Loring Mandel Papers
1942-2006
- Mandel, Loring, 1928-2020
U.S. Mss 164AN; M87-066; M87-112; Audio 1578A; M2000-030; M2002-154; M2006-124; video call numbers
21.3 cubic feet (51 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes); plus additions of 39.8 cubic feet (31 record center cartons, 20 archives boxes, 1 card box, and 1 flat box), 170 photographs (1 archives box), 46 video recordings, 31 audio recordings, 2 compact discs (data), and 1 diskette (3.5 inch)
Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Wisconsin Historical Society
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Papers of Loring Mandel, writer for television, theater, and motion pictures. Most of the collection focuses on his professional career and consists of script materials such as outlines, treatments, and variant scripts; correspondence; research materials; notes; production materials; and clippings. Miscellaneous writings, musical composition, and some personal correspondence with family and friends complete the collection. Among television programs represented are anthologies such as Armstrong Circle Theater (“Kidnap Story: Hold for Ransom”), CBS Playhouse (“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”), Kaiser Aluminum Hour (“Arm Game”), Lux Video Theatre (“A House of His Own”), Playhouse 90 (“Project Immortality”), and Studio One (“Shakedown Cruise”); made for TV movies The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright and The Trial of Chaplain Jensen, Breaking Up and Conspiracy; mini-series Sandburg's Lincoln and The Lives of Benjamin Franklin; and the soap opera series Love of Life. Materials are also contained on the plays Advise and Consent and Project Immortality and the motion pictures The Children's Hour and Countdown. Notable correspondents include Ralph Bellamy, Burton Benjamin, Gilbert Cates, Hume Cronyn, Melvyn Douglas, Allen Drury, Hugh Hefner, John Houseman, Bob Newhart, John Scali, Jack Warner, and Morris L. West. Also includes research material for the film The Lemon Eaters which contains Mandel's notes and impressions of group encounter sessions which he attended.
There is a restriction on access to one box of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.
Some of the video recordings in this collection have been cataloged separately.
English
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