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Series I. Film, TV Shows, and Theater, 1959-2005, inclusive

Extent

7 Linear Feet in 9 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box, 1 flat-file folder, and 2 shared boxes with items.

Extent

5 audiocassettes

Extent

6 Megabytes in 1 computer file

Scope and Contents

This series consists of files related to Doroshow's projects connected to various movie, television, and theater projects, as either Jack Doroshow or Flawless Sabrina.

Arrangement

This series is arranged into three subseries and organized chronologically within.

Subseries I.A. The Queen, 1959-2002, undated, inclusive

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes files related to the 1968 documentary film The Queen. The film covers the 1967 Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest in New York City in which Flawless Sabrina was the emcee and narrator. This subseries contains ephemera related to the beauty contest event itself including Flawless Sabrina pageant business cards, event invitation, a Robert Kennedy letter declining the invitation, and an event program. Promotional material for the movie, budgets, press clippings, marketing packets, movie stills of the contestants, and a filming agreement with a list of the participants and their payments are also in this subseries. Of note are photographs from the 1968 Cannes Film Festival including images from events and a movie screening which were attended by Doroshow, Doroshow as Flawless Sabrina, and one of the contestants, Rachel Harlow. This subseries also contains promotional material and press clippings surrounding screenings of the movie in the 1990s and 2010s.

Arrangement

This subseries is arranged chronologically.

The Nationals Corporation Business Card for Flawless Sabrina, circa 1959-1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant -- Invitation and Program, 1967-02-20

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant -- Invitation Regret Letter from Robert Kennedy, 1967-02-20

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Telegram from Jack Doroshow to His Mother re: Movie, 1967-10-14

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Contract for Documentary Movie, Letters, and List of Participants and their Payments, 1967-1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press Clippings, 1967-1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Press Packet / Publicity Material, circa 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Movie Poster, 1968

Flat-File-Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Electronic Records, E-records: FA_MSS_594_ER_1 (Material Type: electronic records)

Digital materials

Movie Poster: 1968- (Material Type: Electronic Record)

Press Release, circa 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs -- Promotional Movie Stills, circa 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Civil Court Judgement Between Jack Doroshow / National Academy and IBM Corporation, 1968-03-20

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs by Jill Krimentz -- Flawless Sabrina and Photographers Parents, 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina, Rachel Harlow, Alan Delain, and Others at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina and Others at Dinner at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina and Rachel Harlow at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs -- Film Screening at the Cannes Film Festival with Ringo Starr, Jack Doroshow, Rachel Harlow, and Others, May 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs by Maurice Gaulmin -- Rachel Harlow, Jack Doroshow, and Others at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Accounting Report for Film, Budget, 1968-1971, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Book Contract with Pyramid Publications, 1972-1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letter re: Potential Television Show, 1983

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes on Concepts for Musical, 1987

Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Si Litvinoff Recollections on The Queen, 1992

Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

1990s Release of Film -- Promotional Material and Still Photographs, 1993

Box: 1, Folder: 22-23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Financial Distribution History, 1993

Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

1990s Release of Film -- Notes and Memos, 1993-1994, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Press Clippings, 1993-1995, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 26-27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Forum Advertising and Marketing for the Release, circa 1995, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Book -- Images of America: Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia with Entry for Jack Doroshow and The Queen, 2002

Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Transnation Film Festival -- Movie Poster / Event Listings, 2016

Box: 51, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Promotional Material for Screening Event at Mother, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries I.B. The Apple Pie Show, 1983-1985, inclusive

Scope and Contents

This subseries contains material from Doroshow's unsuccessful attempt to produce The Apple Pie Show, a television talk show that would have been hosted by filmmaker John Waters and performer Divine during the 1980s. This subseries includes business cards, agreements with potential investors, press releases, shot lists, production schedules, budgets, and correspondence with John Waters and Divine, all related to the development of the show. Color sketches of caricatures of Divine in various costumes, set design images, logo mock-ups, and original painted story boards are also in this subseries. Proposal packets include letters of support, narratives describing the premise of the show, storyboards, budgets, and press releases which were distributed to potential investors and stakeholders. Also included in this subseries is Doroshow's handwritten preparatory script for his phone call with John Waters, as well as an audio recording of the conversation, along with a typed transcript.

