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Welles mss., 1930-1950 (Bulk 1936-1947)

Series: Box 14 Films, 1939-1947 

Arranged chronologically by approximate beginning work date.

Includes projects on which work was begun but never completed. Correspondence regarding films is interfiled chronologically in the Correspondence section.

Folder 15-17 Heart of Darkness [1939] 

Scripts

Folder 18-19 Heart of Darkness

Production, financial, and publicity materials

See also Smiler with a Knife, B. 14, f. 27; Photographs

Folder 20-26 Smiler with a Knife [1939-1940] 

Scripts

Folder 27 Smiler with a Knife

Production and financial materials

Folder 28-29 Citizen Kane, 1940-1941 

Scripts

Box 15
Folder 1-6
Citizen Kane

Scripts

Folder 7 Citizen Kane

Photographs of story board

Folder 8-11 Citizen Kane

Production, financial and publicity materials

See also Tapes; Photographs; Oversize 14; Appendix A

Folder 12-15 Unnamed Mexican Story (Jan? 1941) 

Drafts of scripts, by Paul Trivers

Folder 16-22 Orson Welles No. 4 ("The Way to Santiago"?) (Feb., 1941-Mar., 1942) 

Scripts, production and financial materials

Box 16
Folder 1
previous hit   It's All True   next hit ; Love Story (Aug. 8, 1941) 

Scripts

Folder 2-5 The Magnificent Ambersons, Aug. 15, 1941-June 13, 1942 

Scripts

Folder 6 The Magnificent Ambersons

Story board

Folder 7-12 The Magnificent Ambersons

Production, financial, and publicity materials

See also Photographs

Folder 13-26 previous hit   It's All True   next hit (Aug. 20, 1941-Jan. 17, 1945) 

Scripts, story treatments, etc. Includes materials for "My Friend Bonito" by Norman Foster and John Fante, draft of previous hit   It's All True   next hit by Elliot Paul, treatment for Jump for Joy dictated by Duke Ellington, scripts for "Praça Onze" sequences, and scripts for "Samba."

Box 17
Folder 1-7
previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Scripts, story treatments, etc. Includes drafts for Charlie's American Bar, Michael Gard, and the Jangadeiros story.

Folder 8-11 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Scores and music. Includes holograph scores of "Pan america & Folgo Nego" and "Carnaval" arranged by Paul Misraki.

Folder 12-13 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Production materials. Includes contract materials for Jesús Solórzano and Jesús Vázquez

Folder 14-16 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Financial materials

Folder 17-18 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Scripts and story synopses submitted but not used

Folder 19 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Miscellaneous

Folder 20-21 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

News stories, many by Tom Pettey

Folder 22-34 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Clippings

Box 18
Folder 1-10
previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Clippings

Folder 11 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Translations of newspaper articles folders 12-14: previous hit   It's All True   next hit . Jangadeiros publicity. Includes news stories, clippings and translations of articles

Folder 15-33 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Background materials. Topics include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Bertita Harding's Amazon Throne, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Salvador

Box 19
Folder 1-2
previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Background materials. Topics include Uruguay and Venezuela

Folder 3-40 previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Research materials. Materials include pamphlets, clippings and typescripts on the topics Amazon; Art; Baia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco & Paraiba; Simón Bolívar; Brazil History; Brazilian Alphabet; Brazilian Curiosities; Brazilian Independence and Jefferson; Brazilian Indians; Brazilian Kings; Carnaval in Rio; Catedral de Lima; Ceará; Coffee; Crime of Doña Carlota; Drought; Fawcett Expedition; Folk Music; Gaucho; God and Diamonds; Guatemala Heroes of Brazil; Holy Week in Ouro Preto; Imperatriz Teresa Cristina; Iron and Steel; Jangadeiros; Latin American Music; Legends and Fables; Matto Grosso; Minas Geraes; Palmares War; Piaui; Praça Onze; and Revolution of 1835

Box 20
Folder 1-9
previous hit   It's All True   next hit

Research materials. Topics include Rio de Janeiro; Rio Grande do Norte; Rio Grande do Sul; Romantic Adventurers; Rubber; Salvador (cidade); Samba; São Paulo, Paraná Y Goyáz; and Sugar and Brazilian Northeast.

See also Photographs; Oversize 15

Folder 10-13 Journey Into Fear (Aug., 1942-1943) 

Scripts

Folder 14 Journey Into Fear

Storyboard

Folder 15-19 Journey Into Fear

Production, financial, and publicity materials

See also Photographs

Folder 20 V & W (Aug., 1942) 

Scripts and production materials

Folder 21 Jane Eyre (Dec., 1942) 

Partial scripts and production materials

See also Photographs

Folder 22 The Outer Gate (Aug., 1943) 

Script, by John Tucker Battle

Folder 23-27 The Little Prince (1943) 

Scripts

Folder 28-35 Don't Catch Me (July, 1944) 

Scripts. Writers include Les White, Bud Pearson, Rose Krebs, and Orson Welles

Box 21
Folder 1-8
Don't Catch Me

Scripts and publicity materials

Folder 9 Tomorrow Is Forever (Mar., 1945) 

Script

See also Photographs

Folder 10-15 The Stranger (ca. Aug., 1945) 

Scripts and miscellaneous pages of scripts

Folder 16-18 The Stranger

Production, legal, and financial materials

See also Photographs; Oversize 16

Folder 19 Roosevelt Memorial Short (Welles & Colbert) (1945) 

Drafts of scripts

Folder 20 Lady from Shanghai (Aug., 1946-1947) 

Annotated book, If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King

Folder 21-23 Lady from Shanghai

Scripts

Box 22
Folder 1-4
Lady from Shanghai

Scripts

Folder 5-6 Lady from Shanghai

Production and financial materials, and clippings See also Photographs; Oversize 17

Folder 7-13 Macbeth (Mar., 1947) 

Scripts

Folder 14-18 Macbeth

Production materials, and publicity

See also Photographs; Oversize 18

Folder 19 Black Magic (July, 1947) 

Script and production materials

Folder 20 Bolivar's Idea (no date) 

Scripts, by John Tucker Battle

Folder 21 Carmen (n.d.) 

Script

Folder 22 Fully Dressed and In His Right Mind (n.d.) 

Partial scripts

Folder 23 Salome (n.d.) 

Partial scripts. Introduction by Fletcher Markle

Folder 24 [Untitled script about jazz] (n.d.) 
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