The Jules Schermer papers span the years 1933-1972 (bulk 1930s-1950s) and encompass 0.8 linear foot. The collection contains script material and subject files. There are scripts or continuities for five produced films (apparently unrelated to Schermer): BROADWAY BAD (1933), CHARLEY VARRICK (1973), THE MAN WHO DARED (1933), THREE ON A HONEYMOON (1934), and YELLOWSTONE KELLY (1959), and a production budget for UNION STATION. Unrealized productions with script material include THE GOLDEN SCALPEL (1963), MEDICAL MEETING (1951), and PRISONER IN PARADISE (1955). Television material includes a script for an episode of THE DAKOTAS, series presentations and character descriptions for LAREDO, and a treatment and synopsis by Schermer for two episodes of LAWMAN. There is material on two unproduced television projects, Shipwreck O'Malley and U.S.P.D. Other writers represented by story material include Art Cohn, Ben Maddow, and Robert Sherman. Two items of interest from the Paramount Story Department are a 1937 treatment by George Auerbach and William Saroyan for EX-HERO and an undated treatment by Clements Ripley and Katharine Ball Ripley for FELLOW MORTAL. The subject files contain clippings about Schermer; miscellaneous correspondence including a 1962 letter from Jack L. Warner expressing disappointment with the rough cut of READY FOR THE PEOPLE (1964); and a 1957 Warner Bros. studio telephone directory.

Jules Sigmund Schermer (1908-1996) was born in Jessup (near Scranton), Pennsylvania, and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, where as a boy he worked as an usher in a movie theater. He left pre-med studies at Ohio State University for New York City, where he held jobs in the newsreel and sales departments at Paramount. In 1932 Schermer moved to Los Angeles and worked as a reporter and film reviewer for the "Hollywood Reporter." He became an associate producer at Paramount and Douglas MacLean Productions, working with Sol Siegel on such pictures as TRUE TO THE ARMY (1942). During World War II he served as a staff sergeant in the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. After the war, he joined Columbia and produced FRAMED (1947). Other producer credits include UNION STATION (1950), LYDIA BAILEY (1952), THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (1952), and ONIONHEAD (1958). For six years he was supervising producer in the Television Department at Warner Bros. Schermer received an Academy Award nomination for cowriting THE SULLIVANS (1944). His last film was A DREAM OF KINGS (1969).