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Phyllis Ada Driver (b. July 17, 1917, Lima, OH - d. August 20, 2012, Los Angeles, CA). She studied at the Sherwood Music Conservatory in Chicago, IL for three years, beginning in fall 1934. She married Sherwood Anderson Diller, and the couple and their children moved from Ypsilanti, MI to Alameda, CA in 1945. Diller began her career as writer and women's editor for the San Leandro News-Observer . From June 1951 to 1954, Diller's jobs included: head of newspaper and radio ad copy in the advertising office of Kahn's, a department store in Oakland, CA; copywriter, publicist, and continuity girl at the radio station KROW in Oakland, CA; and, finally, director of promotion and merchandising at KSFO radio in San Francisco, CA. Her copywriting was distinguished by its comedic flair.
Diller performed in several small and semi-professional venues before getting a lengthy gig at The Purple Onion, a nightclub in San Francisco, CA in March 1955. Following this successful run, she gave opening performances at The Purple Onion in Los Angeles, CA in summer 1956. In Los Angeles, Diller made her first national television appearance as a contestant on the NBC game show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Thereafter, she toured the country, performing in major nightclubs such as Mister Kelley's in Chicago, IL, The Blue Angel and The Bon Soir in New York, NY (where she worked with a young Barbra Streisand), The Crescendo in Los Angeles, CA, and The Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, FL. Diller's stand-up act pushed the envelope by lampooning women's roles in the 1950s and 1960s. In particular, she broke from the tradition set by male comedians who complained about their wives by creating a fictional husband, the ne'er-do-well Fang.
Around 1958, Diller made the first of many appearances on The Tonight Show and The Jack Paar Show, the latter for which she eventually became a writer. These appearances brought her heightened success, and led to her discovery by Bob Hope. Diller worked with Hope for decades, performing with him on 23 television specials, in the feature films Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1960), Eight on the Lam (1967), and The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968), and as part of his USO troupe in Vietnam in 1966. Diller's film work from this period also includes Splendor in the Grass (1962) and voice work in the Rankin/Bass animated film Mad Monster Party (1967). Beginning in the 1960s, Diller became a household name through many TV appearances featuring her stand-up act. She also starred in two short-lived TV series, the half-hour sitcom The Pruitts of Southhampton (later titled The Phyllis Diller Show, 1966-67) and the musical variety show The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show (1968). From 1961-1970, Diller recorded five albums and published four books. She concluded the 1960s with her Broadway debut in Hello Dolly!
Recent film roles include voice work in Disney's A Bug's Life (1998) and the documentary The Aristocrats (2005). Recent television work includes recurring roles on the series Titus (2001-02), 7th Heaven (1999-2003), The Bold and the Beautiful (1999-2004), and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002-2004).
In May 1971, Diller drew upon her training as a pianist and made her debut in a concert with Pittsburgh Pops, initiating 10 years of work as a concert pianist. In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Diller continued frequent appearances on the stage and screen, and became known as one of the first celebrities to proudly admit to having had plastic surgery.
In 2002, Diller retired from stand-up comedy work. Her final performance, at the Suncoast Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, is captured in the documentary Good Night, We Love You (2006). Post-retirement, Diller wrote an autobiography titled Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy (2005), turned her hobby of drawing and painting into another career, and has continued to make appearances on television and in film.
Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001
The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.
ArchivalResource:
227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes
President Ronald Reagan appears on stage with some of the cast of "Bob Hope's High Flying Birthday Extravaganza," a television show celebrating comedian Bob Hope's 84th birthday. On stage are actor Kirk Cameron, comedienne Phyllis Diller, actor Emmanuel Lewis, comedienne Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. The show preceded the ninth international airlift competition Airlift Rodeo '87.Exact Date Shot Unknown
President Ronald Reagan appears on stage with some of the cast of "Bob Hope's High Flying Birthday Extravaganza," a television show celebrating comedian Bob Hope's 84th birthday. On stage are actor Kirk Cameron, comedienne Phyllis Diller, actor Emmanuel Lewis, comedienne Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. The show preceded the ninth international airlift competition Airlift Rodeo '87.Exact Date Shot Unknown
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President Ronald Reagan appears on stage with some of the cast of "Bob Hope's High Flying Birthday Extravaganza," a television show celebrating comedian Bob Hope's 84th birthday. On stage are actor Kirk Cameron, comedienne Phyllis Diller, actor Emmanuel Lewis, comedienne Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. The show preceded the ninth international airlift competition Airlift Rodeo '87.Exact Date Shot Unknown
President Ronald Reagan appears on stage with some of the cast of "Bob Hope's High Flying Birthday Extravaganza," a television show celebrating comedian Bob Hope's 84th birthday. On stage are actor Kirk Cameron, comedienne Phyllis Diller, actor Emmanuel Lewis, comedienne Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. The show preceded the ninth international airlift competition Airlift Rodeo '87.Exact Date Shot Unknown
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Betty Rollin Papers
Betty Rollin Papers
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Betty Rollin Papers
Papers of Betty Rollin, an author and news broadcaster best known for her autobiographical books First, You Cry, which concerned her experience with breast cancer, and Last Wish, which concerned her mother's terminal cancer and suicide. Included are clippings, recorded interviews, photographs and other biographical materials; scripts, memoranda, proposals, and film clips for news stories broadcast by NBC Nightly News, Today, Women Like Us, and ABC Nightline; multiple drafts of her books; and correspondence with editors, agents, readers and viewers, and friends. Extensive files of reader mail contain many personal accounts of experiences with cancer and family suicide.
