Milton and Barbara Merlin Collection
Thousand Oaks Library American Radio Archives Milton and Barbara Merlin Collection Introduction The Milton and Barbara Merlin Collection of the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library consists of 28 linear feet of papers, plus approximately 20 hours of sound recordings, which document the careers of radio and television writers Milton and Barbara Merlin. The collection contains scripts of radio and television programs, story outlines, presentation material, and correspondence that range from 1923-1996, the bulk of the material dating from the years 1941-1967. Radio programs represented in this collection include Big Town, Everything for the Boys, The Ginny Simms Show, Boston Blackie, The Man Called X, The Adventures of Bill Lance, This Is Hollywood, Mr. President, Presenting Charles Boyer, and Halls of Ivy. The television series that are included among the scripts are Halls of Ivy, The Millionaire, Tramp Ship, The Littlest Hobo, The Breaking Point, and Four Star Theatre. Biographies Milton S. Merlin was born as Milton Stanley Harris in Whittier, California in 1905. His mother Bessie Waktor, married Joseph Zuckerman in 1909, and Milton carried the Zuckerman name through high school (Manual Arts, Los Angeles) and college. After attending the University of California, Southern Campus, Merlin attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a degree in philosophy. Having an avid interest in writing and literature, Merlin gravitated towards poets and other literati while at Berkeley, counting Kenneth Rexroth among his friends there. In the years following graduation, Merlin worked in a variety of jobs related to writing, working in Los Angeles on trade journals and local newspapers, and began a long association with the Los Angeles Times as a book reviewer.
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