Research Catalog

Title

Walter Winchell papers, 1920-1967.

Author

Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972.

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Additional Authors

• Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972.
• Brice, Fanny.
• Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974.
• Rose, Billy, 1899-1966

Description

• 17.7 lf. (43 boxes)
• 35 reels of microfilm.

Summary

The Walter Winchell papers span 1920-1967 and consist of annotated radio scripts, correspondence, miscellaneous scripts for stage and film, scrapbooks, news articles, clippings from his newspaper columns, and other items related to his journalism career.

Subjects

• Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
• Brice, Fanny
• Scrapbooks
• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974
• Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
• Scripts
• Rose, Billy, 1899-1966
• Correspondence
• Motion picture industry > United States
• Radio broadcasters > United States
• Anti-communist movements > United States
• Racism > United States

Genre/Form

• Scripts.
• Correspondence.
• Scrapbooks.

Access (note)

• Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats (note)

• are available on microfilm;
• are available on microfilm;
• are available on microfilm;

Source (note)

• Neal Gabler

Biography (note)

• Walter Winchell (1897-1972) was a radio broadcaster, stage and film performer, and journalist for the New York Daily Mirror and other publications.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned

Call Number

*T-Mss 1991-019

OCLC

NYPW91-A100

Author

Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972.

Title

Walter Winchell papers, 1920-1967.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats

Series II. Scripts are available on microfilm; The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; (*ZC-502)(Reels 1-10)

Series III. Clippings and columns are available on microfilm; The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; (*ZC-502)(Reels 11-31)

Series IV. Scrapbooks are available on microfilm; The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; (*ZC-502)(Reels 32-33)

Biography

Walter Winchell (1897-1972) was a radio broadcaster, stage and film performer, and journalist for the New York Daily Mirror and other publications. Born to a poor Jewish family on the upper East Side of New York, Walter Winchell began as a song-plugger and performer in vaudeville. In 1920 he began contributing to The Vaudeville News, a trade publication, and this lead to a job writing a daily column of news, gossip, and opinion, first for the New York Evening Graphic starting in 1924, then, five years later, for the New York Daily Mirror, where the column would remain a fixture for over three decades. Walter Winchell's radio career began in 1930. His weekly broadcasts, which would greatly enhance his power and influence, would remain popular into the 1950s, although a move into the new medium of television was unsuccessful. Winchell also wrote and performed in a number of Hollywood films during his heyday, and narrated the TV series THE UNTOUCHABLES.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository and on the Internet.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972. Correspondence.

Brice, Fanny. Correspondence.

Goldwyn, Samuel, 1879-1974. Correspondence.

Rose, Billy, 1899-1966 Correspondence.

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 1991-019