Finding Aid for the John Gilmore papers, 1965-
Boxes 1-21 processed by Saundra Taylor (July 1974); boxes 22-28 processed by Megan Fraser (July 2012); machine-readable finding
aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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Descriptive Summary
Title: John Gilmore papers
Date (inclusive): 1965-
Collection number: 1144
Creator:
Gilmore, John, 1935-
Extent:
26 boxes (13.0 linear ft.)
and 2 oversize boxes
Abstract: John Gilmore (1935- ) was a instructor in creative writing at Antioch College/West and Glendora College (1974-76) and a author.
The collection contains research materials for manuscripts and published copies of Gilmore's works, including
the Tucson murders,
The garbage people,
Blowout, and the screenplay,
Indiana twilight. Also contains photographs, clippings, diary entries, correspondence, and publicity materials.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of John Gilmore, 1974-89.
- Gift of Laurance Rivera, 1994.
- Gift of Marie NaVeaux, 1997.
- Boxes 22-28 gift of Diana Levitt Herbert, 2007.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John Gilmore papers (Collection Number 1144). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Biography
Gilmore was born on July 5, 1935 in Los Angeles; became a child actor in Hollywood during the 1940s; attended New York University;
BA, Antioch College, 1955; later became a leading man, acting in film, television, and on the New York stage; instructor in
creative writing at Antioch College/West and Glendora College, 1974-76; won New York Circle Award for Poetry, 1967, and Southwest
Literary Award in 1976 for his novel,
Blowout; other publications include
Overpass blues (1967),
The Tucson murders (1970),
The garbage people (1971),
The real James Dean (1975), and
Night shark (1975).
Scope and Content
Collection contains research materials for and manuscripts and published copies of John Gilmore's works, including
the Tucson murders,
The garbage people,
Blowout, and the screenplay,
Indiana twilight. Also contains photographs, clippings, diary entries, correspondence, and publicity materials.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
-
The garbage people (Boxes 1-4).
-
The Tucson murders (Boxes 5,12).
- James Dean writings, photographs and ephemera (Boxes 5,7).
- Miscellaneous manuscripts (Boxes 6,15).
- Miscellaneous photographs and ephemera (Box 6).
-
Wings,
Bad losers, poems (Box 7).
-
Blowout (Boxes 8-9).
- Miscellaneous diary entries, unpublished stories (Box 9).
-
Indiana twilight (Boxes 10-11).
- Black Dahlia photographs (oversize, box 13).
- Black Dahlia,
Shooting stars (Boxes 14-16).
-
Severed,
Desperation point,
Signals,
Santa Fe blond,
Damaged man, and other material (Boxes 17-18).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Gilmore, John, 1935- --Archives.
Authors, American--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Manuscripts for publication.
Container List
The Garbage People
Scope and Content Note
(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
Box 1, Folders 1-2
The Garbage people
ca. 1970.
Physical Description:
278 leaves. Typescript with paste-on and holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
This copy lacks final changes in manuscript and “Vigil for Manson” which appears in the publication.
Box 1, Folders 3-4
Another copy.
Physical Description:
(Photocopy).
Box 1, Folder 5
“Burning is the end - dispatch from the pit of death - in trilogy”
ca. 1970.
Physical Description:
xiii, 102 leaves. Lacks leaf i.
Scope and Content Note
- Written (from different points of view) for John Gilciore as an appendix to
The Garbage people.
- Concerns Beausoleil's philosophy of death and superiority.
Box 1, Folder 6
--- -----, Another typing of leaves. 4-18.
Physical Description:
15 leaves. numbered 3-18.
Box 1, Folder 7
Death Row interview
ca. 1970.
Physical Description:
[35] leaves. Holograph (photocopy) and typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Transcription of notes from San Quentin interview Beausoleil.
Box 1, Folder 8
“You are the stranger: Charles Manson at Los Angeles County Jail”
ca. 1970.
Physical Description:
39 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Scope and Content Note
(From 9 interviews with Charles Manson)
Box 2, Folders 1-2
Grand Jury transcript of the Charles Manson murder trials (Charles Hanson's copy) signed by Charles Manson (2 vol.); research
material for
The Garbage people
1969.
