Record ID:
317578
Accession number:
MA 3659.78
Credit:
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes:
Typed on Tuck's personal stationery.
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.
Summary:
Praising the film Viva Zapata!, noting that it is the first time he has ever sat through a double showing of a movie. Remarking on his own interest in Mexico (noting that his wife is Mexican), and praising the film as truly magnificent. Noting that "it took the combined forces of all the real artists connected with the production" but that "superior films start with superior screenwriting."
Provenance:
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
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