Samuel and Bella Spewack papers, 1920-1980

Samuel and Bella Spewack papers, 1920-1980

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1184
Bib ID:
4079732 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971; Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
67 linear feet (155 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

Boxes A, B, C, D, and E are located on-site. The following boxes are located off-site: 1-150. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts, playscripts, screenplays, diaries, documents, contracts, financial records, photographs, phonograph records, motion pictures, playbills, posters, sheet music, cartoons, art work, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed materials. . The collection consists chiefly of correspondence and production files relating to the creation, production, and performance of their works for stage, screen, radio, and television, such as Leave It To Me and Kiss Me Kate (with music by Cole Porter), Boy Meets Girl, and My Three Angels. Correspondence (with twentieth century authors, playwrights, musicians, political figures, and actors) includes: George Abbott, Jean Arthur, Bennett Cerf, Katharine Cornell, Jo Davidson, George and Ira Gershwin, Alec Guinness, W. Averell Harriman, Lilli Lehmann, Mary Martin, Laurence Olivier, Mary Pickford, Cole Porter, Regina Resnick, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert E. Sherwood, Lincoln Steffens, Kurt Weill, Rebecca West, and Thornton Wilder. There is also correspondence concerning Bella Spewack's work with the New York Girls' Scholarship, UNRA, and the Sports Center of Israel. In addition to the production files, there are manuscripts and typescript drafts for novels, short stories, and articles by the Spewacks.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 23 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

Boxes A, B, C, D, and E are located on-site. The following boxes are located off-site: 1-150. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission required to publish, or quote: Minna Elias, 336 West End Ave, 5A, New York, NY 10023

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel and Bella Spewack papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Reproduction Note

Posters are also available on: Type of reproduction--microfiche. Agency responsible for reproduction--New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library research Materials. Physical description of reproduction--29. Dates and / or sequential of issues reproduced--filmed in 1996.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--Bella Spewack. Method of acquisition--Bequest of the estate of.

Bequest of the estate of Bella C. Spewack, 1990.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Entered in AMC HR 02/--/1991.

Processed by Henry Rowen 2/91 and 8/93.

Revision Description

2010-03-11 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2019-06-03 Restriction contact updated per donor

Biographical Note

Samuel Spewack, 1899-1971 (Columbia College B.A., 1919) and Bella Cohen Spewack, (1899-1990), were authors of Broadway plays and musicals, novels, short stories, and articles. They were also foreign correspondents for Europe and Russia for the New York World, 1919-1926, and the New York Herald Tribune, 1922-1926, respectively.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Accounts
Address books
Advertising
Albums (books)
Articles
Audiocassettes
Audiotapes
Autographs (manuscripts)
Awards
Banners
Birthday cards
Book jackets
Bookplates
Budgets
Calendars (documents)
Caricatures
Cartoons (working drawings)
Cashbooks
Certificates
Charcoal drawings
Clippings (Information Artifacts)
Comic strips
Contracts
Crayon drawings
Diaries
Drafts (documents)
Drawings (visual works)
Engravings (prints)
Fiction (general genre)
Financial records
Financial statements
First drafts
Greeting cards
Insurance
Interviews
Lists (document genres)
Manuscripts (documents)
Memorabilia
Memorandums
Menus
Notebooks
Notes (documents)
Novels
Obituaries
Pamphlets
Passports
Pastel (visual works)
Pen and ink drawings
Pencil drawings
Phonograph records
Photographs
Plaques (flat objects)
Playbills
Postcards
Posters
Press releases
Printing plates
Proofs (printed matter)
Receipts (financial records)
Reports
Reviews (documents)
Schedules
Scores (documents for music)
Screenplays
Scripts (documents)
Set design
Sheet music
Short stories
Speeches (documents)
Summaries
Synopses
Taxes
Telegrams
Transcripts
Vouchers
Wash drawings
Wills
Wood engravings (prints)
Worksheets
Yearbooks
diplomas
negatives (photographs)
Name
Abbott, George, 1887-1995
Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968
Adams, Edie, 1927-2008
Aherne, Brian
Albert, Eddie
Andrews, Julie
Arthur, Jean, 1900-1991
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984
Aumont, Jean Pierre
Baird, Bil, 1904-1987
Baird, Cora
Baker, Russell, 1925-
Baum, Vicki, 1888-1960
Beaumont, Hugh, 1909-1982
Bedford, Brian, 1935-2016
Belasco, David, 1853-1931
Berg, Gertrude, 1899-1966
Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982
Bernstein, Aline, 1881-1955
Bikel, Theodore
Bing, Rudolf, 1902-1997
Blackmer, Sidney, 1895-1973
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928
Blatas, Arbit
Bonnet, Henri, 1888-1978
Booth, Shirley
Boyer, Charles, 1899-1978
Brook, Peter
Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963
Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939
Brown, John Mason, 1900-1969
Brown, Vanessa, 1928-1999
Calhern, Louis, 1895-1956
Carmer, Carl, 1893-1976
Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971
Champion, Gower, 1919-1980
Channing, Carol
Clavé, Antoni, 1913-2005
Clooney, Rosemary
Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980
Coca, Imogene
Cohen, Benjamin V.
Cohen, Harriet
Colbert, Claudette
Collier, Constance, 1878-1955
Connelly, Marc, 1890-1980
Cooper, Diana, 1892-1986
Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974
Craven, Frank, 1875-1945
Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986
Crist, Judith
Cronkite, Walter
Cronyn, Hume
Crowther, Bosley
Cukor, George, 1899-1983
Dalrymple, Jean
Dassin, Jules, 1911-2008
Davidson, Florence Edenshaw, 1896-1993
Davidson, Jo, 1883-1952
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980
Douglas, Melvyn
Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992
Duke, Vernon, 1903-1969
Eldridge, Florence
Enters, Angna, 1897-1989
Erdman, Dick, 1925-
Evans, Maurice, 1901-1989
Ewell, Tom, 1909-1994
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999
Ferrer, José, 1912-1992
Flon, Suzanne, 1918-2005
Freedley, George, 1904-1967
Freud, Anna, 1895-1982
Gard, Alex
Garson, Greer, 1904-1996
Gassner, John, 1903-1967
Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937
Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983
Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
Gielgud, Val Henry, 1900-1981
Gilmore, Margalo
Gingold, Hermione, 1897-1987
Glenn, John, 1921-2016
Glenville, Peter, 1913-1996
Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990
Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974
Gould, Morton, 1913-1996
Graham, Katharine, 1917-2001
Grimes, Tammy
Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000
Guthrie, Tyrone, 1900-1971
Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Harris, Jed
Harris, Julie
Harris, Rosemary, 1930-
Harris, Sam Hyde, 1889-1977
Hart, Lorenz, 1895-1943
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961
Hartl, Léon, 1889-
Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935
Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993
Helburn, Theresa, 1887-1959
Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984
Helpmann, Robert, Sir, 1909-1986
Henri, Robert, 1865-1929
Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003
Hirsch, Joseph, 1910-1981
Hirschfeld, Al
Holden, William, 1918-1981
Hope, Constance, 1908-1977
Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 1893-1976
Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957
Hurok, Sol, 1888-1974
Ives, Burl, 1909-1995
Jones, Barry, 1893-1981
Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999
Karloff, Boris, 1887-1969
Kaufman, George S (George Simon), 1889-1961
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996
Kilty, Jerome
King, Alan, 1927-2004
King, Alexander, 1900-1965
Kirk, Lisa
Kirkwood, James, 1924-1989
Klopfer, Donald, 1902-1986
Kravchenko, Alekseĭ Ilʹich, 1889-1940
L'Anglais, Pascal
Lawrence, Gertrude
Lazar, Irving, 1907-1993
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976
Lehmann, Lilli, 1848-1929
Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967
Leighton, Margaret, 1922-1976
Lewis, Mary, 1897-1941
Loesser, Frank, 1910-1969
Logan, Joshua
Lombardo, Guy, 1902-1977
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 1879-1962
Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011
Lunt, Alfred
Lyons, Leonard, 1906-1976
MacMahon, Aline, 1899-1991
Mankiewicz, Herman J (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953
Mantle, Burns, 1873-1948
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004
Martin, Mary, 1913-1990
Marx, Zeppo, 1901-1979
Masaryk, Jan, 1886-1948
Matorin, Mikhail Vladimirovich, 1901-1976
McCarey, Leo
Mellett, Lowell, 1884-1960
Messel, Oliver, 1904-1978
Middleton, George, 1880-1967
Moffo, Anna
Montalbán, Ricardo
Montand, Yves, 1921-1991
Moore, Dudley, 1935-2002
Moore, Victor, 1876-1962
Morison, Patricia, 1915-2018
Murrow, Edward R
Nesbitt, Cathleen, 1888-1982
New York Girls' Scholarship
Newmar, Julie, 1933-
Nissen, Greta, 1906-1988
Norton, Elliot, 1903-
Nugent, Elliott, 1896-1980
O'Brien, Edward J (Edward Joseph), 1890-1941
O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964
Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989
Page, Geraldine
Palmer, Lilli, 1914-1986
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967
Patterson, Elizabeth, 1875-1966
Pavlov, I. N. (Ivan Nikolaevich), 1872-1951
Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979
Picon, Molly
Porter, Cole, 1891-1964
Powell, Dick, 1904-1963
Pusey, James Carver
Reinhardt, Max, 1873-1943
Reinking, Ann
Resnik, Regina, 1922-2013
Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967
Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983
Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991
Ritchard, Cyril, 1897-1977
Robertson Justice, James, 1907-1975
Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
Robson, Flora, 1902-1984
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Rosay, Françoise
Rutland, Violet, Duchess of, 1856-1937
Salmi, Albert
Schary, Dore
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964
Schulz, Charles M (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000
Schwartz, Arthur, 1900-1984
Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980
Selznick, Irene Mayer, 1907-1990
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-2016
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Sherwood, Robert E (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955
Shumlin, Herman, 1898-1979
Simonson, Lee, 1888-1967
Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983
Sotomayor, Antonio, 1904-
Spewack, Bella Cohen, 1899-1990
Spewack, Samuel, 1899-1971
Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936
Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Stromberg, Hunt, 1894-1968
Styne, Jule, 1905-1994
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950
West, Rebecca, 1892-1983
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
Willkie, Wendell L (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Subject
Artists
Authors
Cartoonists
Drama -- 20th century
Dramatists
Dramatists, American -- 20th century
Foreign correspondents
Journalists
Legal documents
Motion pictures
Music -- United States
Portraits
Powers of attorney
Scrapbooks
Songs
Television scripts
Theater -- United States
Translations
Women artists
Women authors
Women cartoonists
Women dramatists
Women journalists

Series I: Cataloged Correspondence

Boxes A, B, C, D, E and F are located on-site.


