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Screenwriters -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Cecil B. DeMille letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343383]
Identifier: MSS 2613
Scope and Contents

12 letters and 1 telegram from DeMille to Lasky, 1 photograph.

Dates: 1942-1956

Ivan Moffat papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3697
Scope and Contents

Contains scripts and screenplays in various states of completion by or with connection to Ivan Moffat. Includes scripts of The Nightingale Saga, The Agency, The Snow Queen, Tender is the Night, The Thornbirds, The Robert Capa Story, The Scandal of C.C. Julian and The Crossword Murder Mystery Series; correspondence; newspaper clippings; selection of published books and legal documents relating to ownership rights.

Dates: 1950-1990

Shoeless Joe screenplay draft and filming schedule

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239280578]
Identifier: MSS 9659
Scope and Contents Contains a photocopy of a 122-page adaptation of the novel "Shoeless Joe" (originally written by W.P. Kinsella under the title "The Dream Field," but later changed by the publisher) by Phil Alden Robinson, labeled "revised final draft." Also includes 27 pages of a filming schedule by day and scene, dated between June 7 and July 29, 1988. The resulting movie, "Field of Dreams," starring Kevin Costner, was released in May 1989. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, and in 2017 was...
Dates: 1988