| | 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." | |
