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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2006-009", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1932-1984", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1932/1984"}
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1932
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1984
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1932
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{"value"=>"Patricia Bosworth papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The Patricia Bosworth Papers consist largely of her manuscripts and research files for <span class=\"title\">Montgomery Clift: A Biography</span> (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), but also contains material relating to other writings and professional activities."}
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{"value"=>"Patricia Bosworth papers, *T-Mss 2006-009. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
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{"value"=>"Bosworth, Patricia", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Biographer, journalist, editor, actress, and model, Patricia Bosworth was born April 24, 1933 in Oakland, California to famed attorney Bartley C. Crum and Anna Gertrude Bosworth, a writer. She had one younger brother, Bartley Crum Jr.</p> <p>Bosworth attended Miss Burke’s School and Convent of the Sacred Heart in California, where she became friends with Dianne (Goldman) Feinstein. At the age of thirteen, she decided to become an actress and to use her mother’s maiden name: Bosworth. In 1948, the family moved to New York City where Bosworth attended the Chapin School. She also attended École International in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1952, Bosworth eloped with an art student; the marriage lasted about a year.</p> <p>She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1955. Bosworth worked as a model and actress, becoming a member of the Actors Studio. She appeared in a number of stage, film, and television productions, such as <span class=\"title\">Inherit the Wind</span>(1955), <span class=\"title\">The Nun’s Story</span> (1959), and <span class=\"title\">Young Dr. Malone</span>(1958). Bosworth’s final Broadway position was as an understudy to Barbara Bel Geddes in <span class=\"title\">Mary, Mary</span> (1961) for approximately four years.</p> <p>In the mid 1960s, she left acting and became a full-time journalist. Bosworth worked as an editor at <span class=\"title\">Woman’s Day</span> and went on to become senior editor at <span class=\"title\">McCall’s</span> (1969 –1972), managing editor of <span class=\"title\">Harper’s Bazaar</span>(1972 – 1974), and executive editor of <span class=\"title\">Viva</span> (1974 – 1976). By the late 1960s, Bosworth’s byline could frequently be found in the arts section of <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> and other leading national publications. She has also been a contributing editor to <span class=\"title\">Vanity Fair</span>.</p> <p>One day, Bosworth came home from school to find her idol, actor Montgomery Clift, lying on the living room floor of her family’s upper East Side townhouse, discussing politics with her father. Bosworth’s father had arranged for Clift’s visit to Israel and for the actor to spend time at San Quentin to prepare for his role in <span class=\"title\">A Place in the Sun</span>. Bosworth’s father had also been campaign manager for 1940 Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, whom Clift greatly admired. When her father introduced her to Clift, a flustered Bosworth curtsied and Clift curtsied back. Some fifteen years after that introduction, subsequent to the 1956 car accident that had destroyed Clift’s handsome face, Bosworth did not recognize him when he approached her at the Actors’ Studio. When their conversation ended, Clift turned and then curtsied to Bosworth.</p> <p>After abandoning an attempt at a biography of Marlon Brando Clift, Bosworth chose Clift, who died in 1966 at the age of forty-five, as the subject of her first biography, Bosworth spent five years researching Clift and interviewing some two hundred and fifty people who knew him. She won the cooperation of the Clift family, especially Clift’s older brother Brooks, and Clift’s twin sister, Ethel Clift McGinnis. The book, <span class=\"title\">Montgomery Clift: A Biography</span>, was published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1978 to much critical acclaim. It became a bestseller and was published in several languages. In 1979, it was published in paperback by Bantam.</p> <p>Bosworth’s second biography was of photographer Diane Arbus (<span class=\"title\">Diane Arbus: A Biography</span>, Knopf, 1984), for whom she had modeled as a teen. Her <span class=\"title\">Marlon Brando: A Biography</span> (Viking Press, 2001), recounts the life of the actor who was, perhaps, the most influential of his generation.</p> <p>In her book, <span class=\"title\">Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story</span>(Simon & Schuster, 1997), Bosworth recounts and attempts to come to grips with the story of her powerful lawyer father, whose clients ranged from Harry Bridges, head of San Francisco’s longshoremen’s union, to movie star Rita Hayworth, and who served as advisor to such politicians as Harry Truman and Wendell Wilkie. Bosworth’s father defended the “Hollywood Ten” and later became a victim of the blacklist himself. In 1959, five years after her brother shot himself to death, Bosworth’s father also committed suicide.