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Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962. Papers, 1920-1964 1940-1962.

Title: Papers, 1920-1964 1940-1962.

The collection consists of Charles Laughton's photographs, publicity materials, press clippings, correspondence, scripts, screenplays, assorted readings, and miscellaneous items documenting Charles Laughton's 35-year career as an actor in theater and film, and as a public performer. Of particular interest are photographs of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Laughton's reading selections, correspondence, and miscellaneous items such as Laughton's award for the Academy nomination of best actor in Witness for the prosecution (1957). The collection also contains numerous scripts from his work in theatre and radio, screenplays from films, and selected readings that Laughton used in his reading tours, publications, and performances.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (12 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38000067 View

Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Title: Souvenir programs for theatrical productions, 1906-2005.

Printed souvenir programs for theatrical and musical productions.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (4.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02197/catalog View

Hoopes, Ned Edward, 1932-1984. Ned Edward Hoopes papers, 1959-1984.

Title: Ned Edward Hoopes papers, 1959-1984.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and other printed materials. Included are the unpublished manuscripts of his biographies of Charles Laughton and of Viola Heise Bodenschatz, 1883-1967, a suspected Nazi sympathizer, and notes for his biography of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. There is cataloged correspondence from Philip Cortelyou Johnson and Sir Angus Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496102392 View

Alix Jeffry additional papers

Title: Alix Jeffry additional papers

Papers of American photographer Alix Jeffry (1929-1993), including photographs documenting off-Broadway theater circa 1952-1970, and unpublished works by Jeffry.

ArchivalResource: 16.3 linear feet (27 boxes and 1 folder)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00105/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/122542549 View

CentreStage Theatre Archives. Galileo / by Bertolt Brecht ; english version by Charles Laughton ; directed by Kurt Reis, 1971 - performance file.

Title: Galileo / by Bertolt Brecht ; english version by Charles Laughton ; directed by Kurt Reis, 1971 - performance file. 1971.

ArchivalResource: 4 files.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626118803 View

Charles Laughton Papers, 1920-1964, (bulk 1940-1962)

Title: Charles Laughton Papers, 1920-1964 (bulk 1940-1962)

Charles Laughton (1899-1962) was a theater and film actor, radio personality, and public performer. The collection consists of photographs, publicity materials, press clippings, correspondence, radio and theatre scripts, screenplays, assorted readings, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (12 linear ft.); 1 oversize box

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8b69p1wv View

Allen, Fred, 1894-1956. Mail call, radio program [sound recording].

Title: Mail call, radio program [sound recording].

Radio program produced by the Special Service Division of the U.S. War Department for broadcast to troops in battle in World War II.

ArchivalResource: 23 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 16 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580261 View

Theatre Arts Monthly, collection of portraits, ca., ca., 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Title: Theatre Arts Monthly collection of portraits, ca. ca. 1924-1939 (bulk), 1916-1964 (inclusive).

Portrait and group portrait photographs of theatre-related people.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02021/catalog View

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 1898-1943. John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benét ; adapted for the stage by Charles Laughton ; a production book compiled by Jacques Cartier.

Title: John Brown's body / Stephen Vincent Benét ; adapted for the stage by Charles Laughton ; a production book compiled by Jacques Cartier. [1960]

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702205520 View

Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection

Title: Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection

The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection at the Harvard Film Archive consists of approximately 800,000 film stills, pressbooks, posters, and other cinema-related ephemera originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist. Just's expansive collection began in the gathering of image and source material for the annual film lexicons, the Heyne Filmlexikon and Filmjahrbuch, which he continues to publish.

ArchivalResource: 1000 linear feet

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00018/catalog View

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962. La nuit du chasseur / un film réalisé par Charles Laughton ; Robert Mitchum... [et al.], act.

Title: La nuit du chasseur / un film réalisé par Charles Laughton ; Robert Mitchum... [et al.], act.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767228426 View

RKO Radio Pictures, inc. RKO Radio Pictures, inc. correspondence, 1931-1958.

Title: RKO Radio Pictures, inc. correspondence, 1931-1958.

