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Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View

Cromwell, John, 1888-1979. Papers, 1902-1972.

Title: Papers, 1902-1972.

Papers of an award-winning actor, director, and producer for motion pictures and theater, including correspondence, scripts, and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) and933 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692487 View

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. Studio one-- "The arena" / by Rod Serling.

Title: Studio one-- "The arena" / by Rod Serling. 1956.

ArchivalResource: 111 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23667035 View

Climate of Eden illustrations, [1952].

Title: Climate of Eden illustrations, [1952].

Three ink drawings plus a photographic copy of one of them are of actors in the play Climate of Eden.

ArchivalResource: 4 drawings : b&w ; 40 cm. x 32 cm. and smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/726930614 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: 800 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00017/catalog View

Jean Adair papers, 1914-1936, 1914-1929

Title: Jean Adair papers 1914-1936 1914-1929

The Jean Adair papers document the early part of Ms. Adair's career through clippings, correspondence, photographs and ephemera. The materials span the years 1914-1936, though most of the collection documents the years 1914-1928.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21314 View

Serling, Rod, 1924-1975. Studio one-- "The arena" / by Rod Serling.

Title: Studio one-- "The arena" / by Rod Serling. 1956.

ArchivalResource: 111 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23667032 View

Mendelsohn, Felix, Jr. Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, bulk 1927-1935.

Title: Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, bulk 1927-1935.

The Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook holds a number of interviews with prominent actors and actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More photographs are tucked into the back of the book, mostly actors who were not interviewed by Mendelsohn and prominent personalities outside the field of theater; many of these photographs are autographed and inscribed to Mendelsohn. Subjects include Pauline Frederick, H. L. Mencken, Frank Harris, Fritz Feld, Whitford Kane, William Faversham, Fortune Gallo, James O'Donnell Bennett, Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), and Burl Ives.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517296 View

Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook, 1927-1962, 1927-1935

Title: Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook 1927-1962 1927-1935

Felix Mendelsohn, Jr. (1906-1991), was an advertising copy writer based in Chicago. As a young man, Mendelsohn aspired to be a journalist. He found work writing promotional copy, booklets and brochures for various companies. He died in 1991 at the age of 84. The Felix Mendelsohn scrapbook holds a number of interviews with prominent actors and actresses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the age of 21, aspiring journalist Felix Mendelsohn, Jr. conducted a number of interviews with famous stage performers in which he asked each one to describe the "most thrilling moment" of his or her career. Mendelsohn developed these interviews into profiles, and hoped to sell the resulting series to a newspaper or magazine, but was unable to do so. He later compiled the profiles into a scrapbook, adding photographs of all the interviewees, some of which were inscribed to him. The performers profiled were Helen Hayes, Otis Skinner, Helen Gahagan, John Drew, Irene Bordoni, Richard Bennett, Helen Menken, John Cromwell, Ina Claire, Dennis King, Fay Bainter, Laurette Taylor, Grant Mitchell, Lowell Sherman, Ruth Draper, Florence Reed, Estelle Winwood, John E. Kellard, Wilton Lackaye, O.P. Heggie, Effie Shannon, Elsie Janis, Frank Keenan, Leo Carillo, Amelita Galli-Curci, Arthur Byron, Louis Mann, Lenore Ulric, and Raymond Hitchcock. Mendelsohn also included in his scrapbook rejection notes the proposed series received from several newspapers and publishing syndicates, dated between 1927-1935. More photographs are tucked into the back of the book, mostly actors who were not interviewed by Mendelsohn and prominent personalities outside the field of theater; many of these photographs are autographed and inscribed to Mendelsohn. Subjects include Pauline Frederick, H. L. Mencken, Frank Harris, Fritz Feld, Whitford Kane, William Faversham, Fortune Gallo, James O'Donnell Bennett, Oscar Tschirky ("Oscar of the Waldorf"), and Burl Ives.

ArchivalResource: 1 vol

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21683 View

Asian American Film Ephemera Collection.

Title: Asian American Film Ephemera Collection.

The Asian American Film Ephemera Collection at theHarvard Film Archive is a curated collection of ephemera, including books, pressbooks, mini-posters, and 28 one-sheet movie posters, portraying the presence and experience of Asians and Asian Americans in American film from the period of approximately 1917-2002.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes and 28 one sheet movie posters

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hfa00002/catalog View

Cromwell, John, 1888-1979. Reminiscences of John Cromwell : oral history, 1958.

Title: Reminiscences of John Cromwell : oral history, 1958.

Early film-making in Hollywood, especially transition from silents to sound; technical practices, cameramen, studio heads and film writers; effect of the Motion Picture Production Code and box office on film content; blacklisting in Hollywood; independent producer and diminished role of studios; discussion of "Tom Sawyer," "Of Human Bondage," "Anna and the King of Siam," and "The Goddess."

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 45 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122574267 View