BIB_ID
317331
Accession number
MA 3659.61
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1950 May].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 28.1 cm
Notes
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.
Signed "John" and "Gadg" (i.e., Kazan).
Signed "John" and "Gadg" (i.e., Kazan).
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Responding in detail to his letter (MA 3659.60). Noting that it is not their intention to produce a historical drama, but to use the historical character to "highlight and perhaps explain the problems of the present day." Disagreeing with his suggestion that the actors speak with Mexican accents and discussing the possibility of using a Corrida singer as the narrator, suggesting that the film could be framed around Silva (a Corrida singer who rode with Zapata). Agreeing with most of his points and asking for further suggestions on how to cut the script. With a postscript noting that Kazan, in addition to being the most expensive, is probably the worst typist in the world.
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