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Series 2. Film, circa 1925-1985 (continued)
Five, circa 1948-1984 (bulk 1948-1952)
Released: 1951. Production company: Lobo Productions. Distribution company: Columbia Pictures Corp. Director: Arch Oboler. Producer: Arch Oboler. Writer: Arch Oboler. Cast includes: William Phipps (Michael Rogin); Susan Douglas (Roseanne); James Anderson (Eric). Photography: Louis Clyde Stouman. Plot: The only five people to survive a nuclear holocaust try to survive in a rural area near New York City. Ultimately the group is reduced by conflict, radiation sickness, and murder to just a man and a woman.
Notes: Filmed in 1950 on a low budget, Five was shot mainly in and around "Cliff House," the futuristic house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Oboler and his wife in the Santa Monica Mountains. The film was nominated for best-written American low-budget movie by the Screen Writers Guild in 1952.
Among the correspondence with cast and crew are items concerning lawsuits filed by Oboler and a cameraman, Arthur Swerdloff, over a scuffle on the movie set. A disagreement between Oboler and Columbia Pictures over the pairing of Five with the controversial film M in theaters is also documented.
Cast and crew, 1948-1951
BOX 80 FOLDER 1 Actors, correspondence, 1948 November-1951 December
BOX 80 FOLDER 2 Gena Gilbert photographs, circa 1951
BOX 80 FOLDER 3-4 Only Woman employees, 1950 June-1951 January
Distribution, promotion, and publicity, 1950-1984
BOX 80 FOLDER 5-6 Columbia Pictures, 1951 February-1952 May
BOX OS 1 FOLDER 6 Dutch movie poster and Columbia Pictures advertisements, undated
FOLDER map folder 10 Autographed poster, ©1951
ID: RS 12304 G25
Map case: RPM 00024 (map folder 10)
BOX 80 FOLDER 7 1951 July-1952 January
BOX 81 FOLDER 1 Miscellaneous, 1951 April-1959 June
BOX 81 FOLDER 2 Premiere, Los Angeles, 1951 August-1952 March
BOX 81 FOLDER 3 Pre-sale publicity, 1950 November-1952 January
BOX 81 FOLDER 4 Miscellaneous photographs, undated
BOX 81 FOLDER 5 Advertisements for The World, The Flesh and the Devil, and Night of the Comet, 1984 October and undated
BOX 81 FOLDER 6 Program from Screen Writer's Guild Fourth Annual Awards, 1952 February 25
Financial, 1949-1955
BOX 81 FOLDER 7-8 Bookkeeping for Last Woman, 1950 July-1952 May
BOX 81 FOLDER 9 Bookkeeping for Five, 1950 May-1954 April
BOX 82 FOLDER 1 Investors, 1950 May-1955 May
BOX 82 FOLDER 2 Post-distribution receipts, 1951 March, December
BOX 82 FOLDER 3 Motion picture rights agreement, 1950 July
BOX 82 FOLDER 4 Only Woman budgets, undated
BOX 82 FOLDER 5 Only Woman contracts, 1949 November-1951 April
BOX 82 FOLDER 6 Release of mortgage, 1951 March
BOX 82 FOLDER 7 Possible investors, 1949 May-1952 June
Legal and lawsuits, 1950-1952 February
BOX 82 FOLDER 8 Arthur Swerdloff, 1950 June-1952 February
Production, filming, 1949-1952
BOX 83 FOLDER 1 Camera reports -- CFI, Armistead, 1950 July-August
BOX 83 FOLDER 2-3 Camera reports, editing sheets, breakdown of film, 1950 July-October
BOX 83 FOLDER 4 Miscellaneous business, 1949 February-1951 June
BOX 83 FOLDER 5 Sound sheets and dubbing sheets, 1950 July-December
