Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Harry Clein papers
- Dates:
- 1938-2010, bulk 1962-1999
- Creators:
- Clein, Harry, 1938-2020
- Abstract:
- Personal and professional papers, address books, photographs, scripts, correspondence, client files, notebooks and notes, publicity, and audiovisual materials of Hollywood publicist Harry Clein.
- Extent:
- 5.92 Linear Feet (3 cartons, 7 doc boxes, 1 videocassette, 2 audiocassettes)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Harry Clein papers, PA Mss 255. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection consists of personal papers, address books, articles and interviews, photographs, scripts, correspondence, client files, notes and notebooks, publicity, and audiovisual materials of Hollywood publicist Harry Clein. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence, scripts, articles and interviews he wrote, and client files.
Dates of the collection range from 1938-2010; however, the bulk of the collection is between 1962-1999.
Some of the scripts include "All the President's Men" [and the making of written by Clein], "A Lady Cab Driver," "Don't Get Mad, Get Even," "Feathertop," and "Mister Magnificent." Some of the scripts for television shows include Melrose Place, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, Get Smart, Gidget, and The Stephen Strimpell Show (pilot).
Some of the client files include Alan Pakula, Alfred Hitchcock, Angie Dickinson, Bonnie Bergin, Dorene Johnson, Deborah Kerr, Gene Kelly, George Peppard, Jack Nicholson, Jeanne Moreau, Joan Hackett, Robert Redford, and more.
The bulk of Clein's published articles were from COAST (1969-1972) and Entertainment World (1969-1970) magazines.
- Biographical / historical:
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Harold "Harry" Clein (July 1, 1938 - June 18, 2020) was a producer and actor, but most known as the co-founder of the Hollywood public relations agency Clein + Feldman and its successor Clein + White. In 2000, he closed his public relations business and became a producer, marketing consultant, and teacher at Los Angeles Film School.
Some of the most popular films Clein was involved with were "Places in the Heart," "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "The Trip To Bountiful;" "Mona Lisa," "She's Gotta Have it," "Dirty Dancing," "Heathers," "sex, lies, and videotape," "28Up," "Cinema Paradiso," "Drugstore Cowboy," "Gods and Monsters," "Talk Radio," "The Usual Suspects," "The Dead," "In the Company of Men," "I Shot Andy Warhol," "Life Is Sweet," "Steel Magnolias," "Gothic," "The Brothers McMullen," "My Own Private Idaho," "The Joy Luck Club," "The Player," "Dazed and Confused," "Before Sunrise," "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and many others. Earlier in his career, Clein was the unit publicist for "All the President's Men,"The Jazz Singer," "The Last Tycoon," "Foul Play," and others. He also wrote the press notes for "Star Wars."
He then worked as a writer for the Los Angeles Times, TV Guide, Show and Coast magazines and as motion picture editor and critic for the short lived Hollywood trade Entertainment World.
Clein received the 2000 Publicists Guild Career Achievement Award in recognition of his efforts in the publicity promotion and marketing campaign for "The Blair Witch Project." In 1995, Clein and Paramount Pictures was awarded the Guild's Maxwell Weinberg Showmanship award for the "Forrest Gump" Campaign.
Harry Clein died on June 18, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.
[Source: https://yale60.org/harry-clein/]
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Donald Miller Clein, 2023.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is arranged in five series by subject:
- Series 1, Biographical Materials
- Series 2, Correspondence
- Series 3, Scripts
- Series 4, Writings
- Series 5, Publicist Career
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-06-18 11:53:36 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research.
Audiovisual materials must be reformatted for access. Please contact the Department of Special Research Collections in advance to request access.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and may be retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@library.ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assignees for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Harry Clein papers, PA Mss 255. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Location of this collection:
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UC Santa Barbara LibrarySanta Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
- Contact:
- (805) 893-3062