Contains material for Lewis's television and radio programs, including complete scripts as well as jokes and monologues written for use on these programs, correspondence, news clippings, music scores and photographs that document his entertainment career between the mid-1940s and 1960. Radio programs that are represented in this collection include Arthur Godfrey Time and both the radio and television versions of the Robert Q. Lewis Show.
Contains personal documents in Vallee's possession at the time of his death, including correspondence, scrapbooks, radio and television scripts, sound recordings, musical scores, photographs, business records, press clippings and ephemera. The bulk of accessible materials document Vallee's career in radio broadcasting and entertainment, 1925-1975.
Contains musical scores and arrangements prepared and used by the members of the Sportsmen Quartet during their performing career, 1943-ca. 1970. The group is most closely associated with the Jack Benny radio and television programs.
Contains over 11,000 recordings of radio programs, 1930-1960, as well as documentary recordings from later years plus papers that include extensive research files largely concentrating on Fibber McGee and Molly and its stars Jim and Marian Jordan. Only those sound recordings that have been transferred to cassette are available for use.
Consists of miscellaneous scripts including over 143 titles. The bulk of the collection dates from the l940s through the 1950s and includes series titles such as Burns and Allen, Duffy's Tavern, Jimmy Durante Show, Errand of Mercy, The Fred Allen Show, The Henry Morgan Show, Hollywood Star Preview, Mutual Radio Theater, Sears Radio Theater and others.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes scripts for the Chase and Sanborn Coffee Hour, Elmer Everett Yess, The Big Show, The Red Skelton Show, Joe Cook's Patent Office, The Fire Chief, Ziegfeld Follies of the Air and other programs. Also includes Eddie Cantor sketches and some material related to other programs and treatments for screenplays. See online finding aid for complete list of programs with dates. See also a separate Freedman collection, also with scripts, in the Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Majority of the scripts are from The Eddie Cantor Show, 1944-1949, Time to Smile, 1942-1944 with gaps, and Wednesday With You, 1945. Most scripts are annotated by Quillan. Note: Some of the same scripts may be in the Manning Ostroff Collection.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio scripts, stills, scrapbooks, books, magazines and sheet music. Parts of the collection are on deposit with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, the American Film Institute and the University of Southern California, Cinema Studies Library.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio scripts related to Tunick's career as a writer. Includes scripts for American School of the Air, 1944-1948, Cavalcade of America, 1949-1953, Towards a Better World, 1943-1944, and The World Is Yours, 1937-1941.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes scripts for Suspense, Gunsmoke, 1956-1959, Romance, 1954-1955, Have Gun-Will Travel, 1958, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Escape, Fort Laramie, 1956, and radio spots for I Was There, 1941-1944.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains columns published in the entertainment trade papers, including "Television Today," "Motion Picture Daily" and "Radio/TV Daily." The columns cover projects and industry professionals from 1943-1950 and 1954-1971.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Collection of records and occasionally album notes and photographs featuring music, news, interviews, speeches, poetry and stories. Some records are of radio programs, including The Fred Allen Show and Burns and Allen.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Ninety seven recordings of Screen Guild Theater programs used as a fundraising effort for the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Note: The name of the program changed depending on the sponsor, e.g., Gulf, Lady Esther Cosmetics and Camel Cigarettes.
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Donald C. Davidson Library, Performing Arts Collections, University of California at Santa Barbara
Consists of papers related to Defore's work in film and television, transcription discs of late 1940s radio programs and other professional papers, clippings and personal items.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of scripts, contracts, programs, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings relating to Cooper's appearance on five radio programs, 1935-1954, films and plays.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Includes material on unidentified radio programs, business files, tax records, correspondence, clippings, literary journals, tape recorded interviews, readings and archives for his "Radio Free America" column in the "Los Angeles Free Press."
Repository/Collector:
Archival Research Center: Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Southern California
This collection consists of approximately 1,000 American radio scripts containing 49 different series titles spanning multiple genres - drama, comedy, mystery, musical, quiz show, documentary, children’s and religious. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1940s through the 1950s. Well represented shows include A Date With Judy, The Whistler, Kay Keyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge, and The Beulah Show. The following titles are represented: A Date With Judy, Abbot and Costello Program, ABC Mystery Theater, Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Adventures of Sam Spade, Adventures of the Thin Man, Amazing Mrs. Danbury, Ben Bernie and All The Lads, Beulah Show, Bill Goodwin Show, Burns and Allen Show, CBS Mystery Radio Theater, The Chase, Citizen of the World, The Cobbs, Crime Letter from Dan Dodge, Dark Venture, Dick Tracy, Duffy’s Tavern, Edgar Bergen Hour, Edgar Bergen Show, Eternal Light, Fibber McGee and Molly, Frontier Gentleman, Gunsmoke, Have Gun Will Travel, Heartbeat Theater, Junior Miss, Kay Keyser’s Kollege of Music, Let’s Pretend, Mr. and Mrs. North, Murder by Experts, Mutual Radio Theater, New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Norman Corwin Show, Our Miss Brooks, Phil Silvers Show, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, Robert Q. Lewis Show, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees, Sears Radio Theater, Smilin’ Ed’s Gang, Snug Harbor, Stars Over Hollywood, Suspense, Tattered Man, Theatre Guild on the Air, Whistler
The Archive of Recorded Sound's Non-Commercial Disc Collections consist of over 10,000 phonographic disc recordings from a variety of donors, the majority of which are either broadcast transcriptions or instantaneous recordings. None were ever available for sale to the general public, and many are unique.
