Subseries IX.1: Alphabetic List
An Act of Virtue -- -- And the Angels Sang SEE My Three Angels -- -- At Rise SEE Misc. -- -- Big Boy SEE Misc. -- -- Better than Ever SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Black Stemmed Cherries SEE Misc. -- -- Blinski SEE Leave it to Me under Sweeney -- -- Borrowed Love SEE Misc. -- -- Boy Meets Girl -- -- Can Can SEE Misc. -- -- Cat and the Fiddle SEE Misc. -- -- Child's Play SEE Festival -- -- Clear All Wires SEE Leave it to Me -- -- A Comedy with Music SEE Misc. -- -- Comfort with Apples -- -- Comrade X SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Clear All Wires -- -- Countess and Conductor SEE The Orient Express -- -- La Cuisine des Anges SEE My Three Angels -- -- Dear Mr. Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Deus Anges Sont Venus SEE My Three Angels -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Enchanted Nutcracker -- -- An English Play SEE Misc. -- -- Ex-Lover SEE Once There was a Russian -- -- Ex-Officer SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Ex-Officer X SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Female Human Being SEE Of Human Bondage -- -- Festival -- -- Gambling SEE Misc. -- -- The Gay Bride SEE Misc. -- -- A Gentleman's Gentleman SEE Misc. -- -- The Golden State -- -- Happy SEE Boy Meets Girl -- -- Hizzoner SEE Papa -- -- How to make a Woman Happy SEE Two Blind Mice -- -- I've Got a Book SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Kiss Me Kate -- -- A Kiss for Tomorrow SEE Misc. -- -- Kuess Mich Kaetchen SEE Kiss Me Kate -- -- Lady Liz SEE Mrs. A. -- -- The Lamplighter SEE Comfort with Apples -- -- Lawyer Lady and Thief SEE The Night is Young -- -- Leave it to Me -- -- Leo McCrary #2 SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Liebe=x SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Life with the Wooleys SEE Misc. -- -- Look to the Ant SEE Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- The Lost Soldier SEE Misc. -- -- Manna Falls for Moses SEE The Shyster -- -- Manhatten Miracle SEE The Night is Young -- -- Meet the Wife SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Miracle in Manhatten SEE The Night is Young -- -- Miss Swan Expects -- -- Move Over Darling SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Mr. Broadway -- -- Mr. Jennings SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. Jenkins SEE Solitaire Man -- -- Mr. King's Case -- -- Mrs. A. -- -- My Favorite Wife -- -- My Three Angels -- -- The Night is Young -- -- Nucleus SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Nize Baby SEE Misc. -- -- Of Human Bondage -- -- Once there was a Russian -- -- One Man's Venus -- -- The Orient Express -- -- Out West it's Different -- -- Perfect Pitch SEE Festival -- -- Pincus SEE Poppa -- -- Play it by ear SEE Festival -- -- The Play's the Thing SEE Misc. -- -- Pleasures and Palaces SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Poppa -- -- Portrait of Boy with Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- Potemkin SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- Pousse Toi Cherie SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- The Prince and Mr. Jones SEE Once there was a Russian -- -- The Princess and the Pauper -- -- Private Jones SEE Once there was a Russian OR War Song -- -- Eine Schoene Bescherung SEE My Three Angels -- -- The Shyster -- -- Sister Carrie SEE Misc. -- -- Sisters SEE Misc. -- -- Sky Trapped SEE Misc. -- -- The Solitaire Man -- -- Something's Got to Give SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Spring Song -- -- Spring Song SEE Misc. (this short script seems unrelated to the above--has different plot, different characters) -- -- Swing High Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me UNDER Sweeney -- -- Sweeney SEE Leave it to Me -- -- Theodora SEE Misc. -- -- There Goes the Ballgame SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Miss Swan Expects -- -- Trousers to Match SEE Short Stories and Articles, Bella (this story seems unrelated to the play of the same name) -- -- Twisting the Law SEE The Shyster -- -- Two Acts of Virtue SEE An Act of Virtue -- -- Two Angels Have Come SEE My Three Angels -- -- Two Blind Mice -- -- Under the Sycamore Tree -- -- Unmarried Father SEE Misc. -- -- Vogues SEE Misc. -- -- The War Song -- -- The Way of a Hen SEE Festival -- -- Weekend at the Waldorf -- -- White Girl -- -- Wings SEE The Solitaire Man -- -- Woman Bites Dog -- -- Woman Overboard SEE My Favorite Wife -- -- Young Man with a Ladder SEE Out West it's Different -- -- You're Only Young Twice SEE Misc. -- -- Zwei Blinde Huener SEE Two Blind Mice
