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Summary Information
Administrative Information
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement/Organization
Indexing Terms
Content List
Correspondence
Films
Miscellaneous
Financial
Photographs
Printed

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Renoir mss

Scope and Content Note

Consists primarily of the correspondence and papers of Claude Renoir, 1901- , film producer, together with some papers of his better-known filmmaker brother, Jean Renoir, 1894-1979. The correspondence includes letters between the brothers regarding both family and film matters, as well as other business correspondence relating to the various film projects in which Claude and Jean were involved from Nana in 1926 to Opera-Musette in 1942. Correspondents in the collection include Pierre Braunberger, Pierre Champagne, Andre Chauvin, John Corfield, Minoru Kano, Claude Renoir, Jean Renoir, Pierre Renoir, and John Sutro. There are also film scripts and synopses by Claude and by Jean Renoir, financial documents, a film distribution notebook, a notebook of Claude’s notes for "Cezanne," and photographs of Claude and Jean Renoir from 1914-1968.