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Title: Rob Wagner papers
Date (inclusive): 1925-1942
Collection number: 690
Creator:
Wagner, Rob, 1872-1942
Extent:
33 boxes (16.5 linear ft.)
3 oversize boxes
Abstract: Robert Leicester Wagner (1872-1942) was a illustrator for newspapers and the
Encyclopedia Britannica. He also wrote for the
Saturday evening post,
Collier's, and other magazines before moving to Southern California, where he directed films for Paramount and the Hal Roach studios,
and made six films with Will Rogers. In 1929, he published Rob Wagner's
Script. The collection consists of Wagner's correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, drawings, phonograph records, a file of
Script magazine from 1929-41, ephemera, and miscellanea.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Box 27 is stored at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
- Gift of Les Wagner, 1960.
- Gift of Florence Wagner Breese, 1963.
[Identification of item], Rob Wagner papers (Collection Number 690). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Robert Leicester Wagner was born on August 2, 1872 in Detroit, Michigan; attended University of Michigan and studied art at
the Académie Julian (1903) in Paris; became an illustrator for the
Detroit free press,
Criterion (New York), and the
Encyclopedia Britannica (London); also painted portraits; wrote for the
Saturday evening post,
Collier's, and other magazines; moved to Southern California, where he directed films for Paramount and the Hal Roach studios, and
made six films with Will Rogers; published Rob Wagner's
Script beginning in 1929; published books include
Film folk (1918) and
Tessie moves along (c. 1928); he died on July 20, 1942.
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, drawings, phonograph records, a file of
Script magazine from 1929-41, ephemera, and miscellanea of Rob Wagner. The manuscripts are primarily stories intended for film adaptation
and are from Wagner and other writers including one manuscript each by William Saroyan and Peter Bernard Kyne. Many of the
covers of Wagner's Script are illustrated by Leo Politi. Correspondents include William Saroyan, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair,
Charles Chaplin, Bette Davis, Douglas Fairbanks, Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Cecil B. DeMille,
Walt Disney, Jean Harlow, Daryl Zanuck, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Pickford, and Spencer Tracy.
Arranged in the following series:
- Script magazine (Boxes 1-13).
- Correspondence (Boxes 14-18).
- Manuscripts by Wagner (Boxes 19-22).
- Manuscripts by others (Box 23).
- Ephemera, miscellaneous (Box 24).
- Articles clipped from Script (Box 25).
- Original drawings by Wagner (Box 26).
- Records of Wagner's radio program of Script's birthday party (Box 27).
- Clippings and correspondence (Boxes 28-35).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Wagner, Rob, 1872-1942--Archives.
Script (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
Publishers and publishing--California, Southern--Archival resources.
Manuscripts for publication.