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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
  • Provenance/Source of Acquisition
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • Biography/History
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • Related Material

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Mort Fine papers
    Creator: Fine, Morton
    Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0076
    Physical Description: 29.0 linear feet (68 boxes, 1 shoe box, and 1 flat box)
    Date (inclusive): 1942-1982
    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.
    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.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    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.

    Provenance/Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Mort Fine 1978, 1980, 1984. Additions are the gift of Michael Vernon, 2013.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9912180873606533 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Mort Fine Papers (Collection PASC 76). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Processed by UCLA Arts Library Special Collections staff. Additions processed by Michele James with assistance from Julie Graham, April 2013.
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    Biography/History

    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.

    Scope and Content

    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.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Radio Projects
    2. Television Projects
    3. Motion Pictures Projects
    4. Project Files
    5. Business Records
    6. Unidentified Projects
    7. Short stories, Articles, and Other Writings

    Related Material

    Collection of Scripts and Production Material for the Television Series I Spy . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
    Mort Fine Papers . Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Radio writers -- United States -- Archives.
    Screenwriters -- United States -- Archives.
    Television writers -- United States -- Archives.
    Fine, Morton -- Archives
    Fine, Morton