Physical Description:
v[?], 384 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 2, Folder 3
The Garbage people. Los Angeles: Omega Press
1971.
Physical Description:
l87pp. [2 copies].
Box 2, Folder 4
Another copy.
Physical Description:
(Wrappers).
Box 2, Folder 5
The Saigon Post
Wednesday October 20, 1971.
Physical Description:
1 leaf (clipping).
Scope and Content Note
Excerpt from
The Garbage people.
Box 2, Folder 6
La Gente de las basura. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial extemporaneos
1972.
Physical Description:
248pp. [2 copies].
The Tucson Murders
Scope and Content Note
(Manuscripts, research material and publication material)
Box 3, Folders 1-3
The Tucson murders,
1960s[?].
Physical Description:
436 leaves. Type script with paste-on and holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
“First draft”
Box 3, Folder 4
First notes, Schmid case, dated: (Westerner Hotel, Arizona).
Saturday February 19, 1966
Physical Description:
25 leaves. Carbon typescript with some holograph corrections.
Box 3
Materials from a notebook kept by John Gilmore,
1966 and n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Miscellaneous notes, transcripts of Charles Schmid's jail letters, first draft materials for
The Tucson murders.
Box 3, Folder 5
The 'Little House' at Florence.
Physical Description:
5 leaves. Carbon typescript.
Box 3, Folder 6
Portions of a work in progress:
Charles Schmid.
Physical Description:
27 leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
An account of teenage murders in Tucson, Arizona, and the story of the accused.
Box 3, Folder 7
Cold complex.
Physical Description:
15 leaves. Typescript.
Box 3, Folder 8
Transcript [Testimony of Richard Bruns].
Physical Description:
11 leaves. Carbon typescript.
Box 3, Folder 9
“Pima County Jail.”
Physical Description:
10 leaves. Carbon typescript.
Box 3, Folder 10
[Miscellaneous notes].
Physical Description:
54 leaves. Typescript.
Box 3, Folder 11
A Grave near the end of the greens.
Physical Description:
162 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 3, Folder 12
Copies of letters to his wife,
1965-66.
Physical Description:
[68] leaves.
Box 3, Folder 13
The Decline of teenage morals.
Physical Description:
11 leaves. Typescript
Box 3, Folder 14
Copies of correspondence, statements, etc.
Physical Description:
[57 leaves] numbered in pencil 84-140.
Box 3, Folder 15
Police description of Alleen Rowe.
Physical Description:
1 leaves. Typescript.
Box 3, Folder 16
Schmid, Charles[?] Copy of diary[?].
Physical Description:
3 leaves. Typescript with paste-on corrections.
Box 3, Folder 17
Second theme.
Physical Description:
15 leaves. Typescript with minor holograph corrections.
Box 4, Folder 1
Schmid notes. Los Angeles,
July 26, 1967.
Physical Description:
90 leaves. Typescript. (leaves 61-90 are photocopies).
Box 4, Folder 2
KCUB News interview with Charles Schmid at Death Row, Arizona State Penitentiary (Tucson),
April 14, 1966.
Physical Description:
22 leaves. Typescript.
Box 4, Folder 3
Transcripts pertaining to The State of Arizona, plaintiff,
vs. Charles H. Schmid, Jr., defendant (no.A-15028). Tucson,
1966.
Physical Description:
99 leaves (Carbon typescript) and l6 leaves (Carbon typescript).
Scope and Content Note
- Transcript of testimony of Richard Bruns.
- Opening statements of William J. Schaefer, III and William K. Tinney, Jr. Tucson, 1966.
- Each signed by court reporter.
Box 4, Folders 4-6
Pressbook clippings on Schmid murder case.
November 11, 1965-June 20, 1967.
Scope and Content Note
re
Tucson murders (all news clippings and wire service).
Box 4, Folder 7
Photographs pertaining to the Schmid case.
Physical Description:
15 items.
Box 4, Folder 8
Photographs used as illustrations for
The Tucson murders.
Physical Description:
19 items.
