Collection of visiting cards of musical artists (composers, vocalists, conductors, etc.) and authors, presidents, and other celebrities of the 19th and 20th centuries, most bearing handwritten messages. There are also photographs and other memorabilia.
Lillie Rovno was deployed by the United States military in Germany, Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii, and continued to travel the world in later years. A scholar of Russian culture interested in performance arts, Rovno collected materials on a broad array of art forms: Kabuki and Japanese visual arts, ballet, Jewish music, and Italian music. The collection includes numerous photos, some autographed, of prominent ballet performers from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and the U.S., with many of the photos documenting visits of Soviet ballet companies to the U.S. in the 1980s and early 1990s. The collection also contains musical scores from Italy, the U.S., and Israel, including Israeli songbooks from the early 1950s.
Kabuki actors. Several of the books focus on Tamasaburo Bando (b. 1950), a celebrated onnagata (the term for male Kabuki actors who specialize in depicting women).
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This subseries includes, for the most part, Kabuki plays translated to English and photo books of Kabuki actors. Several of the books focus on Tamasaburo Bando (b. 1950), a celebrated onnagata (the term for male Kabuki actors who specialize in depicting women).
Kabuki Programs and Magazines includes souvenir programs from The Grand Kabuki of Japan's performances in the U.S in 1982, and a 1981 magazine copy containing mostly photos of Kabuki performances. The souvenir program of the Grand Kabuki's 1982 North American tour contains autographs of seven members of the group, including celebrated actor Ichikawa Ebizo.
A large and important collection of the correspondence, memoirs, and plays of Tennessee Williams. The collection is especially strong in the later works.
Arthur B. Krim (1910–1994) was an entertainment lawyer and the former chairman of Orion Pictures and the United Artists Corporation. The correspondence, papers, photographs, and A/V content document the professional and personal life of Arthur Krim and his involvement with Columbia University and the Democratic National Committee, especially his relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) and First Lady Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (1912-2007).
, Sr. (1883–1939). UA was founded on the idea that actors should have control over their careers rather autonomy to independent producers, directors, actors, and writers—some of whom had been blacklisted during director D.W. Griffith (1875–1948), English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977
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This subseries, arranged alphabetically by subject or title, is delineated into three alphabetically arranged subseries: IV.3.1: General Files, 1951-1982; IV.3.2: Photographs, 1950-1960, and IV.3.3: Transamerica Corporation, 1951-1994.
These papers contain the correspondence, photographs, press releases, programs and manuscripts of Clarence Joseph Bulliet (1883-1952) who was a prominent art and dramatic critic for the Indianapolis Star,Louisville Herald and Chicago Evening Press. The bulk of this collection is comprised of materials from the 1910s and early 1920s, when Bulliet was business manager for the touring company of Shakespearean actor Robert Bruce Mantell. Production photographs, press releases, production diaries and notes and drafts for Robert Mantell's Romance, the biography of Mantell written by Bulliet, are included in this collection. This collection also contains photographs and souvenir programs from other productions; drafts of Bulliet's literary works; printed materials and correspondence with Edward Albee, Julian Eltinge, Genevieve Hamper, Robert B. Mantell and Vera Zorina.
The bulk of these materials comprise photographs of actors and productions. The materials in this
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The bulk of these materials comprise photographs of actors and productions. The materials in this subseries were catalogued previously and the original arrangement has been preserved.
Karen Durbin is a journalist and film critic based in New York. Durbin is best known for her work with the Village Voice, where she has served as staff writer, senior editor, arts editor, and editor-in-chief. Her writing spans decades and reflects her position as a radical feminist in the second and third waves of the movement. This collection documents Durbin's professional and personal life through correspondence, journals and calendars, photographs, writing, and administrative work materials representing the years 1929 to 2016.
Includes several screenplays authored by Durbin and others, letters from actors in response to
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Includes several screenplays authored by Durbin and others, letters from actors in response to Durbin's writing, documentation of Durbin's teaching at Columbia School of Journalism and other institutions.
This collection documents the operation of Overbrook Press, a private American press once located in Stamford, Connecticut, from its founding by Frank Altschul in 1934 until it ceased operation in 1969.
This subseries contains letters to Altschul from artists, actors, politicians, and other
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This subseries contains letters to Altschul from artists, actors, politicians, and other individuals outside the publishing field. Most are brief letters of thanks in response to the complementary books Altschul often sent to notable figures. Files have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent name.
Over the course of fifty years, the former documentary filmmaker Makino Mamoru (1930-) developed an extensive collection on the history of East Asian film, which covers the history of Japanese cinema spanning over a hundred years. The collection as a whole contains approximately 80,000 items, and focuses on print materials. The materials cover various film events and festivals across multiple genres of films: experimental films, educational films, documentary films, news films, amateur films, and animated films, among many others. The collection contains books, correspondences, handbills, magazines, manuscripts, newspapers, notes, photographs, postcards, posters, scripts/scenarios, slides, glass plate negatives, video cassettes, and other printed materials.
This subseries includes the following topics: actors, catalogs, correspondence, directories/guides
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This subseries includes the following topics: actors, catalogs, correspondence, directories/guides, and magazines. This subseries contains U.S. (American) film magazines and bulletins, American film stars-Marilyn Monroe and Shirley Temple, as well as Canadian film publications. It also contains materials related to Hawaii (non-film related tour guides).
, film theaters, film actors and actresses, among many others. This series includes materials and
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The subjects include a variety of items, such as materials related to film-related associations, film theaters, film actors and actresses, among many others. This series includes materials and subjects that could not be arranged by director's name, in the main sections of this series. Materials in this subseries are arranged in alphabetical order by subject, and therein chronological order.
cinema actresses and actors, such as Koshiji Fubuki/越路吹雪. Materials in this subseries are arranged in
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Materials in this subseries are not specifically film-related, including music and theater. Nevertheless, some of the materials relate to cinema for instance, programs of theater and musicals starring cinema actresses and actors, such as Koshiji Fubuki/越路吹雪. Materials in this subseries are arranged in alphabetical order by subject, and therein chronological order.
These papers contain photographs, correspondence, business records, research notes, and press clippings related to the career of Pare Lorentz, a documentary filmmaker and journalist.
Some of the still photographs depict the actors and filmmakers at work. But the majority consists
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Some of the still photographs depict the actors and filmmakers at work. But the majority consists of 8x10-inch shots, mounted on cardboard, depicting scenes from across the Midwest during the Great Depression. The images, most of which were taken by Edwin Locke, focus on industrial production, cityscapes, streetscapes, and landscapes. They were used as research for the film.
Papers of novelist and comic book writer Chris Claremont. Collection includes business records and writings including comic book scripts, drafts of novels, and Claremont's early short stories.
actor and theatre technician. This subseries also includes a small amount of personal correspondence.
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Acting and Early Career includes material related to Claremont's training and early career as an actor and theatre technician. This subseries also includes a small amount of personal correspondence.