Finding Aid for the John Gilmore Papers LSC.1144
Finding aid prepared by Saundra Taylor, July 1974 and Megan Fraser, July 2012; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline
Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2023 August 8.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: John Gilmore papers
Creator:
Gilmore, John
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1144
Physical Description:
14.2 linear feet
(29 boxes and 2 oversize boxes)
Date: circa 1965
Abstract: John Gilmore (1935- ) was a instructor in creative writing at Antioch College/West and Glendora College (1974-76) and a author.
The collection contains research materials for manuscripts and published copies of Gilmore's works, including
the Tucson murders,
The garbage people,
Blowout, and the screenplay,
Indiana twilight. Also contains photographs, clippings, diary entries, correspondence, and publicity materials.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
PORTIONS OF THIS COLLECTION HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED. See the Existence and Location of Copies note for the link to the digitized
materials.
- Gift of John Gilmore, 1974-89.
- Gift of Laurance Rivera, 1994.
- Gift of Marie NaVeaux, 1997.
- Boxes 22-28 gift of Diana Levitt Herbert, 2007
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Gilmore Papers (Collection 1144). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Gilmore was born on July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles; became a child actor in Hollywood during the 1940s; attended New York University;
BA, Antioch College, 1955; later became a leading man, acting in film, television, and on the New York stage; instructor in
creative writing at Antioch College/West and Glendora College, 1974-76; won New York Circle Award for Poetry, 1967, and Southwest
Literary Award in 1976 for his novel,
Blowout; other publications include
Overpass blues (1967),
The Tucson murders (1970),
The garbage people (1971),
The real James Dean (1975), and
Night shark (1975).
Scope and Content
Collection contains research materials for and manuscripts and published copies of John Gilmore's works, including
the Tucson murders,
The garbage people,
Blowout, and the screenplay,
Indiana twilight. Also contains photographs, clippings, diary entries, correspondence, and publicity materials.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
The garbage people (Boxes 1-4)
The Tucson murders (Boxes 5,12).
James Dean writings, photographs and ephemera (Boxes 5,7).
Miscellaneous manuscripts (Boxes 6,15).
Miscellaneous photographs and ephemera (Box 6).
Wings, Bad losers, poems (Box 7).
Blowout (Boxes 8-9).
Miscellaneous diary entries, unpublished stories (Box 9).
Indiana twilight (Boxes 10-11).
Black Dahlia photographs (oversize, box 13).
Black Dahlia, Shooting stars (Boxes 14-16).
Severed, Desperation point, Signals, Santa Fe blond, Damaged man, and other material (Boxes 17-18).
Online Items Available
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors, American -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Manuscripts for publication
Gilmore, John, 1935- --Archive
The Garbage People
Scope and Contents note
(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
box 1, folder 1-2
The Garbage people
ca. 1970.
Container Summary: 278 leaves. Typescript with paste-on and holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
This copy lacks final changes in manuscript and "Vigil for Manson" which appears in the publication.
box 1, folder 3-4
Another copy.
Container Summary: (Photocopy).
box 1, folder 5
"Burning is the end - dispatch from the pit of death - in trilogy"
ca. 1970.
Container Summary: xiii, 102 leaves. Lacks leaf i.
- Written (from different points of view) for John Gilciore as an appendix to
The Garbage people.
- Concerns Beausoleil's philosophy of death and superiority.
box 1, folder 6
--- -----, Another typing of leaves. 4-18.
Container Summary: 15 leaves. numbered 3-18.
box 1, folder 7
Death Row interview
ca. 1970.
Container Summary: [35] leaves. Holograph (photocopy) and typescript.
Scope and Contents note
Transcription of notes from San Quentin interview Beausoleil.
box 1, folder 8
"You are the stranger: Charles Manson at Los Angeles County Jail"
ca. 1970.
Container Summary: 39 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Scope and Contents note
(From 9 interviews with Charles Manson)
box 2, folder 1-2
Grand Jury transcript of the Charles Manson murder trials (Charles Hanson's copy) signed by Charles Manson (2 vol.); research
material for
The Garbage people
1969.
Container Summary: 384 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 2, folder 3
The Garbage people. Los Angeles: Omega Press
1971.
Container Summary: l87pp. [2 copies].
box 2, folder 4
Another copy.
