Lucy Jarvis (producer)
Lucy Jarvis (born Lucille Howard; June 24, 1917)[1] is an American television producer.[2]
The daughter of Herman Howard and Sophie Kirsch, she was born Lucile Howard[3] on June 24, 1917, in New York City, and studied home economics and nutrition at Cornell University. Jarvis was also president of the drama club there. She was hired as a dietitian at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center but subsequently became food editor for McCall's magazine, leaving that position to raise two children. While volunteering for the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training, she produced a documentary "Passport to Freedom". She worked for several radio and television organizations and was women’s television editor for Pathé News. In 1957, she worked with Martha Rountree on a public affairs radio show based in Washington, D.C..[2] In 1959, Jarvis joined NBC as an associate producer for "The Nation’s Future", a program where various topics were debated; in 1961, she became producer.[4] Her 1963 documentary "The Kremlin" received an Emmy Award for cinematography. The 1964 documentary "The Louvre: A Golden Prison" received a Peabody Award, a Radio-TV Critics Award and six Emmys; in 1968, Jarvis was named a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[2] In 1973, she received a Hillman Prize for the documentary "What Price Health".[5]
She married Serge Jarvis, a lawyer, in 1940.[3]
In 1976, Jarvis left NBC to produce several Barbara Walters specials for ABC. She subsequently formed her own production company which produced a number of films, including the television movie Family Reunion.[2] She was producer for a 1988 Russian-American co-production of the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies.[4] In 1990, Jarvis brought the Russian rock opera Juno and Avos to New York City.[2]
On June 24, 2012, Jarvis celebrated her 95th birthday at the Boathouse in New York City, with a festive hat garden party.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Lucy Jarvis 95th Birthday Party". Black Tie Magazine.com. June 25, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Lucy Jarvis". She Made It. The Paley Center for Media.
- 1 2 "Jarvis, Lucy (1919—)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.
- 1 2 O'Dell, Cary (1997). Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry. pp. 149–161. ISBN 0786401672.
- ↑ "Pullitzer Pair Add to Honors". Milwaukee Journal. May 14, 1973. p. 30.