Record ID:
317281
Accession number:
MA 3659.50
Credit:
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes:
Addressed to John Steinbeck in New York City.
Part of a large collection of letters, documents, memoranda, telegrams, clippings, printed matter and maps related to the film Viva Zapata!, which was produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
Typed on Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation onionskin stationery, marked "Via Air Mail."
Summary:
Noting that he was planning to write a long letter, but that since he will soon be in the vicinity of New York City they should meet in person. Praising the script for Viva Zapata!, noting that the first draft is a "prodigious piece of work, and when you go over it and finish it, it will become one of the few great screenplays in motion picture history."
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
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