Arnold Moss papers, 1935-1987 (bulk 1953-1987).

Open to research.

General correspondence; theater file (1953-1987) comprising, correspondence, contracts. scripts, playbills and programs, financial records, clippings, and other papers; and subject file containing correspondence, notes, speeches, writings, drafts of crossword puzzles, clippings, and printed matter. The collection documents Moss's career primarily as a stage actor, producer, and director and includes records of the Shakespeare Festival Players, a touring repertory company that Moss founded, and files on his adaptation and production of Bernard Shaw's play, Back to Methuselah (1957-1958), in which he played Shaw. Also includes material on his activities as a specialist in theater for the U.S. Dept. of State traveling to Latin America, Africa, and the Far East; and his dramatic readings and presentations at the Library of Congress and at colleges and universities. Correspondents include Philip Burton, Bernard Malamud, Arthur Miller, and Harold Prince.

In part, photocopies (positive).

Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Actor, director, theatrical producer, and crossword puzzle maker. Died 1989.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007102