Kaye Brinker papers, 1939-1972

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Series I: Personal Material, Fan Mail, and Ephemera



Box 1 Folder 1 Passport, November 1972


Box 1 Folder 2-6 Fan Mail -- Letters, 1936-1942


Box 1 Folder 7-10 Fan Mail -- Postcards, 1939-1941


Box 1 Folder 11 Fan Mail -- Telegrams


Box 1 Folder 12 Ephemera -- Recipes


Box 1 Folder 13 Ephemera -- Recipe Book


Box 1 Folder 14 Press Clippings, Kaye Brinker Radio Work


Box 1 Folder 15 Press Clippings, 1970s

Series II: Manuscripts



Box 2 Folder 1 "It Is The Cause"


Box 2 Folder 2 "Winners All, " Film treatment, with Les Hopper


Box 2 Folder 3 "Broadcast #1," Proposed radio program


Box 2 Folder 4 "Dear Grossy"


Box 2 Folder 5 Waterbury Hospital, June 23


Box 2 Folder 6 Various materials


Box 2 Folder 7 Notebook #1, Favorite poems


Box 2 Folder 8 Notebook #2, Favorite poems


Box 2 Folder 9 Notebook #3, Various literary notes


Box 2 Folder 10 Pilot Log Book, 5/31/1938


Box 2 Folder 11 Various materials

Series III: Scripts



Box 3 Folder 1 "A Lady Lives", 24-Mar-37


Box 3 Folder 2 "Manhattan Mother", 15-Jun-38


Box 3 Folder 3 "Chicago's Own Christmas Benefit", 13-Dec-37


Box 3 Folder 4 "Everywoman," Audition Script (No. 1)


Box 3 Folder 5 "Everywoman," Audition Script (No. 2)


Box 3 Folder 6 "Everywoman," Script No. 1


Box 3 Folder 7 "Everywoman," Script No. 3


Box 3 Folder 8 "Everywoman," Script No. 6


Box 3 Folder 9 "Everywoman," Script No. 7


Box 3 Folder 10 "Everywoman," Script No. 10(A)


Box 3 Folder 11 "Everywoman," Script No. 10(B)


Box 3 Folder 12 "Everywoman," Script No. 13


Box 3 Folder 13 "Everywoman," Script No. 15


Box 3 Folder 14 "Everywoman," Script No. 19


Box 3 Folder 15 "Everywoman," Script No. 35


Box 3 Folder 16 "Everywoman," Script No. 37


Box 3 Folder 17 "Everywoman," Third Series, Script No. 3


Box 3 Folder 18 "Everywoman," Third Series, Script No. 4


Box 3 Folder 19 "Everywoman," Third Series, Script No. 6


Box 3 Folder 20 "Everywoman," Third Series, Script No. 26


Box 3 Folder 21 "Everywoman," Unnumbered Script


Box 3 Folder 22 "Everywoman," Unnumbered Script


Box 3 Folder 23 "True To Life," Script No. 11


Box 3 Folder 24 "True To Life," Script No. 13, 1-Jan-39


Box 3 Folder 25 "True To Life," Script No. 4, 10-Sep-39


Box 3 Folder 26 "True To Life," Script No. 6, 24-Sep-39


Box 3 Folder 27 "True To Life," Script No. 9, Repeated as No. 13, 8-Oct-39


Box 3 Folder 28 "True To Life," Probably Script No. 10, Repeated as No. 24, 29-Oct-39


Box 3 Folder 29 "True To Life," Script No. 12, Repeated as No. 17, 5-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 30 "True To Life," Second Series, Script No. 1, 13-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 31 "True To Life," Second Series, Script No. 3


Box 3 Folder 32 "True To Life," Second Series, Script No. 4(A), 22-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 33 "True To Life," Second Series, Script No. 4(B), Redesignated Script No. 6, Redated November 29, 1939, 22-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 34 "True To Life," Script No. 6, 29-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 35 "True To Life," Second Series, Script No. 6, 29-Nov-39


Box 3 Folder 36 "True To Life," Script No. 7, 4-Dec-39


Box 3 Folder 37 "True To Life," Script No. 10, 13-Dec-39


Box 3 Folder 38 "True To Life," Script No. 11, 25-Dec-39


Box 3 Folder 39 "True To Life," Script No. 10, Emended to 12, 27-Dec-39


Box 3 Folder 40 "True To Life," Script No. 13, 1-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 41 "True To Life," Script No. 14, 3-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 42 "True To Life," Script No. 14, Different text, 3-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 43 "True To Life," Script No. 16, 15-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 44 "True To Life," Script No. 17, 17-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 45 "True To Life," Script No. 17, Different text, 17-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 46 "True To Life," Script No. 19, 20-Jan-40


