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  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
  • Arrangement
  • Biographical / Historical
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • Scope and Contents
  • Rights Statement for Archival Description
  • Conditions Governing Use

  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
    Title: William Dieterle papers
    Creator: Dieterle, William, 1893-1972
    Identifier/Call Number: 2017
    Identifier/Call Number: 410
    Physical Description: 5.75 Linear Feet 11 boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1923-1950
    Abstract: This collection contains production files for twelve American film projects of German director William Dieterle (1893-1972), dating from 1936 to 1950. The files chiefly include production and wardrobe stills, research files, and outlines.
    Language of Material: English, German.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Provenance unknown.

    Arrangement

    Files are arranged chronologically by project production date with oversize materials in Box 11 at the end of the collection.
    Box 1: 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur; The White Angel)

    Box 2: 1937 (The Life of Emile Zola)

    Box 3-4: 1938 (Blockade; Juarez)

    Box 5-6: 1939 (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

    Box 7-8: 1940 (The Story of Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet; A Dispatch from Reuters)

    Box 9: 1940-1941 (A Dispatch from Reuters; All That Money Can Buy)

    Box 10: 1942-1950 (Tennessee Johnson; Kismet; September Affair)

    Box 11: Oversize materials and index

    Biographical / Historical

    William Dieterle (1893-1972) was a German actor and director. Dieterle immigrated to the United States in 1930 and worked in Hollywood until returning to Germany in the late 1950s. His film The Life of Emile Zola received the Best Picture Academy Award in 1937.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder# or item name], William Dieterle Papers, Collection no. 2017, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

    Processing Information

    Initially inventoried as part of the Ethel Barrymore Performing Arts Division, USC. Additional work by USC students in 2019 as part of the "Piloting a Shared Practice for Accessible Archival Descriptions" Dean's Challenge Grant. Additional description by Diann Benti in 2021.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection contains production files for twelve American film projects of German director William Dieterle (1893-1972), dating from 1936 to 1950. The files chiefly include production and wardrobe stills, research files, and outlines. There are no personal papers in this collection. Among the stills are photographs of many actors including Henry Fonda (Blockade), Maureen O'Hara (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Edward G. Robinson (A Dispatch from Reuters), and Marlene Dietrich (Kismet). An outdated paper index and some biographical items on Dieterle are housed in Box 11.

    Rights Statement for Archival Description

    Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Actors -- Photographs
    Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources
    Feature films -- Archival resources
    Motion pictures--Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
    Motion pictures -- Archival resources
    Film stills
    Photographs
    Scripts
    Dieterle, William, 1893-1972 -- Archives
    Dietrich, Marlene -- Photographs
    Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982 -- Photographs
    O'Hara, Maureen, 1920-2015 -- Photographs
    Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973 -- Photographs