Box 4, Folder 9
Publisher's announcement for
The Tucson murders,
1970.
Box 4, Folder 10
The Tucson murders. New York: Dial Press,
1970.
Physical Description:
274pp.
Scope and Content Note
Also, 2 reel-to-reel tapes:
- 1) With R. Burns - Charles Schmid's closest friend was an informer in murders. Tape: John Gilmore and Richie Bruns. Tucson,
July 1967.
- 2) Charles Schmid, John Gilmore and George Scott. Schmid interview (spliced master). Death Row, Arizona State Penitentary.
Recorded Thursday April 14.
Box 5, Folder 1
Fact sheet, Schmid-Saunders-French Case. Compiled by Hudson,
31 January 1966.
Physical Description:
[i], 20 [2] leaves. Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
With tipped-in newspaper clippings.
Box 5, Folder 2
Newspaper clippings,
March 1975.
Scope and Content Note
re the death of Charles Schmid, while imprisoned.
Box 5, Folder 3
Letter from Gary Greenberg to John Gilmore, accompanying newspaper clippings above,
March 1975[?].
Box 5, Folder 4
The Pied piper,
March 17, 1970.
Physical Description:
[ii] 130 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
Scope and Content Note
- Final draft.
- Based on
The Tucson murders by John Gilmore ... and action picture treatment by John Gilmore, [titled]
Charles Schmid.
- Released October 1971 under title
The Todd killings.
Box 5, Folder 5
Another copy.
Physical Description:
Lacks leaves 124-130.
Box 5, Folder 6
What are we going to do without Skipper?
April 14, 1970.
Physical Description:
122 leaves. Typescript (mimeograph).
Scope and Content Note
- Revised final draft.
- Based on
The Tucson murders. Released October 1971, National General under title
The Todd killings.
James Dean
Scope and Content Note
Writings by John Gilmore; Photographs and Ephemera
Box 5, Folder 7
James Dean: the rebel recalled.
Physical Description:
[5] leaves. Photocopy.
Scope and Content Note
From April 1975 issue of
Gallery.
Box 5, Folder 8
The real James Dean. Los Angeles
1974[?].
Physical Description:
[l]p. leaves. i, 225 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 5, Folder 9
The real James Dean. New York: Pyramid Books
July 1975.
Physical Description:
160pp.
Box 5, Folder 10
Photographs.
Physical Description:
6 items.
Scope and Content Note
Used as illustrations for The Real James Dean.
Box 5, Folder 11
Photographs marked “re: The Real James Dean.”
Physical Description:
5 items.
Scope and Content Note
- One photo is marked “re: The Real Janes Dean article syndicated London Express”
- These do not appear in the Pyramid Books publication.
Box 5, Folder 12
Photographs of James Dean
n.d.
Physical Description:
7 items.
Scope and Content Note
Still, from
East of Eden and candid photos taken on Warner Brothers lot.
Box 5, Folder 13
Miscellaneous James Dean-related items.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of life mask of James Dean and of James Dean's motorcycle jacket and tee-shirt.
Box 5, Folder 14
Night circuit. Hollywood
1961.
Physical Description:
124 leaves. Carbon typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Story and screenplay. First draft.
Box 5, Folder 15
The real James Dean. New York
1975.
Physical Description:
53 leaves.
Scope and Content Note
Uncorrected galley proofs.
Box 6, Folder 16
25 years after his death...author reveals...clippings from
Hollywood Star
n.d.
Physical Description:
2 copies.
General note
(Added October 1980)
Miscellaneous Manuscripts By John Gilmore
Box 6, Folder 1
“Too near to hear the harp.” Los Angeles[?]
1962.
Physical Description:
64 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Episode for
Naked city.
Box 6, Folder 2
“Breaking hard.” Los Angeles?
1965.
Physical Description:
95 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
- Story and screenplay. Revised draft, May 13, 1965.
- With this: First treatment, February 1965. 16 leaves. Typescript (Incomplete).
Box 6, Folder 3
Faces by John Murdoch (pseudonym). Los Angeles[?]
1966.
Physical Description:
118 leaves. Carbon typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Story and screenplay.
