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

  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
    Title: Fritz Lang papers
    Creator: Lang, Fritz
    Identifier/Call Number: 2201
    Physical Description: 27 Linear Feet 24 boxes
    Date (inclusive): 1930s-1970s
    Abstract: This collection includes scripts, manuscripts, screenplays, research files, clippings of current events, correspondents, interviews, photographs, and stills related to the projects of Austrian German American director Fritz Lang (1890-1976).
    Language of Material: English.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection includes scripts, manuscripts, screenplays, research files, clippings of current events, correspondents, interviews, photographs, and stills related to the projects of Austrian German American director Fritz Lang (1890-1976). Materials in the collection are from throughout Lang's career, primarily his work in Hollywood. Films represented in this collection include Hangmen Also Die! (1943), and Human Desire(1954).

    Biographical / Historical

    Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austrian German American director known for his expressionist films, crime thrillers, and social science fiction. Lang lost sight in his right eye while serving in the Austrian army during WWI. He began his filmmaking career in 1918 in Weimar Germany, collaborating with his co-writer and wife Thea von Harbou on his early films such as Metropolis (1927), and M (1931). During the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933, many of Lang's films were banned. He subsequently divorced von Harbou when she joined the Nazi Party, and left Berlin for Paris. Lang then emigrated to the United States where his career continued in Hollywood with such films as You Only Live Once (1937), Hangmen Also Die!(1943), and The Big Heat (1953). Lang was approaching blindness during the production of The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960), which cemented it as his final film project. He died from a stroke in 1976.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    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.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift, December 10, 1982; May 1984; September 23, 1985.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder no. or item name], Fritz Lang papers, Collection no. 2201, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

    Processing Information

    Collection is unprocessed.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Clippings
    Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources
    Screenplays
    Scripts
    Lang, Fritz -- Archives