Highlighting the careers of actors, writers, and directors, the letters, memos, loan agreements, and contractual information for various film projects span the years 1931-1958.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.41 lf.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122534779 View

Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

Title: Hellman (Florence Marx) Theatrical Diaries

The diaries contain detailed descriptions and critiques of many plays, concerts and performers, with printed programs and photographs pasted into the volumes. The plays, operas and concerts were performed in theaters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Venice, Paris, London, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. The diaries also discuss automobile trips that the Hellmans took in Europe, current fashions, social life, etc. The diaries cover many well-known actors, singers, dancers, composers, playwrights and members of the British Royal Family including: Zoe Akins, Queen Alexandra, Judith Anderson, Fred Astaire, Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, J.M. Barrie, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Sarah Bernhardt, Jack Buchanan, Billie Burke, Enrico Caruso, Noel Coward, Isadora Duncan, Queen Elizabeth II, Edith Evans, Geraldine Farrar, Lynn Fontanne, John Gielgud, Helen Hayes, Leslie Howard, Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Alfred Lunt, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry Miller, Vaslaw Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Will Rogers and Peggy Wood. All of the volumes are in poor condition with loose covers, pages and bindings, but no pages or text have been lost.

ArchivalResource: 2 Linear Feet (16 volumes)

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t15b0b/ View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34370069 View

Dan H. Laurence Collection. Don Juan in Hell / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at Carnegie Hall, New York, Oct., 22, 1951.

Title: Don Juan in Hell / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at Carnegie Hall, New York, Oct., 22, 1951. 1951.

ArchivalResource: 15p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625935900 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

Welles mss., 1930-1950, (Bulk 1936-1947)

Title: Welles mss. 1930-1950 (Bulk 1936-1947)

Consists of the correspondence, papers, and memorabilia of actor, writer, producer, director Orson Welles.

ArchivalResource: 19,875 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2791 View

Browne, Maurice, 1881-1955. Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

Title: Ellen Van Volkenburg-Maurice Browne general correspondence, 1911-

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796456 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

Raksin, David, 1912-. David Raksin: an oral history interview with Peggy Mayer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Van Nuys, CA, 1991 Oct. 2.

Title: David Raksin: an oral history interview with Peggy Mayer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, Van Nuys, CA, 1991 Oct. 2.

Kurt Weill's score for the 1945 Twentieth Century Fox release Where do we go from here?; acquaintance with Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya; status of the composer in Hollywood studios in the 1940s; discussion relates to Maurice Abravanel, Bertolt Brecht, Charlie Chaplin, Aaron Copland, Carl Davis, Hanns Eisler, Sam Goldwyn, Fritz Lang, Charles Laughton, Lotte Lenya, Fred MacMurray, Paul McCartney, Jerome Moross, Alfred Newman, William Perlberg, Gregory Ratoff, Morris Ryskind, Kurt Weill.

ArchivalResource: transcript 19 p. ; 28 cm.tape: 1 sound cassette : analog, 1 5/16 ips., stereo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/152674950 View

RKO Radio Pictures, inc. correspondence, 1931-1958

Title: RKO Radio Pictures, inc. correspondence 1931-1958

Highlighting the careers of actors, writers, and directors, the letters, memos, loan agreements, and contractual information for various film projects span the years 1931-1958. This collection of correspondence from the RKO legal department is about the studio's famous employees and not from them. Items of interest include copies of Katharine Hepburn's 1932 agreement with RKO and her buy-out in 1938, an issue of the Tim Holt magazine introducing the Ghost Rider [1949], and aspects of Charles Laughton's career including THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. The folder regarding the production and distribution of the motion picture CORNERED contains, besides correspondence, a budget estimate, synopses, music cue sheets, and the billing sheet for screen and advertising credits.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21376 View

Papers of Robert Graves: Correspondence (arranged by correspondent), c1909 to 2004

Title: Papers of Robert Graves: Correspondence (arranged by correspondent) c1909 to 2004

ArchivalResource: 63 boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb473-rg/j View

Louis J. Alleman papers, ca. 1938-1942

Title: Louis J. Alleman papers ca. 1938-1942

ArchivalResource: 1 letter box

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21719 View

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962. La nuit du chasseur / un film réalisé par Charles Laughton ; Robert Mitchum... [et al.], act.

Title: La nuit du chasseur / un film réalisé par Charles Laughton ; Robert Mitchum... [et al.], act.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/690818915 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript] 1940-1955.

Title: Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript] 1940-1955.

Collection consists chiefly of letters to Margaret Ligon concerning Carl Sandburg. There are several letters concerning Thomas Wolfe, a brief biography of Col. Daniel Smith and material on a stamp honoring Casey Jones.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647940461 View

Dan H. Laurence Collection. Don Juan in Hell / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the New Century Theatre, Dec., 31, 1951.

