Finding Aid for the Mainerd Baker Collection of Scripts PASC.0274
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Title: Mainerd Baker collection of scripts
Creator:
Baker, Mainerd
Identifier/Call Number: PASC.0274
Physical Description:
3.25 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1940s-1970s
Abstract: Mainerd Baker was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. The collection consists
mostly of radio and television scripts either collected by or related to the career of Baker
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of C. Plath, 2003.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Mainerd Baker Collection of Scripts (Collection PASC 274). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
There is very little biographical information available about Mainerd Baker. He was a musician and music copyist in Hollywood
from the late 1930s through the early 1980s. Baker worked at many studios and networks and for many arrangers over the years.
Scope and Content
The collection consists mostly of radio and television scripts related to the career of musician and music copyist Mainerd
Baker. The scripts are from productions in which Baker may have been involved with in some capacity and/or scripts that were
given to him by friends from the entertainment business who knew of his interest in collecting scripts. Included are scripts
from
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre,
Inner Sanctum Mysteries, and
This is Your Life.
Organization and Arrangement
The scripts are arranged alphabetically by program title.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Television scripts.
Radio scripts -- Archives.
Television scripts -- Archives.
Radio scripts
Baker, Mainerd--Archives.
box 2
1975 Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards (The)
1975 Feb 22
General note
With newspaper clippings.
box 3
33rd Annual Golden Globe Awards
1976 Jan 21
General note
With program.
box 1
Aldrich Family (The) (Jello Puddings)
1941 Feb 27
box 3
All-Star Tribute to John Wayne (An)
1976 Nov 06
box 2
American Film Institute (The)
1975 Feb 09
General note
Salute To Orson Welles.
box 3
American Film Institute (The)
1978 Feb 25
General note
Salute to Henry Fonda.
box 1
Burns and Allen
1941 Jan 27
box 2
Captain Flagg & Sergeant Quirt
1941 Dec 07
box 2
Danny Thomas Preview (The)
1948 June 02
box 2
Dennis Day Program (The)
1948 Mar 03
box 1
Everyman's Theatre
1941 Jan 24
General note
Of Human Bondage.
box 2
Everything For The Boys
1944 Apr 25
General note
Death Takes A Holiday.
box 1
Fibber McGee and Molly (Johnson Wax Program)
1940 Nov 19
box 1
Gang Busters
1941 Mar 28
General note
The Trolley Murders.
box 1
General Foods Company Jello Program
1942 Mar 15
box 1
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre
1941 Dec 14
General note
My Life with Caroline.
box 1
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre
1941 Nov 16
General note
Penny Serenade.
box 2
Hallmark Charlotte Greenwood Show (The)
1945 Aug 12
box 1
I Sing a New World - The Story of Walt Whitman
1941 Mar 07
box 1
Inner Sanctum Mysteries
1941 Feb 25
General note
Case of the Blood Toupee.
box 1
Inner Sanctum Mysteries
1941 Mar 23
General note
Man Who Hated Death.
box 2
Julie Andrews Show (The)
1972 Oct 19
box 1
Kraft Music Hall
1941 Nov 20
box 1
Maxwell House
1940 Jan 18
General note
Good News of 1940.
box 2
Meet Corliss Archer
1944 Nov 30
General note
Corliss Six-Point program.
box 1
Mr. District Attorney
1941 Feb 26
General note
Murder on Commission.
box 2
Naked City
1962 Apr 03
General note
..And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them..
box 2
Opening Night
1963 Aug 23
box 1
Pepsodent Program (The)
1940 Nov 12
General note
Host: Bob Hope.
box 1
Raleigh Cigarette Program
1943 Jan 24
box 2
Rexall Drug Store - Durante-Moore Number 39
1946 Mar 08
box 2
Route 66
1962 Apr 13
General note
A Feat of Strength.
box 1
Rudy Vallee Program
1940 Nov 14
box 2
Screen Directors' Playhouse
1949 Sept 30
General note
Pride of the Yankees.
box 1
Story of Dr. Wassell (The)
1943 Mar 01
box 2
Suspense
1944 Jan 13
General note
Dime A Dance.
box 1
This Is Your Life - Laurel and Hardy
1954 Dec 01
box 1
This Is Your Life - Nanette Fabray
1971 Oct 10
box 1
This Is Your Life - Ruth Gordon
1971 Oct 29
box 1
Time to Smile
1941 Apr 16
box 2
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (A) - Movie Night
1945 Jan 13
box 2
Wrigley's Christmas Festival
1948 Dec 25