Container Summary: (Wrappers).
box 2, folder 5
The Saigon Post
Wednesday October 20, 1971.
Container Summary: 1 leaf (clipping).
Scope and Contents note
Excerpt from
The Garbage people.
box 2, folder 6
La Gente de las basura. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial extemporaneos
1972.
Container Summary: 248pp. [2 copies].
The Tucson Murders
Scope and Contents note
(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
box 3, folder 1-3
The Tucson murders,
1960s[?].
Container Summary: 436 leaves. Type script with paste-on and holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
"First draft"
box 3, folder 4
First notes, Schmid case, dated: (Westerner Hotel, Arizona).
Saturday February 19, 1966
Container Summary: 25 leaves. Carbon typescript with some holograph corrections.
box 3
Materials from a notebook kept by John Gilmore,
1966 and n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous notes, transcripts of Charles Schmid's jail letters, first draft materials for
The Tucson murders.
box 3, folder 5
The 'Little House' at Florence.
Container Summary: 5 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 6
Portions of a work in progress:
Charles Schmid.
Container Summary: 27 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Contents note
An account of teenage murders in Tucson, Arizona, and the story of the accused.
box 3, folder 7
Cold complex.
Container Summary: 15 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 8
Transcript [Testimony of Richard Bruns].
Container Summary: 11 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 9
"Pima County Jail."
Container Summary: 10 leaves. Carbon typescript.
box 3, folder 10
[Miscellaneous notes].
Container Summary: 54 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 11
A Grave near the end of the greens.
Container Summary: 162 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 3, folder 12
Copies of letters to his wife,
1965-66.
Container Summary: [68] leaves.
box 3, folder 13
The Decline of teenage morals.
Container Summary: 11 leaves. Typescript
box 3, folder 14
Copies of correspondence, statements, etc.
Container Summary: [57 leaves] numbered in pencil 84-140.
box 3, folder 15
Police description of Alleen Rowe.
Container Summary: 1 leaves. Typescript.
box 3, folder 16
Schmid, Charles[?] Copy of diary[?].
Container Summary: 3 leaves. Typescript with paste-on corrections.
box 3, folder 17
Second theme.
Container Summary: 15 leaves. Typescript with minor holograph corrections.
box 5, folder 1
Fact sheet, Schmid-Saunders-French Case. Compiled by Hudson,
31 January 1966.
Container Summary: [i], 20 [2] leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Contents note
With tipped-in newspaper clippings.
box 5, folder 2
Newspaper clippings,
March 1975.
Scope and Contents note
re the death of Charles Schmid, while imprisoned.
box 5, folder 3
Letter from Gary Greenberg to John Gilmore, accompanying newspaper clippings above,
March 1975[?].
box 5, folder 4
The Pied piper,
March 17, 1970.
Container Summary: [ii] 130 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
- Final draft.
- Based on
The Tucson murders by John Gilmore ... and action picture treatment by John Gilmore, [titled]
Charles Schmid.
- Released October 1971 under title
The Todd killings.
box 5, folder 5
Another copy.
Container Summary: Lacks leaves 124-130.
box 5, folder 6
What are we going to do without Skipper?
April 14, 1970.
Container Summary: 122 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
- Revised final draft.
- Based on
The Tucson murders. Released October 1971, National General under title
The Todd killings.
James Dean
Scope and Contents note
Writings by John Gilmore; Photographs and Ephemera
box 5, folder 7
James Dean: the rebel recalled.
Container Summary: [5] leaves. Photocopy.
Scope and Contents note
From April 1975 issue of
Gallery.
box 5, folder 8
The real James Dean. Los Angeles
1974[?].
Container Summary: [l]p. leaves. i, 225 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 5, folder 9
The real James Dean. New York: Pyramid Books
July 1975.
Container Summary: 160pp.
box 5, folder 10
Photographs.
Container Summary: 6 items.
Scope and Contents note
Used as illustrations for The Real James Dean.
box 5, folder 11
Photographs marked "re: The Real James Dean."
Container Summary: 5 items.
- One photo is marked "re: The Real Janes Dean article syndicated London Express"
- These do not appear in the Pyramid Books publication.
box 5, folder 12
Photographs of James Dean
n.d.
Container Summary: 7 items.
