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Kanter, Hal. |
Papers, 1937-1977. |
18.0 c.f. (45 archives boxes) and
12 cartoons. |
Papers of Hal Kanter (1918- ), a writer-producer-director of numerous television comedies. Included are scripts, correspondence and fan mail, contracts, production files, and ratings. Among the best represented series which Kanter created, wrote, produced, or directed are All in the Family (CBS), Bob Hope's Chrysler Theatre (NBC), Chico and the Man (NBC), George Gobel Show (NBC), Jimmy Stewart Show (NBC), Julia (NBC), Valentine's Day (ABC), and numerous specials and Academy Award presentations. Writings for other media include correspondence, drafts, and promotion for his novel Snake in the Glass (1971); scripts for radio programs such as ABC's Beulah Show; and scripts for The Children's Hour (UA, 1962), Let's Make Love (20th Century-Fox, 1960), Once Upon a Horse (Universal, 1958), Pocketful of Miracles (Para., 1961), and eight other motion pictures. |
writer, producer, director, television, film, screenwriter, radio, manuscript collection |
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Kaplan, Richard, 1925- |
Richard Kaplan papers, 1905-2006. |
53.6 c.f.,
95 tape recordings,
31 videorecordings,
60 cans of film,
45 film reels (16 mm),
70 photographs,
12 negatives strips,
26 negatives, and
12 transparencies. |
Papers of Richard Kaplan (1925-), a filmmaker/producer of documentary and feature films. Included are production and distribution files consisting of research notes, grant information, scripts, work logs, transcripts, reviews, publicity materials, tape recordings, videotapes, and film (including sound tracks), documenting his work on films such as the documentaries A Look at Liv and King: Montgomery to Memphis; television projects, including They Came for Good, on the history of Jews in the United States; and feature films, including projects on Varian Fry, an American journalist involved in the Emergency Rescue Committee (later known as the International Rescue Committee), which assisted refugees during World War II. |
producer, director, film, independent, television, mixed collection |
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Kasha, Lawrence N., 1933- . |
Papers, 1964-1965. |
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and
1 tape recording. |
Papers of a theatrical producer-director, primarily relating to Funny Girl (1964), with which Kasha was involved as associate director. Included is a script and an interview in which he discussed the production of that musical, Barbra Streisand's acting abilities, and the theater in general. Also present are a script for Bajour (1964) and some biographical material. |
theater, producer, director, mixed collection |
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Katkov, Norman. |
Papers, 1930-1968. |
14.0 c.f. (33 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes) |
Papers of a journalist and writer of short stories, novels, screenplays, and teleplays. Included are scripts primarily relating to his television work, non-theatrical writings, and correspondence. Although Katkov has written for many dramatic television series, most of these programs are represented only by scripts for single episodes. Larger files are present, however, for Ben Casey (ABC), 87th Precinct (NBC), The Loner (CBS), Maya (NBC), The Outlaws (NBC), Slattery's People (CBS), The Virginian (NBC), and Wanted: Dead or Alive (CBS). |
screenwriter, film, television, journalist, manuscript collection |
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Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961. |
Papers, 1918-1958. |
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and
4 reels of microfilm (35mm) |
Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director, consisting primarily of correspondence, scripts, and microfilmed biographical scrapbooks. The correspondence contains originals or copies of letters from Fred Allen, Winthrop Ames, George Arliss, Eleanor Belmont, Walter Damrosch, Joseph E. Davies, Robert H. Davis, Theodore Dreiser, James A. Farley, Arthur Hopkins, Otto Kahn, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Adolphe Menjou, William Saroyan, Alfred E. Smith, Henry L. Stimson, John Steinbeck, Booth Tarkington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William Allen White, Alexander Woollcott, and others. There are scripts (some annotated) for seventeen produced and unproduced titles for stage, screen, and television including "The Butter and Egg Man" (1925), "The Late George Apley" (1944), "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939), and several other plays on which Kaufman collaborated with Marc Connelly, Ruth Goodman Goetz, Leueen MacGrath, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Teichmann, and other playwrights. |
playwright, director, theater, mixed collection |
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Keene, Nietzchka |
Nietzchka Keene papers, 1979-2003. |
4.2 c.f.,
5.0 c.f. of film,
1.0 c.f. of videorecordings,
2,360 photographs, and
27 tape recordings. |