Box A

Abbott, George


Box A

Acosta, Mercedes de


Box A

Adams, Edie


Box A

Aherne, Brian


Box A

Albert, Eddie


Box A

Andrews, Julie


Box A

Arthur, Jean


Box A

Atkinson, (Justin) Brooks


Box A

Aumont, Jean Pierre


Box A

Baker, Russell


Box A

Baum, Vicki


Box A

Beaumont, Hugh (Binkie)


Box A

Bedford, Brian


Box A

Belasco, David


Box A

Berg, Gertrude


Box A

Bernstein, Aline


Box A

Bikel, Theodore


Box A

Blackmer, Sidney


Box A

Blatas, Arbit


Box A

Boag, Gil


Box A

Bocher, Main


Box A

Bonnet, Henri


Box A

Booth, Shirley


Box A

Bousquet, Marie Louise (Mrs. Jaques)


Box A

Boyer, Charles


Box A

Brook, Peter


Box A

Brooks, Van Wyck


Box A

Broun, Heywood


Box A

Brown, John L.


Box A

Brown, John Mason


Box A

Brown, Vanessa


Box A

Burford, Roger


Box A

Calhern, Louis


Box A

Carmer, Carl


Box A

Cerf, Bennett


Box A

Champion, Gower


Box A

Channing, Carol


Box A

Clavé, Antoni


Box A

Clooney, Rosemary


Box A

Clurman, Harold


Box A

Coca, Imogene


Box A

Cohen, Benjamin V.


Box A

Cohen, Harriet


Box A

Cohen, Myron


Box A

Colbert, Claudette


Box A

Collier, Constance


Box A

Connelly, Marc


Box A

Considine, Millie (Mrs. Robert)


Box A

Cornell, Katharine


Box A

Craven, Frank


Box A

Crawford, Cheryl


Box A

Crist, Judith


Box A

Cronkite, Walter


Box A

Cronyn, Hume


Box A

Crowther, Bosley


Box A

Cukor, George


Box B

Dalrymple, Jean


Box B

Dassin, Jules


Box B

Davidson, Florence (Mrs. Jo)


Box B

Davidson, Jo


Box B

Day, Dorothy


Box B

de Mille, Clara B.


Box B

Douglas, Melvyn


Box B

Drake, Alfred


Box B

Duke, Vernon


Box B

Elath, Zehava


Box B

Eldridge, Florence


Box B

Enters, Angna


Box B

Erdman, Richard


Box B

Eudoxie, Princess (of Bulgaria)


Box B

Evans, Maurice


Box B

Ewell, Tom


Box B

Fadiman, Clifton


Box B

Ferrer, José


Box B

Flon, Suzanne


Box B

Freedley, George


Box B

Freud, Anna


Box B

Fuerholzer, T. H.


Box B

Garson, Greer


Box B

Gassner, John W.


Box B

Geddes, Norman Bel


Box B

Gershwin, Ira and Lee


Box B

Gershwin, Ira


Box B

Gielgud, John


Box B

Gielgud, Val


Box B

Gilmore, Margalo


Box B

Gingold, Hermione


Box B

Glenn, John


Box B

Glenville, Peter


Box B

Goddard, Paulette


Box B

Goldwyn, Samuel and Jennifer


Box B

Goodman, Anson Conger


Box B

Gordon, Max


Box B

Gould, Morton


Box B

Grimes, Tammy


Box B

Graham, Katharine


Box B

Guggenheim, Irene R.


Box B

Guinness, Alec


Box B

Guinness, Merula (Mrs. Alec)


Box B

Guthrie, Tyrone


Box B

Halliday, Richard


Box B

Hammerstein, Oscar


Box B

Harriman, William Averell


Box B

Harris, Jed


Box B

Harris, Julie


Box B

Harris, Rosemary


Box B

Harris, Sam H.


Box B

Harris, William , Jr


Box B

Hart, Lorenz


Box B

Hart, Moss


Box B

Hartl, Leon


Box B

Hassam, Childe


Box B

Hayes, Helen


Box B

Helburn, Theresa


Box B

Hellman, Lillian


Box B

Helpmann, Robert


Box B

Henri, Robert


Box B

Hepburn, Katharine


Box B

Hirsh, Jo


Box B

Holden, William


Box B

Hope, Constance


Box B

Hornblow, Arthur , Jr.


Box B

Hurok, Sol


Box C

Ives, Burl


Box C

Jones, Barry


Box C

Kanin, Garson


Box C

Karloff, Boris


Box C

Kaufman, George S.


Box C

Keller, Helen


Box C

Kelly, Gene


Box C

Kilty, Jerome


Box C

King, Alan


Box C

King, Alexander


Box C

Kirk, Lisa


Box C

Kirkwood, James


Box C

Klopfer, Donald S.


Box C

La Follette, Clara


Box C

Lansbury, Edgar


Box C

Lawrence, Gertrude


Box C

Lazar, Irving P.


Box C

Lederer, Charles


Box C

Lehmann, Lilli


Box C

Leigh, Vivien


Box C

Leighton, Margaret


Box C

Lewis, Mary


Box C

Lewisohn, Irene


Box C

Loesser, Frank


Box C

Logan, Joshua


Box C

Lombardo, Guy


Box C

Luhan, Mabel Dodge


Box C

Lumet, Sidney


Box C

Lunt, Alfred


Box C

Lyons, Leonard and Sylvia


Box C

McCarey, Leo and Stella


Box C

MacMahon, Aline


Box C

Mankiewicz, Herman


Box C

Mantle, Burns


Box C

Markova, Alicia


Box C

Martin, Mary


Box C

Marx, Zeppo


Box C

Mellett, Lowell


Box C

Merivale, Jack


Box C

Messel, Oliver


Box C

Middleton, George


Box C

Miller, Gilbert


Box C

Moffo, Anna


Box C

Moiseivitsch, Benno


Box C

Montalban, Ricardo


Box C

Montand, Yves


Box C

Moore, Dudley


Box C

Moore, Victor


Box C

Morison, Patricia


Box C

Munsell, Patricia


Box C

Murray, Kathryn


Box C

Murrow, Edward R.


Box C

Nesbitt, Cathleen


Box C

Newmar, Julie


Box C

Nissen, Greta


Box C

Norton, Elliot


Box C

Nugent, Elliott


Box C

Oakes, Nancy


Box C

O'Brien, Edward J.


Box C

O'Casey, Sean


Box C

Olivier, Laurence


Box C

Ostrovsky, V.


Box C

Page, Geraldine


Box C

Palmer, Lilli


Box C

Parker, Dorothy


Box C

Patterson, Elizabeth


Box C

Pickford, Mary


Box C

Picon, Molly


Box E

Porter, Cole


Box C

Powell, Dick


Box C

Reid, Whitelaw


Box C

Reinhardt, Max


Box C

Reinking, Ann


Box C

Resnick, Regina


Box C

Rice, Elmer


Box C

Richardson, Sir Ralph


Box C

Richardson, Tony


Box C

Rios, Fernando de los


Box C

Ritchard, Cyril


Box C

Robertson, James -Justice


Box C

Robinson, Edward G.


Box C

Rodgers, Richard


Box C

Robson, Flora


Box C

Roosevelt, Eleanor


Box C

Rosay, Francoise


Box C

Ross, Frank


Box C

Rubin, Esther


Box C

Rubin, J. Robert


Box C

Rubin, Reuvin


Box C

Violet Lindsay Manners, Duchess of Rutland


Box D

Salmi, Albert


Box D

Schary, Dore


Box D

Schildkraut, Joseph


Box D

Schmidt, Lars R.


Box D

Schulz, Charles M.


Box D

Schwartz, Arthur


Box D

Sellers, Peter


Box D

Selznick, Irene M.


Box D

Shaffer, Peter


Box D

Sherwood, Robert E.


Box D

Shumlin, Herman


Box D

Sidney, George


Box D

Simkovitch, Jasha


Box D

Simonson, Lee


Box D

Slezak, Walter


Box D

Smith, Madeline P.


Box D

Spewack, Bella and Sam


Box D

Steele, Wilbur Daniel


Box D

Steffens, Lincoln


Box D

Stokes, Rose Pastor


Box D

Stravinsky, Igor


Box D

Stromberg Jr, Hunt


Box D

Styne, Jule


Box D

Sullivan, Frank


Box D

Sutherland, Joan


Box D

Swinnerton, Frank Arthur


Box D

Swope, Herbert Bayard


Box D

Syms, Sylvia


Box D

Szigeti, Joseph


Box D

Taft, Charles P.


Box D

Tandy, Jessica


Box D

Thimmy-Reinhardt, Helene


Box D

Tomlin, Lily


Box D

Tourel, Jennie


Box D

Townsend, James


Box D

Truman, Margaret


Box D

Tuttle, Frank


Box D

Tucker, Sophie


Box D

Ustinov, Peter


Box D

Villa Lobos, Heitor


Box D

Wagner, Robert F.


Box D

Walker, Stuart


Box D

Wallach, Eli


Box D

Walters, Barbara


Box D

Walton, Tony


Box D

Wanger, Walter


Box D

Weaver, Fritz


Box D

Weeks, Constance


Box D

Weill, Kurt


Box D

Welles, Orson


Box D

West, Rebecca


Box D

Wilder, Thornton


Box D

Willkie, Wendell L.


