Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
 
 
Table of contents What's This?

 

The Garbage People

Scope and Contents note

(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
box 1, folder 1-2

The Garbage people ca. 1970.

Container Summary: 278 leaves. Typescript with paste-on and holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

This copy lacks final changes in manuscript and "Vigil for Manson" which appears in the publication.
box 1, folder 3-4

Another copy.

Container Summary: (Photocopy).
box 1, folder 5

"Burning is the end - dispatch from the pit of death - in trilogy" ca. 1970.

Container Summary: xiii, 102 leaves. Lacks leaf i.
  • Written (from different points of view) for John Gilciore as an appendix to The Garbage people.
  • Concerns Beausoleil's philosophy of death and superiority.
box 1, folder 6

--- -----, Another typing of leaves. 4-18.

Container Summary: 15 leaves. numbered 3-18.
box 1, folder 7

Death Row interview ca. 1970.

Container Summary: [35] leaves. Holograph (photocopy) and typescript.

Scope and Contents note

Transcription of notes from San Quentin interview Beausoleil.
box 1, folder 8

"You are the stranger: Charles Manson at Los Angeles County Jail" ca. 1970.

Container Summary: 39 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Contents note

(From 9 interviews with Charles Manson)
box 2, folder 1-2

Grand Jury transcript of the Charles Manson murder trials (Charles Hanson's copy) signed by Charles Manson (2 vol.); research material for The Garbage people 1969.

Container Summary: 384 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 2, folder 3

The Garbage people. Los Angeles: Omega Press 1971.

Container Summary: l87pp. [2 copies].
box 2, folder 4

Another copy.

Container Summary: (Wrappers).
box 2, folder 5

The Saigon Post Wednesday October 20, 1971.

Container Summary: 1 leaf (clipping).

Scope and Contents note

Excerpt from The Garbage people.
box 2, folder 6

La Gente de las basura. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial extemporaneos 1972.

Container Summary: 248pp. [2 copies].
 

The Tucson Murders

Scope and Contents note

(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
box 3, folder 1-3

The Tucson murders, 1960s[?].

Container Summary: 436 leaves. Type script with paste-on and holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

"First draft"
box 3, folder 4

First notes, Schmid case, dated: (Westerner Hotel, Arizona). Saturday February 19, 1966

Container Summary: 25 leaves. Carbon typescript with some holograph corrections.
box 3

Materials from a notebook kept by John Gilmore, 1966 and n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Miscellaneous notes, transcripts of Charles Schmid's jail letters, first draft materials for The Tucson murders.
box 3, folder 5

The 'Little House' at Florence.

Container Summary: 5 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 6

Portions of a work in progress: Charles Schmid.

Container Summary: 27 leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Contents note

An account of teenage murders in Tucson, Arizona, and the story of the accused.
box 3, folder 7

Cold complex.

Container Summary: 15 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 8

Transcript [Testimony of Richard Bruns].

Container Summary: 11 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 9

"Pima County Jail."

Container Summary: 10 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 10

[Miscellaneous notes].

Container Summary: 54 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 11

A Grave near the end of the greens.

Container Summary: 162 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 3, folder 12

Copies of letters to his wife, 1965-66.

Container Summary: [68] leaves.
box 3, folder 13

The Decline of teenage morals.

Container Summary: 11 leaves. Typescript
box 3, folder 14

Copies of correspondence, statements, etc.

Container Summary: [57 leaves] numbered in pencil 84-140.
box 3, folder 15

Police description of Alleen Rowe.

Container Summary: 1 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 16

Schmid, Charles[?] Copy of diary[?].

Container Summary: 3 leaves. Typescript with paste-on corrections.
box 3, folder 17

Second theme.

Container Summary: 15 leaves. Typescript with minor holograph corrections.
box 5, folder 1

Fact sheet, Schmid-Saunders-French Case. Compiled by Hudson, 31 January 1966.

Container Summary: [i], 20 [2] leaves. Typescript.

Scope and Contents note

With tipped-in newspaper clippings.
box 5, folder 2

Newspaper clippings, March 1975.

Scope and Contents note

re the death of Charles Schmid, while imprisoned.
box 5, folder 3

Letter from Gary Greenberg to John Gilmore, accompanying newspaper clippings above, March 1975[?].

box 5, folder 4

The Pied piper, March 17, 1970.

