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Gladys Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1888 - 1965

Billy De Wolfe collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2118
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1925 - 1974

William Farnum papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2526
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1897 - 1953

Marta Feuchtwanger papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0206
Abstract This archive contains the correspondence of Marta Feuchtwanger, wife of German-Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger, who survived her husband by almost thirty years. Marta Feuchtwanger remained an important figure in the exile community and devoted the remainder of her life to promoting the work of her husband. The collection contains Marta Feuchtwanger's personal correspondence, texts and manuscripts by her and others, royalty statements received for the works of her husband, correspondence with...
Dates: 1536 - 1987; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1987

Armond Fields American Theatre collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0337
Abstract

This collection documents the history of the American stage before talking cinema, reflecting the birth and death of vaudeville and the advent of the modern Broadway musical. The collection includes books, posters, theater programs, sheet-music covers, souvenirs, rare film footage of vaudevillians, including Weber & Fields, and manuscripts and research notes for Armond Fields' own books.

Dates: 1856 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1925

Theodore Flicker papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2509
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1958 - 1964

Helen and George Ford papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2209
Abstract

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.”

Dates: 1812 - 1982

Alma Haebel theater scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: 2510
Abstract

This collection contains nine scrapbook journals kept by Alma Rau Haebel (1896-1979) documenting her visits to the theater over more than six decades, beginning as a girl in New York City in 1908 and later in Los Angeles, California (1941-1969). Entries chiefly consist of pasted playbills and program/newspaper clippings of performance and actor photographs along with brief handwritten reviews of the performances.

Dates: 1908 - 1969

Otto Kruger scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2575
Abstract

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

Dates: 1933

Max Reinhardt in Action portfolio

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: 0307
Abstract

This portfolio/scrapbook of clippings and photographs was created by Catherine E. Sibley for completion of Drama 590B at the University of Southern California. It also includes her research paper discussing the staging of Max Reinhardt's production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Hollywood Bowl, the San Francisco Opera House, and UC Berkeley's Faculty Glade-Greek Theater during the 1934-1935 season.

Dates: 1954 March

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Aeaman, Charles W. 1
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