Finding Aid for the Stuart Heisler Papers, 1913-1967

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Descriptive Summary

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.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Stuart Heisler Papers (Collection 1149). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1720427 

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Heisler's credits and crew lists, oral history, miscellaneous contracts, photographs, and ephemera (box 1)
  2. Television scripts (boxes 1-7)
  3. Motion picture scripts (boxes 7-14)
  4. Miscellaneous scripts (box 15)
  5. Scrapbooks (oversize box).

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Heisler, Stuart, 1894-1979 --Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors --California, Southern --Archival resources.

Genres and Forms of Material

Screenplays.
Television scripts.


 

[Miscellaneous]

Box 1, Folder 1

Heisler's credits

Box 1, Folder 2

Crew lists

Box 1, Folder 3

Miscellaneous contracts 1933-1967

Box 1, Folder 4

Warner Brothers. T.V. program data. 1955-1963

Box 1, Folder 5

Miscellaneous photographs ca. 1913-?

Box 1, Folder 6

Miscellaneous ephemera: clippings v.d.

Box 1, Folder 7

Sea Slang 1942

Scope and Content Note

Excerpted from American Thesaurus of Slang by Lester V. Berrey & Melvin Van Den Bark. N.Y., Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1942
Box 1, Folder 8

Oral history of Heisler's career

Physical Description: 4 tapes.
 

Television Scripts

 

1955

 

The Lone Ranger

Box 1, Folder 9

Teleplay by Herb Meadow June 29, 1955

 

1956-1957

 

The Adventures of Captain David Grief

Scope and Content Note

Adapted from the story by Jack London
 

The Lone Ranger

Box 1, Folder 9

Teleplay by Herb Meadow June 29, 1955

 

The Adventures of Captain David Grief

Scope and Content Note

Adapted from the story by Jack London.
Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sidney Ellis & R. Arkey July 9, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sidney Ellis & Norman Borisoff June 26, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Jesse Sander & Joseph Victor September 27, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Wally Klein October 4, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sidney Ellis September 22, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by George Bellak September 24, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by George Kirgo October 1, 1956

Box 2, Folder 1

Teleplay by Art Wallace September 26, 1956

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Joseph Victor January 29, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Sidney Ellis May 4, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Pete O'Crotty March 25, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Don Ettinger March 16, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Art Wallace undated

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by William Attaway February 5, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Sidney Ellis January 21, 1957

Box 2, Folder 2

Teleplay by Fred & Elaine Shevin & Pete O'Crotty February 4, 1957

Box 2, Folder 3

Photographs, n.p. undated

 

1955, 1957-1959

 

Adventures of Captain David Grief

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Abby Mann & Herbert Leder August 1957

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Harry W. Junkin June 19, 1957

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Joseph Victor undated

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sheldon Stark & Peter O'Crotty undated

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Kate & Howard Phillips & Peter O'Crotty undated

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Stephen Kandel undated

Box 3, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sy Salkowitz August 26, 1957

 

Screen Directors Playhouse: "The Bush Roper"

Box 3, Folder 2

Original story October 10, 1955

Physical Description: 2 copies
Box 3, Folder 3

Ephemera

Box 3, Folder 4

Photographs

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Fred Gipson & William Tunberg

 

77 Sunset Strip

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Fredrick Brady August 20, 1958

 

Lawman

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by David Lang & Edmund Morris August 5, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Oliver Crawford & Edmund Morris September 18, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Edmund Morris September 17, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker September 15, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker August 14, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by Finlay McDermid July 14, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by William Leicester July 17, 1958

Box 3, Folder 5

Teleplay by William F. Leicester September 11, 1958

 

1958-1959

 

Lawman

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by William Leicester October 27, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker January 23, 1959

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Edmund Morris January 27, 1959

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Edmund Morris December 15, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Edmund Morris January 5, 1959

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Edmund Morris October 28, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker December 29, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by William Leicester November 14, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Dean Reisner October 28, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker November 4, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by Edmund Morris November 28, 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Teleplay by William Leicester December 19, 1958

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by Finlay McDermid February 17, 1959

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by Clair Huffaker & Booker McClay February 18, 1959

 

Lafitte

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by Frank L. Moss March 24, 1959

 

Rawhide

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by Jan Winters (a.k.a. Hilda Bohem) May 13, 1959

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by David Victor & Herb Littler, Jr. June 10, 1959

Box 4, Folder 2

Teleplay by Louis Vittes July 3, 1959

 

1959-1960

 

Gunsmoke

Box 5, Folder 1

Teleplay by Les Crutchfield July 23, 1959

 

The Lineup

Box 5, Folder 1

Author of teleplay not given. July 27, 1959

Box 5, Folder 1

Teleplay by Don Brinkley October 16, 1959

 

Hotel de Paree

Box 5, Folder 5

Teleplay by Oliver Crawford August 28, 1958

 

Rawhide

Box 5, Folder 1

Teleplay by Fred Freiberger & Louis Vittes Octover 1959

Box 5, Folder 2

Author of teleplay not given. June 24, 1960

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by Ted Gardner July 18, 1960

