Guide to the Walter Halsey Davis screenplay and television script collection PA Mss 157

Finding aid prepared by Zachary Liebhaber, 2019.

UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara 93106-9010

special@library.ucsb.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections

2019 October 10

Title: Walter Halsey Davis screenplay and television script collection

Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 157

Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 10 linear feet (10 cartons)

Creator: Davis, Walter Halsey

Date (inclusive): 1970s-2000s

Abstract: Screenplay and television script library of American screenwriter and producer Walter Halsey Davis, active between the 1970s and 2000s.

Physical Location: The collection is located at the Southern Regional Library (SRLF).

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research. The collection is stored offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Walter Halsey Davis screenplay and television script collection, PA Mss 157. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

From the estate Walter Halsey Davis, 2019.

Scope and Content

Screenplay and television script library of American screenwriter and producer Walter Halsey Davis, active between the 1970s and 2000s. The screenplays and television scripts in this collection encompass a wide range of genres, including comedy, action and adventure, thriller, crime drama, science fiction, war, historical drama, and "biopic."

Arrangement

The collection has been divided into two series: 1. Screenplays, and 2. Television scripts.

Related Archival Material

Walter Halsey Davis and Vickie Patik papers (1972-1996), University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Screenwriters -- United States -- 20th century

Screenplays

Television scripts

Davis, Walter Halsey -- Archives

Series 1. Screenplays

box 1, folder 1

Against All Odds

box 1, folder 2

The Alamo

box 1, folder 3

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1)

box 1, folder 4

Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (2)

box 1, folder 5

All the Presidents Men

box 1, folder 6

All the Pretty Horses (1)

box 1, folder 7

All the Pretty Horses (2)

box 1, folder 8

Along Came a Blackbird...

box 1, folder 9

American Graffiti

box 1, folder 10

The Americanization of Emily

box 1, folder 11

The Apartment

box 1, folder 12

Apocalypse Now

box 1, folder 13

Awakenings

box 1, folder 14

Back Again

box 1, folder 15

Baja Oklahoma

box 1, folder 16

Basic Instinct

box 1, folder 17

Beetle Juice

box 1, folder 18

The Big Chill

box 1, folder 19

Big Wednesday

box 1, folder 20

Billy Bathgate

box 1, folder 21

Billy Elliot

box 1, folder 22

Bledsoe

box 1, folder 23

Blind Faith (Part 1)

box 1, folder 24

Blind Faith (Part 2)

box 2, folder 1

Blue Collar

box 2, folder 2

Blue Thunder

box 2, folder 3

Body Heat

box 2, folder 4

Bonnie and Clyde

box 2, folder 5

Bound for Glory

box 2, folder 6

Boyz n the Hood

box 2, folder 7

Breathless

box 2, folder 8

The Brotherhood of the Sacred Shroud

box 2, folder 9

Buddies

box 2, folder 10

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Part 1 (A Prequel)

box 2, folder 11

The Butchers Wife (1)

box 2, folder 12

The Butchers Wife (2)

box 2, folder 13

Caldender Girls

box 2, folder 14

Catholics, Jews and Bodysnatchers

box 2, folder 15

The Champions

box 2, folder 16

The China Syndrome (Second Draft)

box 2, folder 17

The China Syndrome (Third Draft)

box 2, folder 18

Chinatown

box 2, folder 19

Chocolat

box 2, folder 20

Citizen Kane

box 2, folder 21

City Slickers

box 2, folder 22

Clark Gable Slept Here

box 3, folder 1

Close Encounters

box 3, folder 2

The Color Purple

box 3, folder 3

Comes a Horseman Wild and Free

box 10, folder 7

Crash

box 3, folder 4

Dances With Wolves

box 3, folder 5

Desire

box 3, folder 6

Diner (1)

box 3, folder 7

Diner (2)

box 3, folder 8

Doctor Zhivago

box 3, folder 9

Eddie Macon's Run

box 3, folder 10

Edward Scissorhands

box 3, folder 11

Emperor of the Amazon

box 3, folder 12

ER (Pilot)

