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Writings, 1957-2013
(continued) |
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Scripts, 1957-2009
(continued) |
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Multiple Works, 1977-2008
(continued) |
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[69] "Odd Couple (female
version), Biloxi Blues, and Man of the Year speech," undated
(continued) |
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Contents:
-
The Odd Couple (play); female
version
- [List of obscure questions and answers]
-
Biloxi Blues (play); one page
detached
- Myasthenia Gravis, man of the year speech
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BOX-FOLDER 76/6 |
[70] "The Odd Couple
(female version) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Screenplay),"
undated
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Contents:
-
The Odd Couple (play); female
version
-
Brighton Beach Memoirs (motion
picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 76/7 |
[71] "? Odd Couple II /
Pot Pourri (a little of everything)," undated
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Contents:
- [Proposals] (play); cuts and
rewrites
- [Run for Your Money] (motion
picture)
- [Proposals] (play)
- [Odd Couple II][?] (motion picture);
scene in which Oscar appears as a ghost to Felix
- Note: "Being on television interviews is reducing your art to
engaging in conversations you have absolutely no interest in."
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BOX-FOLDER 76/8 |
[72] "Film 'The Odd
Couple II' rewrites," undated
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Contents:
-
The Odd Couple II (motion picture);
rewrites
-
Run for Your Money (motion
picture)
-
The Odd Couple II (motion picture)
-
Everybody Wants Josie (motion
picture)
-
Proposals (play)
- [The Play Goes On] "Settling In"
chapter
-
The Play Goes On "Introduction"
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BOX-FOLDER 76/9 |
[73] "'Only Ten Seconds
Away' TV-Half Hour / 'Run for Your Money' cont'd pages," 1998 February
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Contents:
-
Only Ten Seconds Away (television
program); crossed out title "The Last Ten Seconds"
-
Run for Your Money (motion
picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/1 |
[74] "'Oscar & Felix'
/ 'Rose & Walsh,'" 2002 and
undated
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Contents:
-
Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd
Couple; notes from the Geffen Theatre, 2002
-
Rose and Walsh (play)
- Letter to Gerry Hemmerling concerning royalty disbursement for
Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd
Couple and Rose and Walsh
-
Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd
Couple; notes
- Untitled motion picture; characters are Neal and Joan
-
Oscar and Felix: A New Look at the Odd
Couple (play)
- [Sweet Charity] (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/2 |
[75] "'The Play Goes On'
/ 'Only Ten Seconds to Go,'" undated
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Contents:
-
The Play Goes On memoir
-
Only Ten Seconds to Go (motion
picture)
-
The Play Goes On memoir
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BOX-FOLDER 77/3 |
[76] "Proposals," 1991 Spring
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Contents:
-
Proposals (play); third draft; alternate
title "MidSummer Madness" appears
-
The Goodbye Girl (musical)
-
Lady Killer (motion picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/4 |
[77] "'Proposals' A New
Play," 1995-1996
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Contents:
-
Proposals (play), 1995
- [The Goodbye Girl] (musical)
- [Rose and Walsh] (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/5 |
[78] "'Proposals' 6th
draft / 'The Odd Couple III,'" 1996 and undated
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Contents:
-
Proposals (play); sixth draft, 1996
September
-
Run for Your Money (motion
picture)
-
The Odd Couple III (motion picture);
pages are intermixed with pages for "Run for Your Money"
- [Little Me] (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/6 |
[79] "'Proposals' 4th
draft-2nd Act also 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor,'" 1997 and undated
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Note: Script for Proposals not present in the notebook |
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Contents:
-
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (motion
picture), 1997 January
-
