- Additional Authors
- Description
- 15.96 linear feet (38 boxes)
- 2 reel to reel films
- 4 sound recordings
- Subjects
- Note
- The Dale Wasserman Papers, Sound Recordings and Moving Image Materials is held by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Papers are held in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, sound recordings in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound and moving image materials in Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT).
- Biography (note)
- Dale Wasserman playwright, screenwriter and television writer has worked in show business since the age of nineteen.
- Call Number
- THE Mss 1996-027
- OCLC
- NYPW98-A448
- Author
Wasserman, Dale.
- Title
Dale Wasserman papers, sound recordings and moving image materials, 1940-2008.
- Biography
Dale Wasserman playwright, screenwriter and television writer has worked in show business since the age of nineteen. His early forays into theater include work as a lighting designer, director and producer. Around 1955 he began his writing career and it is this for which he is best noted. His early work for television included such series as the Dupont Theatre, Armstrong Circle Theater and Kraft Television Theatre. His work for the Dupont Theatre included the award winning television plays The Lincoln Murder Case and I, Don Quixote, on which the musical Man of La Mancha is based. Among his credits include the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, as well as the motion pictures The Vikings and Cleopatra.
Some of his later work includes Shakespeare and the Indians and Western Star, both of which were produced outside of New York City.
- Added Author
Wasserman, Dale. I, Don Quixote.
Leigh, Mitch, 1928-2014. Man of La Mancha.
Wasserman, Dale. One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
- Research Call Number
THE Mss 1996-027