Scope and Contents note
Still, from
East of Eden and candid photos taken on Warner Brothers lot.
box 5, folder 13
Miscellaneous James Dean-related items.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of life mask of James Dean and of James Dean's motorcycle jacket and tee-shirt.
box 5, folder 14
Night circuit. Hollywood
1961.
Container Summary: 124 leaves. Carbon typescript.
Scope and Contents note
Story and screenplay. First draft.
box 5, folder 15
The real James Dean. New York
1975.
Container Summary: 53 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Uncorrected galley proofs.
box 6, folder 16
25 years after his death...author reveals...clippings from
Hollywood Star
n.d.
Container Summary: 2 copies.
General note
(Added October 1980)
Miscellaneous Manuscripts By John Gilmore
box 6, folder 1
"Too near to hear the harp." Los Angeles[?]
1962.
Container Summary: 64 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
Episode for
Naked city.
box 6, folder 2
"Breaking hard." Los Angeles?
1965.
Container Summary: 95 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
- Story and screenplay. Revised draft, May 13, 1965.
- With this: First treatment, February 1965. 16 leaves. Typescript (Incomplete).
box 6, folder 3
Faces by John Murdoch (pseudonym). Los Angeles[?]
1966.
Container Summary: 118 leaves. Carbon typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
Story and screenplay.
box 6, folder 4
Faces. Los Angeles[?]
1966.
Container Summary: 76 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
"Writer's draft."
box 6, folder 5
The human trap. Los Angeles[?]
1967.
Container Summary: iv, 97 leaves. Typescript (offset?).
Scope and Contents note
Story and screenplay.
What Are We Doing. Los Angeles
1969
Container Summary: (Typescript with holograph corrections).
- The following folders are materials kept in the order in which John Gilmore placed them in looseleaf binder.
- Each manuscript is a version of what was in the end titled
What are we doing, where are we going.
box 6, folder 6
[Treatment of opening scene].
Container Summary: 9 leaves.
box 6, folder 7
[Treatment].
Container Summary: 20 leaves.
box 6, folder 8
Story outline.
Container Summary: 16 leaves.
box 6, folder 9
Film step outline.
Container Summary: 31 leaves.
box 6, folder 10
Opening [treatment].
Container Summary: [4] leaves.
box 6, folder 11
[Draft, written as screenplay].
Container Summary: 53 leaves. with 7 leaves. (photocopy) inserted.
box 6, folder 12
What are we doing, where are we going.
Container Summary: 56 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Story and screenplay.
box 6, folder 13
Miscellaneous drafts of scenes, notes for scenes, etc.
Container Summary: Various pagings. [20] leaves.
Miscellaneous Photographs and Ephemera Relating to John Gilmore
box 6, folder 14
Impression (Blues for Willie). Photographs (production and stills) of movie written-directed by John Gilmore
1961.
Container Summary: 16 items.
box 6, folder 15
Photographs mounted on posterboard: "Hollywood and Vine in the early 1950's" and "John Gilmore leaning on his Mercury in "
1952.
box 6, folder 16
Clippings, ephemera.
1960, 1975.
"Wings"
Scope and Contents note
Source Material.
(Article by John Gilmore, to be published)
Ingalls, Laura. [Autobiography]. In 3 parts. n.p.
n.d.
box 7, folder 1
[Part 1] "Air express." n.p.
n.d.
Container Summary: 22 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 7, folder 2
[Part 2] Untitled.
Container Summary: 69 leaves.
box 7, folder 3
[Part 3] "Up with the wind."
Container Summary: 38 leaves.
box 7, folder 4
Memo from Carlos Drake to Laura Ingalls
March 1954.
Container Summary: 9 leaves.
box 7, folder 5
Holograph notes by Laura Ingalls
n.d.
Container Summary: 2 leaves.
box 7, folder 6
Photographs of Laura Ingalls.
Container Summary: 2 items.
box 7, folder 7
Material about airplanes and Laura Ingalls. Clipping concerning Laura Ingalls
1941.
Container Summary: Photocopies.
Scope and Contents note
Typed explanatory note by John Gilmore.
Bad Losers
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts, Source Material
box 7, folder 8
Bad Losers. Los Angeles[?]
