Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper-column and magazine-article tearsheets and typescripts; book drafts; and other materials relating to her journalism career.

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

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...

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

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...

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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.

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

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

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

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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.