Subseries IX.2: An Act of Virtue
Subseries IX.3: Boy Meets Girl
Request Box 9
Box 9
Correspondence, 1935-1956, 24 folders,
[Includes opening night telegrams, correspondence re. printed book]
Request Box 10
Box 10
Correspondence, 1957-1980, 21 folders,
Worksheets, 2 folders,
Scripts: -- --Script A/2 (prompt script, annotated) -- --Script A (2 copies) -- --Script B
Request Box 11
Box 11
Script C -- Script D (film) -- Script E (film) -- Script F (film, final) -- Script E (Italian, annotated) -- Script G (German, annotated) -- Script H (German)
Legal: -- --contracts [includes contracts r.e. BMG game, re. legal protection afforded title]
Request Box 12
Box 12
Financial, 7 folders,
[Includes financial information for British production, box office receipts from tour, misc.)]
Request Box 13
Box 13
Photos -- Playbills -- Clippings -- Other (includes menu from Hollywood dinner, list of places BMG was performed, misc.) -- Softcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 2 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song); 1 copy version 2 with inscription and annotations -- Hardcover printed books: 2 copies version 1; 3 copies version 2 (includes Spring Song) all inscribed
Subseries IX.4: Comfort Me with Apples
Subseries IX.5: The Enchanted Nutcracker
Subseries IX.6: Festival
Request Box 16
Box 16
Correspondence r.e. Perfect Pitch -- Correspondence--opening night telegrams -- Correspondence 1950-1970 (3 folders) -- Worksheets for Perfect Pitch (2 folders) -- Worksheets -- Summary -- Scripts: -- -- Script A ("The Way of a Hen," 2 copies) -- -- Script B ("Perfect Pitch," annotated) -- -- Script C ("Perfect Pitch")
Request Box 17
Box 17
Script D ("Perfect Pitch," 5 copies, 3 annotated) -- Script E (2 copies, both annotated) -- Script F (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Script G (incomplete, annotated)
Request Box 18
Box 18
Script H (incomplete) -- Script I (2 copies, 1 annotated) -- Legal: -- --Contracts for Way of a Hen -- -- Contracts for Perfect Pitch; Contracts -- Financial -- Photos (of finished production) -- Playbills: Perfect Pitch; Festival -- Clippings: Way of a Hen; Perfect Pitch; Festival; Typewritten reviews -- Other (includes scene design, audience survey, interview questions, misc.) -- Printed Material: Printed scripts--"Play it by Ear"
Subseries IX.7: The Golden State
Subseries IX.8: Kiss Me Kate
Request Box 21
Box 21
Correspondence, 1948-1958
[Includes opening night telegrams,13 folders]
Request Box 22
Box 22
Correspondence, 1959-1962, 8 folders,
Request Box 23
Box 23
Correspondence, 1963-1965, 8 folders,
Request Box 24
Box 24
Correspondence, 1966-1968, 9 folders,
Request Box 25
Box 25
Correspondence, 1969-1981, 16 folders,
Request Box 26
Box 26
Background Material: The Taming of the Shrew in hardback, 2 copies; The Taming of the Shrew, typescript; Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. script of Shrew, annotated, 2 copies; Worksheets for Hallmark script (non-Spewack) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summaries -- Song lyrics -- Song lyrics revisions -- Script fragments
Request Box 27
Box 27
Scripts--bound: Script A (5 copies, 2 annotated, 1 labeled British); Script B (2 copies, 1 annotated); Script C (3 copies, 1 annotated, 1 labeled Final)
Request Box 28
Box 28
Scripts--for television: Script D (2 copies, both incomplete); Script E (Hallmark Hall of Fame, 3 copies, 2 annotated); Script F (BBC, 2 copies, 1 annotated)
Request Box 29
Box 29
Scripts--foreign: Script G (Danish); Script H (French); Script I (Icelandic); Script J (Italian, 2 copies); Script K (Swedish)
Request Box 30
Box 30
Script in Braille
Request Box 31
Box 31
Legal: -- --contracts: -- Hurok Attractions -- Hallmark Hall of Fame -- Scholastic Book Services -- Knopf -- Film -- Argentina -- Australia -- Belgium (Brussels) -- Czechoslovakia -- England (BBC) -- England (Sadler's Wells Opera, London) -- England (St. Subber and Samuel Ayers) -- England (director's) -- France (translation) -- France (Paris) -- France (Societe des Auteurs) -- Germany-Austria Switzerland -- Greece -- Holland (SEBA) -- Italy -- Japan -- Mexico -- Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Poland -- Yougoslavia -- Poland -- Yugoslavia -- -- Financial (3 folders misc.)