1973-74.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 350 leaves. Typescripts with extensive holograph and paste-on corrections.
box 7, folder 9
Two photographs ("Josie's farmhouse, Modesto"; "Hospital, Modesto") and 3 credit card receipts. Letter from author: "part
of inception on this book, or rather this particular draft."
box 7, folder 10
Francine. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Container Summary: 2 leaves. Typescript.
box 7, folder 11
Francine. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Scope and Contents note
In:
Purr, issue no.3, 1975.
box 7, folder 12
Desert storm. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Container Summary: 1 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 7, folder 13
Desert storm. n.p.
n.d.
Container Summary: 1 leaf. Photocopy.
Scope and Contents note
"Northwoods" printed at the bottom (Magazine in which published[?]).
Additions To Collection
December 1975
box 7, folder 14
The real James Dean. Los Angeles
1974[?].
Container Summary: [l]p. leaves. 225 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Contents note
Also, letter from Barbara Shepherd (John Gilmore's agent): "the original, finalized manuscript ... containing all corrections
and editing for press. ... The editor on this book was Mark Howell. The very first, or title page, is missing (lost in press)."
box 7, folder 15
Newsprint clippings from unidentified publication
re
Riding the snake. n.p.
n.d.
Container Summary: 2 leaves.
box 13, folder 1
Photographs of family, detectives, suspects. etc.
1940s.
Capt. Ray Giese [photograph]
General note
[FLAT BOX NOT FULL]
box 14, folder 1-2
Photocopies of articles and photos
1940s-1950s.
Abel and Elija Soza
Al Greenberg
Harry Burnow
Lola Titus
Louis Abrams
Marty Abrams
box 15, folder 1
Photographs
1940s- .
Scope and Contents note
Many are newspaper photos with "whiteout."
box 14
Research material, etc.
Scope and Contents note
Also, correspondence with Minkoff.
General note
[This material removed from Box 13 to Box 14]
box 16, folder 2
JG: Final, minus corrections to New York.
1993.
Container Summary: ca. 330 leaves. With photocopies of illustrations.
box 16, folder 3
Clippings.
1947 and v.d.
Container Summary: Photocopies.
box 16, folder 4
Georgette Bauerdorf murder.
1944.
Container Summary: Clippings (photocopies).
box 17, folder 1
Autopsy papers, coroner's inquest, police and sheriff records, interviews by JG, etc.
1940s-1980s.
Scope and Contents
A 48 page interview with Arnold Smith, also known as Jack Anderson Wilson, is included in this folder.
box 18, folder 1
Corrected page proofs, printer's copy.
1994 January 28.
Scope and Contents note
With mock up of cover.
box 18, folder 2
Second proofs.
1994 March.
Scope and Contents note
Also, list of corrections.
box 18, folder 3
Third and final proofs, uncorrected.
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Incorporate changes from second proofs.
box 18, folder 6
Copy of book, Zanja Press.
1994.
Research and Publication Material
box 18, folder 4
Photocopies, copies of photographs, correspondence with publishers, etc.
1940s-1990s.
Scope and Contents note
Photographs of: Robert Manley, Ursula Gilmore and Barbara Lee, etc.
box 18, folder 5
Article about John Gilmore, incomplete.
1962.
Scope and Contents note
Cf. copy of article in Publicity folder.
box 16, folder 1
Draft for publicity packet
1993.
Live Fast - Die Young: Remembering the short life of James Dean
Post-Publication Material
box 20, folder 7
Publicity, etc.,
ca. 1997.
Container Summary: Primarily photocopies.
box 20, folder 8
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press,
1997.
box 20, folder 9
Uncorrected proof copy in wrappers,
ca. 1997.
box 21, folder 2
Final manuscript, with corrections, line edition by press.
1997.
box 21, folder 3
Completed line edit, proof and changes [printer's copy].
1997.
box 21, folder 4
First proof, before galley corrections.
1997.
Hollywood Stars
Scope and Contents note
Diane Varsi, Ina Balin
box 20, folder 3
Clippings and correspondence,
1993.
- Primarly obituary information.
- Also photographs (photocopies) by JG of DV.
box 15, folder 5
In: Dial Press announcement
1970.
box 17, folder 2
Various drafts
1992.
Scope and Contents note
JG notes was accepted by
Paris Review and
Fiction Quarterly.
box 17, folder 3
Copy of book by Barbara Payton,
I am not ashamed. Holloway House
1963.
box 16, folder 5
[Miscellaneous titles]
1963-1979 (inclusive).
