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Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

Title: Arthur Unger collection of recorded interviews [sound recording]

This collection contains the tapes of Mr. Unger's interviews with television, film and stage celebrities. Most of the interviews were made from 1965 through 1998 for use in conjunction with Unger's article writing activites. They include interviews of Alfred Hitchcock, Al Pacino, Buzz Aldrin, Alfre Woodard, the Beach Boys, Isaac Asimov, Bette Davis, Connie Chung, Derek Jacobi, Glenda Jackson, Helen Hayes, Muhammad Ali, Lucille Ball, Tom Brokaw, Redd Foxx, Katharine Hepburn, Bill Moyers, Tony Orlando, and many others. Also includes copies of recorded press conferences.

ArchivalResource: 1173

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20491 View

Actors Studio Recordings

Title: Actors Studio Recordings

Tape recordings of plays, improvisations, monologues, and exercises by the New York theater workshop founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis.

ArchivalResource: 406 tape recordings.

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-audi00339a View

Paul Muni collection, 1908-1980 (inclusive), 1932-1959 (bulk).

Title: Paul Muni collection, 1908-1980 (inclusive), 1932-1959 (bulk).

Manuscripts, cassette tapes and transcripts of interviews on Muni, photographs, programs, clippings, letters (mostly copies), scripts and articles relate to the life and film and stage career of Paul Muni. The papers were collected by the American dramatists and directors, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. (Lawrence wrote Actor: The Life and Times of Paul Muni (1973).) Includes material on the Yiddish theatre.

ArchivalResource: ca. 300 photographs, 53 audio tape cassetts, 5 3-ring binders, and 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122372905 View

Garfield, David. David Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003 (bulk 1970-1982).

Title: David Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003 (bulk 1970-1982).

David Garfield is a New York City-based actor, author, and professor who has been a member of the Actors Studio since 1970, and who wrote a history of the Studio called The Actors Studio: A Player's Place. The Actors Studio is a theater workshop for professional actors founded in New York City in 1947. This collection contains material that reflect Garfield's dual role as both researcher and participant and contains material generated by the Actors Studio, the Group Theater, and material collected by Garfield through his research.

ArchivalResource: 6.96 linear feet (15 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778563815 View

Cheryl Crawford papers, 1920-1986

Title: Cheryl Crawford papers 1920-1986

Cheryl Crawford, producer and director. Her papers include correspondence, production files, scripts, photographs, ephemera, ledgers, financial materials and scrapbooks documenting her career.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21481 View

Strasberg, Lee. Reminiscences of Lee Strasberg : oral history, 1980.

Title: Reminiscences of Lee Strasberg : oral history, 1980.

Childhood in Austria; immigration to United States; amateur theatrical experiences; influence of Constantin Stanislavsky and others on career; early professional acting; founding of Group Theater with Cheryl Crawford and Harold Clurman; role as director, productions, decision to leave Group Theater; inefficiency of American theater, comparison with British theater.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 142 leaves.Tape: 3 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309735059 View

Ritt, Martin, 1920-. Martin Ritt collection, 1938-1990; (bulk 1957-1990).

Title: Martin Ritt collection, 1938-1990; (bulk 1957-1990).

Production files, television files, stage material, correspondence files, general files, and scrapbooks. Production files generally consist of scripts and production material for films directed by Ritt with a small amount of material relating to two films in which he acted and to unrealized projects. Television material consists largely of contracts and clippings relating to both produced and unrealized series and programs. Stage materials consist largely of clippings and contracts relating to plays which Ritt directed or in which he appeared. General files cover a variety of topics, including the Actors Studio and its running after the death of Lee Strasberg.

ArchivalResource: 24.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70938801 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

Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988. Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Title: Jay and Si Lan Chen Leyda papers, 1913-1987 (bulk 1930-1980).