box 3, folder 13

Eureka

box 3, folder 14

The Evil Men Do

box 3, folder 15

Fame

box 3, folder 16

Fear on Trial

box 3, folder 17

The Fisher King

box 3, folder 18

The Flatliners

box 3, folder 19

Flight From Eden

box 3, folder 20

The Fog

box 3, folder 21

Forrest Gump

box 3, folder 22

Foul Play

box 4, folder 1

The French Connection

box 4, folder 2

Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe

box 4, folder 3

The Front

box 4, folder 4

Full Metal Jacket (1)

box 4, folder 5

Full Metal Jacket (2)

box 4, folder 6

F/X

box 4, folder 7

Gauntlet

box 4, folder 8

Gladiator

box 4, folder 9

Goats

box 4, folder 10

The Godfather

box 4, folder 11

The Godfather (Part II)

box 4, folder 12

Gone With the Wind

box 4, folder 13

Gosford Park

box 4, folder 14

The Great Santini

box 4, folder 15

Halls of Montezuma

box 4, folder 16

Harold and Maude

box 4, folder 17

High Noon

box 4, folder 18

High Road to China

box 4, folder 19

I Am Harry Taggart

box 4, folder 20

I'm Not Rappaport

box 4, folder 21

Inside the Third Reich

box 5, folder 1

Interlink

box 5, folder 2

Irma La Douce

box 5, folder 3

Isabel's Choice (A.K.A. A Life of Her Own)

box 5, folder 4

Jake's Women

box 5, folder 5

The Jazz Singer

box 5, folder 6

Jeremiah Johnson

box 5, folder 7

Jesse James

box 5, folder 8

J.F.K

box 5, folder 9

Joe Montana

box 5, folder 10

Judas Pair

box 5, folder 11

Julia

box 5, folder 12

Jumpers

box 5, folder 13

King of the Gypsies

box 5, folder 14

LadyHawke

box 5, folder 15

The Last Detail

box 5, folder 16

Last Gun

box 5, folder 17

Lawrence of Arabia (1)

box 5, folder 18

Lawrence of Arabia (2)

box 5, folder 19

The Little Woman

box 5, folder 20

Lorenzo's Oil

box 6, folder 1

Love Is Never Silent (1st Draft)

box 6, folder 2

Love Is Never Silent (2nd Draft)

box 6, folder 3

Malone

box 6, folder 4

Marathon Man

box 6, folder 5

The Mark of Chrysalis

box 6, folder 6

M*A*S*H (Final Screenplay)

box 6, folder 7

M*A*S*H (Master Corrected Script)

box 6, folder 8

Mask (First Draft)

box 6, folder 9

Mask (Second Draft)

box 6, folder 10

Merger (Includes Footlight Program to Play)

box 6, folder 11

Mississippi: Burning

box 6, folder 12

The Money Pit

box 6, folder 13

Moonlighting

box 6, folder 14

My Barbarian Wife (Includes Correspondance from Norman I. Cohen)

box 6, folder 15

My Favorite Year

box 6, folder 16

My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner

box 6, folder 17

The Natural

box 6, folder 18

Near Death Experience

box 6, folder 19

Nemesis

box 6, folder 20

Network

box 6, folder 21

Night Ride Down (1)

box 6, folder 22

Night Ride Down (2)

box 6, folder 23

Nops Trials

box 7, folder 1

Old Acquaintance

box 7, folder 2

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

box 7, folder 3

One Shot At A Time (The Billie Jean King Story) (1)

box 7, folder 4

One Shot At A Time (The Billie Jean King Story) (2)

