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Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986. Cheryl Crawford papers, 1862-1981.

Title: Cheryl Crawford papers, 1862-1981.

The Cheryl Crawford Collection documents her career in theatre from almost the beginning through the years immediately preceding the sale of her collection to the University of Houston. Items date between 1862 and 1981, with the bulk of the items dated 1940 through 1978. There are 3,335 items in the collection. The collection includes correspondence, production materials, scripts, programs, playbills, audio tapes, posters, sheet music, sound recordings, clippings, budgets, tax returns, legal agreements, contracts, audits, reviews, speeches, and miscellaneous items such as postcards and receipts. The series are arranged as follows: Correspondence, Productions, Scripts, Programs, Playbills, Serials, Audio Tapes, Sheet Music, Sound Recordings, a General series for miscellaneous items, and Posters. The finding aid includes a complete container listing. Item listings of correspondence, production materials, playbills, programs, and general items are available upon request. Some printed items have been removed from the collection and incorporated into the library's cataloged holdings. These materials include books and some sheet music. The materials which have been removed from the collection and cataloged are available for use.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60196985 View

Rittman, Trude. Miscellaneous manuscripts.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: various pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687465 View

Laurence, Paula,. An oral history interview with Paula Laurence / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, 1988 May 25 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Paula Laurence / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, 1988 May 25 : recording and transcript.

Laurence mostly recalls the Broadway hit One touch of Venus, in which she created the role of Molly Grant (1943) and which she helped to revive in concert form in 1984. She also relates the profound influence of recordings of Weill's Dreigroschenoper on her in her youth. In her recollections of Venus, she pays special attention to Agnes DeMille and Mary Martin.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (10 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122536481 View

Performers Mary Martin and Carol Channing pose with a crewman during a post-recommissioning ceremony for the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB 63) at City Hall

Title: Performers Mary Martin and Carol Channing pose with a crewman during a post-recommissioning ceremony for the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB 63) at City Hall

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6410380 View

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Musical comedies. Sound of music [Programs]

Title: Musical comedies. Sound of music [Programs]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81583846 View

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Collection of musicals and interviews [sound recording], 1926-1980.

Title: Collection of musicals and interviews [sound recording], 1926-1980.

The collection contains commercial discs and noncommercial recordings; the latter containing interviews with Rodgers and his family and friends, performances of his music by contemporary performers, as well as radio and television programs that use Rodgers' music.

ArchivalResource: 362 sound recordings : analog.174 sound discs : analog.184 sound tape reels : analog.4 sound cassettes : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122455595 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

Plaut, Frederick, 1907-1985. The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

Title: The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Archives consist mainly of negatives, contact sheets, and enlargements of photographs taken by Fred Plaut during his years as a recording engineer for Columbia Records. Over 35,000 negatives and 3,600 enlargements portray musicians, writers, actors, artists, and diplomats, both in candid studio shots and posed publicity photos. An additional 23,000 negatives and 2,000 enlargements depict travel and miscellaneous subjects. The Archives contain books, magazines, posters, and record jackets which reproduce Plaut's photographs. The Archives also house correspondence between the Plauts and various composers, including Francis Poulenc, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, and Henri Sauguet. The Plauts' life and work are documented further by exhibit announcements, recital programs of Rose Plaut (known as singer Rose Dercourt), and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702189207 View

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Weill-Lenya correspondence, 1925-1948.

Title: Weill-Lenya correspondence, 1925-1948.

Letters, postcards, telegrams.

ArchivalResource: 393 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164810 View

Nickolas Muray papers

Title: Nickolas Muray papers

The papers of photographer Nickolas Muray measure 1.5 linear feet and date from 1910 to 1978. Found within the papers are biographical materials; business and personal correspondence, including a handful of letters from Frida Kahlo; writings; teaching files, primarily of photography courses taught at New York University; printed material; artwork; and photographic materials of Muray, his family and friends, and his work. There is a 0.6 linear feet Unprocessed Addition which includes biographical material, correspondence, photographs, research notes and a diary about Africa, and a subject file on the book The Revealing Eye, Personalities of the 1920s, written by Paul Gallico with photographs taken by Muray, 1967.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear feet

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c3eadad-84e7-46f4-ad9b-e200059aaea7 View

Plaut, Frederick, 1907-1985. The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

Title: The Frederick and Rose Plaut papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive).