The Goodbye Girl (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/7 |
[80] "'Proposals' / Notes
in rehearsal," undated
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Contents:
- Untitled memoir; [1] page
-
Proposals (play), notes from rehearsal
and script
-
Cut from the Show (play)
- Wedding speech
- List of character names possibly for "45 Seconds from
Broadway"
- [We Must Talk; Conversations; Matinee
Idles]
-
Proposals (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 77/8 |
[81] "Neil & David
Esbjornson meeting Rewrites," 2005 and undated
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Contents:
- "David + Neil 1st meeting 'Rewrites'"; notes on the play; meeting
with director David Esbjornson, 2005 June 28
- Untitled play; relates to The Sunshine
Boys; may be for a sequel; two pages are detached
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BOX-FOLDER 78/1 |
[82] "'Rewrites,'"
undated
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Contents:
-
Rewrites "The Christmas Child"
chapter
-
London Suite "Settling Accounts"
(play)
-
Rewrites memoir
-
London Suite "Going Home" (play)
- "New Dramatists" speech
- "Speech – New Dramatists Life Achievement"
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BOX-FOLDER 78/2 |
[83] "'Rewrites' /
'Sunshine Boys' TV / 'Barefoot' TV," undated
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Contents:
-
Rewrites "Getting to Know Me"
chapter
-
The Sunshine Boys (television
movie)
-
Barefoot in the Park (television
movie)
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BOX-FOLDER 78/3 |
[84] "'Rewrites' The
Play," undated
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Contents:
-
Rewrites (play)
- [The Dinner Party] (play)
- Unidentified dialogue without character names
- "Closed End," dialogue without character names
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BOX-FOLDER 78/4 |
[85] "'Rewrites,'"
undated
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Contents:
-
Rewrites memoir
-
London Suite (play)
-
Rewrites memoir
-
Proposals (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 78/5 |
[86] "'Rewrites' (Film
Script)," undated
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Contents:
-
Rewrites (motion picture)
-
Waiting for Poppa (motion picture)
-
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (play);
possibly rewrites for a revival
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BOX-FOLDER 78/6 |
[87] "'Rose and Walsh'
and 'Separate Beds' T.V. pilot," 2002 and undated
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Contents:
- [Sweet Charity] (musical), 2002
December 10
-
Rose and Walsh (play)
-
Separate Beds (television program);
pilot
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BOX-FOLDER 78/7 |
[88] "Rumors (1st &
2nd draft, Spring '88) and Jake's Women (new ending, 2/15/88)," 1988
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Contents:
-
Rumors (play); first and second draft,
1988 Spring
-
Jake's Women (play), 1988 February
15
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BOX-FOLDER 78/8 |
[89] "Rumors and Ahmanson
Theatre Tribute Speech," 1988
and undated
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Contents:
-
Rumors (play)
- Ahmanson Theatre tribute speech, 1988 September 9
-
Rumors (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 78/9 |
[90] "Unknown play,
Rumors, and Proposals (screenplay)," undated
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Contents:
- Unidentified play; characters listed are Arnold Perry, Will
Breedier [?], Phil Feld
-
Rumors (play)
- List of actors for unidentified production
-
Proposals (motion picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/1 |
[91] "The Shakespeare
Murders (play), The Suitcase (notes), and Jake's Women,"
undated
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Contents:
-
The Shakespeare Murders (play); first
draft
-
The Suitcase (motion picture); notes
only
-
Jake's Women (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/2 |
[92] "The Slugger's Wife
and The Hampton Boys," undated
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Contents:
-
The Slugger's Wife (motion
picture)
-
The Hampton Boys (play); crossed out
title "June, July and August"
- Unidentified play
|
BOX-FOLDER 79/3 |
[93] "Speech for Joe Papp
Tribute to Neil Simon and Rumors," undated
|
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Contents:
- "Speech for Joe Papp Tribute to N. Simon at Schubert [sic]
Theater"
-
Rumors (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/4 |
[94] "Sunshines Again,"
undated
