Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Related Material
Descriptive Summary
Title: Dick Dickson motion picture scripts ,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1940
Collection number: 223
Creator: Dickson, Dick
Extent: 3 boxes (1.25 linear ft.)
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.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift, 1989.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Dick Dickson motion picture scripts (Collection 223). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
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.
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.
Organization and Arrangement
The scripts are arranged alphabetically by production title.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Dickson, Dick -- Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
screenplays
Related Material
Dick Dickson Papers, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum