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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Kenneth Gamet papers
Creator:
Gamet, Kenneth
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1124
Physical Description:
16.5 Linear Feet
(33 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1970
Abstract: Kenneth Gamet (d.1971) wrote scripts for radio, screen, and television. He also co-founded the Screen Writers Guild. The collection
consists of story outlines, treatments, production notes, memoranda, correspondence, radio scripts, television scripts, original
screenplays and supporting materials. Television scripts include those for
Cheyenne,
Zorro,
Annie Oakley, and
Casey Jones.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Helen Aigner, 1972.
[Identification of item], Kenneth Gamet papers (Collection number 1124). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9914704733606533
Gamet wrote scripts for radio, screen, and television; he was a co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild, and scripted more
than 50 feature films, concluding with
Apache Rifle (1964); he then specialized in telewriting; he died on October 13, 1971 in Los Angeles.
Kenneth Gamet was a screenwriter and playwrite who began his career ca. 1936, collaborating during his early years with Don
Ryan. Gamet specialized in adventure films, especially westerns. [from
Filmlexicon degli autori e delle opere Rome, 1959; TA *PN 1998 A2F5 v. 2]
The collection was transferred from the Theatre Arts Library and consists of 33 boxes of story outlines, treatments, production
notes, memoranda, correspondence, radio scripts, television scripts, original screenplays and supporting materials.
Gamet died October 1971 at the age of 64. He was co-founder of the screenwriters' guild. [His obituary appeared in
Daily Variety, Thursday October 14, 1971.]
Arranged in the following series:
- Story outlines, treatments, production notes, memoranda and correspondence (Boxes 1-12).
- Original screenplays and supporting material (Boxes 13-28).
- Radio scripts (Boxes 29-31).
- Television scripts (Boxes 32-33).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radio scripts
Television scripts.
Screenplays
Radio writers -- United States -- Archives.
Television writers -- United States -- Archives.
Screenwriters -- United States -- Archives.
Gamet, Kenneth--Archives.