Box 6, Folder 4
Faces. Los Angeles[?]
1966.
Physical Description:
76 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
“Writer's draft.”
Box 6, Folder 5
The human trap. Los Angeles[?]
1967.
Physical Description:
iv, 97 leaves. Typescript (offset?).
Scope and Content Note
Story and screenplay.
What Are We Doing. Los Angeles
1969
Physical Description:
(Typescript with holograph corrections).
Scope and Content Note
- The following folders are materials kept in the order in which John Gilmore placed them in looseleaf binder.
- Each manuscript is a version of what was in the end titled
What are we doing, where are we going.
Box 6, Folder 6
[Treatment of opening scene].
Physical Description:
9 leaves.
Box 6, Folder 7
[Treatment].
Physical Description:
20 leaves.
Box 6, Folder 8
Story outline.
Physical Description:
16 leaves.
Box 6, Folder 9
Film step outline.
Physical Description:
31 leaves.
Box 6, Folder 10
Opening [treatment].
Physical Description:
[4] leaves.
Box 6, Folder 11
[Draft, written as screenplay].
Physical Description:
53 leaves. with 7 leaves. (photocopy) inserted.
Box 6, Folder 12
What are we doing, where are we going.
Physical Description:
56 leaves.
Scope and Content Note
Story and screenplay.
Box 6, Folder 13
Miscellaneous drafts of scenes, notes for scenes, etc.
Physical Description:
Various pagings. [20] leaves.
Miscellaneous Photographs and Ephemera Relating to John Gilmore
Box 6, Folder 14
Impression (Blues for Willie). Photographs (production and stills) of movie written-directed by John Gilmore
1961.
Physical Description:
16 items.
Box 6, Folder 15
Photographs mounted on posterboard: ”Hollywood and Vine in the early 1950's” and “John Gilmore leaning on his Mercury in ”
1952.
Box 6, Folder 16
Clippings, ephemera.
1960, 1975.
“Wings”
Scope and Content Note
Source Material.
(Article by John Gilmore, to be published)
Ingalls, Laura. [Autobiography]. In 3 parts. n.p.
n.d.
Box 7, Folder 1
[Part 1] “Air express.” n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description:
22 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 7, Folder 2
[Part 2] Untitled.
Physical Description:
69 leaves.
Box 7, Folder 3
[Part 3] “Up with the wind.”
Physical Description:
38 leaves.
Box 7, Folder 4
Memo from Carlos Drake to Laura Ingalls
March 1954.
Physical Description:
9 leaves.
Box 7, Folder 5
Holograph notes by Laura Ingalls
n.d.
Physical Description:
2 leaves.
Box 7, Folder 6
Photographs of Laura Ingalls.
Physical Description:
2 items.
Box 7, Folder 7
Material about airplanes and Laura Ingalls. Clipping concerning Laura Ingalls
1941.
Physical Description:
Photocopies.
Scope and Content Note
Typed explanatory note by John Gilmore.
Bad Losers
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts, Source Material
Box 7, Folder 8
Bad Losers. Los Angeles[?]
1973-74.
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 350 leaves. Typescripts with extensive holograph and paste-on corrections.
Box 7, Folder 9
Two photographs (“Josie's farmhouse, Modesto”; “Hospital, Modesto”) and 3 credit card receipts. Letter from author: “part
of inception on this book, or rather this particular draft.”
Box 7, Folder 10
Francine. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Physical Description:
2 leaves. Typescript.
Box 7, Folder 11
Francine. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Scope and Content Note
In:
Purr, issue no.3, 1975.
Box 7, Folder 12
Desert storm. Los Angeles
1975[?].
Physical Description:
1 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 7, Folder 13
Desert storm. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description:
1 leaf. Photocopy.
Scope and Content Note
“Northwoods” printed at the bottom (Magazine in which published[?]).
Additions To Collection
December 1975
Box 7, Folder 14
The real James Dean. Los Angeles
1974[?].
Physical Description:
[l]p. leaves. 225 leaves. Typescript with extensive holograph corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Also, letter from Barbara Shepherd (John Gilmore's agent): “the original, finalized manuscript ... containing all corrections
and editing for press. ... The editor on this book was Mark Howell. The very first, or title page, is missing (lost in press).”