Arrangement

This subseries is arranged chronologically.

Treatment for Show and Related Memo, 1983

Box: 1, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Robert Keenan Investment / Partnership Agreement, 1983

Box: 1, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Waters Phone Call -- Script, Audio Recording, Transcript of Call Conversation, 1983-12-06

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Fales 094, audiocassette: 594_005 (Material Type: Audio)

Divine Correspondence and Research, 1983-1984, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

John Waters Correspondence and Agreements, 1983-1984, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Agreements, Contracts, and Copyright Marks, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Apple Pie Video and Apple Pie TV Business Cards and Letterhead, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Show Proposal / Presentation Packets and Supporting Documents, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4-14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Phone Script to Market the Show, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Show Shot List and Production Schedule, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Photographs of Set Design Mock-ups, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Collage with Images of John Waters, Divine, and Cartoon Caricatures, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Byron Guthrie Art Promotional Flier with "Something is Cooking on Your T.V. Set", circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Illustrations of Characters, Model Sheets, and Sketches, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Color Graphics and Original Story Boards, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 51, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sketch of the Show Logo / Title Screen, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 51, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Animation Quote Breakdown, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 51, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Investor Agreements and Correspondence, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Budget, Finances, circa 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General Correspondence, 1983-1984, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Beach St. Productions Agreement, 1984

Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Joe Franklin Letter, 1984

Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jeff Haddow Letter, 1984

Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dick Roffman Show Correspondence and Press Release to Promote Show, 1984

Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence -- Mothers Sound Stage, 1984

Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Animation Company Estimate, 1984

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence re: TV Networks, 1984

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Correspondence re: Cinemax, 1984

Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Ivan Kramarevsky Investor Agreements, Correspondence, 1984-1985, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Day Video Estimates, 1985

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mock-ups of Promotional Material and Correspondence re: Potential Filming at the Limelight club, 1985

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mock-up of Promotional Material, Agreements, and Correspondence re: Using Studio 54 for Filming, 1985

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4, Folder: 4-5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries I.C. General Project Files, 1960s-2005, undated, inclusive

Scope and Contents

This subseries includes realized and unrealized Doroshow projects in movies, television, and theater, with him in the role of producer, writer, or actor, dating from the 1960s to the early 2000s. The subseries contains proposals and correspondence for Doroshow's partnership in the 1970s with writer Rona Jaffee including Baby Rainbow and All My Friends' Secrets. Documentation of acting projects include call sheets, scene lists, and residual reports for his bit part in The Anderson Tapes. Files in this subseries on propspective television shows Miss Cellaneous, Only In New York and an untitled video cabaret show include correspondence and presentation packets. Doroshow's production of the 1970s movie More, More, More files include agreements, budget, screenplay, promotional material, and soundtrack planning with songwriter Greg Diamond. This subseries also includes scrapbooks containing tracking notes for many of these projects, as well as actor headshots from the 1970s and 1980s which were retained by Doroshow in consideration for parts in various projects he was developing. Audio recordings from the project A Musical History of the Vietnam War are also in this subseries.

Arrangement

This subseries is arranged chronologically, within groupings of files.