Box D

Wilson, Julie


Box D

Winchell, Walter


Box D

Winter, Ella


Box D

Wood, Audrey


Box D

Wood, Peggy


Box D

Wright, Robert


Box D

Wyler, William


Box D

Wynyard, Diana


Box D

Zetterling, Mai


Box D

Zolotow, Sam

Series II: Cataloged Manuscripts and Documents


Box F

Abbott, George


Box F

Arthur, Jean


Box F

Baum, Vicki


Box F

Bernstein, Aline


Box F

Cerf, Bennett


Box F

Fletcher, Bramwell


Box F

Gershwin, Ira


Box F

Kern, Jerome


Box F

Lehmann, Lilli


Box F

Lindsay, Howard


Box F

March, Fredrick


Box F

Resnick, Regina


Box F

Spewack, Bella and Sam See Also Productions and Short Stories and Articles Series [Boxes 8-99]

[See also Productions and Short Stories and Articles Series (Boxes]


Box F

Steffens, Lincoln


Box F

Stokes, Rose Pastor


Box F

Szigeti, Joseph

Series III: Cataloged Photographs


Box F

Arthur, Jean


Box F

Baum, Vicki


Box F

Bergman, Ingrid


Box F

Bing, Rudolf


Box F

Blasco, Vincente Ibanez


Box F

Cooper, Lady Diana


Box F

Cornell, Katharine


Box F

Davidson, Jo


Box F

Ferrer, Jose and Hagen, Uta


Box F

Harriman, W.Averell


Box F

Hellman, Lillian


Box F

Kazner, Kurt


Box F

Martin, Mary and Preston, Robert and Spewack, Bella


Box F

Masaryk, Jan and Spewack, Bella


Box F

Shaw, George Bernard


Box F

Steffens, Lincoln


Box F

Truman, Harry S. and Spewack, Sam and Bella


Box F

Wilder, Thornton


Box F

Willkie, Wendell

Series IV: Cataloged Art


Box F

Baird, Bill


Box F

Gard, Alex


Box F

Davidson, Jo


Box F

Hirsch, Joseph


Box F

Hirschfeld, Al


Box F

Kravchenko, Aleksei Ilich


Box F

L'Anglais, Pacal


Box F

Matorin, Mikhail Vladimirovich


Box F

Pavlov, Ivan Nikolaevich


Box F

Pusey, James Carver


Box F

Sotomayor, Antonio


Box F

Stokes, Rose Pastor

Series V: Arranged Art


Box F

Buckley


Box F

Hambold, Ida


Box F

Martinez


Box F

O'Brien


Box F

Reyes


Box F

Silver, Joyce


Box F

Struglia


Box F

Stulberg, Tony

Series VI: Personal Correspondence


Box 1

Sam and Bella Letters, etc., 1920-1959, 26 folders


Box 2

Sam and Bella Letters, etc., 1960-1971, 15 folders


Box 2

Sam and Bella with family, 11 folders

Series VII: Friends


Box 3

Bella's childhood friends (Sarah, Rose, Woe)


Box 3

Trini Barnes


Box 3

Jo Davidson


Box 3

Ehle/Harris family


Box 3

James family


Box 3

Mary Lewis


Box 3

Nobuko


Box 3

Esther and Rueven Rubin


Box 3

Julie Wilson

Series VIII: General Correspondence


Box 4

Includes information r.e. Tchaikovsky, Pullman Papers, Tahra Bey, Edgar Bergen, 1916-1949, 37 folders


Box 5

1950-1968, 19 folders


Box 6

1969-1981, 22 folders


Box 7

Holiday cards and postcards

Series IX: Productions

The productions are alphabetical by title. Some productions have working titles different from their actual titles: see the title list below.

Within each production the material is in this order: correspondence (ordered chronologically by year if a lot); background information; worksheets; summaries; scripts (if more than one version, the scripts are lettered arbitrarily A-F or whatever. Some scripts are annotated.); legal (includes contracts, etc.); financial (includes box office receipts, budget information, etc. Information re royalties of many the productions are in the separate general file Financial of the collection); photographs (includes photos of rehearsals, live productions, some photos of Spewacks working with cast); playbills (in English and foreign); clippings (includes advertisements, reviews, etc.); other (song lyrics, production information,miscellaneous); printed material (includes scripts printed in magazines, scripts in book form). The scrapbooks, sheet music, and posters for each production are in separate general files, as are audio-visual materials (record albums, audio tapes, films).

If there is not much information on a production (usually because it was never produced) then it is in one of the Miscellaneous boxes at the end of the production file. Also please note that sometimes a production was produced at different times under different titles, but one title--the most famous one--is used as a collective heading. For example, Leave it to Me is the collective heading for information about Clear All Wires and Sweeney, two earlier non-musical versions of the same basic storyline, later rewritten with Cole Porter as the musical Leave it to Me.

The titles in bold are the actual titles or collective headings.


Subseries IX.1: Alphabetic List


An Act of Virtue -- -- And the Angels Sang SEE My Three Angels -- -- At Rise SEE Misc. -- -- Big Boy SEE Misc. -- -- Better than Ever SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Black Stemmed Cherries SEE Misc. -- -- Blinski SEE Leave it to Me under Sweeney -- -- Borrowed Love SEE Misc. -- -- Boy Meets Girl -- -- Can Can SEE Misc. -- -- Cat and the Fiddle SEE Misc. -- -- Child's Play SEE Festival -- -- Clear All Wires SEE Leave it to Me -- -- A Comedy with Music SEE Misc. -- -- Comfort with Apples -- -- Comrade X SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Clear All Wires -- -- Countess and Conductor SEE The Orient Express -- -- La Cuisine des Anges SEE My Three Angels -- -- Dear Mr. Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Deus Anges Sont Venus SEE My Three Angels -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Enchanted Nutcracker -- -- An English Play SEE Misc. -- -- Ex-Lover SEE Once There was a Russian -- -- Ex-Officer SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Ex-Officer X SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Female Human Being SEE Of Human Bondage -- -- Festival -- -- Gambling SEE Misc. -- -- The Gay Bride SEE Misc. -- -- A Gentleman's Gentleman SEE Misc. -- -- The Golden State -- -- Happy SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Hizzoner SEE Papa -- -- How to make a Woman Happy SEE Two Blind Mice -- -- I've Got a Book SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Kiss Me Kate -- -- A Kiss for Tomorrow SEE Misc. -- -- Kuess Mich Kaetchen SEE Kiss Me Kate -- -- Lady Liz SEE Mrs. A. -- -- The Lamplighter SEE Comfort with Apples -- -- Lawyer Lady and Thief SEE The Night is Young -- -- Leave it to Me -- -- Leo McCrary #2 SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Liebe=x SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Life with the Wooleys SEE Misc. -- -- Look to the Ant SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- The Lost Soldier SEE Misc. -- -- Manna Falls for Moses SEE The Shyster -- -- Manhatten Miracle SEE The Night is Young -- -- Meet the Wife SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Miracle in Manhatten SEE The Night is Young -- -- Miss Swan Expects -- -- Move Over Darling SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Mr. Broadway -- -- Mr. Jennings SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. Jenkins SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. King's Case -- -- Mrs. A. -- -- My Favorite Wife -- -- My Three Angels -- -- The Night is Young -- -- Nucleus SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Nize Baby SEE Misc. -- -- Of Human Bondage -- -- Once there was a Russian -- -- One Man's Venus -- -- The Orient Express -- -- Out West it's Different -- -- Perfect Pitch SEE Festival -- -- Pincus SEE Poppa -- -- Play it by ear SEE Festival -- -- The Play's the Thing SEE Misc. -- -- Pleasures and Palaces SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Poppa -- -- Portrait of Boy with Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Potemkin SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Pousse Toi Cherie SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- The Prince and Mr. Jones SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- The Princess and the Pauper -- -- Private Jones SEE Once there was a Russian OR War Song -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Shyster -- -- Sister Carrie SEE Misc. -- -- Sisters SEE Misc. -- -- Sky Trapped SEE Misc. -- -- The Solitaire Man -- -- Something's Got to Give SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Spring Song -- -- Spring Song SEE Misc. (this short script seems unrelated to the above--has different plot, different characters) -- -- Swing High Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me -- -- Theodora SEE Misc. -- -- There Goes the Ballgame SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Short Stories and Articles, Bella (this story seems unrelated to the play of the same name) -- -- Twisting the Law SEE The Shyster -- -- Two Acts of Virtue SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Two Angels Have Come SEE My Three Angels -- -- Two Blind Mice -- -- Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Unmarried Father SEE Misc. -- -- Vogues SEE Misc. -- -- The War Song -- -- The Way of a Hen SEE Festival -- -- Weekend at the Waldorf -- -- White Girl -- -- Wings SEE The Solitaire Man -- -- Woman Bites Dog -- -- Woman Overboard SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Young Man with a Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- You're Only Young Twice SEE Misc. -- -- Zwei Blinde Huener SEE Two Blind Mice


Subseries IX.2: An Act of Virtue


Box 8

Correspondence -- Background (clippings about nuns) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Scripts: version A (2 copies); version B (2 copies); version C -- Financial (estimated production budget


Subseries IX.3: Boy Meets Girl


Box 9

Correspondence, 1935-1956, 24 folders,

[Includes opening night telegrams, correspondence re. printed book]


Box 10

Correspondence, 1957-1980, 21 folders,


Worksheets, 2 folders,


Scripts: -- --Script A/2 (prompt script, annotated) -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B


Box 11

Script C -- Script D (film) -- Script E (film) -- Script F (film, final) -- Script E (Italian, annotated) -- Script G (German, annotated) -- Script H (German)


Legal: -- --contracts [includes contracts r.e. BMG game, re. legal protection afforded title]


Box 12

Financial, 7 folders,

[Includes financial information for British production, box office receipts from tour, misc.)]


