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American literature -- Latter Day Saint authors

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 137 Collections and/or Records:

May Mann advertising files, 1939-1975

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains business and promotional Christmas cards, movie stargraphs, fliers and broadsides, newsletters, advertising memos, press passes, catalogs, and commercials.

Dates: Other: 1939-1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann business papers

May Mann business correspondence, 1930-1982

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains letters that are connected with Mann's career in any way. There are letters from her publishers, rejection slips, and correspondence from her colleagues. There are also letters from many of the stars she wrote about. These include letters from Carol Burnett, Joan Crawford, Lou Costello, Bette Davis, Jimmy durante, Richard Nixon, Mary Pickford, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Stanwyck, Connie Stevens, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and a complete folder of correspondence with the...
Dates: Other: 1930-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann business papers

May Mann calendars, 1974-1981

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains Mann's personal calendars, which include her annotations on events and activities.

Dates: Other: 1974-1981
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann papers / May Mann personal papers

May Mann columns, 1936-1981

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Tearsheets and typescripts from Mann's columns entitled "Going Hollywood", "Hollywood Stardust", "Hollywood's Younger Set", "Dear Betty Ann", "Young Hollywood", "Weekend in Hollywood", "And That's Hollywood", "Filmland gossip", "Private Wire", "Talk of TV", "Hollywood Day by Day", "Hollywood Headlines", "Hollywood", "May Mann's Hollywood", "Intimate Hollywood", "Here, There, and Everywhere," and "May Mann"; as published in assorted newspapers such as the Ogden Standard Examiner, Hollywood on...
Dates: Other: 1936-1981
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann publications

May Mann correspondence, 1941-1982

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains general correspondence, as well as those between Mann and Al Leon, Buddy Baer, Donald Maloof, George Dareos, Benito Prezia, and Sheery Spilkoman's grandchildren.

Dates: Other: 1941-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann personal papers

May Mann feature articles, 1936-1979

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Typescripts and photocopies of Mann's pieces on actors, actresses, films, and events.

Dates: Other: 1936-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann publications

May Mann fiction, undated

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains typescripts of early material (subjects or titles unspecified), and drafts of an article "I Was a Discarded Wife".

Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann publications

May Mann general correspondence, 1980-1982

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence by Mann, dating from between 1980 and 1982.

Dates: Other: 1980-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann papers / May Mann personal papers

May Mann history, 1910-1981

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 1 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains statements, family reunion report, autobiography, interview transcripts, and other material. The taped interviews consist of six one-hour cassette transcripts covering Mann's childhood, first marriage, early career, her present life, and more. In answer to questions by D'Arc arising from the collection itself, Mann set the background and rationale for areas of her personal life documented and not documented in the collection.

Dates: Other: 1910-1981
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann personal papers

May Mann legal documents, 1946-1979

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 1 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a photocopy of a trademark, marriage certificates and divorce decrees, insurance policies, wills, contracts, legal correspondence, promissory notes, reports on a traffic accident, and other material.

Dates: Other: 1946-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / May Mann papers / May Mann personal papers

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