The Personal series includes correspondence between friends and business partners as well as congratulatory cards and notes. The majority of the series consists of Shaye’s speeches made during awards ceremonies, general speeches for company events, movie premiere speeches and speeches for family and friends’ events. Many documents refer to Shaye as L.E. Moko. This reference refers to Pépé le Moko, a 1937 French gangster film directed by Julien Duvivier.
5.5 Linear feet (4 records boxes, 1 manuscript box, 2 oversize boxes)
The Robert Altman Personal series (14 linear feet, 3 oversized boxes) is comprised of personal material ranging in date from 1945-2007. The material consists of correspondence, legal and medical documents, topical and award related material, early work, interviews and clippings, as well as photographs.
The correspondence sub-series include letters and cards from friends, co-workers and acquaintances, as well as fan mail. Early work is comprised of music, poetry, scripts, and short stories ranging in date from 1945-1965. Documents such as marriage certificates, birth certificates and passports can be found in the legal and other documents sub-series while Robert Altman's wills are in the legal-Jerome Walsh sub-series. The family sub-series is comprised of material relating to Dana Altman and Signe Corriere, as well as an undated family tree. The medical sub-series contain medical records and bills.
The Company series (27 linear feet and 5 oversized boxes) consists of material from the 2003 film directed by Robert Altman. The film was co-written by Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner, and co-produced by Neve Campbell and Joshua Astrachan. The film's actors include Neve Campbell, James Franco, and Malcolm McDowell along with dancers from the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.
The legal sub-series contain numerous agreements including those for the actors, crew, musicians and dancers in the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. Many of the legal files reflect licenses to use the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago's choreography, music and dances in the film.
Business and financial is the largest sub-series in the collection. The majority of files include payroll for the cast and crew, an extensive invoice history that includes releases, contracts and annotated bills and a variety of accounting reports including posting reports, closing reports and cost reports. The payroll services company called Cast and Crew Payroll, Inc. for the film was audited by the Directors Guild of America's Producer Pension and Health Plans branch in 2004.
The scripts sub-series include interviews between writer Barbara Turner and the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago dancers. Production and post-production includes production files that document the start of filming from camera tests to day 1-33 of shooting and production. Also, a variety of foley cue sheets for sound editing are found in oversized boxes. In the awards, events and festivals sub-series information on the San Francisco International Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement in Directing Award for Altman in 2003 is included.
Photographs consist of contact sheets, cast photos, headshots and continuity shots in the photograph sub-series. The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago's official photographer, Herbert Migdoll, photographed the dance sequences while the production photographer, Matt Dinerstein, photographed the rest of the filming and production.
The Multiple Project Notes subseries consists of materials that relate to multiple unproduced and produced projects. The subseries consists of correspondence materials and legal correspondence in the form of short typed and hand written notes.