Howard Estabrook papers
Catalogued by Slide, Anthony; Catalogued by Adamson, Joe
Margaret Herrick Library. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
333 S La Cienega Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Published January 2023
Descriptive Summary
Abstract: The collection contains scripts, treatments, synopses, and story material; some production material; and biographical data,
clippings, some correspondence, diaries, financial papers, contracts, personal and family papers, and manuscript material
for articles and lectures. It is especially rich in material documenting the process of story development for scripts both
produced and unproduced.
Collector:
Estabrook, Howard
Dates: 1885-1977
Dates: 1927-1972
Collection number: 11
Collection Size:
21.5 linear ft. of papers
Repository:
Margaret Herrick Library. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Available by appointment only.
Publication Rights
Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all
necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing
materials obtained from the library.
Preferred Citation
Howard Estabrook papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Howard Estabrook, 1977
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The Howard Estabrook papers span the years 1885-1977 (bulk 1927-1972) and encompass 21.5 linear feet. The papers contain production
files and subject files. The production files feature script material and some production documentation for two dozen films,
including THE BIG FISHERMAN (1959), A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (1932), THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1944), CIMARRON (1931), THE
CONQUERORS (1932), DAVID COPPERFIELD (1935), THE FOUR FEATHERS (1929), HEAVENLY DAYS (1944), HELL'S ANGELS (1930), THE SHOPWORN
ANGEL (1929), and WELLS FARGO (1937). Estabrook's Academy Award-nominated and -winning work for Street of Chance and Cimarron
is represented by screenplays. Scripts, treatments, and synopses by Estabrook document more than 80 unproduced film projects,
ranging from GRAUSTARK (circa 1938) to THE GLORY OF ANGKOR (circa 1960). Likewise, there is story material for around 20 produced
and unproduced television programs, one realized and ten unrealized stage productions, and a handful of produced and unproduced
radio programs. Of interest is a play script for "Mrs. Avery" written by Estabrook and his wife, Gretchen Dale. Synopses and
other material including scripts, stories, and treatments collected by Estabrook are present for more than 70 properties.
Thornton Wilder's first play, "The Trumpet Shall Sound," is represented by a play script and 1931 RKO memo.
The subject files contain biographical data, clippings, some correspondence, diaries, financial papers, personal and family
papers, and manuscript material for articles and lectures. The diaries present a detailed record of Estabrook's daily personal
and professional activities, often indicating the dates he worked on specific projects and the date script material was submitted
or returned from producers. Of note are voluminous contracts that chronicle his employment from 1904 into the 1960s. Clippings
regarding the House Un-American Activities Committee and correspondence concerning Estabrook's efforts to clear his name from
being linked to a "communist front organization" are of interest.
Biography
Howard Estabrook (1884-1978) was born Howard Estabrook Bolles in Detroit. He dropped the surname Bolles in 1907 and was henceforth
known as Howard Estabrook (Estabrook being his maternal grandmother's maiden name). Upon graduating from Detroit's Central
High School, Estabrook's short-lived business career included clerking at Michigan Central Railroad and assistant cashiering
at the Wayne County treasurer's office. Meanwhile, his appearances in Detroit's theatrical and stock company productions led
to his first professional engagement under Charles Frohman's management in New York in 1904. Estabrook's first play script
was for "Mrs. Avery," which premiered at Weber's Theatre, New York, in 1911. Estabrook continued acting on the stage and moved
into stage direction in the 1910s.
His first film appearance was the leading role in OFFICER 666 (1914), followed by roles in a handful of films produced at
Eastern Studios. He directed three films in 1917, one in New York and two in Los Angeles. Returning to New York, Estabrook
served as assistant sales manager at the Vacuum Oil Company during World War I. He left in 1921 to take a position with the
Film Booking Offices of America, followed by positions at Distinctive Pictures Corporation and Creation Pictures Corporation.
He independently produced THE PRICE OF A PARTY (1924) and two other mid-1920s films. Estabrook then turned to writing scenarios
and by the end of the decade had scripted more than a dozen films, from DRESSED TO KILL (1928) to HELL'S ANGELS (1930). His
writing career thrived through the late 1950s and included such films as CIMARRON (1931), A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (1932), DAVID
COPPERFIELD (1935), HEAVENLY DAYS (1944), which Estabrook also directed, and THE BIG FISHERMAN (1959). Estabrook's screenplay
for STREET OF CHANCE (1930) was nominated for an Academy Award, and he received the Academy Award for writing (adaptation)
for CIMARRON. Estabrook served on the Academy Board of Governors from October 1934 to October 1942 (second vice president,
1934; first vice president, 1934-1939).
Arrangement of the Collection
Organized into the following series: 1. Production files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 2. Television
files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 3. Stage files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced;
4. Radio files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 5. Story files, subseries A-B as follows: A. General;
B. Story material; 6. Subject files, subseries A-B as follows: A. General; B. Diaries
Indexing terms
Estabrook, Howard
Directors
Producers
Screenwriters
Production files/Produced
folder 1
AESOP'S FABLES--miscellaneous
1921--1926
Record ID: 71332061
Scope and Content Note
promotional material for series animated by Paul Terry, originally produced by Howard Estabrook
folder 2
ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71443835
Scope and Content Note
synopsis, January 8, 1931, 3 pages; structure (outline for screen treatment), June 9, 1931, 18 pages
folder 3
ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331733
Scope and Content Note
rehearsal script, July 9, 1931, 189 pages [annotations and revisions]
folder 4
ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331729
Scope and Content Note
novelization by John Moynihan (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1931)
folder 5
ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?--miscellaneous
1931--1931
Record ID: 71443836
Scope and Content Note
revised shooting schedule, July 11, 1931; list of boxoffice grosses in major U.S. cities, December 4, 1931, 4 pages; AMPP
list of censor's cuts for New York, December 19, 1931, 3 pages
folder 6
THE BAD MAN--legal
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331954
folder 7
THE BIG FISHERMAN--script
1957--1958
Record ID: 71331734
Scope and Content Note
first draft treatment, December 30, 1957, 7 pages; structure layout for Act I, January 8, 1958, 5 pages; treatment, December
30, 1957, through February 20, 1958, 149 pages [annotations and revisions]
folder 8
THE BIG FISHERMAN--script
1958--1958
Record ID: 71331735
Scope and Content Note
shooting script by Howard Estabrook and Rowland V. Lee (from novel by Lloyd C. Douglas), October 1, 1958, 95 pages
folder 9
THE BIG FISHERMAN--breakdowns
1958--1958
Record ID: 71443838
Scope and Content Note
script breakdown, September 29, 1958, 130 pages
folder 10
THE BIG FISHERMAN--correspondence
1959--1961
Record ID: 71331736
Scope and Content Note
letters of congratulation; discussion of production with wardrobe mistress Renié Conley, August 16, 1959, through January
11, 1960
folder 11
THE BIG FISHERMAN--distribution
1959--1959
Record ID: 71443840
Scope and Content Note
handwritten lists of comparative grosses of dramatic pictures playing in Los Angeles, copied from "Daily Variety" and "The
Hollywood Reporter," August 18, 1959, through September 29, 1959, including ANATOMY OF A MURDER, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, ROOM
AT THE TOP, and DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE
folder 12
THE BIG FISHERMAN--production
1957--1958
Record ID: 71443839
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Rowland V. Lee Productions, Inc., and Centurion Films, Inc., November 1, 1957
folder 13
THE BIG FISHERMAN--publicity
1959--1959
Record ID: 71331737
Scope and Content Note
handwritten publicity note on difficulties of location, undated; manuscript of article by Howard Estabrook on screen adaptations
of literary works, undated, 3 pages; drafts of program copy covering various personalities and aspects of production, June
10, 1959, and undated [annotated and revised]; carbon copy of typed review with heading, "Film Daily," June 29, 1959
folder 14
THE BIG FISHERMAN--research
1959--1959
Record ID: 71443837
Scope and Content Note
notice of rare historical recording sent by George M. Lamsa for possible use in production, March 16, 1959
folder 15
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331739
Scope and Content Note
play in three acts by Clemence Dane (London: William Heinemann, 1921), 92 pages [heavily annotated]
folder 16
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1932--1932
Record ID: 71443857
Scope and Content Note
digest (step outline) of play, June 23, 1932, 8 pages
folder 17
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1932--1932
Record ID: 71331738
Scope and Content Note
final screenplay by Harry Wagstaff Gribble (adaptation by Howard Estabrook, from play by Clemence Dane), July 28, 1932, 113
pages
folder 18
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1932--1932
Record ID: 71443860
Scope and Content Note
revision pages, August 1, 1932, and undated, 5 pages
folder 19
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1932--1932
Record ID: 71443858
Scope and Content Note
dialogue cutting continuity, August 9, 1932, 46 pages
folder 20
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--script
1932--1932
Record ID: 71443859
Scope and Content Note
retake script pages, August 22, 1932, 18 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 21
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT--miscellaneous
1932--1932
Record ID: 71443861
Scope and Content Note
text of telegram from Ned Depinet to David O. Selznick praising film, September 15, 1932; text by Howard Estabrook regarding
this production and Katharine Hepburn, undated, 5 pages [written in 1973 as part of manuscript for proposed book, "Movie Magic
and Mirage"]
folder 22
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY--miscellaneous
1943--1945
Record ID: 71331740
Scope and Content Note
letter from John C. Higgins, at Motion Picture Society for the Americas, volunteering suggestions and enclosing 26-page chapter
from book, "Peruvian Pageant," concerning actress Micaela Villegas, September 10, 1943; telegram from Screen Writers Guild
determining screenwriting credits, November 30, 1943; bill of sale and executed assignment of rights to screenplay from Howard
Estabrook to Benedict Bogeaus Productions, June 29, 1944
folder 23
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY--miscellaneous
Circa 1944--1944
Record ID: 71443919
Scope and Content Note
title page from script, undated; handwritten notes comparing story elements to those in RAIN and IRMA LA DOUCE, undated
folder 24
CATTLE QUEEN OF MONTANA--script
1954--1954
Record ID: 71331741
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Robert Blees, June 14, 1954, through June 17, 1954, 122 pages
folder 25
CATTLE QUEEN OF MONTANA--script
1954--1954
Record ID: 71331742
Scope and Content Note
screenplay, marked "Last script work - HE," July 10, 1954, with revisions to July 29, 1954, 122 pages [annotated with further
revisions]
folder 26
CATTLE QUEEN OF MONTANA--script
Circa 1954--1954
Record ID: 71443920
Scope and Content Note
list of "Changes affecting the entire screenplay which were made after Estabrook started work," undated, 5 pages
folder 27
CATTLE QUEEN OF MONTANA--legal
1954--1954
Record ID: 71449024
folder 28
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331743
Scope and Content Note
novel by Edna Ferber (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930) [heavily annotated]
folder 29
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331746
Scope and Content Note
condensed outline of novel, April 24, 1930, 5 pages; complete digest of novel, April 24, 1930, 32 pages; condensed outline
of screen story, April 29, 1930, through May 10, 1930, 59 pages [annotated]; adaptation and structure of screenplay (treatment),
May 20, 1930, through June 5, 1930, 112 pages; screenwriter's notes, probably Estabrook's; incomplete outline of narrative
events, undated
folder 30
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331747
Scope and Content Note
first draft by Howard Estabrook, May 28, 1930, through June 26, 1930, 269 pages
folder 31
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331748
Scope and Content Note
incomplete estimating script (sequences A through G) by Howard Estabrook, July 15, 1930, 234 pages [lightly annotated]; digest
(outline) of screen story, July 14, 1930; thumbnail portraits of characters, June 26, 1930, through July 5, 1930; chronological
breakdown of story and characters, July 12, 1930
folder 32
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71454993
Scope and Content Note
remainder of estimating script by Howard Estabrook, sequences H through K, July 15, 1930, 152 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 33
CIMARRON--script
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331749
Scope and Content Note
shooting script, August 27, 1930, 324 pages
folder 34
CIMARRON--script
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71331744
Scope and Content Note
final script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 154 pages
folder 35
CIMARRON--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331745
Scope and Content Note
cutting continuity, January 12, 1931, 151 pages
folder 36
CIMARRON--clippings
1931--1935
Record ID: 71332057
Scope and Content Note
clippings from "Time," "Photoplay," and other periodicals listing national and local boxoffice grosses, awards and commendations
folder 37
CIMARRON--correspondence
1931--1931
Record ID: 71443966
Scope and Content Note
cables from publicist Dave Epstein regarding New York reception of film and credit given to Howard Estabrook in reviews, January
26, 1931, through January 30, 1931; letter of appreciation from Edna Ferber, crediting Estabrook with "a sense of dialogue
-- a feeling for the way people talk," and wishing he and Charles Ruggles could have performed similar service for SHOW BOAT,
February 14, 1931; handwritten letter of congratulations from Geoffrey Shurlock at Paramount, February 24, 1931; letter of
appreciation from Will Hays at MPPDA, November 11, 1931
folder 38
CIMARRON--correspondence (remakes)
1958--1970
Record ID: 71443967
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with MGM regarding potential remakes and possibility of screen credit for Howard Estabrook
folder 39
CIMARRON--miscellaneous
1930--1930
Record ID: 71448520
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with RKO to write screenplay, April 10, 1930; prop invitation as photographed for insert
folder 40
CIMARRON--publicity
1931--1931
Record ID: 71443968
Scope and Content Note
text written for press releases by Howard Estabrook regarding adaptation of novel and preparation of script; biographical
sketch of Estabrook, undated
folder 41
CIMARRON--research
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71443923
Scope and Content Note
research notes regarding life in Oklahoma and the American West from 1889 through 1929
folder 42
CIMARRON--research (photographs)
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71452639
Scope and Content Note
one 4x5 photographic copy negative depicting Oklahoma Land Run
folder 43
THE CONQUERORS--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71455180
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline by Howard Estabrook, November 26, 1931; outline by Howard Estabrook, December 4, 1931, 5 pages [annotated
and revised]; outline by Howard Estabrook, December 8, 1931, 4 pages; incomplete outline by Howard Estabrook, December 9,
1931, 5 pages [annotated and revised]; outline by Howard Estabrook, December 10, 1931, 10 pages; outline by Howard Estabrook,
December 11, 1931, 12 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 44
THE CONQUERORS--script
1931--1932
Record ID: 71455181
Scope and Content Note
outline by Howard Estabrook, December 23, 1931, 5 pages; condensed outline by Howard Estabrook, January 27, 1932, and January
28, 1932, 25 pages
folder 45
THE CONQUERORS--script
1931--1932
Record ID: 71444038
Scope and Content Note
memos to David O. Selznick by Howard Estabrook, detailing intent of story structure, January 30, 1932, through September 10,
1932
folder 46
THE CONQUERORS--script (European version)
1932--1932
Record ID: 71455183
Scope and Content Note
addition script for European distribution (prologue and added dialogue for scene 36) by Howard Estabrook, December 5, 1932,
3 pages; shortened prologue script by Howard Estabrook for English distribution, December 10, 1932
folder 47
THE CONQUERORS--script (montages)
1932--1932
Record ID: 71455182
Scope and Content Note
transitional montage script, September 7, 1932, and September 8, 1932, 24 pages; transitional montage script for William Wellman,
September 12, 1932, 6 pages [annotated, probably for use by Wellman]; transitional montage script, September 19, 1932, 26
pages [annotated, probably for use by Slavko Vorkapich]; transitional montage script for graphic charts, undated, 3 pages
[annotated, probably for use by graphics designers]
folder 48
THE CONQUERORS--miscellaneous
1931--1932
Record ID: 71444043
Scope and Content Note
text of telegram from Howard Estabrook to David O. Selznick protesting suggested cuts based on early screenings and reviews,
October 29, 1932
folder 49
THE CONQUERORS--publicity
Circa 1932--1932
Record ID: 71444039
Scope and Content Note
carbon copies of three press releases from "birdwell" (probably Russell Birdwell), including one bio of Howard Estabrook,
undated, and one elaboration of theme of film, credited to Estabrook, all undated
folder 50
THE CONQUERORS--research
1931--1932
Record ID: 71331750
Scope and Content Note
reports, lists, timelines, memos, related to background for this story, including list of motion picture negative clips available
from Pathé, December 1931
folder 51
THE CONQUERORS--research clippings
1930--1932
Record ID: 71455209
Scope and Content Note
"Babson's Reports" on economic conditions, June 30, 1930, and July 21, 1930; charts tracking economic condition of U.S. over
decades past, July 21, 1930, through September 26, 1931, and undated
folder 52
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS--legal
1941--1941
Record ID: 71331955
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements with Edward Small Productions, March 28, 1941, and June 3, 1941
folder 53
THE CROOKED WAY--legal
1948--1949
Record ID: 71450555
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements and assignment, July 28, 1948, through December 10, 1948
folder 54
DAKOTA--production
1945--1945
Record ID: 71331751
Scope and Content Note
teletype from Joseph Kane to Herbert J. Yates regarding problems with screenplay and reasons for hiring Estabrook to revise
it, February 19, 1945; executed agreement with Republic Productions, March 27, 1945
folder 55
DAVID COPPERFIELD--script
Circa 1935--1935
Record ID: 71331753
Scope and Content Note
novel by Charles Dickens (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Company), 961 pages [annotated]
folder 56
DAVID COPPERFIELD--script
Circa 1935--1935
Record ID: 71444224
Scope and Content Note
four short dramatic sketches from novel (Nottingham, England: Jno. Sands & Son): "David Copperfield Arrives at Dover," 10
pages; "The Flight of Em'ly," 8 pages; "David Meets Some Old Friends," 12 pages; "David and Steerforth Visit Peggotty," 6
pages
folder 57
DAVID COPPERFIELD--script
1934--1934
Record ID: 71444223
Scope and Content Note
notes, including memo from David O. Selznick on specific problems in adaptation of novel to motion picture "of not more than
10,000 or 11,000 feet," June 4, 1934, 7 pages
folder 58
DAVID COPPERFIELD--script
1934--1934
Record ID: 71331752
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook (adaptation by Hugh Walpole), October 10, 1934, 169 pages
folder 59
DAVID COPPERFIELD--correspondence
1935--1936
Record ID: 71444226
Scope and Content Note
laudatory correspondence from viewers, including members of Dickens Fellowship and American Dickens League
folder 60
DAVID COPPERFIELD--photographs
Circa 1934--1934
Record ID: 71331755
Scope and Content Note
54 8x10 photographic prints of original novel illustrations, with typed character and place identifications
folder 61
DAVID COPPERFIELD--photographs
Circa 1934--1934
Record ID: 71331756
Scope and Content Note
13 8x10 photographic prints of original novel illustrations; four 8x10 photographic prints of portraits of Charles Dickens
folder 62
DAVID COPPERFIELD--photographs
Circa 1934--1934
Record ID: 71452641
Scope and Content Note
one 4x5 negative with 5x7 print depicting Howard Estabrook, David O. Selznick, George Cukor, and others
folder 63
DAVID COPPERFIELD--production
1934--1934
Record ID: 71331754
Scope and Content Note
early cast list, including Charles Laughton as Mr. Micawber, undated; memo from David O. Selznick regarding starting production
with adult sequences before final casting of child actors, July 3, 1934
folder 64
DAVID COPPERFIELD--publicity
Circa 1934--1970
Record ID: 71444222
Scope and Content Note
notes and drafts of discussions on adaptation of novel, by Howard Estabrook, including KHJ radio interview transcript, January
30, 1935, 5 pages; clippings from "Hollywood Reporter" regarding Howard Estabrook's lecture at USC, January 22, 1935, and
January 29, 1935
folder 65
DAVID COPPERFIELD--research
1928--1934
Record ID: 71444225
Scope and Content Note
"Dickens" by Walter Dexter (London: The Dickens Fellowship, 1928)
folder 66
DECISION AT MIDNIGHT--legal
1963--1963
Record ID: 71449026
Scope and Content Note
unexecuted agreement with Moral Re-Armament, Inc., February 8, 1963
folder 67
THE DEVIL'S IN LOVE--legal
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448628
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Fox Film Corp., March 28, 1933
folder 68
DOUBLE CROSS ROADS--legal
1929--1929
Record ID: 71448521
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with William Fox Studio, December 14, 1929
folder 69
DRESSED TO KILL--script
1927--1927
Record ID: 71331757
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Howard Estabrook, October 27, 1927, 9 pages; screenplay, undated, 54 pages
folder 70
DRESSED TO KILL--script
Circa 1927--1927
Record ID: 71444314
Scope and Content Note
screenplay, undated, 55 pages [lightly annotated and revised]; incomplete screenplay by Howard Estabrook, November 23, 1927,
10 pages [lightly annotated and revised]; night club scene script pages, undated, 24 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 71
DRESSED TO KILL--script
Circa 1927--1927
Record ID: 71444315
Scope and Content Note
condensation of new treatment by Howard Estabrook, December 8, 1927, 9 pages; prologue script pages by Howard Estabrook (story
by William M. Counselman and Irving Cummings), undated, 4 pages; screenplay by Howard Estabrook (story by William M. Counselman