Box 13

Photos -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other (includes menu from Hollywood dinner, list of places BMG was performed, misc.) -- Softcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 2 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song); 1 copy version 2 with inscription and annotations -- Hardcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 3 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song) all inscribed


Subseries IX.4: Comfort Me with Apples


Box 14

Correspondence -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Scripts: -- -- Script A ("The Lamplighter") -- -- Script B (2 copies) -- -- Script C (2 copies)


Subseries IX.5: The Enchanted Nutcracker


Box 15

Correspondence -- Background information (playbill from Nutcracker ballet) -- Summaries (2 copies) -- Worksheets -- Scripts: Script A (2 copies); Script B (revision 9/5/61, 2 copies); Script C (revision 9/28/61, 2 copies) -- Legal (includes contracts, legal correspondence) -- Financial (includes income statements) -- Photos (includes photos of rehearsals, of production with printed descriptions) -- Clippings -- Other (includes blocking and taping schedules, piece of tape)


Subseries IX.6: Festival


Box 16

Correspondence r.e. Perfect Pitch -- Correspondence--opening night telegrams -- Correspondence 1950-1970 (3 folders) -- Worksheets for Perfect Pitch (2 folders) -- Worksheets -- Summary -- Scripts: -- -- Script A ("The Way of a Hen," 2 copies) -- -- Script B ("Perfect Pitch," annotated) -- -- Script C ("Perfect Pitch")


Box 17

Script D ("Perfect Pitch," 5 copies, 3 annotated) -- Script E (2 copies, both annotated) -- Script F (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Script G (incomplete, annotated)


Box 18

Script H (incomplete) -- Script I (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Legal: -- --Contracts for Way of a Hen -- -- Contracts for Perfect Pitch; Contracts -- Financial -- Photos (of finished production) -- Playbills: Perfect Pitch; Festival -- Clippings: Way of a Hen; Perfect Pitch; Festival; Typewritten reviews -- Other (includes scene design, audience survey, interview questions, misc.) -- Printed Material: Printed scripts--"Play it by Ear"


Subseries IX.7: The Golden State


Box 19

Correspondence -- Scripts: Script A (3 copies, 1 annotated); Script B (3 copies, i annotated) -- Financial: Box office statements; Book sale receipts; Budget; Production fees; Prop information; Financial correspondence; Manager's account statements; Cashbooks; Income tax information


Box 20

Financial--vouchers, etc. (2 folders) -- Legal (contracts) -- Photos (includes rehearsal photos, Spewacks at rehearsal, finished production) -- Clippings -- Other (company information, misc.) -- Printed Material: Softcover printed scripts (2 copies)


Subseries IX.8: Kiss Me Kate


Box 21

Correspondence, 1948-1958

[Includes opening night telegrams,13 folders]


Box 22

Correspondence, 1959-1962, 8 folders,


Box 23

Correspondence, 1963-1965, 8 folders,


Box 24

Correspondence, 1966-1968, 9 folders,


Box 25

Correspondence, 1969-1981, 16 folders,


Box 26

Background Material: The Taming of the Shrew in hardback, 2 copies; The Taming of the Shrew, typescript; Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. script of Shrew, annotated, 2 copies; Worksheets for Hallmark script (non-Spewack) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summaries -- Song lyrics -- Song lyrics revisions -- Script fragments


Box 27

Scripts--bound: Script A (5 copies, 2 annotated, 1 labeled British); Script B (2 copies, 1 annotated); Script C (3 copies, 1 annotated, 1 labeled Final)


Box 28

Scripts--for television: Script D (2 copies, both incomplete); Script E (Hallmark Hall of Fame, 3 copies, 2 annotated); Script F (BBC, 2 copies, 1 annotated)


Box 29

Scripts--foreign: Script G (Danish); Script H (French); Script I (Icelandic); Script J (Italian, 2 copies); Script K (Swedish)


Box 30

Script in Braille


Box 31

Legal: -- --contracts: -- Hurok Attractions -- Hallmark Hall of Fame -- Scholastic Book Services -- Knopf -- Film -- Argentina -- Australia -- Belgium (Brussels) -- Czechoslovakia -- England (BBC) -- England (Sadler's Wells Opera, London) -- England (St. Subber and Samuel Ayers) -- England (director's) -- France (translation) -- France (Paris) -- France (Societe des Auteurs) -- Germany-Austria Switzerland -- Greece -- Holland (SEBA) -- Italy -- Japan -- Mexico -- Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Poland -- Yougoslavia -- Poland -- Yugoslavia -- -- Financial (3 folders misc.)


Financial, 3 (misc.) folders,


Box 32

Financial, 8 misc. folders,


Box 33

Photos: -- --negatives -- --Cole Porter and Bella -- --Ingrid Bergman, Bella, Bob Wright -- --Broadway production -- --Wagner College production -- --North Shore Music Theater production -- --Seattle production -- --Century Theater production -- --Misc. -- --The Taming of the Shrew (non-Spewack)


Box 34

Photos--foreign productions: -- --Posters for foreign productions: -- --Argentina, Buenos Aires -- --Austria, Vienna -- --Belgium, Brussels -- --Canada, Toronto -- --Czechoslovakia, Prague -- --Denmark, Copenhagen -- --England, Sadler's Wells Opera, London -- --England, BBC -- --Germany, Frankfurt -- --Germany -- --Holland -- --Hungary -- --Iceland, Reykjavik -- --Israel -- --Italy, Trieste -- --Japan, Tokyo -- --Norway, Oslo -- --Poland, Warsaw -- --Sweden, Malmo -- --Turkey, Ankara -- --Yugoslavia, Zagreb


Box 35

Playbills (in English)


Box 36

Playbills (in foreign languages)


Box 37

Clippings (reviews and references--includes printed articles, ads, typescripts): -- Anta Album references -- ABC t.v. productions reviews -- Bergman, Wright, Bella--interview typescript -- Century Theater reviews -- Civic Light Opera reviews -- Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. production reviews -- Kabuki Theater reviews -- Elizabeth Larner clippings -- "Much Ado About Kate" article by Bella -- "My Life with Shakespeare" article by Bella -- New York City Center reviews -- Playboy article mentioning KMK -- Cole Porter clippings, etc. -- Shubert Theater reviews -- The Taming of the Shrew film reviews (some mention KMK) -- Theater Arts cover -- "We've Been There Before" article by Bella -- "Woman Behind Girl Scout Cookies and Kiss Me Kate" -- Misc. references -- Misc. reviews -- Misc. reviews--financial (box office intake lists) -- Misc. typescripts of reviews -- Misc. typescripts of reviews by Bella -- Misc. retrospective reviews


Box 38

Clippings--foreign: -- --Argentina (Buenos Aires) (typescript) -- --Austria (Vienna) -- --Belgium (Brussels) (typescript and printed) -- --Czechoslovakia -- --England (BBC) -- --France -- --Germany (typescript and printed) -- --Holland (typescript) -- --Hungary (Budapest) -- --Israel (typescript and printed) -- --Italy (Trieste) -- --Italy (Verona) -- --Poland (typescript and printed) -- --Soviet Union -- --Sweden (Malmo) -- --Turkey -- --Yugoslavia (typescript and printed)


Other: -- --Publicity package -- --"Under Discussion: Shakespeare" script -- --KMK tour information -- --New York Public Library Exhibit -- --Production information -- --Misc.


Box 39

Printed Material: -- --Knopf script (1 copy, 1 photocopy) -- --German script ("Kuess Mich Kaetchen") (2 copies) -- --Dutch script (2 copies) -- --Japanese script -- --Script printed in Theater Arts Magazine -- --Book jackets for Knopf edition


Subseries IX.9: Leave it to Me as Clear All Wires


Box 40

Correspondence -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A (annotated) -- -- Script B (annotated) -- --Script C (annotated) -- --Script D -- --Script E (incomplete) -- --Script F (2 copies, both incomplete) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--box office statements, misc. -- Photos--Spewacks and cast members -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Printed Material--photocopy of printed script


Subseries IX.10: Leave it to Me as Sweeney


Box 41

Correspondence -- Worksheets -- Scripts: Script A ("Dear Mr. Sweeney"); Script B ("Swing High Sweeney"); Script C ("Swing High Sweeney," annotated); Script D (2 copies); Script E; Script F (2 copies) -- Financial--misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other: Summary for "Blinski," an adaptation of "Sweeney" for the Marx Brothers--4 copies, 2 annotated.


Subseries IX.11: Leave it to Me as Leave it to Me


Box 42

Correspondence -- Summary (2 copies) -- Scripts: -- --Script A (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script B (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Financial--box office statements, misc. (2 folders) -- Legal -- Photos--of performance -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other--production information, misc.


Subseries IX.12: Miss Swan Expects


Box 43

Correspondence -- Worksheets -- Summary (2 copies) -- Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Financial--box office statements, misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Printed Material: Printed script Trousers to Match, 2 copies


Subseries IX.13: Mr. Broadway


Box 44

Correspondence -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summary -- Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B (2 copies, both annotated) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--misc. -- Clippings -- Other--rehearsal schedules, misc.


Subseries IX.14: Mr. King's Case


Box 45:

Correspondence -- Script--4 copies, 2 annotated


Subseries IX.15: Mrs. A.


Box 46

Correspondence (2 folders) -- Background--clippings re. Gertrude Lawrence -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summary ("Lady Liz") -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies, both annotated) -- -- Script B (2 copies)


Box 47

Scripts: -- --Script C (2 copies) -- --Script D (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Legal--contracts (2 folders) -- Financial--misc. -- Photos--possible actresses to play leading role -- Clippings : re. Julie Andrews; re. production -- Other: Notes toward production; Song lyrics


Subseries IX.16: My Favorite Wife


Box 48

Correspondence -- Background: -- --Script A ("Move Over Darling" by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher) -- Scripts: -- --Script B (McCarey #2 or "Woman Overboard") -- --Script C (incomplete, out of order) -- --Script D -- Legal--contracts -- Clippings


Subseries IX.17: My Three Angels


Box 49

Correspondence, 1952-1985, 33 folders,

[Includes correspondence with Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont 1953-1954]


Box 50

Background: -- --Subber translation of Husson's play -- --Millington translation of Husson's play -- --Pierre's adaptation of Husson's play (French) -- --Translation of Pierre's adaptation (2 copies) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summary (2 copies, 1 annotated)


Box 51

Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B -- --Script C -- --Script D "And the Angels Sang" 3 copies, 1 annotated


Box 52

Scripts: -- --Script E ("We're No Angels" film) -- --Script F (for t.v. 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script G (for BBC radio 2 copies) -- --Script H (Hebrew) -- --Script I (Spanish)


Box 53

Legal: -- --Contracts (3 folders) -- --Paramount squabble: -- -- Trial transcript -- --Background for case -- --Misc. (correspondence, etc.) -- --Misc.


