Lucy Jarvis (producer)
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June 24, 1917
Lucy Jarvis | |
|---|---|
 Lucy Jarvis photographed in her home in 1980 by Lynn Gilbert | |
| Born | Lucile Howard June 24, 1917 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 26, 2020 (aged 102) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Television producer |
| Years active | 1947–2017 |
| Spouse |
Serge Jarvis
(m. 1940; died 1999) |
| Children | 2 |
Lucile Jarvis (née Howard; June 24, 1917 – January 26, 2020) was an American television producer.[2]
Lucy Jarvis was born in New York City to Herman Howard and Sophie Kirsch on June 24, 1917.[1][3] Jarvis studied home economics and nutrition at Cornell University and was also president of the drama club. 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]
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]
In November 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.[6]
