This series comprises personal material retained in Jarrico's files. It includes Jarrico's high-school and university records, early political writings, photographs, and personal correspondence. It also contains clippings, programs, photocopies, and other print materials (annotated and unannotated) documenting Jarrico's academic interests—including material written about Jarrico and his work. Finally, it contains Jarrico's personal reflections on events in his life, his dreams, etc.
Box 31 Folder 1
Roosevelt High School round-up, 1932
Box 31 Folder 2
School records and diplomas, 1929, 1932-1936
For Theodore Roosevelt High School, University of Southern California, and UCLA. Includes report cards, disciplinary documents, transcripts, correspondence, registration documents, commencement brochure, diplomas, other administrative documents. Under the name Israel Paul Shapiro.
Box 31 Folder 3
Junior high and high school annuals (and miscellaneous momentos), 1929, 1931-1932
Boy Scouts card, notes, copy of National Boys Week Los Angeles, scrapbook page, correspondence, yearbook.
Box 31 Folder 4
High school oratory, 1929-1931
Notes, draft speeches, programs, clippings (Hebrew and English),
Box 31 Folder 5-7
Rough Rider, 1931-1932, 3 folders
High school magazine (with Jarrico's contributions). Includes notes and printed issues.
Box 32 Folder 1
China (college notes), 1933-1937
Annotated syllabus, blue books, notes, essays, textbooks. On Chinese history, culture, and language.
Box 32 Folder 2
College notes (drama, cinema, story, etc.), 1932, 1934-1936
Textbooks, essays, notes, annotated syllabus, blue books.
Box 32 Folder 3
College notes (English literature), 1933-1936
Notes, blue books, essays.
Box 32 Folder 4
College notes (philosophy), 1933-1934, 1936
Notes, blue books, essays.
Box 32 Folder 5
College Writer, 1932-1936
Notes, unfinished novel manuscript, short stories, poetry, play script, published copies of Jarrico's early writings, drafts of early writings.
Box 33 Folder 1
The Dilletant, 1933-1934
"The Dilletant" was a column in the California Daily Bruin to which Jarrico appears to have contributed. Includes scrapbook pages with published columns (and other writings for the Bruin), correspondence (with readers, editors), notes. Mostly about campus politics.
Box 33 Folder 2
The College Radical, 1934-1935
Clippings and documents relating to Jarrico's left-wing and pacifist organizing. Relating to the National Student League, the U.S. Congress Against War and Fascism, the Students' Rights Association, and the Young Communist League. Includes flyers, meeting agendas, memoranda, and some political writings by Jarrico. Includes information about student strikes and about William Randolph Hearst's coverage of student organizing.
Box 33 Folder 3
Magnus, 1934-circa 1935
Plans for a stage play. Includes character profiles, plot outline, and notes.
Box 35 Folder 1
Ellmann, Carnahan, Wilson, and Buchman, 1988-1990, 1992-1993, 1995-1996
Material relating to Jarrico's friendships with Beatrice Buchman (wife of Sidney Buchman), Erwin and Steffani Ellmann, Robert Paul Wilson, and George Carnahan. Primarily contains correspondence, but also includes other memorabilia (obituaries, clippings, etc.). Much of this folder is devoted to the legal issues of Robert Paul Wilson, who was tried and convicted of murder in the early 1988. Sentenced to the death penalty, his conviction was overturned in 1992 after a writ of habeas corpus was submitted to the California Supreme Court. Jarrico was the co-chair of the "Free Robert Wilson" committee and correspondend with Wilson while he was imprisoned.
Box 35 Folder 2
Shirley Douglas, 1976-1977
Material relating to Jarrico's friendship with Canadian actress Shirley Douglas. Includes photographs (inscribed), correspondence, clippings, and Douglas's CV.
Box 71 Folder 5
Focus Magazine, 1983, 1988
Spring 1983 and Spring 1988 issues. Includes an interview with Jarrico and an analysis of "Salt of the Earth." Multiple copies. Some annotated. Correspondence interweaved.
Box 71 Folder 6
Programs and booklets, 1968, 1983, 1989, 1991, 1995
"Resisting Amnesia" by the Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, 16 February 1991; Josef Smrkovsky (an unfinished conversation); Festival International du Film d'Amiens, 1989; San Antonio CineFestival, 1983; Program guide from Finlands Filmarkiv, January-April 1995; Program for 1991 Emil Freed Award Dinner, February 3, 1991, at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research; "Developmental Dyslexia: A Diagnostic Screening Procedure Based on Three Characteristic Patterns of Reading and Spelling" (1968).
Box 72 Folder 1
Newspapers and periodicals, 1934-1935, 1953-1954, 1956-1957, 1968, 1984-1989, 1996
Coastlines, issue no. 6, Winter 1956-1957; The California Quarterly, Autumn 1953; The California Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1954; The Occident, Vol. 1, No. 3, November 1934; The Occident, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 1935; Agro Premiere, 1985; Cineaste, Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1989; WGA/west Newsletter, September 1987; American Dialog, Spring 1968; Connexions: The Santa Barbara Literary Arts Quarterly, #11 (1988); The New York Review of Books, October 11, 1984; Los Angeles's Free Weekly, July 11, 1986; The Hollywood Reporter, March 18, 1988; Ojai Valley Times, May 16, 1996
Box 73 Folder 1-3
Cineaste, 1994, 1996, 3 folders
Cineaste, Vol. XX, No. 4, 1994 (includes article about the denial of credit to Michael Wilson for "Lawrence of Arabia"); Cineaste, Vol. XXI, No. 4, 1995 (includes section on the Blacklist); Cineaste, Vol. XXII, No. 2, 1996 (includes article "Amending the Hollywood Blacklist"). Also includes photocopies of articles from the periodical.
Box 73 Folder 4
Virginia Festival of American Film program, 1988
This series comprises personal material retained in Jarrico's files. It includes Jarrico's high-school and university records, early political writings, and personal correspondence. It also contains clippings, programs, photocopies, and other print materials (annotated and unannotated) documenting Jarrico's academic interests—including material written about Jarrico and his work.
Box 73 Folder 5
Red Hollywood, circa 1996
Book manuscript by Thom Andersen.
Box 74 Folder 1
Mario T. Garcia's thesis, chapters 9 and 10, undated
Includes Garcia's business card, indicating that he is a professor of history and chicano studies at University of California Santa Barbara.
Box 80 Folder 5
Miscellaneous academics, 1993, undated
Photocopies of books and articles. Some are annotated.
Box 80 Folder 6
Peoples College of Law Journal, 1980
May Day issue celebrating Sam and Sylvia Rosenwein.
Box 80 Folder 7
Jo Shaftel, 1994-1995
Jarrico's correspondence with filmmaker Jo Shaftel. Includes material relating to Shaftel's charity work. Includes a typed manuscript of Shaftel's autobiograph "Action... And Cut!" (annotated).
Box 80 Folder 8
Bruce Kawin, 1993-1995
Jarrico's correspondence with the academic Bruce Kawin. Includes copies of Kawin's teaching materials and academic work.
Box 81 Folder 1-2
Clippings, 1990-1993, 2 folders
Box 81 Folder 3
Cosmology and other science, 1991-1996
Newspaper clippings about science and outer space.
Box 81 Folder 4
"Back Lot: A Book About the Movies" by Maurice Rapf, 1994
Lightly annotated typed manuscript.
Box 81 Folder 5
Miscellaneous film stuff, 1992-1994
Clippings and magazines about cinema and a manuscript of an academic article mailed to Jarrico.