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Archives consist mainly of negatives, contact sheets, and enlargements of photographs taken by Fred Plaut during his years as a recording engineer for Columbia Records. Over 35,000 negatives and 3,600 enlargements portray musicians, writers, actors, artists, and diplomats, both in candid studio shots and posed publicity photos. An additional 23,000 negatives and 2,000 enlargements depict travel and miscellaneous subjects. The Archives contain books, magazines, posters, and record jackets which reproduce Plaut's photographs. The Archives also house correspondence between the Plauts and various composers, including Francis Poulenc, Virgil Thomson, Ned Rorem, and Henri Sauguet. The Plauts' life and work are documented further by exhibit announcements, recital programs of Rose Plaut (known as singer Rose Dercourt), and personal papers.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (69 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122542549 View

Mary Martin.

Title: Mary Martin. [1900]-

ArchivalResource: 1 vertical file folder ; 30 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46652361 View

Cooper, Betty Miller,. Betty Miller Cooper photograph collection, [1932-1986].

Title: Betty Miller Cooper photograph collection, [1932-1986].

This collection consists of photographs of Kurt Herbert Adler, Licia Albanese, Lorenzo Alvary, Salvatore Baccaloni, Michael Bartlett, Frances Bible, Jussi Björling, Artur Bodansky, Karl Boehm, Margit Bokor, Ray Bolger, Dino Borgioli, Lucrezia Bori, Inge Borkh, Paul Breisach, John Brownlee, Rosanna Carteri, George Cehanovsky, Sona Cervena, Carlo Felice Cillario, Renato Cioni, Ina Claire, Fausto Cleva, Norman Cordon, Mary Costa, Richard Crooks, Irene Dalis, Mario Del Monaco, Alessio Di Paolis, Otto Edelman, Elfego Esparaza, Geraint Evans, Kirsten Flagstad, Alfredo Gandolfi, Leyla Gencer, Nicolai Ghaiurov, Dusolina Giannini, Tito Gobbi, Reri Grist, Gertrude Grob-Prandl, Helen Hayes, Raoul Jobin, Gwyneth Jones, James King, Alexander Kipnis, Dorothy Kirsten, Sandor Konya, Andre Kostelanetz, Alfredo Kraus, Josef Krips, Evelyn Lear, Lotte Lehmann, Erich Leinsdorf, Raymond Leppard, Brenda Lewis, Emanuel List, Pilar Lorengar, Leopold Ludwig, Rene Maison, Mary Martin, Giovanni Martinelli, Carla Martinis, James McCracken, Terry McEwen, Lauritz Melchior, Jolanda Meneguzzer, Gaetano Merola, Nan Merriman, Kirsten Meyer, Robert and Betty Miller, Francesco Molinari-Prandelli, Pierre Monteux, Claudia Muzio, Birgit Nilsson, Jarmila Novotna, Gennaro Papi, Luciano Pavarotti, Jan Peerce, Jean Perisson, Irra Petina, Jeannette Pilou, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Giacinto Prandelli, Leontyne Price, Fritz Reiner, Regina Resnik, Elisabeth Rethberg, Stella Roman, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rosalind Russell, Leonie Rysenek, Bidu Sayao, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Tito Schipa, Paul Schoeffer, Fredrich Schorr, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Scotto, Tullio Serafin, Beverly Sills, Giulietta Simionato, Horst Stein, William Steinberg, Rise Stevens, Thomas Stewart, Rita Streich, Otmar Suitner, Joan Sutherland, Gladys Swarthout, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo, Renata Tebaldi, David Thaw, Blanche Thebom, Jess Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett, Arturo Toscanini, Giorgio Tozzi, Richard Tucker, Claramae Turner, Roberto Turrini, Valentina, Cesare Valletti, Jon Vickers, Leonard Warren. The photographs were given to Betty Miller Cooper and Robert Watt Miller.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430356952 View

Kerr, Walter F., 1913-1966. Walter and Jean Kerr papers, circa 1920-1993.