and Irving Cummings), undated, 89 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 72
DRESSED TO KILL--miscellaneous
1927--1928
Record ID: 71448522
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement for sale of screenplay to Fox Film Corp., December 16, 1927
folder 73
FORGOTTEN FACES--script
1919--1919
Record ID: 71332029
Scope and Content Note
story by Richard Washburn Child (retyped from "Hearst's Magazine"), November 1919, 25 pages
folder 74
FORGOTTEN FACES--script
Circa 1928--1928
Record ID: 71446396
Scope and Content Note
two outlines, undated, 7 pages
folder 75
FORGOTTEN FACES--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71331758
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook (story by Richard Washburn Child, adaptation by Oliver H. P. Garrett), April 25, 1928, with
revisions through May 9, 1928, 156 pages
folder 76
FORGOTTEN FACES--miscellaneous
1928--1941
Record ID: 71448538
Scope and Content Note
unexecuted letter of agreement with Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., April 2, 1928
folder 77
FOUR FEATHERS--legal
1915--1915
Record ID: 71448523
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Dyreda Art Film Corporation, March 29, 1915 [two copies, both annotated]
folder 78
THE FOUR FEATHERS--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71331760
Scope and Content Note
outline, synopsis, and theme, 5 pages
folder 79
THE FOUR FEATHERS--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71455283
Scope and Content Note
final screenplay by Howard Estabrook (story by A .E. W. Mason, adaptation by Hope Loring), October 29, 1928, 294 pages
folder 80
THE FOUR FEATHERS--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331759
Scope and Content Note
retakes and added scenes script, January 26, 1929, 59 pages [annotated]
folder 81
THE GIRL FROM MANHATTAN--legal
1948--1957
Record ID: 71450556
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted agreements with, and executed assignment of rights to, Benedict Bogeaus Productions, March 8, 1948,
through May 25, 1949; correspondence and other documents chronicling Howard Estabrook's attempts to secure payment from Benedict
Bogeaus
folder 82
THE GREEN GODDESS--budgets
1923--1923
Record ID: 71331761
Scope and Content Note
estimate of negative cost, July 21, 1923
folder 83
THE HAIRY APE--legal
1943--1945
Record ID: 71331956
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Jules Levey, June 28, 1943
folder 84
HEAVENLY DAYS--script
1943--1943
Record ID: 71331764
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Don Quinn, September 28, 1943, 25 pages; outline by Howard Estabrook, October 23, 1943, with revisions to October
25, 1943, 30 pages [annotated pages included]
folder 85
HEAVENLY DAYS--script
1944--1944
Record ID: 71331762
Scope and Content Note
final script by Howard Estabrook and Don Quinn, February 12, 1944, 148 pages
folder 86
HEAVENLY DAYS--script
1944--1944
Record ID: 71331763
Scope and Content Note
final script by Howard Estabrook and Don Quinn, June 20, 1944, 132 pages [annotated: potential cuts after preview of July
5, 1944, marked]; list of cuts made in July, 1944, 19 pages
folder 87
HEAVENLY DAYS--correspondence
1944--1944
Record ID: 71450557
Scope and Content Note
exchange of telegrams between Howard Estabrook and Don Quinn regarding next Fibber McGee and Molly film
folder 88
HEAVENLY DAYS--legal
1943--1944
Record ID: 71448996
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted agreements with RKO Radio Pictures, October 11, 1943, and January 31, 1944
folder 89
HEAVENLY DAYS--production
1943--1945
Record ID: 71331765
Scope and Content Note
preliminary budget details regarding sets and ladies' wardrobe, December 23, 1943, and January 31, 1944; RKO memo regarding
terms of Estabrook's agreement, February 4, 1944; letter from George Gallup with his reaction to his appearance as character,
March 15, 1944; editing, re-recording and music schedule, June 2, 1944; comments from preview cards, July 7, 1944, through
July 12, 1944, and undated
folder 90
HEAVENLY DAYS--publicity
1945--1945
Record ID: 71444343
Scope and Content Note
article listing this film as one of 194 chosen for preservation by Library of Congress, June 3, 1945
folder 91
HELL'S ANGELS--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331767
Scope and Content Note
continuity of silent version compiled by Douglas Biggs, August 26, 1929, 78 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 92
HELL'S ANGELS--script
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71455310
Scope and Content Note
dialogue script by Joseph Moncure March, undated, 76 pages [annotated and revised]; second version of scenes 2 through 4,
undated, 3 pages; second version of scenes 11A through 15, undated, 13 pages
folder 93
HELL'S ANGELS--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71444380
Scope and Content Note
listing of sequences, August 27, 1929, 3 pages; characterizations and synopses of sequences, August 28, 1929, through September
20, 1929, 14 pages
folder 94
HELL'S ANGELS--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331766
Scope and Content Note
final script by Howard Estabrook, September 27, 1929, 151 pages
folder 95
HELL'S ANGELS--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71444381
Scope and Content Note
"Annex continuity" listing revisions to be made in final script, September 27, 1929, 5 pages; list of lines definitely changed
in script, September 28, 1929; "Annex continuity" listing further revisions, September 28, 1929, through October 3, 1929,
11 pages; memorandum by Howard Estabrook regarding revisions for sequences A through G, and I, October 4, 1929
folder 96
HELL'S ANGELS--production
1929--1929
Record ID: 71444379
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Caddo Company, August 22, 1929
folder 97
THE HUMAN COMEDY--script
1942--1942
Record ID: 71331768
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, August 28, 1942, with revisions to September 1, 1942, approximately 131 pages
folder 98
THE HUMAN COMEDY--script
1942--1942
Record ID: 71331769
Scope and Content Note
screenplay, August 28, 1942, with revisions through November 19, 1942, 131 pages [annotated; includes two pages of handwritten
dialogue, undated]
folder 99
THE HUMAN COMEDY--script
1942--1943
Record ID: 71444387
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous script pages and rewrites, November 19, 1942, through January 15, 1943, 19 pages; includes retake ending, December
19, 1942, with revisions to December 21, 1942, 5 pages
folder 100
THE HUMAN COMEDY--clippings
Circa 1942--1943
Record ID: 71444388
folder 101
THE HUMAN COMEDY--miscellaneous
1942--1943
Record ID: 71451763
Scope and Content Note
letters from Howard Estabrook to William Saroyan discussing their plan for future screenplays based on Saroyan's writing,
October 3, 1942, and November 23, 1942; memo to Estabrook from Howard Dietz describing "excellent" New York reception to opening
day, March 3, 1943; fragment of essay by Estabrook regarding William Saroyan and fashioning this screenplay, April 8, 1943;
copy of letter to Howard Dietz from Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., lauding film and its potential effect on
national morale, April 20, 1943; notification from "Boxoffice" that film has won their July Blue Ribbon Award, August 14,
1943
folder 102
INSIDE THE LINES--script
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71331842
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten synopsis by Howard Estabrook, undated, 6 pages; typed synopsis by Howard Estabrook, undated, 7 pages
folder 103
INTERNATIONAL LADY--script
1941--1941
Record ID: 71331770
Scope and Content Note
23 pages of original and revised script, May 26, 1941, through May 28, 1941, and undated
folder 104
INTERNATIONAL LADY--legal
1941--1941
Record ID: 71448828
folder 105
KEEP SMILING--budgets
Circa 1925--1925
Record ID: 71331771
Scope and Content Note
statement of total production cost
folder 106
KIM--script
1935--1935
Record ID: 71331843
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of novel, September 23, 1935, through October 24, 1935, 48 pages [includes both clean and annotated copies of some
pages]; plan of adaptation, October 25, 1935, through November 8, 1935, 16 pages [lightly annotated]; notes on adaptation,
November 22, 1935, and undated; incomplete handwritten outline, undated
folder 107
KIM--miscellaneous
1935--1935
Record ID: 71445709
folder 108
KISMET--legal
1930--1930
Record ID: 71448524
folder 109
LONE STAR--legal
1951--1952
Record ID: 71331772
Scope and Content Note
copy of agreement with Loew's Incorporated executed by Howard Estabrook, July 16, 1951; chronology concerning life of screenplay
prepared by Howard Estabrook for IRS auditor, August 26, 1952, 12 pages
folder 110
MAID OF SALEM--script
Circa 1937--1937
Record ID: 71444391
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Bradley King, undated, 48 pages
folder 111
MAID OF SALEM--script
1936--1936
Record ID: 71444392
Scope and Content Note
notes by Howard Estabrook on existing treatments, June 12, 1936, and June 13, 1936, 8 pages
folder 112
MAID OF SALEM--script
1936--1937
Record ID: 71331773
Scope and Content Note
screenplay, August 22, 1936, with outline, character portraits, and revisions to February 4, 1937, 191 pages [annotated and
revised]
folder 113
MAID OF SALEM--miscellaneous
1936--1937
Record ID: 71444393
Scope and Content Note
letter of congratulation to Howard Estabrook from Adolph Zukor, January 25, 1937
folder 114
THE MASQUERADER--legal
1932--1932
Record ID: 71448629
Scope and Content Note
unexecuted letter of agreement with Samuel Goldwyn Inc. for loanout from RKO, September 1932
folder 115
THE MYSTERIES OF MYRA--correspondence
1917--1973
Record ID: 71332058
Scope and Content Note
fan letters
folder 116
THE MYSTERIES OF MYRA--miscellaneous
1916--1916
Record ID: 71448525
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Wharton, Inc., February 10, 1916
folder 117
NEW WINE--production
1941--1941
Record ID: 71448829
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Gloria Pictures Corporation, January 3, 1941
folder 118
NORTH STAR--production
1925--1925
Record ID: 71451997
Scope and Content Note
letter from Howard Estabrook explaining involvement of his wife Gretchen in rewriting of intertitles, January 27, 1925; production
cost statement, October 15, 1925
folder 119
OFFICER 666--miscellaneous
Circa 1914--1914
Record ID: 71448526
Scope and Content Note
notes written on George Kleine Productions forms, undated
folder 120
THE PARADINE CASE--legal
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448630
folder 121
PASSION--legal
1954--1954
Record ID: 71449027
folder 122
PEARL OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC--legal
1954--1955
Record ID: 71449028
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements with Filmcrest Productions, Inc., December 16, 1954, and February 22, 1955
folder 123
PLAY SAFE--production
1925--1926
Record ID: 71331774
Scope and Content Note
cost sheet; financial reports numbered 1, 2, and 4-12, September 24, 1925, through December 12, 1925
folder 124
THE PORT OF MISSING GIRLS--script
Circa 1927--1927
Record ID: 71331775
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, with outline, undated, 177 pages
folder 125
THE PORT OF MISSING GIRLS--miscellaneous
1927--1928
Record ID: 71448527
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements with Brenda Pictures Corp., September 3, 1927, through September 14, 1927; letter to "Motion Picture News"
from Bert Adler at Woody and Adler, Inc., listing grosses for specific theaters in upper New York state, December 10, 1928
folder 126
THE PRICE OF A PARTY--financial
1924--1934
Record ID: 71331776
Scope and Content Note
cost sheet and other tallies of total production costs; miscellaneous financial records; Howard Estabrook correspondence concerning
financial aspect of production, much of it with J. E. Brulatour, October 15, 1932, through September 7, 1934
folder 127
THE PRICE OF A PARTY--production
1924--1924
Record ID: 71444458
Scope and Content Note
correspondence of Howard Estabrook, as president of Creation Pictures Corp., with Associated Exhibitors, May 13, 1924, through
June 25, 1924, regarding progress of production
folder 128
QUO VADIS--legal
Circa 1936--1936
Record ID: 71448631
folder 129
THE REAL GLORY--production
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331777
Scope and Content Note
list of writers, scripts, script versions, treatments, and outlines, May 27, 1938
folder 130
ROAR OF THE DRAGON--production
1932--1932
Record ID: 71444040
Scope and Content Note
memo from Howard Estabrook to David O. Selznick requesting that his name be removed from credits, June 8, 1932
folder 131
SHE GOES TO WAR--legal
1928--1928
Record ID: 71448528
Scope and Content Note
executed letters of agreement with Inspiration Pictures and David O. Selznick at Paramount, April 30, 1928, through June 1,
1928
folder 132
THE SHOPWORN ANGEL--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71331778
Scope and Content Note
final screenplay, adaptation and continuity by Howard Estabrook (story by Dana Burnett), September 6, 1928, with revisions
to September 8, 1928, 239 pages
folder 133
THE SHOPWORN ANGEL--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71444467
Scope and Content Note
three miscellaneous (silent film) script pages, undated; dialogue script, October 10, 1928, 7 pages; story outline in graph
format, undated
folder 134
THE SHOPWORN ANGEL--production
1938--1938
Record ID: 71444497
Scope and Content Note
notice of tentative credits, listing Howard Estabrook as "Contributor to story development," May 20, 1938
folder 135
SILVER LODE--miscellaneous
1954--1954
Record ID: 71450751
Scope and Content Note
notice of tentative writing credits excluding Howard Estabrook, February 3, 1954
folder 136
SLIGHTLY SCARLET--legal
1955--1955
Record ID: 71449029
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Filmcrest Productions, Inc., June 13, 1955
folder 137
SPIDER WEBS--script
Circa 1925--1925
Record ID: 71331779
Scope and Content Note
text for main titles and intertitles, undated, 12 pages
folder 138
STREET OF CHANCE--script
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71444499
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Oliver H. P. Garrett, undated, 83 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 139
STREET OF CHANCE--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331780
Scope and Content Note
final script by Howard Estabrook (story and dialogue by Oliver H. P. Garrett), October 7, 1929, with revisions to October
11, 1929, 117 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 140
THOSE WHO DARE--script
Circa 1924--1924
Record ID: 71331781
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Hamilton Mannon, undated, 25 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 141
THOSE WHO DARE--production
1924--1931
Record ID: 71444511
Scope and Content Note
agreements regarding sale of story to Creation Pictures Corp., September 3, 1924; accounting of production costs as of December
31, 1924; correspondence with Associated Exhibitors and Tec-Art Studios
folder 142
VALENTINO--script
Circa 1950--1950
Record ID: 71331782
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline by George Bruce of existing screenplay (dated May 17, 1950), 9 pages
folder 143
VALENTINO--legal
1941--1941
Record ID: 71448830
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Edward Small Productions, January 11, 1941
folder 144
THE VIRGINIAN--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331784
Scope and Content Note
final script, adaptation by Howard Estabrook, Grover Jones, and Keene Thompson, (story by Owen Wister, dialogue treatment
by Edward E. Paramore, Jr.), May 14, 1929, with revisions to May 16, 1929, 181 pages
folder 145
THE VIRGINIAN--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331783
Scope and Content Note
dialogue continuity, August 12, 1929, 119 pages
folder 146
THE VIRGINIAN--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71444523
Scope and Content Note
picture continuity, August 17, 1929, 24 pages
folder 147
THE VIRGINIAN--correspondence
1942--1942
Record ID: 71444524
Scope and Content Note
letter from Motion Picture Relief Fund and "Screen Guild Theatre" regarding unrealized radio version, March 31, 1942
folder 148
THE VIRGINIAN--script
1944--1944
Record ID: 71331785
Scope and Content Note
final shooting script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, September 25, 1944, with revisions to December 20, 1944, 132
pages
folder 149
THE VIRGINIAN--production
1945--1945
Record ID: 71444600
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Paramount regarding Howard Estabrook's credit
folder 150
WAY DOWN EAST--correspondence
Circa 1972--1972
Record ID: 71451860
Scope and Content Note
post-mortem analysis with respect to D. W. Griffith and original version, written by Howard Estabrook to "J. D. Marshall"
(James Marshall Danelz) for book, "Blueprint on Babylon," undated
folder 151
WAY DOWN EAST--production
1935--1935
Record ID: 71331786
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter from W. J. Hutchinson (Managing Director, Fox, London), regarding box-office potential of story, April 27,
1935; comments (presumably by William Hurlbut) regarding draft of Howard Estabrook's screenplay, undated, 4 pages
folder 152
WELLS FARGO--script
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331788
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Stuart N. Lake, February 29, 1936, 99 pages
folder 153
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71444615
Scope and Content Note
outline by Gerald Geraghty and Paul Schofield, January 29, 1937, and January 30, 1937, 22 pages [annotated]; treatment, with
character portraits, February 22, 1937, 71 pages [annotated]
folder 154
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71444616
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, April 10, 1937, through April 20, 1937, 94 pages [annotated]
folder 155
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331787
Scope and Content Note
first draft screenplay by Howard Estabrook, June 7, 1937, 179 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 156
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331789
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, June 17, 1937, 211 pages
folder 157
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331793
Scope and Content Note
shooting script, July 2, 1937, with revisions to October 12, 1937, 225 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 158
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331791
Scope and Content Note
loose revision pages, dated from September 24, 1937, to October 12, 1937, 95 pages
folder 159
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331792
Scope and Content Note
shooting script, July 2, 1937, with revisions to October 12, 1937, 225 pages [extensive annotations and further revisions]
folder 160
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1938
Record ID: 71331790
Scope and Content Note
shooting script, July 2, 1937, with revisions to January 15, 1938, 224 pages
folder 161
WELLS FARGO--script
1937--1938
Record ID: 71444611
Scope and Content Note
script notes, including alternate titles and memos regarding structure and dialogue
folder 162
WELLS FARGO--music
1937--1937
Record ID: 71444628
Scope and Content Note
sheet music, Diazotypes (ozalid prints), with song lyrics by Ralph Freed, piano score by Burton Lane, for "Where I Ain't Been
Before," with memos and alternate lyrics
folder 163
WELLS FARGO--production
1937--1937
Record ID: 71331794
Scope and Content Note
copy of Frank Lloyd letter to Elmer Jones, president of Wells Fargo, laying out intended scope of project, March 18, 1937;
correspondence between Howard Estabrook and M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon and Schuster regarding possible book version, April
7, 1937, through April 23, 1937; shooting schedule, July 9, 1937
folder 164
WELLS FARGO--research
1935--1937
Record ID: 71444612
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter to studio researchers from Buffalo Historical Society listing available photographs of appropriate sites in
Buffalo, New York, April 26, 1937; copy of letter from Paramount exchange in Salt Lake City, Utah, regarding newspaper records
of completion of telegraph line and first messages sent over it, June 25, 1937
folder 165
THE WILD GIRL--clippings
1917--1917
Record ID: 71450239
Scope and Content Note
review from "Chicago Post," October 29, 1917
folder 166
THE WILD GIRL--legal
1917--1917
Record ID: 71448534
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Tanguay-Weber Film Corporation for film with Eva Tanguay, June 21, 1917
folder 167
WOMAN HUNGRY--production
1930--1930
Record ID: 71450316
Scope and Content Note
exchange between Howard Estabrook and Jack L. Warner regarding rescue work necessitated by bad preview, and recalling similar
experience on THE VIRGINIAN, May 7, 1930
folder 168
WUTHERING HEIGHTS--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331907
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Howard Estabrook of novel by Emily Brontë, March 18, 1938; notes by Estabrook on existing Goldwyn script, May
10, 1938
Production files/Unproduced
folder 169
ABRAHAM LINCOLN--research
1935--1935
Record ID: 71446388
Scope and Content Note
material sent from The Lincoln National Life Foundation, Lincoln Historical Research Division, to Fox Film Corp
folder 170
ABRAHAM LINCOLN--research clippings
1960--1960
Record ID: 71447106
Scope and Content Note
copy of article on Lincoln's sense of humor, February 7, 1960
folder 171
AGE OF LARCENY--legal
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448632
folder 172
AIR LINER--script
1933--1933
Record ID: 71331795
Scope and Content Note
treatment of original story by Howard Estabrook, July 22, 1933, through July 24, 1933, with alternate version July 28, 1933,
15 pages
folder 173
AIR LINER--research
1933--1933
Record ID: 71444631
Scope and Content Note
"Los Angeles Times" clipping regarding dirigibles, July 9, 1933
folder 174
AMERICAN LEGION--script
1940--1940
Record ID: 71331802
Scope and Content Note
treatment of original story by Howard Estabrook, with character portraits, November 5, 1940, 21 pages
folder 175
THE ASPERN PAPERS--copyright
1946--1946
Record ID: 71450558
Scope and Content Note
letter from copyright office regarding public domain status of original Henry James novella, July 10, 1946
folder 176
THE AURORA COMPLEX--script
1970--1970
Record ID: 71331806
Scope and Content Note
treatment with dialogue by Howard Estabrook [including foreword and "condensed data" outlining scope of project], 1970, 42
pages
folder 177
THE AURORA COMPLEX--clippings
1969--1970
Record ID: 71451603
Scope and Content Note
articles and advertisements from trade periodicals highlighting personalities considered potential script recipients
folder 178
THE AURORA COMPLEX--correspondence
1970--1970
Record ID: 71444720
Scope and Content Note
copyright registration, February 12, 1970; correspondence documenting submissions to Walter Mirisch, Billy Wilder, Disney
Studio, MGM, and others
folder 179
THE AURORA COMPLEX--notes
Record ID: 71331805
Scope and Content Note
lists of potential titles
folder 180
THE AURORA COMPLEX--research
Record ID: 71331830
Scope and Content Note
typed research notes with background material
folder 181
THE AURORA COMPLEX--research clippings
1942--1968
Record ID: 71444718
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding World War II and post-war affairs in Greece, youth rebellion in U. S
folder 182
THE AURORA COMPLEX--research clippings
1969--1970
Record ID: 71331804
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding affairs in Greece, youth rebellion in U. S
folder 183
THE AURORA COMPLEX--research clippings
Circa 1970--1970
Record ID: 71444717
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding affairs in Greece and Turkey, youth rebellion in U. S.
