Akins, Zoë, 1886-1958. "The Toy Wife:" [screenplay: pp. 1-99: early draft], mimeograph copy (MS., typewritten: 103 p.), (1937, Dec. 6-14), Culver City (Calif.)

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Description: With Akins' A.N.S.; with original paper covers.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1878-1959.
Call number: ZA 561(1).
Creator: Akins, Zoë (1886-1958)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Zoë Akins, March 1952.; Gift of Zoë Akins, July 1952.; Acquired from Estate of Zoë Akins, May 1961.; Gift of Henry O'Neil. January 1978.; Purchased from Walter R. Benjamin, January 1982.; Gift of Occidental College Library, December 1986.; Gift of R.E. Evans,
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Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Barnsdall, Aline, (1882-1946.); Barrymore, Ethel, (1879-1959.); Beuf, Carlo, (1893-1981.); Burke, Billie, (1885-1970.); Cather, Willa, (1873-1947.); Cerf, Bennett, (1898-1971.); Churchill, Winston, (1874-1965.); Cukor, George, (1899-1983.); Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940.); Fitzgerald, Zelda, (1900-1948.); Greene, Patterson. (1886-1962.); Grove, Gerald, (1884-1946.); Harris, William, (1875-.); Hovey, Carl, (1889-1968.); Howland, Jobyna. (1887-1946.); Hurst, Fannie, (1889-1961.); Johns, Orrick, (1872-1945.); Kaufman, George S. (1885-1930.); Kauser, Alice, (1879-1956.); Lawrence, D. H. (1888?-1960.); Lawrence, Frieda, (1893-1981.); Levien, Sonya, (1874-1925.); Loos, Anita, (1879-1962.); Lowell, Amy, (1874-1965.); Luhan, Mabel Dodge, (1880-1956.)
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Maugham, W. Somerset (1873-1937.)

Mencken, H. L. (1886-1957.)

Moses, Harry, (1898-1940.)

Nielsen, Kay Rasmus, (1884-.)

O'Neil, George, (1904-1938.)

Pfeffer, Max, (1876-1949.)

Pinchot, Rosamond, (1862-1920.)

Pope-Hennessy, Una, (1879-1964.)

Reedy, William Marion, (1869-1941.)

Rumbold, Etheldred, (-1932.)

Rumbold, Horace, (1902-1965.)

Rumbold, Hugo, (1856-1950.)

Selznick, David O., (1886-1946.)

Shaw, Bernard, (1869-1926.)

Sheldon, Edward, (1884-1933.)

Sterling, George, (1862-1937.)

Teasdale, Sara, (1886-1978.)

Ware, Harriet. (1887-1943.)

Wharton, Edith,

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