Series I includes family and childhood materials, early writings, autobiographical notes and clippings, and professional memorabilia. Series II includes correspondence including James Agee, Alfred Barr, Walter Benjamin, Paul Bowles, Luis Buñuel, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Aaron Copland, Joseph Cornell, Mina Curtiss, Walker Evans, Joseph and Charmian Freeman, Helga Greene, Langston Hughes, Joris Ivens, Paul Jarrico, Romana Javitz, Elia Kazan, Carol King, Lincoln Kirstein, Naum Kleiman, Fritz Lang, Julian Levy, Joseph Losey, Albert Maltz, Ivor Montagu, Jack Rau, Man Ray, Satyajit Ray, Abby Rockefeller, Muriel Rukeyser, Georges Sadoul, Josephine Schwarz, Gilbert Seldes, Marie Seton, Ralph Steiner, Lee Strasberg, Thornton Wilder, and Edmund Wilson. There is also a thick MOMA correspondence file, as well as Leyda's correspondence with his family. Series III contains Leyda's clippings, correspondence, film scripts, research notes, and a typescript relating to his book Dianying; an account of films and the film audience in China (1972). Series IV contains writings, research notes, clippings, reviews, and some correspondence relating ot Soviet cinema. There are articles written under his pseudonym James Lincoln for the Moscow News, 1932-36, letters to Eisenstein, notes for his reconstruction of Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico, film festival and exhibition catalogs, an editing proposal for Potemkin, and an unpublished typescript "Letters from Russia." Series V mainly documents the balance of Leyda's cinema career, and includes correspondence with the Guggenheim Foundation, 1931-42, regarding his fellowship application, scripts for unproduced movies, including World Unity (1940s) and Conquistador (1943), a partial list of film shots for A Bronx Morning, several files of "Germinations," (project proposals), and several typescripts by novelist and poet Ben Maddow. The Dickinson and Melville material in this series includes Leyda's libretto for the opera Bartelby. The Si Lan Chen Leyda papers document her dancing career and personal activities. Series VI contains her FBI file and documents related to her travels. Series VII is Chen's correspondence principally with her family and Jay Leyda. There is also correspondence with Pearl S. Buck and Langston Hughes, and a file relating to immigration issues. Series VIII documents her dance career with programs, flyers, dance notations and drawings, a scrapbook, and radio interview transcripts. Series IX includes the typsecript of her autobiography, Footnote to History (1984), a diary, autobiographical notebooks and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 15.25 linear ft. (31 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/477067174 View

Rogers, Fred. Saint Vincent College : speech (document).

Title: Saint Vincent College : speech (document).

ArchivalResource: 21 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/236164307 View

Wilenchick, Clement, 1900-1957. Clement Wilenchick drawings, 1931.

Title: Clement Wilenchick drawings, 1931.

Three ink drawings on paper, one signed and dated.

ArchivalResource: 3 drawings in 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378599 View

Abel, Walter, 1898-1987. Walter C. Abel and family papers, 1887-1963.

Title: Walter C. Abel and family papers, 1887-1963.

Correspondence, clippings and other papers relating to the career of Abel, St. Paul-born actor; and a picture post card from Switzerland (1887). An address book [undated], expense book (1916), memorandum book (1919), and scrapbook (1915-1934, 1957) are from his early years in New York City as a student and actor. In an oral history interview (April 1959, 41 pages) Abel discusses his acting career, family background, and general topics in the performing arts. The interview is part of the Columbia University Oral History Project.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (32 items and 4 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86124573 View

Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986. Cheryl Crawford papers, 1920-1986.

Title: Cheryl Crawford papers, 1920-1986.

The Cheryl Crawford papers span 1920-1986 and consist of correspondence, production files, scripts, photographs, programs, ledgers, scrapbooks, clippings, and other documents relating to Cheryl Crawford's career in theater.

ArchivalResource: 51.3 lf. (83 boxes, 49 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144651911 View

Lortel, Lucille. Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.

Title: Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.

The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. In addition to documentation of her theatrical enterprises, the Lucille Lortel papers also contain material concerning her family and her husband Louis Schweitzer.

ArchivalResource: 49.61 lf. (121 boxes)Correspondence: 17 reels of microfilm.Scrapbooks: 25 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122430810 View

David Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, 1970-1982

Title: David Garfield research files on the Actors Studio 1947-2003 1970-1982

David Garfield is a New York City-based actor, author, and professor who has been a member of the Actors Studio since 1970, and who wrote a history of the Studio called . The Actors Studio is a theater workshop for professional actors founded in New York City in 1947. This collection contains material that reflect Garfield's dual role as both researcher and participant and contains material generated by the Actors Studio, the Group Theater, and material collected by Garfield through his research. The Actors Studio: A Player's Place

ArchivalResource: 6.96 linear feet; 15 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/the/18644 View

Florida State University Media Relations Files, 1969-1995

Title: Florida State University Media Relations Files 1969-1995

ArchivalResource: 4.8

http://digitool.fcla.edu/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=187147&custom_att_2=direct View

Odets mss., 1921-1963

Title: Odets mss. 1921-1963

Consists of the papers of playwright Clifford Odets, 1906-1963.

ArchivalResource: ca. 30,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC3094 View

Playwright lecture series [sound recording], 1951-1960

Title: Playwright lecture series [sound recording] 1951-1960

The New Dramatists tape archives contains sound recordings of the Playwright lecture series sponsored by the New Dramatists. The collection contains recordings from 1951 through 1960.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20458 View

Harvard Law School Forums Records

Title: Harvard Law School Forums Records

This collection contains correspondencerelating to Harvard Law School Forum speakers and reel-to-reel,cassette, PCM and VHS tapes and phonograph recordings of the Forumspeakers.

ArchivalResource: 36 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00063/catalog View

Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963. Papers, 1921-1963.

Title: Papers, 1921-1963.

Consists of the correspondence, writings, scripts, business papers, and memorabilia of Clifford Odets.

ArchivalResource: 30, 000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32174157 View

Newman, Edwin H. Papers, 1944-1978.

Title: Papers, 1944-1978.

Papers of an author and NBC news commentator and drama critic, comprised of fan mail, annotated playbills and programs, television scripts, and transcripts.

ArchivalResource: 9.2 c.f. (23 archives boxes),1 tape recording, and2 disc recordings; plusadditions of 7.6 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692719 View

Actors Studio (New York, N.Y.). Belknap Collection, Theatre 1950-1982 1975-1977 : Actors Studio.

Title: Belknap Collection, Theatre 1950-1982 1975-1977 : Actors Studio.

This collection begins with correspondenses between Richard G. Fallon and his staff at FSU and potential panelists, then proceeds to letters of support and research on the history of the Actors Studio and it's members, promotional materials, both final and in draft form, clippings, props, and letters of gratitude. Photographs of the event and their negatives are in the collection along with some clippings from later years.

ArchivalResource: 1 boxes (1 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60642146 View

Lewis, Robert, 1909-1997. An oral history interview with Robert ("Bobby") Lewis / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, New York City, 1991 May 29 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Robert ("Bobby") Lewis / conducted by Peggy Meyer Sherry for The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, New York City, 1991 May 29 : recording and transcript.

Lewis recalls Kurt Weill's lectures on "Sprechstimme" to Group Theatre members at their summer retreat in Nichols, Conn., in 1936; discusses the Group Theatre's theory and practice (and their collisions); criticizes Lee Strasberg's direction of Johnny Johnson; evaluates the relative merits of the book and score of the musical; and examines Brecht's influence on Weill's American period and on later Broadway composers. Discussion relates to Phoebe Brand, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Brustein, Harold Clurman, Russell Collins, Cheryl Crawford, Agnes de Mille, Lehman Engel, Paul Green, Lotte Lenya, Sandy Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, and Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (23 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 75 min.): analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122536427 View

Clifford Odets papers, 1926-1963

Title: Clifford Odets papers 1926-1963

Clifford Odets, playwright of the 1930s, was born in Philadelphia on July 18, 1906. He began his acting career on radio and in stock companies. In 1928, he acted with the Theatre Guild, which later introduced the Group Theatre. His first successful play was the one act play , produced by the Group Theatre in 1935. In 1936, Odets began working in Hollywood as a screenwriter and producer. He later returned to writing plays in 1937 and wrote which became his biggest hit. His last Broadway success was in 1950. Odets died in Los Angeles on August 14, 1963. The Clifford Odets papers contain diaries, scripts, screenplays, personal and professional notes, research materials, clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. In addition, the collection contains other writings by Clifford Odets such as poetry, short stories, articles, and paintings. There are also biographical notes on Clifford Odets and his father, Louis J. Odets, for the book . Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy The Country Girl Clifford Odets, The American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21250 View

Playwright lecture series [sound recording], 1951-1960

Title: Playwright lecture series [sound recording] 1951-1960

The New Dramatists tape archives contains sound recordings of the Playwright lecture series sponsored by the New Dramatists. The collection contains recordings from 1951 through 1960.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20458 View

Margaret Brenman-Gibson Papers, 1940-1999, [Bulk Dates: 1963-1981]

Title: Margaret Brenman-Gibson Papers, 1940-1999 [Bulk Dates: 1963-1981]

Margaret Brenman-Gibson was a Harvard professor of Psychiatry. In 1981, she published a biography of American playwright Clifford Odets, entitled Brenman-Gibson and her husband, William Gibson, also a playwright, lived and worked in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The collection consists of Brenman-Gibson's research files for her work on the Clifford Odets biography. It contains chronological notebooks, which outline each year of Odets' life, as well as correspondence, interviews, and interview transcripts with friends, relatives, and acquaintances of Odets. The collection also contains copies of correspondence, diaries, and notes from Odets. A small portion of the collection consists of personal correspondence between Brenman-Gibson, William Gibson, and Clifford Odets. Clifford Odets - American Playwright: The Years from 1906-1940.

ArchivalResource: 18 linear ft. (18 record containers)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6797567 View

Carnovsky, Morris,. An oral history interview with Morris Carnovsky and Phoebe Brand Carnovsky / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by John Mucci, Pine Brook Lodge, Connecticut, 1987 September 14 : recording and transcript.

Title: An oral history interview with Morris Carnovsky and Phoebe Brand Carnovsky / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by John Mucci, Pine Brook Lodge, Connecticut, 1987 September 14 : recording and transcript.

The Carnovskys recall the original production of Kurt Weill and Paul Green's Johnny Johnson on Broadway in 1936. They discuss the preparations for the show, the reasons it was not a success, and the difficulties of the Group Theatre at that time, with particular reference to Cheryl Crawford, Lee Strasberg, and Clifford Odets. They detail the preparations the Group made during the summer of 1936, and Weill's role in coaching them. They also recount what it was like to see The eternal road, which ran on Broadway in the first months of 1937. Finally, they discuss the special features of Weill's song style and Lotte Lenya's mastery of them.

ArchivalResource: 1 transcript (33 p.) ; 28 cm.1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min.) : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122630479 View