BOX 83 FOLDER 6-7 Music cues, circa 1950
BOX 84 FOLDER 1 Music notes, 1950 September-1952 August
BOX 84 FOLDER 2 Negatives, undated
BOX 84 FOLDER 3 Only Woman props & miscellaneous for shooting, 1950 August
Scripts, circa 1950 and undated
BOX 84 FOLDER 4 Only Woman (An Original Screenplay) by Arch Oboler, M-7C, undated
BOX 84 FOLDER 5 Only Woman (An Original Screenplay) by Arch Oboler, R-2, undated
BOX 84 FOLDER 6 Only Woman (synopsis) by Arch Oboler, undated
BOX 84 FOLDER 7-9 Shooting script, Five, circa 1950
BOX 85-86 Shooting script, circa 1950
BOX 85 (4 folders)
BOX 86 (2 folders)
BOX 86 FOLDER 3 Unused scenes, shooting script, circa 1950
1 + 1 (Exploring the Kinsey Reports), circa 1935-1967 (bulk 1958-1961)
Alternate titles: One Plus One; Arch Oboler's 1+1: Exploring the Kinsey Reports; 1+1; Exploring the Kinsey Reports. Released: 1961. Production company: Fluorite, Ltd. Distribution company: Selected Films. Director: Arch Oboler; assistant directors: Richard Dixon, Gordon Milligan. Producer: Arch Oboler; associate producer, Suzanne Warner. Writer: Arch Oboler; based on his play Mrs. Kingsley's Report, which was broadcast as episode 4 of the television series Arch Oboler's Comedy Theater, 1949. Cast includes: Leo G. Carroll (Prof. R.D. Logan); Hilda Brawner (Clare Hollister); William Traylor (Hollister). Photography: George Jacobson. Plot: Consists of five stories about marriage and divorce, premarital and extramarital sexual relations, and abortion told by students in Prof. R.D. Logan's symposium on marriage and the Kinsey Reports. The stories include "Honeymoon," "Homecoming," "The Divorcee," "Average Man," and "Baby." No one in the symposium, however, discusses love.
Notes: Includes an animated sequence by Pictafilm about a polygamous dinosaur. The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1960-1961.
The materials document the challenges faced by Oboler in making a film in Canada, including hiring cast and dealing with unions and taxation issues. Oboler and his assistant Jerry Kay conducted a major publicity campaign for the film, and their promotional endeavors are well described in this group of material. There is a large quantity of financial paperwork in the collection. Also of interest is correspondence with the Kinsey Institute concerning the use of Alfred Kinsey's name in the film's title. Papers indicate that Oboler's request to use the name was initially denied, but permission may eventually have been secured since the film is sometimes subtitled, "Exploring the Kinsey Reports."
Cast and crew, 1935-1965
BOX 87 FOLDER 1 Book photographs, 1960
BOX 87 FOLDER 2 Casting, 1960-1961
BOX 87 FOLDER 3 Cast publicity photographs, circa 1961
BOX 87 FOLDER 4 Actors and actresses, principally Canadian, 1960
BOX 87 FOLDER 5 Actors, miscellaneous, 1960 November-1963 April
BOX 87 FOLDER 6 Actors' contracts, 1960 December-1961 December
BOX 87 FOLDER 7 Actors, New York,, undated
BOX 87 FOLDER 8 Bills paid, actors, 1960 December-1961 February
BOX 87 FOLDER 9 Bills paid, crew, 1960 November-1961 January
BOX 87 FOLDER 10 Brian Adams, 1960
BOX 87 FOLDER 11 Canadian addresses, 1935 July-1965 August
BOX 88 FOLDER 1-6 Crew time cards, 1960-1961
