Series I consists of original and copied plays and screenplays written or adapted by Clifford Odets. The works range in date from Waiting for Lefty from 1938 to the scripts he did for The Richard Boone Show in 1963. Present in this series are first, second, and third drafts as well as final versions of plays and screenplays.
The Big Knife
Box 1
1948, undated, 2 folders
Box 1
Third Draft, (copy) circa, 1948-1949, 3 folders
Box 1
Partial (copy), undated
Box 1
Screenplay by James Poe (from the play by Clifford Odets), undated, 2 folders
Box 1
The Children's Story (working title), 1945 May, 1945
Country Girl
Box 1
Second Draft, (copy), 1949, 2 folders
Box 1
Third Draft (copy), 1949 October 25, 1949
Box 1
Third Draft (copy), undated, 2 folders
Box 1
Fourth Draft (copy), 1950 August, 1950
Box 1
Fourth Draft (copy), undated, 2 folders
Box 1
Final, As Being Played (copy), 1949, 2 folders
Box 1
Uncut Version, 1949 October 17, 1949, 2 folders
Box 2
Uncut Version (copy), 1949 October 17, 1949, 2 folders
Box 2
Early Notes and Scenes (copy), 1949, 3 folders
Box 2
Notes (copy), undated
Box 2
Production Notes (copy), 1950, 2 folders
Box 2
Deadline at Dawn--Final Script, 1945 April 16, 1945, 2 folders
The Greatest Gift
Box 2
1945 January 25, 1945, 2 folders
Box 2
undated, 2 folders
Box 2
Incomplete, 1945 February26, 1945
Joseph and His Brethren
Box 2
First Estimating Draft, 1954 May 10, 1954, 2 folders
Box 2
Second Estimating Draft, 1954 December 30, 1954, 2 folders
Box 2
The Murder Story (working title)--First Draft,, undated, 2 folders
Box 2
Night Music
, 1940, 3 folders
Box 3
Night Music
, 1940
Box 3
None but the Lonely Heart (adapted from Richard Llewellyn's novel)--Second Draft Continuity (revised), 1943 December 18, 1943, 2 folders
North Star (The Richard Boone Show)
Box 3
1963 April 10, 1963
Box 3
First Revision, 1963 April 26, 1963
Box 3
The Olympian--Drafts, Notes, Typescript (copy),, 1963
Box 3
A Piece of the Action--Notes and Reviews (copy),, 1962
Box 3
Russian People by Constantine Simonov (acting version by Odets),, 1942
Box 3
The Show Must Go On-- Radio Original (copy),, 1939
The Story on Page One (temporary title)
Box 3
1958 October 1, 1958, 10 folders
Box 3
1958 April 27, 1958, 2 folders
Box 4
First Draft Revised, undated, 3 folders
Box 4
Final Draft, circa, 1959, 2 folders
Box 4
Waiting for Lefty
, 1938
Walk on the Wild Side (from the novel by Nelson Algren)
Box 4
Final Draft, 1961 March 14, 1961, 3 folders
Box 4
undated
The Way West
Box 4
First Draft, 1956 April, undated, 1956, undated, 3 folders
Box 4
Notes on Treatment by Walter Newman, 1955 November 9, 1955
Box 4
Research Notebook, 1956-1957, 2 folders
Box 4
Research Notebook (compiled by Lelia Alexander), undated, 2 folders
Box 4
Section I, undated, 2 folders
Box 4
Section II, undated, 2 folders
Box 4
Step Outline by Walter Newman, 1955 December 12, 1955
Box 5
Typescript, 1957 September-October (11 folders), 1957
Box 5
Welcome to the City!, 1944 September 6, 1944, 3 folders
Box 5
The Whispering Cup, 1947 January 10, 1947, 2 folders
A Winter Journey
Box 5
Early Draft (copy), 1948, 2 folders
Box 5
First Draft (copy), undated, 2 folders
Box 5
Third Draft (copy), 1948
Series II contains a small section of Clifford Odets' personal papers. These materials are primarily from 1960-1963. Included here are an assortment of clippings, ephemera, playbills, programs, and serials. There are a few pieces of scattered correspondence, including an anniversary announcement from Lee and Paula Strasberg, as well as letters from Milton Lipper to the Strasberg's following Odets' death in 1963. A program for Golden Boy, signed by Sammy Davis is present is this series. Additionally there is a letter from Courtois-Doybel to Jean Renoir sent along with a program for the French production of Le Grande Couteau (The Big Knife) from 1961. There are appointment books from Virginia Rowe, Odets' secretary, from 1958 and 1962.
Box 5
The Actor--Typescript and Notes (copy),, 1961
Box 5
Adams, Sue--Poems and Correspondence, 1958-1959
Box 5
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God Samuel A. Boyea's Adaptation of George Bernard Shaw,, undated
Box 5
The Big Knife--Playbill and Reviews (in German),, 1960
Box 5
Camille/15 Doves in Flight--Typescript, Notes, Articles, 1961
Box 5
Clippings, 1958-1962, 4 folders
Box 6
Correspondence, 1957-1964
Box 6
Ephemera, 1958-1962, 3 folders
Box 6
Films in Review
, 1955
Box 6
Golden Boy--Programs (inscribed by Sammy Davis),, 1964
Box 6
Le Grand Couteau (The Big Knife )--Program for French Production, Correspondence from Courtois-Doybel to Jean Renoir,, 1961
Box 6
Kopland, Kenny and Cliff--Photographs, undated
Box 6
Lakes Region Playhouse--The Country Girl --Playbill, undated
Box 6
Lerner, Max--Columns, 1962
Box 6
A Lie a Century Long by Samuel A. Boyea (annotated),, undated
Box 6
Modern Screen, 1937 1938, 1937, 1938
Box 6
Noah, His Wife, and the Devil by Francis Lee Utley (inscribed to Clifford Odets), circa, 1962
Box 6
Notes, 1961 undated
Box 6
Portrait of a Playwright--Booklet by NBC Television Network, 1963 March, 1963
Box 6
Private Treaty--Typescript and Notes (copy),, 1961
Box 6
Reminders, 1961
Box 6
The Richard Boone Show--Booklet, 1962
Box 6
Rowe, Virginia (Odets' secretary)--Appointment Book, 1958, 1962, 1958, 1962, 2 folders
Box 6
Serials and Journals (various), 1962
Box 6
Sister Carrie--Notes by Virginia Rowe,, 1944
Box 6
Sum and Substance
, 1963
Box 6
Theatre Arts, 1963 May, 1963
Box 6
Waiting for Lefty-- Comparison Copy (copy),, 1939