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Collection Number: 12007-z

Collection Title: Maxwell Anderson Papers, 1930-1948

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Size 5 items.
Abstract Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright. The collection includes a photostatic copy of a typescript of Anderson's screenplay for the film Winterset (1936) and four letters. The screenplay for Winterset, a film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Burgess Meredith, John Carradine, and Margo, is dated 1 October 1935 and stampled "Complete" and "Property of the Oliver Hinsdell Studio." It has a paper label identifying it as script number 1442 of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of Culver City, Calif. Letters are from Anderson to F.R. Bellamy, 1941, authorizing a radio production of Unto the Least of These; to Allan Nevins, 1930, about selling a house on 113th Street in New York City that had belonged to Nevins and including a brief note giving background information about the house issue (Nevins's name is typed at the top, but there is no signature); to Orrick Johns, undated, about Anderson's critics and publishing opportunities for Johns's poems in the Measure: A Journal of Poetry; and to D.F. Wright, 1948, about a gift of olive oil from Crete and concern about the political situation in Greece.
Creator Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Maxwell Anderson Papers, #12007-z, Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Purchases 1979-1989
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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American playwright Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Penn., on 15 December 1888. He worked as a journalist early in his writing career and then turned largely to drama. He was the author of over 20 plays and also of volumes of poetry and of essays. Anderson died on 28 February 1959.

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The collection includes a photostatic copy of a typescript of Anderson's screenplay for the film Winterset (1936) and four letters. The screenplay for Winterset, a film directed by Alfred Santell and starring Burgess Meredith, John Carradine, and Margo, is dated 1 October 1935 and stampled "Complete" and "Property of the Oliver Hinsdell Studio." It has a paper label identifying it as script number 1442 of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation of Culver City, Calif. Letters are from Anderson to F.R. Bellamy, 1941, authorizing a radio production of Unto the Least of These; to Allan Nevins, 1930, about selling a house on 113th Street in New York City that had belonged to Nevins and including a brief note giving background information about the house issue (Nevins's name is typed at the top, but there is no signature); to Orrick Johns, undated, about Anderson's critics and publishing opportunities for Johns's poems in the Measure: A Journal of Poetry; and to D.F. Wright, 1948, about a gift of olive oil from Crete and concern about the political situation in Greece.

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Processed by: Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

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