Container Summary: [ii] 130 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
  • Final draft.
  • Based on The Tucson murders by John Gilmore ... and action picture treatment by John Gilmore, [titled] Charles Schmid.
  • Released October 1971 under title The Todd killings.
box 5, folder 5

Another copy.

Container Summary: Lacks leaves 124-130.
box 5, folder 6

What are we going to do without Skipper? April 14, 1970.

Container Summary: 122 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
  • Revised final draft.
  • Based on The Tucson murders. Released October 1971, National General under title The Todd killings.
 

James Dean

Scope and Contents note

Writings by John Gilmore; Photographs and Ephemera
box 5, folder 7

James Dean: the rebel recalled.

Container Summary: [5] leaves. Photocopy.

Scope and Contents note

From April 1975 issue of Gallery.
box 5, folder 8

The real James Dean. Los Angeles 1974[?].

Container Summary: [l]p. leaves. i, 225 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 5, folder 9

The real James Dean. New York: Pyramid Books July 1975.

Container Summary: 160pp.
box 5, folder 10

Photographs.

Container Summary: 6 items.

Scope and Contents note

Used as illustrations for The Real James Dean.
box 5, folder 11

Photographs marked "re: The Real James Dean."

Container Summary: 5 items.
  • One photo is marked "re: The Real Janes Dean article syndicated London Express"
  • These do not appear in the Pyramid Books publication.
box 5, folder 12

Photographs of James Dean n.d.

Container Summary: 7 items.

Scope and Contents note

Still, from East of Eden and candid photos taken on Warner Brothers lot.
box 5, folder 13

Miscellaneous James Dean-related items.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of life mask of James Dean and of James Dean's motorcycle jacket and tee-shirt.
box 5, folder 14

Night circuit. Hollywood 1961.

Container Summary: 124 leaves. Carbon typescript.

Scope and Contents note

Story and screenplay. First draft.
box 5, folder 15

The real James Dean. New York 1975.

Container Summary: 53 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Uncorrected galley proofs.
box 6, folder 16

25 years after his death...author reveals...clippings from Hollywood Star n.d.

Container Summary: 2 copies.

General note

(Added October 1980)
 

Miscellaneous Manuscripts By John Gilmore

box 6, folder 1

"Too near to hear the harp." Los Angeles[?] 1962.

Container Summary: 64 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

Episode for Naked city.
box 6, folder 2

"Breaking hard." Los Angeles? 1965.

Container Summary: 95 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
  • Story and screenplay. Revised draft, May 13, 1965.
  • With this: First treatment, February 1965. 16 leaves. Typescript (Incomplete).
box 6, folder 3

Faces by John Murdoch (pseudonym). Los Angeles[?] 1966.

Container Summary: 118 leaves. Carbon typescript with extensive holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

Story and screenplay.
box 6, folder 4

Faces. Los Angeles[?] 1966.

Container Summary: 76 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

"Writer's draft."
box 6, folder 5

The human trap. Los Angeles[?] 1967.

Container Summary: iv, 97 leaves. Typescript (offset?).

Scope and Contents note

Story and screenplay.
 

What Are We Doing. Los Angeles 1969

Container Summary: (Typescript with holograph corrections).
  • The following folders are materials kept in the order in which John Gilmore placed them in looseleaf binder.
  • Each manuscript is a version of what was in the end titled What are we doing, where are we going.
 

Changes [Revisions]

box 6, folder 6

[Treatment of opening scene].

Container Summary: 9 leaves.
box 6, folder 7

[Treatment].

Container Summary: 20 leaves.
box 6, folder 8

Story outline.

Container Summary: 16 leaves.
box 6, folder 9

Film step outline.

Container Summary: 31 leaves.
box 6, folder 10

Opening [treatment].

Container Summary: [4] leaves.
box 6, folder 11

[Draft, written as screenplay].

Container Summary: 53 leaves. with 7 leaves. (photocopy) inserted.
box 6, folder 12

What are we doing, where are we going.

Container Summary: 56 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Story and screenplay.
box 6, folder 13

Miscellaneous drafts of scenes, notes for scenes, etc.