Financial, 3 (misc.) folders,
Request Box 32
Box 32
Financial, 8 misc. folders,
Request Box 33
Box 33
Photos: -- --negatives -- --Cole Porter and Bella -- --Ingrid Bergman, Bella, Bob Wright -- --Broadway production -- --Wagner College production -- --North Shore Music Theater production -- --Seattle production -- --Century Theater production -- --Misc. -- --The Taming of the Shrew (non-Spewack)
Request Box 34
Box 34
Photos--foreign productions: -- --Posters for foreign productions: -- --Argentina, Buenos Aires -- --Austria, Vienna -- --Belgium, Brussels -- --Canada, Toronto -- --Czechoslovakia, Prague -- --Denmark, Copenhagen -- --England, Sadler's Wells Opera, London -- --England, BBC -- --Germany, Frankfurt -- --Germany -- --Holland -- --Hungary -- --Iceland, Reykjavik -- --Israel -- --Italy, Trieste -- --Japan, Tokyo -- --Norway, Oslo -- --Poland, Warsaw -- --Sweden, Malmo -- --Turkey, Ankara -- --Yugoslavia, Zagreb
Request Box 35
Box 35
Playbills (in English)
Request Box 36
Box 36
Playbills (in foreign languages)
Request Box 37
Box 37
Clippings (reviews and references--includes printed articles, ads, typescripts): -- Anta Album references -- ABC t.v. productions reviews -- Bergman, Wright, Bella--interview typescript -- Century Theater reviews -- Civic Light Opera reviews -- Hallmark Hall of Fame t.v. production reviews -- Kabuki Theater reviews -- Elizabeth Larner clippings -- "Much Ado About Kate" article by Bella -- "My Life with Shakespeare" article by Bella -- New York City Center reviews -- Playboy article mentioning KMK -- Cole Porter clippings, etc. -- Shubert Theater reviews -- The Taming of the Shrew film reviews (some mention KMK) -- Theater Arts cover -- "We've Been There Before" article by Bella -- "Woman Behind Girl Scout Cookies and Kiss Me Kate" -- Misc. references -- Misc. reviews -- Misc. reviews--financial (box office intake lists) -- Misc. typescripts of reviews -- Misc. typescripts of reviews by Bella -- Misc. retrospective reviews
Request Box 38
Box 38
Clippings--foreign: -- --Argentina (Buenos Aires) (typescript) -- --Austria (Vienna) -- --Belgium (Brussels) (typescript and printed) -- --Czechoslovakia -- --England (BBC) -- --France -- --Germany (typescript and printed) -- --Holland (typescript) -- --Hungary (Budapest) -- --Israel (typescript and printed) -- --Italy (Trieste) -- --Italy (Verona) -- --Poland (typescript and printed) -- --Soviet Union -- --Sweden (Malmo) -- --Turkey -- --Yugoslavia (typescript and printed)
Other: -- --Publicity package -- --"Under Discussion: Shakespeare" script -- --KMK tour information -- --New York Public Library Exhibit -- --Production information -- --Misc.
