Lloyd Bacon papers
Special Collections
Margaret Herrick Library
© 2023
Descriptive Summary
Title: Lloyd Bacon papers
Date (inclusive): 1929-1963
Date (bulk): 1940s
Collection number: 223
Creator:
Bacon, Lloyd
Extent:
9 linear feet of papers.
1 linear feet of photographs.
Repository:
Margaret Herrick Library. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Languages:
English
Important Information for Users of the Collection
Access
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Preferred Citation
Lloyd Bacon papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Margaret Keyser, on behalf of the (Mrs.) Lloyd Bacon estate, 1989-1992
Biography
Lloyd Francis Bacon, son of film actor and writer Frank Bacon, was born in 1889 in San Jose, California. He was an actor and
director active in film from 1914 to 1954. He played supporting and lead roles in comedies directed by Charlie Chaplin in
the 1910s, and he directed Lloyd Hamilton and Mack Sennett short comedies in the 1920s. His acting and directing careers overlapped
in the 1920s, but by the 1930s Bacon was focused solely on directing feature films. As a feature director he specialized in
Warner Bros. musical comedies choreographed by Busby Berkeley. In later years, he directed many different film genres while
under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
The Lloyd Bacon papers span the years 1929-1963 (bulk 1940s) and encompass approximately 9 linear feet. The collection contains
production files, television files, and subject files.
In the production files, film titles containing scripts include A BLONDE LIKE THAT! (1963), DON’T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND (1949),
THE FRENCH LINE (1954), and THE SULLIVANS (1944). Various films in this series containing studio correspondence include CALL
ME MISTER (1951), CAPTAIN EDDIE (1945), DON’T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND (1949), THE FROGMEN (1951), I WONDER WHO’S KISSING HER NOW
(1947), NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947), THE SULLIVANS (1944), SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER (1944), WAKE UP AND DREAM (1946), YOU WERE
MEANT FOR ME (1947), and WINGS OF THE NAVY (1939). Numerous files contain production correspondence from both producer Darryl
F. Zanuck and agent and producer Sam Jaffe. The file for the 1937 film EVER SINCE EVE contains detailed correspondence from
William Randolph Hearst to Bacon regarding Marion Davies’s role in the film. Production material can be found in the files
for DON’T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND (1949), THE FRENCH LINE (1954), and THE SULLIVANS (1944). There is extensive material for the
unproduced films BARNSTORMING, a proposed film on the life of Frank Bacon, and THE GLITTERING HILL, which contains script
solicitation letters to Fred MacMurray and Humphrey Bogart. The television files include extensive script material on two
unproduced television series, THE O’LEARY’S and VENUS MAHONEY.
The majority of the subject files are comprised of correspondence. These files, arranged alphabetically, contain business,
personal, and miscellaneous letters and telegrams, including extensive correspondence from Sam Jaffe, and span the years 1942
through 1954. The file pertaining to Twentieth Century-Fox contains numerous internal studio memos from Darryl F. Zanuck.
A legal file includes Bacon’s employment contracts with Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century-Fox, his representation contract
with the Sam Jaffe Agency, and a settlement in the case of Lloyd Bacon and Humphrey Bogart v. Alan Hale, circa 1943.
Arrangement
Arranged in the following series: Boxes 1 though 3: 1. Production files, subseries A-B as follows: A.
Produced; B Unproduced; 2. Television files, subseries A as follows: A. Unproduced; 3. Subject files.
Boxes four though nine are not arranged in series.
Indexing Terms
Bacon, Lloyd , 1889-1955--Archives.