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Contents:
- [The Sunshines Again] (play)
- [Waiting for Poppa] (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/5 |
[95] "'Sunshine Boys' TV
version 1994," 1994 and
undated
|
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Contents:
-
The Sunshine Boys (television movie);
1994 Fall
- [London Suite] "Diane and Sidney"
(play)
- [London Suite] "Settling Accounts"
(play)
-
The Crack-Up Hotel (play); may be related
to "202 and 204"
- List of possible show titles most crossed out: Barney, Pals,
Buddies, Fathers-in-Law, Trip, Once We Were Pals, Journey, A Couple of
Swells, Two Lost Souls, Lost and Loster, You’re Driving Me
Crazy
- Untitled play; character names suggest a relation to "Proposals,"
"The Puzzles in My Mind," "Everybody Wants Josie," or "Harry’s
Bride"
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BOX-FOLDER 79/6 |
[96] "'Sweet Charity' /
'Under the Hollywood Sign,'" 2002
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Contents:
-
Sweet Charity (musical)
-
Rose and Walsh (play)
-
Under the Hollywood Sign (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/7 |
[97] "'They're Playing
Our Song' / 'I Ought to Be In Pictures,'" 1978-1979 and undated
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Contents:
-
They're Playing Our Song (musical);
rewrites, Bridgehampton, N.Y., 1978 August
-
Bungalow (play)
-
The Curse of Kulyenchikov (play); one
page only of Act I, Scene 2 scene description
- Laurel Award speech
-
I Ought to Be in Pictures (play)
- Introduction to The Plays of Neil Simon,
Volume 2: "As Time Flies By," 1979 June 3
-
I Ought to Be in Pictures (play)
- [Seems Like Old Times] (motion
picture)
-
The Curse of Kulyenchikov (play)
-
I Ought to Be in Pictures (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 79/8 |
[98] "They're Playing Our
Song, On the Trail of the Cheap Detective, and The Goodbye Girl,"
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
They're Playing Our Song (musical)
-
On the Trail of the Cheap Detective; [2]
pages
-
They're Playing Our Song (musical)
-
The Goodbye Girl; [1] page
-
They're Playing Our Song (musical); [1]
page
- Notes with Joan Simon; [1] page
-
They're Playing Our Song (musical); [1]
page
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BOX-FOLDER 80/1 |
[99] "'We Must Talk' /
'Rewrites' (the play)," undated
|
|
Contents:
-
We Must Talk: Conversations (play)
-
Rewrites (play)
-
The Dinner Party (play)
-
Rewrites (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 80/2 |
[100] "The White Box,
Crazy in Love, and The Slugger's Wife," 1982 and undated
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Contents:
-
The White Box, started 1982 April
3
-
Crazy in Love (motion picture)
- [The Lonely Guy] [?] (motion
picture)
-
The Slugger's Wife (motion
picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 80/3 |
[101] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- [202 and 204] (play)
-
The Boys Apartment (play); possibly a
sequel to Broadway Bound
- [Barefoot in the Park] (motion
picture)
- "What Is He Really Like?" speech
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BOX-FOLDER 80/4 |
[102] Untitled notebook,
2008 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Biloxi Blues (play)
- Untitled play; attached note suggests it could be a take on Waiting for Poppa
- Untitled play
- Untitled play; one page detached
-
Waiting for Poppa (play); first draft,
title page only, 2008
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BOX-FOLDER 80/5 |
[103] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
The Boys from Barcelona (television
program)
- [Rose and Walsh] (play)
- "My Man," "My Way," "Her Way" (lyrics)
- [Jake's Women] (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 80/6 |
[104] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- Unidentified screenplay; may relate to Bogart
Slept Here
-
California Suite "Visitor From
Philadelphia" (play)
-
California Suite "Visitor From Manhattan"
(play)
- Unidentified screenplay; may relate to Bogart
Slept Here
- [a page of the name "Joan" and "Joanie"]
-
California Suite "Visitors From Chicago"
(play)
- [Murder By Death] (screenplay)
-
Love Is Not for People (motion
picture)
- Unidentified motion picture; may relate to Bogart Slept Here
|
BOX-FOLDER 80/7 |
[105] Untitled notebook,
1977 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Chapter Two] (play)
- [California Suite] (motion
picture)
- Reaction to Edythe M. McGovern’s book, Neil
Simon: A Critical Study
-
Someone’s Living in My House (motion
