Papers, 1921-1976 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Correspondence; writings, including short stories, newspaper articles, film criticism, mss. of One in a Billion (1974), The Old Gentleman (1974), Hollywood Encounter (1976), a translation from the French of Louis Verneil's Long Live the King and The Human Nature of Playwriting (1949), and translations, programs, mss., and finished version of The Jazz Singer (1925), The Magnificent Heel (1930), The Wooden Stripper (1934), Accent on Youth (1935), White Man (1938), Skylark (1939), Jason (1942), The Perfect Marriage (1944), Hilda Crane (1950), The Peanut Bag (1967), and an unproduced Israeli-American play (1971); and other papers. Includes transcriptions of an oral history interview by Columbia University oral history project, taped interviews by Robert Carringer, and family discussion tapes with comments by his wife, Dorothy Wegman Raphaelson, son, Joel Raphaelson, and daughter-in-law, Mary Kay Raphaelson, relating to childhood in New York and Chicago, University of Illinois, writing, Ernst Lubitsch, Alfred Hitchcock, Raphaelson's plays, and other topics. Correspondents include Sinclair Lewis, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stuart P. Sherman