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Add MS 88915/1/26/6
- Record Id:
- 040-000007386
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000003375
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000317.0x0002bd
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88915/1/26/6
- Title:
- Gentle Jack
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence regarding UK and USA stage rights, stage design, publication, film, television and press.
Correspondents: Robert Bolt, David Mercer, Harbottle & Lewis, John [Bowen?], Hanna Jordan, Peter Eade, Scripts Ltd, Queen's Theatre, Binkie Beaumont, Arnold Wesker, University of South California, Actors Studio Theatre New York, Harold Freedman, Heinemann, Random House, Samuel French Ltd, Angus McBean, Roma Lobel, Windmill Press, Jonathan Cape Ltd, Roger Corman at Shepperton Studios, John Tydeman at BBC Radio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Kenneth Williams.
Includes out-letters to designers Anne Alexander [representing Hanna Jordan], Timothy O'Brien and John Bury.
Copy letters:
- from Robert Bolt to Binkie Beaumont
- from Robert Bolt to Richard Burton
- between Jeremy Brook and Robert Bolt
- to Noel [Willman] from Jocelyn [Herbert?]
Also includes:
- selected pages from Act II
- contract with Binkie Beaumont for H M Tennent Ltd
- press cuttings of reviews and articles and programme for production at Queen's Theatre
- acknowledgement of payments from Heinemann, Gillespie Brothers [for Plain Plays], BBC and H M Tennent Ltd
- record of weekly box office takings and an analysis of production costs for H M Tennent Ltd production
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000003375
036-000003376
037-000007381
040-000007386 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88915 : Archive of Margaret Ramsay Ltd
Add MS 88915/1 : Client Files
Add MS 88915/1/26 : Robert Bolt
Add MS 88915/1/26/6 : Gentle Jack - Hierarchy:
- 032-000003375[0001]/036-000003376[0028]/037-000007381[0006]/040-000007386
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88915
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1963
- End Date:
- 1965
- Date Range:
- 1963-1965
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)