Box 54

Financial: -- --Information re. audit -- --British production -- --Australian production -- --Misc. (3 folders)


Box 55

Photos--of various performances -- Playbills: English and Foreign -- Clippings: Reviews of Film; Reviews of t.v. production; Misc.; Misc. foreign -- Other: Production information--list of cities for road tour, press releases, etc. -- Printed Material: -- --Husson play "La Cuisine des Anges" in French -- --German version of Husson play: "Eine Schoene Bescherung" -- --Script of My Three Angels in Theater Arts Magazine (2 copies) -- --Printed scripts of My Three Angels in book form: Uncorrected proof with annotations; Edition A (2 copies); Edition B (2 copies); Edition C (3 copies, 1 inscribed and annotated)


Subseries IX.18: The Night is Young


Box 56

Correspondence -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies:"Lawyer, Lady and Thief" and "Miracle in Manhattan") -- --Script B -- --Script C (screenplay, first draft) -- --Script D (screenplay, final draft, incomplete, 2 copies) -- Legal--contracts -- Clippings


Subseries IX.19: Of Human Bondage


Box 57

Correspondence -- Background--information re. historical London -- Worksheets (3 folders) -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Female Human Being," 2 copies) -- --Script B (2 copies) -- --Script C -- Other--song lyrics -- Clippings


Subseries IX.20: Once There Was a Russian


Box 58

Correspondence 1928-1975 (17 folders) -- Background--historical information about John Paul Jones, etc. -- Worksheets (1-3 of 6 folders)


Box 59

Worksheets (4-6 of 6 folders) -- Summary ("A Russian Story" 2 versions) -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Ex-Lover" 2 copies, both annotated) -- --Script B ("Pleasures and Palaces" 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script C ("Pleasures and Palaces" annotated)


Box 60

--Script D (2 copies, both annotated, 1 labeled "Ex-Lover") -- --Script E ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script F ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script G (untitled, annotated) -- --Script H (untitled, annotated, 2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- --Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 1-2 of 7, 1 annotated)


Box 61

Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 3-7 of 7, 3-5 annotated)


Box 62

Legal: Contracts; Misc. -- Financial--box office statements, etc. -- Photos: -- --Posters, Performance with Walter Matthau -- --negatives -- --Ari Kutai, Israeli actor trying for role -- Playbills: -- --The Prince and Mr. Jones -- --Once There Was a Russian -- Clippings -- Other--rehearsal schedule, actors' phone list, etc. -- Printed Material: "The Prince and Mr. Jones" script in book form


Subseries IX.21: One Man's Venus


Box 63

Correspondence -- Background: -- --"The Tinted Venus" story by F. Ansley, 2 copies -- --Untitled script by Perelman/Nash/Weill, 2 copies -- --"One Touch of Venus" script by Kunitz -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A (annotated, not in order) -- --Script B (3 copies, 2 annotated) -- --Script C (2 copies) -- Legal--contracts -- Clippings


Subseries IX.22: The Orient Express


Box 64

Correspondence -- Summary: -- --Version A (2 copies) -- --Version B (3 copies, 1 annotated, "for the Astaires") -- Script (3 copies, 2 labeled "The Countess and the Conductor") -- Clippings--typescript review


Subseries IX.23: Out West it's Different


Box 65

Correspondence -- Worksheets (3 folders ) -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Young Man with a Ladder" 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script B ("Portrait of Boy with Ladder" 2 copies) -- --Script C (2 copies)


Box 66

--Script D (untitled) -- --Script E (annotated) -- --Script F (untitled) -- --Script G -- --Script H (2 copies) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--report -- Playbills -- Clippings


Subseries IX.24: Poppa


Box 67

Correspondence -- Worksheets -- Summary -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B -- --Script C ("Hizzoner" 2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- --Script D (Italian) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--box office statements -- Playbills -- Clippings--Italian review, typescript translation -- Printed Material--script in book form, 2 copies


Subseries IX.25: The Princess and the Pauper


Box 68

Correspondence -- Background: Story by Lynn Root and Frank Fenton -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A (annotated, incomplete) -- --Script B (film, incomplete) -- --Script C (film, 2 copies) -- Clippings


Subseries IX.26: The Solitaire Man


Box 69

Correspondence -- Summaries: -- --Summary A (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Summary B (2 copies) -- --Summary C (German, 2 copies) -- --Summary D (annotated) -- Scripts: -- --Script A (annotated, incomplete) -- --Script B (annotated, incomplete) -- --Script C (annotated, incomplete) -- --Script D (2 copies, both annotated, 1 incomplete) -- --Script E -- --Script F (2 copies) -- --Script G (2 copies) -- Financial--misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings--includes typescript report, annotated


Subseries IX.27: The Shyster


Box 70

Correspondence -- Background: "Manna Falls for Moses," a play by Aaron Hoffman -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B -- --Script C (2 copies) -- --Script D (2 copies) -- Legal--contracts -- Playbills


Subseries IX.28: Spring Song


Box 71

Correspondence -- Summary (film, 2 copies) -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B (3 copies, 2 annotated) -- --Script C (annotated) -- --Script D -- --Script E (2 copies)


Box 72

--Script F (2 copies) -- --Script G (annotated, incomplete) -- --Script H (2 copies, both incomplete) -- --Script I (2 copies) -- --Script J -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other: Radio ad script; Mailing list -- Printed Material: The script in book form is bound with and filed under Boy Meets Girl.


Subseries IX.29: Two Blind Mice


Box 73

Correspondence (3 folders) -- Worksheets ("How to Make a Woman Happy") -- Summaries: Summary A ("How to Make a Woman Happy, 2 copies); Summary B (film, 2 copies) -- Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B (British adaptation) -- --Script C ("How to Make a Woman Happy" film 3 copies, 1 annotated)


Box 74

Legal--contracts -- Financial--box office statements, misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings: In English; Foreign -- Other--Columbia University donation slip, not filled out, used as a book mark in printed script, saved for humor value -- Printed Material: -- --Script printed in Theater Arts Magazine (2 copies) -- --Script in book form (3 editions, 2 copies of one) -- --Script in book form (Zwei Blinde Huehner, German)


Subseries IX.30: Under the Sycamore Tree


Box 75

Correspondence 1950-1976 (26 folders) -- Worksheets -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Look to the Ant" annotated) -- --Script B ("look to the Ant" 2 copies, 1 annotated)


Box 76

--Script C (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script D (Italian) -- Legal--contracts (2 folders) -- Financial--misc.


Box 77

Photos--performance with Alec Guiness, other performances -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other: Production information; Alec Guiness information; Bella's introduction to play, annotated manuscript; Misc.--includes menu of honorary dinner -- Printed Material: -- --Script in Italian printed in Sipario magazine -- --Script in book form--American edition (2 copies); British edition (2 copies); German edition ("Liebe=X")


Subseries IX.31: The War Song


Box 78

Correspondence -- Background: "Private Jones," one act play by E. Richard Schayer -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies, both incomplete, 1 annotated) -- --Script B (incomplete) -- --Script C (2 copies, both incomplete) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--misc. -- Playbills -- Clippings


Subseries IX.32: Weekend at the Waldorf


Box 79

Correspondence -- Background--timeline, historical information about the Ritz and the Waldorf) -- Worksheets -- Script (2 copies) -- Photo--Sam and Bella in front of curtain with woman -- Clippings


Subseries IX.33: White Girl


Box 80

Correspondence -- Scripts: -- --Script A (3 copies, 2 annotated) -- --Script B; Script C -- Legal--contract


Subseries IX.24: Woman Bites Dog


Box 81

Correspondence -- Scripts: -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B -- --Script C (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script D (annotated) -- --Script E (annotated) -- --Script F (2 copies) -- Legal--contracts -- Financial--closing statement -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other: Bella's response to WBD criticism--annotated manuscript -- Printed Material: Script in book form (2 copies)


Subseries IX.35: Miscellaneous Spewack Productions


Box 82

At Rise by Bella. Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- Big Boy by Bella and Sam. Summary -- Black Stemmed Cherries by Bella. Synopsis of play by Hunyady -- Borrowed Love by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- Can Can by ? Involves Cole Porter. Correspondence, Legal--contracts -- Cat and the Fiddle Clipping -- A Comedy with Music by Bella and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- An English Play Worksheets -- Gambling by Sam and George M. Cohan Correspondence, Script (annotated), Legal--transcription of examinations before trial -- The Gay Bride Photo with Bella's note on back


Box 83

A Gentleman's Gentleman by Bella and Sam. Script (2 copies) -- A Kiss for Tomorrow by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Script (2 copies) -- Life with the Wooleys by Bella. Involves Billie Burke. Correspondence, Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- The Lost Soldier by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Meet the Wife by Bella. Adapted from play by Lynn Starling. -- Nize Baby by Bella and Milt Gross. Script, Clipping -- The Play's the Thing by Bella and Sam. Script (film, 2 copies) -- Sister Carrie by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Background, Script (film) -- Sisters by Bella (and maybe Sam) Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Skipper by ? Summary (incomplete)


Box 84

Sky Trapped by ? Script (annotated) -- Spring Song by Bella. Seems unrelated to more famous play. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Theodora by ? Script -- Vogues by ? Correspondence, Clippings -- Unmarried Father by Bella. Summary (2 copies) -- You're Only Young Twice by Bella and Sam. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated), Script (2 copies) -- Untitled works: -- -- #1: worksheets for play in postwar Germany -- --#2: correspondence, background on Anton Dvorak -- --#3: "#59" Summary--WWII propaganda -- --#4: comedy for Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, by Bella and Leo McCary. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Misc. notes and worksheets--some notebooks of shorthand (2 folders) -- Misc. lists of plays -- Misc. clippings re. more than one play


Subseries IX.36: Miscellaneous Non-Spewack Productions


Box 85

Anne Frank Correspondence -- The Best Butter Correspondence, Legal--contract -- A Death of No Importance (Une Mort Sans Importance) by Yvan Noe. Correspondence, Translation, Printed French Script -- The Fabrizzi System by Albert Husson. Correspondence, Translation (version A, version B 2 copies), Printed French Script -- Ghost Goes West by Arthur Loew. Correspondence, Background, Summary (2 copies) -- Les Girls Correspondence, Legal--contract -- Les Hussards by P. A. Breal. Translation, Printed French Script


Box 86

The Immortal Idler by Bruno Frank. Translation by Jerome Lachenbruch -- An Old Wive's Tale by Arnold Bennett. Correspondence -- Reunion in Vienna by Robert E. Sherwood. Correspondence, Script -- Send Me No Flowers by ? Notes, Clippings -- The Torch Bearers by George Kelly. Script -- Misc. playbills

Series X: Short Stories and Articles


Subseries X.1: Bella


Box 87

"Arms and the Man" incomplete MS -- "Bennie, My Boy!" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Bennie's Annie" MS -- "[Russian] Bernhardt of the Ballet" MS, printed -- "The Big Chance" MS (2 copies) -- "Big Town Love" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Binding LIne" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Birds of a Feather" MS (version A, 3 copies, 1 annotated; version B, 3 copies, 1 annotated; financial) -- "Children of the Asphalt" MS, printed -- "Cigarette Money" or "Cigarette Over Europe" MS, printed -- "Cinderella on Grand Street" MS (2 copies) -- "City Girl" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Conspiracy on Wheels" MS -- "The Cutter's Saturday Night" MS -- "Deena's Diary" MS, printed -- de la Falaise stories (ghosted): -- --Correspondence -- --"Antiques" MS -- --"Paris Luck" MS -- --"The Paris Divorce" printed -- --"Glorifying the Gigolo" MS -- "The Divorce" MS (2 copies) -- "Down Czechoslovakia Way" MS -- "Fantasies from the Ghetto": -- --Part 1: "Roaches are Golden" MS (2 copies) -- --Part 2: ? (missing) -- --Part 3: "The Magic Mint Mitten" printed -- --Part 4: "The Icicle that Wept Alone" MS (2 copies), printed -- --Part 5: "The Mustard Millennium of Hester Street" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Figure Fragment" or "We'll Do the Rest" MS (3 versions) -- "For Certain Temperaments, I Recommend Trial Marriage" (ghosted) MS -- "Furniture of the Fourth Dimension" printed (2 copies)


