Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Finding Aid for the John Paxton papers, ca. 1944-1971
2082
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: John Paxton papers
Date (inclusive): ca. 1944-1971
Collection number: 2082
Creator:
Paxton, John, 1911-1985.
Extent:
5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: John Paxton (1911- ) worked as a press agent (1937-38), associate editor for
Stage magazine (1937-38) and a publicist for New York Theatre Guild (1941) before coming to Hollywood to work as a scriptwriter
with RKO. The collection consists of Paxton's treatments, screenplays, and clippings relating to his films including
Farewell my lovely,
Crossfire,
The cyclists' raid,
On the beach, and
Kotch.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], John Paxton papers (Collection 2082). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233561
Paxton was born in 1911 in Kansas; BJ, University of Missouri, 1934; worked as a press agent, 1937-38; associate editor,
Stage magazine, 1937-38; publicist for New York Theatre Guild, 1941; in 1942 he came to Hollywood to work as a scriptwriter with
RKO, notably on films directed by Edward Dmytryk, 1945-47; in the 1950s, wrote scripts for various companies, including three
for Warwick Films in London and two Stanley Kramer productions; screenplays include
Murder my sweet (1945),
Cornered (1945),
Crossfire (1947),
So well remembered (1947),
Fourteen hours (1951),
The wild one (1953),
A prize of gold (1955),
The cobweb (1955), and
On the Beach (1959).
Collection consists of treatments, screenplays, and clippings relating to films of screenwriter John Paxton. Includes
Farewell my lovely,
Crossfire,
The cyclists' raid,
On the beach, and
Kotch.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Paxton, John, 1911- --Archives.
Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Film scripts.