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Title: |
Inez Wallace and Frank Hubbell Papers |
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Repository: |
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722 http://www.wrhs.org |
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Creator: |
Wallace, Inez and Hubbell, Frank |
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Dates: |
1891-1969 |
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Quantity: |
1.40 linear feet (3 containers) |
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Abstract: |
Inez Wallace was a writer and entertainment columnist, working for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1920s-1950s, and as a feature writer for many popular magazines. She was a gossip columnist in Hollywood, wrote the scripts for several radio and television programs and authored the story upon which the movie "I walked with a zombie" was based. Inez's husband, Frank Hubbell, owned the Hubbell Advertising Agency in Cleveland, Ohio, and was also a founder of the Direct Mail Advertising Agency. He specialized in motivational messages, advertising mottoes, and promotional materials. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, legal documents, clippings, scrapbooks, and diaries, including typescripts of Wallace's columns, magazine feature stories, radio and TV scripts, short stories, and a novel. The collection pertains to the lives of Inez Wallace and Frank Hubbell, concentrating on their personal relationship and Wallace's writing career. Includes material on Hubbell's career in advertising, the film industry and Hollywood lifestyle, and cold war propaganda related to Wallace's script for the 1956 political commentary, "I'm going to scream again." |
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Identification: |
MS 4477 |
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Location: |
closed stacks |
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Language: |
The records are in English |
Frank Hubbell (1884-1962) and Inez Wallace (1888-1966) were promoters, publicists, and writers from Cleveland, Ohio. Frank Hubbell graduated from Western Reserve University in 1905 and soon he joined his father's company, O. S. Hubbell Printing Company. In 1928, he formed his own agency, The Hubbell Advertising Agency. He was also a founder of the Direct Mail Advertising Agency. Inez Wallace (1888-1966) married Hubbell in 1919. She was an entertainment columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from the late 1920s to the 1950s. She wrote many feature stories for the American Weekly Magazine (1942-1953), Collier's Magazine (1935-1938), and This Week magazine (1937). She authored an article that served as the basis of the film "I Walked with a Zombie" (RKO, 1943), and the political commentary "I'm Going to Scream Again" (1956).
The Inez Wallace and Frank Hubbell Papers, 1891-1969 and undated, consist of correspondence, writings, legal documents, newspaper and magazine clippings, scrapbooks, and diaries.
This collection pertains to the lives of Frank Hubbell and Inez Wallace of Cleveland, Ohio, concentrating on their personal relationship and Inez Wallace's writing career. Other subjects include the advertising business, which was Hubbell's career; women's history, as Wallace was an active career woman in the mid-twentieth century; and film stars and the Cold War, areas on which Wallace wrote extensively.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4477 Inez Wallace and Frank Hubbell Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Nancy C. Young, 1986.
Processed by Kathleen M. Duda in 1990.