Robert Bellem Papers, 1931-1968

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Robert Bellem Papers, 1931-1968

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Bellem (1902-1968)was born in Philadelphia. He worked as a journalist for 15 years in Philadelphia, Miami, Albuquerque and California. Bellem sold his first detective story to in 1925. He began writing for in 1934. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Anthony Gordon, Franklin Charles, John Grange, and John A. Saxon. Bellem later wrote television screenplays. The collection consists of short stories, novels, movie scenarios, radio scripts, and television plays written by Bellem. Argosy Spicy Detective Stories

23 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Bellem, Robert Leslie, 1902-1968

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Bellem was born in Philadelphia in 1902; worked as a journalist for 15 years in Philadelphia, Miami, Albuquerque, and Pasadena, CA; sold first detective story to Argosy in 1925; while in Pasadena, was a radio announcer for KPSN, a movie extra for Universal, and also worked on the advertising staff of the Pasadena Star-News; met publisher Frank Armer, 1933, and began writing for his Spicy detective stories the following year; by 1936 Bellem was writing and selling over a million words annually; a...