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Description

1. 4 microfilm reels.

Summary

1. Microfilm copy of the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director, George S. Kaufman, consisting primarily of correspondence, scripts, and biographical scrapbooks.

Subject

1. Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980
2. Arliss, George, 1868-1946
3. Kaufman, George S (George Simon), 1889-1961
4. Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
5. Davis, Robert H
6. Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950
7. Kahn, Otto H., 1867-1934
8. Dramatists
9. Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946
10. White, William Allen, 1868-1944
11. Stimson, Henry L (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
12. Correspondence
13. Davies, Joseph Edward
14. Motion picture plays
15. Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
16. MacGrath, Leueen
17. Farley, James Aloysius, 1888-
18. Television plays
19. Hopkins, Arthur, 1878-1950
20. Allen, Fred, 1894-1956
21. Ames, Winthrop, 1870-1937
22. Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943
23. Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
24. Man who came to dinner
25. Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977
26. Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
27. Goetz, Ruth
28. Scrapbooks
29. Dulcy
30. Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963
31. Photoprints
32. Butter and egg man
33. Teichmann, Howard
34. Belmont, Eleanor Robson, 1879-1979
35. Saroyan, William, 1908-1981
36. Scripts
37. Ryskind, Morrie, 1895-1985
38. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949
39. Late George Apley
40. Theater
41. Of thee I sing

Genre/Form

1. Motion picture plays.
2. Scripts.
3. Photoprints.
4. Correspondence.
5. Scrapbooks.

Call number

1. *ZC-264 (1-4)

Reproduction (note)

1. Microfilm.

Original location (note)

1. Originals in: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Film and Photo Archive

Source (note)

1. State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Biography (note)

1. George S. Kaufman was a noted playwright and director born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1889.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Finding aid available online and in repository.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961.

Title

1. George S. Kaufman papers, [microform] 1918-1958.

Reproduction

1. Microfilm. Madison, Wisconsin.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1990. 4 microfilm reels; 35 mm.

Original location

1. Originals in: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Film and Photo Archive, Madison, Wisconsin.

Biography

1. George S. Kaufman was a noted playwright and director born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1889. In the early years of his career, Kaufman was the drama critic for the New York Times. Later, as a playwright he collaborated with many famous writers including Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Morrie Ryskind and Howard Teichmann. Some of his works include: DULCY (1921), THE COCOANUTS (1925), ANIMAL CRACKERS(1928), THE BAND WAGON (1931), DINNER AT EIGHT (1932), STAGE DOOR (1936), THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1939), GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE (1940), and SILK STOCKINGS (1955). Two of his plays OF THEE I SING (1931), and YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1936) received the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
2. Kaufman also worked in Hollywood, writing both screenplays and adaptations of his work. Among these were COCOANUTS (1929), ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930), YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) and SOLID GOLD CADILLAC (1956).Kaufman died on June 2, 1961.

Indexes

1. Finding aid available online and in repository.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Research call number

1. *ZC-264 (1-4)