folder 184
BABYLON THE GREAT--script
1946--1946
Record ID: 71331807
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 32 pages [some pages annotated with minor corrections]; copy of cover letter to D. A. Doran
at Paramount regarding treatment, November 25, 1946
folder 185
CALCULATED RISK--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71331808
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1952, 30 pages
folder 186
CALIFORNIA--miscellaneous
Circa 1928--1928
Record ID: 71446390
Scope and Content Note
clipping regarding business potential of southern California, 1928; factual material suggesting attempted story development,
presumably written by Estabrook, undated
folder 187
CARDIGAN--legal
1938--1938
Record ID: 71448831
folder 188
CROSSROADS--script
Record ID: 71446414
Scope and Content Note
incomplete screenplay, undated, 6 pages
folder 189
CUNARD LINE--legal
1938--1938
Record ID: 71448832
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Paramount Pictures, Inc., January 5, 1938
folder 190
DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT--script notes
1940--1940
Record ID: 71331810
Scope and Content Note
copy of MGM memo from Howard Estabrook to Eddie Mannix, regarding errors in script by Dorothy Parker, in comparison to treatment
by Estabrook, February 8, 1940
folder 191
DISSOLUTE PRINCE SECRETARY STORY--script
Record ID: 71446911
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten screenplay for silent film, undated, 12 pages
folder 192
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--script
1939--1939
Record ID: 71331813
Scope and Content Note
second draft shooting script by Howard Estabrook, May 29, 1939, 180 pages [annotated and revised; includes conceptual art]
folder 193
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--script
1939--1939
Record ID: 71331812
Scope and Content Note
third draft shooting script by Howard Estabrook, June 14, 1939, with revisions through June 15, 1939, 180 pages
folder 194
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--script
1939--1939
Record ID: 71331814
Scope and Content Note
screenwriter's foreword with synopsis, undated, 9 pages; character portraits with casting suggestions, undated, 5 pages
folder 195
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA--miscellaneous
1939--1939
Record ID: 71444916
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements with Pascal Film Productions, April 10, 1939; carbon copy of letter from Howard Estabrook to George Bernard
Shaw, regarding erroneous press statement, July 20, 1939; "Hollywood Reporter" clippings with erroneous press statement, July
10, 1939, and July 19, 1939
folder 196
ELEGANCE--legal
1936--1936
Record ID: 71448633
folder 197
THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER--legal
1959--1959
Record ID: 71449030
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted drafts of agreement with Lloyd E. Young, September 14, 1959, through October 29, 1959, and undated
folder 198
ENCHANTED VALLEY--script
1968--1968
Record ID: 71331815
Scope and Content Note
outline by Howard Estabrook addressed to Card Walker at Walt Disney Productions, undated; letter from William Dover at Disney
returning this story and THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS, November 27, 1968
folder 199
ENTANGLED--script
Circa 1928--1928
Record ID: 71331816
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 25 pages
folder 200
ENTANGLED--research clippings
1928--1928
Record ID: 71455701
Scope and Content Note
article from Los Angeles newspaper regarding missing minors, 1928
folder 201
THE FOOLKILLER--script
Record ID: 71446913
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 21 pages
folder 202
FORWARD MARCH--pre-production
1934--1934
Record ID: 71450317
Scope and Content Note
memo from Darryl F. Zanuck at Twentieth Century Pictures regarding another writer at studio and his connection to this story,
September 20, 1934
folder 203
A FREE WOMAN--miscellaneous
Circa 1969--1969
Record ID: 71450866
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 21 pages; Estabrook's critique of Creative Management Associates' release form, April
22, 1969; note from Beulah Bondi regarding disposition of treatment, June 13, 1969
folder 204
THE GEISHA--script
Record ID: 71331817
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 19 pages
folder 205
GET RICH QUICKER--script
Record ID: 71331818
Scope and Content Note
incomplete synopsis, undated, 4 pages
folder 206
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Circa 1959--1959
Record ID: 71331822
Scope and Content Note
foreword, with data on locale, theme, sources, Cambodian government cooperation, and other production details; multiple numbered
versions of treatment, submission of third version dated April 6, 1959, some dated simply 1959, others undated, 72 pages [some
copies annotated with revisions, creating next version]
folder 207
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Record ID: 71331820
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous supplemental presentation pages with notes, structure, character portraits, and illustrations clipped from magazines,
undated, 18 pages
folder 208
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Record ID: 71445425
Scope and Content Note
prologue to screenplay, undated, 6 pages; early Sequence A screenplay pages, undated, 12 pages
folder 209
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Circa 1960--1960
Record ID: 71331823
Scope and Content Note
first draft screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, approximately 115 pages [annotated]; character portraits; obsolete pages
folder 210
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Circa 1961--1961
Record ID: 71331821
Scope and Content Note
revision pages and retyped pages for summary of story, synopsis of screenplay, and screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated,
61 pages; illustrations clipped from magazines, 11 pages
folder 211
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Circa 1962--1962
Record ID: 71331824
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 115 pages; synopsis of screenplay, 20 pages; illustrations clipped from magazines,
18 pages
folder 212
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
Circa 1962--1962
Record ID: 71445463
Scope and Content Note
synopses of story, miscellaneous synopsis pages, 79 pages
folder 213
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--script
1969--1969
Record ID: 71445062
Scope and Content Note
handwritten dialogue, dramatic and general notes regarding screenplay in progress
folder 214
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--correspondence
1959--1969
Record ID: 71331825
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and his administration regarding permission to film at Angkor
Wat, July 14, 1959, through June 30, 1961; copies of letters by Howard Estabrook to Sam Yorty recounting development history
of project, with reference to errors committed on THE KING AND I, August 30, 1960, through November 10, 1960; rejection letter
from Charles Brackett with rationale, August 13, 1962; copies of letters by Estabrook to George Cukor regarding his possible
involvement and involvement of Steve Parker, November 25, 1962, through December 3, 1962; "Memorandum for Robert Balzer" by
Estabrook, defending use of history and treatment of slavery in work of cinematic fiction, undated, 9 pages [with addendum];
information regarding Gloria Swanson, October 29, 1961, through December 26, 1961
folder 215
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--legal
1959--1962
Record ID: 71331826
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous drafts of legal agreement between Howard Estabrook, Carl Berger, and Sam Yorty, 1959-1962; fragment of MPAA
Title Registration Report including titles for this project, April 11, 1960; copyright registration, December 12, 1960
folder 216
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--photographs (negatives)
Record ID: 71445621
Scope and Content Note
ten 8x10 and seven 4x7 black-and-white negatives depicting Angkor Wat and literature regarding it
folder 217
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--photographs (prints)
Record ID: 71445622
Scope and Content Note
four 8x10 black-and-white prints depicting bas relief sculptures of Angkor Wat; four 8x10 black-and-white photographs of clippings
regarding Cambodia and Indo-China
folder 218
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--pre-production
1962--1962
Record ID: 71445461
Scope and Content Note
"The Angkor Package," description by Howard Estabrook of project and its development, April 11, 1962, 3 pages; production
plan; casting suggestions
folder 219
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--publicity
1956--1962
Record ID: 71445270
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding Robert Balzer, Cambodia, and this project
folder 220
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--research
1960--1960
Record ID: 71445052
Scope and Content Note
handwritten and typed notes on Angkor Wat and Khmer Empire; lists of books dealing with these subjects
folder 221
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--research (clippings)
1958--1970
Record ID: 71331819
Scope and Content Note
articles and copies regarding Indochina (southeast Asia), Cambodia, its medieval city Angkor Wat, and other archaeological
treasures
folder 222
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--research (literature)
1954--1970
Record ID: 71445051
Scope and Content Note
booklets, periodicals, and fragments regarding southeast Asia, Cambodia and Angkor Wat
folder 223
THE GLORY OF ANGKOR--research (Prince Norodom Sihanouk)
1958--1968
Record ID: 71445050
Scope and Content Note
periodicals and clippings regarding Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia; text of speech by Prince Sihanouk to United Nations, August
1961
folder 224
GRASP OF POWER--miscellaneous
1968--1968
Record ID: 71445625
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 14 pages; correspondence chronicling submission to Otto Preminger and major studios,
1968
folder 225
GRAUSTARK--script
1901--1901
Record ID: 71331827
Scope and Content Note
published novel by George Barr McCutcheon (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1901)
folder 226
GRAUSTARK--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331828
Scope and Content Note
sequence outline of screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, February 17, 1938, 39 pages
folder 227
GRAUSTARK--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71459066
Scope and Content Note
first draft (corrected) outline of treatment by Howard Estabrook, April 22, 1938, and April 23, 1938, 20 pages; first draft
story line number one by Howard Estabrook, April 22, 1938, through April 27, 1938, 20 pages; incomplete outline of treatment
("Paris Opening") by Howard Estabrook, April 22, 1938, through May 3, 1938, 25 pages; treatment by Howard Estabrook (including
character sketches and other background data), April 30, 1938, through May 2, 1938, 12 pages
folder 228
GRAUSTARK--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331829
Scope and Content Note
first draft detailed treatment ("Sequence A") by Howard Estabrook and Robert Ardrey, May 7, 1938, and May 8, 1938, 16 pages;
incomplete first draft treatment by Howard Estabrook and Robert Ardrey, May 7, 1938, through May 12, 1938, 40 pages; miscellaneous
treatment pages, May 11, 1938, and May 12, 1938, 6 pages [annotated]; incomplete screenplay by Howard Estabrook, Robert Ardrey
and S. N. Behrman, May 15, 1938, and May 16 , 1938, 69 pages
folder 229
GRAUSTARK--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71445640
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous handwritten and typed treatment pages, some by Robert Ardrey, April 24, 1938, through May 15, 1938, 16 pages
[annotated]; treatment by Lillian Hellman, May 16, 1938, 8 pages; incomplete outline by Howard Estabrook, May 16 , 1938, 16
pages
folder 230
GRAUSTARK--miscellaneous
1936--1938
Record ID: 71445639
Scope and Content Note
two cables to Howard Estabrook from S. N. Behrman regarding their collaboration, May 3, 1936, and May 7, 1938; memo from Estabrook
to Samuel Goldwyn regarding choice of Behrman or Donald Ogden Stewart for dialogue writer, April 23, 1938
folder 231
GREEN GOLD--script
1934--1934
Record ID: 71331831
Scope and Content Note
incomplete screenplay by Howard Estabrook and Richard Carroll (from novel "Jungle Gold" by Rex Beach), January 18, 1934, and
undated, 102 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 232
GREEN GOLD--script
1935--1935
Record ID: 71445669
Scope and Content Note
screenplay sequences by Howard Estabrook and Richard Carroll (from novel "Jungle Gold" by Rex Beach), May 15, 1935, 53 pages
folder 233
GREEN GOLD--script
1935--1935
Record ID: 71445668
Scope and Content Note
screenplay pages by Howard Estabrook and Richard Carroll (from novel "Jungle Gold" by Rex Beach), May 16, 1935, and undated,
40 pages [significant annotations and revisions]
folder 234
GREEN GOLD--memoranda
1934--1934
Record ID: 71331832
Scope and Content Note
Paramount memos to and from Merritt Hulburd, Charles R. Rogers, Howard Estabrook, and others, regarding potential of script
and story, January 15, 1934, through January 22, 1934; Estabrook memo describing ultimate fate of project and revival of interest
after success of BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI, October 28, 1959
folder 235
HALF WORLD--script
Record ID: 71331833
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and treatment of original story by Howard Estabrook, undated, 26 pages
folder 236
HALL OF FAME 1--script
Record ID: 71331918
Scope and Content Note
proposal for series of silent theatrical films, including screenplay for single episode on Napoleon, undated, 44 pages
folder 237
HALL OF FAME 2--miscellaneous
Circa 1934--1934
Record ID: 71331834
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of original story by Howard Estabrook, undated, 5 pages; letter from Frank Joyce-Myron Selznick Agency establishing
Estabrook's rights to MGM story, October 12, 1934
folder 238
THE HARBOR--miscellaneous
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448634
folder 239
HICKOK-DAKOTA STORY--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331835
Scope and Content Note
first draft outline by Howard Estabrook, January 10, 1931, 16 pages
folder 240
HO-HANG-WO
1956--1956
Record ID: 71450752
folder 241
HONESTY IS A LUXURY--script
1940--1940
Record ID: 71331837
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, June 19, 1940, and June 20, 1940, 27 pages [one page significantly annotated and revised]
folder 242
I AM RICHARD HARDING DAVIS--script
1939--1939
Record ID: 71331839
Scope and Content Note
first draft treatment by Howard Estabrook, October 18, 1939, 69 pages
folder 243
I HAVE CHEATED DEATH--script
1934--1934
Record ID: 71331840
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, October 28, 1934, 23 pages; revised treatment by Howard Estabrook, October 28, 1934, and October
29, 1934, 25 pages
folder 244
IN THE KINGDOM OF MALVANIA--script
Record ID: 71446914
Scope and Content Note
handwritten screenplay for silent film, undated, 10 pages
folder 245
INDIA--research
1937--1938
Record ID: 71447051
Scope and Content Note
correspondence and reports regarding northwest frontier of India (present-day Pakistan), October 20, 1937, through June 7,
1938, 10 pages
folder 246
JINGLE--script
Circa 1957--1957
Record ID: 71446389
Scope and Content Note
story outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 4 pages
folder 247
LAW OF BLOOD--legal
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448635
folder 248
LEGACY--legal
1940--1940
Record ID: 71448833
Scope and Content Note
agreement with Robert Sherwood Productions executed by Howard Estabrook, June 24, 1940
folder 249
LIFE IS A DAY--script
1924--1934
Record ID: 71446915
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline and notes, January 24, 1924, through September 23, 1934, and undated, 20 pages
folder 250
LONDON NIGHTS--script
1940--1940
Record ID: 71331844
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, October 24, 1940, 19 pages
folder 251
LOVE FROM VENUS--miscellaneous
1969--1971
Record ID: 71331846
Scope and Content Note
short version of screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, approximately 33 pages [some annotated]; copyright registration,
October 26, 1971; exchange of correspondence with Warner Bros. story department regarding professional courtesy, virtues of
story and similarity to Jacqueline Susann's novel "The Love Machine," November 1, 1971, through November 24, 1971
folder 252
MASKS AND FACES--script
1950--1950
Record ID: 71331851
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1950, 37 pages [lightly annotated]; copyright registration, January 11, 1950
folder 253
THE MELTING POT--script
1919--1919
Record ID: 71331852
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of play by Israel Zangwill, February 17, 1919, 5 pages; outline for potential film by Howard Estabrook, March 17,
1938, and March 18, 1938, 3 pages; Goldwyn studio correspondence regarding dispensation of story, March 18, 1938, through
April 9, 1938
folder 254
A MESSAGE FROM MARS--script
1936--1938
Record ID: 71331853
Scope and Content Note
incomplete notes for adaptation by Howard Estabrook, November 20, 1936, 4 pages; outline by Howard Estabrook (of play by Richard
Ganthony), March 18, 1938, 5 pages
folder 255
MID-CHANNEL--legal
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448636
folder 256
THE MIRACULOUS SADHU--script
1970--1970
Record ID: 71331854
Scope and Content Note
story outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 7 pages
folder 257
Miscellaneous--correspondence
1949--1957
Record ID: 71447689
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding submission and return of scripts
folder 258
MUSIC ON THE AIR--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331855
Scope and Content Note
incomplete treatment, July 17, 1929, 6 pages [lacks page 1]
folder 259
NEVER FAREWELL--script
1932--1933
Record ID: 71331856
Scope and Content Note
treatment for musical romance by Howard Estabrook, December 29, 1932, and December 30, 1932, 40 pages
folder 260
NEW THOUGHTS FOR OLD--script
Record ID: 71331857
Scope and Content Note
synopsis, undated, 3 pages
folder 261
NOBODY'S IN TOWN--legal
1938--1938
Record ID: 71448834
folder 262
NOT LIKE OTHER WOMEN--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331858
Scope and Content Note
incomplete first draft treatment by Howard Estabrook, July 12, 1931, through July 16, 1931, 8 pages
folder 263
NOW AND ALWAYS--script
Circa 1947--1947
Record ID: 71446218
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 47 pages, 60 pages, and 63 pages [one page annotated with casting suggestions]
folder 264
NOW AND ALWAYS--miscellaneous
Circa 1947--1947
Record ID: 71446476
Scope and Content Note
notes on script distribution
folder 265
OF MODERN LOVE--script
1948--1949
Record ID: 71331838
Scope and Content Note
handwritten and typed drafts of outline, August 13, 1948, through June 14, 1949, and undated, 44 pages
folder 266
OF MODERN LOVE--research
1943--1945
Record ID: 71445688
Scope and Content Note
research materials (tear sheets) and notes, including copies of essays "Are We Women or Are We Mice?" by Dorothy Parker, and
"Are Women People?" by Clare Boothe Luce
folder 267
OFFICIALLY DEAD--script
Record ID: 71447079
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten treatment, undated, 27 pages
folder 268
OLIVER TWIST--legal
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448637
folder 269
ORCHIDS TO YOU--legal
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448638
folder 270
THE OTHER MAN--script
Circa 1945--1945
Record ID: 71446236
Scope and Content Note
loose script pages, January 23, 1945, 14 pages [heavily annotated and revised]; two treatments by Howard Estabrook (from Charles
Dickens' "The Haunted Man"), undated, 58 pages and 54 pages
folder 271
THE OTHER MAN--script
1945--1945
Record ID: 71446235
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook (from Charles Dickens' "The Haunted Man"), 66 pages, October 8, 1945 [lightly annotated]
folder 272
THE OTHER MAN--script
1946--1946
Record ID: 71331860
Scope and Content Note
handwritten revision notes, April 6, 1946, through April 21, 1946, 12 pages
folder 273
RELIEF CHISELERS--legal
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448639
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement, September 4, 1935
folder 274
RENEGADE--legal
1934--1934
Record ID: 71448640
Scope and Content Note
executed extension letter with Paramount, December 24, 1934
folder 275
RIDERS NORTH--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71446245
Scope and Content Note
first draft treatment by Howard Estabrook, May 25, 1952, 80 pages [title page annotated with notes and date]
folder 276
RIDERS NORTH--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71331865
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1952, 141 pages; notes on authenticity and dramatic devices employed, 3 pages
folder 277
RIDERS NORTH--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71331863
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1952, 143 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 278
RIDERS NORTH--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71331866
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, 1952, 146 pages
folder 279
RIDERS NORTH--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71446251
Scope and Content Note
synopsis ("Long Version"), 1952, 3 pages; list of cuts and synopsis of cut version of screenplay, undated, 16 pages
folder 280
RIDERS NORTH--script
1957--1957
Record ID: 71331864
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 124 pages [lightly annotated and revised]
folder 281
RIDERS NORTH--script
Record ID: 71446243
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 123 pages
folder 282
RIDERS NORTH--clippings
1957--1957
Record ID: 71446253
Scope and Content Note
articles regarding American Civil War, 1957 and undated
folder 283
RIDERS NORTH--miscellaneous
1952--1957
Record ID: 71446252
Scope and Content Note
typed comments by Clark Gable [summarized by Z. Wayne Griffin in 1952]; research notes
folder 284
ROAD TO ROME--legal
1933--1933
Record ID: 71448641
folder 285
ROGUE'S GALLERY--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331867
Scope and Content Note
treatment, May 4, 1931, 23 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 286
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS--script
1952--1952
Record ID: 71331868
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1952, approximately 91 pages
folder 287
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS--miscellaneous
1934--1968
Record ID: 71446258
Scope and Content Note
handwritten note identifying basic concept as "new technique for story telling," January 23, 1934; executed and unexecuted
copies of brief of agreement between Howard Estabrook and Benedict Bogeaus, May 2, 1952; copyright registration as "The Story
of Charles Dickens," May 8, 1952; literary pitch of concept by Howard Estabrook to Card Walker at Disney studio, November
22, 1968
folder 288
THE SCAR--script
Circa 1929--1929
Record ID: 71331870
Scope and Content Note
handwritten draft of treatment by Howard Estabrook (from play "Patrie!" by Victorien Sardou), undated, 41 pages; later draft
of treatment by Howard Estabrook (from play "Patrie!" by Victorien Sardou), with casting suggestions, January 4, 1929, and
January 5, 1929, 21 pages
folder 289
SEE WHAT HAPPENS?--script
Record ID: 71331871
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 70 pages
folder 290
SIN AND FORGIVENESS--script
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331874
Scope and Content Note
handwritten draft of story, undated, 5 pages; treatment by Howard Estabrook and George Manker Watters, June 4, 1931, 11 pages;
notes, October 16, 1931
folder 291
THE SIXTH SENSE--script
Record ID: 71446269
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten drafts of outline and treatment, undated, 23 pages
folder 292
THE SIXTH SENSE--script
Record ID: 71331875
Scope and Content Note
outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 3 pages; treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 19 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 293
THE SIXTH SENSE--clippings
1956--1956
Record ID: 71446270
folder 294
THE SIXTH SENSE--miscellaneous
1956--1957
Record ID: 71459244
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding attempted sale of story to Paramount, 1957
folder 295
A SLICE OF LIFE--script
1932--1934
Record ID: 71447035
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten pages of drafts of story outline and treatment, November 10, 1932, through September 21, 1934, and undated,
approximately 115 pages [heavily annotated and revised]
folder 296
SMART SET SUSIE--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331876
Scope and Content Note
revised screenplay by "Earle Crocker working with Mr. Crisp" (Donald Crisp?), October 16, 1929, 50 pages
folder 297
SMART SET SUSIE--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71331877
Scope and Content Note
revised treatment ("adaptation and continuity structure") by Howard Estabrook, November 18, 1929, through December 7, 1929,
