A Guide to the Booth Tarkington Collection #7416-m

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Repository

University of Virginia. Library. Special Collections Dept. Alderman Library University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 USA

Collection is open to research.

Booth Tarkington Collection, Accession 7416-m, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Purchase 1990 September 10

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Manuscript

" A Great Man's Career , " a silent film scenario by Booth Tarkington
ca. 1920
AMsS, 115 p.

Written in pencil on 115 hand-numbered pages, 1-85 (p. 74 missing), 36-48, and 1-18, on 14" plain orange paper, with numerous pencilled revisions by the author. The text contains captions to appear in the film and descriptions of the scenes. According to Russo and Sullivan's A Bibliography of Booth Tarkington 1869-1946 , he wrote a number of scenarios for motion pictures released between 1920 and 1931. This manuscript may be an unproduced script, as there is no description for a production of this title listed.

A Guide to the Booth Tarkington Collection