Collection context
Summary
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains production bibles for all of her produced projects, containing pre-production documentation like research, story development and scripts, budgets, schedules, and contracts and production documents like call sheets, cast and crew lists, production reports, and photos. Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980); Wait Til Your Mother Gets Home (1983); Hobson’s Choice (1983); A Time to Live (1985); Unnatural Causes (1986); Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (1987); Pancho Barnes (1988); Fugitive Among Us (1992); Just Deserts (1992); Adrift (1993); While Justice Sleeps (1994); Picnic (2000); Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002); Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (2004); Accidental Witness (2006). There is extensive material for projects in development that were never completed or filmed and contain research and scripts. Topics include Sherwood Forest in World War II, Jan Kemp and the University of Georgia, Walker Railey and Lucy Goodrich Papillon and The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami among others.
- Biographical / historical:
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Blue Andre was born Mary Everett in Galveston, Texas on December 18, 1943. She grew up in Atlanta, GA and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She attended Biloxi HS and graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi earning a BA in Speech and Theater. She was briefly married to David Andre in 1964. Ms. Andre moved to the Los Angeles area in the 1970s and became a producer of made for TV movies and series. Her work earned multiple Emmy nominations, winning three awards. She was also honored with the Reel New Orleans Award for her tremendous commitment to creating opportunities for film in New Orleans. An activist at heart, her productions included such moving stories as "Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story", which led Blue to Washington where she met at the White House with Laura Bush to advocate for laws providing protection against video voyeurism. Her production of "Unnatural Causes" called to light the plight of Vietnam War veterans afflicted with illnesses resulting from exposure to Agent Orange and was previewed by Congress for permission to allow its release. Among her many other productions were "Identity Theft", "Adrift", "Pancho Barnes", "Picnic", "A Time To Live", "Wait 'Til Your Mother Gets Home", "Rape & Marriage: The Greta Rideout Case", "Christmas Comes To Willow Creek", "While Justice Sleeps", "Fugitive Among Us", "The Accidental Witness", "Nightmare", and 13 episodes of "The Big Easy". Mary "Blue" Andre passed away July 30, 2019 after a brief illness.
- Acquisition information:
- Donated by Maren Stenseth on 5/22/2024
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- 1980-2010
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using Record Express for OAC5 on April 17, 2025, 11:29 a.m.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. Available by appointment only.
- Terms of access:
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The responsibility to secure copyright and publication permission rests with the patron.
- Preferred citation:
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Blue Andre Papers. Writers Guild Foundation Archive
- Location of this collection:
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7000 West Third StreetLos Angeles, CA 90048, US
- Contact:
- (323) 782-4680