Barry Shear papers, ca. 1939-1970s, (bulk dates 1960s)
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Title: Barry Shear papers
Collection number: PASC 330
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.0 linear ft.
(10 boxes)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1960-1969
Date (inclusive): ca. 1939-1970s, (bulk dates 1960s)
Abstract: Barry Shear was a producer and director who spent most of his career working on musical, variety, and comedy television programs.
The collection consists mostly of script material, screenplays, and story outlines.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Shear, Barry
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Barry Shear Papers (Collection PASC 330). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of material related to the career of producer-director Barry Shear. The collection includes scripts,
story outlines, and story proposals for a variety of projects in which it appears Shear was involved; it is not always evident
if the projects were produced and, if so, in what media. The bulk of the scripts appear to represent unproduced television
and/or motion pictures projects. Confirmed projects include motion picture scripts for
Across 110th (believed to have been released as
Across 110th Street),
The Star-Spangled Girl,
The Todd Killings and
Wild in the Streets (listed under their working titles).
Also included in the collection is a small number of files pertaining to the Hollywood Pavilion, an exhibit which Shear directed
for the 1964 World's Fair in New York City, and
Hooray for Hollywood, a comedy-satire program that Shear co-created as well as produced and directed in the mid-1960s.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by project titles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shear, Barry -- Archives.
television producers and directors -- Archival resources.
Box 8
Correspondence to Shear.
1966, 1967.
Additional Note
Letter regarding The Mild Assasins and a memo regarding Wide World of Entertainment.
Box 9
Correspondence, memos, agreements related to employment of Barry Shear.
1966-1967.
Box 9
Correspondence, memos, agreements related to employment of Barry Shear.
1955-1967.
Additional Note
With handwritten note from June Christy.
Box 4
Across 110th - screenplays.
1971 Sep 1.
Additional Note
May have been released as Across 110th Street.
Box 3
Adaptation - script material.
no date.
Box 2
African Omnibus (An) - series proposal.
no date.
Box 3
Amateur (The) - story outline.
no date.
Box 4
American in Moscow (An) - script material.
no date.
Box 3
And Then the Mountains Fell - script material.
1969 Oct 1.
Box 1
Baby Talk - script material.
no date.
Box 3
Big People (The) - script material.
no date.
Box 1
Black Star - sceenplay.
no date.
Box 9
Case of Dr. Praetorius (The) - play in seven scenes.
1950 Aug 29.
Box 3
Caveman - story outline.
no date.
Box 8
Chrysler Theatre (The) - script for The Going Astray of Leonard McMinn.
no date.
Box 3
Coffee Tea or Me? - screenplay.
1969 Oct 17.
Box 4
Cook for Mr. General (A) - notes and script material.
no date.
Box 2
Daniel Boone Show (The) - scripts for The Man Who Lived Twice.
no date.
Box 6
Easy Come Easy Go - script material.
1965 May 28.
Box 2
Echo in the Night - script material.
no date.
Box 2
Evening with Aesop (An) - script material.
no date.
Box 1
Father is an Analyst - script material.
no date.
Box 9
First Men in the Moon - stills and story outline.
1964.
Box 1
First Train to Nowhere - screenplay.
no date.
Box 7
Flat Out! - screenplay.
1968 Aug 14.
Box 2
Formula (The) - pilot script.
no date.
Box 1
Freeberg Underground - script material.
1966 April 1.
Box 4
Genius (The) - script material.
no date.
Box 7
Girl From Uncle (The) - call sheets for two episodes.
1966-1967.
Box 5
Give Me the Power! Black Monday - screenplay.
no date.
Box 4
Golden Girl of the West (The) - script material.
no date.
Box 8
Googie - script material.
1965.
Box 5
He's Bach-ing it at the Beverly Hills Hotel Because Eddie Junior has the Mumps! - movie treatment.
no date.
Box 2
Hollywood Comedy Club - proposal.
no date.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion - Shear biography and memos.
1964 May-June.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion project - budgets and story outlines.
1964-1965.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion project - camera equipment notes and expense reports.
1964.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion Project - Lige Brien memos.
1964 April-May.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion project - Malkames Cameras research.
1963-1964.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion project - memo from Shear to Dick Crane.
1964 May 19.
Box 9
Hollywood Pavilion project - memos.
1964 May.
Box 8
Hollywood Pavilion project - price quote and blueline drawing for sign.
1964.
Box 10
Hooray for Hollywood - actor resumes and photographs..
1963.
Additional Note
With a handwritten note from Basil Rathbone.
Box 2
Hooray for Hollywood - Baggley the Magnificent revised script.
1963 Nov 5.
Box 2
Hooray for Hollywood - Baggley the Magnificent revised script.
1963 Dec 10.
Box 2
Hooray for Hollywood - Baggley the Magnificent revised scripts.
1963 Nov 26.
Box 10
Hooray for Hollywood - cast contractual information and memos.
1963 Nov-Dec.
Box 9
Hooray for Hollywood - correspondence.
1963.
Box 9
Hooray for Hollywood - employee pay information.
1963 Dec.
Box 9
Hooray for Hollywood - Kellam de Forest research.
1963 Dec.
Additional Note
With miscellaneous jottings and memos.
Box 9
Hooray for Hollywood - production information.
1963 Dec.
Additional Note
With Desilu Personnel Roster for December, 1963.
Box 9
Hooray for Hollywood - script distribution material.
