A Guide to the Booth Tarkington Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7416-m
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Booth Tarkington Collection, Accession 7416-m, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1990 September 10
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Item Listing
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" A Great Man's Career , " a silent film scenario by Booth Tarkingtonca. 1920AMsS, 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.