The Harold S. Bucquet papers span the years 1927-1946 and encompass 4 linear feet. The collection
consists primarily of clippings, scripts, and scrapbooks. Twenty-nine Bucquet-directed MGM films?8
features and 11 shorts?re represented by publicity clippings and reviews, and half of these also have
script material. Nineteen scrapbooks contain photographs and clippings covering most of the films
directed by Bucquet between 1937 and 1944. A small amount of correspondence and several issues of the
"MGM Studio News" (1939-1940) are also included.
Harold S. Bucquet was a British-born director. He emigrated to the United States as a teenager and
later became an American citizen. He was an assistant director, then director, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
studios from 1923 to 1946.
4 linear feet of papers.
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