An archive of scripts and correspondence relating to a Clyde Beatty film project
Including 2 documents, one handwritten, and one typed letter signed by Beatty, 3 pp, July 26 to October 29, 1954, most relating to an advance to screenwriter Bob Belcher for his work on the script Ringo, to be based on Beatty's experiences. With 2 drafts of the film's synopsis and 3 drafts of the screenplay based on Belcher's original story, plus related correspondence between Belcher and producers F. Herrick Herrick and A.J. Patel, the later writing from India and Pakistan.
Clyde Beatty was a popular circus liontamer who also appeared in films from the 1930s, and who had his own radio show in the early 1950s. This archive, dating from 1954-56, relates to a film project dramatizing Beatty's attempts to capture the famous man-eating tiger Ringo, and was apparently never produced, and with a 9 x 13 inch silver print photograph of the tiger in question.
