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Title: Marjorie Kellogg papers
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 85
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
31.34 linear feet
(15 document boxes, 18 flat boxes, 9 audiocassettes, 5 audiotape reels, 2 videocassettes, and 5 film reels)
Creator:
Kellogg, Marjorie
Date (inclusive): 1895-2005
Date (bulk): 1922-2005
Abstract: Papers of Marjorie Kellogg (1922-2005), American novelist and screenplay writer born in Santa Barbara, California. In addition
to correspondence, original manuscripts, photographs, press clippings and artifacts relating to Kellogg's writing career,
the collection includes historical photographs of Santa Barbara and the surrounding area.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
[Identification of Item], Marjorie Kellogg papers, PA Mss 85. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara
Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Donated by Sylvia Short, May 2011.
Born in Santa Barbara, California, Marjorie Kellogg (1922-2005) began her writing career as a copy editor for the
San Francisco Chronicle after attending UC Berkeley. A later position led her to Europe, where she covered France and Spain for
Salute magazine immediately after World War II. After returning to the United States, she obtained a bachelor's and master's degree
in social work from Smith College. While working as social worker in New York City, Marjorie Kellogg completed her first novel,
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1968), adapting it as a screenplay for the 1970 movie of the same name, directed by Otto Preminger and starring Liza Minnelli
and Ken Howard. Kellogg followed her second novel,
Like the Lion's Tooth (1972), with a screenplay adaptation of Sylvia Plath's
The Bell Jar. In addition to her novels and screenplays, Kellogg wrote plays and musicals, including
The Oldest Trick in the World, directed by Carl Williams,
The Smile of the Cardboard Man, and
After You've Gone, both starring Sylvia Short. Kellogg was the daughter of Eugene S. Kellogg and Emma Pickett, both from long-established Santa
Barbara and Ventura County families.
The scope and content of this collection can be divided into two general sections. The first section (Series I-III) provides
a view into Santa Barbara and Ventura County history mainly from the perspective of two prominent Goleta Valley agricultural
families--the Kellogg and Pickett families--starting in the late 19th century through the late 20th. The section includes
family photograph albums documenting daily life in the Goleta Valley, Santa Barbara, and Ventura from the late 19th through
the mid 20th century, as well as documents, genealogies and artifacts from the Pickett and Kellogg family collections. Included
among the family photographs are photographs taken by Marjorie Kellogg in France and Spain in the aftermath of World War II.
The second section (Series IV-XIV) comprises manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, documents, audiovisual recordings,
artifacts and artwork covering Kellogg's career as student of social work at Smith College, a social worker for the state
of New York, and finally, her work as an author, playwright and filmmaker. This section includes the original manuscripts
of
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon and
Like the Lion's Tooth, as well original manuscripts of Kellogg's screenplays, plays and musicals. Among the photographs are production stills of
the film version of
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (including on-set photographs of Liza Minnelli and Otto Preminger), as well as stills to the first two scenes of the film
version of
Like the Lion's Tooth (Marjorie Kellogg, director, with Betty Buckley) shot for promotion and never completed. Recordings include multiple film
reels to this production. Correspondence includes letters from Paula Fox and Carson McCullers, friends of Kellogg.
The collection has been arranged into the following series: I. Family Photographs, II. Family Documents, III. Eastwood Letters,
IV. Smith College, V. Novels, VI. Screenplays, VII. Musicals, VIII. Plays, IX.
Junie Moon (Film), X.
Lion's Tooth (Film), XI. General Correspondence, XII. Miscellaneous, XIII. Posters, XIV. Audiovisual.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bell jar (Motion picture) Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon (Motion picture)Authors, American
Screenwriters
Women authors, American
Santa Barbara County (Calif.) -- History
Ventura County (Calif.) -- History
Artifacts (object genre)
Audiocassettes
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Film reels
Film stills
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts (documents)
Photograph albums
Photographs
Screenplays
Scripts (documents)
Sound recordings
Videocassettes
Kellogg, Marjorie -- Archives
Buckley, Betty
Fox, Paula
McCullers, Carson
Minnelli, Liza
Preminger, Otto
Short, Sylvia
Kellogg family
Pickett family
Kellogg, Marjorie -- Tell me that you love me, Junie Moon
Kellogg, Marjorie -- Like the lion's tooth