Box 88

"Gramercy!" MS (2 copies) -- "The Guy from Heaven" MS, printed -- "Half a Dream" MS (version A, 2 copies, 1 annotated; version B, 2 copies, printed, 2 copies) -- "Hands: A Few Sketches from Life" MS (2 copies), printed -- "The Homerun of the Prodigal" MS (2 copies) -- "The House": -- --"Lilly" MS (5 copies, 2 in German) -- --"Feinstein" MS (4 copies, 2 in German) -- --"The Bad Woman" MS (2 copies) -- "I Know Nothing of the Einstein Theory" Correspondence, Background, MS -- "I'm Thinking of My Darling" MS -- "The Ink-Slingers Debacle" printed -- "The Iron Horse" MS (2 copies), printed -- "The Kesslers" MS -- "Kitty" or "Cherry Flats Fairy Tale" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B; version C) -- "The Laugh" Correspondence, MS (4 copies, 2 in German), printed -- "The Little Lame Chorus Girl" MS (versions A-C) -- "The Last Walk" MS (annotated) -- "Love Pays to Advertise" MS -- "Love Story" Correspondence, MS (2 copies), financial -- "The Lyric Daughter of the Sober Russians" printed


Box 89

"Madame Holzappel" MS, printed -- "Molly Delaney Finds" MS (2 copies) -- "Moscow Mosaics" MS's: -- --"The Beggar and the Merchant" -- --"In Memorium" -- --"Moscow in the Moon" -- --"The Old Ballerina" -- --"She Who Laughed Last" -- --"The Ugly Artist" -- --"The Neppa and the Dressmaker" -- "My Advent into Society" MS -- "My Galatea" (ghosted) MS -- "My People": -- --1. "The Unwanted Guest" MS (2 copies) -- --2. "Painted Cages" MS (2 copies), printed -- --3. "The Manicure Set" MS ( 2 copies, printed) -- --4. "The Gods of the Movies" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Naughty Marietta" MS (versions A-B) -- "The Naughty Princess" MS (2 copies) -- "Of Mathilda Thecla Forte" MS -- "Oh, Yes, The Woman Pays!" MS -- "Once there was a Princess" or "The Gay Goddess" MS (2 copies) -- "Our Unoffical Ambassadors" MS -- "Out of the East" or "Leave it to the Lord" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B, 2 copies; printed) -- "Passage to Paris" or "Bird of Paris" or "Via Paradisa" MS -- "The Passing of La Vie Boheme" MS -- "The Passing of the Stranger" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Perel Brandt" MS (3 copies, 1 in German) -- "Plays and Reviews on Berlin's Stage" printed -- "Princesses I Have Educated" (ghosted) MS (2 copies)


Box 90

"The Reincarnation of Rose Pastor Stokes" Background, MS -- "Sara Resnikoff" MS (version A, 2 copies; version B, 2 copies, printed) -- "Silent Lydia, a Tale of the Tenements" MS -- "Streets of Berlin" MS (2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- "Sweet Poppa" MS -- "The Theater and Other Things in Moscow" MS -- "Thieving Youth" MS (2 copies), printed -- "Three American Dollars" MS -- "The Three Who Could Not Speak" MS (2 copies), printed -- "To the Chesterfield Cluett Peabody Cigarette Man" printed -- "Trousers to Match" (seems unrelated to play) MS -- "Truman Pictured as Understudy Who Stepped In and Saved Show" printed (4 copies) -- "Two New Dresses in Two Years" (ghosted) printed -- "Under the Sidewalks of New York" or "The Subway City" MS -- "The Upper Deck Girl" MS -- "Voices of Spring" MS, printed (2 copies), -- "When the Bells Stopped Ringing" MS -- "Where Starving Artists Eat" MS (incomplete) -- "Why I Voted for Hinkety Blink" printed -- "With a Purpose" MS -- "Women of Red Russia" printed -- "Yetta's Fella" or "An Orchard Street Idyll" MS (version A; version B, 2 copies); printed -- "You Look Just Like..." printed -- "You Meet So Many Interesting People" MS (2 copies)


Box 91:

List -- Letter to Playboy, printed -- Articles r.e. Germany, esp. Berlin, under name Isabel Spewack, MS's -- Untitled incomplete MS with references to Mrs. Einstein, Princess Eudoxie, "Arms and the Man" -- MS fragments r.e. Russia -- MS fragments r.e. theater and travel -- Housing article--Correspondence, Background, MS, clippings -- Info. r.e. Kreuzer -- Info. r.e. "For the Love O' Lil" -- MS fragments (12 folders) -- Clippings -- Clippings (in German) -- Scrapbook (small)


Box 92:

Special: Long Works [Anastasia Material]: Correspondence (some in German) -- Background information (personal statements) -- MS by Bella (2 copies) -- Financial (cancelled checks) -- Photos and pictures -- Clippings: Article by Bella (Cohen) in NY Times (original and 3 photocopies); Article by Bella (Cohen) in Titbits (original and 2 photocopies); r.e. Film; r.e. Musical; r.e. Play (includes playbill and printed script); r.e. Ballet; Misc. related clippings


Box 93

Special: Long Works [Streets or Why I Wrote Comedy]: Bella's autobiography--Worksheets (4 folders); Final MS; Photocopy of final MS


Box 94:

Special: Long Works [UNRRA Material]: Correspondence -- Reports and other information (2 folders) -- Transcriptions of Bella's radio broadcasts -- Information r.e. Bella's other work with UNRRA -- Financial -- Picture cards -- Bella's i.d.'s and letters of introduction


Box 95:

Photographs (3 folders); Clippings; Pamphlets


Subseries X.2: Sam


Box 96

"Anatomy of Humor" Correspondence, MS (2 copies) -- "Between Raids" printed (2 copies) -- "Boris Buys a Rose" printed (2 copies) -- "Brands Across the Sea" printed -- "Bread and Salt" MS -- "Broadway Revolution" printed 8 part series -- The Busy Busy People (first titled "A Can of Peaches") Correspondence, Clippings (reviews) -- "Bye Bye Blackbird" MS (2 copies) -- "Confession" MS (2 copies) -- "Democracy Marches" transcript of radio discussion -- "Down Memory Lane" MS (refers to "Spring Song") -- "Exiles of the Sky" or "Salvage" Correspondence, MS, printed table of contents from magazine -- "Gentleman Joe" MS (2 copies) -- "The Gift of the Little Gods" MS (annotated) -- "A Grand Dukes's Diary" (translation) MS (3 copies, 2 annotated) -- Great Farces introduction MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Gypsy Pilot" MS (4 copies, 2 annotated) -- "Hands Across the Sea" printed (2 copies) -- "Hero" MS (version A 2 copies; version B) -- "The High Sign" MS (2 copies) -- "Home Sweet Home" MS (2 copies, 1 incomplete)


Box 97

"The Last Job" MS -- "Madame Luck" printed -- "Moonbeam" MS, printed -- Murder in the Gilded Cage Correspondence, Legal -- "Nameless Coffee House" MS -- "Nikita" printed (in Swedish) -- "The Philanthropic Urge" MS (version A, version B) -- "Presenting Morris Guest": Correspondence; MS version A; MS version B (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- "The Prisoner's Song" Correspondence, MS (version A 2 copies; version B 2 copies) Financial -- "Quelque Fleurs" MS (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- "Red Russia Revealed" printed (in book form, 2 copies) -- "The Schoolmaster" MS (annotated) -- "Silver Sails" MS -- Skyscraper Murder Financial -- "The Song of Life" MS -- "The Spectators" MS (2 copies, 1 annotated)


Box 98

"This is Russia" Correspondence, MS, Financial -- "Trotsky" MS -- "The Watch on the Hudson" MS (2 copies) -- "Wings and a Woman" MS, Financial, Legal, printed (2 copies) -- "Without Benefit of Cook's" MS (2 copies) -- "Whom Lola Loves" MS -- World at War: Correspondence, notes; Film script (2 photocopies), title list; Press releases and clippings -- Miscellaneous: -- --#1. List -- --#2. Correspondence, story idea -- --#3. Story idea -- --#4. untitled story -- --#5. Editorial MS -- --#6. Untitled MS r.e. Fanny Hurst -- --#7. Clippings (articles by Sam)


Subseries X.3: Bella and Sam together


Box 99

Fragments of short stories (all mixed together)

Series XI: Personal Information


Subseries XI.1: Bella (and her family)


Box 100

Biographical information (MS and printed) -- Information r.e. involvement with Campfire Girls (includes photo of Bella with President and Mrs. Florence Harding) -- Information r.e. meeting Thornton Wilder -- Rorschach analysis -- Grade School autograph book -- Diaries 1922-1923 -- High School report cards -- High School diploma -- Passports -- Personal papers -- Awards -- Honorary dinners -- Clippings -- Family: Brother Danny Lang's graduation program; Mother Fanny Lang's will


Subseries XI.2: Sam (and his family)


Box 101

Biographical information (MS and printed) -- School notebook -- Grade School diploma -- High School diploma -- Passports -- Personal papers -- Letter r.e. Columbia Journalism award -- Awards -- Honorary events -- Clippings -- Information r.e. health -- Obituaries -- Funeral guest list and memorial service signatures -- Family: -- --Father Noel Spewack's memorandum (handwritten MS) -- --Father's naturalization papers and passport -- --Information r.e. death of mother Sema Spewack (includes Sam's notes for memorial speech) -- --Clipping r.e. parents

Series XII: Bella and Sam Together


Box 101

Joint biographical information (MS and printed) -- Letter r.e. marriage ceremony -- Power of attorney documents -- Clippings


