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Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence sent and received by Robert Greer Allen pertaining to his personal life and to work-related topics. Correspondents documented in this series include writer Earle Birney, theatrical agent Elspeth Cochrane, Rita Greer Allen, British television executives Cecil Clarke and Michael Berry, and others.

Day planners

Series consist of day planners used by Robert Greer Allen to record names, daily appointments and phone numbers pertaining to his personal and professional activities. Also included is an undated address and phone book.

Memorabilia

Series consists of personal and professional memorabilia accumulated and maintained by Robert Greer Allen from his childhood to his retirement from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1990. These records include childhood photographs and a scrapbook, a short story published in a high school literary journal, his Trinity College yearbook, family artifacts, military manuals, a journal, broadcasting awards and other items pertaining to his career as a television producer, as well as items commemorating his retirement.

Scripts and production files

Series consists of records created and maintained by Robert Greer Allen from his early days as a wartime radio scriptwriter for "Serviceman's forum" in the 1940s through his 40 years as a producer for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio and television drama. Though some scripts in this series were written by Robert, many were accumulated by him in his role as producer or executive producer for CBC programs including "General Motors theatre", "Ford startime", "Folio", "Festival", "Performance", "CBC summer theatre", "Seeing things" and others. Other records in this series include set photographs and drawings, videocassettes, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and assorted production materials, such as filming schedules and requisition forms.

Subject files

Series consists of records created and maintained by Robert Greer Allen pertaining to a variety of personal and professional subjects. The records in this series document his early short-story and creative writing, including items co-written with Rita Greer Allen in the 1940s, as well as his work as a sessional instructor of television writing at the University of British Columbia in 1953, the formation of his company Saturday Plays Limited, his finances and other personal subjects. Included are a number of CBC administrative and policy documents, work-related reference files and contact lists, press clippings, correspondence, photographs and memoranda.

1990

File consists of correspondence sent and received by Robert Greer Allen. -- 1 photograph : col. ; 8.8 x 12.5 cm.

Birney : Earle, Esther, Wai-Lan

File includes personal correspondence with the Birneys, often addressed to both Rita and Robert Greer Allen, newspaper clippings, as well as a manuscript of "Poems by Earle Birney" (1963). -- 4 photographs : b&w ; 6.5 x 6.5 cm. -- Photographs of the Birneys' house and garden circa 1951.

British television production : correspondence

File consists of correspondence and telegrams sent and received by Robert Greer Allen regarding his work in London, England, to direct and/or produce plays for television broadcast for the BBC, Globe Productions, ABC and Granada, between April and August 1959. Also included is correspondence exchanged with Canadian playwright Joseph Schull and theatrical agent Elspeth Cochrane.

Elmo, Ann : AFG Agency

File consists of correspondence exchanged between Robert Greer Allen and Ann Elmo, a literary agent for New York literary agency AFG, pertaining to Robert's story and script submissions. Many of the radio scripts submitted in 1950 and 1951 were co-written with Rita Greer Allen.

Europe

File consists of Festival of Britain theatre programs and correspondence pertaining to personal and professional subjects, written while the Greer Allens were working in London. Letters sent to Earle Birney and to actors John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier by Robert Greer Allen are part of this file.

London

File consists of personal and professional correspondence written by Robert Greer Allen while working in London. Included is correspondence with Cecil Clarke of H.M Tennent Globe Productions, BBC TV's Michael Barry, and theatrical agent Elspeth Cochrane.

Penny

File consists of love letters, postcards and notes from Rita Greer Allen to Robert Greer Allen.

Military manuals

File consists of "Manual of elementary drill (all arms) : 1935" and "Infantry section leading 1938" printed by the Government of Canada.

Robert Allen -- personal

File includes Robert Greer Allen's parents' marriage certificate from June 1916 as well as newspaper and magazine clippings about Robert, including his 1963 TV work with Lauren Bacall. -- 1 photograph : col. ; 20 x 25 cm. -- Photograph is a group portrait of cast and crew members on a television project for which Robert Allen, also pictured, was executive producer. An identification key accompanies the photograph.

Scrapbook

Item is comprised of newspaper articles, some of which were written Robert Greer Allen.

Torontonensis '39

Item is a 1939 yearbook published by the Students' Administrative Council of the University of Toronto. Robert Greer Allen's graduate picture is on page 67. Allen also appears on page 275 as part of the group photograph for the Trinity University Review.

"The blood is strong"

File includes scripts and correspondence from Lister Sinclair and two architectural drawings of a television set for this episode of "GM theatre".

Retirement portrait

Item is a caricature-style portrait of Robert Greer Allen commemorating his retirement from the CBC. This drawing was originally framed by a mat signed by Robert's work colleagues. Mat removed due to mold damage, but photographic prints of the mat and its signatures are included with the drawing.

Joseph Howe photographs

Photographs taken in Halifax of the tombstone of and a monument commemorating Nova Scotia politician Joseph Howe. These photographs likely pertain to a CBC "Folio" program titled "A case of posterity versus Joseph Howe" produced by Robert Greer Allen.

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