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American Literary Studies
Delmer Daves Papers
The Papers
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Call Number: M0192
Size: 38.5 linear ft.
Finding Guide: A printed version is available
in the reading room of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic
versions of this finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's
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Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of
Special Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the
Special Collections' Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library.
The Reading Room is open 10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday.
Photocopies, photographs, and microfilm can be made of some materials
in the collections. For more information about the collections and
access policies, please contact Special Collections by telephone
at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail at speccollref@stanford.edu
or by regular mail at the Department of Special Collections, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Delmar Daves: Born in 1904, Delmar Daves graduated
from Stanford University in 1927 and moved directly to Hollywood
where he pursued a career as an actor, appearing in such films as
The Bishop Murder Case (1930). In 1933, he became a scriptwriter
and worked on a series of successful projects including The Petrified
Forest (1936), The Go-Getter (1937), and Love Affair
(1939). In 1943, he moved to Warner Brothers as a Producer/Director
of his own scripts, making at least one film a year for the next
twenty years. Among them are Dark Passage (1947), Broken
Arrow (1950), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), A Summer Place
(1960), and Youngblood Hawke (1964). He also worked at
Twentieth Century Fox producing and directing films, including Demetrius
and the Gladiators (1953) and writing scripts, including An
Affair to Remember (1957).
Content: The archive includes correspondence, play and film
scripts, treatments of novels, adaptations, drafts, lists, photographs,
cartoons, diagrams, and working papers covering Daves' career in
the motion picture industry in Hollywood from 1930 to1965. Correspondents
include Anna Maria Alberghetti, Anne Bancroft, Julian Blaustein,
Walter Brennan, Jeff Chandler, Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Clark
Gable, Trevor Howard, Jimmy Stewart, Hal Wallis, Jack Warner, and
Daryl Zanuck.
Last modified:
July 3, 2006
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