Series I: Plays and Screenplays
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
