Research Catalog
Lucille Kallen papers
- Title
- Lucille Kallen papers, 1938-1999.
- Author
- Kallen, Lucille.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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45 Items
Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 1 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 2 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 3 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 4 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 5 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 6 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 7 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 8 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 9 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 10 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 11 | Offsite |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 12 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 13 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 14 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 15 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 16 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 17 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 18 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 19 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 20 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 2000-026 Box 20 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 21.44 linear ft. (45 boxes)
- Summary
- The Lucille Kallen papers consist of correspondence, personal papers, financial papers, scripts, book drafts, publication materials, clippings, scrapbooks, and some photographs.
- Uniform Title
- Admiral Broadway revue (Television program)
- Bell Telephone hour (Television program)
- Your show of shows (Television program)
- Subjects
- Women novelists, American
- Bell Telephone hour (Television program)
- Tolkin, Mel
- Radio scripts
- Financial records
- Scrapbooks
- Your show of shows (Television program)
- Photographs
- Coca, Imogene
- Contracts
- Clippings
- Tamiment Playhouse
- Galley proofs
- Television comedy writers
- Television scripts
- Motion picture plays
- Kallen, Lucille
- Admiral Broadway revue (Television program)
- Manuscripts
- Genre/Form
- Clippings.
- Contracts.
- Financial records.
- Galley proofs.
- Manuscripts.
- Photographs.
- Radio scripts.
- Scrapbooks.
- Motion picture plays.
- Television scripts.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Engel, Herb
- Biography (note)
- Lucille Kallen (1922 -1999) was a prolific writer, proficient in many genres, who helped shape the early direction of American television humor, but is perhaps best remembered as the author of the C. B. Greenfield mystery novels.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 2000-026
- OCLC
- NYPT05-A6
- Author
- Kallen, Lucille.
- Title
- Lucille Kallen papers, 1938-1999.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Lucille Kallen (1922 -1999) was a prolific writer, proficient in many genres, who helped shape the early direction of American television humor, but is perhaps best remembered as the author of the C. B. Greenfield mystery novels. Kallen, who was was the only female writer on the staff of Your Show of Shows in a time when men dominated the industry, also wrote for radio, theater, and television. While still establishing herself as a radio writer in the late 1940s, Kallen was teamed with Mel Tolkin as a writing partner at the Tamiment Playhouse, a summer theater in the Poconos run by producer Max Liebman. It also was at Tamiment that Kallen first met the comedienne, Imogene Coca. By 1949, Kallen was working in New York with Tolkin as co-writers for a new television program, the Admiral Broadway Revue, which featured Sid Caesar as host and a cast that included Coca. The show was reincarnated the following season as Your Show of Shows. Kallen, who was joined in the writers' room by such notables as Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, was the only female writer during the entire run of the show. She developed material primarily for Coca and was credited with creating some of her best writing in sketches concerning the bickering married couple, the Hickenloopers. When Your Show of Shows went off the air in 1954, Kallen was chosen to become head writer for the short-lived Imogene Coca Show.Kallen remained in New York even after many television studios moved their primary operations to the west coast and continued to submit scripts to television series. She also worked on a variety of theater projects. During the 1960s, Kallen began writing fiction for publication. In 1964, her novel, Outside There Somewhere!, was published. Although the comic, feminist novel was critically praised by the likes of Betty Friedan, it was not a huge success. In 1979, however, her first detective novel, Introducing C. B. Greenfield, was nominated for the American Book Award. This mystery novel spawned a series of five books featuring the characters, C. B. Greenfield and Maggie Rome, that became internationally popular. After the Greenfield books, in later years Kallen worked on an uncompleted novel titled, Sacred Bull. Her final work in progress, Fannie DeWitt, appears to have been inspired by her hospital experiences while being treated for an illness. Kallen died on January 18, 1999.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Television comedy writers.
- Added Author
- Coca, Imogene.Tolkin, Mel.Kallen, Lucille. C.B. Greenfield: a little madness.Kallen, Lucille. C.B. Greenfield: no lady in the house.Kallen, Lucille. C.B. Greenfield: the piano bird.Kallen, Lucille. C.B. Greenfield: the Tanglewood murder.Kallen, Lucille. Introducing C.B. Greenfield.Kallen, Lucille. Outside there, somewhere!Tamiment Playhouse.
- Added Title
- Admiral Broadway revue (Television program)Bell Telephone hour (Television program)Your show of shows (Television program)
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 2000-026