Lucille Kallen

Lucille Kallen
Born (1922-05-28)May 28, 1922
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 18, 1999(1999-01-18) (aged 76)
Ardsley, New York, U.S.

Lucille Kallen (May 28, 1922, Los Angeles, California – January 18, 1999, Ardsley, New York)[1][2] was an American writer, screenwriter,[3] playwright,[4] composer, and lyricist. She was best known for being the only woman in the most famous TV writers' rooms, the one that created Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954. She also worked extensively on Broadway, was a long-time writing partner of Mel Tolkin,[5] and published six novels, including a series of mysteries featuring the character C.B. Greenfield.[6] The Mystery Fancier discussed and reviewed her books,[7][8] and one was quoted in English Historical Syntax and Morphology.[9]

Sid Caesar's writer's room has been fictionally recreated many times. Neil Simon, one of the writers, memorialized it in his play Laughter on the 23rd Floor; it formed the centerpiece of the 1984 film My Favorite Year, and most famously, it was the office in which Rob Petrie worked in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Kallen, composited with comic actress and writer Selma Diamond, the only woman writer on Sid Caesar's follow-up show, Caesar's Hour, was therefore the inspiration for Sally Rogers, played by Rose Marie.[10][11][12]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Vosburgh, Dick (February 15, 1999). "Obituary: Lucille Kallen". The Independent. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Fox, Margalit (January 21, 1999). "Lucille Kallen, 76, Writer For 'Show of Shows,' Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Lucille Kallen". IMDb. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Lucille Kallen". IBDB. The Broadway League. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Lucille Kallen". Archive of American Television. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Lucille Kallen: C. B. Greenfield Mystery Series". Cozy Mystery List. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Bakerman, Jane S. (November–December 1983). "C.B. Greenfield: the Metaphor is the Man". The Mystery Fancier (Madison, Indiana: Guy M. Townsend). ISSN 0146-3160. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Deeck, William G. (2006). The Mystery Fancier, Volumes 1-13. Wildside Press. ISBN 9780941028110. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ Fanego, Teresa; María, José López-Couso; Pérez-Guerra, Javier, eds. (2002). English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 31. ISBN 9789027247315. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  10. ↑ Woo, Elaine (January 23, 1999). "Lucille Kallen; Writer on TV's 'Your Show of Shows'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ Ware, Susan; Braukman, Stacy, eds. (2004). "Kallen, Lucille". Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century 5. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 331. ISBN 9780674014886. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ "Lucille Kallen, Television Writer". She Made It. The Paley Center for Media. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
  13. ↑ Outside There, Somewhere!.
  14. ↑ Introducing C. B. Greenfield.
  15. ↑ C.B. Greenfield.
  16. ↑ C.B. Greenfield.
  17. ↑ C.B. Greenfield.
  18. ↑ C.B. Greenfield.
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