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Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Chennault of China, 1935-1986

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, drafts, research, photographs, and other materials related to Cooper's unproduced film project Chennault of China. Materials date from between 1935 and 1986.

Dates: 1935-1986

Children of the sea, 1930-1969

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, research, photographs, and screenplay drafts for the Cooper's unproduced film project Children of the Sea. Includes correspondence on securing legal rights and between Cooper and motion picture production companies. Materials date from between 1930 and 1969.

Dates: 1930-1969

Merian C. Cooper papers on unproduced motion pictures, 1916-1975

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2008 Series 6
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, synopses, treatments, publications, photographs, financial records, and research material on various projects that Cooper considered motion picture material, but that were never completed. The most ambitious of these was a film biography of General Claire Chennault, leader of the famed Flying Tigers of the American Volunteer Group. Other projects include Children of the Sea, Food of the Gods, Revenge, A Thousand Springs (from Anna Chennault's book of the same name),...
Dates: 1916-1975

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