BIB_ID
317276
Accession number
MA 3659.46
Creator
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.
Display Date
1949 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to Elia Kazan in New York City.
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.
Typed on onionskin paper marked "Copy" and "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation."
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.
Typed on onionskin paper marked "Copy" and "Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation."
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Noting that he spent the weekend going through the screenplay for Viva Zapata! Discussing some of its shortcomings, including that it is forty pages too long and that "there isn't enough money at Fort Knox to pay for producing it." Discussing also its strong points, and asking him to show this letter to Steinbeck. Noting that if the Mexican government and church give their approval, he would like to work on the film the following summer.
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