Hitchcock’s Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett

Suggestions for Further Research

261 suggestions for Further research Unless otherwise stated, the following are located either in the Charles Bennett Estate Collection (CBEC) in the possession of John Bennett, San Clemente, or in the Special Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library. Properties for sale (film and television scripts, plays, unpublished novels) including Blackmail, The Last Hour, Heart’s Desire, Night Music, Once upon a Midnight, Sermon in the Snow, Train Ride, Thunderbird, Satan Returns, Fox on the Run, Blow, Bugle, Blow, and The Hinges of Hell, CBEC. Blackmail draft screenplay for 20th Century Fox, CBEC. Autographed and vintage scripts, plays, playbills, lobby cards, and movie posters, CBEC. Awards, contracts, interviews, correspondence, letters, photographs, CBEC. Lilian Langrishe Bennett Family Collection, CBEC. Personal diaries, 1919–95 (excluding 1921, 1922, 1931–33, 1935, 1940–45, which are missing), MHL. Exercise books containing draft screenplays, ca. 1930, MHL. Press clippings, 1925–95. MHL Unpublished stories, screenplays, treatments, and teleplays, MHL. Personal narratives and short stories “Finis?” a 1925 unpublished short story, CBEC. “The Magician’s Dragon,” a ca. 1925 unpublished fairy tale, CBEC. “Magic in Montmartre,” a 1925 personal narrative, published in this memoir, CBEC. “Back to Mrs. Methuselah,” a ca. 1927 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. “Early Risers,” a ca. 1927 draft article, MHL. “First Nights,” a ca. 1927 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. “Grand Scale Humor,” a ca. 1927 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. “Provocation,” a ca. 1927 unpublished fable, CBEC. “The Magic Street,” a ca. 1927 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. “The Morning After,” a ca. 1927 unpublished short story, CBEC. suggestions for Further research 262 “The Motorist Walks,” a ca. 1927 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. “The 9.50 from Paddington,” a ca. 1927 unpublished short story, CBEC. “Pastorals,” a ca. 1927 draft article, MHL. “Signs by the Way,” a ca. 1927 travelogue possibly published in the London Sunday Express, CBEC. “The Greatest Practical Joke in the World,” a 1928 unpublished personal narrative, CBEC. Publicity page written in the third person, ca. 1929, MHL. “Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Hollywood,” a 1937 spoof published in this memoir, CBEC. “My Most Unforgettable Character,” a ca. 1965 personal narrative excerpted in this memoir, CBEC. “The Story in the Film,” address to the Film Society, February 14, 1936, MHL. Text of opening address, International PEN, London, January 31, 1945, MHL. “The Scenario Writer,” address presented at a meeting, MHL. “Laurence Olivier: The Power and the Glory.” In Danny Peary, Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends. New York: Workman, 1978. “Peter Lorre: Gentlest Murderer.” In Danny Peary, Close-Ups: Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by Their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters, and Friends. New York: Workman, 1978. DeMille tarantula story, in Jack Smith column, LA Times, July 25, 1979. Oral History Collection on the Performing Arts, Southern Methodist University, ca. 1981. “Night of the Demon.” In Danny Peary, Cult Movies 2. New York: Dell, 1982. “The Jules Verne Influence on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Five Weeks in a Balloon.” In Omni’s Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies, ed. Danny Peary, 120–23. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984. “LA Nostalgia.” In Anglafile: A Guide to the Best of British in Los Angeles. Los Angeles : AngLAFILE, 1994. Print interviews:the following list comprises an incomplete list of interviews archived at the MHL. (sources are unavailable in some cases.) Accinelli, Laura. “The Oldest Screenwriter.” Santa Monica Evening Outlook, November 5, 1991. “Actor Playwrights.” Daily Chronicle, August 2, 1929. Adolphe, Edward. Interview with CB on the state of British film. New York Sun, n.d. “A.R.T. Dark Deeds Planned on Hampstead Heath.” Star, December 29, 1928. Avallone, Susan. Interview for Film Writers Guide, 4th ed. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle, 1993. suggestions for Further research 263 Brock, J. “Playwright/Screenwriter Bennett Brings Tales to 72 Market Street.” Argonaut , November 1, 1991. Broeske, Pat. “Now Here’s a Real Comeback.” LA Times, September 30, 1990. “Can Love Blot Out the Past [Blackmail]?” Woman’s Life, August 31, 1929? “Charles Bennett, Born to Write.” Writers Guild of America, West, Newsletter, April 1987. “Contemporary Authors and Their Works.” LA Examiner, April 11, 1942. Cooper, Candy. “The Man Who Could Scare Alfred Hitchcock.” Unidentified source, 1981. Crocker, Harry. “Balalaika.” Unidentified source, December 1939. ———. “Tells of San Francisco Séance & Hatpin.” Unidentified source, 1939/40? Davis, Ronald L. “Charles Bennett: Import from England.” In Davis, Words into Images: Screenwriters on the Studio System. Jackson: University of Mississippi...