Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lamont Johnson papers
- Dates:
- 1943-1978
- Creators:
- Johnson, Lamont
- Extent:
- 7 linear feet of papers.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Lamont Johnson papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Lamont Johnson papers span the years 1943-1978 and encompass 7.0 linear feet. The collection contains scripts, correspondence, and production records for a dozen films. The television and stage files contain scripts, reviews, and miscellaneous material for more than two dozen projects directed by Johnson between 1958 and 1978, as well as programs and miscellany for a half dozen plays in which Johnson acted in the 1940s. The subject files include correspondence, three diaries, and miscellany.
- Biographical / historical:
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Lamont Johnson was an American actor and director active in film from 1967 to 1983. He began acting in live, then filmed, television in 1950. As a staff director for NBC MATINEE THEATER, he directed more than seventy-five episodes beginning in 1956. Johnson's feature film directorial debut was A COVENANT WITH DEATH (1967). His best-known films include THE LAST AMERICAN HERO (1973), LIPSTICK (1976), and SOMEBODY KILLED HER HUSBAND (1978).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Lamont Johnson, 1977-1980
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series: 1. Production files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 2. Television files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Produced; B. Unproduced; 3. Stage files, subseries A-B as follows: A. Plays Johnson directed; B. Plays Johnson appeared in; 4. Subject files
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- actors
directors - Names:
- Johnson, Lamont , 1922-2010--Archives.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2014
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from Inmagic. Date of source: April 22, 2014
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Available by appointment only.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library.
- Preferred citation:
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Lamont Johnson papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- Location of this collection:
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333 S. La Cienega BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211, US
- Contact:
- (310) 247-3036 extension 2226