Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Stuart Heisler Papers
Date (inclusive): 1913-1967
Collection number: 1149
Creator:
Heisler, Stuart, 1894-1979.
Extent:
15 boxes (7.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box.
Abstract: Stuart Heisler began his career in the film industry in 1913. He became a film editor and later a director of motion pictures.
In the late 1950s and throughout the 60s, Heisler also did a substantial amount of television work. Boxes 1-7 contain television
scripts; boxes 7-15 are motion picture scripts. Much of the material is in the notebooks, maintaining Heisler's own arrangements.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of 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, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of 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
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Stuart Heisler Papers (Collection 1149). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Heisler was born in 1894 in Los Angeles, CA; quit school in the eighth grade to work in the motion picture industry; entered
films in 1913 as a propman; began work with Mack Sennett in 1914, and eventually worked for many of the film studios, including
Samuel Goldwyn, Warner Brothers, and Universal; directed more than 25 feature films, including
The Glass Key (1942),
The Negro Soldier (1944),
Along Came Jones (1945),
Blue Skies (1946),
Tokyo Joe (1949),
Journey Into Light (1951),
I Died A Thousand Times (1955), and
The Burning Hills (1956); directed television films in the 1960s; died in Aug. 1979 in Oceanside, CA.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of scripts, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia spanning Stuart Heisler's career as a motion picture
and television director. Also contains correspondence, legal documents, clippings, and musical scores. Includes television
scripts for
The Lawman,
Rawhide,
77 Sunset Strip,
Gunsmoke, and
The Virginian. Film scripts include
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,
The Biscuit Eater,
The Glass Key, and
The Negro Soldier.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Heisler's credits and crew lists, oral history, miscellaneous contracts, photographs, and ephemera (box 1)
- Television scripts (boxes 1-7)
- Motion picture scripts (boxes 7-14)
- Miscellaneous scripts (box 15)
- Scrapbooks (oversize box).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Heisler, Stuart, 1894-1979 --Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors --California, Southern --Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Screenplays.
Television scripts.