Fielden Farrington scripts
Collection
0190-MMC
Fielden Ward Farrington (1909-1977) was an author, radio announcer, and long-time CBS staffer. This collection includes scripts and proposed scripts written by Farrington for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, ABC radio's Theatre 5, ABC-TV's General Hospital, NBC radio's True Confessions, and NBC-TV's General Hospital and True Story. Materials in the collection date from the 1950s through the 1970s (although primarily from the 1970s), including Farrington's invoices and correspondence.
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Fielden Ward Farrington was an author, radio announcer and long-time CBS staffer. He was born July 4, 1909 in Clinton, Indiana and died July 8, 1977 in Bayville, New York at the age of 68.
Farrington began his radio career in 1929 at WBOW in Terre Haute as an announcer and copy writer. He worked at several Midwestern stations before moving to CBS in New York in 1940. He was often heard as the announcer for The Green Hornet, Just Plain Bill, We Love and Learn, and the long-running soap opera Romance of Helen Trent.
In the late 1950s, he wrote scripts for True Story (on NBC television) and True Confessions (on NBC radio). In the mid-1960s, he wrote for the anthology Theater 5 (on ABC radio), one of the last original drama series on network radio. During the 1970s, he wrote many episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. He also wrote a great deal for ABC-TV’s General Hospital.
Farrington was also a novelist and short story writer. His first novel, The Big Noise, was published in 1946; his second, Street of Brass, in 1961. His best known novel, 1968’s A Little Game, was made into a television movie in 1971 by ABC. Farrington's Strangers in 7A was published in 1971 and made into a television movie in 1972 by CBS.
This collection was donated to the University of Maryland Libraries by Fielden Farrington's son Mark Farrington in October 2011.
Aside from some rough groupings of similar material, the collection came to the Libraries in no particular order. The processing archivist arranged materials by show title and date. All materials were rehoused in acid-free folders. The entire collection was re-boxed.
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