Actor and Model Headshots for Various Projects, circa 1960s-1980s, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 6-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- Correspondence, 1967, undated, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- Baby Rainbow Correspondence, 1969

Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- Certificate of Incorporation for Doroshow's Company, Dor, Inc., 1970

Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- Contracts with Dor, Inc., 1970

Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- Agreement re: Film Rights to Hair Correspondence, 1970

Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rona Jaffee Projects -- All My Friends' Secrets -- Drafts, Notes, Edits, 1970s, inclusive

Box: 4, Folder: 14-15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Personal Manager Agreement for Jack Doroshow, 1970

Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- New York Cabaret Synopsis, 1970s-1980s, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Acting Project -- The Anderson Tapes Call Sheets, Scene Lists, Guild Residual Reports, 1970, 2008, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Multiple Projects -- Lists, Notes, and Letters, 1970-2001, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- A Day in the Life of... Synopsis, 1971

Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- I Ate Eros Proposal, 1971

Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Slap Outline and Letter, 1971

Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Sheila -- Agreement, Notes, Script Pages, circa 1971

Box: 5, Folder: 8-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebook -- Multiple Project Status Reports, Contact Lists, and Meeting Notes -- (Slap, Baby Rainbow, Sheila, Rona Jaffee, and Other Projects, 1971-1978, inclusive

Box: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Mary Ann -- Synopsis and Script Pages, 1974

Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Lion's Share -- Agreement, Outline, Notes, Letters, 1974-1975, inclusive

Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Apirations Productions, Inc. -- Blank Stock Certificates, Checks, Certificate of Incorporation, 1975

Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Desdemona, Chinzano and Raw -- Partnership Offer, 1975

Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- More, More, More -- Agreements, Budget, Soundtrack Planning with Greg Diamond, Screenplay, Promotional Material, 1975-1977, inclusive

Box: 6, Folder: 4-13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- The Babysitter Script, July 1976

Box: 7, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Posessed Agreement, 1976

Box: 7, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Nickel Mountain Finance and Production Plan, 1977

Box: 7, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Comin' Up Letter and Presentation Packet, 1979

Box: 7, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Death Beat Letter, Script, Budget, 1980

Box: 7, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Len Aitken Productions -- Promotional Material, circa 1980

Box: 7, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Strawhead Script, circa 1980-1983, inclusive

Box: 7, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Play Scripts by Mark Malone, 1981

Box: 7, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- The Journey Treatment, Summary Presentation, 1982

Box: 7, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Miss Cellaneous -- Presentation Packet, Phone Script for Soliciting, Budget, Correspondence, Location Information, 1983

Box: 7, Folder: 10-15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- The Last Nazi Script, 1983-10-10

Box: 8, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Variety Videos I, II, and III Proposal, circa 1983

Box: 8, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Liquid Sky Business Cards, Logo Mock-up, Correspondence, Weekly Gross Reports, 1983-1984, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 51, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Video Cabaret Proposal, 1984

Box: 8, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Camp Pains Proposal, 1984

Box: 8, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- How to Be a Television Talk Show Host Proposal, 1985

Box: 8, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Frontiers in Biological Psychiatry Proposal, 1985

Box: 8, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Music Mansion Proposal, 1986

Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Forecast Proposal, 1989

Box: 8, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Probe Vision Proposal, 1992

Box: 8, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Feminine Wiles Script Draft, 2002

Box: 8, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jack Script Dialogue, January 2005

Box: 8, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Psociopathetik Experiences -- Use of Jack's Apartment for Filming, 2005

Box: 8, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Chicken Pox Script with Flawless Sabrina Role, 2005

Box: 8, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Serpico Production Handbook, undated, inclusive

Box: 8, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Daddy Proposal Material, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Wallstreet Mob Proposal Material, Mock-ups, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- The Hitch Hiker Script, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Jim Mannix, Jr. -- Television Show Writing Samples, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Proposal for Movie about Alice Cooper, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Unknown Show Character Descriptions, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Broken Goddess with Holly Woodlawn Proposal, Photographs, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Doctor Noguchi Script, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

TV Project -- Only in New York Proposal, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Unknown Script, including Characters "Golightly" and "Solomon", undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Theater Project -- Unknown Script, including Character "Jack", undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Film Project -- Coffee and Commerce Outline, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letterhead and Business Cards for Doroshow Working as a Producer, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

A Musical History of the Vietnam War, undated, inclusive

Box: Shared Fales 094, audiocassette: 594_001 -- 594_004 (Material Type: Audio)

Photographs -- Unknown Stage Play, undated, inclusive

Box: 9, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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