Creed C. Black Papers, 1943-1998

Contents List

Container Title
Series: Television
“Advice to the Lovelorn,” (based on short story by Christopher Morley), [ 1952]
Box   1
Folder   1
Script
The Alcoa Hour
“Doll Face,” 1956
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Box   1
Folder   2
Script
Box   1
Folder   3
Movie treatment, 2 screenplays
“Nothing to Lose,” 1957 April 14
Note

Producer: Philip Barry, Jr.

Director: David Greene

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Ralph Bellamy, James Whitmore

Box   1
Folder   4
Script, revised
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
“Final Escape,” (based on The Fate of Paul Perreau by Tom Cannon), 1963
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
Box   1
Folder   5
Treatment, outline, synopsis, notes, 2 scripts, revisions
Appointment with Adventure
“Caribbean Cruise,” 1955 July 3
Note

Producer: Robert Costello

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Tony Randall, Gena Rowlands

Box   1
Folder   6
Script
Armstrong Circle Theatre
“Blaze of Glory,” 1950 August 29
Box   1
Folder   7
Script
“Airtight Case,” 1952
Box   1
Folder   8
Script
“Solid Citizen,” 1954 October 26
Note

Producer: Ralph Nelson

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   1
Folder   9
Script
“Ring Twice for Christmas,” 1954 December 21
Note

Producer: David Susskind

Director: Don Richardson

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   1
Folder   10
Script, revised
“Sudden Disaster,” (based on story by Stanley Rauh), 1955 February 22
Note

Producer: David Susskind

Director: William Corrigan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   2
Folder   1
Script
“The Family Menace,” 1955 March 22
Note

Producer: David Susskind

Director: Paul Bogart

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   2
Folder   2
Script
“Murder by Airplane,” 1960 November 23
Note

Producer: Robert Costello

Director: William Corrigan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   2
Folder   3
Script
“The Spy Next Door,” 1961 February 1
Note

Producer: Robert Costello

Director: William Corrigan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Wesley Addy, Max Slater

Box   2
Folder   4
Research materials
Box   2
Folder   5
Script
“A Chapter on Tyranny: Dateline Berlin,” 1961, October 25
Note

Producer: Robert Costello

Director: William Corrigan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   2
Folder   6
Script revised
Box   2
Folder   7
Script
Arrest and Trial
“Funny Man with a Monkey,” 1964 January 5
Note

Producer: Jack Smight

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Mickey Rooney, Chuck Connors, Ben Gazzara

Box   2
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1963 September 30, outline, treatment
Box   2
Folder   9
3 scripts
“Modus Operandi,” 1964 March 15
Note

Producer: Charles Russell

Writer: Jerome Ross, Don Brinkley

Cast: Dorothy Malone, Chuck Connors, Ben Gazzara

Box   2
Folder   10
Outline, treatment, notes
Box   2
Folder   11
2 scripts
The Bing Crosby Show
Note

Producer: Steve Gethers

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Bing Crosby, Beverly Garland

Box   3
Folder   1
General description
“Conform, Conform, Whoever You Are,” 1964 October 5
Box   3
Folder   2
Notes, outline, 3 scripts
“The Education of Bing Collins,” 1964 October 26
Box   3
Folder   3
Notes, 2 scripts
“The Test,” 1965 March 22
Box   3
Folder   4
Notes, outline, 2 scripts
“Real Estate Venture,” 1965 March 15
Box   3
Folder   5
Outline, treatment, 2 scripts
The Blue Men
“Family Man,” 1959
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
Box   4
Folder   1
Script
The Breaking Point
“Last Summer We Didn't Go Away,” 1963 September 23
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Paul Richards

Box   4
Folder   2
Notes, outline, treatment, script
Cameo Theatre
“Ringside Seat,” 1950
Box   4
Folder   3
Script
The Defenders
Box   4
Folder   4
Show format, story outlines
“The Crusader,” 1962 February 25
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Daniel Petrie

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: E. G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Warren Stevens

Box   4
Folder   5
2 scripts
“Storm at Birch Glen,” 1962 January 27
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, James Broderick

Box   4
Folder   6
Script
“The Breaking Point,” 1962
Box   4
Folder   7
Notes, outlines, research materials
Box   4
Folder   8
3 scripts, clippings
Dr. Kildare
“The Life Machine,” 6 part series
Note

