Papers, 1913-1967.

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Papers, 1913-1967.

Collection consists of scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia spanning Stuart Heisler's career as a motion picture and television director. Also contains correspondence, legal documents, clippings, and musical scores. Includes television scripts for The lawman, Rawhide, 77 Sunset Strip, Gunsmoke, and The Virginian. Film scripts include The lives of a Bengal Lancer, The biscuit eater, The glass key, and The Negro soldier.

15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409724

University of California, Los Angeles

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Heisler, Stuart, 1894-1979

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Heisler was born in 1894 in Los Angeles, CA; quit school in the eighth grade to work in the motion picture industry; entered films in 1913 as a propman; began work with Mack Sennett in 1914, and eventually worked for many of the film studios, including Samuel Goldwyn, Warner Brothers, and Universal; directed more than 25 feature films, including The glass key (1942), The Negro soldier (1944), Along came Jones (1945), Blue skies (1946), Tokyo Joe (1949), Journey into light (1951), I died a thousa...