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This collection consists chiefly of materials related to the acting career of American actor Charles Bickford (1891-1967), covering the period 1925 to 1967. Materials include stills, magazine and newspaper clippings and publicity, and programs and ephemera from Bickford's work in plays, film, television, and radio.

This collection contains photographs, clippings, audio discs, and production materials from movie, television, and theater projects of German director John Brahm (1893-1982), dating from the 1920s to the 1960s and chiefly for American projects.

This collection contains correspondence, scripts, scores, playbills, scrapbooks, and a variety of production files related to the stage and film career of Gladys Cooper (1888-1971).

This collection consists of clippings, scrapbooks, vaudeville photo album, musical arrangements, posters, awards, stills from stage, motion pictures, and television covering the period 1925-1974 from actor Billy De Wolfe (1907-1974). There are also miscellaneous scripts from his stage appearances including "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying", as well as the screenplay for Dixie (1943) and television scripts for The Doris Day Show and Love American Style.

This collection contains the papers and scrapbooks of actor, William Farnum (1876-1953). Materials include playscripts, personal photographs, theater programs, handbills, correspondence, clippings, and publicity materials.

This collection contains the papers of American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and director Theodore J. Flicker (1930-2014). The papers include playscripts, playbills, recordings of performances, correspondence, and scrapbooks.

This collection contains the papers of American stage and film actress Helen Ford (1894-1982) and her husband, theatrical manager George Ford (1879-1974), with the bulk dating from the 1920s to 1950s. Materials include press clippings, playbills, photographs, and scrapbooks chiefly reflecting Helen Ford’s stage acting career, as well as play scripts written by George Ford and others, two manuscripts by George Ford, and copies of his book “These Were Actors.”

This collection contains the papers of Glenn Jordan (born 1936), an American film, television, and theater director and producer. The papers include theater, film, and television production and legal materials, press clippings, promotional materials, and photographs. From 1961-1983 Jordan worked as a stage director and as a director of television movies, specials, and series from 1970-2001. His three feature films were released between 1981 and 1984.

Collection includes scrapbook pages of clippings of advertisements and reviews for the play Counsellor-at-Law starring American actor Otto Kruger (1885-1974)

This collection consists of letters, clippings, and playbills sent from theatre producer Lucille Lortel to her friend, actress Victoria Horne Oakie.