BOX 89 FOLDER 1 Crew, miscellaneous, 1960 November-1962 March
BOX 89 FOLDER 2 George Golden, 1961 February
BOX 89 FOLDER 3 Unions, 1961 March
BOX 89 FOLDER 4 Unidentified actress, undated
BOX 89 FOLDER 5 Unions, 1957 March-1961 March
Contracts, 1960-1967
BOX 89 FOLDER 6 Nat Taylor, 1960 September-1961 September
BOX 89 FOLDER 7 Release forms, music, etc., 1960 December-1967 June
BOX 89 FOLDER 8 Selected contracts, 1961 June-September
Distribution, 1952-1967
BOX 89 FOLDER 9 Distribution & play dates, 1952 December-1964 October
BOX 89 FOLDER 10 Selected accounting, 1962 January-1964 December
BOX 89-90 Selected Films, Inc., 1961 June-1963 December
BOX 89 (1 folder)
BOX 90 (2 folders)
BOX 90 FOLDER 3 Costs, George Schaefer, 1961 May-1962 February
BOX 90 FOLDER 4 George Schaefer and correspondence, 1952 November-1967 July
Financial, 1959-1967
BOX 90 FOLDER 5 Bookkeeping follow-up, 1960 November-1967 October
BOX 90 FOLDER 6 Gross receipts, 1961 August-October
BOX 90 FOLDER 7-8 Investors, 1960 July-1967 November
BOX 91 FOLDER 1 Lee Moselle regarding property contract, 1960 November-1961 February
BOX 91 FOLDER 2 Miscellaneous accounting breakdown, 1960 November-1961 June
BOX 91 FOLDER 3 Tapes and Swiss Corp., 1960 September-1963 July
BOX 91 FOLDER 4 Bills paid, 1961 November
BOX 91 FOLDER 5 Bills paid, editing, office, and camera equipment, 1960 December-1961 June
BOX 91 FOLDER 6 Bills paid, miscellaneous Fluorite hair and props, airlines, 1960 November-1961 April
BOX 91 FOLDER 7 Contracts, Sundel Frank, 1959 April-1961 December
BOX 92 FOLDER 1 Copies of bills paid, 1960 November-1961 September
BOX 92 FOLDER 2 Final accounting, 1960 November-1961 July
BOX 92 FOLDER 3 Flourite, miscellaneous bills paid, 1960 May-1962 March
BOX 92 FOLDER 4-6 Flourite Ltd. check stubs, 1960-1961
BOX 92 FOLDER 7 Fluorite Ltd., 1960 December-1961 February
BOX 92-93 Old U.S. union scale book, circa 1961
BOX 92 (1 folder)
BOX 93 (2 folders)
BOX 93 FOLDER 3 Budget, 1959 February-1960 December
BOX 93 FOLDER 4 Lee Moselle, investors, 1960 September-1966 May
BOX 93 FOLDER 5 Taxes, 1961 March
BOX 93 FOLDER 6 Sales tax information (S 40429), 1961 January-April
Legal, 1958-1963
BOX 93 FOLDER 7 Copyright correspondence, F.F., 1961 June-August
BOX 93 FOLDER 8 Kinsey legal correspondence, 1958 July-1963 February
Miscellaneous, 1953-1966
BOX 93 FOLDER 9 Book, 1961 June-October
BOX 93 FOLDER 10 Book follow-up, 1961 September
BOX 93 FOLDER 11 Book photographs, draft manuscript, circa 1961
BOX 93 FOLDER 12 Miscellaneous, 1960 September-1961 September
BOX 93 FOLDER 13 Miscellaneous, 1960 November-1966 July
BOX 94 FOLDER 1 Research and material, 1953 August, 1958 March-May
BOX 94 FOLDER 2 Synopsis and notes, 1953-1960 March
BOX 94 FOLDER 3 Preview letters, 1961 July
BOX 94 FOLDER 4-6 Shorthand notebooks, undated
BOX 94 FOLDER 7 Shorthand notebook, Eleanor Oboler, 1961 March 3
BOX 94 FOLDER 8 To do on Monday, December 12, 1960 December
BOX 94 FOLDER 9 Untitled Jerry Kay notebook, circa 1960
Production and filming, 1956-1963
BOX 94 FOLDER 10 Cutting notes, 1961 March-May
BOX 95 FOLDER 1-2 Camera reports, 1960 December-1961 January
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