The non profit group maintains a large lending library of sound recordings of programs and interviews with radio pioneers as well as printed materials, including scripts, logs, photographs, videotapes of meetings with old time radio actors and personnel talking about their careers in radio and radio magazines. A portion of the group's varied holdings are listed online at www.sperdvac.org/index_listing_info.htm. Contact the organization for information about additional resources.
Repository/Collector:
Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy (SPERDVAC)
Includes scripts for Camel Caravan, 1939, Hank McCune Show, 1947, Lew Parker, 1945, Philip Morris Playhouse, 1942, Sammy Kaye, 1943, and Time to Smile, 1939-1942.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains correspondence, publications, publicity materials, radio scripts, office records, petitions and research materials of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of script material, notes, humor topicals, gag files, general files, photographs and personal papers. Includes material related to Crane's long association with renowned comedians and represents his prolific career writing for radio, television, motion pictures and live performance projects. Although a detailed finding aid identifying specific radio programs is not available online, the online abstract does list the following entertainers that Crane wrote for and befriended: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Milton Berle, Abe Burrows, Perry Como, Joan Davis, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, Alan King, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Groucho Marx, Jan Murray, Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas and Andy Williams.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Collection contains scripts for radio programs in which Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton, Tommy Dorsey and others starred, including Whose Baby Are You, Chase and Sanborn Hour, Baby Snooks, Circus Night in Town, Kraft Music Hall and Lifebuoy Soap. See online finding aid for list of programs and dates. See also separate Freedman collection that includes scripts in the Arts Library, Special Collections.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Collection consists of 81 bound volumes of various radio and television scripts including the following radio programs: LifeWith Luigi, 1948-1953, Our Miss Brooks, December, 1953-June, 1954, Happy Island starring Ed Wynn, September, 1944-February, 1945, Let Yourself Go starring Milton Berle, March-June, 1945, The Eddie Cantor Show, 1945, 1947, The Jim Backus Show, 1948, Kiss and Make Up, 1946, Lefty, 1946, The Mighty Casey, 1947, Robert Q. Lewis's Little Show, 1947, and That's Rich, 1954.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains correspondence, biographical data, contracts, general files, scrapbooks, magazine and newspaper clippings. Also includes audio tapes of her program, Fashion Notes, aired on CBS, 1963-1965.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, business papers, tape recordings, photographs, phonograph records, clippings and printed material related to Los Angeles politics when Shaw served as secretary to his brother, Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw. Includes radio speeches and material related to radio campaigns.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains writings in many different media, including short stories, newspaper and magazine articles, plays, screenplays, radio and television scripts, poetry and a biography on her brother Leonard Keeler.
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Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
Consists of personal papers documenting Knight's broadcasting from World War II through the 1970s. Contains family and personal correspondence, business files, legal files related to litigation with KPFA, including transcripts, a draft autobiography, calendars, photographs and ephemera.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
Consists primarily of scripts for motion pictures (produced and unproduced), television, stage and radio, including The Armour Hour, 1933-1935, Joe Penner, 1937, National Biscuit Show, 1937, and The Ken Murray Show, 1937. Also includes personal papers and project files including treatments and story ideas written by Englund and his collaborators.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of materials related to Englund's career as a television and screen writer. Includes scripts, correspondence, clippings, a list of Englund's screen, radio and stage credits, n.d., and ephemera. See online finding aid for a detailed list of scripts for America Marches On, The Big Broadcast of 1938, Blue Ribbon Town, The Armour Hour, Joe Penner, Ken Murray Theater Guild, The Marx Brothers, Mickey's Hollywood Premiere, National Biscuit Show, The Packard Hour, Laugh With Ken Murray and Twin Stars. See also separate collection of Englund scripts in the Arts Library.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of scripts and recordings of Kovacs's television shows. Also includes manuscripts of his novel as well as personal papers, contracts, financial papers and scrapbooks. Collection may not include any material related to Kovacs's early radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Sparks discusses the history of radio programming at the University and his activities with the Office of War Information during World War II. Includes a discussion of the University Explorer, Science Editor and Master Storytellers in the Modern World programs.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains radio, motion picture and television scripts written by Fine and David Friedkin. Also contains business records of Friedkin & Fine, including contracts, production reports, story ideas and business and personal correspondence that are organized by production title. Includes scripts for the following radio programs: Adventures of Robin Hood, Bold Venture, Broadway is My Beat, Cathy and Elliot Lewis On Stage, Front Page, Journey Into Adventure, Michael Flagg, M.D., Pursuit, Suspense, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. Also includes a phonograph record that includes Suspense, Broadway is My Beat and Philip Morris Playhouse.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains mimeographed summaries of radio broadcasts, newspaper accounts, various special reports and publications in Japanese prepared by the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section of the Intelligence Office during the occupation of Japan, 1945-1947. Audio discs of Mashbir's Japanese broadcasts have been transferred to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)