Papers, 1931-1968.

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Papers, 1931-1968.

Collection consists of short stories, novels, movie scenarios, radio scripts, and television plays written by Bellem. The short stories (originally published in pulp magazines) were bound in volumes. Television series writing includes scripts for 77 Sunset Strip, The FBI, Death Valley days, Perry Mason, Iron horse, and Dick Tracy. Includes radio scripts for Creeps by night. Also contains newspapers, magazines, and a catalog of military goods.

23 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399765

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...