http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf509nb30s No online items Register of the Jonathan Latimer, Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays Mandeville Special Collections Library 0175S UC, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 Phone: (858) 534-2533 Fax: (858) 534-5950 Email: [email protected] Repository Website: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/ © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Register of the Jonathan Latimer, MSS 0133 1 Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays Register of the Jonathan Latimer, Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays, 1940-1960 MSS 0133 Mandeville Special Collections Library GEISEL LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 Contact Information: Mandeville Special Collections Library 0175S UC, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 Phone: (858) 534-2533 Fax: (858) 534-5950 Email: [email protected] Repository Website: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/ © 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. This file last updated: September 1997. DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Title: Jonathan Latimer, Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays, Date (inclusive): 1940-1960 Collection number: MSS 0133 Extent: 0.60 linear feet (2 archives boxes) Repository: Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Language: English. Preferred Citation Jonathan Latimer, Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays, MSS 0133. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD. ABSTRACT Papers of Jonathan Latimer, journalist, screen writer and detective story author. Materials include a small collection of story ideas, outlines, scripts and screenplays arranged alphabetically by title. BIOGRAPHY Jonathan Latimer, journalist, screen writer and detective story author was born October 23, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Mesa Ranch School in Arizona from 1922-1925 and later studied at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1929. In the same year he began his career as a writer at the Chicago Herald Examiner and later wrote for the Chicago Tribune. Working as a police reporter and "rewrite man," Latimer covered stories in the gangster world through the early 1930s, and met notorious crime figures including Al Capone. After writing an article about Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Latimer was hired as a ghost writer for the Department of the Interior. During the time Latimer worked as a ghost writer for Ickes, he began the first of his series of mystery novels. His first novel, Murder in a Madhouse, became a 1935 best-seller and introduced Bill Crane, the hard-drinking detective and hero of five of Latimer's novels. After serving in the U.S. Navy between 1942 and 1945, Latimer became a successful Hollywood screenwriter, producing scripts for such movies as "Lady in the Morgue," "Topper Returns," and the "Glass Key," as well as ten films directed by John Farrow. Latimer later wrote television scripts for forty-five episodes of the "Perry Mason" show, 1960-1965. Latimer also wrote ten episodes for the "Markham" series and about twenty television specials. Jonathan Latimer retired to La Jolla, California in 1973, where he died on June 23, 1983. Register of the Jonathan Latimer, MSS 0133 2 Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays Latimer was the author of ten mystery novels: Murder in the Madhouse (1934), Headed For a Hearse (1935), The Lady in the Morgue (1936), The Search For My Great Uncle's Head (1937) [written under the pseudonym of Peter Coffin], The Dead Don't Care (1938), Red Gardenias (1939), Dark Memory (1940), Solomon's Vineyard (1941), Sinners and Shrouds (1955), Black is the Fasion For Dying (1959). Latimer wrote numerous screenplays including The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939), Phantom Riders (1940), Topper Returns (1941), A Night in New Orleans (1941), The Glass Key (1942), Whistling in Dixie (1942), They Won't Believe Me (1946), Nocturne (1946), The Big Clock (1946), Sealed Verdict (1948), Beyond Glory (1948), The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), Alias NIck Beal (1949), Copper Canyon (1950), The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951), Submarine Command (1951), Botany Bay (1953), Plunder of the Sun (1953), Back From Eternity (1956), The Unholy Wife (1957), The Whole Truth (1958). Latimer also wrote various episodes of the television series Markham (1959, 10 episodes); Perry Mason (1960-1965, 45 episodes); and Hong-Kong (5 episodes). SCOPE AND CONTENT The JONATHAN LATIMER PAPERS contain a small collection of story ideas, outlines, scripts and screenplays. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title in one series entitled WRITINGS. WRITINGS Box 1, Folder 1 Apache Gold, . Additional Note Manuscript and edited typescript Box 1, Folder 2 Coffin For Cinderella, A, . Additional Note Annotated typescript Box 1, Folder 3 Double Indemnity, . Additional Note Mimeographed script edited in pencil Box 1, Folder 4 Double Indemnity, . Additional Note Mimeographed script edited in pencil Box 1, Folder 5 Experiment in Time, . Additional Note Manuscript story idea Box 1, Folder 6 Fallen Angel, . Additional Note Manuscript outline Box 1, Folder 7 Future, . Additional Note Edited typescript story idea Box 1, Folder 8 General Died at Noon, The, . Additional Note Mimeograph typescript edited in pencil Register of the Jonathan Latimer, MSS 0133 3 Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays WRITINGS Box 1, Folder 9 Help Wanted, . Additional Note Typescript and carbon Box 1, Folder 10 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Complete typescripts Box 1, Folder 11 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Complete typescripts Box 1, Folder 12 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Act I -revised [typescript] Box 1, Folder 13 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Act II [typescript] Box 1, Folder 14 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Act II [typescript] Box 1, Folder 15 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Act III -minus last scene Box 1, Folder 16 Hold the Presses, by Jonathan Latimer and Basil Talbot, . Additional Note Act Three, Scene Two Box 1, Folder 17 Jack of Diamonds, . Additional Note Mimeograph Box 2, Folder 1 Jazz Death, . Additional Note Manuscript plot outline Box 2, Folder 2 Jazz Death, . Additional Note Typescript edited in ink Box 2, Folder 3 Nor All Your Tears, . Additional Note Mimeograph script owned by Paramount Pictures Corporation Box 2, Folder 4 Nor All Your Tears, . Additional Note Notes Register of the Jonathan Latimer, MSS 0133 4 Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays WRITINGS Box 2, Folder 5 Nothing But Love, Baby, . Additional Note Typescript Box 2, Folder 6 Shore Leave, . Additional Note Story idea Box 2, Folder 7 Untitled movie script, . Additional Note Typescript Box 2, Folder 8 Untitled story, . Additional Note Typescript Register of the Jonathan Latimer, MSS 0133 5 Miscellaneous Scripts and Screenplays.