"Harold Arlen's Blues Opera," typescript, annotated

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Title: "Harold Arlen's Blues Opera," typescript, annotated
Contributor: Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986
Published / Created: 1957 November
Abstract: Two scripts, typescript, representing revisions of Harold Arlen's 1946 stage musical, St. Louis Woman. Scripts are entitled Harold Arlen's Blues Opera, dated "Nov. 1957," and Harold Arlen's Free and Easy, circa 1959. The Blues Opera, annotated in an unidentified hand, is "based on a play by Arne [sic] Bontemps & Countee Cullen" and both scripts acknowledge "lyrics by Johnny Mercer." Free and Easy is inscribed "Property of: Stanley Ross..."
Description: Formerly owned by Stanley Ross. Purchased from Royal Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2013.
Harold Arlen (1905-1986), composer and songwriter.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Scripts (Documents)
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986
Subject (Topic): American drama--20th century
Authors, American--20th century
Dramatists, American--20th century
Musicals--Production and direction
Theater--Production and direction

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Citation: Harold Arlen Scripts. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.