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Helen Lewis records [textual record, graphic material]

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Date :

1912-1986.

Référence :

R9987-3-4-E

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Documents textuels, Documents photographiques

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No d'identification :

200337

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Helen Lewis records
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Série comprend :

34 description(s) de niveau inférieur
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Date(s) :

1912-1986.

Lieu de création :

Sans lieu, inconnu ou indéterminé

Étendue :

0.11 m of textual records.
112 photographs : 81 b&w and 31 col.

Langue du document :

anglais

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The series consists of correspondence, memorabilia, manuscripts and clippings, as well as a small amount of material on the CBC, Canadian Film Awards and National Film Board.

The correspondence files include correspondence, 1935-1936, between Lewis and London Film Productions, Twentieth-Century Fox, Fox British Pictures, Paramount, Criterion Film Productions, Pascal Film Productions, and Alexander Korda, documenting her attempts to find work. There is correspondence with the National Film Board documenting Lewis' employment there and correspondence relating to her efforts to publish short stories and articles in various periodicals. Among Lewis's correspondents are William Hornbeck, 1936; F.C. Badgley, Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, 1940; John Grierson, 1940-1944; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 1940-1941; Alexander Korda, 1940; Gabriel Pascal, 1939- 1941; Jim F.C. Wright, 1942; Lloyd Nosler, 1944, 1946; Louis Applebaum, 1945; Lew Parry, Vancouver Motion Pictures, 1945 and Trans-Canada Films, 1946. Included are special retirement messages sent in 1969 from John Grierson and Josef von Sternberg. There is also some personal correspondence, including letters from G. Harrison Smith, 1940s, and Lewis's cousin, Toronto journalist and ad writer, Edith Macdonald, n.d., 1944-1945.

Memorabilia includes an inscribed, autographed printed photo of Josef von Sternberg; a copy of Helen Lewis's birth certificate; membership cards for the Society of Motion Picture Film Editors, 1938, 1942 and for the Paramount Studio Club, 1929-30; Lewis's employee card as script girl with the Fox Film Corporation n.d.; invitation to press showing of Gaumont-British Picture's A Cuckoo in the Nest, 1933; passenger lists for Cunard's RMS Olympic, 1935, North German Lloyd's Europa, 1933 and Bremen, 1931; travel diary relating to trips made to Europe, the United States and the Caribbean, 1970-1973; and Paramount Pictures Honour Roll Anniversary (vol. II, no. 1) souvenir publication, May 1927.

The material documenting Lewis's writings includes manuscripts of her articles and stories and printed copies of articles and stories published in various periodicals.

Included are photographs from Helen Lewis's early years in Hollywood, personal photographs of her family and friends, and photographs from her later years when she was recognized with an award ceremony at the CBC (1985).

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Lewis, Helen, 1898-ca.1987

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Lewis, Helen, 1898-ca.1987 : Helen Winifred Lewis was born in London, Ontario, in 1898, to Montgomerie Lewis and Annie Macdonald, daughter of Ontario's Senator John Macdonald. She was educated at Bishop Strachan School for Girls and Branksome Hall in Toronto, and finished her schooling in London and Paris. She moved to Hollywood in 1918 with her mother and found work as a secretary for Howard Hawks. In 1928, she joined Paramount Pictures and, after working as a script girl with Josef von Sternberg, began editing his films, including The Docks of New York (1928), The Dragnet (1928), The Case of Lena Smith (1929) and Thunderbolt (1929). In 1931 the Depression led her to seek work in England, where she worked for Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and edited Herbert Wilcox's Bittersweet (1933) and Carol Reed's Talk of the Devil (1937). She edited Fox Film Productions Cavalcade, directed by Frank Lloyd, and worked for Gaumont-British Picture Corporation in 1933. Throughout the 1930s she moved between England and US trying to find work. At the end of the 1930s, she tried to establish career as a writer, unsuccessfully submitting stories to periodicals and scripts for production. In 1942, she obtained work at the National Film Board and edited a number of NFB films, most notably the famous World in Action and Canada Carries On series. She also wrote a column for Saturday Night in the 1940s. After the Second World War ended, Helen moved back to the United States and worked for the Rural America Review in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1950 and then at the Office of Information, Motion Picture Service, Washington, before returning to Canada and joining the CBC 1955 as an editor in television production. She retired from the CBC in August 1969. She represented the Canadian Film Editors Guild at the Canadian Film Awards in 1973.

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