University of Wyoming
Lou Greenspan (1906-1981) was, according to his obituary in the "Los Angeles Times," a former executive director of the Motion Picture Industry Council who first came to Los Angeles as a journalist in 1926. He later became a writer and then editor for both "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter." In the 1950s and 1960s, he served as director of the Screen Producers Guild and editor of its journal, “The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild.”
Collection contains correspondence, scripts and manuscripts, publications, including books, magazines, and programs, and clippings. Also included are materials related to “The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild," as well as research materials and Greenspan's drafts of scripts for "Mission of Mercy," based on the true story of four Catholic nuns who escaped from the Japanese in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Included are typed transcripts of the nun's letters and diaries, as well as photographs of the nuns and islanders.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by Lou Greenspan as of the date of processing.
Finding aid available in repository.
The American Heritage Center received the materials in this collection from Lou Greenspan in 1968 and 1969.
The collection was processed by Roger Simon in August 2026.
Item Description, Box Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Includes correspondence to or from Ivan Goff, Jack Lait, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Sol C. Siegel.
Includes correspondence to or from Fred Astaire, Kirk Douglas, Nunnally Johnson, Gene Kelly, Ronald Reagan, Mark Robson, Rod Serling, George Stevens, David Susskind, Harry S. Truman, Jerry Wald, and Hal Wallis.
Includes correspondence to or from Ray Bradbury, Jerry Bresler, Frank Capra, Rene Clair, Delmer Daves, Sam Ervin, Leonard Freeman, Jacob Javits, Meyer Levin, Walter Mirisch, Gottfried Reinhardt, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jerry Wald, and Hal Wallis.
Includes correspondence to or from Hall Bartlett, Jerry Bresler, Art Buchwald, Frank Capra, Delmer Daves, William O. Douglas, W. Averell Harriman, William Holden, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan, Walter Mirisch, Malcolm Muggeridge, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Nugent, Dilys Powell, Ronald Reagan, Jean Renoir, Mark Robson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Eric Sevareid, Melville Shavelson, Adlai E. Stevenson, Lowell Thomas, Jerry Wald, Hal Wallis, and Cornel Wilde.
Includes correspondence to or from Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Brelser, Bosley Crowther, Edward R. Murrow, Otto Preminger, and Walter Reade, Jr.
Includes correspondence to or from Jerry Bresler, Roger Corman, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Knight, Joseph E. Levine, Robert L. Lippert, Anthony Mann, Otto Preminger, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Fred Zinnemann.
Includes correspondence to or from Ronald Reagan, Allen Rivkin, Hall Wallis, and Fred Zinnemann.
Includes correspondence from Irwin Allen, Charles Chaplin, Joan Crawford, Jules Dassin, William Dieterle, Philip Dunne, Philip Dunning, George Englund, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Richard Fleischer, Carl Foreman, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Ross Hunter, John Huston, Nunnally Johnson, Garson Kanin, Norman Krasna, Frederic March, Robert Mitchum, Robert Montgomery, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, Robert Parrish, Otto Preminger, Irving Rapper, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Robert Rossen, Dore Schary, Charles H. Schneer, Rod Serling, Robert Siodmak, Franchot Tone, Gore Vidal, and Philip Yordan.
Includes correspondence to or from Hollis Alpert, Eddie Cantor, Carl Foreman, Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Ross Hunter, Nunnally Johnson, Garson Kanin, Nunnally Johnson, Walter Mirisch, Dore Schary, Aubrey Schenck, Walter Wanger, Cornel Wilde, and Darryl F. Zanuck.
Includes correspondence to or from Carl Foreman, Leonard Freeman, Arthur Knight, Allen Rivkin, Geoffrey Shurlock, and George Stevens, Jr.
Includes correspondence to or from James T. Aubrey, Jr., Ray Bradbury, Jack Dempsey, Philip Dunne, Jacob K. Javits, Howard W. Koch, George Murphy, Newton N. Minow, Nelson Rockefeller. Rod Serling, Eric Sevareid, and George Stevens, Jr.
Includes correspondence to or from Judith Crist, George Cukor, Newton Minow, George Murphy, George Schaefer, and David O. Selznick.
Includes correspondence to or from Ray Bradbury, Jerry Bresler, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Freed, Penelope Houston, Nunnally Johnson, Pauline Kael, Ernest Lehman, George Murphy, Jean Renoir, George Seaton, Charles H. Schneer, Hal Wallis, and Colin Young.
Includes correspondence to or from Judith Crist, Bosley Crowther, Arthur Freed, Ján Kadár, Pauline Kael, Henry King, Carl Laemmle, Jr., Ronald Reagan, Dick Richards, Charles H. Schneer, Jack Valenti, and Lew Wasserman.