 

Markham

Box 5, Folder 1

Teleplay by John Latimer November 11, 1950

Box 5, Folder 1

Teleplay by John Kneubuhl November 9, 1950

 

Lawman

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by W. Hermanos (pseudonym) May 13, 1960

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by Richard Matheson August 11, 1960

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by Ric Hardman July 18, 1960

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by Richard Matheson July 19, 1960

 

The Islanders

Box 5, Folder 2

Teleplay by Seton I. Miller August 1, 1960

 

1960-1962

 

The Islanders

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Fred Eggers September 22, 1960

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Seton I. Miller October 31, 1960

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Herbert Abbot Spiro November 21, 1960

 

Lawman

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Rick Hardman & Robert C. Dennis

 

The Case of the Dangerous Robin

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Robert C. Dennis 1960

 

Gunslinger

Box 6, Folder 1

Teleplay by Charles Marquis Warren January 18, 1961

 

Roaring 20s

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by Anthony Spinner May 9, 1961

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by Laszlo Gorog April 26, 1961

 

Wells Fargo

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by William R. Cox January 9, 1962

 

The Dakotas

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by Leo Lieberman & E.M. Parsons September 25, 1962

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by Cy Chermak & Robert B. Thompson September 18, 1962

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by E.M. Parsons August 28, 1962

Box 6, Folder 2

Teleplay by Anthony Spinner August 8, 1962

 

Television & Moving-Picture Scripts

 

1962-1963, 1934-1939

 

The Dakotas

Box 7, Folder 1

Teleplay by E.M. Parsons December 31, 1963

Box 7, Folder 1

Teleplay by Cy Chermak September 25, 1962

Box 7, Folder 1

Teleplay by Sy Salkowitz February 25, 1963

Box 7, Folder 1

Teleplay by William Mourne February 22, 1963

 

The Virginian

Box 7, Folder 1

Teleplay by Frank Chase July 30, 1963

Box 7, Folder 1

Travels of Jamie McPheeters December 9, 1963

 

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Box 7, Folder 2

Story by Francis Yeats-Brown; Screenplay by Waldemar Young, John L. Bulderson & Achmed Abdullah 1934

Physical Description: 2 copies
 

Straight from the Shoulder

Box 7, Folder 3

Screenplay by Madeline Ruthven. 1936

Scope and Content Note

Original title of screenplay: Johnny Get His Gun. Adapted from the story "Johnny Gets His Gun," by Lucien Cary.
Box 7, Folder 4

Ephemera 1936

 

Motion-Picture Scripts

 

1937-1939

 

Hurricane

Box 8, Folder 1

Final Shooting Script 1937

Box 8, Folder 2

Photographs 1937

Box 8, Folder 3

Ephemera 1937

 

A Stranger at Home

Box 8, Folder 4

Screenplay by Konrad Bercovici 1938

 

Black Gold

Box 8, Folder 5

Screenplay by Houston Branch 1938

Physical Description: 2 copies
 

The Biscuit Eater

Box 8, Folder 6

Shooting script by James Street, Lillian Hayworth & Stuart Anthony. 1939

Scope and Content Note

Original story by James Street.
Box 8, Folder 7

Musical score 1939

Box 8, Folder 8

Manuscripts: letters and publicity notices 1939

Box 8, Folder 9

Ephemera: clippings 1939

Box 8, Folder 10

Photographs 1939

 

1939-1942

Box 9, Folder 1

The Real Glory 1939

 

Dead on Arrival

Box 9, Folder 2

[script] 1940

Box 9, Folder 3

Photographs 1940

Box 9, Folder 4

Among the Living 1941

 

The Remarkable Andrew

Box 9, Folder 5

Shooting script 1941

Box 9, Folder 6

Manuscripts, letters 1941

Box 9, Folder 7

Photographs 1941

 

The Glass Key

Box 9, Folder 8

Shooting script 1942

Scope and Content Note

Story by Dashiell Hammett
Box 9, Folder 9

Ephemera, clippings 1942

 

The Negro Soldier: A Documentary Film

Box 10, Folder 1

Story by Lillian Hellman 1944

Box 10, Folder 2

Ephemera: publicity clippings 1944

Box 10, Folder 3

Manuscripts: letters 1944

Box 10, Folder 4

Photographs 1944

 

Along Came Jones

Box 10, Folder 5

Shooting script 1944

Box 10, Folder 6

Ephemera, clippings 1944

Box 10, Folder 7

Photographs 1944

Box 10, Folder 8

Manuscripts, letters 1944

 

Blue Skies

Box 10, Folder 9

Musical score by Irving Berlin. 1946

Scope and Content Note

Includes preliminary script and notes.
Box 10, Folder 10

Photographs 1946

Box 10, Folder 11

Ephemera: clippings and publicity notices 1946

Box 10, Folder 12

Manuscripts: letters 1946

 

Vendetta

Box 10, Folder 13

Screenplay by W.R. Burnett 1946

Box 10, Folder 14

Manuscripts, letters and legal documents 1946

 

