BIB_ID
316988
Accession number
MA 3659.17
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
1948 June 29.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm
Notes
Fragile; housed with a preservation photocopy.
Addressed to "Mr. Oscar Danziggers / Aguila films / Havre 43, bis / Mexico, D.F."
Part of a large collection of letters, documents, memoranda, telegrams, clippings, printed matter and maps related to the film Viva Zapata!, which was produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
The letter is not signed; that Steinbeck is the author is inferred from the contents of the letter.
Addressed to "Mr. Oscar Danziggers / Aguila films / Havre 43, bis / Mexico, D.F."
Part of a large collection of letters, documents, memoranda, telegrams, clippings, printed matter and maps related to the film Viva Zapata!, which was produced by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1952.
The letter is not signed; that Steinbeck is the author is inferred from the contents of the letter.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Asking him to acquire three copies of Edgcumb Pinchon's book Zapata the Unconquerable and bring them to three experts on Zapata (Magana, Sote y Gama, and "the little man who is the curator of the State of Morelos library") and to ask them how much of the biography is true and how much is "the invention of Pinchon." Remarking that Pinchon "uses a number of highly dramatic scenes" which he would like to incorporate in the film Viva Zapata! if they are accurate.
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