Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Heerman, Victor
- Extent:
- 8 linear feet of papers.
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Victor Heerman papers span the years 1917-1976 (bulk 1917-1946) and encompass 8 linear feet. The collection contains primarily script material in the form of various versions of scripts or scenarios written by Victor Heerman and/or Sarah Mason for more than fifty films. There is also some correspondence, two scrapbooks, and oral history audiotapes and transcripts.
- Biographical / historical:
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Victor Heerman was a British screenwriter and director. Educated in New York City, Heerman moved to Los Angeles around 1913. He received an Academy Award for adapting the screenplay for LITTLE WOMEN (1933), which he co-scripted with his wife, Sarah Y. Mason, whom he married in 1920. Other credits by the screenwriting pair include STELLA DALLAS (1937) and PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Victor Heerman, 1977
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series: 1. Production files; 2. Scrapbooks
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- directors
screenwriters - Names:
- Heerman, Victor , 1893-1977--Archives.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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333 S. La Cienega BlvdBeverly Hills, CA 90211, US
- Contact:
- (310) 247-3036 extension 2226