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BOX 3-16, 34 Royalties and Copyrights, 1935-1967
Shows, 1935-1967
American in Paris [film]
BOX-FOLDER 3/1-4 General materials, 1949-1952
Funny Face
BOX-FOLDER 3/5 Ira Gershwin individually and as George Gershwin’s next-of-kin, including agreements and D (1928), 1955-1957
Girl Crazy
BOX-FOLDER 3/6-7 Agreements, contracts, correspondence, 1951-1965
BOX-FOLDER 3/8 General materials, 1958-1959, 1962
Kiss Me, Stupid [film]
BOX-FOLDER 4/1-5 Correspondence, music, contracts, copyrights, etc., 1964
Lady, Be Good!
BOX-FOLDER 4/6 1956 estate tax - closed 1961 November 14
BOX-FOLDER 4/7 Ira renewal assignment
Lady in the Dark
BOX-FOLDER 4/8-10 Chiefly stock license to Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc., 1965
Of Thee I Sing
BOX-FOLDER 4/11-12 General materials, 1951-1952
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Stock amateur correspondence
Oh, Kay!
BOX-FOLDER 5/1 Bolton-Wodehouse agreements
BOX-FOLDER 5/2-3 General materials, 1951-1960
Porgy and Bess
BOX-FOLDER 5/4-6 Breen contract
BOX-FOLDER 5/7-8 Clippings, 1950-1953 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 5/9-10 Contracts, 1957 Aug.
BOX-FOLDER 5/11 Colton – instructions re: album, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 6/1-6 Colton's letter of 1964 March 1
Note: Regarding instructions on distrubution of income from U.S. phonograph record album after 1963 Sept. 28
BOX-FOLDER 6/7-8 Davis compromise
BOX-FOLDER 6/9-12 General materials, 1950-1951, 1955
BOX-FOLDER 7/1-3 General materials, 1954-1956
BOX-FOLDER 7/4 The Gershwin years (CBS) license, 1961 Jan. 15
BOX-FOLDER 7/5-10 Motion picture contract data with Samuel Goldwyn, 1957
BOX-FOLDER 8/1-2 New Dawn Music Corp. – U.S. renewal publishing rights sale agreement, 1965 July 1
BOX-FOLDER 8/3-6 Papers, including Field and Summer 1963
BOX-FOLDER 8/7 Reviews, 1955-1956
BOX-FOLDER 8/8 Summer 1958 and 1963-1965 and city center
BOX-FOLDER 8/9 Theatre Guild investment
BOX-FOLDER 8/10 Waiver of cross accountings and agreement of beneficial interests, 1965 July 1
Strike up the Band
BOX-FOLDER 8/11 Ira renewal assignment
Organizations, 1935-1967
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
BOX-FOLDER 9/1-4 Contracts dated 1958 Apr. 28 , etc.
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
BOX-FOLDER 9/5 Amended final judgement, 1950
BOX-FOLDER 9/6 Compromise agreement, 1952
BOX-FOLDER 9/7-11 General materials, 1949-1965
BOX-FOLDER 10/1 Ira Gershwin – ASCAP list
BOX-FOLDER 10/2-4 Proposed royalty agreements
Chappell and Co.
BOX-FOLDER 10/5 Chappell/Gershwin movie mechanicals royalties modification, 1955 Oct. 31
BOX-FOLDER 10/6-7 Leonore S. Gershwin agreement, 1965 July 1
BOX-FOLDER 10/8-10 Royalty statements
BOX-FOLDER 10/11 Selling agency agreements
Columbia Artists Management, Inc.
BOX-FOLDER 10/12 General materials, 1951-1954
Gershwin Publishing Corporation (GPC)
BOX-FOLDER 11/1-3 Chappell and Co. agreements
BOX-FOLDER 11/4-6 Co-owner accounting for own use B accounting for license rights on renewals prior to their sale by the next-of-kin
BOX-FOLDER 11/7-12 Correspondence and memos
BOX-FOLDER 12/1-2 Deal miscellaneous memoranda
BOX-FOLDER 12/3 Deal royalties
BOX-FOLDER 12/4 Financial statements, 1949-1952
BOX-FOLDER 12/5-6 Personal holding company tax matter
BOX-FOLDER 12/7-11, 13/1-2 Used material, 1956-1965
Agreements, contracts, correspondence
Includes documents related to establishment of G.P.C.