Includes correspondence from Niven Busch, Carl Foreman, Pauline Kael, George Murphy, Norman Panama, Nelson Rockefeller, Dore Schary, Jack Valenti, and Colin Young.
Includes correspondence to or from Thorold Dickinson, Roy O. Disney, Carl Foreman, Margaret Herrick, Delbert Mann, Haig Manoogian, Geoffrey Shurlock, Jack Valenti, and Philip Yordan.
Includes correspondence to or from Samuel Z. Arkoff, Richard N. Goodwin, Jacob Javits, Henri Langlois, Groucho Marx, George Murphy, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., George Seaton, Geoffrey Shurlock, George Stevens, Jr., Jack Valenti, Gore Vidal, and Colin Young.
Includes correspondence to or from Robert Aldrich, Warren Beatty, Jerry Bresler, Albert R. Broccoli, Vincent Canby, Charles Champlin, Roger Corman, Judith Crist, Bosley Crowther, Saul David, Carl Foreman, John Houseman, Nunnally Johnson, Pauline Kael, Ernest Lehman, George Murphy, Walter Reade, Jr., George Seaton, Melville Shavelson, Geoffrey Shurlock, Sam Spiegel, John Sturges, Dimitri Tiomkin, Jack Valenti, Fredric Wertham, and Darryl F. Zanuck.
Includes correspondence to or from Robert Aldrich, Melvin Belli, Albert R. Broccoli, Bosley Crowther, Saul David, Carl Foreman, Margaret Herrick, Charlton Heston, Hubert Humphrey, Pauline Kael, Sol Lesser, Abby Mann, Walter Mirisch, George Murphy, Gregory Peck, Ronald Reagan, Allen Rivkin, Mark Robson, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Charles H. Schneer, Melville Shavelson, Margaret Chase Smith, Daniel Taradash, Jack Valenti, Fredric Wertham, and Fred Zinnemann.
Goldwyn, Louis Nizer, Gregory Peck, Geoffrey Shurlock, Margaret Chase Smith, Jack Valenti, and Fredric Wertham.
Includes as inserts a press release, the text of an address by Sheil, a photo of Sheil with Pope Pius XII and Dr. Karol Ripa, and a business card for Ripa.
One issue includes as an insert a press release.
Contains “a catalogue of educational 16mm motion picture films offered for loan.”
Includes one issue each of three Spanish-language publications – “El Cine Grafico,” “Cine Producción,” and “Cine Mexicano.”
“A Revue of 1921.”
Includes an article of the same name from “The Reader’s Digest,” which was the basis for the story outline.
Includes a note from George Jessel of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
“Attempt to crossbreed Hitchcock & Leo Fuchs. Unfortunately, so far only one of them is ready to go along with it. Since then been sharpened -up and novelized under title ‘The Anxious-Seat.’”
“Original film story.”
Includes a note from E.J. Hudson of the American Broadcasting Co.
Includes a note from Draine and Jacobson.
“A Star Studded Television Program Format.”
“A television series.”
One draft includes as inserts two reviews of two Los Angeles productions of the play, as well as a flier promoting the play.
“Based on the life of Jack Kearns.”
The true story of four Catholic nuns who escaped from the Japanese in the Solomon Islands during World War II. In three parts. Also includes journal and diary entries, an issue of the publication “Maryknoll” that includes and article about the nuns, clippings, loose manuscript pages, a memorandum regarding the concealment of place names and locations, handwritten notes, and captioned photographs of nuns and islanders.
Based on the book by Milt Gross.
Includes a copy of a letter to Metalious from Jerry Wald Productions.
Produced as an episode (season 1, episode 7) of the TV series “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.”
Includes press releases, documents related to the Documentary Awards Committee (Greenspan was on the committee in 1966, 1967, and 1968), membership requirements for various branches, clippings, and publications.
Includes Product Release Schedules (Theatre Owners of America), a document on “Oscar Sweepstakes,” publications, clippings, and a list of movies from 1966 and 1967 that were “condemned” by the Legion of Decency.
Includes Greenspan’s resume, clippings about Greenspan, and clippings and writings by Greenspan.
“The above bill advertises one of the wagon shows which toured England a hundred years ago. These wagons were very large and formed the exhibition hall. It would frequently happen that after the audience was assembled, the police – or what corresponded to them in those days – would order the showman to move on. This he would do, taking his audience with him in the wagon to some quiet spot where the performance could be given in peace. The original of this photograph is in the collection of Fr3ederick Martin, Director of Publicity for Paramount in Great Britain.”
Includes an annual report, “What They Say About Us … The Impact of U.S. Motion Pictures Abroad,” and remarks by Jack Valenti titled “Movies: The New Questing Spirit.”
Includes clippings, press releases, and publications.
Includes clippings, publications, and texts of speeches.