Maurice Valency papers, 1945-1963

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Series I: Maurice Valency Scripts and Manuscripts, 1945-1963



Box 1 Folder 1 The Apollo of Bellac Television Script, Second Revision,, 1953-1954

English adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play. Aired as a part of the Ford Foundation's Television-Radio Workshop magazine series,Omnibus.Contains handwritten corrections, emendations. (Two copies)


Battleship Bismarck


Box 1 Folder 2 Script, First Revision, 1945

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 2 Notes, undated


Box 1 Folder 2 Magazine Articles, undated


Box 1 Folder 3 Manuscripts B-E, 1956-1957, undated, 1956-1957, undated


Box 1 Folder 3 The Better Half Script, Final Revised Draft,, undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 3 A Double Life Television Script, First Draft,, 1956-1957

Aired as a part of Showcase Productions'Aloha Hour.Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 3 The Enchanted Script, Rehearsal Copy, 1948-1949

English adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play. Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 4 Manuscripts E-F, 1953-1954, undated, 1953-1954, undated


Box 1 Folder 4 Excursion #18 Television Script, Final, 1953-1954

Aired as a part of the Ford Foundation's Television-Radio Workshop magazine series,Omnibus.Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 4 Feathertop Television Script, First Draft,, undated

Based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 1 Folder 5 to 7 The Flower and the Castle: An Introduction to Modern Drama, Manuscript, Original Draft, undated (3 Folders), undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.



Box 2 Folder 8 Manuscripts G-L, undated


Box 2 Folder 8 Gina Script, First Draft, undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 2 Folder 8 The Long Night Script, undated

Co-written with Leo Lania. Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


The Madwoman of Chaillot,

English adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play.


Box 2 Folder 9 Script, First Draft, 1948

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 2 Folder 9 Script, Rehearsal Copy, 1948

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 2 Folder 9 Letter from Herbert Myron, 1951


Box 2 Folder 10 Newspaper clippings, 1948


Box 2 Folder 11 Ondine, Script Rehearsal Copy, 1953

English adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play. Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


La Perichole, 1956, 1957 (5 Folders), 1956, 1957

English adaptation of the Jacques Offenbach opera bouffe.


Box 2 Folder 12 Script, First Revision, 1956

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 2 Folder 12 Notes, undated


Box 2 Folder 13 Script, Rehearsal Copy, 1956

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 2 Folder 13 Rehearsal Schedule, 1956


Box 2 Folder 14 "French Without Tears", Magazine Article for Opera News , 1956


Box 2 Folder 14 "The Little Coach that isn't There", Magazine Article for Metropolitan , 1956


Box 2 Folder 15 Newspaper clippings, 1956, 1957, 1956, 1957


Box 2 Folder 15 Telegrams, 1956



Box 3 Folder 16 Score, 1956

Copy of the 1868 Jacques Offenbach and Leon Roques score toLa Pericholein French. Valency's English adaptation is handwritten on the score, 1956.


The Queen's Gambit


Box 3 Folder 17 Script, Rehearsal Copy, undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 17 8:40 in Little Theatres in New York Vol. 2, No. 10,, June 1955


The Reluctant Virgin


Box 3 Folder 18 to 19 1948 (2 Folders)., 1948

English adaptation of a Carlo Gozzi play.


Box 3 Folder 18 Script, First Revised Draft, 1948

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 19 Script, Rehearsal Copy, 1948

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


The Second Stranger, undated (2 Folders), undated

Based on a Thomas Hardy story.


Box 3 Folder 20 Television Script, First Draft, undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 20 Television Script, First Revised Draft, undated

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 21 The Thracian Horses, Script, Rehearsal Copy,1948

Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 22 Manuscripts T-V, 1955, undated, 1955, undated


Box 3 Folder 22 Toine Television Script, undated

English adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant play.


Box 3 Folder 22 The Virtuous Island Script, 1955

English adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play. Contains handwritten corrections, emendations.


Box 3 Folder 23 Die Wilden Pferde Television Script, 1951

Walther Franke-Ruta's German adaptation of Valency'sThe Thracian Horsesfor the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.


Box 3 Folder 23 Letter from Heiner Gautschy of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation