Welles Archival Materials

[Jeff Wilson]

One of the things I wanted to add to the site was a list of all the various Welles and Welles-related archival holdings around the US and the world. The purpose of this thread is to gather any further info I can about them. Feel free to email as well. Here are the ones I know of off the top of my head:

Welles:
- Lilly collection
- Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- various film materials at UCLA
- Library of Congress (film prints, radio recordings)
- Munich Filmmuseum materials

Welles-related
- Agnes Moorehead collection (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research )
- Joseph Cotten scrapbooks (U of Southern CA)
- A Weissberger papers (Lilly)
- Bogdanovich papers (Lilly)
- Howard Koch papers (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research)

[Roger Ryan]

The Charles K. Feldman Collection at the Louis B. Mayer Library on the American Film Institute campus in Los Angeles would be another resource.

Here's a link:
Louis B. Mayer Library

The collection contains correspondence between Richard Wilson and Welles regarding the post-production of "Macbeth" along with various contracts and scripts (including an early draft of "Lady From Shanghai").

[NoFake]

What a great idea! And I like the link, Roger. Jeff, do you have the links for your resources readily at hand? It would be like having a one-stop "corner grocery store" :;): for Wellesians...

[Jeff Wilson]

The finished page will have all the links, yes.

[Christopher]

Hi Jeff,

Ann Arbor University in Michigan has acquired two important collections of Welles's papers from Oja Kodar and from Richard Wilson's son. Catherine Benamou, an Associate Professor there and one of the leading authorities on "It's All True," is in the process of cataloging these papers which will eventually be available to the public. The working title for the archive is "Everybody's Orson Welles."