Box 7, Folder 15
Newsprint clippings from unidentified publication
re
Riding the snake. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description:
2 leaves.
Box 13, Folder 1
Photographs of family, detectives, suspects. etc.
1940s.
General note
[FLAT BOX NOT FULL]
Box 14, Folders 1-2
Photocopies of articles and photos
1940s-1950s.
Box 15, Folder 1
Photographs
1940s- .
Scope and Content Note
Many are newspaper photos with “whiteout.”
Box 14
Research material, etc.
Scope and Content Note
Also, correspondence with Minkoff.
General note
[This material removed from Box 13 to Box 14]
Box 16, Folder 2
JG: Final, minus corrections to New York.
1993.
Physical Description:
ca. 330 leaves. With photocopies of illustrations.
Box 16, Folder 3
Clippings.
1947 and v.d.
Physical Description:
Photocopies.
Box 16, Folder 4
Georgette Bauerdorf murder.
1944.
Physical Description:
Clippings (photocopies).
Box 17, Folder 1
Autopsy papers, coroner's inquest, police and sheriff records, interviews by JG, etc.
1940s-1980s.
Box 18, Folder 1
Corrected page proofs, printer's copy[?].
1994 January 28.
Scope and Content Note
With mock up of cover.
Box 18, Folder 2
Second proofs.
1994 March[?].
Scope and Content Note
Also, list of corrections.
Box 18, Folder 3
Third and final proofs, uncorrected.
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Incorporate changes from second proofs.
Box 18, Folder 6
Copy of book, Zanja Press.
1994.
Research and Publication Material
Box 18, Folder 4
Photocopies, copies of photographs, correspondence with publishers, etc.
1940s-1990s.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of: Robert Manley, Ursula Gilmore and Barbara Lee, etc.
Box 18, Folder 5
Article about John Gilmore, incomplete.
1962.
Scope and Content Note
Cf. copy of article in Publicity folder.
Box 16, Folder 1
Draft for publicity packet
1993.
Live Fast - Die Young: Remembering the short life of James Dean
Post-Publication Material
Box 20, Folder 7
Publicity, etc.,
ca. 1997.
Physical Description:
Primarily photocopies.
Box 20, Folder 8
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press,
1997.
Box 20, Folder 9
Uncorrected proof copy in wrappers,
ca. 1997.
Box 21, Folder 2
Final manuscript, with corrections, line edition by press.
1997.
Box 21, Folder 3
Completed line edit, proof and changes [printer's copy].
1997.
Box 21, Folder 4
First proof, before galley corrections.
1997.
Hollywood Stars
Scope and Content Note
Diane Varsi, Ina Balin
Box 20, Folder 3
Clippings and correspondence,
1993.
Scope and Content Note
- Primarly obituary information.
- Also photographs (photocopies) by JG of DV.
Box 15, Folder 5
In: Dial Press announcement
1970.
Box 17, Folder 2
Various drafts
1992.
Scope and Content Note
JG notes was accepted by
Paris Review and
Fiction Quarterly.
Box 17, Folder 3
Copy of book by Barbara Payton,
I am not ashamed. Holloway House
1963.
Box 16, Folder 5
[Miscellaneous titles]
1963-1979 (inclusive).
Scope and Content Note
All titles: “The exterminator,” “Losing ground,” “Verge of overload,” “The mountain” (screenplay treatment), “The wrecking
crew” (novel outline).
Box 16, Folder 7
Novel (unpublished)
1967.
Scope and Content Note
Rough draft.
Box 16, Folder 9
Various drafts
1966.
Scope and Content Note
Published in
California review of literature.
Box 17, Folder 6
Notes
1976, 1978.
Scope and Content Note
Note from JG: “See Kidnap notes, crossover between projects.”
Swamp Blood
Scope and Content Note
(Novel in progress)
Box 20, Folder 1
Copy, by Jack McFaren (pseudonym)
1993.
Scope and Content Note
Based on JG's screenplay of same title.