36 pages [lightly annotated and revised]; adaptation and dialogue script by Howard Estabrook, December 5, 1929, through December
14, 1929, 83 pages
folder 298
SMART SET SUSIE--script
1929--1929
Record ID: 71446272
Scope and Content Note
song lyrics by Earle Crocker for "Oh, How She Loved the Way He Did Whatever He Did," "Safe in the Haven of Your Arms," "If
I Were You (Oh, How I'd Love Me)," "My Heart Whispered I Love You," "Something to Step to," and "Searching the Crystal for
Happiness I Found You," October 23, 1929
folder 299
SMART SET SUSIE--legal
1929--1929
Record ID: 71448536
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Pathé Studio, Inc., November 13, 1929
folder 300
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--script
Circa 1962--1962
Record ID: 71446295
Scope and Content Note
story breakdown by Howard Estabrook (of novel by Noel Langley), undated, 63 pages [lightly annotated and revised]; line synopsis
for eventual screenplay, October 1, 1962
folder 301
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--script
Record ID: 71331880
Scope and Content Note
first draft screenplay, undated, 201 pages
folder 302
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--script
Circa 1962--1963
Record ID: 71331879
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, December 10 (1962?) through February 26 (1963?), and undated, 134 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 303
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--script
Record ID: 71331878
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 133 pages
folder 304
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--script
Record ID: 71446294
Scope and Content Note
sample script pages by unnamed writer (Harold Schuster?), undated; script notes by Harold Schuster, undated
folder 305
SO YOUNG, SO WISE--pre-production
1962--1964
Record ID: 71446296
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted agreements between Harold Schuster, Rowland V. Lee and Howard Estabrook, June 29, 1962, and February
15, 1963
folder 306
SONG OF HER SOUL--script
1928--1928
Record ID: 71331881
Scope and Content Note
story outline, November 16, 1928, and November 17, 1928, 7 pages
folder 307
SOUTHWEST--script
Record ID: 71446339
Scope and Content Note
outlines and synopses, including outline of "Dwan script" [probably reference to Allan Dwan], undated, 13 pages
folder 308
SOUTHWEST--script
Circa 1965--1965
Record ID: 71331882
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous script pages, June 9 through July 3 (1965?), and undated [some pages annotated and revised]
folder 309
SOUTHWEST--script
Circa 1965--1965
Record ID: 71331883
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, approximately 155 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 310
SOUTHWEST--script
Circa 1965--1965
Record ID: 71446329
Scope and Content Note
typed analysis of faults of "script as it now stands" and conditions under which it was written, probably by Howard Estabrook,
undated
folder 311
SOUTHWEST--photographs
Record ID: 71446322
Scope and Content Note
nine 8x10 photos of relevant historical people, places, and events, originally included in circulating copies of screenplay
folder 312
SOUTHWEST--pre-production
1965--1965
Record ID: 71446338
Scope and Content Note
research notes
folder 313
A SPAHI'S LOVE STORY--miscellaneous
1932--1932
Record ID: 71331884
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook (adapted from story by Pierre Loti), December 2, 1932, 14 pages
folder 314
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1959--1960
Record ID: 71446351
Scope and Content Note
outline by Howard Estabrook, November 4, 1959, 7 pages; first draft treatment by Howard Estabrook, February 4, 1960, 111 pages
[annotated]; data sheet, character profiles, and thematic statement, undated, 12 pages
folder 315
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1960--1960
Record ID: 71331889
Scope and Content Note
first draft screenplay by Howard Estabrook, March 14, 1960, through April 8, 1960, 166 pages
folder 316
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1960--1960
Record ID: 71331888
Scope and Content Note
incomplete first draft screenplay by Howard Estabrook, April 14, 1960, approximately 167 pages [heavily annotated and revised;
note refers to this as "conference script"]
folder 317
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1960--1960
Record ID: 71446356
Scope and Content Note
revised and replaced first draft script pages, 85 pages
folder 318
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1971--1971
Record ID: 71331893
Scope and Content Note
incomplete screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, approximately 238 pages [heavily annotated and revised]
folder 319
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
Record ID: 71331890
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 168 pages [lightly annotated and revised]
folder 320
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
Record ID: 71331891
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 169 pages
folder 321
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
Record ID: 71331892
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 169 pages
folder 322
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
Record ID: 71446363
Scope and Content Note
revision pages, including synopsis pages and notes on alternate endings, undated, 27 pages
folder 323
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--script
1963--1963
Record ID: 71446350
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten notes, including Howard Estabrook's typed reaction to letter from book author William Lichtman, undated,
5 pages; lists of corrections to existing versions of screenplay, undated; comments on screenplay from Alan Ladd, George Cukor,
William Wellman, Otto Preminger, and others, May 27, 1963, and undated
folder 324
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--clippings
1960--1966
Record ID: 71446352
Scope and Content Note
articles reporting on contemporary production projects, some with letters and notes attached, probably including two from
novel author William Lichtman, June 5, 1961, and undated
folder 325
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--correspondence
1960--1974
Record ID: 71331887
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding consideration of this property involving Samuel Goldwyn, August 23, 1960, and August 24, 1960, Menahem
Golan, February 25, 1966, through March 25, 1966, and others; correspondence regarding playing role or directing eventual
film involving Jack Benny, March 14, 1962, through April 24, 1962, and Nehemiah Persoff, May 16, 1962, through June 25, 1962;
correspondence regarding attempts to sell this property and impact of EXODUS, involving novel author William Lichtman, May
26, 1960, through May 8, 1974, and undated
folder 326
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--legal
1959--1961
Record ID: 71446353
Scope and Content Note
WGA registration receipt, November 4, 1959; legal agreements, with drafts and correspondence, complicated by death of producer
Stan Raymond, January 25, 1960, through April 27, 1961
folder 327
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--pre-production
Record ID: 71331886
Scope and Content Note
estimated budget, undated
folder 328
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--research
1960--1961
Record ID: 71446345
Scope and Content Note
notes and research materials on nation of Israel and modern Zionism
folder 329
THE STAR AND THE CROSS--research clippings
1957--1960
Record ID: 71446346
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding state of Israel, incidents of anti-semitism, and Citadel publication of novel "Between the Star and the
Cross" (1957)
folder 330
STRANGE JUSTICE--miscellaneous
Circa 1957--1957
Record ID: 71331894
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook (based on story by Robert Louis Stevenson), undated, 5 pages
folder 331
THE SUPERIOR MAN--script
1955--1955
Record ID: 71331895
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, 18 pages [some pages annotated and revised]
folder 332
THE SUPERIOR MAN--research
1955--1955
Record ID: 71446374
Scope and Content Note
notes; articles clipped from periodicals, April 4, 1955, and undated
folder 333
SUSAN CHRIST--script
Record ID: 71331896
Scope and Content Note
treatment for silent feature film ("synopsis for five-reel photoplay") by Howard Estabrook, undated, 7 pages
folder 334
THAT'S HUMAN NATURE--script
Circa 1948--1948
Record ID: 71331897
Scope and Content Note
original screenplay by Howard Estabrook, undated, 149 pages [lightly annotated]; notes by Howard Estabrook on suggested revisions,
undated
folder 335
THAT'S HUMAN NATURE--legal
1947--1948
Record ID: 71449031
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement and letters of agreement with James Nasser, March 17, 1947, through September 24, 1948
folder 336
A THONG OF BUCKSKIN--miscellaneous
1957--1957
Record ID: 71331926
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 9 pages [three copies, the second an annotated and revised version of the first, and
the third incorporating those revisions]; correspondence regarding submission, June 18, 1957, through September 28, 1957
folder 337
THREE GIRLS--script
1941--1941
Record ID: 71331898
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, September 25, 1941, 47 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 338
TOP-SECRET DEFECTOR--script
1967--1967
Record ID: 71331899
Scope and Content Note
outline, undated, 5 pages
folder 339
Unidentified--script
Record ID: 71448506
Scope and Content Note
unidentified script page, undated
folder 340
A VISION OF TERROR--script
Circa 1917--1917
Record ID: 71331901
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 20 pages; typed "condensed synopsis," undated
folder 341
THE WEIRDIES!--script
Record ID: 71331902
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 14 pages
folder 342
WEST TO THE GOLDEN GATE--script
Record ID: 71331947
Scope and Content Note
handwritten script pages, undated, 17 pages
folder 343
WHISKERS!!!--script
Record ID: 71331904
Scope and Content Note
treatment for silent film by Howard Estabrook, undated, 7 pages
folder 344
THE WORLD AT HER FEET--miscellaneous
1952--1964
Record ID: 71447846
Scope and Content Note
copies of Howard Estabrook letters to Arthur Freed and George Cukor, describing this story's origin as potential theatrical
property, its motion picture possibilities, and current status of THE GLORY OF ANGKOR, THE STAR AND THE CROSS, HECTOR THE
CORRECTOR!, MAXINE'S MADHOUSE, and other Estabrook projects, August 23, 1962, and February 28, 1964
Television files/Produced
folder 345
THE ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN [television]--"Mr. Big"
Circa 1950--1950
Record ID: 71452516
Scope and Content Note
Screen Writers Guild document determining writing credits for single episode, undated
folder 346
DR. HUDSON'S SECRET JOURNAL [television]--"The Brenthurst Story" (script)
1955--1955
Record ID: 71331910
Scope and Content Note
script by Howard Estabrook (original story by Howard Estabrook), undated, 36 pages; second script by Howard Estabrook, July
28, 1955, 41 pages; stenciled script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 43 pages
folder 347
DR. HUDSON'S SECRET JOURNAL [television]--"The Brenthurst Story" (miscellaneous)
1955--1955
Record ID: 71449032
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Authors Playhouse, Inc., June 1, 1955; memorandum by Howard Estabrook, enumerating story points communicated
more effectively by first version of script than by second version, July 31, 1955; copy of letter by Estabrook to Authors
Playhouse, refusing credit for final version of script, August 8, 1955
folder 348
THE FORD TELEVISION THEATRE [television]--"The Idea Man" (script)
1956--1956
Record ID: 71331914
Scope and Content Note
original story by Robert McLaughlin in "Collier's," May 25, 1956, 6 pages; final draft script by Stirling Silliphant, August
1, 1956, 40 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 349
THE FORD TELEVISION THEATRE [television]--"The Idea Man" (script)
1956--1956
Record ID: 71447318
Scope and Content Note
notes for revision, August 15, 1956, through September 5, 1956, 26 pages; revised script by Howard Estabrook, September 17,
1956, 45 pages; revised final draft script by Howard Estabrook, September 26, 1956, 33 pages and 37 pages [three copies, two
with further revisions]
folder 350
THE FORD TELEVISION THEATRE [television]--"The Idea Man" (miscellaneous)
1956--1968
Record ID: 71450885
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Screen Gems, Inc., August 20, 1956; credits sheet, November 8, 1956; copy of "Daily Variety" review,
May 10, 1957; correspondence with agent Ivan Green regarding commisions due, February 12, 1960, through March 11, 1968
folder 351
THE MILLIONAIRE [television]--"The Doris Winslow Story" (script)
1957--1957
Record ID: 71447628
Scope and Content Note
"Doris Winslow," script by Muriel Roy Bolton (from story by Howard Estabrook), October 15, 1957, 30 pages; "Doris Winslow,"
script by Howard Estabrook and Muriel Roy Bolton (from story by Howard Estabrook), revision pages, December 13, 1957, 29 pages
folder 352
THE MILLIONAIRE [television]--"The Doris Winslow Story" (miscellaneous)
1957--1957
Record ID: 71449033
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Silverstone Films, Inc., January 8, 1957; clipping from "The Hollywood Reporter," January 15, 1957
folder 353
THE MILLIONAIRE [television]--"The Professor Amberson Adams Story" (script)
1956--1957
Record ID: 71331922
Scope and Content Note
"The Professor and the Masquerade," treatment by Howard Estabrook, April 2, 1956, 22 pages; "The Professor and the Masquerade,"
treatment by Howard Estabrook, April 16, 1956, 23 pages [lightly annotated]; "The Professor and the Masquerade," script by
Howard Estabrook, undated, 36 pages; "Ambrose Adams," script by Barry Trivers (from story by Howard Estabrook), July 26, 1956,
32 pages; "Amberson Adams," script by Barry Trivers (from story by Howard Estabrook), July 25, 1956, with revisions to January
9, 1957, 35 pages
folder 354
THE MILLIONAIRE [television]--"The Professor Amberson Adams Story" (production)
1956--1957
Record ID: 71449034
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Silverstone Films, Inc., February 28, 1956
folder 355
THE MILLIONAIRE [television]--unsold episodes
1957--1957
Record ID: 71447629
Scope and Content Note
treatment ("Honorable Sir Mr. Vernon"/"Man at His Best") by Howard Estabrook, March 12, 1957, 6 pages [lightly annotated];
story outline ("Address Unknown") by Howard Estabrook, May 8, 1957, 9 pages; story outlines ("Jerry and Hilda Lawton") by
Howard Estabrook, undated, 6 pages; three story outlines by Howard Estabrook, undated
Television files/Unproduced
folder 356
EMPEROR OF ELBA [television]--publicity
Record ID: 71446475
Scope and Content Note
incomplete publicity release regarding Estabrook's progress on this project, undated
folder 357
FREEDOM'S WINGS [television]--script
Record ID: 71331915
Scope and Content Note
typed outline by Howard Estabrook of true events upon which story could be based, undated, 3 pages
folder 358
GOOD MORNING, JUDGE! [television]--miscellaneous
1962--1963
Record ID: 71331917
Scope and Content Note
proposal for television comedy series, undated; correspondence with William Dozier at Screen Gems regarding this concept and
restrictions of network television, December 28, 1962, through January 2, 1963
folder 359
HARD LOOK AT COURAGE [television]--script
Circa 1961--1961
Record ID: 71331920
Scope and Content Note
original script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 39 pages; revised script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 33 pages
folder 360
HECTOR THE CORRECTOR! [television]--script
1941--1955
Record ID: 71447107
Scope and Content Note
handwritten ideas, research notes and early drafts (including synopsis "by Fred Fisk"), January 5, 1941, December 24, 1955,
and undated, approximately 33 pages; typed premise, outline of episodes one and two, and capsule summaries of 13 episodes
for half-hour television series, undated, 35 pages
folder 361
HECTOR THE CORRECTOR! [television]--clippings
1961--1962
Record ID: 71447357
Scope and Content Note
research materials regarding relevant actualities and industry activities, May 18, 1961 through June 28, 1962, and undated
folder 362
HECTOR THE CORRECTOR! [television]--miscellaneous
1959--1962
Record ID: 71447358
Scope and Content Note
letter agreement granting option to George Cukor, May 17, 1961; correspondence with Wally Cox regarding risks of commitment,
November 29, 1961, through April 13, 1962
folder 363
LOOK WHO'S HERE! [television]--script
1957--1957
Record ID: 71331919
Scope and Content Note
sample scripts for "unique quiz-game-participation-show," February 4, 1957, and undated, 7 pages and 28 pages
folder 364
LOOK WHO'S HERE! [television]--clippings
1957--1962
Record ID: 71447380
Scope and Content Note
articles regarding historical personages to be potential subjects for quiz
folder 365
LOOK WHO'S HERE! [television]--miscellaneous
1957--1957
Record ID: 71447383
Scope and Content Note
copyright registration, February 5, 1957; letter from Malcolm Stuart at Ingo Preminger agency relaying Mark Goodson's analysis
of Estabrook's "complete misunderstanding of what makes for a good quiz show," April 5, 1957
folder 366
LUTHERAN PROGRAM [television]--script
1959--1959
Record ID: 71446507
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes on potential story, March 2, 1959
folder 367
MAXINE'S MADHOUSE [television]--script
1963--1963
Record ID: 71331921
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous versions of proposal for half-hour television series created by Howard Estabrook, October 3, 1963, and undated,
75 pages; notes on titles and episode plot lines
folder 368
MAXINE'S MADHOUSE [television]--clippings
1959--1968
Record ID: 71447421
Scope and Content Note
research materials regarding hairdressers, cosmeticians, and fortune tellers, April 1959, through June 3, 1968, and undated
folder 369
MAXINE'S MADHOUSE [television]--correspondence
1961--1964
Record ID: 71447422
folder 370
MISS FIXIT [television]--script
Record ID: 71331923
Scope and Content Note
proposal for series by Howard Estabrook, undated
folder 371
QUEENS OF SONG [television]--script
1952--1953
Record ID: 71331933
Scope and Content Note
outline for television series of 26 episodes, by Howard Estabrook, 1952, 31 pages [lightly annotated]; Episode #1 "Adelina
Patti," script by Howard Estabrook, 1953, 33 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 372
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE [television]--"Problem of the Heart" (script)
Record ID: 71331924
Scope and Content Note
treatment for episode by Howard Estabrook, two versions, undated, 15 pages; notes on this story and other story possibilities
folder 373
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE [television]--miscellaneous
1965--1965
Record ID: 71447684
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding this series, October 4, 1965, through November 8, 1965
folder 374
TAKEN FROM LIFE [television]--script
1956--1956
Record ID: 71331925
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 5 pages; list of current television series to whom submitted, 1956
folder 375
VOICE OF THE SHADOW [television]--script
Record ID: 71331927
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 12 pages
folder 376
WASP AND TARANTULA [television]--script
Record ID: 71331928
Scope and Content Note
two versions of treatment by Howard Estabrook, undated, 26 pages and 27 pages
folder 377
WASP AND TARANTULA [television]--clippings
1962--1962
Record ID: 71447695
Scope and Content Note
articles regarding insect and underworld activities, April 8, 1962, through June 1962
folder 378
WASP AND TARANTULA [television]--miscellaneous
1962--1962
Record ID: 71447696
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding consideration and return of script material by Alfred Hitchcock's office, May 10, 1962, and August
23, 1962, and Dick Powell's office, May 14, 1962, through September 17, 1962
folder 379
WELLS FARGO [television]--"Night Train" (script)
Record ID: 71331929
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Howard Estabrook for proposed episode, undated, 6 pages
folder 380
WELLS FARGO [television]--"Night Train" (miscellaneous)
1957--1957
Record ID: 71447750
folder 381
WHEN THE DEAD ARISE [television]--script
Record ID: 71331930
Scope and Content Note
script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 73 pages; handwritten story outline for "The Case of the Dead Arising," adapting plot
to PERRY MASON series, undated, 8 pages
folder 382
WHEN THE DEAD ARISE [television]--miscellaneous
1963--1964
Record ID: 71447751
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding circulation of script, 1964
folder 383
WOMAN AT THE TOP [television]--script
1960--1960
Record ID: 71331931
Scope and Content Note
television script by Howard Estabrook, October 14, 1960, through October 24, 1960, 35 pages
folder 384
WOMAN AT THE TOP [television]--miscellaneous
1960--1960
Record ID: 71447752
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding dress designing business, November 16, 1960, through December 1, 1960, and undated; correspondence regarding
script, December 9, 1960, through December 26, 1960
folder 385
THE WORLD AT HER FEET [television]--script
Record ID: 71331932
Scope and Content Note
script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 57 pages
folder 386
THE WORLD AT HER FEET [television]--correspondence
1961--1962
Record ID: 71447847
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding potential for production, involving George Schaefer and "Hallmark Hall of Fame," December 5, 1961,
and February 7, 1962, and involving Fred Astaire, May 14, 1962, and May 23, 1962
folder 387
THE WORLD AT HER FEET [television]--notes
1962--1962
Record ID: 71447848
Scope and Content Note
notes on concepts and research materials, December 10, 1962, and undated
folder 388
THE BOSS [stage]--clippings
1910--1911
Record ID: 71452822
Scope and Content Note
clippings regarding rehearsals and production in Detroit and New York, including retrospective notice in "The Sun" of New
York, August 27, 1931
folder 389
THE BOYS OF COMPANY "B" [stage]--miscellaneous
Circa 1907--1907
Record ID: 71452643
Scope and Content Note
program for Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, week beginning Monday, April 8, 1907; article describing Gretchen Dale's performance,
1907; 19 very small photographic images printed or mounted on cards depicting Howard Estabrook and Gretchen Dale (later Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Estabrook)
folder 390
BROWN OF HARVARD [stage]--clippings
1906--1906
Record ID: 71452823
Scope and Content Note
clippings of reviews from New York newspapers and other periodicals
folder 391
THE DICTATOR [stage]--clippings
1904--1905
Record ID: 71452824
Scope and Content Note
reviews from Detroit newspapers and other periodicals
folder 392
THE DICTATOR [stage]--miscellaneous
1904--1904
Record ID: 71450232
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Charles Frohman, August 12, 1904; one 4x5½ photographic print mounted on card stock depicting Howard
Estabrook in wardrobe for major role
folder 393
DIVORCONS [stage]--clippings
Circa 1913--1913
Record ID: 71452825
Scope and Content Note
notices regarding revival of 1882 French comedy, undated
folder 394
THE FATTED CALF [stage]--clippings
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452827
Scope and Content Note
reviews from Albany, New York, newspapers
folder 395
THE FATTED CALF [stage]--programs
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452826
Scope and Content Note
program for Albany, New York, production
folder 396
GOING SOME [stage]--clippings
1908--1908
Record ID: 71452829
Scope and Content Note
advertisements and reviews for productions in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C., and other locations
folder 397
GOING SOME [stage]--programs
1908--1908
Record ID: 71452828
Scope and Content Note
programs for productions in Washington, D. C., Waterbury, Connecticut, and other locations, covering Howard Estabrook's role
change
folder 398
THE HONEYMOON [stage]--programs
1913--1913
Record ID: 71452830
Scope and Content Note
program for Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, February 24, 1913
folder 399
LITTLE WOMEN [stage]--clippings
1912--1932
Record ID: 71452832
Scope and Content Note
review by Burns Mantle in "The Evening Mail," October 17, 1912, and other reviews for New York production of dramatization
of novel opening October 16, 1912
folder 400
LITTLE WOMEN [stage]--programs
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452831
Scope and Content Note
program for New York production featuring Howard Estabrook, Alice Brady, and John Cromwell in cast
folder 401
MISS INFORMATION [stage]--legal
1915--1915
Record ID: 71448543
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Charles Dillingham regarding play featuring Elsie Janis, August 21, 1915
folder 402
MRS. AVERY [stage]--script
Circa 1910--1911
Record ID: 71331934
Scope and Content Note
stage script by Gretchen Dale and Howard Estabrook, undated, 87 pages; synopsis