picture); became Seems Like Old Times
- "Guardian of Israel," tribute to Jack Albertson, 1977 November
16
- Tribute to the critic, John Barbour and Los Angeles
-
Someone’s Living in My House (motion
picture)
|
BOX-FOLDER 81/1 |
[106] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
The Cheap Detective (motion
picture)
-
The Goodbye Girl (motion picture)
-
Chapter Two (play); page designations
include Scene 8, Scene 9, I-1054
- [Chapter Two] / George Feiffer (play); includes a list of casting
ideas
- Unidentified motion picture
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BOX-FOLDER 81/2 |
[107] Untitled notebook,
1979 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
The Curse of Kulyenchikov/Fools
(play)
- [Only When I Laugh] (motion
picture)
-
The Curse of Kulyenchikov/Fools
(play)
-
The Late Great Me (motion picture), 1979
November
- [I Ought to Be in Pictures] (play); a
corner of one page has been torn out
- [Only When I Laugh] (motion
picture)
-
Pacific Styles (motion picture); other
title considered "The House on Melrose"; related to Bungalow
- [Only When I Laugh] (motion
picture)
- [Max Dugan Returns] (motion
picture)
-
The Curse of Kulyenchikov/Fools
(play)
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BOX-FOLDER 81/3 |
[108] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
A Gentle Murder (play); first draft;
related to The Shakespeare Murders
-
Fools (television program); "A Comedy For
Television/2nd Episode"
-
A Gentle Murder (play)
-
Rumors (play)
-
The Suitcase (motion picture);
synopsis/outline
|
BOX-FOLDER 81/4 |
[109] Untitled notebook,
1994 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Going Home] (play)
- William "Bill" A. Henry, III letter to be read at memorial service,
circa 1994 July
- Jason Alexander birthday message
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BOX-FOLDER 81/5 |
[110] Untitled notebook,
1992 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [The Goodbye Girl] (musical); includes
a lyric sketch
- [Laughter on the 23rd Floor]
(play)
-
Lost in Yonkers (motion picture);
rewrites of film after reading on Sunday, July 12th
-
The Goodbye Girl (musical); rewrites,
Hump scene, 1992 November 25
- [Laughter on the 23rd Floor]
(play)
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BOX-FOLDER 81/6 |
[111] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- Untitled motion picture; on first page is written: "Miscellaneous
attempts at plays. N. S."; and there is a crossed-out title that may
be, "Mrs. And Mrs. Ex"
- Untitled motion picture; Actors and
Actresses is mentioned, but character names do not
match
-
The Goodbye Girl (motion picture)
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BOX-FOLDER 81/7 |
[112] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Heaven on Earth] (motion
picture)
- [Lost in Yonkers] (play)
|
BOX-FOLDER 81/8 |
[113] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
The Hot Potato; character descriptions
and synopsis, crossed-out tile "Champ"
- Untitled ideas and synopses for three plays, one crossed-out idea
regards gay marriage
-
Harry Go Home (play); crossed-out title
"Cottage on Sparta"
- Untitled motion picture; characters are Judy and Mike
- Untitled play; may relate to I Ought to Be in
Pictures, characters are Steffy and Harry
- [California Suite] "Visitor from
Philadelphia" (play)
- Untitled synopses/ideas for two plays; one idea may relate to
"California Suite"
- [California Suite] "Visitor from
Philadelphia" (play)
-
Paul (motion picture); crossed-out title
"I.V.P."
-
Room Change (play)
- [California Suite] "Visitor from
London" (play)
-
Mike (play)
- [Murder by Death] (motion
picture)
-
California Suite "Visitors from Chicago"
(play)
- [Murder by Death] (motion
picture)
- [California Suite] (play)
- Dialogue between Norman Lear and Neil Simon
- [The Goodbye Girl] synopsis
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BOX-FOLDER 82/1 |
[114] Untitled notebook,
1987 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Just Polly and Me (play); first draft,
1987 June
- [A Foggy Day] (musical); [3]
pages
- Character descriptions for unidentified work; [2] pages
- "Take My Wife" synopsis; [2] pages
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BOX-FOLDER 82/2 |
[115] Untitled notebook,
1993 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Laughter on the 23rd Floor] (play);
notes
- Letters to the Laughter on the 23rd
Floor cast; Lewis J. Stadlen, John Slattery, Mark Linn
Baker, J. K. Simmons, Bitty Schram, Nathan [Lane], Jerry [Zaks], 1993
November 22