ArchivalResource:
4.4 cubic feet (12 archives boxes), 27 tape recordings, 49 videorecordings, 35 photographs, 1 negative, and 8 transparencies; plus additions of 0.8 cubic feet and 58 videorecordings
This collection includes business papers, correspondence, sheet music, media, and memorabilia from the private collection of comedian and actress Phyllis Diller. Diller broke ground as one of the first and most prominent woman comedians through her stand-up act, films, television appearances, books, and records. Post-retirement in 2002, Diller wrote an autobiography titled (2005), turned her hobby of drawing and painting into another career, and has continued to make appearances on television and in film. Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy
NEW YORK NEW YORK #444: GUESTS: ROBERT GUTHRIE, GUITAR; PHYLLIS DILLER, COMEDIAN, ROBERT PAYNE, RESEARCH
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Papers, 1960-1968.
Turteltaub, Saul, 1932-. Papers, 1960-1968.
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Papers, 1960-1968.
Turteltaub's correspondence, notes, and drafts of scripts for the Shari Lewis Show, On Broadway Tonight, the Jackie Gleason Show, the Pat Boone Show, the Carol Burnett Show, Candid Camera, the Jack Paar Show, That Girl, and the Phyllis Diller Show.
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5 linear ft. (ca. 500 items in 10 boxes).
Hollywood Star-Spangled Revue: Saluting 25 Years of U.S. Savings Bonds
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Phyllis Diller papers, 1937-1985.
Diller, Phyllis. Phyllis Diller papers, 1937-1985.
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Phyllis Diller papers, 1937-1985.
Collection contains 28 black and white photographs of Phyllis Diller in costume and with her family. Collection also contains three Christmas cards, two prayers, and a musical composition ("Phyllis Fugue") which were written by Diller. It also holds programs from two of Diller's stand-up performances and an awards ceremony and a poster from a piano solo performance by Diller. A professionally printed family album and two hardcover books written by Diller ("Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual" and "The Joys of Aging and How to Avoid Them") are in this collection as well.
VS, Bob Hope's troupe walks toward stage. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky walks with the entertainers toward stage. Gen. Wm. C. Westmoreland arrives with Bob Hope. VS, Anita Bryant, Joey Heatherton, Korean Kittens, Vic Damone, Phyllis Diller, Les Brown, Bob Hope and his wife, perform on stage. Gen. Westmoreland presents an award to Bob Hope.
Comedienne Phyllis Diller smiles for the camera as the Bob Hope Christmas show arrives at Korat Air Base, Thailand, to entertain American servicemen.
Comedienne Phyllis Diller smiles for the camera as the Bob Hope Christmas show arrives at Korat Air Base, Thailand, to entertain American servicemen.
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Comedienne Phyllis Diller smiles for the camera as the Bob Hope Christmas show arrives at Korat Air Base, Thailand, to entertain American servicemen.
John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.
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American Vaudeville Museum collection 1845-2007 (bulk 1910-1940)
American Vaudeville Museum collection, 1845-2007, (bulk 1910-1940)
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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.
Diller, Phyllis. The Pruits of Southhampton. Learn to be a millionaire / written by Lou Derman and Elon Packard.
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New Yorker records
New Yorker records
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New Yorker records
Weekly magazine founded in New York City in 1925 by Harold W. Ross, Jane Grant, Alexander Woollcott and Raoul Fleischman. The records consist of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, edited and corrected manuscripts and typescripts, drawings, statistical reports, lists of story and art ideas, photographs, and sound recordings and printed materials created during the foundation and day-to-day operations of the magazine from 1924-1984. This material documents the production of every issue of the magazine and provides insight on the careers of its staff and contributors.
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW, KORAT AB, THAILAND
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW, KORAT AB, THAILAND
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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW, KORAT AB, THAILAND
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SHOW, KORAT AB, THAILAND
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