</p> <p>In 1966, Bosworth married playwright Mel Arrighi who died in 1986. <span class=\"title\">Anything Your Little Heart Desires</span> is dedicated to the late actor and director Tom Palumbo, who was probably Bosworth’s third husband. Bosworth is on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Patricia Bosworth Papers consist of manuscripts, galleys, interview notes, research materials, clippings, correspondence, and photographs mostly relating to her 1978 critically-acclaimed and best selling biography of actor Montgomery Clift: <span class=\"title\">Montgomery Clift: A Biography</span> (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), but also covering some of Bosworth’s other writing projects and professional activities.</p> <p>The papers contain a number of manuscript drafts of the Clift biography, although they are mostly undated and do not specify the version. There are also a number of materials surrounding its publication, such as a contract with Bosworth’s original publisher, Arbor House, a few financial items, and the memo outlining the idea for the book. A number of the photographs in the collection are those used in the book.</p> <p>Manuscripts, notes, and research materials may be found in the papers for a number of Bosworth’s other writing projects on the arts, including many articles, mostly written during the 1970s for leading magazines and <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span>. There is also a small folder of material for Bosworth’s second biography, <span class=\"title\">Diane Arbus: A Biography</span>, published in 1984 by Knopf. A program for <span class=\"title\">Choices</span>, a theatrical work conceived by Bosworth, Lily Lodge, and Caymichael Patten, presented by The Women’s Project in 1978 can also be found in the papers.</p> <p>A few personal papers, including notes from Bosworth’s mother and material from Sarah Lawrence College, are also included.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Patricia Bosworth papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21773#c462740'>Series I: Montgomery Clift: A Biography</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1949 - 1978</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>12 boxes 5 linear feet</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of Bosworth’s papers, particularly manuscripts, but also correspondence, extensive research files, photographs, negatives, clippings, publicity material, and other items documenting her 1978 biography of the actor Montogomery Clift, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, and then in paperback by Bantam in 1979.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21773#c462937'>Series II: Other Projects</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1937 - 1984 and Undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>4 boxes 2 linear feet</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains mostly manuscripts, notes, and clippings primarily for Bosworth’s profiles of performing arts notables and groups published in <span class=\"title\">The New York Times</span> and such magazines as <span class=\"title\">The New Yorker</span>, <span class=\"title\">McCall’s</span>, <span class=\"title\">Saturday Review</span>, <span class=\"title\">Holiday</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Publishers Weekly</span>. Profile subjects include playwrights Robert Anderson, Charles Gordone, and Harold Pinter, director Michelangelo Antonioni, and others such as Lee J. Cobb, James Coco, Miriam Colon, Ruby Dee, Arlo Guthrie, Stacy Keach, National Theater of the Deaf, Joseph Papp, Vanessa Redgrave, Herbert Ross, Robert Ryan, Paul Sorvino, and Ellen Stewart. There are also manuscripts for articles for which no publication information can be found, as well as several subject files. A small number of personal papers can be found at the end of this series. These include a few pieces of correspondence, several notes from Bosworth’s mother, Bosworth’s handwritten notes and lists, and several items from Sarah Lawrence College.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: <span class=\"title\">Montgomery Clift: A Biography</span>, 1932, 1935, 1940 - 1977 and Undated <ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Correspondence, 1973 - 1980</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Manuscripts, 1973 - ca. 1977</li> <li>Sub-series 3 - Research Files, 1932, 1935, 1940 - 1977, and Undated</li> <li>Sub-series 4 - General, 1973 - 1980 and ca. 1970s</li> <li>Sub-series 5 - Photographs and Negatives, 1949 - 1978</li></ul></li> <li>Series II: Other Projects, 1937 - 1984 and Undated</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Patricia Bosworth Papers were donated to the Billy Rose Theatre Division in 1984 by Patricia Bosworth.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Billy Rose Theatre Division: <ul> <li>Photo, b/w, <span class=\"title\">From Here to Eternity</span></li></ul></li> <li>TOFT (Theatre on Film and Tape): <ul> <li>1 3.5 inch reel of film clips of Montgomery Clift</li></ul></li> <li>Jerome Robbins Dance Division: <ul> <li>1 b/w photo of Crowsnest</li></ul></li></ul></p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Patricia Bosworth Papers, 1944-2002, Boston University, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center (Boston, Mass.)</p>"}
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2006-009", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Camille Croce Dee; Machine-readable finding aid created by Camille Croce Dee.</p>"}
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7 linear feet (16 boxes)
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1932
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1984
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1948
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1980