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The Marcel Hellman Papers document Hellman's work as an independent film producer
in
Germany and England from the 1930s through the 1960s. Mostly a record of Hellman's
professional life, the papers include agreements, assignments, certificates,
correspondence, legal documents, press releases, promotional magazines, receipts,
screenplays, and treatments. Also included are lists of films that Hellman made,
films that he was unable to complete, properties he owned in association, and
properties he privately owned. The papers are arranged into two series: I. Film
Productions, 1931-1993, and II. Correspondence, 1958-1985. |
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Series I. Film Productions is arranged alphabetically by production. Materials that
were not clearly related to specific productions are gathered in two folders at
the
end of the series. Series II. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by
correspondent. |
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Overall, the papers provide insight into the activities of independent film producers
and the development of the British film industry over a large span of the twentieth
century. Significant figures documented in the papers include Vittorio de Sica,
Howard Koch, Alexander Korda, Angela Lansbury, James Mason, Kim Novak, Emeric
Pressburger, and Peggy Robertson, who was Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer
for
25 years and Hellman's primary correspondent in the early 1980s. Also documented
are
Hellman's interactions with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with whom Hellman produced
two
films when both were directors of Criterion Film Productions Ltd.--Accused (1936) and Jump for
Glory, released as When Thief Meets Thief
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