actors
directors
Production files/Produced
folder 1
ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC--advertising
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454513
folder 2
A BLONDE LIKE THAT!--script
Circa 1963--1963
Record ID: 71454412
folder 3
CALL ME MISTER--clippings and reviews
1951--1951
Record ID: 71454527
folder 4
CALL ME MISTER--correspondence
1948--1951
Record ID: 71454373
folder 5
CAPTAIN EDDIE--clippings
1944--1944
Record ID: 71454375
folder 6
CAPTAIN EDDIE--correspondence
1944--1945
Record ID: 71454374
folder 7
CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY--memorandum
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454389
folder 8
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--script
Circa 1948--1948
Record ID: 71454407
folder 9
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--correspondence
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454408
folder 10
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--legal
1948--1948
Record ID: 71305306
folder 11
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--production
Circa 1948--1948
Record ID: 71454409
folder 12
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--production reports
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454410
folder 13
DON'T TRUST YOUR HUSBAND--reviews
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454411
folder 14
EVER SINCE EVE--correspondence
1937--1937
Record ID: 71454382
folder 15
THE FRENCH LINE--script
1953--1953
Record ID: 71454377
folder 16
THE FRENCH LINE--script
Circa 1953--1953
Record ID: 71454378
folder 17
THE FRENCH LINE--casting
Circa 1953--1953
Record ID: 71454380
folder 18
THE FRENCH LINE--correspondence
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454518
folder 19
THE FRENCH LINE--lyrics
Circa 1953--1953
Record ID: 71454381
folder 20
THE FRENCH LINE--staff and crew lists
1953--1953
Record ID: 71454379
folder 21
THE FROGMEN--clippings
1951--1951
Record ID: 71454393
folder 22
THE FROGMEN--correspondence (production)
1950--1951
Record ID: 71454376
folder 23
THE FROGMEN--correspondence (Virgin Islands)
1950--1951
Record ID: 71454394
folder 24
THE FROGMEN--miscellaneous
1951--1951
Record ID: 71454525
folder 25
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY--cast lists
1947--1947
Record ID: 71454403
folder 26
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE--correspondence
1946--1947
Record ID: 71454405
folder 27
I WONDER WHO'S KISSING HER NOW--correspondence
1946--1946
Record ID: 71454406
folder 28
MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
1946--1946
Record ID: 71454413
folder 29
NIGHTMARE ALLEY--memoranda
1947--1947
Record ID: 71454414
folder 30
SILVER QUEEN--correspondence
1942--1942
Record ID: 71454415
folder 31
THE SNAKE PIT--memoranda
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454530
folder 32
THE SULLIVANS--script
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454499
folder 33
THE SULLIVANS--clippings and reviews
1943--1945
Record ID: 71454496
folder 34
THE SULLIVANS--correspondence (Navy)
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454494
folder 35
THE SULLIVANS--correspondence (personal)
1943--1944
Record ID: 71454495
folder 36
THE SULLIVANS--correspondence (production)
1943--1944
Record ID: 71454487
folder 37
THE SULLIVANS--distribution profits
1945--1945
Record ID: 71454497
folder 38
THE SULLIVANS--legal
1942--1944
Record ID: 71454492
folder 39
THE SULLIVANS--miscellaneous
Circa 1944--1944
Record ID: 71454489
folder 40
THE SULLIVANS--program
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454493
folder 41
THE SULLIVANS--re-release
1947--1955
Record ID: 71454491
folder 42
THE SULLIVANS--schedule
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454490
folder 43
THE SULLIVANS--sheet music
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454488
folder 44
SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER--clippings
1944--1944
Record ID: 71454510
folder 45
SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER--memoranda
1945--1945
Record ID: 71454529
folder 46
WAKE UP AND DREAM--memoranda
1945--1945
Record ID: 71454528
folder 47
WINGS FOR THE EAGLE--correspondence
1942--1942
Record ID: 71454517
folder 48
WINGS OF THE NAVY--correspondence
1939--1939
Record ID: 71454512
folder 49
YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME--memoranda
1947--1947
Record ID: 71454392
Production files/Unproduced
folder 50
THE BALLAD OF FURNACE CREEK
Record ID: 71454515
folder 51
BARNSTORMING--script
Record ID: 71454369
folder 52
BARNSTORMING--script
Record ID: 71454370
folder 53
BARNSTORMING--script
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454371
folder 54
BARNSTORMING--script
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454372
folder 55
BARNSTORMING--Barnstorming, Inc.
1946--1950
Record ID: 71454388
folder 56
BARNSTORMING--clipping
Record ID: 71454521
folder 57
BARNSTORMING--correspondence
1947--1951
Record ID: 71454520
folder 58
BARNSTORMING--legal
1945--1950
Record ID: 71454367
folder 59
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
Record ID: 71454400
folder 60
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
Record ID: 71454396
folder 61
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
Record ID: 71454395
folder 62
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
Record ID: 71454397
folder 63
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
Record ID: 71454398
folder 64
THE GLITTERING HILL--script
1946--1946
Record ID: 71454399
folder 65
THE GLITTERING HILL--budget
1948--1948
Record ID: 71454401
folder 66
THE GLITTERING HILL--correspondence
1946--1948
Record ID: 71454402
folder 67
JOHN THE PROPHET--title registration
1952--1952
Record ID: 71454485
folder 68
THE LATEST MODEL--script
Record ID: 71454482
folder 69
MINE ON SUNDAY--correspondence
1946--1946
Record ID: 71454514
folder 70
MUDDY WATERS--script
Record ID: 71454481
folder 71
MUDDY WATERS--script
Record ID: 71454480
folder 72
THIS WAY WE LIVE--script
Record ID: 71454508
folder 73
THIS WAY WE LIVE--script
Record ID: 71454509
folder 74
VALLEY OF THE MISTS--pre-production
