Series 2, Subseries B, C, F, G, H


THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

JACK AND BONITA GRANVILLE WRATHER PAPERS
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Series 2. Subseries B: Bonita Granville Wrather Movie Career

BOX 5ov

Folder 1: Bonita Granville Wrather personal scrapbook re her movie career and marriage to Jack Wrather (photocopy for research use; condition of original fragile). Date: Post 1949(?)

Folder 2: Scrapbook re entertainment careers of Granvilles, with emphasis on Bonita Granville Wrather; compiled by Rosina Timponi Granville (?). Date: 1936-1972 (dates broken)

Folder 3: 3 b/w Bonita Granville Wrather "career photographs"; 2 b/w 8x10 photographs of theatres (Paramount of and Keith's RKO) premiering "Hitler's Children"; 3 b/w glossy photographs of movie poster for "Beloved Brat". Date: N.D.

Folder 4: "Call It a Day" lobby card; from Cozy Theater, Los Angeles. Date: N.D.

Folder 5: Lobby cards from Bonita Granville Wrather movies: "Maid of Salem," "Breakfast in Hollywood," "The Lone Ranger". Date: 1956

Folder 6: Collier's magazine, with article re Motion Picture Mothers, Inc., including Rosina Timponi Granville and Bonita Granville Wrather; articles, advertisements. (Some originals replaced with photocopies because of fragility) Dates: 1944, 1947

Folder 7: Articles, movie advertisements. "Strike It Rich" itinerary for Tyler, Texas premiere. From envelope labeled "Career Clippings." (Some originals replaced with photocopies because of fragility.) Dates: 1938-1950 (dates broken)

 

Series 2. Subseries C: Wrather Corporation Television/Wrather Entertainment International  back to top

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

Storyline, incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda re Andy Hardy television movie pilot

1978

1

2-3

Tom McDermott memoranda, outgoing correspondence, balance sheet, Wrather domestic television marketing report, newspaper articles, press release, including sale of Wrather Corporation television and motion picture properties contracts

1983-1985

1

4

Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, budget, agreements re production of "Rabid"/Cerberus Strain"

1980-1981

1

5-6

Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, audience test results, financial statements, balance sheets re Wrather Entertainment International film and television production development

1979-1982

2

1

Bonita Granville Wrather incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, storylines re Lone Ranger productions. Cf. Box 2ov, Folder 3

1974-1983, 1985

2

2

Tom McDermott weekly television reports

1984

2

3

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, sales agreements, inventory re acquisition of Wrather Subsidiaries by Southbrook Entertainment Corporation

1985-1986

2

4

Wrather Television Library, with foreign and domestic sales reports

1985

2ov

3

Article re Lone Ranger

1978


Series 2. Subseries F: American Film Institute
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BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

American Film Institute (AFI) memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence; programs for dedication of AFI Bonita Granville Wrather Gallery

1988

1

2-3

American Film Institute (AFI) memoranda, press release, and incoming and outgoing correspondence, including Bonita Granville Wrather election as American Film Institute chair; AFI board schedules, committee lists, briefings

1986

1

4

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda re American Film Magazine

1987-1988

1

5

Guest lists, invitation, incoming and outgoing correspondence re American Film Institute tribute to Bonita Granville Wrather

1986

1

6

American Film Institute publicity (newspaper, magazine articles) re Bonita Granville Wrather. Cf. Box 3ov, Folder 6, this subseries

1984, 1986-1988

1

7

Twentieth anniversary American Film Institute press kit, with group photograph of first six directors and "Directing Workshop for Women" alumnae

1987

1

8

Memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, fax sheets, list of press kit recipients, booklets re twentieth anniversary of the American Film Institute

1987

2

1

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, board of trustees resolution re American Film Institute donations and pledge campaigns

1981-1983, 1985-1987

2

2

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, promotional brochure (two copies), memoranda, conditional disbursement agreement re Harold Lloyd endowment of the American Film Institute

1987-1988

2

3

Memoranda, agenda, issues list, by-laws, management and organizational charts re American Film Institute Board of Trustees retreat notebook

1986

2

4-10

Agenda and minutes, memoranda, financial reports for meetings of the American Film Institute Board of Trustees meeting, Bonita Granville Wrather, chair. Includes fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth, sixty-first, sixty-third meetings

1986-1988

2

11

Information packet for American Film Institute, with memorandum. Incomplete?

1986

2

12

By-laws, list of trustees, board structure. For board retreat? Cf. Box 2, Folder 8, this subseries

1986

2

13

"The American Film Institute: The Center Handbook, 1987-1988"

1987(?)

2

14

"American Film Institute Board of Trustees Chairman Briefing Book." With accompanying memoranda

1988

2

15

"The American Film Institute. Board Retreat. Background Information" (notebook)

1988

3

1

Agenda, briefing book, candidates' biographies for American Film Institute Honorary Degree Committee meeting

1988

3

2

Subject files re American Film Institute business. Originally in AFI notebook with name "Bonita Granville Wrather" on cover

1987-1988

3

3

American Film Institute stationery

N.D.

3

4

American Film Institute annual reports

1981-1986

3

5

American Film Institute binders for materials in Box 3, Folders 1 and 2

N.D.

3

6

News report with interview on KNX radio re Bonita Granville Wrather's assumption of chair of American Film Institute. On audio cassette

1986

3ov

6

American Film Institute newsletter and program guide; articles re AFI

1984, 1987-1988


Series 2. Subseries G: Bonita Granville Wrather Speeches
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BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

Speeches for American Film Institute, University of Texas, Ronald Reagan; Bonita Granville Wrather biographical sketch

1978-1980, 1984, 1986-1987

1

2-4

Speeches, with accompanying correspondence, newspaper articles

1967-1973 (dates broken)

1

5

Resource file for Bonita Granville Wrather speeches

1973-1985 (dates broken)

1

6

Bonita Granville Wrather speech Graduate Business School Wives' Club, University of Texas. On audiocassette. Cf. Box 1, Folder 4, this subseries

1971


Series 2. Subseries H: The Legend of the Lone Ranger Film Production  back to top

BOX

FOLDER

SUBJECT

DATES


1

1

Newspaper articles, incoming and outgoing correspondence re production publicity. Cf. Box 2ov, Folder 4, this subseries

1977, 1979-1980

1

2

William Kelley film treatments for Lone Ranger film and television series

N. D.

1

3-4

Bonita Granville Wrather file re concept development survey, Bill Roberts first draft, William Douglas Langford outline, general correspondence, memoranda, and shooting schedule

1978-1983

1

5

Incoming and outgoing correspondence, bills re premiere

1981

1

6-8

Contact, response, and guest lists, memorabilia, seating arrangements, flight schedules, itinerary re premiere

1981

2ov

4

Posters, newspaper articles, incoming correspondence, memoranda re production publicity. Originally with material in Box 1, Folder 1, this subseries

1977, 1980

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