New Dawn Music Corporation
BOX-FOLDER 13/3 Agreement to sell motion picture renewals and 10% of net profits agreement
BOX-FOLDER 13/4 Agreements of sale, 1965 Oct. 1 and 1966 July 1
BOX-FOLDER 13/5-6 Complete set of deal photocopies given to next-of-kin, 1965 Sept. and additional agreements
BOX-FOLDER 13/7 Dreyfus deal restrictive agreements
BOX-FOLDER 13/8 General materials, 1965
BOX-FOLDER 13/9 Quarterly statements
New World Music Limited
BOX-FOLDER 14/1-2 Annual statements
BOX-FOLDER 14/3 Royalty statements, 1951-1958
BOX-FOLDER 34/1-4 Royalty statements, 1958-1960
BOX-FOLDER 14/4-7 Royalty statements – also data on possible question of ownership of renewal payments taken from various other files
On-Stage Productions
BOX-FOLDER 14/8 "Gershwin" [biographical film]
Palestine Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art
BOX-FOLDER 14/9 General materials, 1953-1954
T. B. Harms and Co.
BOX-FOLDER 14/10 Harms/New World Music agreements
Walden Records
BOX-FOLDER 14/11 General materials, 1953-1960
Miscellany, 1935-1967
BOX-FOLDER 15/1-3 Copyright renewal and capital gains data
BOX-FOLDER 15/4-6 Copyright renewals
BOX-FOLDER 15/7-8 Deal correspondence and data relating to Malino to 1965 Oct. 27
BOX-FOLDER 15/9 Gershwin copyrights
BOX-FOLDER 15/10 Gershwin correspondence, etc. re: television
BOX-FOLDER 16/1-2 Gershwin income for Leonard Saxe
BOX-FOLDER 16/3 Holograph envelope from IG to Leonard Saxe, 1965 Dec. 23
BOX-FOLDER 16/4 Index to work on deal, 1957-1965
BOX-FOLDER 16/5-6 Ira Gershwin’s renewals, etc. – contract for Ira and Leonore with four publishing corporations, 1965 July 1
BOX-FOLDER 16/7 Open post-deal matters
BOX-FOLDER 16/8 Some more or less open Gershwin matters
Agreements, contracts, correspondence
BOX-FOLDER 16/9 Working out manner for Ira, Arthur, and Frankie to report next-of-kin deal in 1965 income tax returns
BOX 17-18 Litigation, 1953-1964
Breen vs. Goldwyn, Lazar
BOX-FOLDER 17/1-3 18th report of the judicial council
BOX-FOLDER 17/4-8 General materials, 1953-1964
BOX-FOLDER 17/9-10 Porgy and Bess
Gershwin vs. U.S.
BOX-FOLDER 18/1 Distribution of Gershwin vs. U.S., 1958
Gershwin vs. U.S. – The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
BOX-FOLDER 18/2 General materials, 1956-1957
BOX-FOLDER 18/3-6 Tax refund for 1945 and 1946
Schwartz vs. BMI
BOX-FOLDER 18/7-11 John Schulman correspondence, memoranda, and agreements
Société de spectacles lumbroso vs. Hug and Sons
BOX-FOLDER 18/12 Zurich stuff
Robert Breen contract for Porgy and Bess
BOX 19-32, 34 Estate of Rose Gershwin, 1937-1967
General files, 1949-1966
BOX-FOLDER 19/1-7 Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust general file #1, 1949-1950
BOX-FOLDER 19/8-12, 20/1-2 Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust general file #2, 1950-1952
BOX-FOLDER 20/3-7 Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust general file #3, 1952-1953
BOX-FOLDER 20/8-10, 21/1-2 Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust general file #4, 1954-1956
BOX-FOLDER 21/3-6 Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust general file #5, 1956
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