New exhibit honors the late playwright Horton Foote
DeGolyer Library exhibit is part of a citywide celebration honoring the great playwright.
 Horton Foote |
The exhibit is part of the Dallas-wide March 14 – May 1.
«Ƶ also will host a screeningA Young Lady of Property at 3 p.m. Sunday in Dallas Hall's McCord Auditorium. The 1953 Philco Television Playhouse production,written by Foote, is about 15-year-oldWilma whohas dreams of becoming a movie star but is sent to live with her aunt after her mother’s death. She dreams of a home of her own, but is upset when her father remarries and plans to sell the house her mother left to her.
The legendary Texas playwright wrote more than 60 plays, screenplays and television scripts by hand in spiral-bound stenographer pads. The exhibit traces his writing process from steno pad to typed and annotated script to production programs and movie stills to two shiny Oscar statuettes. His copy of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” complete with dialogue notes scribbled in the book’s margins, is included in the exhibit along with childhood photos and highlights of his early acting career.
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DeGolyer Library also has published a tribute to Horton Foote, Farewell: Remembering Horton Foote, 1916-2009 (DeGolyer Library, 2011). The book includes contributions from more than 50 colleagues and friends including Edward Albee, Ellen Burstyn, Robert Duvall, Jean Stapleton, James Houghton and Jane Roberts Wood.
The Foote papers were acquired in 1991 by DeGolyer Library, a rare book and special collections library at «Ƶ. The extensive archive includes drafts, revisions and final scripts for Foote’s plays, screenplays, novel and memoirs as well as personal essays and reflections. It also includes a large file of correspondence with fellow writers such as To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee, actors such as Robert Duvall, family and friends. The collection also includes playbills, reviews, posters, photographs and films.
Exhibit details
| ³: | , 6404 Robert S. Hyer Lane, Dallas, Texas | |
| Hours: | 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, Mar. 1 – May 1 | |
| Cost: | Free and open to the public | |
| Parking: | Visitor parking, , 3101 Binkley Ave. | |
| Info: | 214-768-3231 or |
For News Media:
Contact: Nancy George
«Ƶ News and Communications
214-768-7674 orngeorge@smu.edu
| Images for Downloading (click image for high-res verson) | ||
 Horton Foote (Photo by David Spagnolo) |
 Horton Foote wrote by hand the first draft of his Academy Award-winning screenplay, "To Kill a Mockingbird." |
 Jean Stapleton, Horton Foote, Roberta Maxwell, Michael Wilson and Hallie Foote on set of "The Carpetbagger's Children." (2001) |
 Horton Foote - 1941 |
 Horton and Lillian Foote - 1945 | |
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