{"value"=>"<p>Series III contains Silverman's files on The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox, such as research materials, notes, drafts, and publicity materials. For this book, Silverman collected even more original materials than for his others. This series also contains Silverman's proposal for the book, his notebooks, and several dated full drafts of the book. There are typed and hand-written fragments of the book, often filed with copies of the documents pertinent to that particular segment of the book. The many articles Silverman collected copies of cover all aspects of 20th Century Fox in the 1960s and 1970s, from the studio's ever present financial problems, to gossip on Zanuck's feuds with his directors and stars, to critiques of his management of the studio.</p> <p>Silverman was originally writing the book in collaboration with Henry de Meyer, who had at one time worked for the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). SRI was brought in by Fox in 1970, to analyze the operations of the corporation to attain maximum efficiency. Original documents from SRI include letters and memos between SRI staff and Fox staff, a report on 20th Century Fox's profits during the 1970s, and strategic plans and management action programs SRI created for Fox in the 1970s. Their suggestions included expanding into untapped international markets, acquiring a second television station, and making films on a lower budget.</p> <p>Another source of information for Silverman was former Chairman of 20th Century Fox's Stockholders Protective Committee Charles M. Lewis, who wrote to Silverman, offering assistance and copies of documents he created or collected while serving in that capacity. These include minutes from the Stockholders Protective Committee meetings, stock reports, budgets, and correspondence between Lewis and Zanuck and other Fox executives. Other documents Silverman acquired copies of are letters between Fox's Executive Vice President in charge of Finance, Dennis C. Stanfill and Zanuck, discussing the finances and management of the studio.</p> <p>Original documents Silverman collected include souvenir programs for Cleopatra, Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Hello, Dolly! One item of note is a copy of a 1962 letter Zanuck wrote to Cleopatra's director and producer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, discussing the problems with the film. Silverman's process of publishing and publicizing the book is documented with correspondence and agreements with his original collaborator, Henry de Meyer, and with editors and publishers at his original publishing house, Warner Books and his eventual publisher, Lyle Stuart. Articles publicizing Silverman's book document the media attention the book received. This series has been left in original order.</p> <p>Electronic records held in this series are Acknowledgments, Prologue, Part 1, another except, and the Bibliography from The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century Fox.</p>"}