box 7, folder 5

Out of Africa

box 7, folder 6

Partners

box 7, folder 7

Patton

box 7, folder 8

Pearl

box 7, folder 9

Philly Boy

box 7, folder 10

Pleasant Dreams, Sweet Celia

box 7, folder 11

Prince of the City

box 7, folder 12

Prisoners

box 7, folder 13

Queen of Clubs

box 7, folder 14

Radio Flyer

box 7, folder 15

Rain Man

box 7, folder 16

Rattlesnake Dick and the Prophet's Daughter

box 7, folder 17

Real Characters

box 7, folder 18

Rear Window

box 7, folder 19

Rent-A-Cop (12/12/85)

box 7, folder 20

Rent-A-Cop (09/11/86)

box 8, folder 1

Risky Business

box 8, folder 2

A River Ran Out of Eden

box 8, folder 3

The Rose

box 8, folder 4

Same Time, Another Year

box 8, folder 5

The Sea Kings

box 8, folder 6

Sea of Love

box 8, folder 7

The Seven Year Storm

box 8, folder 8

Shampoo

box 8, folder 9

The Silence of the Lambs

box 8, folder 10

Slightly Tarnished

box 8, folder 11

Snowblind

box 8, folder 12

Some Like It Hot

box 8, folder 13

Special Bulletin

box 8, folder 14

Star Wars: The Adventures of Luke Skywalker as taken from the "Journal of the Whills" (Saga I)

box 8, folder 15

Steel Magnolias

box 8, folder 16

The Sting (First Draft)

box 8, folder 17

The Sting (Final Draft)

box 8, folder 18

Stonewall Jackson's House

box 8, folder 19

Terminator

box 8, folder 20

Three Days of the Condor

box 8, folder 21

That Championship Season

box 8, folder 22

The Tourist

box 8, folder 23

Tootsie

box 8, folder 24

Rueben, Rueben (Oversized Folder)

box 9, folder 1

The Trial

box 9, folder 2

Trust Me (The Fabrication)

box 9, folder 3

The Two Jakes

box 9, folder 4

Two of the Missing

box 9, folder 5

The Verdict

box 9, folder 6

The Way We Were

box 9, folder 7

Westworld

box 9, folder 8

Where the Boys Are

box 9, folder 9

The White Company

box 9, folder 10

Woman of the Ring

box 9, folder 11

Wonder Boys

box 9, folder 12

The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep...

box 10, folder 31

Green Book (Book Format)

box 10, folder 32

The Life Aquatic (Book Format)

box 10, folder 33

A Star Is Born (Book Format)

Series 2. Television scripts

box 10, folder 1

Amazon Adventure

box 10, folder 2

American Plain

box 10, folder 3

Best of Friends (A Typical Episode)

box 10, folder 4

Cagney and Lacey (Insubordination)

box 10, folder 5

Cagney and Lacey (Ordinary Hero)

box 10, folder 6

Cagney and Lacey (No Apparent Motive)

box 10, folder 8

box 10, folder 9

box 10, folder 10

Fame (Reunions / No One Applauds In the Morning)

box 10, folder 11

Fame (Come Learn How to Fly (Part I)

box 10, folder 12

Freaks and Geeks

box 10, folder 13

Hard Copy (Pilot)

box 10, folder 14

Jessie

box 10, folder 15

Jessie (Flesh Wounds)

box 10, folder 16

Malcolm in the Middle

box 10, folder 17

Moonlighting

box 10, folder 18

Murphy Brown (Pilot)

box 10, folder 19

Passion

box 10, folder 20

A Political Animal

box 10, folder 21

The Real World

box 10, folder 22

Sex and the City (Pilot)

box 10, folder 23

Sex and the City (Easy Come, Easy Go)

box 10, folder 24

The Sopranos (Employee of the Month)

box 10, folder 25

The Sopranos (Second Opinion)

box 10, folder 26

The Sopranos (Pine Barrens)

box 10, folder 27

The Sopranos (Amour Fou)

box 10, folder 28

Will and Grace (Lows in the Mid-Eighties)

box 10, folder 29

The West Wing (In the Shadow of Two Gunman - Part 1 & 2)

box 10, folder 30

Inventory Sheet of Collection