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Title: Kitty Buhler scripts,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1950s-ca. 1960s
Collection number: 228
Creator: Buhler, Kitty
Extent: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Kitty Buhler was a screen writer whose credits include the television series
My Three Sons and
The Untouchables. The collection includes 40-plus scripts related to Buhler's writing career.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
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Performing Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
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[Identification of item], Kitty Buhler Scripts (Collection 228). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Esther Dora Biolo (later Kitty Buhler and Esther Kitty Bradley) was born July 23, 1922 in New York City. She attended Manhattan
Business College, Kansas Wesleyan University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1949-1951 she worked for
the United Press covering general news and the operation of B-29 activities in Okinawa during the Korean conflict. During
this time she also wrote a daily column for
Stars and Stripes called
Dapers by Kit. She met WWII General Omar Bradley in 1950 (in Okinawa) and the two eventually married following the death of Bradley's
first wife in 1965. She returned to Southern California in the mid-1950s and started writing for the entertainment industry.
Among her credits are the episodic television series
My Three Sons,
The Untouchables and
The 20th Century Fox Hour, and feature film
China Doll, which starred Victor Mature and Li Li Hau.
During her career she also wrote human interest and non-fiction articles in national and international magazines, including
Look. Her professional affiliations included the Writers Guild of America West, The Greater Los Angeles Press Club, and The National
League of the American Pen Women, Inc. Buhler assisted General Bradley when he served as the technical advisor on the Academy
Award winning film
Patton. In 1981 President Reagan appointed her to the American Battle Monuments Commission. Kitty Buhler died February 3, 2004,
in Rancho Mirage, CA at the age of 81.
The collection consists of 40-plus television scripts related to the career of writer Kitty Buhler. The writings include
projects such as
Bewitched,
Bonanza,
Dragnet,
The Ray Milland Show , and
My Three Sons among others. Additionally, there is one script for the film
China Doll, which appears to be Buhler's only documented motion picture credit.
The scripts are arranged alphabetically by project title.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Buhler, Kitty -- Archives.
Television writers -- Archival resources.
television scripts