John Haggott papers on the Margaret Webster-Paul Robeson production of Shakespeare's Othello

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John Haggott papers on the Margaret Webster-Paul Robeson production of Shakespeare's Othello

1942-1958

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This collection documents the Theatre Guild production of Othello starring Paul Robeson from its premiere at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 10, 1942 to its return to New York City in 1945 following 296 performances on Broadway and a tour of the United States and Canada. Formed by stage manager and associate producer John Haggott, the collection consists of correspondence; administrative and financial records, including contracts and box office statements; programs, publicity material, photographs and clippings; Haggott’s promptbook for the 1944-45 tour; and stage props.

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Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972

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Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty. She was their second child, her older brother died in infancy. Her birth was announced on stage at the theatre her father was performing in during a Shakespeare play. The family travelled extensively during her formative years as her parents moved between the USA and UK with various touring theatre companies. At 13 she became a boarder at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, an independent ...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Haggott, John

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John Haggott was born in Denver, and was the son of the late Warren A. Haggott, who had been a United States Congressman and Lieutenant Governor of Colorado.The younger Mr. Haggott studied architecture at Harvard College, from which he was graduated in 1935. A year later he joined the Theater Guild and was associated for many years with its Westport Country Playhouse. In 1943, with Margaret Webster, he produced “Othello” in New York, with Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer heading the cast. In 1946...