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Summary Information
Ed Sullivan Papers
1920-1974
U.S. Mss 111AN; Micro 1160
9.0 cubic feet (18 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 record center carton), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), and 146 films
Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research Contact Information
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of a newspaper columnist and television host-producer. Entertainment files, the largest portion of the collection, include scripts, correspondence, and production information for his work in radio, television, and motion pictures. Radio materials consist of scripts for Ed Sullivan Entertains (CBS), Summer Silver Theatre (CBS), and various other programs and benefits. More substantial television material relates primarily to the long-running Ed Sullivan Show (originally known as Toast of the Town, CBS). This section includes correspondence; scripts; production, sponsorship, and financial information; clippings; ratings; and films. Also here is a script for a Friars Club “roast” of Johnny Carson and a script for the movie Singing Nun (MGM, 1966) in which Sullivan appeared. Writings include miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles; copies of his “Little Old New York” column, 1941-1974, for the New York Daily News; and an unpublished biography of Lee Shubert. General subject files contain awards, certificates, correspondence, clippings, legal records, microfilmed scrapbooks, and speeches. Among the prominent correspondents are Steve Allen, Rudolf Bing, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, J. Edgar Hoover, Lady Bird Johnson, Edward M. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon, Louis Nizer, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Richard Rodgers, Robert E. Sherwood, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Frank Stanton, and Adlai Stevenson.
English
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