Their film adaptations include the screenplay for First Monday in October. They also adapted for television their play Inherit the Wind which was produced for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Their television work includes adaptations and original scripts for Favorite Story and The Unexpected. Lawrence and Lee also wrote and adapted for film and television. They were also successful in their theatrical endeavors writing such famous plays as, Auntie Mame, Mame, Inherit the Wind, Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'!, Dear World, First Monday in October and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. Railroad Hour, Favorite Story, Young Love and Request Performance are a few of the radio programs which used materials written or adapted by Lawrence and Lee. While with the AFRS, they wrote a wide variety of programs that were broadcast to troops overseas - comedy programs, dramatic programs, and informational programs - including such titles as Command Performance, Yarns for Yanks and Mail Call.Īfter the war, Lawrence and Lee continued their successful collaborative efforts writing for commercial television, radio and the theater. Both from Ohio, they didn't meet and become collaborators until 1942 when they were among the founders of Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). Lee were a writing team who wrote, adapted and produced for radio, television and the stage from the 1940s into the 1990s. Missing from the collection are their works after this date. The papers document their careers up until the mid-1960s. Also included are project ideas, other writings and speeches, scrapbooks and some photographs. The Lawrence and Lee papers consist of their early correspondence and writings from broadcasting including Armed Forces Radio and commercial radio and television as well as production files and scripts from many of their major works. Among their best known works are Auntie Mame, Mame, Inherit the Wind and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.
Later they entered the world of commercial broadcasting for both radio and television. Among the founding fathers of Armed Forces Radio, they created and adapted many stories for radio. They met in New York where they were pursuing careers in broadcasting. Lee, writers of stage, screen, television and radio were both born in Ohio. Lawrence and Lee Papers, *T-Mss 1967-003, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Repository Billy Rose Theatre Division Access to materials Request an in-person research appointment.
Creator Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004 Call number *T Mss 1967-003 Physical description 56 linear feet (133 boxes) Preferred Citation
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