Container Summary: Various pagings. [20] leaves.
 

Miscellaneous Photographs and Ephemera Relating to John Gilmore

box 6, folder 14

Impression (Blues for Willie). Photographs (production and stills) of movie written-directed by John Gilmore 1961.

Container Summary: 16 items.
box 6, folder 15

Photographs mounted on posterboard: "Hollywood and Vine in the early 1950's" and "John Gilmore leaning on his Mercury in " 1952.

box 6, folder 16

Clippings, ephemera. 1960, 1975.

 

"Wings"

Scope and Contents note

Source Material.
(Article by John Gilmore, to be published)
 

Ingalls, Laura. [Autobiography]. In 3 parts. n.p. n.d.

box 7, folder 1

[Part 1] "Air express." n.p. n.d.

Container Summary: 22 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 7, folder 2

[Part 2] Untitled.

Container Summary: 69 leaves.
box 7, folder 3

[Part 3] "Up with the wind."

Container Summary: 38 leaves.
box 7, folder 4

Memo from Carlos Drake to Laura Ingalls March 1954.

Container Summary: 9 leaves.
box 7, folder 5

Holograph notes by Laura Ingalls n.d.

Container Summary: 2 leaves.
box 7, folder 6

Photographs of Laura Ingalls.

Container Summary: 2 items.
box 7, folder 7

Material about airplanes and Laura Ingalls. Clipping concerning Laura Ingalls 1941.

Container Summary: Photocopies.

Scope and Contents note

Typed explanatory note by John Gilmore.
 

Bad Losers

Scope and Contents note

Manuscripts, Source Material
box 7, folder 8

Bad Losers. Los Angeles[?] 1973-74.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 350 leaves. Typescripts with extensive holograph and paste-on corrections.
box 7, folder 9

Two photographs ("Josie's farmhouse, Modesto"; "Hospital, Modesto") and 3 credit card receipts. Letter from author: "part of inception on this book, or rather this particular draft."

 

Poems By John Gilmore

box 7, folder 10

Francine. Los Angeles 1975[?].

Container Summary: 2 leaves. Typescript.
box 7, folder 11

Francine. Los Angeles 1975[?].

Scope and Contents note

In: Purr, issue no.3, 1975.
box 7, folder 12

Desert storm. Los Angeles 1975[?].

Container Summary: 1 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 7, folder 13

Desert storm. n.p. n.d.

Container Summary: 1 leaf. Photocopy.

Scope and Contents note

"Northwoods" printed at the bottom (Magazine in which published[?]).
 

Additions To Collection December 1975

box 7, folder 14

The real James Dean. Los Angeles 1974[?].

Container Summary: [l]p. leaves. 225 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.

Scope and Contents note

Also, letter from Barbara Shepherd (John Gilmore's agent): "the original, finalized manuscript ... containing all corrections and editing for press. ... The editor on this book was Mark Howell. The very first, or title page, is missing (lost in press)."
box 7, folder 15

Newsprint clippings from unidentified publication re Riding the snake. n.p. n.d.

Container Summary: 2 leaves.
 

Non Fiction

 

Black Dahlia

 

Research Material

box 13, folder 1

Photographs of family, detectives, suspects. etc. 1940s.

Capt. Ray Giese [photograph]

General note

[FLAT BOX NOT FULL]
box 14, folder 1-2

Photocopies of articles and photos 1940s-1950s.

Abel and Elija Soza
Al Greenberg
Harry Burnow
Lola Titus
Louis Abrams
Marty Abrams

box 14, folder 4

Photocopies 1940s[?].

box 15, folder 1

Photographs 1940s- .

Scope and Contents note

Many are newspaper photos with "whiteout."
 

Manuscript Material

box 14, folder 3

Draft (incomplete), n.d.

 

Bradley Marc Minkoff

box 14

Research material, etc.

Scope and Contents note

Also, correspondence with Minkoff.

General note

[This material removed from Box 13 to Box 14]
 

Severed

 

Manuscript

box 16, folder 2

JG: Final, minus corrections to New York. 1993.

Container Summary: ca. 330 leaves. With photocopies of illustrations.
 

Research Material

box 16, folder 3

Clippings. 1947 and v.d.

