Ayn Rand in Hollywood
Oct 3, 2007

What:
- Exhibit of images and documents from Ayn Rand's life in Hollywood
- Readings from the unpublished Ayn Rand
- Films about and by Ayn Rand
- Lecture on the history of Ayn Rand's adaptation of "The Fountainhead" to film

Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space. 1623 N. Ivar Avenue, Hollywood, CA. (323) 856-8260

When: October 14, 2006, through February 28, 2007

Presented by: Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library in association with the Ayn Rand Archives, a Special Collection of the Ayn Rand Institute

Curator: Jeff Britting, archivist, Ayn Rand Institute

More information and high-resolution pictures for use by the media: www.aynrand.org/exhibit

Exhibit: Ayn Rand in Hollywood: Images and Documents, 1926 51

This exhibit documents Rand's personal and professional activities in Hollywood and shows her development and intellectual range. Starting as a film extra with broken English, she would later become a contract screenwriter with Paramount Pictures. Entering Hollywood as a Soviet political refugee, she would become Hollywood's leading intellectual battling the Communist Party's influence on writers during the 1940s.

October 14, 2006, through February 28, 2007
Monday to Thursday from 10am to 8pm; Friday and Saturday from 10am to 6pm; Sunday from 1pm to 5pm

Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

Readings: Stand and Think--from the Unpublished Ayn Rand

A series of readings from the unpublished works of Ayn Rand, illuminating her personal life in Hollywood, her involvement with 1940s anti-communist intellectual activism and her work on her fourth and final novel, "Atlas Shrugged."

First Reading: "Life in Los Angeles" 
Saturday, October 21, 2006, at 3pm  

Second Reading: "Hollywood and Communist Propaganda"
Saturday, November 18, 2006, at 3pm  

Third Reading: "Atlas Shrugged"
Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 3pm

Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

Films: About and by Ayn Rand

The series opens with the documentary "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" (1997 Academy Award ™ Nominee for Best Documentary Feature) followed by three feature films with screenplays written by or co-written with Rand.

"Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life" (35mm)
Written and directed by Michael Paxton
Saturday, January 13, 2007, at 7:30pm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Theatre

"You Came Along" (VHS)
Screenplay by Ayn Rand and Robert Smith
Saturday, January 20, 2007, at 3pm
Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

"Love Letters" (VHS)
Screenplay by Ayn Rand
Saturday, January 27, 2007, at 3pm
Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

"The Fountainhead" (DVD)
Screenplay by Ayn Rand
Saturday, February 3, 2007, at 3pm
Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

Lecture: "Integrity and Hollywood: Adapting 'The Fountainhead' to Film"
By Jeff Britting

A history of Rand's adaptation and the two competing adaptations that would have contradicted her esthetics and philosophy

Saturday, February 10, 2007, at 3pm

Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, exhibit space

Credits: The images, documents and quoted text from this exhibit were selected from "Ayn Rand," an illustrated biography by Jeff Britting (The Overlook Press, 2005). Additional objects or their reproductions are courtesy of the Ayn Rand Archives. High-resolution images for use by the media are available at www.aynrand.org/exhibit

The Ayn Rand Archives was established in 1996 by the Ayn Rand Institute to acquire, preserve and make available Ayn Rand's papers and related documents to serious scholars and general writers. For information about the Ayn Rand Archives and its programs, please go to www.aynrand.org

An earlier exhibit of images from Ayn Rand's life, called "Ayn Rand in Russia," was presented by the Nabokov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia in November 2005. A third and final exhibit, entitled "Ayn Rand in New York," is expected to open in New York City in October 2007, and will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rand's masterpiece, "Atlas Shrugged."

This current exhibit was mounted with the generous cooperation of the Los Angeles Public Library, Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Branch.