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Screenplays

Description: Typescript and photocopy drafts of Dead Giveaway, The Flute, Green Hotel, Lovers and Dangers, Models, and Naked Chess. There are three untitled screenplays: one about Art and Laurie Pepper, another about Babitz's Hollywood childhood, and the last featuring characters Marie and Gina.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1970s-1990s
Call number: mssBabitz
Creator: Babitz, Eve(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Eve Babitz through Glenn Horowitz Bookseller with support from Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield, November 2021.; gift of Mirandi Babitz, December 2024.

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SEALED: Box 19: Brian G. Hutton correspondence and Eve Babitz 1969-1970 personal journal closed until January 1, 2040, at family's request.

NOT AVAILABLE: Box 18: Audiovisual materials unavailable until reformatted.

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The literary copyright of materials by Eve Babitz is held by the Estate of Eve Babitz. Anyone wishing to quote from or publish any photographs or manuscript material by Eve Babitz must contact: Erica Spellman Silverman, Trident Media Group, LLC, 355 Lexington Ave, Floor 12, New York, NY 10017.

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Cornell, Joseph.

Heller, Joseph.

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Publications
Manuscripts
Clippings of Babitz's work, as well as book reviews and some biographical articles about her. Included are copies of Babitz's first published article, The Sheik, for Rolling Stone in 1972; Jim Morrison is Dead and Living in Hollywood, and I Was A Naked Pawn for Chess, both for Esquire in 1991; and several issues of The Flyer, an editorial supplement to Rolling Stone covering Southern California.
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Artifacts and audiovisual
Manuscripts
Babitz's Brownie camera, rubber stamps, and books by humorists Robert Benchley and H. Allen Smith. Audiovisual materials include a microcassette interview with Laurie Pepper, a VHS tape entitled Readings of Eve Babitz (1998), an unidentified CD, and an unidentified floppy disc.
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Correspondence and journal
Manuscripts
Brian G. Hutton incoming and outgoing correspondence, and Babitz's 1969-1970 personal journal.
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Correspondence - friends and family incoming/outgoing
Manuscripts
Incoming letters and cards from friends, some unsigned or unidentified; and the majority of Babitz's outgoing correspondence. Babitz's outgoing correspondence is primarily from the late 1960s to early 1970s and includes carbon copies, drafts, and unsent letters and postcards. There is also incoming and outgoing family correspondence (mid 1950s to mid 1960s) with her parents Sol and Mae Babitz, sister Mirandi Babitz, and a few other relatives.
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Typescript drafts and galley proofs of Sex and Rage, some with handwritten notes; and a few related notes from Victoria Wilson, Babitz's editor at Knopf.
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Unpublished and unrealized manuscripts
Manuscripts
Manuscript draft of the unpublished Travel Broadens (1963), based on Babitz's experiences in Europe, and typescript drafts of the unrealized Russia (1996-2001) and Bonnie and Clyde (2001).
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