Series I: Legal Rights and Permissions Requests

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1930

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1971

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{"value"=>"<p>The Legal Rights and Permissions Requests series contains Hemingway's legal dealings with domestic and foreign movie, television, radio, recordings for the blind, stage, and publishing companies. Hemingway received a barrage of requests to publish and adapt his novels and short stories. Without a literary agent, his publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, filtered these requests directly through Hemingway's lawyers Maurice J. Speiser (from 1929 to 1948) and Alfred Rice (from 1945-1969). Much of the materials are retained carbon copy responses from the lawyers to rights requests and re-typed copies of Hemingway's letters. These document contract negotiations for 22 of Hemingway's short stories and novels.</p> <p>Among the prominent adaptations documented are Paramount Pictures' <span class=\"title\">For Whom the Bell Tolls</span> (1943), Twentieth Century Fox's <span class=\"title\">The Snows of Kilimanjaro</span> (1952), Warner Brother's <span class=\"title\">The Old Man and the Sea</span> (1958), and a CBS television production of <span class=\"title\">For Whom the Bell Tolls</span> (1959). Also of note are communications regarding the aborted Ernest Hemingway Theatre television series, proposed in 1955 by Republic Pictures, which planned to create 39 episodes based on Hemingway short stories. Additionally, Speiser and Rice communicated with Columbia Pictures, MCA, MGM, RKO, and Universal Pictures, along with various magazine and anthology publishers. International business included rights permissions for companies in Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, and Sweden. Of note is a folder of letters to the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine both praising and disparaging Hemingway's writing, with one letter impugning his character and morality.</p> <p>The Estate series contains some additional rights and permissions dealings, managed by Hemingway's executors.</p>"}

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1930

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1971

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1930

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1. "Death in the Afternoon," [2/1]
2. To Have and Have Not - Film
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls [3/1]
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Sun Also Rises - Publication Mexico
5. A Farewell to Arms [4/1]
6. Men at War - Publication
7. "The Fifth Column," [2/1]
8. "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," [3/1]
9. "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," [3/1]
10. Across the River and Into the Trees
11. "The Great Blue River" - Publication [2/1]
12. "After the Storm" - Publication
13. "Hills Like White Elephants" - Publication
14. "The Christmas Gift" - Publication
15. "The Dangerous Summer" - Publication
16. "The Killers" - Theater, Radio, Television, and Film
17. "In Our Time" - Film
18. "On the Blue Water" - Publication
19. "The Undefeated" - Publication
20. "The Spanish Earth" - Publication and Film
21. "Fifty Grand" - Television and Radio
22. "Nobody Ever Dies" - Film and Publication
23. "Wine in Wyoming" - Publication
24. "The Light of the World" - Publication
25. "The Big Two-Hearted River," [2/1]
26. Anthologies [3/1]
27. Magazine Requests [4/1]
28. Radio Requests [4/1]
29. Recording Requests [2/1]
30. Television [3/1]
31. Rights Requests [6/1]
32. [No unit title or unit date]