Box 19, Folder 3
Copy
1963.
Scope and Content Note
Set in Army stockade, 1954.
Box 15, Folder 2
Original script
1985 April-May.
Box 15, Folder 4
Copy, by J.C. Carriere, John Gilmore, and Malcolm Karman.
1985.
Box 15, Folder 6
Copy of work by Ingalls
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Also negative of LI[?].
General note
See other sections of JG papers, e.g. Box 7.
Box 15, Folder 7
Copies of information about Julia Kraus
1940s[?].
Scope and Content Note
Also information about America First committee.
Box 19, Folder 1
Treatment (original)
1990.
Box 19, Folder 6
Original story and screenplay
1986-1987.
Box 20, Folder 4
Story
1990.
Scope and Content Note
Based on JG's
The real James Dean.
Box 20, Folder 5
First draft
1990.
Scope and Content Note
Fictionalized version from JG's book and personal materials, intended for feature produced by UI.
Box 20, Folder 6
Story and screenplay. Copy, with letter.
1990s.
Additions To Collection
August 1976
Blowout By John Gilmore
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts
General note
See also Box 7, folder 8-9, under
Bad losers, the first title of this novel.
Box 8, Folder 1
Blowout. Los Angeles[?]
1975[?].
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 150 leaves. Typescript (original, carbon, photocopy) with holograph and paste-on corrections.
Scope and Content Note
“Chapters are not consecutive, and various chaptars throughout are not included (missing or disposed of by Mr. Gilmore)” -
letter from Carol Barry, in Collections File.
Box 8, Folders 2-4
-----. n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description:
472 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections and additions and paste-on additions.
Scope and Content Note
First completed draft:
- Folder 2) leaves 1-131.
- Folder 3) leaves 152-290.
- Folder 4) leaves 291-472.
Box 9, Folders 1-2
-----, n.p.
June 1976.
Physical Description:
346 leaves. Typescript with holograph and paste-on corrections.
Scope and Content Note
Second draft:
- Folder 1) leaves 1-139.
- Folder 2) leaves 190-345.
Box 9, Folder 3
-----, n.p.
1976.
Physical Description:
291 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Scope and Content Note
Incorporates corrections of second draft and corrections and editorial revisions in press.
Miscellaneous Diary Entries, Unpublished Stories, etc.
Scope and Content Note
(Folder titles are based on notes received with material)
Box 9, Folder 4
Letters, diary entries (1954), prose-descriptions, etc. Most materials are actually from
1964.
Box 9, Folder 5
Leopard for rent, n.p.
n.d.
Physical Description:
9 leaves.
Scope and Content Note
Published in
Rogue, 1960.
Box 9, Folder 7
Diary notes, story ideas
1964.
Box 9, Folder 8
Notebook
July 3-November 16, 1964.
Box 9, Folder 10
Diaries, prose descriptions, notes, etc.
1966.
Box 9, Folder 11
Letter to New York actress Marilyn Roberts
May 4, 1966.
Box 9, Folder 12
Diary entries
January-June 1967.
Box 9, Folder 13
Story “Cyclone”
1967.
Scope and Content Note
(Unpublished)
Box 9, Folder 14
Miscellaneous notes, diaries, letters, etc.
1967.
Box 9, Folder 15
Carbon of letter to Garry [Greenberg?]
August 7, 1975.
Additions To Collection
August 1931
Indiana Twilight
1979-80
Scope and Content Note
Drafts, notes, manuscript, screenplay.
(Folder descriptions adapted from notes by the author)
Box 10, Folder 1
Lie down in darkness by H.R. Hayes.
Physical Description:
ca. 100 leaves. Photocopy.
Scope and Content Note
With JG's holograph notes in preparation for first draft screenplay.
Box 10, Folder 2
First notes for screenplay based on changes in novel, adapting for motion picture.
Physical Description:
[29] leaves. Holograph and typescript.
Box 10, Folder 3
Notes for changes in concept, ideas, based on story conferences.
Physical Description:
11 leaves. Holograph.
Box 10, Folder 4
First draft (writer's work draft) based on notes and novel excerpts.
Physical Description:
[141] leaves.
