Author: LEWIS, Sinclair
Title: Archive for Radio Performance of Dodsworth
Description: 1946. Documents. Collection of SIGNED contracts along with a copy of the original script for the 6 October 1946 radio performance presented by The Theatre Guild on the Air. Included are a 15 July 1946 two-page contract SIGNED by Sinclair Lewis, Theatre Guild co-administrator Armina Marshall, and Polly Damrosch Howard, widow of Sidney Howard who wrote the script; 2 one-page contracts dated 24 September 1946 SIGNED by Marshall and actress Jessie Royce Landis; a one-page contract dated 13 September 1946 SIGNED by Marshall and actor Walter Huston; a two-page undated contract SIGNED by Marshall and writer Arthur Arent who adapted the script to radio; the 65-page unmarked script for DODSWORTH; and a program from the Shubert Theater for the 1934 Broadway production of DODSWORTH starring Huston. Landis was a character actress appearing in many films including TO CATCH A THIEF and NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, directed by his son John Huston. In addition to starring in the 1934 Broadway adaptation of DODSWORTH, he starred in the play's film version released two years later, which was nominated for 7 Oscars. Sidney Howard was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel ARROWSMITH and again in 1936 for DODSWORTH, which he had adapted for the stage in 1934. After dying in a tragic accident on his farm, he was the first posthumous winner of an Academy Award (1939) for his adapted screenplay for GONE WITH THE WIND. Scarce collection of original material related to this Lewis production. Near Fine .

Keywords: Signed, Walter Huston, Modern First Editions, Archives, Radio Theater, Sinclair Lewis, Modern Firsts, 20th Century American Literature, Literary Archives Signed Modern First Editions Literary Archives Literature: American


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