Producer: Douglas Benton

Director: Marc Daniels

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Massey

Box   5
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1965 April 19, notes, outline treatment
“The Life Machine” (Part I), 1965 October 17
Box   5
Folder   2
Revisions, 3 scripts, shooting schedule
“Toast the Golden Couple” (Part II), 1965 October 24
Box   5
Folder   3
Revisions, 2 scripts
“Wives and Losers” (Part III), 1965 November 1
Box   5
Folder   4
Revisions, 2 scripts
“A Little Child Shall Lead” (Part IV), 1965 November 8
Box   5
Folder   5
Revisions, 2 scripts
“Hour of Decision” (Part V), 1965 November 8
Box   5
Folder   6
Revisions, 2 scripts
“Aftermath” (Part VI), 1965 November 22
Box   5
Folder   7
Revisions, 3 scripts
“The Glamorous Anti-Little K,” 2 part series
Note

Producer: Douglas Benton

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Massey

Box   5
Folder   8
Research material, notes, story idea, outline treatment
Box   5
Folder   9
Working pages
Box   5
Folder   10
Script, 2 scripts
Du Pont Show of the Week
“Mutiny,” 1962 December 2
Note

Producer: Lewis Freedman

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Dana Andrews, Robert Walker

Box   6
Folder   1
Research materials, storyline, scene breakdown, notes, treatment, outline
Box   6
Folder   2
4 scripts, revised
“Diamond Fever,” 1963 March 24
Note

Producer: Louis Freedman

Director: Gerald Freedman

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Theodore Bikel, Peter Lorre

Box   6
Folder   3
Research materials, 2 treatments, 3 outlines, notes, scene breakdown
Box   6
Folder   4
2 scripts
Felony Squad
“Man on Fire,” 1967
Box   6
Folder   5
Notes, synopsis, 2 outlines, 2 scripts
The Fugitive
Box   7
Folder   1
Show format: 1963, April 23
“Come Watch Me Die,” 1964 January 21
Note

Producer: Alan Armer

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: David Janssen, Robert Doyle

Box   7
Folder   2
2 outlines, notes, 2 scripts
Box   7
Folder   3
Script, revised
The Girls (Based on Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough)
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
“The Bathing Beauty Contest,” 1950
Box   7
Folder   4
Script
“The Marathon Dance Contest,” 1950
Box   7
Folder   5
Script
“The Stock Market Boom,” 1950
Box   7
Folder   6
Script
The Goodyear Playhouse
“The Prizewinner,” 1955 July 31
Note

Producer: Gordon Duff

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   7
Folder   7
Script, clipping
“The Trees,” 1955 December 4
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Pat Hingle, Lil Darvas

Box   7
Folder   8
Outline, script
“Career Girl,” 1956 April 22
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   7
Folder   9
2 scripts
“The Will to Live,” 1957 May 12
Note

Producer: Philip Barry, Jr.

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Betsy Blair, Walter Matthau

Box   7
Folder   10
Script
Hallmark Hall of Fame
“A Soldier in Love,” 1967, April 26
Note

Producer: George Schaefer

Director: George Schaefer

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Claire Bloom, Keith Mitchell

Box   8
Folder   1
Correspondence: 1964 July 24-1966 July 21, 2 outlines, 8 working pages, notes
Box   8
Folder   2
3 scripts
It Takes a Thief
“The Raw Diamond Safari,” 1968
Note

Executive Producer: Gordon Oliver

Producer: Leonard J. Horn

Box   8
Folder   3
Correspondence, 1968 August 26, 3 outlines, notes
Box   8
Folder   4
3 scripts
Jamie
“Jamie and the Great Gustav,” 1953
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Brandon de Wilde, Ernest Truex

Box   9
Folder   1
Script
“Jamie and the Wallflower,” 1953
Box   9
Folder   2
Script
Jericho
Box   9
Folder   3
Show format
“Erik the Redhead,” 1966 November 3
Note

Producer: Stanley Niss

Writers: Irve Tunicke, Jerome Ross

Cast: Jay North, John Leyton

Box   9
Folder   4
Outline, treatment, working pages
Box   9
Folder   5
Research materials, notes
Box   9
Folder   6
3 scripts
Justice
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
“The Safe-Cracker,” 1954 October 21
Note

Producer: Robert Stevens

Director: Robert Stevens

Box   9
Folder   7
Script
“A Boy, A Dog, and a Gun,” 1954 December 30
Note

Producer: David Susskind

Director: William Corrigan

Box   9
Folder   8
Script (based on Legal Aid Society files)
Kentucky Jones
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Dennis Weaver, Henry Morgan

“Senior Citizen,” 1964
Box   9
Folder   9
Outline, notes, working pages, 2 scripts
“The Good Samaritan,” 1965
Box   9
Folder   10
Outline
“Feminine Intrusion,” 1965
Box   9
Folder   11
Story idea, outline notes, outline, 2 scripts
King Cavanaugh, 1967
Note: Writers: David Davidson, Jerome Ross
Box   10
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1967 September 21-November 16, clippings, notes for screenplay and TV series
Box   10
Folder   2
2 presentations, 3 treatment
Kraft Suspense Theatre
“Operation Grief,” 1964 October 8
Note

