Finding Aid of the Irving Shulman papers
Table of Contents
Finding aid prepared by Rebecca Hirsch and Mandeep Condle, 2010
The processing of this collection and the creation of this finding aid was funded by the generous support of the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.
Summary Information
- Repository
- USC Libraries Special Collections
- Creator
- Shulman, Irving
- Title
- Irving Shulman papers
- Collection no.
- 0021
- Date [inclusive]
- 1931-1970
- Extent
- 19.67 Linear feet, 19 boxes, 1 map case folder
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- This collection contains the papers of the novelist, screenwriter, and biographer Irving Shulman, who is best known for writing the screenplay for Rebels Without a Cause. His papers include manuscripts and typescripts of screenplays, short stories, novels, and biographies.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Irving Shulman papers, Collection no. 0021, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Biographical Note
Irving Shulman was a novelist, screenwriter and biographer of Rudolph Valentino, Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Jean Harlow. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania on May 21, 1913. Shulman received his BA from Ohio University in 1937, his MA from Columbia in 1938, and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1972. During World War II he worked for the War Department in Washington, D.C. He married Joan Grager in 1938, and they had two daughters.
The Dukes of Amboy, his first novel (and biggest literary success), mined the neighborhoods in which Shulman had grown up and was published in 1947. Shulman moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s, where he worked as a contract screenwriter and continued to write novels. As a screenwriter, he is best known as the author of the screenplay for the 1955 movie Rebels Without a Cause. Shulman later adapted the movie's plot for his novel Children of the Dark. In the 1960s, Shulman wrote biographies of Jean Harlow (1964), Rudolph Valentino (1967), and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis (1970). Shulman passed away on March 23, 1995.
Scope and Content
This collection contains manuscripts and typescripts of Irving Shulman's screenplays, short stories, novels, and biographies of Jean Harlow, Rudolph Valentino and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Also included in this collection are publisher's galleys for some of his books and various literary periodical publications from the 1930s. Please refer to the Scope and Content notes of individual series for more information.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
USC Libraries Special Collections
2010
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
The collection contains published materials; researchers are reminded of the copyright restrictions imposed by publishers on reusing their articles and parts of books. It is the responsibility of researchers to acquire permission from publishers when reusing such materials. The copyright to unpublished materials belongs to the heirs of the writers. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Related Materials
Related Archival Materials
Ohio University's Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections has the Irving Shulman Collection (MSS# 98).
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
- Manuscripts
- Typescripts
Personal Name(s)
- Harlow, Jean, 1911-1937
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
- Shulman, Irving -- Archives
- Valentino, Rudolph, 1895-1926
Subject(s)
- Authors, American--20th century--Archival resources
- Biographers--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
- Celebrities--United States--Biography--Archival resources
- Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Collection Inventory
Series 1: NovelsScope and ContentSeries consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of novels written by Irving Shulman. Series also includes notes, promotional materials, and book reviews for a few works, including The Roots of Fury and The Velvet Knife. ArrangementSeries is arranged in alphabetical order by title of the final, published work. Unidentified drafts are at the end of the series. |
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The Amboy Dukes |
Map-case 5 |
Drawer 4 |
Box 1 |
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Because We're Friends |
Box 1 |
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The Big Brokers |
Map-case 5 |
Drawer 4 |
Box 1 |
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Calibre |
Box 1 |
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Children of the Dark |
Box 1 |
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College Confidential |
Box 1 |
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Cry Tough |
Box 1 |
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Good Deeds Must Be Punished |
Box 1-3 |
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I Want to Live |
Box 3 |
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The Notorious Landlady |
Box 3 |
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Platinum High School |
Box 3 |
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The Roots of Fury |
Box 3 |
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Rusty Desmond |
Box 3 |
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The Square Trap |
Box 3-4 |
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Things They Understand |
Box 4 |
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The Velvet Knife |
Box 4 |
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Unidentified Drafts |
Box 4 |
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Miscellaneous Book Reviews |
5 | 4 | ||
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Series 2: GalleysScope and ContentSeries includes galleys for a few novels and biographies written by Irving Shulman. |
Box 4-5 |
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Series 3: Short Stories and PlaysScope and ContentSeries contains short stories and plays written by Shulman. |
Box 5-6 |
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Series 4: ScreenplaysScope and ContentSeries contains draft and final screenplays and screen treatments Shulman wrote for film and television. |
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Movies |
Box 6-7 |
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Television |
Box 7 |
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Series 5: BiographiesScope and ContentSeries contains drafts of the three biographies written by Shulman: Harlow: An Intimate Biography, Valentino, and Jackie!: The Exploitation of a First Lady. Series also contains Shulman's extensive research and note files on Valentino and Onassis, and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Valentino Shulman purchased. |
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Jean Harlow |
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Drafts |
Box 7-8 |
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Research and Notes |
Box 8 |
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
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Drafts |
Box 8 |
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Research and Notes |
Box 9 |
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Rudolph Valentino |
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Drafts |
Box 9-13 |
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Research and Notes |
Box 14 |
Map-case 5 |
Drawer 4 |
