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Photographs of early American movies : photographic prints.

Title: Photographs of early American movies : photographic prints.

Promotional scenes for movies primarily produced during the 1920s. Studios include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Vitaphone Pictures. Films and actors depicted are The gilded lily with Mae Murray; A slave of fashion with Norma Shearer andMary Carr; The fighting heart with George O'Brien; Cabaret with Gilda Gray; Soft cushions with Douglas MacLean and Sue Carol; The mystic with Aileen Pringle and Conway Tearle; Beverly of Graustark with Marion Davies; Blonde or Brunette with Arlette Marchal and Adolphe Menjou; Made for Love with Leatrice Joy and Edward J. Burns; Lights of New York with J. Cullen Landis and Wheeler Oakman; Shipwrecked with Joseph Schildkraut; The garden of Allah with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, C. Aubrey Smith and Basil Rathbone; A cafe in Cairo with Priscilla Dean and Robert Ellis; Love's blindness with Pauline Starke and Antonio Moreno; Fig leaves with Olive Borden and George Andr ̄Beranger; Soul mates with Aileen Pringle and Edmund Lowe; The breath of scandal; Mummy love; and one unidentified.

ArchivalResource: 23 photographic prints ; ca.26 x 20.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754863282 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961. Papers, [microform] 1918-1958.

Title: Papers, [microform] 1918-1958.

Microfilm copy of the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director, George S. Kaufman, consisting primarily of correspondence, scripts, and biographical scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 4 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486450 View

J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Fulton Lewis Jr. Papers, 1920-1968

Title: Fulton Lewis Jr. Papers 1920-1968

Papers of the American broadcast and print journalist. Collection includes correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1934-1966); ms. drafts, scripts and research files for radio broadcasts (1937-1966); personal files, which include awards, clippings, itineraries, photographs, scrapbooks (1920-1966); films, sound recordings, and audio tapes used in broadcasts; and material related to his syndicated column. Correspondents include Bernard Baruch, John W. Bricker, Harry Cain, Thomas E. Dewey, Paul G. Hoffman, J. Edgar Hoover, H.L. Hunt, Lee Keedick, Adolphe Menjou, Eddie Rickenbacker, Ralph W. Sockman, John Roy Steelman, Lewis L. Strauss, Herbert Bayard Swope, Stuart Symington, Joseph P. Tumulty, Arthur H. Vandenberg, and Burton K. Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 110.0 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/l/lewis_f_jr.htm View

American Vaudeville Museum collection, 1845-2007, (bulk 1910-1940)

Title: American Vaudeville Museum collection 1845-2007 (bulk 1910-1940)

This collection consists of materialsdocumenting vaudeville and other entertainment in the United States,particularly in the 1910s through 1940s. Primary materials such as photographs,scrapbooks and handwritten stage scripts document the careers of particularperformers. There are substantial numbers of sheet music and theatre programs,and a large LP collection. The collection focuses on vaudeville but encompassesother forms and eras of American entertainment as well.

ArchivalResource: 66.8linear feet

http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS421.xml View

Morrie Ryskind papers, 1911-1985

Title: Morrie Ryskind papers 1911-1985

Morrie Ryskind, poet, playwright, and columnist. Awarded the 1932 Pultizer Prize for drama for co-written with George Kaufman, Ira Gershwin, and George Gershwin. Testified before the House Un-American Activities Hearings. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries and journals, and scripts by Ryskind. The bulk of the collection is scrapbooks, which have been microfilmed. These contain newspaper clippings pertaining to various productions, as well as Ryskind's published poetry and columns. Of Thee I Sing

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21390 View

George Brinton Beal papers, circus collection, and other theatrical collections, 1862-1969.

Title: George Brinton Beal papers, circus collection, and other theatricalcollections, 1862-1969.

Personal papers of and materials collected by American critic, editor,lecturer, and writer George Brinton Beal. Especially concerns the circus, rodeo,theater, and other forms of popular entertainment.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes (12 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02153/catalog View

The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording], 1948-1954

Title: The Railroad hour, radio program [sound recording] 1948-1954

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 490 sound discs; analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.; 42 sound tapes

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20435 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

George S. Kaufman papers, [microform], 1918-1958

Title: George S. Kaufman papers, [microform] 1918-1958

Microfilm copy of the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director, George S. Kaufman, consisting primarily of correspondence, scripts, and biographical scrapbooks. The correspondence contains letters from Fred Allen, Winthrop Ames, George Arliss, Eleanor Belmont, Walter Damrosch, Joseph E. Davies, Robert H. Davis, Theodore Dreiser, James A. Farley, Arthur Hopkins, Otto Kahn, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Adolphe Menjou, William Saroyan, Alfred E. Smith, Henry L. Stimson, John Steinbeck, Booth Tarkington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William Allen White, Alexander Woollcott, and others. There are scripts (some annotated) for seventeen produced and unproduced titles for stage, screen, and television including THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN (1925), THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (1944), THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1939), and several other plays on which Kaufman collaborated with Marc Connelly, Ruth Goodman Goetz, Leueen MacGrath, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Teichmann, and other playwrights.

ArchivalResource: 4 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21283 View

Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963. Letter to Max Rafferty. Beverly Hills, CA. 1962 Nov. 20.

Title: Letter to Max Rafferty. Beverly Hills, CA. 1962 Nov. 20.

Concerning Rafferty's recent election victory.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148534743 View

Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961. Papers, 1918-1958.

Title: Papers, 1918-1958.

Papers of a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright-director, consisting primarily of correspondence, scripts, and microfilmed biographical scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.4 reels of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122416903 View