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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Andrew Stone papers
Creator:
Stone, Andrew L., 1902-1999
Identifier/Call Number: 2148
Physical Description:
9 Linear Feet
8 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1903-1976
Abstract: This collection contains production files for the film and television projects of American screenwriter, producer, and director
Andrew L. Stone (1902-1999), for thirty-six projects dating from 1926 to 1972. The files chiefly include scripts, cast and
staff sheets, budgets, music, production stills, notes, reviews, research and source materials, and publicity related ephemera.
Language of Material:
English.
Advance notice required for access.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Andrew L. Stone, 1976.
Files are arranged chronologically by project production date:
Box 1: Index, 1926-1938; Box 2: 1938-1944; Box 3: 1945-1947; Box 4: 1947-1953; Box 5: 1953-1958; Box 6: 1959-1965; Box 7:
1965-1972.
Andrew L. Stone (1902-1999) was an American film director, producer, and writer who created more than thirty films from the
1920s to the 1970s. His first film was a short silent picture,
The Elegy (1926). He had contracts with various film studios including Paramount, United Artists, and MGM. In 1943, he formed Andrew
L. Stone Productions. He was married to film editor Virginia Stone, with whom he collaborated.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Andrew Stone papers, Collection no. 2148, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California
Processed 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.
This collection contains production files for the film and television projects of American screenwriter, producer, and director
Andrew L. Stone, for thirty-six projects dating from 1926 to 1972. The files chiefly include scripts, cast and staff sheets,
budgets, music, production stills, notes, reviews, research and source materials, and publicity related ephemera. Typescript
indices (Box 1, Folder 1) provide a list of items, brief production history, and cast for each project included in the collection.
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.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Some items identified on the original index for the Great Victor Hugo do not appear to be with the collection: (1) Rating
of Victor Herbert Music, (2) Music Breakdown, and (3) Packet of Review.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Feature films -- Archival resources
Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources
Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Motion pictures -- Archival resources
Film stills
Audiotapes
Photographs
Screenplays
Scripts
Stone, Andrew L., 1902-1999 -- Archives