Vale, Eugene, 1959 November 11
Scope and Content
"An address on the occasion of presenting the manuscript of The Thirteenth Apostle to the American Literature Collection, University of Southern California Library." Typescript with corrections. Includes introduction by Lewis Stieg, University Librarian. 12 leaves.
Dates
- Creation: 1959 November 11
Creator
- From the Collection: Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Allmond, Marcus Blakey (Person)
- From the Collection: Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) (Person)
- From the Collection: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (Person)
- From the Collection: Burgess, Gelett (Person)
- From the Collection: Cooper, James Fenimore (Person)
- From the Collection: Davie, Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Gioia, Dana (Person)
- From the Collection: Gosse, Edmund (Person)
- From the Collection: Herford, Oliver (Person)
- From the Collection: Howard, Robert, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lindsay, Vachel (Person)
- From the Collection: Lofting, Hugh (Person)
- From the Collection: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Person)
- From the Collection: Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Person)
- From the Collection: Maeterlinck, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Person)
- From the Collection: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Perkoff, Stuart Z. (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Cole (Person)
- From the Collection: Read, Thomas Buchanan (Person)
- From the Collection: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Runyon, Damon (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Saltus, Edgar (Person)
- From the Collection: Sherman, Frank Dempster (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Robert Louis (Person)
- From the Collection: Vale, Eugene (Person)
- From the Collection: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weismiller, Edward Ronald (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, Carolyn (Person)
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Biographical note
Perhaps best-remembered as the author of The 13th Apostle, a novel that spent 30 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, Eugene Vale also penned screenplays and teleplays, short stories and poetry. A native of Switzerland, Vale became a screenwriter for director Jean Renoir while living in Paris in 1934. When WWII erupted, Vale emigrated to the United States to write scripts in Hollywood. His first American script was for the war movie The Bridge of San Luis Rey. During the 1950s, Vale turned to television writing, penning plays for such distinguished anthology series as Fireside Theater, Lux Video Theater, and Hallmark Hall of Fame. His story "A Global Affair" was made into a Bob Hope film in 1964. Vale earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for the documentary The Dark Wave. When not writing, Vale gave lectures on screenwriting at various universities. He also published two textbooks on screenplay writing, The Technique of Screenplay Writing (1944) and The Technique of Screen and Television Writing (1983). Vale died of cancer at age 81 on May 2, 1997. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Extent
From the Collection: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 legal-size document box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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