Series I. Film, TV Shows, and Theater, 1959-2005, inclusive
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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
Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant -- Invitation and Program, 1967-02-20
Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant -- Invitation Regret Letter from Robert Kennedy, 1967-02-20
Telegram from Jack Doroshow to His Mother re: Movie, 1967-10-14
Contract for Documentary Movie, Letters, and List of Participants and their Payments, 1967-1968, inclusive
Press Clippings, 1967-1973, inclusive
Film Press Packet / Publicity Material, circa 1968
Movie Poster, 1968
Digital materials
Press Release, circa 1968
Photographs -- Promotional Movie Stills, circa 1968
Civil Court Judgement Between Jack Doroshow / National Academy and IBM Corporation, 1968-03-20
Photographs by Jill Krimentz -- Flawless Sabrina and Photographers Parents, 1968
Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina, Rachel Harlow, Alan Delain, and Others at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968
Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina and Others at Dinner at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968
Photographs by Pierre Manciet -- Flawless Sabrina and Rachel Harlow at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968
Photographs -- Film Screening at the Cannes Film Festival with Ringo Starr, Jack Doroshow, Rachel Harlow, and Others, May 1968
Photographs by Maurice Gaulmin -- Rachel Harlow, Jack Doroshow, and Others at Cannes Film Festival, May 1968
Accounting Report for Film, Budget, 1968-1971, inclusive
Book Contract with Pyramid Publications, 1972-1975, inclusive
Letter re: Potential Television Show, 1983
Notes on Concepts for Musical, 1987
Si Litvinoff Recollections on The Queen, 1992
1990s Release of Film -- Promotional Material and Still Photographs, 1993
Financial Distribution History, 1993
1990s Release of Film -- Notes and Memos, 1993-1994, inclusive
Press Clippings, 1993-1995, inclusive
Film Forum Advertising and Marketing for the Release, circa 1995, inclusive
Book -- Images of America: Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia with Entry for Jack Doroshow and The Queen, 2002
Transnation Film Festival -- Movie Poster / Event Listings, 2016
Promotional Material for Screening Event at Mother, undated, inclusive
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
Robert Keenan Investment / Partnership Agreement, 1983
John Waters Phone Call -- Script, Audio Recording, Transcript of Call Conversation, 1983-12-06
Divine Correspondence and Research, 1983-1984, inclusive
John Waters Correspondence and Agreements, 1983-1984, inclusive
Agreements, Contracts, and Copyright Marks, 1983-1985, inclusive
Apple Pie Video and Apple Pie TV Business Cards and Letterhead, 1983-1985, inclusive
Show Proposal / Presentation Packets and Supporting Documents, 1983-1985, inclusive
Phone Script to Market the Show, 1983-1985, inclusive
Show Shot List and Production Schedule, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Photographs of Set Design Mock-ups, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Collage with Images of John Waters, Divine, and Cartoon Caricatures, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Byron Guthrie Art Promotional Flier with "Something is Cooking on Your T.V. Set", circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Illustrations of Characters, Model Sheets, and Sketches, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Color Graphics and Original Story Boards, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Sketch of the Show Logo / Title Screen, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Animation Quote Breakdown, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Investor Agreements and Correspondence, 1983-1985, inclusive
Notes, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
Budget, Finances, circa 1983-1985, inclusive
General Correspondence, 1983-1984, undated, inclusive
Beach St. Productions Agreement, 1984
Joe Franklin Letter, 1984
Jeff Haddow Letter, 1984
Dick Roffman Show Correspondence and Press Release to Promote Show, 1984
Correspondence -- Mothers Sound Stage, 1984
Animation Company Estimate, 1984
Correspondence re: TV Networks, 1984
Correspondence re: Cinemax, 1984
Ivan Kramarevsky Investor Agreements, Correspondence, 1984-1985, inclusive
Day Video Estimates, 1985
Mock-ups of Promotional Material and Correspondence re: Potential Filming at the Limelight club, 1985
Mock-up of Promotional Material, Agreements, and Correspondence re: Using Studio 54 for Filming, 1985
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.