{"value"=>"<p>Includes personal and professional correspondence between Chayefsky and various individuals including friends, associates, and notable public figures. Of note is his correspondence with production designer Ted Haworth, which contains letters discussing personal and professional events in a significantly more candid manner than is usual for Chayefsky. Tyrone Guthrie's letters discuss the development of <span class=\"title\">Gideon</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Passion of Josef D.</span> A 1960 letter to Walter Wanger presents extensive notes on the script for <span class=\"title\">Cleopatra</span>, and a character analysis and suggestions for Elizabeth Taylor's portrayal of Cleopatra are addressed in a letter to Martin Goldblatt.</p> <p>The Della Wasserman file includes letters and V-mail sent by Chayefsky during his World War II service in Germany and discusses both his war experiences and the development of his first production, <span class=\"title\">No T. O. For Love</span> in a remarkably frank fashion, and his thoughts on war are later revisited in a letter to Cecil Woolf containing his stance against the conflict in Viet Nam. Molly Kazan's letters deal with <span class=\"title\">Fifth From Garibaldi</span>, an unfinished play about the life of a boxer. There is a quantity of correspondence between Chayefsky and various members of the Beat movement, including Allen Ginsberg, Ray and Bonnie Bremser and William Morris. Other notable correspondents include Fred Coe, Eddie Fisher, Johnny Friedkin, Harold Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, Theodore (Teddy) Kollek, Burt Lancaster, Josh Logan, Mark Marvin, Arthur Schlessinger Jr., and Jule Styne.</p> <p>Also included here are files containing general casting correspondence for which no specific production was identified, and files containing letters both from the general public and from members of the entertainment community in response to his remarks during the 1978 Academy Awards chastising Vanessa Redgrave for remarks made during her Oscar acceptance speech.</p>"}