Request Box 39
Box 39
Printed Material: -- --Knopf script (1 copy, 1 photocopy) -- --German script ("Kuess Mich Kaetchen") (2 copies) -- --Dutch script (2 copies) -- --Japanese script -- --Script printed in Theater Arts Magazine -- --Book jackets for Knopf edition
Subseries IX.9: Leave it to Me as Clear All Wires
Subseries IX.10: Leave it to Me as Sweeney
Subseries IX.11: Leave it to Me as Leave it to Me
Subseries IX.12: Miss Swan Expects
Subseries IX.13: Mr. Broadway
Subseries IX.14: Mr. King's Case
Subseries IX.15: Mrs. A.
Subseries IX.16: My Favorite Wife
Subseries IX.17: My Three Angels
Request Box 49
Box 49
Correspondence, 1952-1985, 33 folders,
[Includes correspondence with Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont 1953-1954]
Request Box 50
Box 50
Background: -- --Subber translation of Husson's play -- --Millington translation of Husson's play -- --Pierre's adaptation of Husson's play (French) -- --Translation of Pierre's adaptation (2 copies) -- Worksheets (2 folders) -- Summary (2 copies, 1 annotated)
Request Box 51
Box 51
Scripts: -- --Script A -- --Script B -- --Script C -- --Script D "And the Angels Sang" 3 copies, 1 annotated
Request Box 52
Box 52
Scripts: -- --Script E ("We're No Angels" film) -- --Script F (for t.v. 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script G (for BBC radio 2 copies) -- --Script H (Hebrew) -- --Script I (Spanish)
Request Box 53
Box 53
Legal: -- --Contracts (3 folders) -- --Paramount squabble: -- -- Trial transcript -- --Background for case -- --Misc. (correspondence, etc.) -- --Misc.
Request Box 54
Box 54
Financial: -- --Information re. audit -- --British production -- --Australian production -- --Misc. (3 folders)
Request Box 55
Box 55
Photos--of various performances -- Playbills: English and Foreign -- Clippings: Reviews of Film; Reviews of t.v. production; Misc.; Misc. foreign -- Other: Production information--list of cities for road tour, press releases, etc. -- Printed Material: -- --Husson play "La Cuisine des Anges" in French -- --German version of Husson play: "Eine Schoene Bescherung" -- --Script of My Three Angels in Theater Arts Magazine (2 copies) -- --Printed scripts of My Three Angels in book form: Uncorrected proof with annotations; Edition A (2 copies); Edition B (2 copies); Edition C (3 copies, 1 inscribed and annotated)
Subseries IX.18: The Night is Young
Subseries IX.19: Of Human Bondage
Subseries IX.20: Once There Was a Russian
Request Box 58
Box 58
Correspondence 1928-1975 (17 folders) -- Background--historical information about John Paul Jones, etc. -- Worksheets (1-3 of 6 folders)
Request Box 59
Box 59
Worksheets (4-6 of 6 folders) -- Summary ("A Russian Story" 2 versions) -- Scripts: -- --Script A ("Ex-Lover" 2 copies, both annotated) -- --Script B ("Pleasures and Palaces" 2 copies, 1 annotated) -- --Script C ("Pleasures and Palaces" annotated)
Request Box 60
Box 60
--Script D (2 copies, both annotated, 1 labeled "Ex-Lover") -- --Script E ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script F ("Ex-Lover," annotated) -- --Script G (untitled, annotated) -- --Script H (untitled, annotated, 2 copies, 1 incomplete) -- --Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 1-2 of 7, 1 annotated)
Request Box 61
Box 61
Script I ("The Prince and Mr. Jones," copies 3-7 of 7, 3-5 annotated)
Request Box 62
Box 62
Legal: Contracts; Misc. -- Financial--box office statements, etc. -- Photos: -- --Posters, Performance with Walter Matthau -- --negatives -- --Ari Kutai, Israeli actor trying for role -- Playbills: -- --The Prince and Mr. Jones -- --Once There Was a Russian -- Clippings -- Other--rehearsal schedule, actors' phone list, etc. -- Printed Material: "The Prince and Mr. Jones" script in book form