Scope and Contents note
All titles: "The exterminator," "Losing ground," "Verge of overload," "The mountain" (screenplay treatment), "The wrecking
crew" (novel outline).
box 16, folder 7
Novel (unpublished)
1967.
Scope and Contents note
Rough draft.
box 16, folder 9
Various drafts
1966.
Scope and Contents note
Published in
California review of literature.
box 17, folder 6
Notes
1976, 1978.
Scope and Contents note
Note from JG: "See Kidnap notes, crossover between projects."
Swamp Blood
Scope and Contents note
(Novel in progress)
box 20, folder 1
Copy, by Jack McFaren (pseudonym)
1993.
Scope and Contents note
Based on JG's screenplay of same title.
box 19, folder 3
Copy
1963.
Scope and Contents note
Set in Army stockade, 1954.
box 15, folder 2
Original script
1985 April-May.
box 15, folder 4
Copy, by J.C. Carriere, John Gilmore, and Malcolm Karman.
1985.
box 15, folder 6
Copy of work by Ingalls
n.d.
Scope and Contents note
Also negative of LI[?].
General note
See other sections of JG papers, e.g. Box 7.
box 15, folder 7
Copies of information about Julia Kraus
1940s.
Scope and Contents note
Also information about America First committee.
box 19, folder 1
Treatment (original)
1990.
box 19, folder 6
Original story and screenplay
1986-1987.
box 20, folder 4
Story
1990.
Scope and Contents note
Based on JG's
The real James Dean.
box 20, folder 5
First draft
1990.
Scope and Contents note
Fictionalized version from JG's book and personal materials, intended for feature produced by UI.
box 20, folder 6
Story and screenplay. Copy, with letter.
1990s.
Additions To Collection
August 1976
Blowout By John Gilmore
Scope and Contents note
Manuscripts
General note
See also Box 7, folder 8-9, under
Bad losers, the first title of this novel.
box 8, folder 1
Blowout. Los Angeles
1975.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 150 leaves. Typescript (original, carbon, photocopy) with holograph and paste-on corrections.
Scope and Contents note
"Chapters are not consecutive, and various chaptars throughout are not included (missing or disposed of by Mr. Gilmore)" -
letter from Carol Barry, in Collections File.
box 8, folder 2-4
-----. n.p.
n.d.
Container Summary: 472 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections and additions and paste-on additions.
Scope and Contents note
First completed draft:
- Folder 2) leaves 1-131.
- Folder 3) leaves 152-290.
- Folder 4) leaves 291-472.
box 9, folder 1-2
-----, n.p.
June 1976.
Container Summary: 346 leaves. Typescript with holograph and paste-on corrections.
Scope and Contents note
Second draft:
- Folder 1) leaves 1-139.
- Folder 2) leaves 190-345.
box 9, folder 3
-----, n.p.
1976.
Container Summary: 291 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Scope and Contents note
Incorporates corrections of second draft and corrections and editorial revisions in press.
Miscellaneous Diary Entries, Unpublished Stories, etc.
Scope and Contents note
(Folder titles are based on notes received with material)
box 9, folder 4
Letters, diary entries (1954), prose-descriptions, etc. Most materials are actually from
1964.
box 9, folder 5
Leopard for rent, n.p.
n.d.
Container Summary: 9 leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Published in
Rogue, 1960.
box 9, folder 7
Diary notes, story ideas
1964.
box 9, folder 8
Notebook
July 3-November 16, 1964.
box 9, folder 10
Diaries, prose descriptions, notes, etc.
1966.
box 9, folder 11
Letter to New York actress Marilyn Roberts
May 4, 1966.
box 9, folder 12
Diary entries
January-June 1967.
box 9, folder 13
Story "Cyclone"
1967.
Scope and Contents note
(Unpublished)
box 9, folder 14
Miscellaneous notes, diaries, letters, etc.
1967.
box 9, folder 15
Carbon of letter to Garry [Greenberg]
August 7, 1975.
Additions To Collection
August 1931
Indiana Twilight
1979-80
Scope and Contents note
Drafts, notes, manuscript, screenplay.
(Folder descriptions adapted from notes by the author)
box 10, folder 1
Lie down in darkness by H.R. Hayes.
Container Summary: ca. 100 leaves. Photocopy.