Producer: Mort Abrahams

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Robert Goulet

Box   10
Folder   3
Story idea, outline, notes, working pages
Box   10
Folder   4
Script, revised script
The Long Hot Summer
Box   10
Folder   5
Screenplay (by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank)
Box   10
Folder   6
TV Format, 1965 April 5
“Ben and Clara - Clara's Awakening,” 1965 September 16
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Edmund O'Brien, Nancy Malone

Box   11
Folder   1
Outline
“Face of Fear,” 1966 January 6
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Don O'Herlihy, Nancy Malone

Box   11
Folder   2
Outline (“The Case Against Will Varner”)
“The Intruders,” undated
Note: Writers: Robert J. Shaw, Jerome Ross
Box   11
Folder   3
Notes, working pages
Box   11
Folder   4
3 scripts
Lucky Strike Theatre See Robert Montgomery: Lucky Strike Theatre, Box 14, Folders 11-12, and Box 15, Folders 1-3
Mama
Note

Producer: Carol Irwin

Writer: Jerome Ross

Ross sent a random selection of 60 scripts he wrote.

Box   11
Folder   5
“Mama's Prize Recipe,” 1949 September
Box   11
Folder   6
“Nel's Baby Picture,” 1951 January 10
Box   11
Folder   7
“Mama's China Wedding,” 1951 June 8
Box   11
Folder   8
“The People in the Big House,” 1951 July 6
Box   11
Folder   9
“Mama and the Public Library Book,” 1951 September 28Script
Box   11
Folder   10
“Papa, the Foreman,” 1952 February 29
Box   11
Folder   11
“Dagmar's Ring,” 1952 March 28
Box   11
Folder   12
“Trina's Romance,” 1952 April 25
Box   11
Folder   13
“Gunner Pops the Question,” 1952 September 20
Box   11
Folder   14
“Gunnerson's Mother,” 1952 October 7
Box   12
Folder   1
“Mama and Peer Gynt,” 1952 November 21
Box   12
Folder   2
“Mama and the Men in Katrin's Life,” 1953 January 16
Box   12
Folder   3
“Dagmar Gets the Hook,” 1953 March 20
Box   12
Folder   4
“Trina's Wedding,” 1953 April 24
Box   12
Folder   5
“Trina's Doll,” 1953 November 13
Box   12
Folder   6
“Papa and the Sons of Norway Christmas Party,” 1953 December 25
Box   12
Folder   7
“Mama and the Sunday School,” 1954 April 23
Box   12
Folder   8
“Dagmar, Queen of the Golden Gate,” 1954 March 26
Mannix
“Blackout,” 1968
Note

Executive Producer: Bruce Geller

Producers: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Mike Connors

Box   12
Folder   9
Outline, notes
Box   12
Folder   10
3 scripts
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Robert Young

“To Everything There Is a Season,” 1969
Box   12
Folder   11
Outline notes
“The White Cane,” 1969
Box   12
Folder   12
2 outlines, notes
Box   13
Folder   1
3 scripts
Box   13
Folder   2
2 scripts, shooting schedule
Medallion Theatre
“The Padre of San Pablo,” (based on idea by Manny Seff), 1953
Note

Producer: William Spier

Director: Seymour Robbie

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   13
Folder   3
Script
Mission Impossible
“Operation Rogosch,” 1966 October 1
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Peter Graves, Martin Landau

Box   13
Folder   4
Outline, revisions, working pages
Box   13
Folder   5
2 scripts
Mod Squad
“Guess Who's Coming to Murder,” 1968
Note

Producers: Tony Barrett, Harve Bennett

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Peggy Lipton, Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III

Box   13
Folder   6
Outline, notes
Box   13
Folder   7
4 scripts (“Souvenir of Death”)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
“Supply and Demand,” 1969
Box   14
Folder   1
Correspondence, 1969 April 4, outlines, treatment, notes
Box   14
Folder   2
3 scripts (“The Moonlighters”)
NBC Matinee Theatre
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
“A Case of Pure Fiction”
Box   14
Folder   3
Script
“Crime at Blossoms”
Box   14
Folder   4
Script
“A Guest at the Embassy”
Box   14
Folder   5
Script
“The Prizewinner”
Box   14
Folder   6
Script
“The Touchstone”
Box   14
Folder   7
Script
Our Town, 1950 (series idea)
Box   14
Folder   8
Correspondence with Thornton Wilder, 1950 May, script
The Outer Limits
“The Man with Power,” 1963 September 30
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Donald Pleasence, Pricilla Merrill