Box 102

Address books and loose addresses -- Calendars 1948-1959


Box 103

Calendars, 1960-1976

Series XIII: Financial Information


Subseries XIII.1: Productions


Box 104

Royalties for productions received, 1930's-1960's, 6 folders,


Box 105

Royalties for productions received, 1960's -1970's, 4 folders,


Subseries XXIII.2: New York Girls' Scholarship Fund


Box 106

Correspondence 1937-1955 and 1971 (24 folders): -- --Letters from recipients after graduation (1942-1943) -- --Letters r.e. Brightside Day Nursery (1946-1948) -- --Letters r.e. Bella's studenthood at Washington Irving, includes 2 creative pieces from that time (1952) -- --Thank-you letters from recipients (1971) -- Information about girls--correspondence, photos, transcripts of meetings--1939-1941 (3 folders)


Box 107:

Information about girls--correspondence, photos, transcripts of meetings--1942-1956 (15 folders) -- Information about girls post high school, not dated


Box 108:

Financial information, 1937-1941, 7 folders,


Box 109:

Financial information, 1942-1951, 10 folders,


Box 110:

Financial information 1952-1955 (5 folders) -- Other--high school graduation programs -- Printed Material: Newspaper clippings from Washington Irving High School and Wadleigh High School; Yearbooks--Central High School 1960 and Washinton Irving High School 1960; Literary Magazines--Washington Irving Sketchbook, Spring 1948; Winter 1949; Spring 1949; Spring 1950; Spring 1951; 1952 (includes pieces by alumni, including one by Bella); 1954


Subseries XXIII.3: Palestine Endowment Fund (PEF) Sports Club


Box 111

Correspondence, 1938-1975, 22 folders,

[Includes personal correspondence from Esther and Rueven Rubin]


Box 112:

Financial information, 1957-1974, 17 folders,

[Includes receipts, etc. for Cole Porter's contributions]


Box 113:

Photos--include some of Bella and Sam in Israel -- Clippings -- Other: Honorary dinner; Spewacks' award; General information; Sports information; Speech transcripts; My Three Angels production--correspondence, playbills; Maps; Press releases on Wheelchair Basketball; Other--letter from tourist dept., gift to Bella


Box 114:

Printed Material: Pamphlets and Booklets


Box 115

Financial books, 1956-1961, 6 books


Box 116

Financial books, 1962-1968, 6 books


Box 117

Financial correspondence -- Cancelled checks -- Records and Documents: General; r.e. Dramatist's Play Service stock


Subseries XXIII.4: Personal financial information


Box 118:

Cancelled checks for family members: Danny Lang (Bella's brother); Fanny Lang (Bella's mother); Noel Spewack (Sam's father) -- Insurance -- Charities -- Lot purchases -- Travel -- Karen Norwood's trust account (2 folders) -- Spewack vs. Bachman ($900.00 settlement--over what?) -- Auto repair


Subseries XXIII.5: Household financial information


Box 119:

Farm at New Hope, PA (4 folders) -- Apartment at 930 5th Ave. (2 folders) -- General


Box 120

Tax records, 1931-1976, 27 folders,

Series XIV: Photographs


Subseries XIV.1: Albums


Box 121

Photo Albums, 4

[Includes fairly good black and white and color photos mostly of Sam and Bella not chronological. Also includes signed photo of Jo Davidson)]


Subseries XIV.2: Sam and Bella and family photos


Box 122:

Sam alone -- Sam with others -- Bella alone -- Bella with others -- Sam and Bella alone -- Sam and Bella with others -- Norman Klein's photos of Sam (and Bella) -- Album of black and white photos of young Bella -- Sam's family -- Bella's family


Subseries XIV.3: Friends and Acquaintances


Box 123:

Trini Barnes family -- Jo Davidson -- Rosemary Harris/John Ehle family -- James/Norwood family -- Mary Lewis -- Cole Porter -- Regina Resnick -- Sylvia Sims -- Stevenson sisters -- Igor Stravinsky -- Julie Wilson -- Misc. labelled photos -- Misc. old black and white photos, unlabelled -- Misc. newer photos, unlabelled -- Farm at New Hope, PA -- Pets -- The Ritz -- "Child Refugee Bill" production -- Misc. theatrical


Subseries XIV.4: Travel


Box 124

Asia; Mexico; Misc.


Subseries XIV.5: Non-People


Interiors; Exteriors -- Artsy photos by Bella -- Ambulance and Jungle Gym donated by Spewacks -- Photos for an article on art by Bella -- All the negatives

Series XV: Memorabilia


Subseries XV.1: General Memorabilia


Box 125:

Happy New Year cards -- Sam's cigarette case, gift from Bella -- Spewack Sports Center: banners, pin, 2 commemorative coins, patch -- Columbia University: alumni sticker, Journalism School 50th Anniversary Award--commemorative coin inscribed to Sam -- Cloth scarf (gift to Bella from "Pat M.") -- Cloth American flag -- Sam's United Airlines 100,000 Mile Club plaque -- Metal beer stein inscribed to "S.S."


Subseries XV.2: Kiss Me Kate Memorabilia


Box 126:

Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Award -- Japanese matchbox -- Matted photo of cast -- Lawrence Olivier Award nomination for Musical of the Year--framed certificate

Series XVI: Printed Material


Subseries XVI.1: Books by Sam


Box 127

Murder in the Gilded Cage: 3 copies in English--1 includes printed bookmark with title and slip of paper with alternate title; 2 copies in Spanish (Asesinada en la Juala de Oro); 1 skinny copy with different chapter titles--first chapter only within -- Busy Busy People--2 copies -- The Best Short Stories of 1926 ed. J. O'Brien--lists 3 titles by Sam in back -- The Best in the World 1921-1928--"Justice by Limelight" short story by Sam p.36


Subseries XVI.2: Books by Bella


Box 127:

The Best Short Stories of 1925 ed. J. O'Brien--"The Laugh" short story by Bella Cohen p.81


Subseries XVI.3: Books with reference to productions


Box 128:

Boy Meets Girl: Sixteen Famous American Plays--script p. 533, 3 copies (1 in next box); Twenty Best Plays ed. John Gassner--script p. 371 2 copies


Box 129:

Boy Meets Girl continued: Sixteen Famous American Plays--script p. 533; Great Farces--introduction by Sam p.5, script p.245 2 copies; Hello, Hollywood! by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr--mention p.24; World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll--excerpt from script p.845 -- Kiss Me Kate: American Drama since World War II by Gerald Weales--mention p.139; Musical Comedy in America by Cecil Smith--mentions pp. 303,. 320-321, 342. 350; Horizon September 1958--mention p.61


Box 130:

Kiss Me Kate continued: Ten Great Musicals of the American Theater--script p.213--includes pictures; The Making of the American Theater by Howard Taubman--mentions pp. 267, 269; Complete Book of the American Musical Theater by David Ewen--mention p. 20--also mentions Leave it to Me p.214 -- Leave it to Me: Great Musicals of the American Theater vol. 2 inscribed--script p.1 -- My Three Angels: Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage--script p.164


Box 131:

Spring Song: The Best Plays of 1934-1935 by Burns Mantle--cast list and summary p.381 -- Under the Sycamore Tree: Theatre World Annual London--script excerpts and photos p.148; Plays of the Year Vol. 7 (1951-1952)--script p.243


Subseries XVI.4: Large books with reference to productions


Box 131:

Cole by Brendan Gill Kiss Me Kate and Leave it to Me :--song lyrics, photos. Includes photo of Cole and Bella -- Great Stars of the American Stage by Daniel Blum (photos and a brief bio of each actor): Billie Burke in Life with the Wooleys p.66; Victor Moore in Leave it to Me p.68; Mary Boland in Meet the Wife p.76; Francine Larrimore in Spring Song p.82; William Gaxton in Leave it to Me p.101; Mary Martin in Leave it to Me p.123; Alfred Drake in Kiss Me Kate p.131 -- A Pictoral Histoy of the Talkies by Daniel Blum Kiss Me Kate--photos from film p.268


Subseries XVI.5: Books with reference to the Spewacks


Box 132:

The Society of Independent Artists--art pictures. According to note, Bella handled publicity. -- The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffans Incribed by author--Story about Sam as reporter for World pp.809-811 -- A History of the Theatre by Freedly and Reeves--Paragraph about Spewacks p.691 -- The World of Swope Biography of Herbert Swope by E.J. --Kahn. Ref to Bella's series on slum housing, p. 242; Ref to Sam's reporting in the Soviet Union pp.248-252--series "Behind Red Curtains" "may have been the first use of "curtain" in connection with the Soviet Union" -- Weekend at the Waldorf novelization by Charles Lee of screenplay by Spewacks


Subseries XVI.6: Books by Daniel Lang, Bella's half brother


Box 132

The Man in the Thick Lead Suit dedicated to Sam and Bella -- Die Maenner im Bleianzug (German translation of above) -- Early Tales of the Atomic Age includes clipping of review


Subseries XVI.7: Books for research for plays and articles


Box 133:

For Anastasia article by Bella:: "Anastasia" play by Marcelle Maurette; Anastasia by H. von Rathlef-Keilman; Education of a Princess by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia; I, Anastasia--autobiography; The Real Romanovs by Gleb Botkin--mentions Bella's article p.259 -- For Mrs. A: Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A by Richard Aldrich. 2 editions--1 includes playbill and clipping; A Star Danced by Gertrude Lawrence 2 copies, both inscribed by Fanny Holtzman


Box 134

For An Act of Virtue "Catholic Digest" July 1969; "Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods" -- For Under the Sycamore Tree: Ants, Bees, and Wasps -- For The Best Butter: The Best Butter by Jean Dutourd


Subseries XVI.8: Signed and inscribed books


Box 134:

Samuel Beckett Three Plays -- E.F. Benson Peter -- Willa Cather Youth and the Bright Medusa -- Eugene O'Neill "The Emperor Jones" and "A Moon for the Misbegotten" -- Harold Pinter "The Caretaker" and "A Slight Ache and Other Plays"


Box 135:

Maria (poetry by Maria Ingram) -- Offenbach "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" -- Archibald Henderson Mark Twain -- Byron poems -- Walter Spearman The Carolina Playmakers -- Lord Dunsany Five Plays -- John Galsworthy Plays -- Henrik Ibsen "Hedda Gabler" and other plays -- Chekhov "Rothschild's Fiddle" and other stories -- Oevres Completes de Voltaire -- Genova--Storia--Arte -- Margaret Morris Movement Magazine

