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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Edward Anhalt papers
Creator:
Anhalt, Edward, 1914-2000
Creator:
Anhalt, Edna
Identifier/Call Number: 2027
Physical Description:
8.3 Linear Feet
12 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1949-1969
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of American screenwriter Edward Anhalt (1914-2000), dating from 1949 to 1969. Materials
include scripts and related items for thirty films and television programs (several unproduced).
Language of Material:
English.
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Edward Anhalt (1914-2000) was an American screenwriter. He began as a writer with his first wife, Edna Anhalt, using the pen
name "Andrew Holt" in the 1940s, and their first screenwriting credit was for "Strange Voyage" (1946). He received Academy
Awards for writing for "Panic in the Streets" (1950) and "Becket" (1964).
[Box/folder no. or item name], Edward Anhalt papers, Collection no. 2027, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Previously cataloged as Collection no. 27.
This collection contains the papers of American screenwriter Edward Anhalt (1914-2000), dating from 1949 to 1969. Materials
include scripts and related items for thirty films and television programs (several unproduced). Many of the scripts have
personal introductory comments handwritten by Anhalt. There are also miscellaneous materials pertaining to the 1960 Writer's
Guild of America strike; various publicity clippings (1952-1965), and a short biographical memoir written in 1965 (Box 12,
Folders 13-14). Some of the early screenplays were co-written by Anhalt's first wife Edna Anhalt.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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 of Edward Anhalt, December 19, 1969.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures -- Archival resources
Screenwriters -- United States -- Archival resources
Television -- Archival resources
Screenplays
Anhalt, Edward, 1914-2000 -- Archives