribution, and scripts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676036 1982-1987

Box 21, Folder 9

The Bridge notes /repositories/5/archival_objects/676037

Box 21, Folder 10

The Sexual Dream book review newspaper clippings /repositories/5/archival_objects/676038

Box 21, Folder 11

Budget and personnel lists for films /repositories/5/archival_objects/676039 1978-1980

Box 21, Folder 12

Charlie is My Darling summary /repositories/5/archival_objects/676040

Box 21, Folder 13

Christmas Story draft and notes /repositories/5/archival_objects/676041 1989

Box 21, Folder 14

Contracts for films /repositories/5/archival_objects/676042 1966-1971

Box 21, Folder 15

Crown Publishers Inc. contracts for The Sexual Dream /repositories/5/archival_objects/676043 1977 1981

Box 21, Folder 16

The Cry of Battle correspondences, budget, and clippings /repositories/5/archival_objects/676044 1973-1979

Box 21, Folder 17

Daily News newspaper including an article about Bernard Gordon /repositories/5/archival_objects/676045 1981

Box 21, Folder 18

Day of the Triffids contracts, reciepts, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676046 1981-1982

Box 21, Folder 19

Correspondences with Douglas Leiterman and Beryl Fox regarding Surfacing film /repositories/5/archival_objects/676047 1978-1989

Box 21, Folder 20

God's Little Arse film related correspondences and budget details /repositories/5/archival_objects/676048 1978

Box 21, Folder 21

Contract for Have a Good Funeral film /repositories/5/archival_objects/676049 1971

Box 21, Folder 22

Horror Express correspondences, magazine, and contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676050 1994-2003

Box 21, Folder 23

Telegrams and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676051 1972

Box 21, Folder 24

Correspondences with Amy Krell /repositories/5/archival_objects/676052 1996

Box 21, Folder 25

Contract ffor employment on King of the Jungle film /repositories/5/archival_objects/676053 1971

Box 21, Folder 26

Land of the Giant Women film correspondences and script /repositories/5/archival_objects/676054 1972-1974

Box 21, Folder 27

Queen of the Night contract with A. Ronald Lubin /repositories/5/archival_objects/676055 1977

Box 21, Folder 28

Correspondences with Vera and Irving Lerner and a speech on Irving Lerner for USC /repositories/5/archival_objects/676056 1972-1980

Box 21, Folder 29-35

Motion Picture Holdings receipts, distribution, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676057 1980-1996

Box 21, Folder 36

Legal notes, correspondences, and newspaper clippings /repositories/5/archival_objects/676058 1955

Box 21, Folder 37

The Mad Bomber receipts, correspondences, and distribution /repositories/5/archival_objects/676059 1973-1975 1983

Box 21, Folder 38

Promissory Note blank forms /repositories/5/archival_objects/676060

Box 21, Folder 39

List of video tapes /repositories/5/archival_objects/676061 1983

Box 21, Folder 40

Motion Picture Holdings R. Rosenfeld loan /repositories/5/archival_objects/676062 1993

Box 21, Folder 41

Love Among the Neomorts summary /repositories/5/archival_objects/676063 1976

Box 22

Book materials, Queen of the Night materials, correspondences, contracts, and newspaper clippings /repositories/5/archival_objects/676064

Box 22, Folder 1

Book materials including outlines, notes, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676065 1990-1996

Box 22, Folder 2

Queen of the Night synopsis /repositories/5/archival_objects/676066 1978-1999

Box 22, Folder 3

Queen of the Night budgets /repositories/5/archival_objects/676067 1979-1981

Box 22, Folder 4, Box 22, Folder 8, Box 22, Folder 12

Queen of the Night correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676068 1980-1993

Box 22, Folder 5

Queen of the Night casting /repositories/5/archival_objects/676069 1980

Box 22, Folder 6

Queen of the Night limited partnership contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676070 1975-1979

Box 22, Folder 7, Box 22, Folder 11

Queen of the Night contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676071 1979-1980

Box 22, Folder 9, Box 22, Folder 10, Box 22, Folder 16

Queen of the Night contracts and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676072 1977-1980

Box 22, Folder 13

Queen of the Night budgets, contracts, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676073 1979-1980

Box 22, Folder 14

Queen of the Night budgets, contracts, production materials, and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676074 1979-1980

Box 22, Folder 15

Queen of the Night script /repositories/5/archival_objects/676075 1980

Box 22, Folder 17

Royal Hunt of the Sun contracts and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676076 1988

Box 22, Folder 18

Correspondences with and the last will and testament of Richard L. Rosenfeld /repositories/5/archival_objects/676077 1988-1992

Box 22, Folder 19

Material for stories, notes, newspaper clippings, and screenplay drafts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676078 1963-1970

Box 22, Folder 20

Correspondences, maps, and paperwork for the sale of land in Madrid, Spain /repositories/5/archival_objects/676079 1969-1988

Box 22, Folder 21

Skyscraper scripts and correspondences /repositories/5/archival_objects/676080 1976

Box 22, Folder 22

Sale escrow instructions /repositories/5/archival_objects/676081 1990

Box 22, Folder 23

Original check and photocopies /repositories/5/archival_objects/676082 1992

Box 22, Folder 24

Television Corporation of Americas sale contracts /repositories/5/archival_objects/676083 1983

Box 22, Folder 25

Correspondences with Philip Yordan /repositories/5/archival_objects/676084 1968-1982 2003

Box 22, Folder 26

55 Days at Peking poster and books, photocopied newspaper clippings, Brave New World screenplay, and El Cid screenplay /repositories/5/archival_objects/676085 1961-1964

Box 23

Books and pamphlets /repositories/5/archival_objects/676086 1960-1977 2004

Box 24

Poster for a performance of the opera Primo Levi and posters for the film Surfacing /repositories/5/archival_objects/676087 1981 1986