Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Fine, Morton
- Abstract:
- There is little biographical information available about Mort Fine. Morton Fine was born in 1916. He teamed with with David Friedkin in the 1940s and together they collaborated on a number of successful radio, television and motion pictue projects over the years. Among their radio projects are Bold Venture, Crime Classics, Broadway is My Beat, and Suspense. By the 1950s the team made the transistion to motion pictures with credits that included Handle with Care and The Pawn Broker, among others. They eventually produced and developed the televsion series I Spy and The Most Deadly Game. Among the many other Mort Fine credits are the radio programs Adventures of Johnny Fletcher, Adventures of Sam Spade, and Escape; the television series Kojak, McCloud, and Streets of San Francisco; and the motion pictures The Greek Tycoon and Caboblanco. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on I Spy, and won the Writers Guild Best Written Drama (with Fridekin) for The Pawnbroker (1966). Mort Fine died in 1991.
- Extent:
- 29.0 linear feet (68 boxes, 1 shoe box, and 1 flat box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Mort Fine Papers (Collection PASC 76). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of materials related to the career of writer and producer, Mort Fine. The bulk of collection are scripts, many in bound volumes, for radio, television and motion picture projects. Also included is a very small amount of production information, clippings, ephemera, stories, articles, and other writings by Fine and a small amount of business correspondence and agreements. Among the many radio projects represented in the collection are the series The Adventures of Johnny Fletcher, The Adventures of Sam Spade, Bold Venture, Broadway's My Beat, and Crime Classics. Television projects include Kojak and The Most Deadly Game among others. Motion Picture projects include Cabo Blanco, Greek Tycoon, The Pawnbroker, That Championship Season, and others.
- Biographical / historical:
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There is little biographical information available about Mort Fine. Morton Fine was born in 1916. He teamed with with David Friedkin in the 1940s and together they collaborated on a number successful radio, television and motion pictue projects over the years. Among their radio projects are Bold Venture, Crime Classics, Broadway is My Beat, and Suspense. By the 1950s the team made the transistion to motion pictures with credits that included Handle with Care and The Pawn Broker, among others. They eventually produced and developed the televsion series I Spy and The Most Deadly Game. Among the many other Mort Fine credits are the radio programs Adventures of Johnny Fletcher, Adventures of Sam Spade, and Escape; the television series Kojak, McCloud, and Streets of San Francisco; and the motion pictures The Greek Tycoon and Caboblanco. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on I Spy, and won the Writers Guild Best Written Drama (with Fridekin) for The Pawnbroker (1966). Mort Fine died in 1991.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mort Fine 1978, 1980, 1984. Additions are the gift of Michael Vernon, 2013.
- Processing information:
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Processed by UCLA Arts Library Special Collections staff. Additions processed by Michele James with assistance from Julie Graham, April 2013.
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- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Radio Projects
- Television Projects
- Motion Pictures Projects
- Project Files
- Business Records
- Unidentified Projects
- Short stories, Articles, and Other Writings
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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:
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[Identification of item], Mort Fine Papers (Collection PASC 76). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988