Papers documenting the film production work of an independent filmmaker and teacher of film and video production, lastly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Films documented include Hinterland (1983), The Juniper Tree (1990), Aves (1994), Heroine of Hell (1996), and the uncompleted Barefoot to Jerusalem. |
screenwriter, director, film, independent, female artist, Wisconsin, mixed collection |
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Kelly, George, 1887-1974. |
Papers, n.d.. |
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) |
Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and director, consisting of undated manuscripts for three unproduced plays: When Love Beckons, When All Else Fails, and Can Two Walk Together?. |
playwright, director, theater, manuscript collection |
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Kelso, John. |
Papers. |
1.0 c.f. |
Papers (mostly playbills) relating to the career of actor-director John Kelso, son of the donor. |
actor, director, theater |
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Kenly, William. |
Papers, 1911-1980. |
12.8 c.f. |
Collected and research papers of Kenly, a leader in the founding and running of New York based film societies as well as the director of the Fifth Avenue Cinema and York Film Theaters. |
film, film societies, manuscript collection |
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Kenny, Robert Walker, 1901- . |
Robert W. Kenny and Robert S. Morris papers, 1940-1957. |
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes),
1 tape recording, and
6 disc recordings. |
Legal papers of two Los Angeles attorneys who served as counsel for the Hollywood Ten during appearances before the House Committee on Un-American Activities and during subsequent civil suits against the studios to recover losses from the blacklist. Included are correspondence with numerous attorneys and others involved in the cases including Leonard B. Boudin, Charles Katz, Carey McWilliams, Benjamin Margolis, and Alexander Meiklejohn, as well as with Lester Cole, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, and other Hollywood Ten clients; transcripts of court proceedings and HUAC testimony; briefs and memoranda concerning points of law; exhibits; depositions from E. J. Mannix, Louis B. Mayer, Dore Schary, Jack Warner, and Darryl F. Zanuck; handwritten notes; and material (some in recorded form) pertaining to the national public relations effort in behalf of the Ten. Also included are legal papers for Michael Wilson, a blacklisted writer who was not a member of the Ten, and miscellaneous research materials concerning the Association of Motion Picture Producers, John E. Rankin, and other topics. |
film, blacklist, studio, mixed collection |
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Kerby, Elizabeth Poe. |
Papers, 1953-1961. |
0.1 c.f. (1 folder) |
Articles by a free-lance writer on the extent and impact of the Hollywood blacklist which resulted from the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1952-1953, and an unpublished summary of her findings submitted to the Fund for the Republic in 1955. |
writer, blacklist, film, manuscript collection |
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Kerr, Walter, 1913-1966. |
Walter and Jean Kerr papers, circa 1920-1993. |
56.4 c.f. (111 archives boxes, 68 volumes, 2 packages),
17 tape recordings, and
16 disc recordings; plus
additions of 8.3 c.f.,
36 photographs, and
6 tape recordings. |
Papers of Walter Kerr, playwright and drama critic, and his wife Jean Kerr, humorist and playwright; the collection documents their individual and their collaborative careers. For their New York productions such as King of Hearts (1954), Mary, Mary (1961), and Poor Richard (1964), there are scripts, musical scores and recordings, photographs, notes, clippings, correspondence, and financial records. Also included are materials relating to Walter Kerr's teaching, and his career as a theater critic. Jean Kerr's writings are represented by correspondence and financial and legal material for Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957), and drafts of three collections of her free-lance articles. Among many prominent correspondents in the collection are W.H. Auden, Richard Burton, Carol Channing, Oscar Hammerstein II, Moss Hart, Helen Hayes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Elia Kazan, Clare Boothe Luce, Fredric March, Mary Martin, Groucho Marx, Richard Rodgers, William Saroyan, Gloria Swanson, and Tennessee Williams. |
playwright, critic, theater, mixed collection |
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Kibre, Jefferson, 1906-1966. |
Papers, 1936-1940. |
1.6 c.f. |
Papers of Jefferson Kibre, a movie studio prop maker and film industry labor organizer during the 1930s, mainly concerning his campaign to reform the IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees); including notes for speeches, minutes and notes of meetings, scripts and transcripts, telegrams, correspondence, cartoons, newsletters, labor agreements, petitions, questionnaires and data on film industry labor, news releases, handbills, organizing material, and legal documents (mainly pertaining to a suit filed with the NLRB by the Motion Picture Studio Crafts against the producers running a company union). |