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Series 6: Personal PapersScope and ContentSeries contains a few files of Shulman's papers. These papers include Shulman's 1949 and 1954 applications for Guggenheim Fellowships and the text of a lecture he gave to a social welfare organization in New York in 1940. |
Box 14 |
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Series 7: Publications |
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List of Publications |
15 | 5 | ||
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The Lamplighter (2 copies), 1936 January |
15 | 6 | ||
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The Lamplighter (2 copies), 1936 March |
15 | 6 | ||
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The Lamplighter (2 copies), 1936 April |
15 | 6 | ||
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Literature, 1936 January |
15 | 7 | ||
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Literature, 1936 April |
15 | 7 | ||
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Mid West, 1936 November |
15 | 8 | ||
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New Masses, 1932 February |
15 | 9 | ||
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Matrix (2 copies), 1935 April |
15 | 10 | ||
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Matrix (2 copies), 1935 May |
15 | 10 | ||
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The Saturday Review, 1935 December 14 |
15 | 11 | ||
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The Saturday Review, 1935 December 21 |
15 | 11 | ||
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The Saturday Review, 1935 December 28 |
15 | 11 | ||
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The American Mercury |
15 | 12 | ||
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American Stuff, Vol 1, No.3 |
15 | 13 | ||
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The Anvil, 1934 January - February |
15 | 14 | ||
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The Anvil, 1934 July - August |
15 | 14 | ||
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The Anvil, 1934 September - October |
15 | 14 | ||
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The Blaze, 1934 October |
15 | 15 | ||
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The Book League Monthly, 1930 February |
16 | 1 | ||
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The Book League Monthly, 1929 November |
16 | 2 | ||
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The Calithump, 1934 July |
16 | 3 | ||
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Circle, 1946 July |
16 | 4 | ||
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Creative, 1936 November - December |
16 | 5 | ||
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The Dial Dubuque, 1934 December |
16 | 6 | ||
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Fantasy, Winter 1933 |
16 | 7 | ||
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Fantasy Summer 1934 |
16 | 7 | ||
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Gotham Book Mart Catalogue, 1936 |
16 | 8 | ||
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Grump, 1965 May |
16 | 9 | ||
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The Hound & Horn, Spring 1931 |
16 | 10 | ||
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The Hound & Horn, 1933 July - September |
16 | 11 | ||
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International Who's Who - Monthly Supplement, 1947 February |
16 | 12 | ||
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International Who's Who - Monthly Supplement, 1947 July |
16 | 12 | ||
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Justice For Salcido, 1948 |
16 | 13 | ||
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Kosmos, 1934 March - April |
16 | 14 | ||
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The Lance, 1934 April |
16 | 15 | ||
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The Magazine, 1934 July - December |
16 | 16 | ||
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Manuscript (3 copies), 1934 January |
16 | 17 | ||
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Manuscript, 1934 April / June |
16 | 18 | ||
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Manuscript, 1934 August / December |
16 | 19 | ||
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Manuscript, 1935 February / April |
16 | 20 | ||
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Manuscript (2 copies), 1935 June |
16 | 21 | ||
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Manuscript, 1935 August |
16 | 22 | ||
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Manuscript, 1935 October |
16 | 22 | ||
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Manuscript, 1935 December |
16 | 23 | ||
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Manuscript, 1936 February |
16 | 23 | ||
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Manuscript (2 copies), 1936 April |
16 | 24 | ||
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Manuscript, 1936 June |
16 | 25 | ||
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Manuscript, 1936 August |
16 | 25 | ||
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Manuscript, 1936 October |
16 | 26 | ||
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Manuscript, 1936 December |
16 | 26 | ||
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Medallion, 1934 August - September |
16 | 27 | ||
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The New Talent, 1934 June - August |
16 | 28 | ||
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The New Talent, 1934 September - November |
16 | 28 | ||
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The New Talent, 1935 October - December |
16 | 29 | ||
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The New Tide, 1934 October - November |
16 | 30 | ||
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Partisan Review, Winter 1939 |
16 | 31 | ||
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The Penguin New Writing I, 1941 |
16 | 32 | ||
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River, 1937 April |
16 | 33 | ||
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The Rocking Horse, Fall 1934 |
16 | 34 | ||
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Scope, 1934 September - October |
16 | 35 | ||
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Story, 1934 February |
17 | 2 | ||
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Story, 1934 June |
17 | 2 | ||
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Story, 1935 March |
17 | 3 | ||
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Skyline, 1934 March |
17 | 1 | ||
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Story, 1941 May - June |
17 | 3 | ||
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Story, 1941 September - October |
17 | 4 | ||
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Story, 1942 March - April |
17 | 4 | ||
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Teguayo, undated |
17 | 5 | ||
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This Quarter, 1930 December |
17 | 6 | ||
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The Transatlantic Review, 1924 January |
17 | 7 | ||
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The Transatlantic Review, 1924 February |
16 | 7 | ||
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Trend, 1934 October - November |
18 | 1 | ||
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Windsor Quarterly, Spring 1934 |
18 | 2 | ||
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Windsor Quarterly, Autumn 1934 |
18 | 2 | ||
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