folder 403
MRS. AVERY [stage]--clippings
1911--1911
Record ID: 71451819
Scope and Content Note
notices and reviews from New York, Cinncinati, and other cities' periodicals
folder 404
MRS. AVERY [stage]--miscellaneous
Circa 1910--1911
Record ID: 71447869
Scope and Content Note
copyright registration, November 21, 1910; publicity material reprinting reviews from "New York Herald" and "The New York
Times"
folder 405
NEARLY A LAWYER [stage]--clippings
1908--1908
Record ID: 71451820
Scope and Content Note
reviews of vaudeville performance by Howard Estabrook and Gretchen Dale in one-act farce, from Yonkers newspapers, 1908
folder 406
NEARLY A LAWYER [stage]--programs
Circa 1908--1908
Record ID: 71452835
Scope and Content Note
page from Orpheum vaudeville program, undated
folder 407
THE POINT OF VIEW [stage]--programs
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452836
Scope and Content Note
production details clipped from program
folder 408
SEARCH ME [stage]--clippings
Circa 1915--1915
Record ID: 71452837
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook bio from trade periodical and anecdote from "Long Branch (New Jersey) Daily Record," both probably 1915
folder 409
SEARCH ME [stage]--legal
1915--1915
Record ID: 71448544
Scope and Content Note
executed letter of agreement with Clinton Moffett, June 23, 1915
folder 410
THE STRAIGHT ROAD [stage]--clippings
1906--1907
Record ID: 71452838
Scope and Content Note
reviews from St. Louis and New York periodicals
folder 411
STUDIO-VARSITY SHOW [stage]--miscellaneous
1916--1916
Record ID: 71332080
Scope and Content Note
program and clippings related to Ithaca, New York, benefit show featuring and supervised by Howard Estabrook, May 25, 1916,
and May 26, 1916
folder 412
WITHIN THE LAW [stage]--clippings
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452848
Scope and Content Note
reviews and publicity from Chicago newspapers
folder 413
WITHIN THE LAW [stage]--miscellaneous
1912--1912
Record ID: 71452839
Scope and Content Note
program and publicity material
folder 414
Miscellaneous
1907--1915
Record ID: 71452833
Scope and Content Note
periodicals and programs for productions involving Howard Estabrook and/or Gretchen Dale, including Lambs Club production
"Lambs Gambol at Sing Sing Prison," involving Irving Berlin, Eddie Foy, Rube Goldberg, and Winsor McCay, June 27, 1915
folder 415
Miscellaneous--clippings
1904--1916
Record ID: 71452834
Scope and Content Note
clippings with notices and comments regarding Howard Estabrook and Gretchen Dale's involvement in various plays and vaudeville
acts, including "Lambs Gambol at Sing Sing Prison"
folder 416
Unidentified--photographs
Circa 1900--1904
Record ID: 71452646
Scope and Content Note
ten 8x10 prints and one image cut from larger print depicting Gretchen Dale (later Mrs. Howard Estabrook) in one or more theatrical
productions, undated
folder 417
ADELINA [stage]--script
Record ID: 71447849
Scope and Content Note
two versions of stage script by Howard Estabrook, undated, 74 pages and 29 pages
folder 418
ADELINA [stage]--clippings
1963--1964
Record ID: 71447850
Scope and Content Note
show business research articles, December 2, 1963, through June 27, 1964, and undated
folder 419
ADELINA [stage]--correspondence
1964--1965
Record ID: 71447851
Scope and Content Note
copyright report, March 30, 1964; Howard Estabrook letter to Elmer Bernstein explaining concept of play with music, May 7,
1964
folder 420
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--script
1947--1963
Record ID: 71331937
Scope and Content Note
two partially handwritten drafts of script of Act One by Ward Brooks (Howard Estabrook), September 10, 1947, through October
4, 1963, and undated, 152 pages [annotated and revised]; incomplete typed Act One script by Ward Brooks (Howard Estabrook),
undated, approximately 17 pages
folder 421
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--script
1945--1963
Record ID: 71448027
Scope and Content Note
handwritten version of Act Two script, August 8, 1946, through October 25, 1963, 56 pages, and Act Three, January 9, 1945,
through June 3, 1963
folder 422
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--script
1947--1963
Record ID: 71331941
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes and obsolete script pages, September 24, 1947, through October 6, 1963, and undated, approximately 51 pages;
handwritten synopsis, undated
folder 423
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--script
1964--1964
Record ID: 71448028
Scope and Content Note
handwritten script by Max Ramo (Howard Estabrook), August 18, 1964, through November 24, 1964, and undated, 142 pages
folder 424
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--script
1963--1964
Record ID: 71331939
Scope and Content Note
typed script by Max Ramo (Howard Estabrook), undated, approximately 130 pages [some pages annotated and revised]
folder 425
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--clippings
1947--1964
Record ID: 71448026
Scope and Content Note
clippings for research purposes, November 28, 1947, through January 13, 1964, and undated
folder 426
ALMOST ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN [stage]--notes
1944--1963
Record ID: 71448066
Scope and Content Note
handwritten rough dialogue notes, 1944 through July 14, 1963, and undated
folder 427
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION [stage]--script
1948--1948
Record ID: 71331940
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes exploring story possibilities, December 1, 1948, 4 pages
folder 428
Edwin Booth Play--notes
Record ID: 71446426
Scope and Content Note
typed reports on books, "Behind the Scenes with Booth" by Katherine Goodale (Kitty Maloney); "Darling of Misfortune" by Lockridge
folder 429
EVERYMAN'S FROLIC [stage]--script
1946--1973
Record ID: 71447143
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline for parody of "Everyman," November 17, 1946, and undated, 4 pages; draft pages, August 24, 1963,
through January 15, 1973, and undated
folder 430
EVERYMAN'S FROLIC [stage]--clippings
1936--1936
Record ID: 71448157
Scope and Content Note
"Los Angeles Times" photo showing Howard Estabrook at premiere of Max Reinhardt's production of "Everyman," September 11,
1936
folder 431
EVERYMAN'S FROLIC [stage]--miscellaneous
1940--1972
Record ID: 71448158
Scope and Content Note
letter from Max Reinhardt's office regarding writing of this script, December 2, 1940; notes, January 5, 1970, through December
28, 1972, and undated
folder 432
GOODBYE MY LOVE [stage]--script
1949--1949
Record ID: 71446421
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline, October 13, 1949
folder 433
HEYDAY WITH WHISTLER! [stage]--notes
1972--1972
Record ID: 71331942
Scope and Content Note
research and draft notes for play based on James McNeill Whistler, March 3, 1972, through August 11, 1972, and undated
folder 434
HEYDAY WITH WHISTLER! [stage]--research
1959--1972
Record ID: 71448170
Scope and Content Note
clipping and photocopies to aid in creation of play based on James McNeill Whistler, 1959 through August 11, 1972
folder 435
IN HIS STEPS/IN HIS STEPS TO-DAY [stage]--legal
1923--1923
Record ID: 71448549
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, April 9, 1923
folder 436
INVISIBLE MEN [stage]--script
1960--1960
Record ID: 71446508
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, June 1, 1960
folder 437
MAGNA CHARTA [stage]--notes
Record ID: 71446509
Scope and Content Note
notes and clipping, undated
folder 438
THE MINISTER [stage]--script
Record ID: 71331946
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, 28 pages, undated
folder 439
SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS [stage]--script
1910--1910
Record ID: 71446921
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten script drafts, April 5, 1910, through April 8, 1910, and undated, 59 pages; typed draft of Act One
script by Gretchen Dale and Howard Estabrook, 1910, 23 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 440
SOCIETY IN OLD NEW YORK [stage]--correspondence
1954--1954
Record ID: 71450753
folder 441
SUCCESS [stage]--notes
Record ID: 71446775
folder 442
SWEET DREAMS [stage]--notes
Record ID: 71447088
Scope and Content Note
sketch and handwritten notes, undated
folder 443
Miscellaneous
1947--1960
Record ID: 71446204
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook letter to Broadway producer Joe Manchester describing his method of writing for stage, October 30, 1960
folder 444
Free World Theatre--"In Memory of a Hero" (script)
1943--1943
Record ID: 71331949
Scope and Content Note
script by Howard Estabrook, June 20, 1943, 20 pages
folder 445
Free World Theatre--"In Memory of a Hero" (clippings)
1943--1943
Record ID: 71448462
Scope and Content Note
notices and articles regarding writing and scheduling of this episode, June 15, 1943, through June 20, 1943
folder 446
Free World Theatre--"In Memory of a Hero" (correspondence)
1943--1946
Record ID: 71460553
Scope and Content Note
two letters from Robert Rossen at Hollywood Writers' Mobilization, congratulating Howard Estabrook for work as writer and
as member of editorial committee, June 21, 1943, and June 24, 1943
folder 447
KHJ Talk--script
1959--1960
Record ID: 71331953
Scope and Content Note
address compiled from clippings, typed and handwritten pages, November 20, 1959, June 5, 1960, and undated, 13 pages
folder 448
Coronation Chimes--script
1953--1953
Record ID: 71448463
Scope and Content Note
radio script by Howard Estabrook, 1953, 21 pages
folder 449
Episode Perilous--script
1953--1953
Record ID: 71448464
Scope and Content Note
radio script by Howard Estabrook, 1953, 34 pages
folder 450
Howard Estabrook Program--script
Circa 1949--1949
Record ID: 71448465
Scope and Content Note
notes and proposal for series covering current films, undated, 9 pages; sample script by Howard Estabrook commenting on films
TASK FORCE, ADAM'S RIB, and ROPE OF SAND, undated, 29 pages
folder 451
Postscript to Love--script
Record ID: 71446422
Scope and Content Note
incomplete radio script, undated
folder 452
World Doings--script
1942--1942
Record ID: 71448466
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten notes; typed script by Howard Estabrook, submitted June 8, 1942, 12 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 453
Miscellaneous--notes
Record ID: 71447150
folder 454
Adventure by Day
1934--1934
Record ID: 71446892
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, February 14, 1934, 3 pages
folder 455
The Adversary--notes
Record ID: 71446893
folder 456
All of Us--notes
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446727
Scope and Content Note
handwritten concept notes by Howard Estabrook, August 14, 1933
folder 457
Amazon Idea--miscellaneous
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331800
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten story and research material by Howard Estabrook regarding legendary prehistoric tribe of women, January
12, 1931, and undated, 15 pages
folder 458
Ashes of Roses
1935--1935
Record ID: 71331803
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story for Simone Simon, May 4, 1935
folder 459
Babylonia
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446413
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, June 3, 1933, 3 pages
folder 460
Battling Romance
Record ID: 71447023
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 3 pages
folder 461
By Transcription--notes
1949--1949
Record ID: 71447109
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, February 17, 1949, 4 pages
folder 462
Calvin Coolidge--research
Record ID: 71444636
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes listing quotes of Coolidge
folder 463
Character Assassination--miscellaneous
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447024
Scope and Content Note
clipping regarding libel threat, 1934
folder 464
Cherchez la Hayworth
Record ID: 71447077
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated
folder 465
City Life
Record ID: 71446894
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 4 pages
folder 466
Complications
1932--1932
Record ID: 71331809
Scope and Content Note
typed synopsis by Howard Estabrook, March 23, 1932
folder 467
The Course of Empire--miscellaneous
Record ID: 71446398
Scope and Content Note
handwritten research notes regarding pre-Indian civilization in Americas, undated, 3 pages; handwritten story concept, undated
folder 468
Debussy
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447026
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, December 6, 1934, 10 pages
folder 469
Detective Series
1951--1951
Record ID: 71446391
Scope and Content Note
typed description of dream involving Ronald Colman, and outline for series of films, September 10, 1951, 4 pages
folder 470
Dime Store Dora
Record ID: 71446392
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 3 pages
folder 471
Disloyal
Record ID: 71331811
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, 3 pages, undated; handwritten list of alternate titles
folder 472
Dream of Youth
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446728
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, August 28, 1933, 5 pages
folder 473
Elements
Record ID: 71452528
Scope and Content Note
notes for story by Howard Estabrook, based on his marriage to Gretchen Dale, undated
folder 474
Family Films--script
1944--1945
Record ID: 71331913
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story notes intended for non-theatrical religious film production company, February 23, 1944, through February
1945, and undated, 6 pages
folder 475
Family Films--script ("Unholy Love")
1934--1936
Record ID: 71447047
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story notes, December 7, 1934[?], February 1, 1936, and undated, 15 pages
folder 476
Fear and the Unknown--notes
Circa 1960--1969
Record ID: 71450888
folder 477
Fear of Living
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446729
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten story outline, May 10, 1933, 3 pages
folder 478
For Love Alone
Record ID: 71447027
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 8 pages
folder 479
Francis Bacon/William Shakespeare--research
1938--1976
Record ID: 71446501
Scope and Content Note
notes, book jackets, and other miscellany, November 3, 1938, through November 18, 1976, and undated
folder 480
Francis Bacon/William Shakespeare--research clippings
1934--1965
Record ID: 71446502
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous articles regarding Francis Bacon and authorship of writings attributed to William Shakespeare
folder 481
The Frozen Man--miscellaneous
1934--1934
Record ID: 71446393
Scope and Content Note
clipping, January 21, 1934; story idea apparently inspired by clipping, January 22, 1934
folder 482
Garbo
Circa 1950--1959
Record ID: 71447078
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes regarding history and personality of Greta Garbo, undated [written after Garbo's return to New York circa
1951], 3 pages
folder 483
Getting Away with It
1969--1969
Record ID: 71446730
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, April 29, 1969
folder 484
The Gift of Love
Record ID: 71447025
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 9 pages
folder 485
The Gilded Age
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446415
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, July 3, 1932, and July 4, 1932, 3 pages
folder 486
The Glittering World
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446394
Scope and Content Note
story outline with dialogue, May 21, 1932
folder 487
God's Out-of-Doors
Record ID: 71446395
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline, undated, 5 pages
folder 488
Hardboiled Angel
Record ID: 71446895
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 5 pages
folder 489
High Society
Record ID: 71331836
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline, undated, 13 pages
folder 490
How!
1968--1968
Record ID: 71446731
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, September 6, 1968, 3 pages
folder 491
I Should Think So
Record ID: 71331841
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 3 pages
folder 492
In the Days of Bicycles and Bustles--research
Record ID: 71444637
Scope and Content Note
preliminary handwritten notes on non-fiction book covering English life 1883-1914
folder 493
It Won't Last Long
1935--1935
Record ID: 71444634
Scope and Content Note
brief handwritten story idea, May 5, 1935
folder 494
Japanese-American Project--correspondence
1962--1962
Record ID: 71458969
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook letter to Steve Parker at Paramount regarding potential comedy film based on book published in Japan, April
12, 1962
folder 495
Just Between Friends
Record ID: 71444635
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes for story of "old New England" from book by Arthur G. Staples, undated, 3 pages
folder 496
The Keys to the City
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446732
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, August 28, 1933, 3 pages
folder 497
The Last Island of Atlantis
1946--1949
Record ID: 71447110
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, February 26, 1946, and March 26, 1949, 3 pages
folder 498
Life
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446416
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten story outline, December 10, 1932, 7 pages
folder 499
Long Distance Love
Record ID: 71331845
Scope and Content Note
handwritten draft of story outline, undated, 5 pages
folder 500
Love's Long Road
Record ID: 71331847
Scope and Content Note
handwritten draft of outline, undated, 3 pages
folder 501
Mad Musical Romance
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447028
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, May 14, 1934, 12 pages
folder 502
The Made-to-Order Town
Record ID: 71331848
Scope and Content Note
typed synopsis, undated [annotated]
folder 503
The Maestro
1932--1932
Record ID: 71447029
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, October 24, 1932, 3 pages
folder 504
Man of Mystery--script
Record ID: 71331849
Scope and Content Note
handwritten note and dialogue, undated
folder 505
The Man to Watch--script
1965--1967
Record ID: 71446132
Scope and Content Note
incomplete drafts and notes, February 5, 1965, through 1967 and undated, 16 pages; title registration, January 13, 1967
folder 506
The Man to Watch--research
1965--1968
Record ID: 71331850
Scope and Content Note
clippings of articles regarding Greek and other governments
folder 507
The Man Who Did It
Circa 1908--1908
Record ID: 71446733
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 9 pages
folder 508
Marriage Incorporated
1945--1948
Record ID: 71447111
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outlines and notes, February 12, 1945, through June 28, 1948, and undated, 15 pages
folder 509
Miscellaneous--notes
1924--1974
Record ID: 71331909
Scope and Content Note
unrelated handwritten notes and brief outlines on various characters, incidents, and story concepts, April 19, 1924, through
August 18, 1974
folder 510
Miscellaneous--notes
Record ID: 71460841
Scope and Content Note
unrelated typed and handwritten notes and brief outlines on various characters, incidents, story concepts, and script submissions,
undated
folder 511
Miscellaneous--notes (clippings)
1933--1933
Record ID: 71331908
Scope and Content Note
clippings containing story potential, one with story notes, October 8, 1933, and 1957
folder 512
Miscellaneous--notes (studio)
Record ID: 71450559
Scope and Content Note
page three of "Confidential Communication #1": typed story department notes on availability status and filmic potential for
certain writers, and for actors James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Barbara Stanwyck, and others, undated
folder 513
Mr. Nobody
1944--1945
Record ID: 71446896
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline and notes, November 18, 1944, through October 28, 1945, 4 pages
folder 514
Mister Quisling
Record ID: 71447030
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated
folder 515
Morals--clippings
Circa 1945--1945
Record ID: 71447031
Scope and Content Note
newspaper clipping containing relevant Fred Allen joke, undated
folder 516
Morals--notes
Record ID: 71460880
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story notes, undated
folder 517
Nine Words
1934--1934
Record ID: 71446897
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, July 1, 1934
folder 518
No Peace with Patricia
1936--1936
Record ID: 71446898
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, December 26, 1936, 3 pages
folder 519
Noblesse Oblige--notes
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446760
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline by Howard Estabrook, May 15, 1932, 4 pages; handwritten notes, December 7, 1967, and undated, 8 pages
folder 520
Ohio Story--notes
1946--1948
Record ID: 71331859
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes regarding true story of family of Gretchen Dale (Mrs. Estabrook), September 6, 1946, through January 5,
1948, 19 pages
folder 521
The Older Daughter
Record ID: 71446761
Scope and Content Note
incomplete handwritten story outline, undated, 16 pages
folder 522
Once to Every Man
Record ID: 71447112
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, undated, 4 pages
folder 523
Outrageous Mr. Clappclaw--notes
1967--1967
Record ID: 71331861
Scope and Content Note
story notes, November 25, 1967, and December 18, 1967, 4 pages
folder 524
Outrageous Mr. Clappclaw--research
1967--1968
Record ID: 71460910
Scope and Content Note
clippings with further notes, 1967, and September 3, 1968
folder 525
Picturesque Devore
Record ID: 71446399
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline, undated, 4 pages
folder 526
Pilgrim's Progress
1959--1959
Record ID: 71446503
Scope and Content Note
notes and story outline, February 6, 1959 and undated, 5 pages
folder 527
Presidential Idea
1931--1931
Record ID: 71447032
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes by Howard Estabrook, January 8, 1931, 4 pages
folder 528
The Prince (1)
1930--1930
Record ID: 71447870
Scope and Content Note
typed outlines by Howard Estabrook, January 22, 1930, and March 27, 1930, 3 pages; Screen Writers Guild registration, March
27, 1930
folder 529
The Prince (2)
1957--1957
Record ID: 71446406
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 3 pages
folder 530
Princess Pocahontas
Record ID: 71447080
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated
folder 531
Prosperity Story
1931--1931
Record ID: 71331862
Scope and Content Note
typed rough outline by Howard Estabrook, January 24, 1931, 4 pages
folder 532
Renegade Land
1950--1950
Record ID: 71446504
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, August 10, 1950, 3 pages
folder 533
Revolt
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446762
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, October 3, 1933
folder 534
Revolt in the Painted Desert--correspondence
1972--1972
Record ID: 71451604
Scope and Content Note
copies of letters to Earl Haley, author of novel, regarding its film potential, by Howard Estabrook and Lee Garmes, both dated
January 12, 1972
folder 535
The Ring
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447033
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, July 26, 1934, 4 pages
folder 536
The Rumor Factory
Record ID: 71331869
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline, undated, 3 pages
folder 537
The Sarong
1948--1948
Record ID: 71446899
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, April 2, 1948, 5 pages
folder 538
Sensation
1928--1928
Record ID: 71331872
Scope and Content Note
incomplete second draft of outline, February 1, 1928, revised for third draft, May 1, 1928 [heavily annotated]; later draft
of outline, undated
folder 539
Ship of Women
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447034
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, September 13, 1934, and undated, 9 pages
folder 540
Shooting Stars
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331873
Scope and Content Note
typed outline by Howard Estabrook, August 15, 1936, 3 pages; Paramount memos regarding outline and Estabrook's concept of
writers' and studios' rights to stories, August 15, 1936, and August 20, 1936
folder 541
Singapore Nights--miscellaneous
Circa 1941--1941
Record ID: 71446417
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline and notes, undated, 7 pages
folder 542
Sins of the World
1924--1941
Record ID: 71446900
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline and notes, December 10, 1924, through August 11, 1941, 7 pages
folder 543
Sodom and Gomorrah
1941--1945
Record ID: 71447042
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outlines and notes, August 5, 1941, through July 19, 1945, 6 pages
folder 544
Sonata Appassionata
1931--1933
Record ID: 71446400
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten outlines and notes by Howard Estabrook and others for prospective film based on life of Beethoven, March
28, 1931, through September 27, 1933, and undated, 10 pages
folder 545
Speed and Daring
Record ID: 71331885
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline for Western, undated, 3 pages
folder 546
Start Something!
