Under Dean Elizabeth Daley (and the too often unheralded work of archivist extraordinaire Ned Comstock), the quality and quantity of USC’s collections have grown. And it's a joy for academics and book writers to use the Doheny Library in the middle of a beautiful campus. Landing these archives is getting more competitive. Roddy McDowell talked two-time Oscar winning actress Luise Rainer into putting her material with Boston University. Director John Sayles, who was courted by a variety of institutions, decided to go with The University of Michigan because, as his partner Maggie Renzi says, “We wanted the films to be taught in the classroom in a range of disciplines in a great university.” And Jeanine Basinger has put Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut on the film archives map by methodically seeking out and winning the collections from the likes of Frank Capra, Ingrid Bergman and Elia Kazan. John Waters also has his papers there,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Cari Beauchamp
- Thompson on Hollywood
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