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