Record ID: 71447043
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 6 pages
folder 547
The Story of Life
1928--1928
Record ID: 71447105
Scope and Content Note
rough handwritten story outline with dialogue, September 3, 1928
folder 548
Strange Visitor
1953--1953
Record ID: 71446418
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, August 15, 1953, 4 pages
folder 549
Street of Life
1944--1944
Record ID: 71447140
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, January 7, 1944
folder 550
The Super-Man
Record ID: 71446082
Scope and Content Note
typed synopsis, undated
folder 551
Suspense Story
1947--1947
Record ID: 71447044
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, March 23, 1947, 11 pages
folder 552
Time Runs Out
Record ID: 71446505
Scope and Content Note
handwritten screenplay fragment, undated
folder 553
Titles and notes--clippings
1927--1932
Record ID: 71446408
Scope and Content Note
clippings suggesting stories or approaches, some with accompanying notes
folder 554
Titles and notes--notes
1927--1971
Record ID: 71446419
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes containing title concepts and screenplay ideas connected to them
folder 555
Titles and notes--notes
Record ID: 71446770
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes containing title concepts and related screenplay ideas
folder 556
Toward a Better World
Record ID: 71447142
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, undated, 13 pages
folder 557
The Tower of London--correspondence
1968--1968
Record ID: 71450889
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook letters to Robert Evans and Peter Bart at Paramount explaining his concept for filming this London-based
story in Hollywood, with reference to production of DAVID COPPERFIELD, August 20, 1968, and August 28, 1968
folder 558
Troop Train
1950--1950
Record ID: 71447045
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, December 5, 1950, 6 pages
folder 559
Uncovered
1952--1952
Record ID: 71447046
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, July 11, 1952, 3 pages
folder 560
Underground
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446407
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline by Howard Estabrook, March 8, 1932
folder 561
Wake up, Sylvester!
Record ID: 71447083
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 19 pages
folder 562
Waterville, Maine
Record ID: 71446420
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story concepts, undated, 6 pages
folder 563
What the Mirror Saw
1934--1934
Record ID: 71447048
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, December 5, 1934
folder 564
Where Were You Last Night?
Record ID: 71331903
Scope and Content Note
typed concept outline by Howard Estabrook, undated
folder 565
Who's the Girl?
Record ID: 71447049
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, undated, 6 pages
folder 566
Who Shall Judge?
Record ID: 71331905
Scope and Content Note
handwritten outline of theme, undated [incomplete?]
folder 567
The Women of Ladagar--miscellaneous
1941--1941
Record ID: 71331906
Scope and Content Note
rough typed story outline by Howard Estabrook per discussion with Edmund Goulding, March 6, 1941, 6 pages
folder 568
The Wonderful Lone Scholar
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446772
Scope and Content Note
clipping; handwritten story outline by Howard Estabrook, August 27, 1933
folder 569
Yours Forever
Record ID: 71447050
Scope and Content Note
handwritten story outline, undated, 4 pages
Story files/Story material
folder 570
Advantage Receiver
Record ID: 71331958
Scope and Content Note
treatment by William J. Tilden, undated, 54 pages; handwritten note from Howard Estabrook explaining logic behind rejection,
undated
folder 571
ALIAS THE NIGHT WIND
Circa 1923--1923
Record ID: 71331797
Scope and Content Note
synopsis, undated, 4 pages [outline of silent film]
folder 572
Anathema
1944--1944
Record ID: 71331959
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of story by Leonid Andreyev, January 7, 1944, 5 pages
folder 573
Angel Making Music (A Zenelo Angyal)
1933--1933
Record ID: 71331957
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and critique of film potential for 1933 novel by Ferenc Molnar, August 9, 1933, 9 pages
folder 574
The Avenger
Circa 1926--1926
Record ID: 71331960
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Viva Leone Ricketts, undated, 6 pages
folder 575
Blue Pastures
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331961
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of and comment on unpublished play by Rachel Field, November 18, 1936
folder 576
The Book of Carlotta
Record ID: 71331962
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of novel by Arnold Bennett, undated, 10 pages
folder 577
Camel Boy
1951--1951
Record ID: 71446431
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Julian Lesser for film version of book by Don Swift, March 1, 1951, 10 pages
folder 578
The Cardinal
Record ID: 71331963
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of play by Louis N. Parker, undated, 11 pages [annotated and revised]
folder 579
Carroll of Carrollton
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331964
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of original story by John C. Moffitt, August 25, 1936
folder 580
Cheyenne Run
Record ID: 71331965
Scope and Content Note
story outline by Melvin Levy, undated, 12 pages
folder 581
The Chorus Lady
1921--1921
Record ID: 71331966
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Nelle E. Walkup of play by James Forbes, August 11, 1921, 9 pages
folder 582
Dangerous Command
Record ID: 71331967
Scope and Content Note
script by Harold Shumate, undated, 120 pages
folder 583
Eight Hours
Circa 1937--1937
Record ID: 71331968
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Allen Rivkin, from original by Quentin Reynolds regarding Eddy Duchin, November 29, 1937, 72 pages; letter to
Howard Estabrook from Rivkin describing his work on story, undated
folder 584
The Fangs of Experience
Record ID: 71331969
Scope and Content Note
condensed synopsis, undated
folder 585
Foma, the Magnificent
1935--1935
Record ID: 71331971
Scope and Content Note
play translation by Serge Bertensson, from "Village Stepantchikovo," Moscow Art Theatre version of novel "Village Stepantchikovo
and Its Inhabitants," by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, June 19, 1935, 93 pages
folder 586
For Valor
Record ID: 71331972
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Charles Maigne, undated, 3 pages
folder 587
Fortune's Wheel
Circa 1924--1924
Record ID: 71331973
Scope and Content Note
outline by Nat Harris and Patricia Parish, undated, 9 pages
folder 588
Front Door to Heaven
Record ID: 71331974
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Aben Kandei [Kandel], undated, 36 pages
folder 589
The Great Anthony
Record ID: 71331975
Scope and Content Note
play script by Russell Birdwell, undated, 120 pages
folder 590
The Great Locomotive Chase
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331976
Scope and Content Note
Columbia synopsis by Walter Hartman of book by William Pittenger, October 14, 1936, 14 pages; memo with high praise for film
potential, October 15, 1936
folder 591
Hedda Gabler
Record ID: 71331977
Scope and Content Note
act-by-act synopsis of play by Henrik Ibsen, undated, 4 pages
folder 592
HIGH VOLTAGE
Circa 1929--1929
Record ID: 71331978
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of film, undated
folder 593
Hurdy-Gurdy
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331979
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Allida Allen of original screenplay by Rose Franken and William Brown Meloney, July 7, 1936
folder 594
The Immortal Sinner
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331980
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of, and commentary on, original story by Gretchen and John Duval, December 5, 1938
folder 595
The Imperative
1927--1927
Record ID: 71331981
Scope and Content Note
outline by Lowell S. Hawley, March 28, 1927, 10 pages
folder 596
Joseph Pulitzer
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331982
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of 1924 book "Joseph Pulitzer: His Life and Letters" by Don C. Seitz, November 20, 1930, 4 pages
folder 597
Kenny
Record ID: 71331983
Scope and Content Note
novella by Louis Bromfield, undated, 77 pages
folder 598
The King of Today
Record ID: 71331984
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of story by Eric Mayne, undated
folder 599
Lead, My America--script
Record ID: 71331985
Scope and Content Note
book manuscript regarding conservation by Dr. Harold M. Dudley, undated, 217 pages
folder 600
Lead, My America--miscellaneous
1951--1960
Record ID: 71449117
Scope and Content Note
correspondence between Howard Estabrook and Dr. Harold M. Dudley, also including Dr. Walter Judd at Religious Heritage of
America, Inc., October 15, 1959, through April 29, 1960; literature regarding Washington Pilgrimage, 1951-1960, including
page from "The Congressional Record," September 24, 1951
folder 601
Let the Eagle Scream!
Record ID: 71331986
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Rowland Brown and Frank Fenton, undated, 51 pages
folder 602
The Life of Gandhi
Record ID: 71331987
Scope and Content Note
treatment/screenplay, undated, 173 pages [annotated]
folder 603
Liszt--script
1936--1936
Record ID: 71459140
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Durward Grinstead and Marguerite Lamar, October 27, 1936, 40 pages
folder 604
Liszt--research
1913--1936
Record ID: 71447086
Scope and Content Note
typed and published non-fiction reports on Franz Liszt, including list of dramatic highlights of his life and account of involvement
with Lola Montès, November 24, 1913, through November, 1936, 80 pages
folder 605
The Locked Door
1910--1910
Record ID: 71332009
Scope and Content Note
typed manuscript of play by Channing Pollock, June 14, 1910, 113 pages
folder 606
The Magnificent Dolly
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331989
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of and commentary on original screen story regarding Dolly Madison by Mitzi Cummings, December 5, 1938
folder 607
The Makropoulos Secret
1936--1936
Record ID: 71331990
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of 1926 play by Karel Capek, November 5, 1936
folder 608
The Man Behind the Mask
Record ID: 71446936
Scope and Content Note
handwritten synopsis of story by Shelton Benedict, undated, 6 pages
folder 609
Manslaughter
Record ID: 71331991
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of novel by Alice Duer Miller, undated, 27 pages
folder 610
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer synopses
1938--1939
Record ID: 71332034
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of THE SIN FLOOD, completed 1922 Goldwyn Pictures silent film (based on play by Henning Berger), undated; synopses
and commentary by Blythe Parsons on play (revue) "Knickerbocker Holiday" by Maxwell Anderson (music by Kurt Weill), September
6, 1938, 13 pages; synopses and commentary by Leroy Linick on "Duty's Faithful Child" (story of Louisa May Alcott), by Wanda
Tuchock, November 13, 1939, 13 pages; synopses and commentary by Marjorie Thorson on "Music Hall" by Fannie Hurst, November
28, 1939, 15 pages
folder 611
The Moonstone
1926--1926
Record ID: 71331993
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by Nelle E. Walkup of novel by Wilkie Collins, July 23, 1926, 11 pages
folder 612
Morgan the Magnificent
1930--1930
Record ID: 71331994
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of life of J. Pierpont Morgan by John K. Winkler, December 3, 1930
folder 613
Naked Truth
Circa 1920--1929
Record ID: 71331995
Scope and Content Note
summary of life by Clare Sheridan, undated, 4 pages
folder 614
A One-Man Dog--script
1925--1926
Record ID: 71331996
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Happy deRosselli, 1925, 27 pages
folder 615
A One-Man Dog--clippings
Circa 1925--1925
Record ID: 71449175
Scope and Content Note
article on statue erected to "The War Dog" of World War I, undated
folder 616
Other Women's Children
Record ID: 71331997
Scope and Content Note
play script by Kay Van Riper, undated, 132 pages
folder 617
Out of the Night
1938--1938
Record ID: 71331998
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by John Boyce-Smith of novel by Rida Johnson Young, undated, 10 pages; letter from Boyce-Smith to Howard Estabrook
at Goldwyn regarding other story concepts, October 6, 1938
folder 618
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Record ID: 71331999
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of story by Bret Harte, undated, 3 pages
folder 619
Over There--script
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332000
Scope and Content Note
story outline for film on Gen. John J. Pershing by Geza Herczeg and Julius Klein, 1938, 8 pages
folder 620
Over There--research
Record ID: 71331988
Scope and Content Note
manuscript of Gen. John J. Pershing's memoirs, undated, 448 pages
folder 621
Paramount synopses
1929--1938
Record ID: 71332035
Scope and Content Note
synopses and commentary by Nancy Yost on novel "Magnificent Obsession" by Lloyd Douglas, October 28, 1929, 10 pages; synopses
by Lenore Cotten and Dorothy Richardson of two non-fiction books on Kit Carson by Stanley Vestal and Evelyn Wells, January
9, 1936, and November 26, 1937, 14 pages and 16 pages; synopses by Marion Valentine of play "Milestones" by Arnold Bennett
and Edward Knoblock, August 6, 1937, 11 pages; synopses by Marion Valentine of play "Babes in Toyland" by Victor Herbert and
Glen MacDonough, undated, 20 pages
folder 622
Phantom Wolf
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332001
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Maurice O'Farrell, undated, 33 pages; synopsis and critique, December 5, 1938
folder 623
Poet's Pub
1937--1938
Record ID: 71450075
Scope and Content Note
screenplay by Marion Dix (from novel by Eric Linklater), undated, 71 pages; letter to Howard Estabrook from Marion Dix describing
her work on story and her belief in its potential, January 8, 1938; synopses and commentary by Dorothy Mox, April 7, 1938,
13 pages
folder 624
The Prisoner of Zenda
Record ID: 71332002
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of novel by Anthony Hope, undated
folder 625
The Private Life of George the Fourth
1937--1937
Record ID: 71332003
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Geza Herczeg and Dr. T. F. MacLaughlin, October 1937, 28 pages
folder 626
RKO synopses and memos
1930--1944
Record ID: 71450099
Scope and Content Note
one-paragraph synopses for 77 properties, including "Bring 'em Back Alive" by Frank Buck, "Sister Carrie" by Theodore Dreiser,
"Silas Marner" by George Eliot, "The Vessel of Wrath" by Somerset Maugham, and "Yu' an Hee See Laughs" by Sax Rohmer, December
5, 1930, through March 30, 1931; synopses and commentary on film potential of Noël Coward stories "Concerto," December 31,
1930, and "Cavalcade," October 15, 1931; information regarding Robert Browning and rights to his play "In a Balcony," March
12, 1931
folder 627
Rossini in Naples
Circa 1936--1940
Record ID: 71332004
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of, and comment on, comic opera by Hans Adler, undated
folder 628
School for Eternity--miscellaneous
1944--1944
Record ID: 71332005
Scope and Content Note
treatment for his novel by Harry Hervey, undated, 39 pages
folder 629
The School for Scandal
1928--1928
Record ID: 71332006
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by "Persoff" of play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, December 14, 1928, 8 pages
folder 630
Serenade in Salzburg
Record ID: 71332007
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Alfred Schiller and Richard Litton, undated, 40 pages
folder 631
Settlement House
1937--1937
Record ID: 71332008
Scope and Content Note
story outline by Louis Weitzenkorn (based on Jane Addams' Hull House settlement in Chicago), October 15, 1937
folder 632
The Silent Witness
1925--1925
Record ID: 71332010
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Frederic Chapin and Jack Harvey, June 9, 1925, 14 pages
folder 633
The Sin Sister
Record ID: 71332011
Scope and Content Note
story outline, undated
folder 634
Soldier of Fortune
Record ID: 71332012
Scope and Content Note
treatment by John E. Gibson, undated, 25 pages
folder 635
Spawn of the Devil: A Dog Story
Record ID: 71332013
Scope and Content Note
synopsis by W. H. Clifford, undated, 26 pages
folder 636
The Splendid Traitor
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332014
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and critique of story by Marguerite Harrison, December 5, 1938
folder 637
The Star of Navarre
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332015
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and critique of play by Victor Victor, December 7, 1938
folder 638
Stephen Foster Story
1931--1931
Record ID: 71332016
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Polan Banks, November 12, 1931, 13 pages
folder 639
The Storm
Record ID: 71332017
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of play by Langdon McCormick, undated
folder 640
The Straight Path
Record ID: 71332018
Scope and Content Note
play script by Louis Stevens, undated, 108 pages
folder 641
Surrender
1931--1931
Record ID: 71332019
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Polan Banks, November 12, 1931, 11 pages
folder 642
Three Men and a Ghost
Record ID: 71332020
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of story by Jonathan Finn and Bradley King, undated, 5 pages
folder 643
Transatlantic Union
Record ID: 71332021
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg (based on true story of Cyrus W. Field), undated, 32 pages
folder 644
Trumpet Shall Sound
1926--1931
Record ID: 71332022
Scope and Content Note
play by Thornton Wilder, undated, 35 pages [lightly annotated and revised]; RKO memo to Howard Estabrook from Richard Boleslavsky
regarding film potential, July 8, 1931
folder 645
Twelve Hours Leave
Record ID: 71332023
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Martin Berkeley and Fritz Rotter, undated, 37 pages
folder 646
Two Shall Be Born
1928--1928
Record ID: 71332024
Scope and Content Note
summary and detailed synopsis by Florence Long of book by Marie Conway Oemler, December 29, 1928, 13 pages
folder 647
UNCLE CHARLIE
1956--1957
Record ID: 71447203
Scope and Content Note
fourth draft script by "C. F. R.," December 26, 1956, with revisions to February 14, 1957, 131 pages
folder 648
Untitled--script
Record ID: 71331900
Scope and Content Note
treatment, undated, 47 pages
folder 649
Vein of Iron
Record ID: 71332025
Scope and Content Note
summary of, and commentary on, book by Ellen Glasgow, undated, 8 pages
folder 650
Victim and Victor
1939--1939
Record ID: 71332026
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of, and commentary on, story by John Rathbone Oliver, January 27, 1939
folder 651
We Leave Memory
1936--1936
Record ID: 71332027
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of, and commentary on, original story by Milton Merlin and Guy Endore, November 10, 1936
folder 652
What Price Money!
