Volatile Attractions Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and Managing a Music Legend

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Secondary Sources

Chadwick, Julie. The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon

     Toronto: Dundurn, 2017.

My Father and the Man in Black. Directed by Jonathan Holiff. New Chapter Productions, 2013.

Half a Mile a Day. Directed by Al Greenfield. Hallway Group Productions Inc., 2000.  

Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash: The Life. New York, Boston, and London: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.


Material from the Holiff Family fonds, University of Victoria Special Collections


Audio Recordings

Holiff, Saul. Audio recording for Morris Holiff's birthday, 1997. Box 15.

---. Audio recording of Saul Holiff discussing anti-Semitism in London for Generations: Growing Up Jewish in the Twentieth Century, 

     1997. Box 15. 

---. "The Crazy World of Show Business." 1998. Jewish Community Centre, London, ON. Box 15. 

---. Interview by Candy Yates. Cinematically Speaking, 1976. Box15. 

Paikin, Ann. Personal interview by Steve Paikin, 1984. Box 15. 


Press clippings

Alt, Marlene. "Saul Holiff's Victoria." London Magazine (Sep. 1986): 27-28 Box 1, Folder 19.      

Matyas, Joe. "True star: Cash big tree of country music." The London Free Press (5 Nov. 1973): 21. Box 1, Folder 18. 

Mulhern, Mike. "Former Johnny Cash agent to auction gold record." The London Free Press (7 Jun. 1978): D17. Box 1, Folder 18. 

---. "Holiff cashing in boyhood dreams." The London Free Press (20 Jun. 1980): C1, C5. 2016-018. Box 1, Folder 19. 

---. "June was missing but Johnny gave them pure Cash." The London Free Press (25 May 1978): D11. Box 1, Folder 18. 


Books

Cash, Johnny. Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1975. Box 16.

Streissguth, Michael. Johnny Cash: The Biography. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. Box 16.

Turner, Steve. The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend. Nashville, TN: W Publishing Group, 2004. Box 16.

Wren, Christopher S. Winners Got Scars Too: The Life and Legends of Johnny Cash. New York, NY: Dial Press, 1971. Box 16.


Correspondence and Personal Papers

Bean, Woodrow Wilson. Letter to Saul Holiff. 18 October 1965. Box 1, Folder 34. 

Carter, June. Letter to Saul Holiff. 3 January 1961. Box 1, Folder 32. 

---. Letter to Barbara and Saul Holiff. 19 September 1964. Box 1, Folder 33. 

---. Poem "For Saul." Box 1, Folder 9. 

Cash, Johnny. Letter to Barbara and Saul Holiff. 19 September 1964. Box 1, Folder 33. 

---. Letter to Barbara and Saul Holiff. 6 February 1997. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Bob Neal. 26 October 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Consul General. 30 April 1962. Box 1, Folder 32. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 6 June 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 1 September 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 10 August 1962. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 26 October 1964. Box 1, Folder 33. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 2 March 1965. 2Box 1, Folder 34. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 14 July 1965. Box 1, Folder 9.

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 1966. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 21 October 1967. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 5 October 1973. Box 1, Folder 41. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. 28 April 1974. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. n.d. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. n.d. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Whom it May Concern. 13 December 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Untitled poem [If I could rhyme], n.d. Box 1, Folder 33. 

---. Telegram to Anzac Jacobs and Saul Holiff. Box 1, Folder 35. 

Contract for Johnny Cash show at Lucan Memorial Arena, 26 August 1959. Box 18. 

Contract for Johnny Cash shows with Variety Theater International, Inc. 19 July 1965. Box 1, Folder 34. 

Darlow, Michael. Letter to Saul Holiff. 21 January 1969. Box 1, Folder 38. 

Holiff, Morris. Letter to Saul Holiff. 26 June 1969. Box 2, Folder 44. 

Holiff, Saul. Draft of letter to Johnny Cash. Box 1, Folder 34. 

---. Draft of telegram to Johnny Cash, 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Event log. 17-23 March 1965. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Barbara Robinson. 28 June 1962. Box 1, Folder 32. 

---. Letter to Barbara Robinson. 5 July 1962. Box 1, Folder 32.

---. Letter to Barbara Robinson. 11 July 1963. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Barbara Robinson. 29 November 1963. Box 2, Folder 52.

---. Letter to Barbara Holiff. 10 May 1966. Box 2, Folder 52. 

---. Letter to Betty Siegfried. 15 July 1962. Box 1, Folder 32. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 12 June 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 23 June 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 13 July 1962. Box 1, Folder 32.

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 12 August 1962. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 13 August 1962. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 23 May 1964. Box 1, Folder 33. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 9 July 1965. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 24 August 1965. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 21 December 1965. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 6 April 1966. Box 1, Folder 10. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 29 December 1966. Box 1, Folder 35. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 31 October 1967. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. 16 October 1994. Box 1, Folder 43. 

---. Letter to Johnny Cash. n.d. Box 1, Folder 9. 

---. Letter to June Carter. 25 December 1961. Box 1, Folder 31. 

---. Postcard to Esther and Joel Holiff. 4 September 1945. Box 1, Folder 11.

---. Telegram to Johnny Cash. 6 May 1967. Box 1, Folder 9. 

Jacobs, Anzac. Letter to Saul Holiff. 19 August 1966. Box 1, Folder 35. 

Neal, Bob. Letter to Johnny Cash, 24 October 1961. Box 1, Folder 31.

---. Letter to Saul Holiff. Box 1, Folder 29. 

Redford, Robert. Letter to Johnny Cash. 9 December 1969. Box 18.

Vice President, Screen Gems. Letter to Johnny Cash and Saul Holiff. 18 March 1970. Box 1, Folder 39. 

Western, Johnny. Letter to Saul Holiff. 1 July 1961. Box 1, Folder 10. 


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