1963 Nov-Dec.
Box 2
Hooray for Hollywood- Baggley the Magnificent revised scripts.
1961 Nov 28.
Box 2
Hooray for Hollywood Baggley the Magnificent scripts.
no date.
Box 7
Howling in the Woods (A) - screenplay.
1969 Mar 25.
Box 2
Illusion of the Past - script material.
no date.
Box 2
Illusion of the Past - teleplay outline.
no date.
Box 9
Immediate Action [project or story ideas].
1963.
Box 4
In the Blood - script material.
no date.
Box 5
In the Rough - first draft screenplay.
no date.
Box 8
Jericho contract.
1966 Seo 6.
Additional Note
Shear and Arena Productions for A Switch in Time.
Box 2
Kingdom of Calzona (The) - story outline.
no date.
Box 8
Lawsuit complaint filed by Shear against Southern Pacific Company.
1966 May.
Box 3
Man Better Man - script material.
no date.
Box 2
Man Who Lived Twice (The) - script material.
no date.
Additional Note
May be related to Daniel Boone Show (Box 2).
Box 2
Man Who Lived Twice (The) - script materials.
1952 Jan 11.
Additional Note
With information about British military decorations and insignias. May be related to script for the Daniel Boone Show (Box
2).
Box 3
Meanest Man in Town (The) - script material.
no date.
Box 8
Mort Sahl Project - descriptions for what appears to be possible television projects.
no date.
Box 3
Mr. Adventure - proposal.
no date.
Box 4
Name of the Game (The) - script material for A Wind is Rising and A River Flows.
1970 June 10.
Box 2
Never to be Forgotten Adventures of The Desperado's Spur (The) - script material.
no date.
Additional Note
Two copies, one annotated.
Box 3
Next - script material.
no date.
Box 3
Night - script material.
no date.
Box 2
Nothing but Nobles - script material.
no date.
Box 6
Nutcrackers (The) - script material.
1969 Jan 10.
Box 3
Observation: A Game Show - script material.
no date.
Box 7
Piano Sport (The) - script material.
1967 Dec 25.
Box 1
Pied Piper (The) - third draft script material and memorandum.
1969-1970.
Additional Note
May have been released as The Todd Killings.
Box 4
Pied Piper of Tucson (The) - script material.
1968 Oct 16.
Additional Note
May have been released as The Todd Killings. See also What are we Going to do Without Skipper?.
Box 2
Plotkin Prison We Love You - pilot script.
no date.
Box 8
Primavera - script material.
1962 May 3.
Box 3
Quaid and the Mermaid (The) - screenplay.
no date.
Box 6
Quintus - screenplay.
1970 Oct 6.
Box 7
Run - script material.
no date.
Box 9
Russ Colombo Story (The) (Prisoner of Love) - story outline.
no date.
Box 10
Saturday Night at the Movies - correspondence, opening dialog material, and synopses.
1963 Sep-Nov.
Box 8
Science in Wonderland - project presentation.
no date.
Box 8
Science in Wonderland Book (A) - Jerry the Germ book.
1939.
Box 8
Science in Wonderland Book (A) - Koko book.
1939.
Box 8
Science in Wonderland Book (A) - Oxy book.
no date.
Box 6
Scofflaw (The) - screenplay.
1970.
Box 8
Shear's Expense Account report and reciepts.
1964.
Box 8
Shilly's Chalet - script for Shecky and the Goddesses.
1960 Dec 15.
Box 8
Smile for David Owen (A) - outline.
1965 March 15.
Box 3
Star-Spangled Girl (The) - screenplay.
no date.
Box 10
Stills and Head shots of actors.
no date.
Additional Note
With Don Rickles and Hugh O'Brian among others. Proof sheet that appears related to Hollywood Pavillion.
Box 8
Stone Walls Do Not...! - script material.
no date.
Box 2
Stone Walls Do Not...! (alias Plotkin Prison We Love You) pilot script material.
no date.
Box 1
Take a Wild Trip - screenplay.
no date.
Box 4
Take-Off for Adventure - story outline.
no date.
Box 1
This is Barney Starker - script material.
no date.
Box 1
Tourist (The) - script material.
no date.
Box 6
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane - revised script material.
1965 Jan 4.
Box 6
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane - script material.
no date.
Additional Note
With interoffice memo from Shear to Max Youngstein regarding available actors suggested as alternates.
Box 5
Untitled Project # 2 - screenplays.
1967 June 27.
Additional Note
May have been released as Wild in the Streets. Two copies.
Box 7
What About Tomorrow? - screenplay.
no date.
Box 6
What Are We Going to Do Without the Skipper? - revised final draft script.
1970 April 14.
Additional Note
May have been released as The Todd Killings. See also Pied Piper of Tucson.
Box 7
What'll You Settle For, Buzz? - movie treatment.
no date.
Box 7
Which Way to Mecca, Jack? - pilot script.
1964 July 14.
Box 5
Who Will be the Obscene Teen Queen? - screenplay.
no date.
Box 5
Who Will be the Obscene Teen Queen? - screenplay and breakdown for filming.
no date.
Box 9
Wild in the Streets - casting correspondence.
1967.
Box 6
Wink (The) - third draft script.
no date.
Box 7
Wouldn't It Be Nice to Wake Up Happy? - screenplay.
no date.
Box 4
You Go Your Way - script material.
no date.
Box 8
Zizzermitz (The) - script material.
1969 June 3.
