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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 0126
Abstract
This collection contains ephemera, correspondence, and clippings documenting the career of stage and film actress Lillian Bronson (1902-1955). Bronson appeared in more than eighty films and was Fonzi’s grandmother on the television show Happy Days.
Dates:
1940 - 1950
Collection
Identifier: 0204
Abstract
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a celebrated German-Jewish novelist and outspoken enemy of the Nazis. He began his literary career as a theater critic and turned his talent to writing plays in the 1910s and 1920s. He first became internationally known for his historical novel Jud Süss published in 1925. In 1933, he went into exile in Southern France and in 1941 he emigrated to the United States. He was an important figure in intellectual and artistic circles in Los Angeles during the...
Dates:
1906 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1958
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2496
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of actress Betty Harte (1883-1965) including original short stories, photographs, posters, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1909 - 1965
Collection
Identifier: 0214
Abstract
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera regarding the lives and work of many German-speaking emigre artists in Southern California.
One focus of the collection are German Expressionist Theater director Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) and his brother-in-law, the actor and director Fritz Jessner (1889-1946), both of whom left Germany in the 1930s to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews. The collection also includes more extensive materials on Walter...
Dates:
1933 - 1985
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2562
Abstract
Collection consists of the clippings, photographs, scripts, and correspondence of American actress Stefanie Powers.
Dates:
c. 1950s-1980
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2403
Abstract
This collection consists of newspaper clippings, photographs, as well as some theatre pamphlets and programs related to the actress Anne Seymour (1909-1988). Anne Seymour worked in radio, film, television, and theatre from the 1930s until her death in 1988.
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1930s-1980s
Collection
Identifier: 2268
Abstract
This collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, and clippings of American Canadian actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983). Materials relate to Shearer's film career as well as her marriage to Irving Thalberg, trips to Great Britain, and Thalberg's death in 1937.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1920s-1941