Series II: Produced Works

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1945
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1998
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{"value"=>"<p>Produced Works contains material relating to the artistic development and production of Paddy's works, including radio plays, stage plays and screenplays, and serves as a record of the life cycle of his productions from notes on the initial concept to the promotion of the final product. The type of material contained in this series ranges from correspondence with directors, producers and studios to promotional material and clippings. Many productions are represented through multiple treatment and script drafts (many annotated by Chayefsky), as well as a quantity of discarded material kept in the original bulk order as it was received. Research material, often heavily annotated by Chayefsky, is available, as is related ephemera such as programs and flyers. Production files often contain notes on casting and staffing, rehearsal schedules, and shooting schedules. Some foreign productions and revivals have also been documented here, though this should not be considered an exhaustive source of information on these productions. Also included are a number of notebooks containing early development notes and brainstorming for various productions.</p> <p>Chayefsky's later works, specifically <span class=\"title\">The Latent Heterosexual</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Hospital</span>, <span class=\"title\">Network</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Altered States</span> are most extensively represented in this collection, while his work during the <span class=\"title\">Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse</span> era is less thoroughly documented, often with only a single copy of a script extant to represent many of his radio and teleplays. Notable within this series is a script from Chayefsky's first theatrical project, <span class=\"title\">No T.O. For Love</span>, which he wrote while serving in the US Army, and which opened on the West End in 1945. Documentation of a lawsuit brought against Chayefsky by one of his scientific consultants on <span class=\"title\">Altered States</span> is also present.</p> <p>Finally, a number of spiral-bound notebooks reside in this series containing development notes, fragments of dialogue and other draft material relating to both produced and unproduced works, as well as material unrelated to specific productions. Often, material for multiple works is contained in a single notebook. Many of these productions are referenced by working or descriptive titles only while other works remain unidentified. Notes for Jackie Gleason's <span class=\"title\">Gigot</span> can be found here, as well as a diary kept during his 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. Extensive notes for <span class=\"title\">The Passion of Josef D.</span>, <span class=\"title\">Gideon</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Latent Heterosexual</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Hospital</span> are included, as are remarks on Walter Wanger's script for <span class=\"title\">Cleopatra</span>, and draft material for a number of unproduced works including a television series about the life of photographer Robert Capa and a play about Lee Harvey Oswald.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical</p>"}
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  1. Altered States [10/1]
  2. The Americanization of Emily [6/1]
  3. The Bachelor Party [11/1]
  4. The Big Deal, correspondence
  5. Catch My Boy on Sunday, correspondence
  6. The Catered Affair [2/1]
  7. The Cincinnati Kid, correspondence
  8. Danger, correspondence and contract relating to episode Hello, Mr Lutz
  9. A Few Kind Words From Newark, script
  10. George Washington Slept Here, Script, "Final rehearsal"
  11. Gideon [6/1]
  12. A Gift From Cotton Mather, script for Gulf Playhouse
  13. The Goddess [9/1]
  14. Holiday Song [2/1]
  15. The Hospital [6/1]
  16. Ice Station Zebra [21/1]
  17. The Latent Heterosexual [8/1]
  18. Marty [9/1]
  19. The Meanest Man In The World [2/1]
  20. Middle of the Night [3/1]
  21. The Mother [7/1]
  22. Network [7/1]
  23. No T.O. For Love [3/1]
  24. Over Twenty-One [1/1]
  25. Paint Your Wagon [6/1]
  26. The Passion of Joseph D. [4/1]
  27. Printer's Measure [3/1]
  28. Put Them All Together [2/1]
  29. The Spectacle Lady, radio script
  30. Tommy [2/1]
  31. The Tenth Man [6/1]
  32. There You Are, correspondence and contracts relating to episode titled "Wrong Way Corrigan,"
  33. Untitled production [2/1]
  34. Notebooks [16/1]