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332028
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and criticism of original story by Gretchen and Juan Duval, December 5, 1938
folder 653
White Death
Circa 1930--1940
Record ID: 71332030
Scope and Content Note
story by Boris Lavrenyoff (translated from Russian by Serge Bertensson), undated, 72 pages
folder 654
The Wizard of Menlo Park
1936--1936
Record ID: 71332031
Scope and Content Note
prose treatment by H. Alan Dunn, January 18, 1936, 86 pages
folder 655
Wolfville stories
Record ID: 71331970
Scope and Content Note
synopses of stories in "Wolfville," "Wolfville Folks," and "Faro Nell and Her Friends" by Alfred Henry Lewis, undated, 26
pages
folder 656
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Record ID: 71332032
Scope and Content Note
treatment by Ralph Freed and Betty Campbell Flammer, undated, 28 pages
folder 657
Youthful Folly
Record ID: 71332033
Scope and Content Note
silent film screenplay by Frances Marion, undated, 67 pages
folder 658
Zaza
1932--1932
Record ID: 71450076
Scope and Content Note
play script (English-language adaptation; original French version by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon), typed December 3, 1932,
159 pages
folder 659
A miscellaneous
1931--1976
Record ID: 71450312
Scope and Content Note
letters from and regarding George K. Arthur and his International Group Players at Hollywood Playhouse, October 18, 1933,
through November 20, 1933
folder 660
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
1933--1944
Record ID: 71450560
Scope and Content Note
letters of appreciation and congratulation to Howard Estabrook for his work on Academy board of directors and Academy Awards
ceremony, from Frank Lloyd, Walter Wanger, and others, December 13, 1939, through March 7, 1944
folder 661
Address books
1942--1942
Record ID: 71332060
Scope and Content Note
listings and notations for studio and industry personnel, including Beulah Bondi and Lee Garmes
folder 662
Address lists
Record ID: 71452397
Scope and Content Note
list of contacts for Estabrook to notify of his change of address, undated
folder 663
Articles--Authorship
Record ID: 71331952
Scope and Content Note
working text and research notes on writers and their protections and remunerations, undated, 26 pages
folder 664
Articles--"Defending Hollywood's War Record"
1944--1944
Record ID: 71461716
Scope and Content Note
copy of published article by Howard Estabrook, regarding quality wartime films and work of Hollywood Writers' Mobilization,
"The New York Times," October 22, 1944
folder 665
Articles--The First Hundred Years of the Movies
Record ID: 71448499
Scope and Content Note
article draft by Howard Estabrook, undated, 36 pages [heavily annotated and revised]
folder 666
Articles--"Freedom of Repression"
1945--1945
Record ID: 71452716
Scope and Content Note
published article by Howard Estabrook, reprinted from "The Hollywood Reporter," November 5, 1945
folder 667
Articles--Galloping Rocking Horses
Circa 1941--1941
Record ID: 71448497
Scope and Content Note
"Galloping Rocking Horses: A Christmas Introspection," typed manuscript of final version by Howard Estabrook, undated, 5 pages
folder 668
Articles--Garmes, Lee
Record ID: 71446510
Scope and Content Note
typed notes for article on Lee Garmes and organic farming, undated, 3 pages [clean and annotated copies of each page]
folder 669
Articles--Hollywood Colonialism
Record ID: 71448500
Scope and Content Note
preliminary draft, undated, 5 pages [lightly annotated and revised]
folder 670
Articles--Intellectual Standard of Living in Hollywood
Record ID: 71447153
Scope and Content Note
note for article, undated
folder 671
Articles--More Money Is Always in Style
1967--1967
Record ID: 71448498
Scope and Content Note
"More Money Is Always in Style (What? No Income Tax?!!!)" manuscript by Howard Estabrook, 1967, 13 pages
folder 672
Articles--motion pictures
1931--1935
Record ID: 71448501
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous typed and handwritten text, column copy, and notes on Hollywood, January 17, 1931, through December 22, 1933,
and undated; note of appreciation to Howard Estabrook for his article on publicists from publicist at RKO, March 3, 1931;
"Los Angeles Times" clipping on forthcoming Hollywood productions, October 2, 1935
folder 673
Articles--A Person of Authority
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446424
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, December 20, 1932
folder 674
Articles--Prove All Things
Record ID: 71447113
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes, undated, 6 pages
folder 675
Articles--Zukor, Adolph
Record ID: 71448502
Scope and Content Note
copy of manuscript, "Miracle at 99: Amazing Adolph Zukor" by Howard Estabrook, undated, 13 pages; manuscript of alternate
draft, "Revolt against Being Average with Adolph Zukor and His Woman Power" by Howard Estabrook, undated, 21 pages
folder 676
B miscellaneous
1939--1976
Record ID: 71451605
Scope and Content Note
exchange of observations with Beulah Bondi, January 21, 1964, through 1976
folder 677
Benedict Bogeaus Productions
Circa 1948--1960
Record ID: 71450586
Scope and Content Note
records of payments received in 1948 and 1949
folder 678
Biographical data
1954--1957
Record ID: 71450754
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous autobiographical notations made by Howard Estabrook regarding family background, film and theater experience,
corporate experience, and financial history; page of unidentified interview transcript, undated [annotated and revised]
folder 679
Biographical data--clippings
1904--1937
Record ID: 71332069
Scope and Content Note
announcements of marriage to Gretchen Dale, December 23, 1907, through December 29, 1907; article regarding Howard Estabrook
as MC of USC-American Institute of Cinematography banquet, May 23, 1937
folder 680
Biographical data--credits
1916--1967
Record ID: 71451669
Scope and Content Note
resumés and lists of motion picture and other show business credits and awards [some annotated]
folder 681
Biographical data--credits
Record ID: 71461754
Scope and Content Note
family and high school information
folder 682
Biographical data--name change
1907--1907
Record ID: 71332075
Scope and Content Note
legal documents and invoice regarding change of name of Howard Estabrook Bolles to Howard Estabrook, November 19, 1907, through
November 26, 1907
folder 683
Biographical data--name change (clipping)
1907--1907
Record ID: 71452541
Scope and Content Note
published notice of change of name, undated
folder 684
Biographical data--passports
1934--1934
Record ID: 71332076
Scope and Content Note
passports issued to Howard Estabrook, April 12, 1934, and October 28, 1938
folder 685
Biographical data--personal/family
1904--1964
Record ID: 71451991
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook Bolles' correspondence with and notes regarding his parents, stepmother, brother, wife, and other family
members, August 9, 1904, through July 7, 1949; copy of birth certificate from state of Michigan, April 6, 1934; copy of letter
to "Who's Who" from Donald Gledhill at Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, regarding acquisition of names of people
in film industry, May 19, 1941
folder 686
Biographical data--personal/family
Record ID: 71461825
Scope and Content Note
information regarding Howard Estabrook's genealogy, parents, private life, early life and education
folder 687
Biographical data--personal/family (clippings)
1915--1932
Record ID: 71451992
Scope and Content Note
obituaries for Howard Estabrook's father, John E. Bolles, November 1923
folder 688
Biographical data--personal/family (photographs)
Circa 1885--1940
Record ID: 71452624
Scope and Content Note
one 3x3, one 3x5, and two 4x5¾ prints depicting Howard Estabrook alone; three 8x10 prints, one ½x3, one 2½x4½, one 2½x5, one
2¾x3¾, and one 3½x5¾ print depicting Estabrook with others; one 2¾x4¼, three 3½x4½, three 3¼x5½, two 4x5¾ prints, and two
3¼x5½ and three 3¾x5 negatives depicting Bolles family members, with and without Estabrook
folder 689
Biographical data--placard
Record ID: 71452404
Scope and Content Note
cardboard placard bearing Howard Estabrook's name, undated
folder 690
Biographical data--portraits
Record ID: 71452425
Scope and Content Note
charcoal and pen-and-ink renderings of Howard Estabrook by artist Henry Goode, undated
folder 691
Biographical data--publicity
1929--1958
Record ID: 71451670
Scope and Content Note
studio press releases and other prose treatments of Howard Estabrook's biography
folder 692
Biographical data--publicity
Circa 1971--1971
Record ID: 71451836
Scope and Content Note
notes and draft on Howard Estabrook's screenwriting career as compiled by James Danelz for book on screenwriters, "Blueprint
on Babylon," undated
folder 693
Biographical data--Trinity Church
1907--1924
Record ID: 71451993
Scope and Content Note
Trinity Parish certificate of marriage of Howard Estabrook and Gretchen Dale, New York, December 22, 1907
folder 694
Book ideas
1944--1971
Record ID: 71446511
Scope and Content Note
exchange with Bennett Cerf and his office regarding potential book projects, October 25, 1944, and October 26, 1944; handwritten
notes, titles and concepts; newspaper clipping inspiring new concept, with handwritten notes, circa December 31, 1948; typed
correspondence and proposal material laying out concepts, August 26, 1970, November 3, 1970, and undated
folder 695
Book ideas--The Business of Living
Record ID: 71448207
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten notes and text, undated
folder 696
Book ideas--Hollywood's Way to Health and Longevity (correspondence)
1970--1971
Record ID: 71331943
Scope and Content Note
correspondence including proposal material, November 6, 1970, through January 11, 1971
folder 697
Book ideas--Hollywood's Way to Health and Longevity (manuscript)
Circa 1971--1971
Record ID: 71448206
Scope and Content Note
draft of Part I, undated, 62 pages
folder 698
Book ideas--Hollywood's Way to Health and Longevity (miscellaneous)
1969--1972
Record ID: 71447089
Scope and Content Note
clippings, May 15, 1969, through June 21, 1972; typed and handwritten notes, July 23, 1971, and undated
folder 699
Book ideas--Movie Magic and Mirage (correspondence)
1971--1975
Record ID: 71332062
Scope and Content Note
American Film Institute correspondence concerning Howard Estabrook's interview and book project
folder 700
Book ideas--Movie Magic and Mirage (manuscript)
Circa 1971--1971
Record ID: 71332063
Scope and Content Note
draft of semi-autobiographical work by Howard Estabrook, sponsored by American Film Institute, undated, 137 pages
folder 701
Book ideas--Movie Magic and Mirage (miscellaneous)
1972--1974
Record ID: 71452221
Scope and Content Note
obsolete and revised pages and drafts, undated; notes and typed statements, some undated
folder 702
Book ideas--Movie Magic and Mirage (transcripts)
1972--1972
Record ID: 71451651
Scope and Content Note
transcript of American Film Institute discussion with Howard Estabrook, chiefly regarding MGM and DAVID COPPERFIELD, May 18,
1972, 54 pages [lightly annotated with corrections]
folder 703
Book ideas--West to the Golden Gate (correspondence)
1969--1972
Record ID: 71450890
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving Rowland V. Lee, publishers, and others, regarding adapting screenplay to novel form
folder 704
Book ideas--West to the Golden Gate (manuscript)
Circa 1969--1969
Record ID: 71331948
Scope and Content Note
typed manuscript of novel by Howard Estabrook and Rowland V. Lee, undated, pages 1 through 167
folder 705
Book ideas--West to the Golden Gate (manuscript)
Circa 1969--1969
Record ID: 71448330
Scope and Content Note
typed manuscript of novel by Howard Estabrook and Rowland V. Lee, undated, pages 168 through 378
folder 706
Book ideas--West to the Golden Gate (miscellaneous)
1969--1969
Record ID: 71448331
Scope and Content Note
copyright registration, July 31, 1969; outlines (adapted from story by Howard Estabrook, screenplay by Howard Estabrook and
Rowland V. Lee), undated, 37 pages and 10 pages
folder 707
Book ideas--West to the Golden Gate (research)
1954--1966
Record ID: 71448332
folder 708
Books--clippings
1950--1951
Record ID: 71332064
Scope and Content Note
reviews and notices from book sections of "Los Angeles Times" and "The New York Times"
folder 709
Books--"The Inquisitor"
1935--1935
Record ID: 71332084
Scope and Content Note
"The Inquisitor" by Hugh Walpole (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1935)
folder 710
Books--inventories
1939--1952
Record ID: 71451802
Scope and Content Note
copies of inscription to Howard Estabrook as "Gabriel Pascal's friend" by George Bernard Shaw on title page of collected works,
1939; handwritten and typed lists of books sold
folder 711
Books--lists
1933--1949
Record ID: 71451803
Scope and Content Note
handwritten and typed lists of books by topic, including motion pictures, theater, television, and laughter
folder 712
Books--"Will Rogers"
1941--1941
Record ID: 71452670
Scope and Content Note
"Will Rogers" by Betty Rogers (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1941)
folder 713
C miscellaneous
1924--1948
Record ID: 71450391
folder 714
Caddo Co.
Circa 1930--1930
Record ID: 71453061
Scope and Content Note
note regarding Howard Estabrook's 1929 salary as reported to IRS, undated
folder 715
California
1971--1971
Record ID: 71451607
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving Secretary of State regarding common law registration of literary material, November 20, 1971, through
November 23, 1971
folder 716
Capra, Frank
1973--1973
Record ID: 71451606
Scope and Content Note
note to Howard Estabrook from Frank Capra regarding "The Name Above the Title," January 23, 1973
folder 717
Christmas
1927--1974
Record ID: 71452432
Scope and Content Note
Christmas card lists, including draft of message sent to Beulah Bondi on Christmas card regarding "Heyday with Whistler!,"
1974
folder 718
Clippings
1921--1975
Record ID: 71451994
Scope and Content Note
column regarding outdoor film screenings in Florida, January 20, 1921
folder 719
Clippings
Record ID: 71446777
Scope and Content Note
article "Great Day in '76 -- July 2," regarding Declaration of Independence, undated
folder 720
Columbia--Screen Gems
1956--1957
Record ID: 71450755
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
folder 721
D miscellaneous
1934--1976
Record ID: 71450392
Scope and Content Note
text of telegram from Howard Estabrook to Irene Dunne about potential film project, June 30, 1941; text of note from Estabrook
to Philip Dunne regarding his appearance on "Cavalcade of Books" television program, November 24, 1963
folder 722
Daily Variety
1960--1962
Record ID: 71450891
Scope and Content Note
correspondence exchanged with Thomas Pryor, editor, regarding editorial choices made in periodical
folder 723
Danelz, James Marshall
1971--1972
Record ID: 71332067
Scope and Content Note
correspondence concerning book Danelz was compiling on screenwriters, 1971-1972
folder 724
Directors Guild
1944--1951
Record ID: 71450587
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding dues payments from Edward Sutherland as Treasurer, September 26, 1945
folder 725
Divorce and settlement
1921--1932
Record ID: 71332068
Scope and Content Note
decree of dissolution of marriage, June 6, 1921; order of dismissal reversing divorce decree, August 22, 1932
folder 726
Drawing
Record ID: 71447151
Scope and Content Note
pencil drawing of house or set, undated; negative image photocopy, undated
folder 727
E miscellaneous
1917--1917
Record ID: 71450395
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from actor Herbert Evans regarding motion picture work, Dell Henderson, and THE WILD GIRL, December
1, 1917
folder 728
Edward Small Productions
1940--1942
Record ID: 71448835
Scope and Content Note
financial information
folder 729
Epstein, David
1931--1931
Record ID: 71450893
Scope and Content Note
letters from Howard Estabrook to publicity representative describing progress on THE GLORY OF ANGKOR, November 17, 1960, through
January 9, 1961, THE STAR AND THE CROSS, December 26, 1960, through January 31, 1961, and other projects
folder 730
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)
1907--1975
Record ID: 71451995
Scope and Content Note
invoice regarding change of name of Alice Margaret Baker to Gretchen Dale, November 26, 1907 [lightly annotated with record
of payment]; personal letters exchanged between Howard Estabrook and his wife, September 3, 1924, through November 27, 1934;
"Chart Data," recounting of biographical events, including infidelity of Howard Estabrook, with dates and time of day, presumably
for astrological purposes, undated [probably circa 1947]; copy of California certificate of death, November 19, 1975; J. F.
Borden Co. certificate of placement of ashes at sea, November 23, 1975
folder 731
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--Baker family
1879--1975
Record ID: 71332070
Scope and Content Note
four typed lists of family occurrences of 1879 through 1930 detailing troublesome incidents among Gretchen Baker Estabrook
(G. E.), her father Melville Q. Baker (M. Q.), her mother Alice J. Baker (A. J.), her brother Robert Q. Baker (R. Q.), and
his wife Margaret S. Baker (M. S.), titled "M. Q. as a kind and indulgent father," "Enmity of R. Q. to G. E.," "Influence
of R. Q. - Prejudicing M. Q. against A. J. and G. E.," and "Margaret S. Baker," undated, 27 pages; drafts and letter to nephew
Robert Baker regarding relinquishment of her share of father's estate, undated
folder 732
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--Baker family (clippings)
1975--1975
Record ID: 71451996
Scope and Content Note
notice of filing of will of Marie Hay Baker, May 30, 1975
folder 733
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--Baker family (photographs)
Record ID: 71452635
Scope and Content Note
two 8x10 and two 3x5 prints, and one 2¼x3½, one 3x3½, one 3x4, one 3¾x4½, one 4x5, and one 4x6 print depicting Gretchen's
mother and other members of her family
folder 734
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--clippings
1911--1911
Record ID: 71332066
Scope and Content Note
early newspaper clippings, some mounted on scrapbook pages, some incomplete, referring to romance and appearances on stage,
1911 and undated; notice of funeral of Gretchen ("Margaret Estabrook") and placement of ashes at sea, November 30, 1975
folder 735
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--correspondence
1924--1973
Record ID: 71332072
Scope and Content Note
five letters from fashion retailer Henri Bendel, 1935 and undated
folder 736
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--photographs
Circa 1889--1910
Record ID: 71452634
Scope and Content Note
one 2x2½, two 4x6, one 4¾x7¾, one 5¼x7¼, and six 8x10 prints depicting Ms. Dale (Alice Margaret Baker, later Mrs. Howard Estabrook)
as child and adult
folder 737
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--photographs
Circa 1911--1911
Record ID: 71451818
Scope and Content Note
lithographic plate for portrait photo
folder 738
Estabrook, Gretchen Dale (Margaret)--photographs (schools)
Record ID: 71452636
Scope and Content Note
two 8x10 prints and one smaller duplicate print depicting schools presumably attended by Gretchen
folder 739
F miscellaneous
1943--1976
Record ID: 71450588
Scope and Content Note
memo to Howard Estabrook from Sidney Franklin regarding receipt of Irving Thalberg Academy Award, March 16, 1943; Estabrook
pitch note to Sam Fuller, June 6, 1961
folder 740
Family Films--correspondence
1957--1957
Record ID: 71447694
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from non-theatrical religious film company regarding submitted scripts, June 19, 1957
folder 741
Family Films--research
1939--1957
Record ID: 71447202
Scope and Content Note
typed and handwritten notes; clippings, December 14, 1956, through June 23, 1957
folder 742
Filmcrest Productions
1955--1955
Record ID: 71449021
Scope and Content Note
financial information
folder 743
Financial data
1917--1969
Record ID: 71332071
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook's informal and incomplete income and expense records and calculations for motion picture work, with reference
to MGM, Pathé, Paramount, Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Century Pictures, Caddo Company (Howard Hughes), and other production
companies; resumé pages detailing other business experience
folder 744
Financial data--tax records
1916--1936
Record ID: 71332081
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, forms, and returns for federal, New York state, and California state income tax [tax years 1915 through 1935,
incomplete]
folder 745
Financial data--tax records
1937--1954
Record ID: 71462350
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, forms, and returns for federal and California state income tax [tax years 1936 through 1951, incomplete]
folder 746
Financial data--U. S. Postal Meter Corp.
1931--1932
Record ID: 71452222
Scope and Content Note
three certificates for 100 shares of stock each
folder 747
First National
1927--1930
Record ID: 71448551
Scope and Content Note
executed agreements and related correspondence, January 29, 1930, through April 25, 1930
folder 748
Fitch, Clyde
1906--1907
Record ID: 71450226
Scope and Content Note
four letters to Howard Estabrook from playwright Clyde Fitch
folder 749
Fox Film Corporation
1927--1935
Record ID: 71448552
Scope and Content Note
records regarding Howard Estabrook's employment by Fox Film Corp. and William Fox Vaudeville Co., including executed agreement
with Fox Film Corp., February 14, 1935
folder 750
Free Speech Seminar
1944--1944
Record ID: 71450589
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding radio broadcast over The Blue Network, May 12, 1944
folder 751
Freedman, Harold
1945--1946
Record ID: 71450590
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with dramatic agent at Brandt & Brandt regarding Irene Dunne and Howard Estabrook's writings
folder 752
Frohman, Charles
1904--1908
Record ID: 71450227
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, chiefly letters from Frohman's general stage manager, William Seymour, regarding Howard Estabrook's appearance
in various productions and payment of his salary
folder 753
Garmes, Lee
1972--1976
Record ID: 71451608
Scope and Content Note
Christmas cards and messages exchanged with Mr. and Mrs. Garmes, December 1972, through December 1976
folder 754
Gloria Pictures
1941--1941
Record ID: 71448836
Scope and Content Note
check stubs
folder 755
H miscellaneous
1920--1974
Record ID: 71451609
Scope and Content Note
invitation to picnic lunch from Lillian Hellman, April 19, 1938; invitation to joint New Year's Day party given with David
Bradley, to include Gertrude Astor, Minta Durfee Arbuckle, Allan Dwan and others, from Charles Higham, December 22, 1974
folder 756
Hollywood Writers' Mobilization
1943--1943
Record ID: 71450591
Scope and Content Note
copies of letters by Howard Estabrook regarding Writers' Congress, October 10, 1943
folder 757
Holmes, Burton--correspondence
1959--1959
Record ID: 71450756
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with widow of prominent travel lecturer
folder 758
Holmes, Burton--photographs
Record ID: 71452638
Scope and Content Note
two 3¼x4½ prints which, from evidence of notations handwritten on envelope, were shot by Mr. Holmes in Florida [possibly depicting
Howard Estabrook as actor/model]
folder 759
IN HIS STEPS--legal
1923--1923
Record ID: 71448535
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Dr. Charles M. Sheldon for motion picture rights to his books "In His Steps" and "In His Steps To-Day,"
April 2, 1923
folder 760
J miscellaneous
1943--1972
Record ID: 71451610
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
folder 761
Jack Denove Productions
1954--1954
Record ID: 71452717
Scope and Content Note
correspondence concerning Howard Estabrook's efforts to find work in spite of California Committee on Un-American Activities
link with supposed communist "front" organization
folder 762
K miscellaneous
1935--1976
Record ID: 71450592
Scope and Content Note
correspondence
folder 763
Kramer, Stanley
1955--1966
Record ID: 71450757
Scope and Content Note
short notes to Howard Estabrook from Stanley Kramer, July 5, 1955, and March 3, 1966
folder 764
L miscellaneous
1933--1971
Record ID: 71450894
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter to Howard Estabrook from Carl Laemmle regarding Academy tribute at retirement, April 25, 1936; copy of appreciative
note from Estabrook to Alfred Lunt regarding CBS television production, September 12, 1963; copy of letter from Estabrook
to "Los Angeles Times" regarding assassination of President Kennedy, November 25, 1963; Christmas greetings from Mr. and Mrs.
Rowland V. Lee, December 16, 1969, December 16, 1971, and undated; handwritten draft of Estabrook letter regarding Bible translation
by Dr. George M. Lamsa, undated
folder 765
Lambs Club
1937--1937
Record ID: 71450313
Scope and Content Note
exchange between Howard Estabrook and William Gaxton regarding membership, dues, New York theater and Hollywood studio work,
April 1937
folder 766
Lectures
1936--1949
Record ID: 71450593
Scope and Content Note
letters regarding talks by Howard Estabrook at USC, UCLA, Pasadena Playhouse, and other locations, including letter from Kenneth
Macgowan at UCLA describing strong response to talk by Estabrook, July 12, 1949
folder 767
Lectures--American Association of University Women
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448504
Scope and Content Note
transcription of address given before AAUW regarding making of DAVID COPPERFIELD and BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, June 26, 1935, 12
pages
folder 768
Lectures--Don Zero
Circa 1950--1950
Record ID: 71446200
Scope and Content Note
story by Howard Estabrook, undated, 66 pages; copyright registration, March 6, 1950
folder 769
Lectures--THE GLORY OF ANGKOR
1960--1960
Record ID: 71445460
Scope and Content Note
synopsis of concept for oral presentation
folder 770
Lectures--HECTOR THE CORRECTOR!