Title: Walter and Jean Kerr papers, circa 1920-1993.

Papers of Walter Kerr, playwright and drama critic, and his wife Jean Kerr, humorist and playwright; the collection documents their individual and their collaborative careers. For their New York productions such as King of Hearts (1954), Mary, Mary (1961), and Poor Richard (1964), there are scripts, musical scores and recordings, photographs, notes, clippings, correspondence, and financial records. Also included are materials relating to Walter Kerr's teaching, and his career as a theater critic. Jean Kerr's writings are represented by correspondence and financial and legal material for Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957), and drafts of three collections of her free-lance articles. Among many prominent correspondents in the collection are W.H. Auden, Richard Burton, Carol Channing, Oscar Hammerstein II, Moss Hart, Helen Hayes, Hubert H. Humphrey, Elia Kazan, Clare Boothe Luce, Fredric March, Mary Martin, Groucho Marx, Richard Rodgers, William Saroyan, Gloria Swanson, and Tennessee Williams.

ArchivalResource: 56.4 c.f. (111 archives boxes, 68 volumes, 2 packages),16 tape recordings, and16 disc recordings; plusadditions of 8.3 c.f.,36 photographs, and6 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692623 View

Personality files, [ca. 1800]-1986, 1900-1986 (bulk)

Title: Personality files, [ca. 1800]-1986, 1900-1986 (bulk)

Extensive collection containing a diverse range of material about thousands of theatrical and musical personalities who have appeared in New York City during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Collection covers all the important and many of the lesser known personalities and includes personal correspondence, portrait engravings or lithographs, photographs, biographical data, clippings, articles, programs, playbills, original sheet music, and sheet music covers. Also, drawings, playscripts, scrapbooks, fan letters, manuscripts of biographies, sketches, texts of speeches, and personal items. lithographs, biographical material collected from temporary periodicals, and sheet music.

ArchivalResource: 550 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155489900 View

Papers of Dorothy Rodgers, 1922-1987

Title: Papers of Dorothy Rodgers, 1922-1987

Correspondence, photographs, notes, etc., Dorothy F. Rodgers, writer and inventor.

ArchivalResource: 4.54 linear ft.; (3 cartons, 1+1/2 file boxes, 3f+ folders, 1 folio box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00878/catalog View

Additional papers, 1921-1992

Title: Additional papers, 1921-1992

Addenda to the papers (87-M118--87-M195) of Dorothy F. Rodgers, writer and inventor.

ArchivalResource: .42 linear ft.; (1 file box, 1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 3 folders ofphotographs)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00877/catalog View

Frank Farrell Papers, 1897-1988, (bulk 1945-1975)

Title: Frank Farrell Papers 1897-1988 (bulk 1945-1975)

United States Marine Corps officer, journalist, radio commentator, public relations consultant, and advertising executive. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, magazine articles, poetry, reports, radio broadcast transcripts, trial transcripts, research notes, biographical notes, financial records, personnel records, travel records, press releases, address lists, awards, newspaper clippings, obituaries, printed matter, drawings, floor plans, photographs, posters, maps, and other papers chiefly documenting Farrell's career from 1945 to 1975.

