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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.
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.
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.
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).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Heisler, Stuart, 1894-1979 --Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors --California, Southern --Archival resources.
Screenplays.
Television scripts.