BIB_ID
317578
Accession number
MA 3659.78
Creator
Tuck, James L., 1910-1980.
Display Date
[1952] Feb. 8.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28 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.
Typed on Tuck's personal stationery.
Typed on Tuck's personal stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Praising the film Viva Zapata!, noting that it is the first time he has ever sat through a double showing of a movie. Remarking on his own interest in Mexico (noting that his wife is Mexican), and praising the film as truly magnificent. Noting that "it took the combined forces of all the real artists connected with the production" but that "superior films start with superior screenwriting."
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