film, designer, labor, manuscript collection |
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Kinoy, Ernest. |
Papers, 1948-1987. |
32.2 c.f. (81 archives boxes); plus
additions of 2.2 c.f. |
Papers of a journalist and writer for radio, television, and theater. The majority of the collection consists of scripts for radio and television. Although most radio files contain only one version of a script, the television materials include progressive drafts, together with correspondence and contracts. Among the best represented radio series are "Best Plays," "Doctor Six-Gun," "Five Star Matinee," "Hollywood Love Story," "The Marriage," "My Secret Story," "NBC Theatre," "NBC University Theatre," "Nick Carter," "Woman in Love," and "X Minus One." The television files include good coverage of Kinoy's work for "Big Story (NBC)," "The Defenders" (CBS), "Goodyear/Philco TV Playhouse," "Dr. Kildare" (NBC), "Naked City" (ABC), "The Marriage," "Our American Heritage" (NBC), "Roots" and "Roots: The Next Generations" (ABC), "Studio One" (CBS), the made-for-TV movies "Boston," "Chaplin," "Lincoln," "Magnificat," "Murrow," and "Skokie," and many other series and dramatic anthologies. Also present are general correspondence, stage and screen plays, and material on Kinoy's involvement in the Writers Guild of America. |
writer, journalist, film, radio, television, manuscript collection |
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Kleinerman, Isaac. |
Isaac Kleinerman papers, 1954-1974. |
4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes) and
283 films and
2 videorecordings; plus
additions of 25 films and
20.9 c.f. |
Papers of Isaac Kleinerman (1916-2004), an independent producer-director of television documentaries who worked for NBC (1951-1957) and CBS (1957-1976). The collection primarily concerns programs edited and produced for CBS's "The Twentieth Century" and "The 21st Century" series, and other work for CBS. |
producer, director, television, documentary, mixed collection |
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Kobal, John. |
Collected papers, 1932-1985. |
5.6 c.f. and
54 tape recordings. |
Scripts, photographs, and recordings collected by Kobal, a writer and researcher in the field of film, television, and drama. |
film, television, theater, researcher, writer, mixed collection |
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Kober, Arthur, 1900-1975. |
Papers, 1921-1975. |
9.6 c.f (2 archives boxes, 9 cartons) and
1 reel of microfilm (35mm); plus
additions of 0.4 c.f. |
Papers of Arthur Kober (1900-1975), a playwright and film, television, and short story writer, most popular during the 1930's and 1940's. These are arranged in series of correspondence and related material, personal papers, and writings. Kober's correspondence dates from the 1920's through the 1970's, but is incomplete. Of greatest interest is the file of letters from Lillian Hellman, including a few undated letters apparently written before their divorce in 1930, and later letters which discuss her writing and reveal the nature of their relationship. Other files include letters from family, friends, and business people, among them Bennett Cerf, Harold and Florence Rome, Irene Lee, Irene Mayer Selznick, Herman Shumlin, and Katherine White. |
playwright, writer, screenwriter, film, television, theater |
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Koch, Howard. |
Papers, 1937-1976. |
2.9 c.f. (7 archives boxes); plus
additions of 0.6 c.f. and
2 photographs. |
Papers of Howard Koch (1902-1995), a writer of motion pictures. Included are scripts, revisions, treatments, correspondence, stills, clippings, and explanatory notes for various Warner Brothers releases which Koch wrote including "Casablanca" (1942), for which he received an Acadamy Award; "In This Our Life" (1942); "The Letter" (1940); "Mission to Moscow" (1943); "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945); "The Sea Hawk" (1941); "Sergeant York" (1941); and other produced and unproduced motion pictures. Because "Mission to Moscow" led to Koch's testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947, the notes and correspondence pertaining to the writing of this screenplay are of special interest. Also relating to this subject are a transcript of his testimony to the committee and notes and correspondence relating to his subsequent blacklisting. |
screenwriter, writer, film, radio, blacklist, mixed collection |
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Koepp, David. |
David Koepp Collection. |
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Papers and films of screenwriter and director David Koepp. |
screenwriter, director, film, mixed collection |
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Kronenberger, Louis, 1904-1980. |
Papers, 1920-1962. |
1.6 c.f. (4 archives boxes) |
Papers of Louis Kronenberger (1904-1980), an author, drama critic, and theatrical educator, containing typescripts of plays; drafts of books including The Thread of Laughter (1952) which pertains to dramatic criticism; several novels; drafts of poems, essays, and articles; speeches; and lecture material. |
writer, critic, theater, manuscript collection |
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