Constance Hope papers, 1931-1975

Creator:

Hope, Constance, 1908-1977

Abstract:

The Constance Hope papers cover over 40 years of Hope's associations with hundreds of performers and chronicles her career in the field of artists' and commercial publicity.

Extent:

7.09 linear feet 17 document boxes

Language:

English .

Scope and content:

Correspondence, contracts, photographs, and printed material of Constance Hope. The materials relate to her associations with the artists for whom she acted as an agent. Correspondents include Fannie Hurst, Lotte Lehmann, Erich Leinsdorf, Lily Pons, Bruno Walter, Grace Moore, Leopold Stokowski, and Leonard Bernstein.

Biographical / historical:

Public relations specialist, artists' representative.

Constance Hope was a graduate of Barnard College. She served as the New York representative for foreign publication of Fairchild Publications and advertising representative for Women's Wear magazine. Later, a public relations counsel for many opera stars, she established Constance Hope Associates, whose clients included Grace Moore, Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald, Lauritz Melchior, Bruno Walter, Rose Bampton and Elisabeth Rethberg. She also served as the publicity director for the Metropolitan Opera and the Director of Artist Relations in the Red Seal Records division of RCA. She was married to Milton Lionel Berliner.

Acquisition information:: Source of acquisition--Berliner, Constance Hope. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1975. Accession number--M-75.
Processing information:: Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.
Arrangement:: This collection is arranged in two series: Series I: Correspondence; Series II: Manuscripts.
Accruals:: Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Related material:: Constance Hope is the author of Publicity is Broccoli, also available on microfilm. See also Mary B. Bowling's "Such Interesting People: Singers, Musicians and Constance Hope," Columbia Library Columns, Vol. 26, No.1 (November 1976), 3-15.
Separated material:: Constance Hope's autobiography "Publicity is Broccoli" was removed from Box 17 and cataloged. Copy, with dust jacket, inscribed by Hope: "To Columbia University of the story of my life with thanks Constance Hope Berliner Dec 18th 1975."
Other finding aids:: Legacy finding aid

Access and use

Restrictions:

The following boxes are located offsite: Boxes 6-17. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least three business in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Constance Hope papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Location of this collection:: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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