Subseries IX.21: One Man's Venus
Subseries IX.22: The Orient Express
Subseries IX.23: Out West it's Different
Subseries IX.24: Poppa
Subseries IX.25: The Princess and the Pauper
Subseries IX.26: The Solitaire Man
Subseries IX.27: The Shyster
Subseries IX.28: Spring Song
Subseries IX.29: Two Blind Mice
Subseries IX.30: Under the Sycamore Tree
Subseries IX.31: The War Song
Subseries IX.32: Weekend at the Waldorf
Subseries IX.33: White Girl
Subseries IX.24: Woman Bites Dog
Subseries IX.35: Miscellaneous Spewack Productions
Request Box 82
Box 82
At Rise by Bella. Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- Big Boy by Bella and Sam. Summary -- Black Stemmed Cherries by Bella. Synopsis of play by Hunyady -- Borrowed Love by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- Can Can by ? Involves Cole Porter. Correspondence, Legal--contracts -- Cat and the Fiddle Clipping -- A Comedy with Music by Bella and Sam. Summary (2 copies) -- An English Play Worksheets -- Gambling by Sam and George M. Cohan Correspondence, Script (annotated), Legal--transcription of examinations before trial -- The Gay Bride Photo with Bella's note on back
Request Box 83
Box 83
A Gentleman's Gentleman by Bella and Sam. Script (2 copies) -- A Kiss for Tomorrow by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Script (2 copies) -- Life with the Wooleys by Bella. Involves Billie Burke. Correspondence, Worksheets, Script (2 copies) -- The Lost Soldier by Bella Cohen and Sam. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Meet the Wife by Bella. Adapted from play by Lynn Starling. -- Nize Baby by Bella and Milt Gross. Script, Clipping -- The Play's the Thing by Bella and Sam. Script (film, 2 copies) -- Sister Carrie by Bella and Sam. Correspondence, Background, Script (film) -- Sisters by Bella (and maybe Sam) Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Skipper by ? Summary (incomplete)
Request Box 84
Box 84
Sky Trapped by ? Script (annotated) -- Spring Song by Bella. Seems unrelated to more famous play. Summary (version A 2 copies, version B 2 copies) -- Theodora by ? Script -- Vogues by ? Correspondence, Clippings -- Unmarried Father by Bella. Summary (2 copies) -- You're Only Young Twice by Bella and Sam. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated), Script (2 copies) -- Untitled works: -- -- #1: worksheets for play in postwar Germany -- --#2: correspondence, background on Anton Dvorak -- --#3: "#59" Summary--WWII propaganda -- --#4: comedy for Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, by Bella and Leo McCary. Summary (3 copies, 1 annotated) -- Misc. notes and worksheets--some notebooks of shorthand (2 folders) -- Misc. lists of plays -- Misc. clippings re. more than one play
Subseries IX.36: Miscellaneous Non-Spewack Productions
Request Box 85
Box 85
Anne Frank Correspondence -- The Best Butter Correspondence, Legal--contract -- A Death of No Importance (Une Mort Sans Importance) by Yvan Noe. Correspondence, Translation, Printed French Script -- The Fabrizzi System by Albert Husson. Correspondence, Translation (version A, version B 2 copies), Printed French Script -- Ghost Goes West by Arthur Loew. Correspondence, Background, Summary (2 copies) -- Les Girls Correspondence, Legal--contract -- Les Hussards by P. A. Breal. Translation, Printed French Script
Request Box 86
Box 86
The Immortal Idler by Bruno Frank. Translation by Jerome Lachenbruch -- An Old Wive's Tale by Arnold Bennett. Correspondence -- Reunion in Vienna by Robert E. Sherwood. Correspondence, Script -- Send Me No Flowers by ? Notes, Clippings -- The Torch Bearers by George Kelly. Script -- Misc. playbills