Series XVII: Audio-Visual Material


Subseries XVII.1: Productions


Box 136:

The Enchanted Nutcracker--3 audiotapes -- Kiss Me Kate: The Making of Kiss Me Kate BBC telecast--audiotape; Symphonic Suite--2 audiotapes; Songs sung by Bob Wright--2 audiotapes; Tokyo--audiotape; Trieste, Italy--audiotape; ABC TV--2 audiotapes; Hallmark TV--3 audiotapes; Germany--2 audiotapes


Box 137:

My Three Angels--2 audiotapes -- The Prince and Mr. Jones (musical version of Once There Was a Russian)--2 cassette tapes -- Under the Sycamore Tree, London production--2 audiotapes -- Stories and Articles--Bella: UNRRA Material--3 audiotapes -- Stories and Articles--Sam: The World at War--9 cassette tapes


Subseries XVII.2: Events


Box 138:

PEF Sports Club opening and "Israel"--3 audiotapes, 2 film reels -- Sam's memorial service--"old" and "new" audiotapes -- Other: Welcome to Britain--film edited by Sam

Series XVIII: Oversize Material


Subseries XVIII.1: Sheet Music for Productions


Box 139

Kiss Me Kate--printed sheet music, 4 folders -- Leave it to Me--conductor's score; printed sheet music -- Mrs. A--conductor's score -- Pleasures and Palaces (musical version of Once There Was a Russian)--printed sheet music


Subseries XVIII.2: Oversize Items from the Collection


Box 139:

Spring Song--photographs; Woman Bites Dog--photographs -- Short Stories and Articles--Bella: UNRRA--photographs -- Short Stories and Articles--Sam: "Four Years in Europe Made Me and American" printed, 2 copies; "How Johnny Gets His Gun"--printed; "Madame Luck"--printed -- Photographs--Sam and Bella, alone and with others

Series XIX: Scrapbooks


Box 140

Boy Meets Girl -- Festival -- The Golden State -- Kiss Me Kate: American clippings #1; Brussels/Zagreb/Holland


Box 141

Kiss Me Kate : American clippings #2; BBC TV production; Trieste, Italy; Film reviews


Box 142

Kiss Me Kate , Sweden/Australia/Denmark/Spain/Turkey/ -- Ceylon/Japan -- Poland/Prague/Hungary -- Germany/Austria /Buenos Aires -- Britain--Sadler Wells Opera


Box 143

Leave it to Me -- Clear All Wires -- Leave it to Me -- My Three Angels, 1954


Box 144

My Three Angels: 1955--U.S.A./Scotland/Great Britain/South Africa; 1952-1953; Film


Box 145

Spring Song -- Under the Sycamore Tree--2 scrapbooks -- Woman Bites Dog -- Misc.


Box 146

Short Stories and Articles--Bella: Articles about Bella -- Short Stories and Articles--Sam: Reviews of The Busy Busy People; 1920's news articles by Sam

Series XX: Record Albums


Box 147

The Enchanted Nutcracker--7 albums -- Festival: Opening night interview of Sam and Bella--4 albums -- Kiss Me Kate--27 albums


Box 148

Kiss Me Kate--30 albums -- Leave it to Me: Collections including some songs--5 albums -- My Three Angels--2 albums


Box 149

My Three Angels--5 albums -- Pleasures and Palaces (musical version of Once There Was a Russian)--2 albums -- Miscellaneous: Cat and the Fiddle--2 albums; Vogues--2 albums -- Short Stories and Articles--Bella: UNRRA reports--13 albums -- Events: PEF Sports Center opening--2 albums; Bella and Sam interview on New York Close Up--2 albums; Sam's memorial service--4 albums

Series XXI: Films


Box 150

Sam's The World at War

Series XXII: Flat Boxes


Flat Box 587

Kiss Me Kate: Hirschfeld plate

Series XXIII: Posters

All of the posters have been reproduced in microfiche form. There are 29 microfiche, each containing 2 images. The fiche must be used before the original material is called for. Many of the posters are quite large and fragile.


Subseries XXIII.1: Boy Meets Girl


Photographic reproduction not on film, Court Theatre, 15 x 11

[Not on fiche]. In Box.


Box 151 Fiche 95-32001

Teatro Americano, 31 x 23

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32001

Master Negative Number 95-32001, Teatro Americano (2), 31 x 23

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32002

Teatro Americano (3), 31 x 23

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32002

Teatro Americano (4), 31 x 23

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32003

Theater Im Zimmer: Hamburg, 1956, 16 x 12

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Subseries XXIII.2: Clear All Wires (Film)


Box 151 Fiche 95-32003

MGM, 41 x 27

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Subseries XXIII.3: Festival


Box 151 Fiche 95-32004

Longacre Theatre: New York, 14 x 22

Original Poster is in Box


Subseries XXIII.4: Kiss Me Kate


Box 151 Fiche 95-32004

Castellio Di San Giusto: Trieste (1), 13 x 28

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32005

Castellio Di San Giusto: Trieste (2), 13 x 28

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32005

Frasier Theatre: University of North Colorado, 14 x 22

Original Poster is in Box


Not on Fiche, Frasier Theatre: University of North Colorado, 5 x 14 handbill,

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32006

Master Negative Number: 95-32006, Loeb Drama Center: Cambridge, Mass., 18 x 23

Original Poster is in Box


Tube Box 154

Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA. Copy 1 of 2, 18 x 23


Tube Box 155

Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA. (Copy 2 of 2), 18 x 23


Box 151 Fiche 95-32006

Nieuw Rotterdam Toneel: Rotterdam, 18 x 26

Original Poster is in Box


Tube Box 155

Niew Rotterdam Toneel, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Copy a (1 of 2), 26.5 x 35.5


Tube Box 155

Niew Rotterdam Toneel, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Copy b (2 of 2), 26.5 x 36


Not on Fiche, O'Keefe Centre, 22.5 x 14

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32008

Master Negative Number: 95-32008, Operettszinhaz, 19 x 27

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32008

Panstwowy Teatr, 19 x 28

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32009

Sadler's Opera: London, 13 x 20

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32009

Shubert Theatre: New York, 14 x 23

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32010

Theatre de la Monnai: Belgium (1), 16 x 12

[Copy 1]

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32010

Theatre de la Monnai: Belgium (2), 23 x 18

Original Poster is in Box


Tube Box 156

Theatre Royale de la Monnaie, Belgium, 1961, 12 x 16.5 inches


Box 151 Fiche 95-32011

Volksoper: Vienna, 16 x 24

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32011

Castello de San Guisto: Trieste, 25 x 38

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32012

Connaught Theatre: [Brighton?], 20 x 30

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32012

Devlet Tiyatrosu: Turkey, 40 x 28

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32013

Dusseldorfer Schausnielhaus: Dusseldorf, 23 x 33

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32013

Estate Teatrale Veronese: Verona, 27 x 39

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32014

Israel National, 26 x 42


Box 151 Fiche 95-32014

Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27 x 37


Tube Box 152

Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27 x 40


Tube Box 152

Kansanyeatteri: Tyovaenteatterin, 27.5 x 40.5


Box 151 Fiche 95-32015

Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel: Rotterdam (1), 35 x 26


Mapcase 13-C-3

Not on Fiche, Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel: Rotterdam, 35 x 26


Box 151 Fiche 95-32016

Operett Szinhaaz, 22 x 32

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32016

Panstwowy Teatr, 20 x 29

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32017

Teatr Komedi, Zoliborz: Poland, 33 x 23

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32017

Teatr Muzyczyn: Poznan, 23 x 33

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32018

Unidentified Spanish Theater, 25 x 35

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Tube Box 153

Spanish Language Poster, 26 x 46


Tube Box 153

Spanish Language Poster, 26 x 46


Box 151 Fiche 95-32018

Japanese Production, 20 x 29

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Tube Box 156

Japanese Production, 20 x 29 inches


Box 151 Fiche 95-32019

Teatro Avenida: Argentina, 58 x 45

Original Poster is on 13: wire shelves


Box 151 Fiche 95-32020

Volksoper: Vienna, 1960, 48 x 34

Original Poster is on 13: wire shelves


Tube Box 154

Volksoper, Vienna, Austria, 1960. Copy 1 of 2, 17 x 24


Tube Box 154

Volksoper, Vienna, Austria, 1960. Copy 2 of 2, 17 x 24


Subseries XXIII.5: My Three Angels


Box 151 Fiche 95-32021

Morosco Theatre: New York, 14 x 22

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32021

Unidentified Hebrew Production, 19 x 27

Original Poster is in Box


Tube Box 156

My Three Angels. Israel, 20 x 28 inches


Subseries XXIII.6: Once There Was a Russian


Box 151 Fiche 95-32022

National Theatre: Washington, D.C., 14 x 22

Original Poster is in Box


Subseries XXIII.7: Poppa


Box 151 Fiche 95-32022

Teatro Nrovo: Milan (1), 14 x 39

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32023

Teatro Nrovo: Milan (2), 28 x 39

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Subseries XXIII.8: Two Blind Mice


Box 151 Fiche 95-32023

Court Theatre: New York, 14 x 23

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32024

Court Theatre: New York, 11 x 14

[Unidentified sample poster]

Original Poster is in Box


Subseries XXIII.9: Under the Sycamore Tree


Box 151 Fiche 95-32024

Aldwych Theatre: London, 13 x 20

[Unidentified sample poster]

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32025

Alleteatern: [Stockolm], 16 x 19

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32025

His Majesty's Theatre: Aberdeen, 1952, 14 x 25

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32026

Lyceum Theatre: Edinburgh, 10 x 15

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32026

Theatre Royal: Brighton, 10 x 30

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32027

Theatre Royal: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1952, 13 x 25

Original Poster is in Box


Box 151 Fiche 95-32027

Aldwych Theatre: London, 21 x 35

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32028

Plaza Theatre: Maritius, 19 x 28

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32028

Teatre Odeon: [Milan?], 15 x 45

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Box 151 Fiche 95-32029

Theatre Royan: Newcastle, 1952, 21 x 34

Original Poster is in Mapcase 13V-C-03


Subseries XXIII.10: Woman Bites Dog


Box 151 Fiche 95-32029

Ford's Theatre, 14 x 22

Original Poster is in Box


Subseries XXIII.11: The Amazing Sacco-Van Zetti Case


Tube Box 157

The Amazing Sacco-Van Zetti Case, 30 x 40 inches