Container Summary: Photocopies.
box 16, folder 4

Georgette Bauerdorf murder. 1944.

Container Summary: Clippings (photocopies).
box 17, folder 1

Autopsy papers, coroner's inquest, police and sheriff records, interviews by JG, etc. 1940s-1980s.

Scope and Contents

A 48 page interview with Arnold Smith, also known as Jack Anderson Wilson, is included in this folder.
 

Publication Material

box 18, folder 1

Corrected page proofs, printer's copy. 1994 January 28.

Scope and Contents note

With mock up of cover.
box 18, folder 2

Second proofs. 1994 March.

Scope and Contents note

Also, list of corrections.
box 18, folder 3

Third and final proofs, uncorrected. n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Incorporate changes from second proofs.
box 18, folder 6

Copy of book, Zanja Press. 1994.

 

Research and Publication Material

box 18, folder 4

Photocopies, copies of photographs, correspondence with publishers, etc. 1940s-1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of: Robert Manley, Ursula Gilmore and Barbara Lee, etc.
 

Publication Material

box 18, folder 5

Article about John Gilmore, incomplete. 1962.

Scope and Contents note

Cf. copy of article in Publicity folder.
 

Publicity

box 16, folder 1

Draft for publicity packet 1993.

 

Live Fast - Die Young: Remembering the short life of James Dean

 

Post-Publication Material

box 20, folder 7

Publicity, etc., ca. 1997.

Container Summary: Primarily photocopies.
 

Publication Material

box 20, folder 8

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1997.

box 20, folder 9

Uncorrected proof copy in wrappers, ca. 1997.

box 21, folder 2

Final manuscript, with corrections, line edition by press. 1997.

box 21, folder 3

Completed line edit, proof and changes [printer's copy]. 1997.

box 21, folder 4

First proof, before galley corrections. 1997.

 

Manuscript Material

box 21, folder 1

Author's proposal, 1996.

 

Hollywood Stars

Scope and Contents note

Diane Varsi, Ina Balin
 

Research Material

box 20, folder 3

Clippings and correspondence, 1993.

  • Primarly obituary information.
  • Also photographs (photocopies) by JG of DV.
 

Fiction

 

Tucson Murders

 

Publication Material

box 15, folder 5

In: Dial Press announcement 1970.

 

Santa Fe Blonde

 

Manuscript Material

box 17, folder 2

Various drafts 1992.

Scope and Contents note

JG notes was accepted by Paris Review and Fiction Quarterly.
 

Laid Bare

 

Research Material

box 17, folder 3

Copy of book by Barbara Payton, I am not ashamed. Holloway House 1963.

 

Various Titles

 

Manuscript Material

box 16, folder 5

[Miscellaneous titles] 1963-1979 (inclusive).

Scope and Contents note

All titles: "The exterminator," "Losing ground," "Verge of overload," "The mountain" (screenplay treatment), "The wrecking crew" (novel outline).
 

Desperation Point

 

Manuscript Material

box 16, folder 7

Novel (unpublished) 1967.

Scope and Contents note

Rough draft.
 

Signals

 

Manuscript

box 16, folder 9

Various drafts 1966.

Scope and Contents note

Published in California review of literature.
 

Damaged Man

 

Pre-Manuscript Material

box 17, folder 6

Notes 1976, 1978.

Scope and Contents note

Note from JG: "See Kidnap notes, crossover between projects."
 

Swamp Blood

Scope and Contents note

(Novel in progress)
 

Manuscript Material

box 20, folder 1

Copy, by Jack McFaren (pseudonym) 1993.

Scope and Contents note

Based on JG's screenplay of same title.
 

The Prisoner

 

Manuscript Material

box 19, folder 3

Copy 1963.

Scope and Contents note

Set in Army stockade, 1954.
 

Motion Pictures

 

Shooting Stars

 

Manuscript Material

box 15, folder 2

Original script 1985 April-May.

box 15, folder 3

Sujet et scenario 1985.

box 15, folder 4

Copy, by J.C. Carriere, John Gilmore, and Malcolm Karman. 1985.

 

Laura Ingalls

 

Manuscript Material

box 15, folder 6

Copy of work by Ingalls n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Also negative of LI[?].

