Samson Raphaelson papers, 1916-1982

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1050
Bib ID:
4078548 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Raphaelson, Samson, 1896-1983
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
19.5 linear feet (41 boxes)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Scope and Content

Correspondence, playscripts, screenplays, scenarios, short stories, and other manuscripts, drafts, photocopies, contracts and other documents, tearsheets, clippings, and other materials relating to his career as a screenwriter, playwright, and author of short stories. Correspondence with friends, students, admirers, and professional colleagues concern his teaching, playwriting, films, articles, photography, and literary topics. There are also two groups of letters from students and readers about his textbook, "The Human Nature of Playwriting" (1949). Among the cataloged correspondence are William Gibson, MacKinlay Kantor, Anna Louise Strong, Louis Untermeyer, and Carl Van Doren. Included are manuscripts, drafts, or photocopies of almost all his films, plays, and short stories, such as playscripts and drafts of his plays, "The Jazz Singer" (1922), "Skylark" (1939), "Jason" (1942), and others; screenplays and scenarios, many in photocopy, of "Trouble in Paradise" (1932), "The Merry Widow" (1934), "The Shop Aroung the Corner" (1940), "Suspicion" (1941), "Heaven Can Wait" (1943), and many other films; and manuscripts, drafts, tearsheets, and printed copies of his short stories and articles of film and television criticism. There are also many clippings and reviews, programs, and other printed materials about his plays and films.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into 10 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samson Raphaelson papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Joel Raphaelson, 1987, 1990& 1992.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Raphaelson, Joel. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--10/06/87. Accession number--M-87-10-06.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Raphaelson, Joel. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--06/25/92. Accession number--M-92-06-25.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Processed HR 06/20/88.

Processed by HR- 10/6/87; HR-2/12/91; Papers Processed HR 08/14/92.

Revision Description

2010-02-24 Legacy finding aid created from Pro Cite.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical sketch

Samson Raphaelson, playwright, screenwriter, and teacher, wrote scenarios for many of the films directed by Ernst Lubitsch from 1931 until 1947. Raphaelson taught screenwriting at Columbia from 1976 until 1982, and also taught at the University of Illinois in 1920/21 and in 1948.

Subject Headings

The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.

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Genre/Form
Agreements CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Articles CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Autobiographies (literary works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Awards CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bills (financial) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Birth certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Brochures CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Clippings (Information Artifacts) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Contracts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Decrees CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Financial records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Interviews CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Inventories CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lecture notes CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Memorandums CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Outlines (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographic prints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Playbills CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Press releases CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Programs (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Proofs (printed matter) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Receipts (financial records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reminiscences CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Reviews (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scores (documents for music) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sheet music CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Syllabi CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Transcripts CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Abbott, George, 1887-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bemelmans, Ludwig, 1898-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Best, Edna, 1900-1974 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Caldwell, Zoe CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cronyn, Hume CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cukor, George, 1899-1983 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dell, Floyd, 1887-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ervine, St. John G (St. John Greer), 1883-1971 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gaige, Crosby, 1882-1949 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gibbons, Floyd Phillips, 1887-1939 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gibson, William, 1914-2008 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gordon, Ruth, 1896-1985 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Green, Paul, 1894-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Halsman, Philippe CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Howard, Leslie, 1893-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Jessel, George, 1898-1981 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kazan, Elia CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kober, Arthur, 1900-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lawrence, Gertrude CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lindsay, Howard, 1889-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lockridge, Richard, 1898-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lubitsch, Ernst, 1892-1947 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Macgowan, Kenneth, 1888-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
McClintic, Guthrie, 1893-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Rattigan, Terence CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sheean, Vincent, 1899-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sherwood, Robert E (Robert Emmet), 1896-1955 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Simon, Richard L (Richard Leo), 1899-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Skinner, Otis, 1858-1942 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tandy, Jessica CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Authors and theater CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
College teachers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Critics CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drama -- Technique CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dramatists CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Film critics CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Motion picture authorship CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Playwriting CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scenarios CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Screenwriters CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Theatrical producers and directors CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Universities and colleges -- New York (State) -- New York CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID