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Jarvis, Lucy

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Personal name headingJarvis, Lucy
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Variant(s)Howard, Lucile, 1917-2020
Birth date1917-06-23
Death date2020-01-26
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityTelevision--Production and direction Theater--Production and direction
AffiliationNational Broadcasting Company
Creative Projects
Jarvis Theater and Film
Profession or occupationTelevision producers and directors Theatrical producers and directors
Found inThe Forbidden City, c1988: credits (producer, Lucy Jarvis)
New York times WWW site, viewed Feb. 7, 2020 (in obituary dated Feb. 4, 2020: Lucy Jarvis, a groundbreaking producer in television and theater who was especially known for gaining access to hard-to-crack locations, including the Soviet Union and China at the height of the Cold War, died on Jan. 26 in Manhattan. She was 102. Lucile Howard was born on June 23, 1917, in Manhattan. Ms. Jarvis married Serge Jarvis, a lawyer, in 1940. In 1959 Ms. Jarvis joined NBC as an associate producer (she later became producer) of a Saturday night debate program, "The Nation's Future." Ms. Jarvis left NBC in 1976 and founded her own production company, Creative Projects. (She later started a second, Jarvis Theater and Film.))