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Scope and Contents
Preferred Citation
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Conditions Governing Use
Conditions Governing Access
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Delmer Daves papers
Creator:
Daves, Delmer
Identifier/Call Number: M0192
Identifier/Call Number: 893
Physical Description:
38.5 Linear Feet
(89 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1930-1965
Abstract: Writer, director, and producer Warner Brothers (1943-1967). Director, writer, and producer Twentieth Century Fox (1949, 1954).
Graduate of Stanford University (1927).
KEY
1. All hand notations are Delmer Daves' unless otherwise specified.
2. All sheets are quarto size, written on one side only unless otherwise specified.
3. All sheets consist of one typed page unless otherwise specified.
4. Descriptive symbols can be combined ad libitum, i.e. OPpNAD-Occasional Pen and pencil Notes, Additions, Deletions.
- AAutograph
- ALSAutograph Letter Signed
- ANSAutograph Note Signed
- BWBlack and White
- CCarbon
- DDDelmer Daves
- FFrequent
- IOCInter-office Communication
- IOC-SInter-office Communication, Signed
- JBJulian Blaustein
- JIBJoseph I. Breen
- JLWJack L. Warner
- JSJCol. Jason S. Joy
- JWJerry Wald
- Legal8 1/2" × 14"
- LSLew Schreiber
- MMimeographed
- Misc.Miscellaneous
- MMMolly Mandaville
- NNotes
- NDNo Date
- OOccassional
- PPen
- Ppencil
- phphotocopy
- PNADPen Notes, Additions, Deletions
- pNADpencil Notes, Additions, Deletions
- PpNADPen and pencil Notes, Additions, Deletions
- Prelim.Preliminary
- RAKRay A. Klune
- Rev.Revised
- Rev. Temp.Revised Temporary
- RLHL.R. L. Hough
- Size X7 1/4" × 10 1/2"
- SPScreenplay
- STSteve Trilling
- TTyped
- TLSTyped Letter Signed
- TNSTyped Note Signed
- vso.verso
- WBWarner Brothers
- 8vo.octavo size
- 20CF20th Century Fox
- []information not included but determined by reader
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, play and film scripts, treatments of novels, adaptations, drafts, lists, photographs, diagrams and working
papers of Mr. Daves' career in the motion picture industry in Hollywood from 1930 to 1965. Mr. Daves was a writer, director
and producer. The collection contains correspondence with many of the industry's leading figures. The contents are important
in relating the history, methods and trends of the industry as well as a biographical source on Mr. Daves.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Delmer Daves Papers, M0192, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Delmer Daves, 1969, John Lea McDaniels, 1984, and the Associates of Stanford University Libraries, 1984.
Conditions Governing Use
While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
an authorization to publish. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any transmission
or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures -- Production and direction
Screenwriters.