Dick Dickson motion picture scripts, 1930-1940

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Summary

Creators:
Dickson, Dick
Abstract:
During the 1930s Dickson Dickson was a movie producer. The collection consists of 18 scripts related to Dickson's career, including Man from Bar-20 and Sons of the Pioneers from the Hopalong Cassidy series.
Extent:
3 boxes (1.25 linear ft.)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of motion picture scripts relating to the career of motion picture producer Dick Dickson. The collection includes items that reflect his association with Harry Sherman and a small number of scripts related to the Hopalong Cassidy series. Included in the collection are scripts for The Barrier, Beneath Western Skies, Border Vigilantes, Bullets and Bandits, Cherokee Strip, Escape to Paradise, Everythings on Ice, Fisherman's Warf, Gun Chores, The Light of the Western Stars, Man from Bar-20, Mysterious Rider, Our Town, The Round-up, Sons of the Pioneers, and Way Down South.

Biographical / historical:

Dick Dickson was born in 1897. He started his "movie business" career in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He took tickets, swept the floors, and rewound films in a silent movie house. He was a machine gunner in France during World War I. After the war he began working for Paramount in Des Moines, Iowa. By 1929, he and a partner owned thirty-three movie houses, which they sold one month prior to the stock market crash.

During the 1930s Dickson was a movie producer. He made many westerns including more than twenty Hopalong Cassidy films. Among his credits are American Empire, Buffalo Bill, Forty Thieves, and The Woman of the Town. Dickson was hired as executive manger of over 140 southern California movie theaters. In 1947, while serving as an executive with Fox West Coast Theatre Corporation, Dickson was tapped to be Executive Director in Los Angeles for the Friendship Food Train. Later, he was also involved in the promotion of the Freedom Train.

Dickson died on July 14, 1962 in Hollywood, California.

Acquisition information:
Gift, 1989.
Arrangement:

The scripts are arranged alphabetically by production title.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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