Finding Aid for the James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961
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Finding Aid for the James R. Webb Papers, 1960-1961
Collection number: 490
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
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- Manuscripts Division staff
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- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, October 2003
© 2003 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: James R. Webb Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1960-1961
Collection number: 490
Creator:
Webb, James R.
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: James R. Webb (1909-1974) wrote fiction for such magazines as
Saturday evening post,
Collier's, and
Cosmopolitan. He later became a Hollywood screenwriter and won a 1963 Academy Award for the original screenplay of
How the West was won (1962). The collection consists of 7 variant scripts for the film
How the West was won, and related materials by Webb.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of James R. Webb, 1965.
[Identification of item], James R. Webb Papers (Collection 490). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233971
Webb was born on October 4, 1909 in Denver, Colorado; graduated from Stanford University, 1930; from 1936 wrote fiction for
such magazines as
Saturday evening post,
Collier's, and
Cosmopolitan; became a Hollywood screenwriter in the late 1930s writing for Roy Rogers westerns; served as secretary of the Screen Writers'
Guild in 1950; won 1963 Academy Award for the original screenplay of
How the West was won (1962); other script credits include:
South of Santa Fe (1942),
Apache (1954),
The big country (1958),
Cape Fear (1963),
Cheyenne autumn (1964),
They call me Mr. Tibbs (1970), and
The organization (1971); he died in 1974.
Collection consists of 7 variant scripts for the film
How the West was won, and related materials by James R. Webb.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Webb, James R.--Archives.
Screenwriters--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Film scripts.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Papers. v.p., v.d.
Creator/Collector: Webb, James R.
Physical Description: (1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Included are 7 variant scripts of
How the West was won, by James Webb, and related materials.