Box 3 Folder 47 "True To Life," Script No. 20, 2-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 48 "True To Life," Script No. 21, 6-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 49 "True To Life," Script No. 21-22, 9-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 50 "True To Life," Unnumbered script, 11-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 51 "True To Life," Script No. 23, 11-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 52 "True To Life," Unnumbered script, 13-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 53 "True To Life," Script No. 24, 13-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 54 "True To Life," Script No. 25, 18-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 55 "True To Life," Script No. 26, 20-Feb-40


Box 3 Folder 56 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 1, 27-Mar-40


Box 3 Folder 57 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 2, 3-Apr-40


Box 3 Folder 58 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 3, 7-Apr-40


Box 3 Folder 59 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 3, Different text, 7-Apr-40



Box 4 Folder 1 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 4, 10-Apr-40


Box 4 Folder 2 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 4, 14-Apr-40


Box 4 Folder 3 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 5, 21-Apr-40


Box 4 Folder 4 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 6, 28-Apr-40


Box 4 Folder 5 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 7, 5-May-40


Box 4 Folder 6 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. 7, Different text


Box 4 Folder 7 "True To Life," Third series, Script No. [8], numbered 7, 12-May-40


Box 4 Folder 8 "True To Life," Script No. 1, 13-Oct-41


Box 4 Folder 9 "True To Life," Script No. 5, 22-Oct-41


Box 4 Folder 10 "True To Life," Script No. 8, 24-Oct-41


Box 4 Folder 11 "True To Life," Script No. 10, 3-Dec-41


Box 4 Folder 12 "True To Life," Script No. 14, 18-Dec-41


Box 4 Folder 13 "True To Life," Script No. 14, rewrite, 24-Dec-41


Box 4 Folder 14 "True To Life," Script No. 2


Box 4 Folder 15 "True To Life," Script No. 7


Box 4 Folder 16 "True To Life," Script No. 9, "Death House"


Box 4 Folder 17 "True To Life," Script No. 25


Box 4 Folder 18 "True To Life," No number, fading opera star


Box 4 Folder 19 "True To Life," No number, "story of a woman's way)


Box 4 Folder 20 "True To Life," No number, "story of a woman who had to have the last word"


Box 4 Folder 21 "True To Life," No number, "bad bargain and stuck with it"


Box 4 Folder 22 "True To Life," No number, "Experts should know their onions"


Box 4 Folder 23 "True To Life," No number, "woman who wants to help a man find something he never had"


Box 4 Folder 24 Untitled Series, No number, "girl who knew where she belonged"


Box 4 Folder 25 Untitled Series, Numbered 15 by hand, "Once upon a time there was a little boy"


Box 4 Folder 26 "True To Life," No number, "Of course I've had prunes"


Box 4 Folder 27 Untitled Series, No number, "Dress Shop Script"


Box 4 Folder 28 Untitled Series, No number, "Black is black"


Box 4 Folder 29 "True To Life," No number, "What do you want?"


Box 4 Folder 30 "Anywoman," Script No. 1


Box 4 Folder 31 "True To Life," No number, "Honolulu?"


Box 4 Folder 32 "True To Life," No number, "In some of America's best dresed circles"


Box 4 Folder 33 "True To Life," No number, "Oooooh, hobble skirts and peg tops"


Box 4 Folder 34 "True To Life," Script No. 15


Box 4 Folder 35 Untitled Series, "Midnight express!"


Box 4 Folder 36 Untitled Series, "Good-night, Stephen"


Box 4 Folder 37 "True To Life," No number, "This is the story of a woman who wanted a hat"


Box 4 Folder 38 "True To Life," Script No. 2


Box 4 Folder 39 "True To Life," No number, "making me so sad"


Box 4 Folder 40 "True To Life," Script No. 18, 2-Jan-42


Box 4 Folder 41 "True To Life," Script No. 7, 19-Nov


Box 4 Folder 42 "True To Life," Script No. 11


Box 4 Folder 43 "True To Life," No number, "woman who adds up figures"


Box 4 Folder 44 "True To Life," No number, "does a mother have the right to her own life?"


Box 4 Folder 45 "True To Life," No number, "story of a woman and a girl"


Box 4 Folder 46 "True To Life," No number, "struggle for existence"


Box 4 Folder 47 "True To Life," No number, "respectable woman who saw her duty"


Box 4 Folder 48 "True To Life," No number, "woman patient and enduring"


Box 4 Folder 49 "A Lady Lives," Script No. 4


Box 4 Folder 50 "A Little Girl's Activity Story," "Miss Snip", 19-Aug-58


Box 4 Folder 51 "Theme With Variations"


Box 4 Folder 52 "Radio On The Rack"


Box 4 Folder 53 "Stardust," "Story of Hollywood"


Box 4 Folder 54 "Stardust," "Hollywood! Fabled city"


Box 4 Folder 55 "Commentator Script," "During the month of September"