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Dore Schary papers, 1920-1980

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Schary, Dore
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Papers of Dore Schary (1905-1980), a playwright, motion picture executive, and activist in Jewish and liberal political causes documenting both his personal and professional life. Included are gene...

Papers of Dore Schary (1905-1980), a playwright, motion picture executive, and activist in Jewish and liberal political causes documenting both his personal and professional life. Included are general correspondence; microfilmed scrapbooks; scripts and production material for plays and motion pictures; records pertaining to MGM; non-dramatic writings, speeches (many in recorded form), and an autobiography and a family memoir; home movies and photographs; correspondence, reports, lists, financial records, and speeches from his tenure as national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League (also available on microfilm) and subject files on other organizations with which he was involved such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Committee, and the Democratic Party; and personal and biographical information.

Documentation in the production files varies but may include correspondence, notes, variant drafts of scripts, clippings, financial records, publicity, stills, designs, and casting information. Except for the more extensively-documented "The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer" (1947), "Battleground" (1949), "Crossfire" (1947), "Lonelyhearts," "Sunrise at Campobello" (1960), and "Take the High Ground," the many motion pictures with which he was associated as writer, producer, and production head are primarily documented by scripts. Files on his theatrical productions are more extensive, consisting of scripts, drafts, and business records for "Banderol" (1962), "Brightower" (1970), "Herzl" (1976), "Joyful Noise" (1966), "One by One" (1964), "Sunrise at Campobello" (1958), "Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1960), and "Zulu and the Zayda" (1965). There are also production materials for several radio and television productions.

Records of Schary's years as executive producer, studio head, and vice-president at MGM include reports of executive meetings, correspondence and memoranda, and scattered financial reports.

Personal material consists of microfilmed clipping scrapbooks and engagement calendars, photographs, drafts of two published autobiographical books, and papers pertaining to the career of Schary's wife Miriam as painter M. Svet.

Prominent correspondents include Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Bellamy, Art Buchwald, William Buckley, Jr., Winston Churchill, Norman Cousins, Princess Grace of Monaco, Dag Hammarskjold, Moss Hart, Hedds Hopper, Lyndon Johnson, E. Estes Kefauver, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Sinclair Lewis, Howard Lindsay, Fredric March, William Proxmire, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., David O. Selznick, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Darryl F. Zanuck, and others.

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