Record ID: 71447361
Scope and Content Note
premise for television series adapted to lecture, 5 pages, undated
folder 771
Lectures--HO-HANG-WO
1955--1955
Record ID: 71452437
Scope and Content Note
version of story "prepared for Oral Delivery," undated, 4 pages
folder 772
Lectures--MASKS AND FACES
1950--1950
Record ID: 71459156
Scope and Content Note
story by Howard Estabrook, January 9, 1950, 32 pages
folder 773
Lectures--motion pictures
1935--1935
Record ID: 71448505
Scope and Content Note
transcription of address by Howard Estabrook to Ebell Club, regarding adapting literary works for screen, with references
to Rudyard Kipling, KIM, DAVID COPPERFIELD, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, and WAY DOWN EAST (1935), October 18, 1935, 18 pages
and 20 pages [three versions, one annotated and revised]; further notes on adaptations, undated
folder 774
Lectures--THE RAIDERS
Circa 1952--1952
Record ID: 71452440
Scope and Content Note
version "prepared for Oral Delivery," undated, 5 pages
folder 775
Lectures--THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS
Record ID: 71446259
Scope and Content Note
incomplete screen treatment by Howard Estabrook, 1952, approximately 91 pages [lacks page 76]
folder 776
Lectures--Writers Congress
1943--1944
Record ID: 71448503
Scope and Content Note
text version of "The Writer in War and Peace" by Howard Estabrook (delivered at 1943 Writers Congress, October 1943), 16 pages
folder 777
Lewin, Albert--correspondence
1945--1946
Record ID: 71450594
Scope and Content Note
copy of letter from Somerset Maugham to Albert Lewin regarding THE MOON AND SIXPENCE, July 5, 1945; letter from Lewin regarding
characterization in films of Charles Chaplin, January 25, 1946
folder 778
Library of Congress
1976--1976
Record ID: 71451611
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving Daniel Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, regarding Will Rogers
folder 779
Lichtman, William
1966--1975
Record ID: 71332059
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving author of novel "Between the Star and the Cross," regarding travel and flying ventures, current films,
and prospects for their joint film project based on Lichtman's novel
folder 780
Lichtman, William--clippings
1970--1974
Record ID: 71451612
Scope and Content Note
articles by William Lichtman
folder 781
Literature
Record ID: 71447090
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous photocopies and printed pamphlets, undated
folder 782
Lithograph
Record ID: 71452442
Scope and Content Note
note indicating this was given to Estabrook by Lionel Barrymore in 1908
folder 783
M miscellaneous
Circa 1928--1975
Record ID: 71450895
Scope and Content Note
incomplete draft of letter intended for New York colleagues, circa 1928; letter from Ken Murray regarding his book "Foolin'
Around," January 14, 1932
folder 784
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
1933--1969
Record ID: 71448995
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement and letters of agreement with MGM and Loew's Incorporated, February 4, 1933, through July 24, 1942; financial
records and notes, August 10, 1933, through 1943; records of MGM productions in work, with production numbers, December 27,
1939, and undated; information regarding THE HUMAN COMEDY, March 12, 1943
folder 785
Mightier than the Sword
1965--1965
Record ID: 71445590
Scope and Content Note
two drafts of Howard Estabrook letter to writer John De Cuir regarding De Cuir's screenplay about life of William Shakespeare,
January 25, 1965
folder 786
Milestone, Lewis
1964--1964
Record ID: 71462445
Scope and Content Note
note from Milestone regarding scripts sent to him by Howard Estabrook, May 7, 1964
folder 787
Miscellaneous
1934--1970
Record ID: 71332073
Scope and Content Note
handwritten, typed, and printed material
folder 788
Miscellaneous--correspondence
1916--1974
Record ID: 71332056
Scope and Content Note
overseas fan mail
folder 789
Miscellaneous--motion pictures
Circa 1928--1928
Record ID: 71448550
Scope and Content Note
scheduling notes for Howard Estabrook writing assignments in film industry
folder 790
Miscellaneous--notes
1931--1951
Record ID: 71446778
Scope and Content Note
unrelated handwritten notes and other miscellany
folder 791
Miscellaneous--television
1951--1951
Record ID: 71331992
Scope and Content Note
television script "Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies" by Nelson Bond and David Kent (based on short story by Nelson Bond), as
broadcast on THE PHILCO TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE, and published in "Theatre Arts," July 1951
folder 792
Mobil Oil Corp.
1918--1922
Record ID: 71332082
Scope and Content Note
business correspondence during period in which company producing "Mobiloils" operated under name of Vacuum Oil Company, including
copy of Howard Estabrook letter describing reorganization of Robertson-Cole Distributing Corp. as Film Booking Offices of
America, September 27, 1922; Vacuum Oil Company promotion and in-house motivation material, including copies of "The Efficiency
Record" publication depicting Estabrook and describing his appointment as assistant to general manager of automotive department,
December, 1918
folder 793
Motion Picture Association of America
1939--1975
Record ID: 71446781
Scope and Content Note
sheet of forbidden words and phrases, November 5, 1939
folder 794
Motion Picture Capital Corp.
1931--1931
Record ID: 71452445
Scope and Content Note
positive and negative photocopies of legal satisfaction of judgment, December 29, 1931
folder 795
Motion Picture Country House and Hospital
1977--1977
Record ID: 71451613
Scope and Content Note
letter and document regarding disposition of Estabrook's effects, March 30, 1977, and undated
folder 796
Museum of Motion Picture History
1945--1945
Record ID: 71450597
Scope and Content Note
letter from John W. Considine with outline for proposed Museum of Motion Picture History, November 14, 1945
folder 797
National Board of Review
1935--1935
Record ID: 71450393
folder 798
O miscellaneous
1934--1935
Record ID: 71450314
folder 799
ON THE WATERFRONT
1954--1954
Record ID: 71452448
Scope and Content Note
synopsis and story analysis by Howard Estabrook, September 25, 1954, 21 pages
folder 800
Orsatti Agency
1939--1940
Record ID: 71450598
Scope and Content Note
business correspondence with talent agency
folder 801
P miscellaneous
1946--1946
Record ID: 71450599
Scope and Content Note
letter from Princeton Film Center regarding canceled film project, January 4, 1946
folder 802
Paramount
1928--1969
Record ID: 71450077
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement and letters of agreement with Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and Paramount Productions, Inc., May 2,
1928, through March 4, 1938; memo from William LeBaron to Paramount writers demanding more efficiency in screenwriting process,
February 23, 1937, 4 pages
folder 803
Paramount et al. consent decree
1948--1964
Record ID: 71332065
Scope and Content Note
correspondence and notes, Theatre Owners of America newsletters and other publications, relating to drive to repeal Paramount
consent decree of 1948
folder 804
Pathé Exchange, Inc.
1915--1915
Record ID: 71448553
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Pathé Exchange, October 20, 1915; carbon copy of Howard Estabrook letter to Pathé detailing bad faith
behavior by company and negative outcomes, December 27, 1915
folder 805
Peerless Features Producing Company
1914--1914
Record ID: 71448554
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Peerless, December 15, 1914
folder 806
Phonograph records
Record ID: 71451804
Scope and Content Note
handwritten lists of records and albums sold, undated
folder 807
Photographs--Evangeline
Record ID: 71332077
Scope and Content Note
one 2½x4 representation of Evangeline (from Longfellow's poem) by James Faed, possibly using Gretchen Estabrook as model,
undated
folder 808
Photographs--friends
Record ID: 71452614
Scope and Content Note
one 8x11½ print, one 3½x3½ print, of unnamed friends of Estabrook, undated
folder 809
Photographs--house
Record ID: 71452615
Scope and Content Note
one 2¾x3¾, two 3½x4½, four 3¾x4½, and six 3¾x4¾ prints of exterior and interior views of large family house [either Howard
Estabrook's family house in Detroit or Gretchen (Margaret Baker) Estabrook's family house in Ohio or New Jersey], undated
folder 810
Photographs--house (painting)
Record ID: 71452621
Scope and Content Note
two 8x10 prints, one 5½x6 print [annotated on reverse] depicting painting of Duke of Alba by Angelo Nardi, contained in family
house and seen in family house photographs, undated
folder 811
Photographs--unidentified
Record ID: 71332078
Scope and Content Note
five 8x10 prints, one 2x3, one 2½x3½, one 3¾x5½, one 4½x6¾, and one 6½x9¼ print, depicting unidentified people connected to
Howard Estabrook's life and career, undated
folder 812
Poems
1932--1932
Record ID: 71448507
Scope and Content Note
potential passage for poem, November 21, 1932; typed copy of "The Height of the Ridiculous" by Oliver Wendell Holmes, with
"Ye Postscript" by "Ye Howard Estabrook" added, undated
folder 813
Political material
1938--1948
Record ID: 71332079
Scope and Content Note
correspondence concerning various political activities and events, involving Lamar Trotti, April 22, 1946, David O. Selznick,
Charles Brackett, and Edwin Knopf, October 23, 1947, and Dore Schary, March 30, 1948
folder 814
Political material--clippings
1944--1962
Record ID: 71452710
folder 815
Political material--Hollywood Writers Mobilization
1945--1945
Record ID: 71452711
Scope and Content Note
program for Los Angeles premiere of TOMORROW, THE WORLD!, January 30, 1945
folder 816
Political material--Hollywood Writers Mobilization (clippings)
1944--1944
Record ID: 71452712
Scope and Content Note
articles from "Daily Variety" and "The New York Times," including Bosley Crowther's response to Howard Estabrook's article
"Defending Hollywood's War Record," "The New York Times," November 5, 1944
folder 817
Political material--House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
1952--1961
Record ID: 71452713
Scope and Content Note
correspondence involving Walter Wanger, July 29, 1952, and Sol Lesser, August 13, 1952, concerning Howard Estabrook's efforts
to clear his name after California Committee on Un-American Activities linked him to supposed communist "front" organization,
Actors' Laboratory
folder 818
Political material--House Committee on Un-American Activities (clippings)
1940--1940
Record ID: 71452714
Scope and Content Note
articles regarding communism and HUAC hearings from "Liberty," "Daily Variety," "The Hollywood Reporter," and "Los Angeles
Times"
folder 819
Political material--literature
1944--1947
Record ID: 71452715
Scope and Content Note
pamphlets and advertisements relating to organizations to which Estabrook belonged: Free World Association of Hollywood, The
Hollywood Victory Committee, American Arts Committee for Palestine, and American Youth for Democracy
folder 820
Presidential Proclamation
1889--1889
Record ID: 71447053
Scope and Content Note
negative image photocopy of handwritten proclamation regarding Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, as signed by President
Benjamin Harrison, March 23, 1889, 11 pages
folder 821
Publications
1935--1935
Record ID: 71446779
Scope and Content Note
photocopies and tear sheets from various books and periodicals
folder 822
R miscellaneous
1933--1964
Record ID: 71451583
Scope and Content Note
copies of letters from Howard Estabrook to Ronald Reagan regarding politics and "General Electric Theater," August 18, 1961;
copy of letter from Estabrook to Martha Raye regarding his concept for television series, April 17, 1964
folder 823
Raphaelson, Samson
1944--1944
Record ID: 71450600
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from Raphaelson regarding Estabrook's comments on his play "The Perfect Marriage," November 22,
1944
folder 824
Republic
1945--1946
Record ID: 71449022
Scope and Content Note
financial and legal records regarding Howard Estabrook's work at Republic Productions
folder 825
Research
1944--1972
Record ID: 71446512
Scope and Content Note
miscellaneous unrelated notes, literature, and lists of research materials on various subjects
folder 826
Research--Hall, Manly P.
1955--1955
Record ID: 71446428
Scope and Content Note
typed notes on Leonardo da Vinci by Virginia Pomeroy, April 2, 1950, 12 pages; handwritten notes on Manly P. Hall's psychology
lectures, October 9, 1955, through October 16, 1955, 8 pages
folder 827
Research--LAW OF BLOOD
Record ID: 71446427
Scope and Content Note
typed report on sources for King Henry VIII era of British history, undated, 5 pages
folder 828
Research--"Man and Time"
Record ID: 71446783
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes on book by J. B. Priestley, undated
folder 829
Research--Menninger
Record ID: 71446513
Scope and Content Note
notes and clippings on psychiatrists Dr. Karl Menninger and Dr. William C. Menninger, undated
folder 830
Research--music
1936--1936
Record ID: 71447091
Scope and Content Note
tear sheets regarding Leopold Stokowski, Ignace Paderewski, November, 1936; notes on Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, undated
folder 831
Research--Nardi, Angelo
Record ID: 71452458
Scope and Content Note
short biography of Renaissance painter by "A. W. W."
folder 832
Research--1610
Record ID: 71446425
Scope and Content Note
"A Glance at the Period," report dealing with way of life in 1610 AD
folder 833
Research--stage
Record ID: 71447152
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes on Storm Jameson's 1920 book "Modern Drama in Europe"
folder 834
Research--television
1955--1955
Record ID: 71452460
Scope and Content Note
trade notes on writing and advertising in this medium, based on Leo Guild's column "On the Air," in "Hollywood Reporter,"
April 29, 1955
folder 835
Research--television ("Alfred Hitchcock Presents")
1957--1957
Record ID: 71446514
Scope and Content Note
notes and clippings on two episodes, April 14, 1957, through April 28, 1957
folder 836
Research--television ("Man Without a Gun")
Circa 1957--1957
Record ID: 71452501
Scope and Content Note
series bible for prospective writers, undated, 4 pages
folder 837
Research--television (Warner Bros.)
Circa 1957--1957
Record ID: 71452505
Scope and Content Note
samples of "Series Presentations" (concept statements) for Warner series' "Colt .45" and "Sugarfoot," undated, 3 pages
folder 838
RKO Radio Pictures
1930--1952
Record ID: 71450318
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted copies of agreements with RKO Studios, August 7, 1930, through August 9, 1944; letter by Howard Estabrook
regarding history and business practices of studio, claiming, "I have always held a special place in my heart for RKO," October
11, 1952
folder 839
Robert Sherwood Productions
1941--1941
Record ID: 71448837
Scope and Content Note
income records for 1940
folder 840
Rowland V. Lee Productions, Inc.
1958--1958
Record ID: 71451671
Scope and Content Note
income records for 1958
folder 841
S miscellaneous
1916--1975
Record ID: 71451584
Scope and Content Note
correspondence and notes, including exchange with George Sidney regarding production of Biblical epics, notably unproduced
version of story of Joseph, August 16, 1960, through March 29, 1961
folder 842
Samuel Goldwyn, Ltd.
1938--1938
Record ID: 71448838
Scope and Content Note
copies of executed agreements with Samuel Goldwyn, Ltd., March 11, 1938, through October 5, 1938; notes on specific assignments,
salary, and difficulties of working with Goldwyn, undated
folder 843
Selznick, David O.--notes
1932--1932
Record ID: 71446506
Scope and Content Note
memo from Howard Estabrook regarding William Wellman's work with Edna May Oliver, June 8, 1932
folder 844
Sheet music
1902--1941
Record ID: 71332074
Scope and Content Note
"Morgenstimmung" (Morning Mood) by Edvard Grieg, 1902
folder 845
Spitz and Rosendorf suit
1934--1934
Record ID: 71450394
Scope and Content Note
correspondence and legal documents regarding threatened lawsuit, May 4, 1934, through June 14, 1934
folder 846
Stage--drawing
Record ID: 71446917
Scope and Content Note
rough sketch of stage floor plan including sunken footlights and orchestra platform, undated
folder 847
Stage--"Mary Goes First"
Record ID: 71446429
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes on dialogue and character in play by Henry Arthur Jones
folder 848
Stage--"Six Characters in Search of an Author"
Record ID: 71452511
Scope and Content Note
incomplete typed transcript, with commentary and Pirandello biography, undated, 6 pages [lightly annotated]
folder 849
Stage--"Volpone"
1933--1933
Record ID: 71446430
Scope and Content Note
program for Pasadena Playhouse production of Stefan Zweig's adaptation of Ben Jonson's classic play, June, 1933; handwritten
notes in reaction to play
folder 850
STELLA DALLAS
Circa 1926--1926
Record ID: 71452513
Scope and Content Note
handwritten notes on story and treatment, undated
folder 851
Swanson, H. N.
1957--1963
Record ID: 71451585
Scope and Content Note
brief correspondence regarding business of selling scripts and stories to producers
folder 852
T miscellaneous
1970--1976
Record ID: 71451614
Scope and Content Note
correspondence, chiefly regarding Howard Estabrook's acting in silent films and death of his wife Gretchen
folder 853
Tec-Art Corp.
1928--1932
Record ID: 71444512
Scope and Content Note
certificates for shares of stock in Tec-Art Corp., October 15, 1928; correspondence with Tec-Art Studios and Inspiration Pictures
regarding transacted and unfinished business
folder 854
Television
1955--1956
Record ID: 71449023
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Ivan Green Agency regarding writing for television, May 6, 1955
folder 855
Twentieth Century-Fox
1935--1937
Record ID: 71448839
Scope and Content Note
correspondence and questionnaire regarding Howard Estabrook's employment and earnings at studio and at MGM
folder 856
Twentieth Century Pictures
1933--1934
Record ID: 71448642
Scope and Content Note
executed copy of agreement with Twentieth Century Pictures, October 4, 1933
folder 857
U. S. Dept. of Justice
1953--1953
Record ID: 71450758
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from Thomas Grover, parole executive at Dept. of Justice, responding to Estabrook's letter to President
Eisenhower [not included] regarding parole system
folder 858
U. S. War Dept.
1944--1944
Record ID: 71450602
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from major in Bureau of Public Relations regarding general's recent visit to Los Angeles in connection
with THE NEGRO SOLDIER
folder 859
University of Southern California
1950--1959
Record ID: 71450759
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from USC professor Dr. Rufus von KleinSmid regarding recent visit to set of THE BIG FISHERMAN,
April 14, 1959
folder 860
University of Southern California--American Institute of Cinematography
1934--1939
Record ID: 71450315
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from Darryl F. Zanuck regarding testimonial dinner for Adolph Zukor, November 2, 1936; copies of
Howard Estabrook letters to Gabriel Pascal, Norma Shearer, John Considine, and Sam Wood, notifying them of their upcoming
AIC awards for achievement, particularly for PYGMALION, MARIE ANTOINETTE, BOYS TOWN, and GOODBYE MR. CHIPS, May 18, 1939
folder 861
University of Southern California--American Institute of Cinematography (clippings)
1937--1937
Record ID: 71462726
Scope and Content Note
printed photo of Howard Estabrook and Boris Morros at AIC event, May 24, 1937
folder 862
W miscellaneous
1933--1956
Record ID: 71450601
Scope and Content Note
correspondence regarding prospects for film stories and acting assignments
folder 863
Walt Disney Productions--clippings
1968--1968
Record ID: 71463185
Scope and Content Note
article "A New Troika Heads Destiny of Disney Empire," from "Los Angeles Times," 1968
folder 864
Walt Disney Productions--correspondence
1960--1969
Record ID: 71450892
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with William B. Dover and Card Walker regarding Howard Estabrook's viability as Disney writer and "upbeat"
vs. "downbeat" story material
folder 865
Warner Bros.
1941--1942
Record ID: 71451672
Scope and Content Note
executed agreement with Warner Bros., November 3, 1941
folder 866
Wills
1914--1973
Record ID: 71332083
Scope and Content Note
executed and unexecuted copies of wills of Howard Estabrook and Gretchen Dale Estabrook, June 4, 1914, through September 6,
1973
folder 867
World War I
1918--1918
Record ID: 71450396
Scope and Content Note
Howard Estabrook's draft card
folder 868
Writers Guild
Circa 1933--1975
Record ID: 71451615
Scope and Content Note
letter to Howard Estabrook from Oliver Garrett regarding formation of Screen Writers Guild, April 12, 1933; typed material
by Estabrook regarding Guild policy and procedures, 1946, 15 pages
folder 869
Young, Collier
1962--1962
Record ID: 71451587
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with Young regarding potential television series taking place in White House
folder 870
Ziegler-Ross Agency
1969--1969
Record ID: 71451588
Scope and Content Note
correspondence with agents regarding possible representation
folder 871
Diaries
1927--1930
Record ID: 71332036
Scope and Content Note
three volumes, including telephone records for 1929 and 1930; portion of financial records for PLAY SAFE [or records of income
earnings; in "Cash" section of 1927-1929 diary]
folder 872
Diaries
1931--1931
Record ID: 71332038
Scope and Content Note
one volume
folder 873
Diaries
1933--1935
Record ID: 71332039
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes, with telephone records, 1933; diary, 1935; 20 loose pages, with diary entries and other notes, January
1933 through February 1934
folder 874
Diaries
1936--1937
Record ID: 71332040
Scope and Content Note
five volumes
folder 875
Diaries
1938--1938
Record ID: 71332041
Scope and Content Note
two volumes
folder 876
Diaries
1939--1939
Record ID: 71332042
Scope and Content Note
three volumes
folder 877
Diaries
1940--1941
Record ID: 71332043
Scope and Content Note
two volumes
folder 878
Diaries
1942--1944
Record ID: 71332044
Scope and Content Note
three bound volumes; 19 loose pages
folder 879
Diaries
1945--1948
Record ID: 71332045
Scope and Content Note
five bound volumes; four loose pages
folder 880
Diaries
1949--1949
Record ID: 71332046
Scope and Content Note
three bound volumes; four loose pages
folder 881
Diaries
1950--1951
Record ID: 71332047
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes; six loose pages
folder 882
Diaries
1952--1953
Record ID: 71332048
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes; three loose pages
folder 883
Diaries
1954--1955
Record ID: 71332049
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes; two loose pages
folder 884
Diaries
1956--1957
Record ID: 71332050
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes; four loose pages
folder 885
Diaries
1958--1961
Record ID: 71332051
Scope and Content Note
three bound volumes; 18 loose pages; clippings, 1961
folder 886
Diaries
1962--1963
Record ID: 71332052
Scope and Content Note
three bound volumes; one loose page
folder 887
Diaries
1964--1966
Record ID: 71332053
Scope and Content Note
three volumes
folder 888
Diaries
1967--1969
Record ID: 71332054
Scope and Content Note
two bound volumes, 1967 and 1969; six loose pages, including pages from annotated 1968 wall calendar, February through May
only
folder 889
Diaries
1971--1973
Record ID: 71332055
Scope and Content Note
one bound volume for 1971; 13 loose pages, ranging from January 14, 1973, through January 25, 1973