Robert J. Gibson collection of Lillian Russell materials 1894-1984

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Robert J. Gibson collection of Lillian Russell materials 1894-1984

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Robert J. Gibson collected this material on Lillian and Dorothy Russell. This is a small collection notable mainly for the unpublished biography of Lillian and her daughter Dorothy Russell and letters written by Lillian Russell to her daughter and her sister Susan Westford.

The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Gibson, Robert J

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Lillian Russell, actress and singer, the first great prima donna of the American musical stage, known as "The American Beauty" and "Airy Fairy Lillian," was born Helen Louise Leonard in Clinton, Iowa, December 4, 1861. Her father was an owner and editor of a local newspaper and her mother was an advocate of women's rights. She grew up with her mother in Chicago and New York after her parents' divorce. She made her professional debut in the chorus of an 1879 production of H.M.S. Pina...

Russell, Lillian, 1861-1922

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Russell, Dorothy, d. 1954.

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