General note

See other sections of JG papers, e.g. Box 7.
 

Research Material

box 15, folder 7

Copies of information about Julia Kraus 1940s.

Scope and Contents note

Also information about America First committee.
 

The Last Low Rider

 

Manuscript Material

box 19, folder 1

Treatment (original) 1990.

 

Deathtrip

 

Manuscript Material

box 19, folder 6

Original story and screenplay 1986-1987.

 

James Dean

 

Manuscript Material

box 20, folder 4

Story 1990.

Scope and Contents note

Based on JG's The real James Dean.
box 20, folder 5

First draft 1990.

Scope and Contents note

Fictionalized version from JG's book and personal materials, intended for feature produced by UI.
 

Swamp Blood

 

Manuscript Material

box 20, folder 6

Story and screenplay. Copy, with letter. 1990s.

 

Additions To Collection August 1976

 

Blowout By John Gilmore

Scope and Contents note

Manuscripts

General note

See also Box 7, folder 8-9, under Bad losers, the first title of this novel.
box 8, folder 1

Blowout. Los Angeles 1975.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 150 leaves. Typescript (original, carbon, photocopy) with holograph and paste-on corrections.

Scope and Contents note

"Chapters are not consecutive, and various chaptars throughout are not included (missing or disposed of by Mr. Gilmore)" - letter from Carol Barry, in Collections File.
box 8, folder 2-4

-----. n.p. n.d.

Container Summary: 472 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections and additions and paste-on additions.

Scope and Contents note

First completed draft:
  • Folder 2) leaves 1-131.
  • Folder 3) leaves 152-290.
  • Folder 4) leaves 291-472.
box 9, folder 1-2

-----, n.p. June 1976.

Container Summary: 346 leaves. Typescript with holograph and paste-on corrections.

Scope and Contents note

Second draft:
  • Folder 1) leaves 1-139.
  • Folder 2) leaves 190-345.
box 9, folder 3

-----, n.p. 1976.

Container Summary: 291 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).

Scope and Contents note

Incorporates corrections of second draft and corrections and editorial revisions in press.
 

Miscellaneous Diary Entries, Unpublished Stories, etc.

Scope and Contents note

(Folder titles are based on notes received with material)
box 9, folder 4

Letters, diary entries (1954), prose-descriptions, etc. Most materials are actually from 1964.

box 9, folder 5

Leopard for rent, n.p. n.d.

Container Summary: 9 leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Published in Rogue, 1960.
box 9, folder 6

Prose fragments 1961-63.

box 9, folder 7

Diary notes, story ideas 1964.

box 9, folder 8

Notebook July 3-November 16, 1964.

box 9, folder 9

Diary entries 1965-1968.

box 9, folder 10

Diaries, prose descriptions, notes, etc. 1966.

box 9, folder 11

Letter to New York actress Marilyn Roberts May 4, 1966.

box 9, folder 12

Diary entries January-June 1967.

box 9, folder 13

Story "Cyclone" 1967.

Scope and Contents note

(Unpublished)
box 9, folder 14

Miscellaneous notes, diaries, letters, etc. 1967.

box 9, folder 15

Carbon of letter to Garry [Greenberg] August 7, 1975.

 

Additions To Collection August 1931

 

Indiana Twilight 1979-80

Scope and Contents note

Drafts, notes, manuscript, screenplay.
(Folder descriptions adapted from notes by the author)
box 10, folder 1

Lie down in darkness by H.R. Hayes.

Container Summary: ca. 100 leaves. Photocopy.

Scope and Contents note

With JG's holograph notes in preparation for first draft screenplay.
box 10, folder 2

First notes for screenplay based on changes in novel, adapting for motion picture.

Container Summary: [29] leaves. Holograph and typescript.
box 10, folder 3

Notes for changes in concept, ideas, based on story conferences.

Container Summary: 11 leaves. Holograph.
box 10, folder 4

First draft (writer's work draft) based on notes and novel excerpts.

Container Summary: [141] leaves.

Scope and Contents note

Also, 1 leaf unrelated holograph notes.
box 10, folder 5

First draft (writer's work draft) with changes for 2nd draft.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 141 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 10, folder 6

Further notes for changes in first draft (from story conferences and Gilmore's new changes) in preparation for 2nd draft.

