BIB_ID
317581
Accession number
MA 3659.79
Creator
Coughlin, John J., O.F.M.
Display Date
1952 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1964.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 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 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation carbon paper. The original was apparently typed or written on Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America stationery.
Typed on Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation carbon paper. The original was apparently typed or written on Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck in 1964.
Summary
Remarking that the impending release of the film Viva Zapata! has been brought to the attention of his department. Remarking that three actors in the film have "records of affiliation with organizations deemed as subversive or communistic" and that all of the books they have obtained on Zapata depict him as a "brutal and ruthless General" glorified by the Mexican Communist Party in America. Requesting, therefore, a special screening of the film to determine "whether the content is injurious to our organization's ideals an principles."
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