Finding aid for the Fritz Lang papers 2201
Sarah Jardini for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
March 2022
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0185
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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.
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).
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.
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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.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Fritz Lang papers, Collection no. 2201, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of
Southern California.
Collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clippings
Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources
Screenplays
Scripts
Lang, Fritz -- Archives
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 4A, Box 5, Box 6A, Box 6B, Box 7A, Box 7B, Box 8, Box 9A, Box 9B, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 19A, Box 20
Unprocessed materials