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Śmierć Prezydenta: screenplay

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Description: Printed copy of a script and synopsis of, and an article about the movie "Śmierć Prezydenta" ("Death of President") written by Boleslaw Michalek and Jerzy Kawalerowicz (he also directed). These were written in 1975 (the film was released in 1977). The film is about the assassination of Polish President Narutowicz in 1922. These items are in Polish. There is also a copy of the "22nd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival" (1978, Oct. 4-15) including an entry for the movie, which was going to be shown in the festival (p. 37).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1975-1978.
Call number: mssHM 79078-79079
Creator: Michałek, Bolesław(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Herbert C. V. Feinstein, Bolesław Michałek, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz, March 2, 1979.

Internationale Hofer Filmtage. no. 18

Rare Books

Content: "The Killers" (film summary - "The Killers" was based on a short story by Bukowski, and one of the black and white photos in the section about the movie shows Bukowski and the director, Patrick Roth; program for a film festival in Hof, Germany; laid in: newspaper clipping with coverage of the event; printed summary of the movie Mindframes, by Max Linder)

602814

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Miscellaneous movie screenplays

Manuscripts

This group of screenplays includes photocopies of five movie scripts: Black Stallion, Shane, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Singin' in the Rain, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. It also includes ephemera associated with the Chinese adaptation of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" for the theater.

mssHM 74849-74853

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Video and the Art. no. 11

Rare Books

Content: "Barbet Schroeder" (movie review - description of Schroeder's film "Charles Bukowski" as part of the catalog of the 6th annual San Francisco International Video Festival), p. 54

602814

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[Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958]. "The Last Wooing:" [play: fragment], A. MS. (4 p.), ([ca. 1936?])

Manuscripts

Also enclosed: autograph and typewritten pages of notes (38 p.), a movie synopsis (3 p.), and an autograph page entitled, "Last Wooing," but with a variant subject (1 p.).

ZA 256.

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Rage in heaven : screenplay and ephemera

Manuscripts

A mimeographed screenplay with paper covers and autograph notes and additions; co-written by Christopher Isherwood and Robert Thoeren. "Rage in Heaven" was a noirish psychological thriller based on a novel by James Hilton (published in 1932), starring Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, and George Sanders. The film was directed by W.S. Van Dyke after the original director, Robert Sinclair, quit. Richard Thorpe was brought in to direct the retakes and this appears to be his shooting script. Also enclosed is a printed press campaign booklet (8 p.) for the film.

mssHM 83255

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Bodley, R.V.C. (Ronald Victor Courtenay), 1892-. "The Forbidden City:" [screenplay: synopsis], carbon copy (MS., typewritten: 63 p.), (1935, Nov. 27)

Manuscripts

With original folder. Also enclosed: typewritten pages of the first 10 pages of synopsis (4 p.).

ZA 664.

Śmierć Prezydenta: screenplay

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