Title: Don Juan in Hell / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the New Century Theatre, Dec., 31, 1951. 1951.

ArchivalResource: 33p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/625935896 View

Papers of Robert Graves: Novels and novellas: texts, revisions and associated papers, 1936 to 2005

Title: Papers of Robert Graves: Novels and novellas: texts, revisions and associated papers 1936 to 2005

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb473-rg/d View

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers, 1907-1986 (inclusive)

Title: The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers 1907-1986 (inclusive)

The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers consist mainly of photographs taken by the German-American recording engineer and photographer Frederick Plaut (1907-1985). Correspondence and other papers relating to Plaut and his wife are also included.

ArchivalResource: 69 boxes (28 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0052 View

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1940-1955.

Title: Papers of Carl Sandburg [manuscript], 1940-1955.

Collection consists chiefly of letters to Margaret Ligon concerning Carl Sandburg. There are several letters concerning Thomas Wolfe, a brief biography of Col. Daniel Smith and material on a stamp honoring Casey Jones.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647807805 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

Papers, 1912-1970 (inclusive), 1912-1954 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1912-1970 (inclusive), 1912-1954 (bulk).

Papers documenting the British and American career of Russian-born theater director and designer Theodore Komisarjevsky.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (includes 1 pf box and 1 box of phonograph records)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01922/catalog View

Horton, Donald H. Donald H. Horton collection ca. 1939-ca. 1990.

Title: Donald H. Horton collection ca. 1939-ca. 1990.

The collection consists mostly of glossy publicity photographs (most 8 x 10, black & white; many autographed) of performing artists, performing groups and guest speakers who appeared at Mershon Auditorium (ca. 1957-1977) and the Indiana University Auditorium (early 1950's). The subjects include actors, dancers, musicians, singers, conductors, orchestras, bands, pop groups and speakers. Among them: Agnes De Mille, Leonard Bernstein, Jussi Björling, Victor Borge, Pierre Boulez, Alexandra Danilova, Mario Del Monaco, Antal Dorati, Margot Fonteyn, Zino Francescatti, Martha Graham, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Veronica Lake, Charles Laughton, Lorin Maazel, Marcel Marceau, Nathan Milstein, Modern Jazz Quartet, Eugene Ormandy, Gregor Piatigorsky, Ruggiero Ricci, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mstislav Rostropovich, Artur Rubinstein, Rudolph Serkin, Isaac Stern, George Szell, Bruno Walter and others. Also included in the collection are papers, programs, memos, contracts and sample contracts, tickets, invitations, newspaper clippings, reviews, correspondence, related to Mershon Auditorium, including the dedication program of Mershon Auditorium, April 29, 1957, as well as lectures, students's term papers, grades's logs for the Music Management class that Horton taught. Also includes miscellaneous theatre materials, business and administrative records, and correspondence relating to the Indiana University Auditorium.

ArchivalResource: ca. 9 linear ft. (10 boxes ; 27 x 39 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21018584 View

Michael Burrows papers, circa 1990

Title: Michael Burrows papers circa 1990

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (0.5 linear ft.)

http://findingaid.lib.byu.edu/viewItem/MSS%202252 View

(XV. ff. 398). Dec. 1799-Mar. 1800.John Ridge, Paymaster of the Cambridgeshire militia: Letters to the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1797-1807.Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Correspondence rel. to the Cambridgeshire Militia: 1790-1834.includes:ff. 1, 32,...

Title: (XV. ff. 398). Dec. 1799-Mar. 1800.John Ridge, Paymaster of the Cambridgeshire militia: Letters to the 3rd Lord Hardwicke: 1797-1807.Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke: Correspondence rel. to the Cambridgeshire Militia: 1790-1834.includes:ff. 1, 32,... Dec 1799-Mar 1800

ArchivalResource: 1 item

http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=040-002089195&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2 View

Dan H. Laurence Collection. Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the Morosco Theatre, April 1957.

Title: Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the Morosco Theatre, April 1957. 1957.

ArchivalResource: 30p. : ports.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626520342 View

Dan H. Laurence Collection. Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York, Oct., 30, 1956.

Title: Major Barbara / by Bernard Shaw ; directed by Charles Laughton - program for production at the Martin Beck Theatre, New York, Oct., 30, 1956. 1956.

ArchivalResource: 28p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/626520341 View