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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Ellen Welch
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation
MSS 16120, A. E. Hochner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights '56" draft script, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was purchased from Royal Books by the Small Special Collections library at the University of Virginia on March 15, 2016.
Biographical / Historical
A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll draft script for an unproduced episode of the television series "Playwrights 56" produced by Fred Coe and based on stories by Ernest Hemingway. Hotchner and Hemingway were friends and informal business partners.
The show featured small scale dramas, often set in small towns or working class city neighborhoods. Writers included Gore Vidal, Sumner Locke Elliott, and J. P. Miller.
Scope and Contents
A. E. Hotchner and Sidney Carroll "Playwrights 56" draft script, (typescript)1956, for a television show based on a three-part scenario from short stories of Ernest Hemingway, and .03 cubic feet. This episode was unproduced but the series "Playwrights 56 produced by Fred Coe) ran on the National Broadcasting Company in 1955 for about a year.