Allan Jones film stills

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2540

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of film stills featuring American actor and musician Allan Jones. The stills are composed of two from A Day at the Races (1937), fifteen from A Night at the Opera (1935), seven from The Firefly (1937), three from Show Boat (1936), three from One Night in the Tropics (1940), and three from Larceny with Music (1943). Additionally two 1968 letters, one from Allan Jones’ representation and one letter from MGM Studios’ Publicity Department, that were sent to Robert Knutson about Jones’ materials.

Originally part of the Ethel Barrymore Memorial Theatre Arts Collection at the University of Southern California Library 100 Series, and was labeled 100-25.

Dates

Creation: 1935 - 1943
Creation: 1968

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

Allan Jones (1907-1992) was an American actor and musician whose career spanned from the 1930s through 1980. Jones was best known for his roles as the romantic lead in the Marx Brothers’ films A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races.