BIB_ID
317311
Accession number
MA 3659.58
Creator
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 1902-1979.
Display Date
1950 May 3.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Fragile; housed with a preservation photocopy.
Addressed to John Steinbeck 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.
Sent from a Western Union telegraph office in West Los Angeles.
Addressed to John Steinbeck 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.
Sent from a Western Union telegraph office in West Los Angeles.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Saying how delighted he is with the script for Viva Zapata! and promising to send his suggestions to "Gadg" (i.e., Kazan) that day. Remarking that he does not think it should be published before the release of the film because critics will "make up their minds exactly what the picture should look like and if it does not look exactly like their own visualization of it then they do not judge it fairly," but noting that he has no objection to a scenario being published after the release of the film.
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