Container Summary: 20 leaves. Holograph.
box 10, folder 7

Ideas, scenes for 2nd draft.

Container Summary: 31 leaves. Holograph and typescript.
box 10, folder 8

Second draft (writer's work draft) with new title Indiana twilight; incorporates changes in this draft by Gilmore.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 165 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections (photocopy).
box 11, folder 1

Second draft (work draft) with revisions by John Gilmore and Curtis Harrington, director. January-February 1980.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 175 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 11, folder 2

2nd draft complete.

Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 124 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 3

First final draft (shooting script) with changes in 2nd draft by Gilmore. March 1980.

Container Summary: 115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 4

Revisions October 13, 1980.

Container Summary: 12 leaves. Carbon typescript and typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 5

2nd final script (shooting script) with rewritten pages.

Container Summary: 115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 6

Notes for various drafts, carbon copies of scenes, writer's notes for changes, etc.; a collection of unorganized notes pertaining to the development of the screenplay.

Container Summary: ca. 175 leaves.
 

The Tucson Murders

General note

(formerly oversize package, now oversize box) [retyped 6/98 dl]
box 12

Photographs used as illustrations.

Scope and Contents note

Mounted on posterboard with overlays marked "shooting copy," and with other annotations.
 

Non Fiction

 

Laura Ingalls

 

Research Material

box 14, folder 5

[Former] confidential files on Julia Kraus, Associated with Laura Ingalls. 1940s.

box 14, folder 6-8

Photocopies of FBI files 1940s.

 

Bradley Marc Minkoff

box 14, folder 9

Research material 1990-1992.

  • Also, correspondence with Minkoff.
  • Minkoff was tried for murder of his half brother. Gilmore had been introduced to him, because of interest in James Dean.
 

Fiction / Poetry

 

Various Titles

 

Manuscript Material

box 16, folder 8

[Miscellaneous titles] 1962-1976.

Scope and Contents note

All titles: "Stop-over in Hang Tree," "Heat," Dragonfly (novel), "Carhop murder" (poem).
 

Material Collected

 

Phoebe Legere

box 17, folder 4

Press Material 1990s.

Scope and Contents note

Photocopied clippings, etc.
 

Non Fiction

 

Hanging Jail

 

Research Material

box 17, folder 5

Photograph of John Gilmore at the jail, copy of book. 1985-1987.

Scope and Contents note

Copy of book printed 1926, about the trial and jail in DeRidder, Louisiana.
 

Unknown Writing

 

"La Pickpockets"

box 19, folder 2

Research material v.d.

Container Summary: Photocopies.

Scope and Contents note

re Los Angeles pickpockets by Oscar O'Lear, LAPD.
Pickpocket specialist, friend of Robt T. Gilmore, Jr, LAPD.
 

Unknown

 

Lynn Lifshin

 

Manuscripts, Letters, Clippings

box 19, folder 4

Publications of poems, etc. 1980s-1990.

Container Summary: An extensive file.
 

Poems

box 19, folder 5

Copies, with some photographs. 1977-1990.

Scope and Contents note

JG: Exchanges between JG and LL, S&M relationship, reflected in Lifshin's poetry.
 

Play

 

Everyone Has Emptiness at 3 o'clock in the Morning

box 19, folder 7

Manuscript material 1987.

Container Summary: Copy.
 

General Writing

 

Various Items

box 20, folder 2

Correspondence and ephemera v.d., including 1990s.

Scope and Contents note

re his writing and research.
box 22, folder 1

Donald Wolfe correspondence concerning Severed 2005

box 22, folder 2

Final script for Severed 2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 22, folder 3

Pictures of Barabara Payton and Wonderland Murder scene shots 2004-2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 22, folder 4

Unbound published galley of Inside Marilyn Monroe

box 22, folder 5

Concept notes for movie script for Bombay Beach 2004-2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Notes, drafts of scenes, handwritten notes, versions."
box 22, folder 6

Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 1 of 2)

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
box 22, folder 7

Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 2 of 2)