ArchivalResource: 28,000 items; 78 containers plus 2 oversize and 1 classified; 34.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006001 View

Romney Brent papers, 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975

Title: Romney Brent papers 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975

The Romney Brent papers document his career and contain correspondence, photographs and two scrapbooks. The collection is incomplete in that it contains only correspondence from his later years and photographs and scrapbooks from his early career. Correspondents include: Ilka Chase, Helen Hayes, Lillebil Ibsen, Alfred Lunt, Armina Marshall, Mary Martin, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Emlyn Williams and Peggy Wood. There is a large gap in the materials for the 1940s and 1950s. Some production photographs were separated to the Theatre Collection photo files. The photographs remaining in the collection are special appearances, the State Department sponsored tours and personal photographs.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21451 View

Robbins, Jerome. Musical comedies. Peter Pan [Programs]

Title: Musical comedies. Peter Pan [Programs]

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78942373 View

De Mille, Agnes,. An oral history interview with Agnes de Mille / conducted by Peggy Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1991 Aug. 9 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Agnes de Mille / conducted by Peggy Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, 1991 Aug. 9 : recording and transcript.

De Mille discusses her choreography of the ballets for One touch of Venus; Weill's role in editing the ballets; Lenya's role in coaching Mary Martin's songs; the possibilities of reviving of the original production; and Venus in the context of Weill's oeuvre, of de Mille's development, and of the American musical. People discussed include: George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Elia Kazan, Lotte Lenya, Rouben Mamoulian, Mary Martin, Ogden Nash, Sono Osato, S.J. Perelman, Richard Rodgers (with particular reference to Oklahoma and her role as choreographer), and Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (15 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 45 min) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537807 View

Jo Mielziner papers, 1903-1976

Title: Jo Mielziner papers 1903-1976

Jo Mielziner, set and lighting designer, theater architect and consultant. The collection consists of personal papers, personal and professional correspondence, production materials, office and financial files, writings, professional appearance and exhibition files, photographs, scrapbooks and subject files documenting the life and career of Jo Mielziner.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21477 View

Samuel and Bella Spewack Papers, ca.1920-1980

Title: Samuel and Bella Spewack Papers, ca.1920-1980

ArchivalResource: 72 linear ft (ca.75,000 items in 150 boxes).

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079732 View

Moross, Jerome, 1913-1983. Papers, 1924-2000.

Title: Papers, 1924-2000.

Correspondence, manuscript music scores, copies of scores, playscripts, scenarios, watercolor drawings and other stage designs, contracts, legal papers, programs, clippings and other printed materials, microfilms, records, tape recordings, and photographs. Among Moross's work are the musical play, "The Golden Apple"(1954), dance music for "Ballet Ballads"(1945) and for "Frankie and Johnny"(1938), the film score for "The Big Country"(1958) and for "The Cardinal"(1963), and his Symphony No. 1 (1943). There are some financial papers and production records for the staging of his works. Among the cataloged correspondents are Aaron Copland, Agnes George De Mille, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, and Thornton Wilder.

ArchivalResource: 62 linear ft (ca.7,900 items in 49 boxes & 42 oversize folders).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122514963 View

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Richard Rodgers papers, 1914-1989.

Title: Richard Rodgers papers, 1914-1989.

The Richard Rodgers Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, posters, newspaper clippings, and other material related to the career of Richard Rodgers.

ArchivalResource: 7.13 lf. (16 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465836 View

Spewack, Samuel and Bella. Papers, ca.1920-1980.

Title: Papers, ca.1920-1980.

Correspondence, manuscripts, playscripts, screenplays, diaries, documents, contracts, financial records, photographs, phonograph records, motion pictures, playbills, posters, sheet music, cartoons, art work, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and printed materials. .

ArchivalResource: 72 linear ft (ca.75,000 items in 150 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122343400 View

Richard Rodgers collection of musicals and interviews [sound recording], 1926-1980

Title: Richard Rodgers collection of musicals and interviews [sound recording] 1926-1980

The collection contains commercial discs and noncommercial recordings; the latter containing interviews with Rodgers and his family and friends, performances of his music by contemporary performers, as well as radio and television programs that have used Rodgers' music.

ArchivalResource: 362 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20449 View