Claude Rains annotated script, 1952

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
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Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16661, Claude Rains annotated script, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
.03 Cubic Feet One letter size folder
Creator:
Rains, Claude, 1889-1967
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16661, Claude Rains annotated script, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains Claude Rains' copy of the Jefferson Heritage with extensive annotations and emendations. This bound volume is contemporary buckram with two leaves and old cello tape repairs.

In 1952, the National Association of Educational Broadcasters received funding from the Ford Foundation for The Jefferson Heritage, a 13 part series on Thomas Jefferson's influence on American life. Dr. Dumas Malone, professor of history at Columbia University, collaborated with Morton Wishengrad, an accomplished screenwriter, Frank Papp, producer and director, Wladimir Selinsky, music composer and conductor, and others, with Claude Rains starring at Jefferson. This volume contains the scripts for the first six episodes broadcast by the National Association of Educational Broadcasters.

There is also a monogram on the front board of "M.S.B.," the initials of Margaret Slingluff Brinton, a friend of Rains when he lived in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Acquisition information:
This collection was purchased from William Hutchison by the Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia on November 1, 2021.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Screenplays