(FILM) Small archive of scripts contracts and memorabilia by

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(FILM.) Small archive of scripts, contracts, and memorabilia by screenwriter Tex Charwate. 57 items, various sizes and conditions, most dampstained, plus newspaper clippings, quite worn and brittle, together about 0.5 linear feet. Vp, 1906-30

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Arthur J.A. "Tex" Charwate (1879-?) was a screenwriter in the early days of American film. This collection includes 2 contracts with the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation for Charwate's screenplays, both signed by Charwate and Samuel Goldwyn (as "Goldfish") August 1918. The first, Her Heart Guard, has a typed carbon scenario appended, and was apparently not filmed. The second, Southern Pride, has a full typed carbon script appended, and was filmed later that year as The Racing Strain.
Also included are 5 additional typed scripts, undated 9 Library of Congress copyright cards, 1909-24 A 1930 letter to Charwate 40 photographs of showgirls, many inscribed to Charwate Cabinet photograph of Charwate in football regalia 3 folders of newspaper clippings from 1906 onward, many of them by or about Charwate.