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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.

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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.”

Abstract 23 theatre programs from New York City and Los Angeles, including the last performance at the old Metropolitan Opera House, which was the Bolshoi Ballet in May 1966; Judy Garlan at the Palace in 1966; and the 3,225th performance of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. In addition to Broadway performances, the collection also includes programs for Yiddish theatrical programs; tributes to entertainers such as Sophia Loren and Busby Berkeley; and productions mounted by the Equity Library Theatre,...

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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.

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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.

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

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This collection consists of scripts, correspondences, photographs, film recordings, as well as sketches, a checkbook, and an ash tray from American actor Eddie Mayehoff (1909-1992). Mayehoff was in a number of Broadway plays and films, including "That's My Boy" (1951), "Off Limits" (1952), and "How to Murder Your Wife" (1965).

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This collection contains the papers of American actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005). Materials include personal and business correspondence, telegrams, fan letters, theater and motion picture programs, scrapbooks, and clippings, stills, photographs, fan magazines, publicity, pressbooks, and awards and trophies.

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This collection consists of performing arts materials collected by American journalist Bernardine Szold-Fritz. Materials are primarily composed of clippings about the career of her daughter, theatre actress Rosemary Carver.