'Up Periscope' screenplay, September 4, 1957, Date acquired: 1957
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- White, Robb
- Landau, Richard
- Extent:
- 1.00 folders 1 folder.
- 0 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], 'Up Periscope' screenplay, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-314
Background
- Scope and content:
Typescript of screenplay for "Up Periscope," dated September 4, 1957. Screenplay by Richard H. Landau from the novel by Robb White. Property of Lakeside Pictures, Inc., Warner Bros. Studio, Burbank, California. 123 pages.
- Biographical / historical:
Robb White was born in the Philippines on November 24, 1909. His father was an Episcopal missionary and White grew up in the tropics. He attended high school in Virginia and later, the Naval Academy in Annapolis. By then, his family had moved to Thomasville, Georgia where White met Rosalie "Rodie" Mason. Teh couple married in 1937 and moved to the Virgin Islands, Marina Cay City. They stayed there three years during which time White wrote "Our Virgin Island" and "Two on the Isle." The couple had three children, Robb, Barbara and June.
White served in the Navy during World War II and again in the late 1940s. He worked several different jobs, but wanted to be a writer, often writing late into the night after working all day. He wrote young adult fiction, articles, proceedings, and screenplays for television and movies. His movies include "The House on Haunted Hill" (1958), "Up Periscope" (1959), "13 Ghosts" (1960) and "Homicidal (1961).
White died in Santa Barbara, California in November of 1990.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Robb White
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Motion picture plays.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.
- Terms of access:
All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
- Preferred citation:
[Title of Item], [Date of Item], 'Up Periscope' screenplay, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-0-314
- Location of this collection:
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116 Honors WayTallahasseeFL32306-2047USA
