Winfrey, Oprah, 1954-

<biogHist><p xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4"> Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. </p>

<biogHist><p xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4"> She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011. </p>

<biogHist><p xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4"> Dubbed the "Queen of All Media," she was the richest African-American of the 20th century, was once the world's only black billionaire, and the greatest black philanthropist in U.S. history.By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world. </p>

Records relating to the conception and development of Oxygen Media, a media company that targets women with a mixture of television programming and internet sites. Included are banners, booklets, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, business justifications, invitations, letterhead, logos, business cards, notebooks, postcards, stickers, badge, tattoo, press kit, photographs, promotional materials, posters, objects, and video recordings.

The Color Purple (2005).Typescript, dated Nov. 28, 2005.
Lacks music. Heavily marked with colored ink by the videographer. Used by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive on Apr. 12, 2006, when videotaping the stage production at the Broadway Theatre, New York, N.Y. The production opened on Dec. 1, 2005, and was directed by Gary Griffin.

The Warner Brothers production slides consist of publicity and production color slides for motion pictures produced or distributed by Warner Brothers Studio from 1979 until 1991. Early years of the collection contain many gaps with the first film being a 1979 release followed next by a 1983 release. From 1987, however, the collection is relatively complete. Some productions contain many images and a full record of the picture while other productions only have one image. One of the motion pictures with significant numbers of images includes The Color Purple, starring Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah Winfrey : file of clippings and miscellanea.

The Jill Nelson papers document Nelson's career as a writer and editor and press agent for C. Vernon Mason's campaign for Manhattan District Attorney. The collection contains audiotapes interviews with politicians, celebrities and historians such as Oprah Winfrey.