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Tim Kelly papers, 1956-1997

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Kelly, Tim, 1937-1998
Title
Tim Kelly papers
Dates
1956-1997 (inclusive)
Quantity
6.64 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
Collection Number
05764
Summary
Tim Kelly was a playwright. Collection contains screenplays, manuscripts, correspondence, biographical materials, clippings, photographs, and publicity materials regarding Kelly's career and life.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Additional Reference Guides

Partial finding aid available in repository.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Tim J. Kelly (1937-1998) was a playwright who also wrote under the name Vera Morris. He was responsible for writing more than 300 plays, screen plays and television scripts. He graduated from Emerson College with a B.A. in 1955 and earned his M.A. in 1956. He received the Creative Writing Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Graduate Alumni Council Award from Emerson in 1983. He was the recipient of the Lindy Award in 1991.

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Content Description

The Tim Kelly papers consist primarily of printed plays, manuscripts, and screenplays written by Kelly throughout his career. The collection also contains correspondence, biographical material, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, publicity material, periodicals, posters, advertisements, and pamphlets and brochures and a book. Some of the titles included in the collection are: "The Butler Did It", "The Face on the Bar Room Floor", "Murder Takes A Holiday" and "Money, Power, Murder, Lust, Revenge and Marvelous Clothes: A Musical Send Up of Primetime."

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Use of the Collection

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Tim Kelly at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Tim Kelly from 1975-1998, Larry Nestor in 2009, and Carol Oliva in 2017.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by Alexandra Cardin in February 2022.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • I. Personal

    • Description: Awards and Recognitions
      Dates: 1964-1995
      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Personal
    • Description: Biographical Information
      Dates: 1959-1982, undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Personal
    • Description: Master of Arts Degree, Emerson College
      Dates: 1955 June 3
      Container: Box 1
      Location: I. Personal

  • II. Correspondence

  • III. Photographs

    • Description: Miscellaneous Productions
      Dates: 1956-1983
      Container: Box 1
      Location: III. Photographs
    • Description: Stage Productions
      Dates: 1967-1981
      Container: Box 1
      Location: III. Photographs
    • Description: Tim Kelly
      Dates: 1963-1985
      Container: Box 1
      Location: III. Photographs

  • IV. Written Works

    • Description: Articles
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Arizona Days and Ways Magazine
      Dates: 1964 November 29
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Arizona Highways Magazine
      Dates: 1962-1968
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Arizona Point West Magazine
      Dates: 1962-1966
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Miscellaneous Magazines
      Dates: 1959-1991
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Book - Ride of Fury
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Music Scores
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Full Moon Potion"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1983, 1990
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Music Critic of Skunk Creek"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Oh Happily Ever After"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Phantom of the Op'ry"
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Seven Brides for Dracula"
      Dates: undate
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "She Will Rise to the Top"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Someone Might Be Watching"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "S.O.S." (Stamp Out Stamps"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "There's Gonna Be a Show Tonight"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "We Are Sailors"
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Published Plays
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Catalog of Plays and List of the Published Plays
      Dates: 1979-1986
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "A"
      Dates: 1970-1997
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "B"
      Dates: 1962-1995
      Container: Box 1
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "C"
      Dates: 1970-1996
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "D"
      Dates: 1971-1996
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "E" and "F"
      Dates: 1974-1993
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "G"
      Dates: 1973-1991
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "H"
      Dates: 1967-1997
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "I" and "J"
      Dates: 1969-1997
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "K"
      Dates: 1966-1995
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "L"
      Dates: 1970-1996
      Container: Box 2
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "M"
      Dates: 1967-1997
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "N" and "O"
      Dates: 1964-1997
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "P" and "R"
      Dates: 1973-1996
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "S"
      Dates: 1970-1997
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "T"
      Dates: 1967-1997
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "U" and "V"
      Dates: 1966-1991, undated
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "W"
      Dates: 1963-1995
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Y" and "Z"
      Dates: 1973-1996
      Container: Box 3
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Manuscript - "The First Wife"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Manuscript - "The Floor is Bright with Toys"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Plays
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The $1.35 Avocado"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "And Here She is Tapping Her Way Into Your Heart"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Beau Johnny"
      Dates: 1974-1975
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Be Beautiful - But Dumb"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Billy Jack"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Butterfly"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Charming Sally"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Clipper" (Original Title: "The Rum Lot")
      Dates: 1971-1972
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: " A Darker Flower" (Original Title: "The Lily")
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Dust of Eden" (Original Title: "Welcome to the Casa")
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Egad, the Woman in White or "Sealed in a Madhouse
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Everything's Jim Dandy"
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "A Gift from Mars"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Green Archer"
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "I Know Where the Body's Buried"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Incident at Taormina"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: The Island Way"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Madman's Goya"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Murder at the Masquers"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Murder on Ice"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Pictures from the Walls of Pompeii"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 4
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Prop Trunk"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Raggedy Dick and Puss"
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Scented Garden"
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Secret Sharer"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Song of the Dove"
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Spider for the Fly"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Sunset and Laurel"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Sword of Theodore"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Terror by Gaslight"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Web of Women"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Whitechapel Horrors"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Who's Minding the Psychedelic Store?"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Wild Colonial Boy"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Screenplays
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Barry Dunn, 1980"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Belle and Blue Duck"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Bizarra-Strangest Creature That Ever Lived"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Blood Red Shamrock"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Bogash"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Born Tough"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Bottom Line"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Brothers O'Toole"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Cry of the Banshee"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Curse of the Voodoo"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Dart"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Everything's Jim Dandy"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Get Fisk"
      Dates: 1973 November 6
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Gooseflesh"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Hands of Dr. Maniacal"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Hell on Four Wheels"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Mercenary" (Working Title)
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Sugar Hill"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Story Ideas
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "After the Sign of the Ram"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Bikini Bandits"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Call Him Fury"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Comes the Revolution"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Devil Dancer" ("The Most Deadly Game")
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Don't Scream Edna, Don't Scream"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Enter Pharoah Link"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Great Balloon Race"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "The Suicide Club"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "Thanatos"
      Dates: 1973
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: "What's Going on Out There"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: T.V. Scripts
      Container: Box
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Hec Ramsey, "Hummy Sing"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Here Come the Brides,"The Last Winter"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: The High Chaparral,"Bad Day for a Thirst"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: The High Chaparral,"The Kill Agent"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: The High Chaparral,"Ride the Savage Land"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: The High Chaparral,"The Lion Sleeps"
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Kojak,"The Deadly Canary"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Nakia,"The Sand Trap"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works
    • Description: Powder Keg,"Rough Road from Galveston"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: IV. Written Works

  • V. Printed Material

    • Description: Advertisements
      Dates: 1960-1994, undated
      Container: Box 6
      Location: V. Printed Material
    • Description: Newspaper Clippings
      Dates: 1961-1997
      Container: Box 7
      Location: V. Printed Material
    • Description: Posters
      Dates: 1973-1974, undated
      Container: Box 7
      Location: V. Printed Material
    • Description: Programs
      Dates: 1956-1995, undated
      Container: Box 7
      Location: V. Printed Material


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