Scope and Contents note
With JG's holograph notes in preparation for first draft screenplay.
box 10, folder 2
First notes for screenplay based on changes in novel, adapting for motion picture.
Container Summary: [29] leaves. Holograph and typescript.
box 10, folder 3
Notes for changes in concept, ideas, based on story conferences.
Container Summary: 11 leaves. Holograph.
box 10, folder 4
First draft (writer's work draft) based on notes and novel excerpts.
Container Summary: [141] leaves.
Scope and Contents note
Also, 1 leaf unrelated holograph notes.
box 10, folder 5
First draft (writer's work draft) with changes for 2nd draft.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 141 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 10, folder 6
Further notes for changes in first draft (from story conferences and Gilmore's new changes) in preparation for 2nd draft.
Container Summary: 20 leaves. Holograph.
box 10, folder 7
Ideas, scenes for 2nd draft.
Container Summary: 31 leaves. Holograph and typescript.
box 10, folder 8
Second draft (writer's work draft) with new title
Indiana twilight; incorporates changes in this draft by Gilmore.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 165 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections (photocopy).
box 11, folder 1
Second draft (work draft) with revisions by John Gilmore and Curtis Harrington, director.
January-February 1980.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 175 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
box 11, folder 2
2nd draft complete.
Container Summary: Various pagings, ca. 124 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 3
First final draft (shooting script) with changes in 2nd draft by Gilmore.
March 1980.
Container Summary: 115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 4
Revisions
October 13, 1980.
Container Summary: 12 leaves. Carbon typescript and typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 5
2nd final script (shooting script) with rewritten pages.
Container Summary: 115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
box 11, folder 6
Notes for various drafts, carbon copies of scenes, writer's notes for changes, etc.; a collection of unorganized notes pertaining
to the development of the screenplay.
Container Summary: ca. 175 leaves.
The Tucson Murders
General note
(formerly oversize package, now oversize box) [retyped 6/98 dl]
box 12
Photographs used as illustrations.
Scope and Contents note
Mounted on posterboard with overlays marked "shooting copy," and with other annotations.
box 14, folder 5
[Former] confidential files on Julia Kraus, Associated with Laura Ingalls.
1940s.
box 14, folder 6-8
Photocopies of FBI files
1940s.
box 14, folder 9
Research material
1990-1992.
- Also, correspondence with Minkoff.
- Minkoff was tried for murder of his half brother. Gilmore had been introduced to him, because of interest in James Dean.
box 16, folder 8
[Miscellaneous titles]
1962-1976.
Scope and Contents note
All titles: "Stop-over in Hang Tree," "Heat,"
Dragonfly (novel), "Carhop murder" (poem).
box 17, folder 4
Press Material
1990s.
Scope and Contents note
Photocopied clippings, etc.
box 17, folder 5
Photograph of John Gilmore at the jail, copy of book.
1985-1987.
Scope and Contents note
Copy of book printed 1926, about the trial and jail in DeRidder, Louisiana.
box 19, folder 2
Research material
v.d.
Container Summary: Photocopies.
Scope and Contents note
re Los Angeles pickpockets by Oscar O'Lear, LAPD.
Pickpocket specialist, friend of Robt T. Gilmore, Jr, LAPD.
Manuscripts, Letters, Clippings
box 19, folder 4
Publications of poems, etc.
1980s-1990.
Container Summary: An extensive file.
box 19, folder 5
Copies, with some photographs.
1977-1990.
Scope and Contents note
JG: Exchanges between JG and LL, S&M relationship, reflected in Lifshin's poetry.
Everyone Has Emptiness at 3 o'clock in the Morning
box 19, folder 7
Manuscript material
1987.
box 20, folder 2
Correspondence and ephemera
v.d., including 1990s.