Scope and Content Note
Also, 1 leaf unrelated holograph notes.
Box 10, Folder 5
First draft (writer's work draft) with changes for 2nd draft.
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 141 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 10, Folder 6
Further notes for changes in first draft (from story conferences and Gilmore's new changes) in preparation for 2nd draft.
Physical Description:
20 leaves. Holograph.
Box 10, Folder 7
Ideas, scenes for 2nd draft.
Physical Description:
31 leaves. Holograph and typescript.
Box 10, Folder 8
Second draft (writer's work draft) with new title
Indiana twilight; incorporates changes in this draft by Gilmore.
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 165 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections (photocopy).
Box 11, Folder 1
Second draft (work draft) with revisions by John Gilmore and Curtis Harrington, director.
January-February 1980.
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 175 leaves. Typescript with holograph corrections.
Box 11, Folder 2
2nd draft complete.
Physical Description:
Various pagings, ca. 124 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 11, Folder 3
First final draft (shooting script) with changes in 2nd draft by Gilmore.
March 1980.
Physical Description:
115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 11, Folder 4
Revisions
October 13, 1980.
Physical Description:
12 leaves. Carbon typescript and typescript (photocopy).
Box 11, Folder 5
2nd final script (shooting script) with rewritten pages.
Physical Description:
115 leaves. Typescript (photocopy).
Box 11, Folder 6
Notes for various drafts, carbon copies of scenes, writer's notes for changes, etc.; a collection of unorganized notes pertaining
to the development of the screenplay.
Physical Description:
ca. 175 leaves.
The Tucson Murders
General note
(formerly oversize package, now oversize box) [retyped 6/98 dl]
Box 12
Photographs used as illustrations.
Scope and Content Note
Mounted on posterboard with overlays marked “shooting copy,” and with other annotations.
Box 14, Folder 5
[Former] confidential files on Julia Kraus, Associated with Laura Ingalls.
1940s.
Box 14, Folders 6-8
Photocopies of FBI files
1940s.
Box 14, Folder 9
Research material[?]
1990-1992.
Scope and Content Note
- Also, correspondence with Minkoff.
- Minkoff was tried for murder of his half brother. Gilmore had been introduced to him, because of interest in James Dean.
Box 16, Folder 8
[Miscellaneous titles]
1962-1976.
Scope and Content Note
All titles: “Stop-over in Hang Tree,” “Heat,”
Dragonfly (novel), “Carhop murder” (poem).
Box 17, Folder 4
Press Material
1990s.
Scope and Content Note
Photocopied clippings, etc.
Box 17, Folder 5
Photograph of John Gilmore at the jail, copy of book.
1985-1987.
Scope and Content Note
Copy of book printed 1926, about the trial and jail in DeRidder, Louisiana.
Box 19, Folder 2
Research material
v.d.
Physical Description:
Photocopies.
Scope and Content Note
re Los Angeles pickpockets by Oscar O'Lear, LAPD.
Pickpocket specialist, friend of Robt T. Gilmore, Jr, LAPD.
Manuscripts, Letters, Clippings
Box 19, Folder 4
Publications of poems, etc.
1980s-1990.
Physical Description:
An extensive file.
Box 19, Folder 5
Copies, with some photographs.
1977[?]-1990.
Scope and Content Note
JG: Exchanges between JG and LL, S&M relationship, reflected in Lifshin's poetry.
Everyone Has Emptiness at 3 o'clock in the Morning
Box 19, Folder 7
Manuscript material
1987.
Physical Description:
Copy.
Box 20, Folder 2
Correspondence and ephemera
v.d., including 1990s.
Scope and Content Note
re his writing and research.
Box 22, Folder 1
Donald Wolfe correspondence concerning Severed
2005
Box 22, Folder 2
Final script for Severed
2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA.
Box 22, Folder 3
Pictures of Barabara Payton and Wonderland Murder scene shots
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA.
Box 22, Folder 4
Unbound published gallye of Inside Marilyn Monroe
Box 22, Folder 5
Concept notes for movie script for Bombay Beach
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA. "Notes, drafts of scenes, handwritten notes, versions."