- [45 Seconds from Broadway]
(play)
- [Rose and Walsh] (play)
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BOX-FOLDER 82/3 |
[116] Untitled notebook,
1994 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
London Suite "The Man on the Floor"
(play), Seattle, 1994
-
Rewrites memoir
- [London Suite] "Going Home" (play),
1994 October 25
- [London Suite] "Going Home" (play),
third draft
- [Me, You, Him and Her] (television
program)
|
BOX-FOLDER 82/4 |
[117] Untitled notebook,
1991 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Lost in Yonkers] (play)
-
The Marrying Man (motion picture)
-
Broadway Bound (television movie), second
draft, 1991
|
BOX-FOLDER 82/5 |
[118] Untitled notebook,
1992 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Lost in Yonkers (motion picture); second
draft, 1992 January
- "The Last Christmas Story," a short story for Bryn
Lander-Simon
- [Jake’s Women] (play); notes, final
rehearsal with audience; [1992] February 15
- [Comment on Johnny Carson]
- Letter to Barry Hirsch on changing legal counsel, 1992 April
13
- [The Goodbye Girl] (musical)
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BOX-FOLDER 82/6 |
[119], Untitled notebook
1996 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Lost in Yonkers] (play)
- "House Calls"; article for Live
magazine, 3rd issue; crossed out title "The Sunset Blvd Years of My
Life"
-
Laughter on the 23rd Floor (play);
includes a list of who the characters are based on in real life
-
Chapter Two (play) rewrites for London
production with Tom Conti, 1996 January
-
Barefoot in the Park (television
movie)
|
BOX-FOLDER 82/7 |
[120] Untitled notebook,
2001-2002 and
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Louder I Can’t Hear You (television
program); synopsis
- Chart: "Blood pressure," 2001 December 22-2002 February 25
- Untitled motion picture; autobiographical with characters Joan,
Neil, Nancy, Georgia, Harry, David
|
BOX-FOLDER 82/8 |
[121] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- [Max Dugan Returns] (motion picture);
character of Nora is here called Glenda
- [Brighton Beach Memoirs] (play)
- [An Evening with Louis and Lillian]
(play)
- [Seems Like Old Times] (motion
picture)
|
BOX-FOLDER 82/9 |
[122] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Only When I Laugh (motion picture)
- [Russell McPhee] (motion
picture)
- [Max Dugan Returns] (motion
picture)
- [Fools] (play)
- Note: thank you note for B’Nai Brith Many of the Year dinner
- [Only When I Laugh] (motion
picture)
|
BOX-FOLDER 83/1 |
[123] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
- Untitled motion picture; sequel to "Barefoot in the Park"
- Letter to Senator Alan Simpson
- [Proposals] (play)
- "Nobody Knows the Trouble with Prose" article
|
BOX-FOLDER 83/2 |
[124] Untitled notebook,
2000 and undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Rewrites (play); first draft
-
The Dinner Party (play); New York, 2000
October
-
Diana and Sidney (play); completion of
first act, 2000 October
|
BOX-FOLDER 83/3 |
[125] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Run for Your Money (motion
picture)
- [Proposals] (play)
- Unidentified; scene between Max and Faye; [1] page
- [The Dinner Party] (play); [1]
page
-
Interviews (play)
|
BOX-FOLDER 83/4 |
[126] Untitled notebook,
2008 and undated
|
|
Contents:
- [The Sunshines Again] (play)
-
Las Vegas Suite (play); first draft; laid
in pages both manuscript and typescript, 2008 Summer
|
BOX-FOLDER 83/5 |
[127] Untitled notebook,
undated
|
|
Contents:
-
Third Class to Shanghai (motion
picture)
-
George Pfeiffer and Evelyn Mass (play);
synopsis only
-
Third Class to Morocco; title crossed
out, character descriptions only
-
The Cheap Detective (motion
picture)
|
BOX 83-88 |
Memoirs, 1994-1998
|
|
Neil Simon wrote two memoirs: Rewrites (1996) and The Play Goes On (1999). This subseries consists of the drafts of each memoir which
include manuscript notebooks and typescript pages. A folder of correspondence
and publicity surrounding Rewrites release is also found here as well as a short diary maintained by
Simon documenting that book's tour. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
|
Rewrites
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BOX-FOLDER 83/6 to 84/5 |
Notebooks, 1994-1995
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Manuscripts |
|
Note: Notebook in Box-Folder 84/5 also
contains: "Everybody Wants Josie" [6] pages, remarks for "Neil Simon at
the Neil Simon" event, "Sidney and Diana" [1] page, and
unidentified |
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