Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 20 of 23

Albert J. Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0126
Abstract

American motion picture and television script writer and producer. Program scripts, department materials, memos, clippings, notes, correspondence, production budgets, and miscellaneous photographs.

Dates: 1948-1961; Majority of material found within 1951-1955

Albert Zugsmith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0196
Abstract

American motion picture producer, director and writer. Ten script items ranging from shooting schedules to screenplays.

Dates: 1943-1964

Arthur A. Ross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0127
Abstract

Motion picture and television script writer. Slides, watercolor paintings, scripts, screenplays, short stories and novels by Ross; photographs, three recordings.

Dates: 1942-1965; Majority of material found within 1950-1965

Barry Kemp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0495
Abstract

Television writer, producer. Consists of two series, scripts and video cassettes.

Dates: 1982-1997

Charles O'Neal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0360
Abstract

American television and motion picture screenwriter and novelist. Father of actor Ryan O'Neal. Screenplays, teleplays, typescripts, correspondence.

Dates: 1938-1982; Majority of material found within 1950-1969

David Morrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0478
Abstract

Born in Ontario 1943, awarded a PhD in American literature by Pennsylvania State University in 1970, taught at Iowa from 1970 to 1986, retired to write. Perhaps best known for Rambo, the central character of his 1972 novel First Blood, which lead to the Rambo films starring Sylvester Stallone, Morrell has written numerous novels as well as screen- and teleplays. The growing collection of his papers includes video and audio tapes as well as research notes, correspondence, and manuscripts.

Dates: 1974-1999

David Swift Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0125
Abstract

Television and motion picture writer, director and producer. Television and motion picture scripts, screenplays, publicity, reviews, notes and memos, set designs, and costume sketches.

Dates: 1951-1965

Dina Rees Evans Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG99.0189
Abstract

High school educator in dramatic arts. Awarded first Ph.D. in dramatic arts from an American university, received from the University of Iowa in 1932.

Dates: 1937 - 1974

Don Farran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0600
Abstract

Writer, State Director Historical Records Survey. Collection includes drafts of poems and stories but consists largely of scripts for Navy and Coast Guard training films dating from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.

Dates: 1930-1978

Editorial Comments of Iowa Television Stations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0158
Abstract

Typed editorial comments gathered for years from prominent TV stations from throughout Iowa.

Dates: 1965-1985

Elbert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0042
Abstract

Legal papers, diplomas, certificates of appointments, scrapbook, 2 issues of Keosauqua, Iowa, newspapers (1852-58), and other papers.

Dates: 1828-1895; Majority of material found within 1850-1869

Frederick W. Kent Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG30.0001.001
Scope and Contents The Frederick W. Kent Collection of Photographs is comprised of about 50,000 prints and negatives. The collection relates to most areas of the University of Iowa, including individuals, departments, and buildings, and it visually documents nearly every decade of University life since classes commenced in 1855. The majority of the images are dated between 1880 and 1980. In addition to University images, the collection includes approximately 2,000 images of commercial and residential structures off-campus in Iowa City, Iowa.Note: The following inventory lists, where available, categories under which prints and negatives in the Frederick W. Kent Collection may be found. The number of prints or negatives in each category will range from as few as one to as many as 100 or more. For two sub-series - Faculty and Staff, and Students - there are no categories; in each case, individual items are arranged alphabetically by name. For the Theatre sub-series, photographs are arranged...
Dates: 1866-2000; Majority of material found within 1880-1980

Iowa Memorial Union Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG24.0004.001
Scope and Contents The Records of the Iowa Memorial Union include minutes, correspondence, special events memorabilia, newspaper clippings, art exhibition information, financial reports, planning documents for 1955 addition construction, Union Board records, annual reports, and scrapbooks. The bulk of the documents date from 1919, following the end of World War I, when discussions were underway to construct a memorial to all war veterans who were associated with the University of Iowa.While documenting the development of the IMU, the records also contain references to various aspects of the University's social and political history. Women, for example, were prohibited from using the billiard room until 1958, when a women's physical education course in billiards was offered for the first time. Soapbox Sound-off, a free-speech forum begun in 1964, was the scene one year later of the campus's first draft card-burning incident in protest of the war in Vietnam. Both episodes are recounted in scrapbooks in...
Dates: 1912-1995

Marion Meade Buster Keaton Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0512
Abstract

Research material compiled by Meade while writing the biography Buster Keaton Cut to the Case.

Dates: 1895-1997

Max Allan Collins papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0500
Abstract

Author, filmmaker, and comic strip writer. The papers document his film and literary career. His novels, comics (including Dick Tracy and Ms. Tree), and screenplays are represented in various forms of completion, with typescript drafts, artwork, correspondence, research, galley proofs, and promotional material.