Scope and Contents note
re his writing and research.
box 22, folder 1
Donald Wolfe correspondence concerning Severed
2005
box 22, folder 2
Final script for Severed
2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 22, folder 3
Pictures of Barabara Payton and Wonderland Murder scene shots
2004-2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 22, folder 4
Unbound published galley of Inside Marilyn Monroe
box 22, folder 5
Concept notes for movie script for Bombay Beach
2004-2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Notes, drafts of scenes, handwritten notes, versions."
box 22, folder 6
Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 1 of 2)
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
box 22, folder 7
Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 2 of 2)
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
box 22, folder 8
First draft of movie script for Bombay Beach
2005
Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 23, folder 1
Final proof for Crazy Streak
2005
Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 23, folder 2
Final proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
Container Summary: Hollywood and Studio City, CA.
box 23, folder 3
Miscellaneous concerning Marilyn Monroe
2006-2007
Container Summary: Hollywood and Studio City, CA. Interview with John Gilmore regarding Marilyn Monroe relationship, excerpt from forthcoming
biography on Gilmore My Naked Life to be published in 2009.
box 23, folder 4
Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 1 of 2)
2004-2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 23, folder 5
Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 2 of 2)
2004-2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 23, folder 6
Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 1 of 2)
1999-2004
Container Summary: Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
box 24, folder 1
Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 2 of 2)
1999-2004
Container Summary: Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
box 24, folder 2
Rough proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 24, folder 3
Partial manuscript and proof for L.A. Despair
2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA.
box 24, folder 4
L.A. Times West Magazine
2006
box 24, folder 7
Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
box 25, folder 1
Rough draft of movie script for Severed
2005
Container Summary: Studio City, CA.
box 25, folder 2
Notes for The Dragonfly
1997
Container Summary: Notes were incorporated into novel Fetish Blonde published by Creation Books.
box 25, folder 3
Assorted letters, research, and memos
1996-1999
Container Summary: New York, CA, Paris, France, London, England, Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
box 25, folder 4
Motion picture script for Swamp Blood
2004-2005
Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA. Written in 1991 and later revised in 2004-2005.
box 25, folder 5
First draft of the first section of Heartbreak Highway
2006
Container Summary: Studio City, Ca. Novel to be published Fall, 2009 by Warner Books.
box 25, folder 6
Notes, memos, drawings, and story board ideas for draft work of Bombay Beach
2004-2005
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes, memos, drawings, story board ideas."
box 25, folder 7
Fictionalized version of Black Dahlia based on Severed
2006
Container Summary: Hollywood, CA. Some notes on scenes in Chinese.
box 25, folder 8
Notes for original Severed script, research for documentary Black Dahlia
2004-2005
Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 25, folder 9
Curtis Harrington memorial letter, photo of Mamie Van Dorren and Shay Astar
Container Summary: Filmmaker Curtis Harrington died 5/6/2007. 50 years friendship with John Gilmore. Letter to Harrington by Gilmore, read
at Harrington memorial Center for Motion Picture Study on May 21, 2007. Photo of actors Mamie Van Doren and Shay Astar by
Gilmore.
box 25, folder 10
First book proposal and press release for Severed
1991-1994
box 26, folder 1
Reviews for The Garbage People
1971
box 26, folder 2
First draft of Bombay Beach
2005
Container Summary: Los Angeles, CA.
box 26, folder 3
Selected interviews with John Gilmore
1997-2007
box 26, folder 4
Book signings and readings
1991-2006
box 26, folder 6
Interviews, press reviews, magazine and newspaper coverage
2003-2007, undated
box 27, folder 1
Press reviews and interviews (folder 1 of 2)
1988-2007
box 27, folder 2
Press reviews and interviews (folder 2 of 2)
1988-2007
box 28, folder 1
Index Magazine
1998, 2001
box 29, folder 1
Laid Bare proof (1 of 2)
1997
box 29, folder 2
Laid Bare proof (2 of 2)
1997
box 29, folder 3
Laid Bare first proof (1 of 2)
1997
box 29, folder 4
Laid Bare first proof (2 of 2)
1997
box 29, folder 5
Fetish Blonde first draft
1998
box 29, folder 6
Severed proof (1 of 2)
1998
box 30, folder 1
Severed proof (2 of 2)
1998
box 30, folder 2
You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood first draft (1 of 2)
1999-2000
box 30, folder 3
You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood first draft (2 of 2)
1999-2000
box 30, folder 4
You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (1 of 3)
2001
box 30, folder 5
You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (2 of 3)
2001
box 30, folder 6
You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood corrected draft (3 of 3)
2001
box 31, folder 1
Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (1 of 3)
2001
box 31, folder 2
Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (2 of 3)
2001
box 31, folder 3
Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) rewrite chapters (3 of 3)
2001
box 31, folder 4
Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) draft (1 of 2)
2001
box 31, folder 5
Hollywood Boulevard (formerly You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood) draft (2 of 2)
2001