Walter and Jean Kerr Papers, circa 1920-1993

Container Title
Series: Television
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries, 1960 March-May
Scope and Content Note: Producer: Robert Saudek Associates Inc.
Box   67
  Folder   4
Correspondence, contracts 1960 January-April
"The Bat," 1960 March 31
Scope and Content Note: By Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script, 1960 March 17
"The Datchet Diamonds," 1960 June
Scope and Content Note: By Richard Marsh; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script
Volume   33
Script, 1960 May 31
Volume   33
Script, 1960 June 21
Esso Repertory Theatre
Scope and Content Note: With Walter Kerr as host of program
Box   67
  Folder   5
Correspondence program plans, notes and drafts of Walter Kerr's scripts 1964-1965
Box   67
  Folder   6
Background information on playwrights, and repertory theaters considered for the program
Omnibus
Box   67
  Folder   7
Walter Kerr's discussion on Hamlet, correspondence 1955 January-May
"Oedipus the King (Rex)," 1957 January 6
Scope and Content Note

Director: Alan Schneider

Writer: Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald; adapted by Walter Kerr

Cast: Christopher Plummer, Carl Goodner, Robert Goodier, Ronald Davis

Box   67
  Folder   8
Correspondence, contract 1956-1959
Volume   31
Script, 1956 February 20
"The Boyhood of Will Shakespeare," 1957 February 24
Scope and Content Note: By Alfred Harbage; adapted by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   9
Correspondence, 1957
Volume   31
Script, 1957 February 19
"The Theatre Breaks Loose," 1957 March 3
Scope and Content Note: Written and narrated by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   10
Correspondence, contract 1956-1965
Volume   31
Script, 1957 February 25
"School for Wives," 1957
Scope and Content Note: By Moliere; adapted by Walter Kerr
Box   67
  Folder   11
Correspondence, contracts 1958-1959
Volume   31
Script
Volume   13
Script
"Mrs. McThing," 1958 March 9
Scope and Content Note: By Mary Chase; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"Lady's Not for Burning," 1958 April 6
Scope and Content Note: By Christopher Fry; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"The Oresteia," 1959 January 4
Scope and Content Note: By Aeschylus; adapted by Leo Brady
Volume   32
Script
"Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway," 1959 March
Scope and Content Note

By George M. Cohan; adapted by Walter Kerr

See also the Photographs in Box 72.

Volume   33
Script, notes
Volume   33
Script
Volume   32
Script
"The Strange Ordeal of the Normandier," 1959 April 12
Scope and Content Note: By H.L. Tredree; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   32
Script
"Roughing It," 1960 April 19
Scope and Content Note: By Mark Twain; adapted by Walter Kerr
Volume   33
Script
The Open Mind
"The State of Culture in the United States Today," 1962 April 29
Scope and Content Note

Narrator: Eric F. Goldman

Guests: August Heckschen, Walter Kerr, Alfred A. Knopf, and David Susskind

Box   67
  Folder   12
Correspondence; script, 1962-1964
"Critics and the Theater," 1963 May 19
Scope and Content Note

Narrator: Eric F. Goldman

Guests: Lillian Hellman, Walter Kerr, David Merrick, and Richard Watts, Jr.

Box   67
  Folder   13
Correspondence; script, 1963
Profiles in Courage
Box   68
  Folder   1
Correspondence, 1963-1969
"George W. Norris-I Have Come Home to Tell You the Truth," 1963 September
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by Leo Lieberman
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 August 1
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 September 3
"The Ben Lindsey Story," 1963 September 20
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by John Kneubuhl
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 September 20
"Thomas Hart Benton," 1963 August 19
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by A.J. Russell
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 August 19
"Oscar W. Underwood-Dark Horse, White Cross," 1963 August 27
Scope and Content Note: Adapted by David Karp
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script synopsis, 1963 August 27
Box   68
  Folder   2
Script, 1963 December 6
"Ann Hutchinson," 1964
Scope and Content Note: By Jonathan Miller
Box   68
  Folder   3
Script, 1964 June 1
Box   68
  Folder   3
Two Scripts
Box   68
  Folder   4
Robert Saudek Associates Inc. miscellaneous scripts; program plans; notes; outlines for program on Lincoln Center Theater and for film on Lincoln Repertory Company, 1962, December 28
Box   68
  Folder   5
Financial reports, 1957-1965
Trio No. 9, 1962
Scope and Content Note

Producer: Martin Levin

Guests: Walter Kerr, Richard Lemon and Harold C. Schonberg

Box   68
  Folder   6
Correspondence, contracts, scripts ("A Matter of Taste")
Miscellaneous Television Scripts
Volume   19
"Miss Platt Selects Mate" based on Touch and Go / by Walter and Jean Kerr
Volume   19
“Sing Out Sweet Land,” plan for a television program based on Walter Kerr's play
Volume   19
"The Long Way Home"
Volume   19
"The Artful Dodger"
Volume   19
Untitled television script
"The Good Fairy," 1956
Scope and Content Note: By Ferenc Molnar; adapted by Jean Kerr
Box   68
  Folder   7
Script
Volume   31
Script
Volume   32
"Family Relationships"
Volume   33
Ideas for television series by Jean and Walter Kerr
Box   68
  Folder   8
Miscellaneous television and radio contracts