Dates: 1967-1996

Norman Felton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0265
Abstract

British born American television producer and director. Correspondence, clippings, photographs, notebooks, binders.

Dates: 1940-1993; Majority of material found within 1960-1969

Phil Stong Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0705
Abstract

Iowa author best remembered for State Fair (film scripts dated 1945, 1961 and 1962 are here), Stong also wrote several books for children, including The Adventures of "Horse" Barnsby and Hirum the Hillbilly. Both of these, and others, are represented in this collection.

Dates: 1945-1961

Richard Maibaum Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0149
Abstract

American screenwriter, producer and actor. Personal papers contains an actors file, clippings and correspondences.

Dates: 1931-1991

Robert Blees Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0124
Abstract

Motion picture and television script-writer and producer. Film treatments and screenplays written by Blees and other screenwriters, miscellaneous, memos and articles, film stills, photostats, phonographic recordings from soundtracks.

Dates: 1925-1965

Sean Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0508
Abstract

Scripts for the television program, Early Edition, and drafts of a yet to be produced screenplay.

Dates: 1996-1999

Filtered By

  • Subject: Popular culture -- Study and teaching X
  • Subject: Iowa X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Repository
University of Iowa Special Collections 19
University of Iowa Archives 4
 
Subject
Motion picture authorship 19
Motion pictures -- Production and direction 19
Television -- Production and direction 19
Television authorship 19
American literature 17
∨ more
English literature 17
Writers Archive at Iowa 17
Dramatists 15
Screenplays 14
Motion pictures 11
Television programs 10
Screenwriters 9
Television writers 8
20th century 7
American drama 7
Photographs 7
Clippings (information artifacts) 6
Correspondence 6
Articles 5
Motion picture actors and actresses 5
Biographies 3
Drafts (documents) 3
Iowa 3
Sound recordings 3
Audiotapes 2
Authors, American 2
Detective and mystery television programs 2
Dr. Kildare (Television program : 1961-1966) 2
Peter Gunn (Television program) 2
Peyton Place (Television program) 2
Playgirl (Motion picture : 1954) 2
Posters 2
Television comedies 2
University of Iowa -- Administration 2
Video recordings 2
Alcoa theatre (Television program) 1
Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1
Alfred Hitchcock presents (Television program : 1955-1962) 1
All I desire (Motion picture) 1
All this and heaven too (Motion picture) 1
Alumni and alumnae 1
Amazing Mr. Williams (Motion picture) 1
American fiction 1
American prose literature 1
And crown thy good (Television program) 1
And your name is Jonah (Television program) 1
Ann Sothern show (Television program) 1
Archives (groupings) 1
Babe (Television program : 1975) 1
Bad Man of Brimstone (Motion picture) 1
Baffled! (Television program) 1
Bandit of Zhobe (Motion picture) 1
Battle at Bloody Beach (Motion picture) 1
Because of you (Motion picture : 1952) 1
Benjy (Motion picture) 1
Big clock (Motion picture) 1
Big river, big man 1
Bigger than life (Motion picture) 1
Birthright (Play) 1
Black scorpion (Motion picture : 1957) 1
Black spot on the sun (Screenplay) 1
Bloomington (Neb.) 1
Border river (Motion picture : 1954) 1
Bride of vengeance (Motion picture) 1
Broadcasts 1
Budgets 1
Bus stop (Television program : 1961-1962) 1
Camp runamuck (Television program) 1
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (Motion picture) 1
Cartoonists 1
Certificates 1
Children's books -- Authorship 1
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Motion picture) 1
Christmas to remember (Television program) 1
City beneath the sea (Motion picture) 1
Cleveland Heights (Ohio) 1
Climax (Television program) 1
Coach (Television program) 1
Coast guard (Motion picture) 1
Cockleshell heroes (Motion picture) 1
Collective labor agreements 1
College sports 1
College students 1
Colorado 1
Combat! (Television program) 1
Comedians 1
Comic books, strips, etc. 1
Conferences 1
Contracts 1
Corporation reports 1
Costume design 1
Costume designers 1
Dad's a dog (Television program) 1
Damon Runyon Theater (Television program) 1
Dark victory (Motion picture : 1939) 1
Day they robbed the bank of England (Motion picture) 1
Dead heat on a merry-go-round (Motion picture) 1
Dear wife (Motion picture) 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Arena Productions, Inc. 1
Blees, Robert 1
Cain Park Theatre 1
Clark, Sean 1
Cohen, Albert J. 1