Lucy Jarvis (producer)

Lucy Jarvis
Lucy Jarvis in her home in 1980 as photographed by Lynn Gilbert
Born (1917-06-24) June 24, 1917
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Television producer
Years active 1947-Present

Lucy Jarvis (born Lucile Howard; June 24, 1917)[1] is an American television producer.[2]

The daughter of Herman Howard and Sophie Kirsch, she was born 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.[3] 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".[4]

She married Serge Jarvis, a lawyer, in 1940.[5]

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.[3] 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] She turned 100 in June 2017.[6]

In November of 2017, Jarvis was presented with the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking success in Media at the United Nations in New York City. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Lucy Jarvis 95th Birthday Party". Black Tie Magazine.com. June 25, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lucy Jarvis". She Made It. The Paley Center for Media.
  3. 1 2 O'Dell, Cary (1997). Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry. pp. 149–161. ISBN 0786401672.
  4. ↑ "Pulitzer Pair Add to Honors". Milwaukee Journal. May 14, 1973. p. 30.
  5. ↑ "Jarvis, Lucy (1919—)". Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.
  6. ↑ Staff (2017-04-27). "Alumni come together to celebrate Lucy Jarvis, Home Economic class of 1938, 100th Birthday!! Happy Birthday Lucy!!". Cornell University College of Human Ecology. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
  7. ↑ Wendy Diamond. "Women's Entrepreneurship Day Organization Pioneer Awards 2017 Winners". WED. Retrieved July 5, 2018.
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