Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Hunter, Todd
- Abstract:
- Todd Hunter was a CBS radio and television figure in Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. The collection includes a number of television play scripts and related materials (script sides, cue sheets, songs, notes). Though it is unclear whether Hunter authored any of the scripts, he was presumably involved in bringing them to television.
- Extent:
- 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Todd Hunter papers (Collection 746). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists mainly of television play scripts and related materials (script sides, cue sheets, songs, notes). Frank Kelton, Nelson Compston, John Emerson, and Anita Loos authored some of the scripts, but most scripts in the collection do not indicate an author or authors. It is unclear precisely how Hunter was involved with the scripts; he may have worked to bring them to television. Some of the plays ("The Love Nest," "Six Cylinder Love," "Under Two Flags," "The Whole Town's Talking," "The Girl in the Case") were also films in the 1910s through 1950s.
- Biographical / historical:
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Todd Hunter was a radio and television figure in Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. He worked at CBS Radio and is presumably the same Todd Hunter who hosted the CBS "News and Rhythm" program with the Carl Hohengarten orchestra (and Tommy Bartlett as the announcer) in 1939. A 1942 issue of Billboard Magazine and a 1953 bulletin of the Association of American Colleges mention Todd Hunter as the host of a Chicago news show in the 1940s and a CBS newscast in the 1950s.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Todd Hunter, October 1961.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Whitney Braun in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance from Kelley Wolfe Bachli, 2009.
- Arrangement:
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Scripts and related materials are grouped together according to the production. Non-script-related documents are in the first folder in the first box.
- 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.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library 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:
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[Identification of item], Todd Hunter papers (Collection 746). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988