1946-1948

 

Smash Up

Box 11, Folder 1

Script, musical score and songs 1946

Box 11, Folder 2

Photographs 1946

Box 11, Folder 3

Manuscripts, letters 1946

Box 11, Folder 4

Ephemera, clippings 1946

 

The Two Worlds of Johnny Truro

Box 11, Folder 5

Screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery 1947

 

Tulsa

Box 11, Folder 6

Screenplay by Frank Nugent & Curtis Kenyon 1948

Box 11, Folder 7

Photographs 1948

Box 11, Folder 8

Manuscripts, letters, publicity notes, etc. 1948

Box 11, Folder 9

Ephemera, clippings 1948

 

Tokyo Joe

Box 11, Folder 10

Screenplay by Cyril Hume 1948

Box 11, Folder 11

Photographs 1948

Box 11, Folder 12

Ephemera, clippings 1948

Box 11, Folder 13

Manuscripts, letters 1948

 

1949-1951

 

Chain Lightning

Box 12, Folder 1

Story by J. Redmont Prior; Screenplay by Liam O'Brian & Vincent Evans 1949

Box 12, Folder 2

Ephemera, clippings, etc. 1949

Box 12, Folder 3

Photographs 1949

Box 12, Folder 4

Manuscripts, letters 1949

 

Dallas

Box 12, Folder 5

Manuscripts: letters 1951

Box 12, Folder 6

Photographs 1951

Box 12, Folder 7

Ephemera, clippings 1951

 

Island of Desire

Box 12, Folder 8

Story by Stuart Heisler; Screenplay by Stephanie Nordli. 1951

Box 12, Folder 9

Ephemera, clippings 1951

Box 12, Folder 10

Photographs 1951

Box 12, Folder 11

Manuscripts, letters, and legal documents 1951

 

Journey into Light

Box 12, Folder 12

Story by Anson Bond; Screenplgay by Stephanie Nordli & Irving Shulman. 1951

Box 12, Folder 13

Ephemera, clippings. 1951

Box 12, Folder 14

Manuscripts, letters. 1951

 

1951-1953

 

Storm Warning

Box 13, Folder 1

Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs & Richard Brooks 1951

Box 13, Folder 2

Photographs 1951

Box 13, Folder 3

Ephemera: clippings 1951

Box 13, Folder 4

Manuscripts: letters and publicity notes 1951

 

Gift of the Gods

Box 13, Folder 4

Screenplay by Stephanie Nordli 1952

 

The Star

Box 13, Folder 6

Story and Screenplay by Dale Eunson & Katherine Albert 1952

Box 13, Folder 7

Ephemera: clippings 1952

Box 13, Folder 8

Manuscripts: legal documents 1952

Box 13, Folder 9

Manuscripts: letters 1952

 

Beachhead

Box 13, Folder 10

Screenplay by Richard Alan Simmons 1953

Box 13, Folder 11

Photographs 1953

Box 13, Folder 12

Ephemera: clippings 1953

Box 13, Folder 13

Manuscripts: letters and publicity notices 1953

 

1954-1961

 

This is My Love

Box 14, Folder 1

Screenplay by Hugh Brooke & Hagar Wilde 1954

Box 14, Folder 2

Ephemera: clippings 1954

Box 14, Folder 3

Photographs 1954

Box 14, Folder 4

Manuscripts: letters 1954

 

I Died a Thousand Times

Box 14, Folder 5

Story and Screenplay by W.R. Burnett 1955

Box 14, Folder 6

Ephemera: clippings 1955

Box 14, Folder 7

Photographs 1955

Box 14, Folder 8

Manuscripts: letters 1955

 

The Burning Hills

Box 14, Folder 9

Screenplay by Irving Wallace 1956

Box 14, Folder 10

Ephemera: clippings 1956

 

The Lone Ranger

Box 14, Folder 11

Photographs 1956

Box 14, Folder 12

Ephemera: clippings 1956

Box 14, Folder 13

Manuscripts: letters 1956

 

Hitler

Box 14, Folder 14

Screenplay by Sam Nueman 1961

 

Miscellaneous Scripts

Box 15, Folder 1

Ke Kali neui Au undated

Box 15, Folder 2

Blood on the Moon 1964 (?)

Scope and Content Note

Story by Seton Miller.
Box 15, Folder 3

Chief Joseph Story ca. 1963

Scope and Content Note

Story by Robert B. Stacy.
Box 15, Folder 4

Pulitzer Prize Pictures undated

Box 15, Folder 5

Film script ideas ca. 1938-1957

Box 15, Folder 6

Unidentified script undated

Box 15, Folder 7

Wild Hogs are Different undated

Scope and Content Note

Story by Fred Gipson.
Box 15, Folder 8

Rabbit Hound undated

Scope and Content Note

Story by Fred Gipson.
 

Scrapbooks

Box 16

Two Scrapbooks v.d.

Scope and Content Note

Re: various Heisler moving-pictures.