Scope and Content Note
The Howard E. Reinheimer Papers consist of Business Papers spanning from 1924 to 1973, with the majority dating from 1940 to 1960. The correspondence, contracts, agreements, financial statements, and clippings address the legal aspects of theatrical works that his clients wrote or produced. The series contains a substantial amount of material related to George Kaufman and Moss Hart’s George Washington Slept Here, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and You Can’t Take It with You, as well as Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady. Reinheimer’s interactions with playwrights and producers Marc Connelly, Cy Feuer, Carol Irwin, Frederick Lonsdale, Leueen MacGrath, Otto Preminger, Sigmund Romberg, and Sandy Wilson are also well documented.