Box   14
Folder   9
2 outlines, working pages, notes
Box   14
Folder   10
2 scripts
Robert Montgomery - Lucky Strike Theatre
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
“Operation Hitchhike,” 1952
Box   14
Folder   11
Script
“Grass Roots,” 1952
Box   14
Folder   12
Script
“Dr. Gatskill's Blue Shoes” (based on story by Paul Conant), 1953
Box   15
Folder   1
Script
“Second Hand Sofa” (based on short story by Kathleen Sproul, “The Sofa That Saw Death”), 1953
Box   15
Folder   2
Script
“Linda,” 1953
Box   15
Folder   3
Script
Saints and Sinners
“Ten Days for a Shirt Tail,” 1962
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Nick Adams

Box   15
Folder   4
Script
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
“Dark Fleece,” 1952
Note

Producer: W. H. Brown, Jr.

Director: W. H. Brown, Jr.

Writers: Joseph Hergesheimer, Jerome Ross

Box   15
Folder   5
Script
“Clean Sweep for Lavinia,” 1952 January 4
Note

Producer: Joseph Seibetta

Director: Joseph Seibetta

Writers: Jerome Ross, Leslie Reade, David Davidson

Box   15
Folder   6
2 scripts
77 Sunset Strip
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith

“The Children Always Go with the Mother”
Box   15
Folder   7
Idea, outline, notes, script
Studio One
“Private History,” 1955
Note

Producer: Felix Jackson

Director: Bill Brown

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   15
Folder   8
Script
“Good Will Ambassadors,” 1957
Note

Producer: Norman Felton

Director: Joseph Gantman

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: William Redfield

Box   15
Folder   9
Correspondence, 1956 April 24, research material, outline script
“Act of Mercy”
Note

Producer: Gordon Duff

Director: Tom Donovan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   16
Folder   1
Script
“Please Report Any Odd Characters,” 1957
Note

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Joseph Gantman

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   16
Folder   2
Script
“The Shadow of a Genius,”
Note

Producer: Norman Felton

Director: Ralph Nelson

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   16
Folder   3
Script
“The Man Who Asked for a Funeral,” 1958 June 23
Note

Producer: Eva Wolas

Director: Tom Donovan

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   16
Folder   4
2 scripts
Threshold
Box   16
Folder   5
Show format
“The Lab”
Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
Box   16
Folder   6
Outline, working pages, notes, 2 scripts
The Untouchables
Note

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Robert Stack

Box   16
Folder   7
Show format
“Ma Barker and Her Boys,” 1959
Box   16
Folder   8
Correspondence, 1959 June 25-30, outline treatment, notes, script
“A Man Named Flegenheimer,” 1960
Box   16
Folder   9
Research material, notes, storyline, treatment, outline, script
Way Out
“Mayor James M. Curley,” 1961 April-May
Note

Producer: Nick Mayo

Director: Alex March

Writer: Jerome Ross

Box   16
Folder   10
Script
“20-20,” 1961 July 14
Note

Executive Producer: David Susskind

Producer: Jacqueline Babbin

Director: Paul Bosner

Writer: Jerome Ross

Cast: Michael Selzer, Ruth White

Box   17
Folder   1
Script
Series: Radio
“Haven of Hope” (The Mutual Network), 1949
Box   17
Folder   2
Script
The Somerset Maugham Theatre
Note

Director: Mitchell Grayson

Writer: Jerome Ross

“Mr. Know-All” (adapted from story by Maugham), 1951
Box   17
Folder   3
Script
“The Treasure” (adapted from story by Maugham), 1951
Box   17
Folder   4
Script
Up for Parole
Note

Producer-Director: Mitchell Grayson

Writer: Jerome Ross

“The Case of Jimmy King,” 1950
Box   17
Folder   5
Script
“The Case of Lawrence Trowbridge, Jr.,”
Box   17
Folder   6
Script
Series: Motion Pictures
Doll Face See Box 1, Folders 2-3
The Education of Daniel Spotted Hawk
Box   17
Folder   7
Notes, research materials, outline
God Speed the Night
Box   17
Folder   8
Notes
Box   17
Folder   9
4 scripts
Box   18
Folder   1
Script
The Long Hot Summer See Box 10, Folder 5 ( 1958)
Note

Producer: Jerry Wald

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank (from the novel by William Faulkner)

Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles

The Man Who Talked Too Much
Box   18
Folder   2
Outlines, research materials
Box   18
Folder   3
Notes
Of Good and Evil (based on novel by Ernest K. Gann)
Box   19
Folder   1
Scene breakdown, 2 treatments, notes, research materials
Box   19
Folder   2
2 scripts
Box   19
Folder   3
Published copy