Television scripts collection, 1957-1960.

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Television scripts collection, 1957-1960.

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The collection consists of typescript copies of scripts for television programs produced by the Columbia Broadcasting System and United States Steel Hour from 1957 to 1960. Included are scripts written by Rod Serling, Tad Mosel, Leonard Spigelgass, Aaron Spelling, and George Bellak, among others. The scripts seem to have been compiled for a class on television writing which was taught by David Davidson in the Yale School of Drama beginning in the mid-1960s.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8027284

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Browne, Howard, 1907-1999

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American author, television writer, and screenwriter. From the description of Howard Browne collection, 1956-1992. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70960122 ...

Sproat, Ronald.

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Blacker, Irwin R.

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Technical sergeant, United States Army Corps of Engineers. From the description of Irwin R. Blacker papers, 1943-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872212 Irwin R. Blacker (1919-1985) was an American author during the twentieth century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio and educated at Ohio University, Blacker wrote a number of novels between the 1950s and 1970s, including "Westering" (1958), "Taos" (1959), "Standing on a Drum" (1968), and "The Middle of the Fire" (1971). He also...

Monash, Paul, 1917-2003

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Monash served as a producer for the television shows "Peyton Place," "Judd, for the Defense" and "The Untouchables" among many others. He also produced the motion pictures "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Slaughterhouse-five" and "Deadfall." From the description of Papers, 1962-1972. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 31307856 ...

Bellak, George, 1919-2002

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Spigelgass, LeĢonard

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Author, playwright and screenwriter. In a long career as a Broadway playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, Spigelgass authored such popular and award-winning plays as I was a male war bride (1949), Because you're mine (1952), A majority of one (1958 stage and 1961 screenplay), Gypsy (1962 screenplay) and Dear me the sky is falling (1963). From the description of Papers, [ca. 1949]-1985. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 21072352 ...

Spies, Adrian

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Spelling, Aaron

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Hailey, Arthur

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De Felitta, Frank

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American screenwriter. From the description of Second sight, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122551281 ...

Reisman, Philip H., 1916-1999

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Radio producer. From the description of Reminiscences of Philip H.Reisman : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122586788 ...

Coneybeare, Rod

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Yale School of Drama

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In 1924, Yale established the first department of drama in the country with a generous contribution from Edward S. Harkness (B.A. 1897). As part of the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Drama offered a Master of Fine Arts in Drama, first conferred in 1931. The department was headed by George Pierce Baker, formerly of the well-known English "47 Workshop" at Harvard. By vote of the Yale Corporation in 1955, the Department of Drama separated from the School of Fine Arts and became the Yale Sch...

Mosel, Tad

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Playwright and biographer Tad Mosel was born George Ault Mosel, Jr. on May 1, 1922. From 1940 to 1943, he attended Amherst College, where he majored in English and wrote his first play, The Happiest Years (1942). He entered Yale Drama School in 1947. Mosel left in 1949 to join the Broadway cast of At War with the Army. During the early 1950s, Mosel had a play, The Lion Hunters (1952), produced Off Broadway at the Provincetown Playhouse, but he found writing work primaril...

McGreevey, John

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Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1966

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Serling, Rod, 1924-1975

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Rodman Edward Serling was born Dec. 25, 1924 in Syracuse, NY; served as paratrooper in 11th Airborne Division during WWII; discharged as a result of a shrapnel wound, 1946; attended Antioch College and began writing, directing, and acting in local radio plays; sold first television script in 1949; married wife Carol in 1948 and had two daughters; moved to Hollywood to write teleplays in mid-1950s; won 6 Emmy awards with scripts for Patterns, Requiem for a heavyweight, and The comedian, among oth...

Brandel, Marc, 1919-1994

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Marc Brandel (born Marcus Beresford) was an internationally known novelist and television writer. Born in London, England on March 28, 1919, Brandel attended St. Catherine's College, Cambridge and Westminster College, then served in the British Merchant Marine during World War II. He started writing in his twenties and published a number of novels throughout his life, including "Rain Before Seven" (1945), "The Lizard's Tail" (1979), and "A Life of Her Own" (1985). From the 1950s to the 1970s, Br...