Box 22, Folder 6
Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 1 of 2)
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
Box 22, Folder 7
Rough draft of movie script for Bombay Beach (folder 2 of 2)
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes throughout, rewrites, etc."
Box 22, Folder 8
First draft of movie script for Bombay Beach
2005
Physical Description:
Los Angeles, CA.
Box 23, Folder 1
Final proof for Crazy Streak
2005
Physical Description:
Los Angeles, CA.
Box 23, Folder 2
Final proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
Physical Description:
Hollywood and Studio City, CA.
Box 23, Folder 3
Miscellaneous concerning Marilyn Monroe
2006-2007
Physical Description:
Hollywood and Studio City, CA. Interview with John Gilmore regarding Marilyn Monroe relationship, excerpt from forthcoming
biography on Gilmore My Naked Life to be published in 2009.
Box 23, Folder 4
Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 1 of 2)
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
Box 23, Folder 5
Final proof of Hollywood Boulevard, including Midwest book review (folder 2 of 2)
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
Box 23, Folder 6
Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 1 of 2)
1999-2004
Physical Description:
Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
Box 24, Folder 1
Original draft of You Can't Sleep in a Car in Hollywood (alternate title: Hollywood Boulevard) (folder 2 of 2)
1999-2004
Physical Description:
Novel begun 1999 (?) in Albuquerque, NM and finished in 2004 under the title of Hollywood Boulevard.
Box 24, Folder 2
Rough proof for Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA.
Box 24, Folder 3
Partial manuscript and proof for L.A. Despair
2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA.
Box 24, Folder 4
L.A. Times West Magazine
2006
Box 24, Folder 7
Inside Marilyn Monroe
2007
Box 25, Folder 1
Rough draft of movie script for Severed
2005
Physical Description:
Studio City, CA.
Box 25, Folder 2
Notes for The Dragonfly
1997
Physical Description:
Notes were incorporated into novel Fetish Blonde published by Creation Books.
Box 25, Folder 3
Assorted letters, research, and memos
1996-1999
Physical Description:
New York, CA, Paris, France, London, England, Hollywood, CA, New Mexico.
Box 25, Folder 4
Motion picture script for Swamp Blood
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Los Angeles, CA. Written in 1991 and later revised in 2004-2005.
Box 25, Folder 5
First draft of the first section of Heartbreak Highway
2006
Physical Description:
Studio City, Ca. Novel to be published Fall, 2009 by Warner Books.
Box 25, Folder 6
Notes, memos, drawings, and story board ideas for draft work of Bombay Beach
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA. "Gilmore's handwritten notes, memos, drawings, story board ideas."
Box 25, Folder 7
Fictionalized version of Black Dahlia based on Severed
2006
Physical Description:
Hollywood, CA. Some notes on scenes in Chinese.
Box 25, Folder 8
Notes for original Severed script, research for documentary Black Dahlia
2004-2005
Physical Description:
Los Angeles, CA.
Box 25, Folder 9
Curtis Harrington memorial letter, photo of Mamie Van Dorren and Shay Astar
Physical Description:
Filmmaker Curtis Harrington died 5/6/2007. 50 years friendship with John Gilmore. Letter to Harrington by Gilmore, read
at Harrington memorial Center for Motion Picture Study on May 21, 2007. Photo of actors Mamie Van Doren and Shay Astar by
Gilmore.
Box 25, Folder 10
First book proposal and press release for Severed
1991-1994
Box 26, Folder 1
Reviews for The Garbage People
1971
Box 26, Folder 2
First draft of Bombay Beach
2005
Physical Description:
Los Angeles, CA.
Box 26, Folder 3
Selected interviews with John Gilmore
1997-2007
Box 26, Folder 4
Book signings and readings
1991-2006
Box 26, Folder 6
Interviews, press reviews, magazine and newspaper coverage
2003-2007, undated
Box 27, Folder 1
Press reviews and interviews (folder 1 of 2)
1988-2007
Box 27, Folder 2
Press reviews and interviews (folder 2 of 2)
1988-2007
Box 28, Folder 1
Index Magazine
1998, 2001