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
box 22, folder 8

First draft of movie script for Bombay Beach 2005

Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 23, folder 1

Final proof for Crazy Streak 2005

Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 23, folder 2

Final proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe 2007

Container Summary: Hollywood and Studio City, CA.
box 23, folder 3

Miscellaneous concerning Marilyn Monroe 2006-2007

Container Summary: Hollywood and Studio City, CA. Interview with John Gilmore regarding Marilyn Monroe relationship, excerpt from forthcoming biography on Gilmore My Naked Life to be published in 2009.
box 23, folder 4

Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 1 of 2) 2004-2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 23, folder 5

Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 2 of 2) 2004-2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 23, folder 6

Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 1 of 2) 1999-2004

Container Summary: Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
box 24, folder 1

Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 2 of 2) 1999-2004

Container Summary: Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
box 24, folder 2

Rough proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe 2007

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 24, folder 3

Partial manuscript and proof for L.A. Despair 2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 24, folder 4

L.A. Times West Magazine 2006

box 24, folder 5

L.A. Despair

box 24, folder 6

Crazy Streak

box 24, folder 7

Inside Marilyn Monroe 2007

box 25, folder 1

Rough draft of movie script for Severed 2005

Container Summary: Studio City, CA.
box 25, folder 2

Notes for The Dragonfly 1997

Container Summary: Notes were incorporated into novel Fetish Blonde published by Creation Books.
box 25, folder 3

Assorted letters, research, and memos 1996-1999

Container Summary: New York, CA, Paris, France, London, England, Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 25, folder 4

Motion picture script for Swamp Blood 2004-2005

Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA. Written in 1991 and later revised in 2004-2005.
box 25, folder 5

First draft of the first section of Heartbreak Highway 2006

Container Summary: Studio City, Ca. Novel to be published Fall, 2009 by Warner Books.
box 25, folder 6

Notes, memos, drawings, and story board ideas for draft work of Bombay Beach 2004-2005

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes, memos, drawings, story board ideas."
box 25, folder 7

Fictionalized version of Black Dahlia based on Severed 2006

Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. Some notes on scenes in Chinese.
box 25, folder 8

Notes for original Severed script, research for documentary Black Dahlia 2004-2005

Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 25, folder 9

Curtis Harrington memorial letter, photo of Mamie Van Dorren and Shay Astar

Container Summary: Filmmaker Curtis Harrington died 5/6/2007. 50 years friendship with John Gilmore. Letter to Harrington by Gilmore, read at Harrington memorial Center for Motion Picture Study on May 21, 2007. Photo of actors Mamie Van Doren and Shay Astar by Gilmore.
box 25, folder 10

First book proposal and press release for Severed 1991-1994

box 26, folder 1

Reviews for The Garbage People 1971

box 26, folder 2

First draft of Bombay Beach 2005

Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 26, folder 3

Selected interviews with John Gilmore 1997-2007

box 26, folder 4

Book signings and readings 1991-2006

box 26, folder 5

Press books

box 26, folder 6

Interviews, press reviews, magazine and newspaper coverage 2003-2007, undated

box 27, folder 1

Press reviews and interviews (folder 1 of 2) 1988-2007

box 27, folder 2

Press reviews and interviews (folder 2 of 2) 1988-2007

box 28, folder 1

Index Magazine 1998, 2001

box 29, folder 1

Laid Bare proof (1 of 2) 1997

box 29, folder 2

Laid Bare proof (2 of 2) 1997

box 29, folder 3

Laid Bare first proof (1 of 2) 1997

box 29, folder 4

Laid Bare first proof (2 of 2) 1997

box 29, folder 5

Fetish Blonde first draft 1998

box 29, folder 6

Severed proof (1 of 2) 1998

box 30, folder 1

Severed proof (2 of 2) 1998

box 30, folder 2

You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood first draft (1 of 2) 1999-2000

box 30, folder 3

You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood first draft (2 of 2) 1999-2000

box 30, folder 4

You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (1 of 3) 2001

box 30, folder 5

You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (2 of 3) 2001

box 30, folder 6

You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (3 of 3) 2001

box 31, folder 1

Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (1 of 3) 2001

box 31, folder 2

Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (2 of 3) 2001

box 31, folder 3

Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (3 of 3) 2001

box 31, folder 4

Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) draft (1 of 2) 2001

box 31, folder 5

Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) draft (2 of 2) 2001