Title: Blair Walliser Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1933-1955

Creator:

• Walliser, Blair

Call Number: M2010-047

Quantity: 4.2 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 1 archives box) and 3 photographs

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of radio and television writer-producer-director Blair Walliser, consisting mainly of scripts, story outlines and synopses for radio comedies and dramas, and clippings from Chicago newspapers' coverage of the programs, many of which were produced for WGN. Titles represented in the collection include: “The Coronet Story Teller” (which has an extensive outline series), “Harold Teen,” “Easy Money,” “Great Artists” (scripts are written by members of the Illinois Writers Project, including Louis “Studs” Terkel), “Peter Quill,” and “The Romance of Helen Trent.” Photographs are three photos from “Harold Teen.”

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2010047

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Blair Walliser and Ursula Walliser, New York, New York. Accession Number: M93-259, M2010-047

M2010-047 Box   1 Folder   1	“Bachelor's Children”
Box   1 Folder   2-3	“Backstage Wife,” 1937-1954
Box   1 Folder   4-7	“Behind the Camera Lines,” 1935-1936
Box   1 Folder   8-13	“Bob Becker's Chats about Dogs,” 1935, 1939-1941
Box   1 Folder   14	Constance Bennett in “Shadow Play,” 1940
Box   1 Folder   15-16	“Coronet Little Show,” 1943-1944
Box   1 Folder   17-35	“The Coronet Story Teller,” 1944 January-1945 February
Box   2 Folder   1-30	“The Coronet Story Teller,” 1945 March-1946 October
Box   2 Folder   31-36	“Curtain Time,” 1937 May-October
Box   3 Folder   1-11	“Curtain Time,” 1937-1939
Box   3 Folder   12-20	“Easy Money,” 1954 October-1955 May
Box   4 Folder   1-3	“Fifth Row Center,” 1940
Box   4 Folder   4-5	“Front Page Farrell,” 1949-1951
Box   4 Folder   6	“Galahad O'Toole,” 1941
Box   4 Folder   7	“Great Artists,” 1941-1942
Box   4 Folder   8-11	“Harold Teen,” 1941-1942
Box   4 Folder   12	“In Chicago Tonight,” 1941
Box   4 Folder   13	“The Ireene Wicker Show Brings You 'Good News!'”
Box   4 Folder   14	“Just Plain Bill,” 1953-1955
Box   4 Folder   15	“Lucky Girl”
Box   4 Folder   16-18	“Peter Quill,” 1940-1941
Box   4 Folder   19	“The Rise of Bill Bartlett”
Box   4 Folder   20	“Romance of Helen Trent,” 1937-1940
Box   4 Folder   21	“Seals of the States: California,” 1933
Box   4 Folder   22	“True Adventures,” 1955
Box   4 Folder   23	“Wife vs. Secretary,” 1936
Box   4 Folder   24	“Woman of the Night”
Box   4 Folder   25	Script, unidentified
Box   4 Folder   26	Advertising plans for Gro-Pup and Prize dog food
Box   5 Folder   1-4	Newspaper clippings
	Photographs
PH Box   26	“Harold Teen”