Many other of Shrake's scripts remain unrealized despite the enthusiasm and support of prominent Hollywood figures. The screenplay for that project was later reworked into the stage play, Pancho Villa's Wedding. Director Jonathan Demme labored to bring Big Mamoo to the screen for many years but his efforts to that end remain frustrated. Personal Records 3. The archive includes book manuscript drafts, galley proofs, magazines, clippings, tear sheets, letters, photographs, slides, audiotapes, and a typewriter.
Arrangement is in chronological order.
The subseries consist primarily of manuscript drafts but also contain research material, editing notes, galleys, magazines, tear sheets, and reviews. The series is arranged in chronological order. Contained here are manuscripts, galleys, reviews and correspondence with editors. Tapes and transcripts of interviews are included for the Willie Nelson autobiography as are clippings and articles on Nelson, a songbook written by Nelson when he was a child, and numerous manuscript drafts. The drafts remain in the order in which they were typed into the computer by Shrake's assistant, Jody Gent.