1949--1949
Record ID: 71455683
folder 75
YESTERDAY'S CHAMPIONS--synopsis
Record ID: 71454511
Television files/Unproduced
folder 76
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--"The Lady Friend"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71455274
folder 77
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--"The Lady Friend"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71455275
folder 78
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--"This Is It"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454464
folder 79
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--"This Is It"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454467
folder 80
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--"This is It"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454457
folder 81
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #1
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454461
folder 82
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #1
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454419
folder 83
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #2
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454466
folder 84
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #2
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454465
folder 85
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #3
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454468
folder 86
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #3
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454469
folder 87
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--production #3
Record ID: 71454531
folder 88
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--script
Record ID: 71454474
folder 89
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--budgets
Record ID: 71454472
folder 90
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--correspondence
1954--1955
Record ID: 71454476
folder 91
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--footage estimates
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454473
folder 92
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--script prospectus
Record ID: 71454416
folder 93
THE O'LEARY'S [television]--set plans
Record ID: 71454475
folder 94
UNEASY MONEY [television]--production #103
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454471
folder 95
UNEASY MONEY [television]--script
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454470
folder 96
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454502
folder 97
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454503
folder 98
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
1950--1950
Record ID: 71454504
folder 99
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454500
folder 100
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454506
folder 101
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--production #1
Record ID: 71454478
folder 102
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--production #2
Record ID: 71454479
folder 103
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454505
folder 104
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--script
Record ID: 71454477
folder 105
VENUS MAHONEY [television]--contract
1950--1950
Record ID: 71454501
folder 106
A miscellaneous
1948--1952
Record ID: 71455657
folder 107
B miscellaneous
1948--1952
Record ID: 71455658
folder 108
Bacon, Margaret--clipping
1950--1950
Record ID: 71454361
folder 109
C miscellaneous
1948--1948
Record ID: 71455659
folder 110
Correspondence--managerial
1943--1954
Record ID: 71454519
folder 111
Correspondence--personal
1942--1951
Record ID: 71454391
folder 112
D miscellaneous
1948--1952
Record ID: 71455660
folder 113
E miscellaneous
1943--1952
Record ID: 71455661
folder 114
El Capitan Theatre--financial
1942--1942
Record ID: 71454523
folder 115
Eleven To One--playscript
Record ID: 71454387
folder 116
F miscellaneous
1946--1952
Record ID: 71455662
folder 117
Five O'Clock--playscript
Record ID: 71454386
folder 118
G miscellaneous
1944--1952
Record ID: 71455663
folder 119
Golden, Edward--contracts
1944--1944
Record ID: 71454362
folder 120
H miscellaneous
1945--1950
Record ID: 71455664
folder 121
Harvard School--miscellaneous
Record ID: 71454363
folder 122
Headed For Hell
Record ID: 71454404
folder 123
Hollywood Playhouse, Inc.--financial
1942--1942
Record ID: 71454524
folder 124
I MARRIED JOAN [television]--"Predictions"
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454486
folder 125
J miscellaneous
1946--1949
Record ID: 71455665
folder 126
Janissa--correspondence
1954--1954
Record ID: 71454507
folder 127
Janissa--story
1954--1956
Record ID: 71454484
folder 128
K miscellaneous
1946--1949
Record ID: 71455666
folder 129
L miscellaneous
1943--1948
Record ID: 71455667
folder 130
Leffingwell, Thomas--biographical
1947--1947
Record ID: 71454390
folder 131
Legal--miscellaneous
1929--1951
Record ID: 71454364
folder 132
M miscellaneous
1943--1952
Record ID: 71455668
folder 133
Membership cards
1945--1955
Record ID: 71454360
folder 134
Military
1942--1942
Record ID: 71454522
folder 135
Miscellaneous--personal
1942--1950
Record ID: 71454358
folder 136
Monroe Productions--legal
1945--1948
Record ID: 71454483
folder 137
N miscellaneous
1948--1948
Record ID: 71455669
folder 138
O miscellaneous
1948--1948
Record ID: 71455670
folder 139
P miscellaneous
1945--1948
Record ID: 71455671
folder 140
R miscellaneous
1946--1952
Record ID: 71455672
folder 141
S miscellaneous
1944--1952
Record ID: 71455673
folder 142
Screen Directors Guild
Circa 1953--1953
Record ID: 71454365
folder 143
T miscellaneous
1943--1948
Record ID: 71455674
folder 144
Twentieth Century-Fox
1943--1950
Record ID: 71454366
folder 145
Unidentified--correspondence
1943--1949
Record ID: 71455675
folder 146
Unidentified--production
Record ID: 71455679
folder 147
W miscellaneous
1943--1949
Record ID: 71455676
folder 148
World War II--The Sullivans
1943--1943
Record ID: 71454498
folder 149
Zanuck, Darryl F.--correspondence (miscellaneous)
1944--1950
Record ID: 71454516
