- Published / Created:
- 1957 November
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 795
- Collection Title:
- Harold Arlen scripts
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 139
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- 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. and Harold Arlen (1905-1986), composer and songwriter.
- Subject (Name):
- Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986
- Subject (Topic):
- American drama--20th century, Authors, American--20th century, Dramatists, American--20th century, Musicals--Production and direction, and Theater--Production and direction
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > "Harold Arlen's Blues Opera," typescript, annotated
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