George Freedley papers 1861-1971 1935-1966

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theater Division

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In 1997 the Library initiated a project to document the changing theater marquees on Broadway. The Library photographer for the on-going project is Christopher J. Frith. From the guide to the New York City theater marquees, 1997-, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) ...

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993

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Helen Hayes Brown was born in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 1900. Her parents were Frank and Catherine “Essie” Brown. With her mother’s encouragement, Hayes made her stage debut at the age of five and began performing both in amateur productions as well as the stock company, The Columbia Players. While performing in a recital for Miss Minnie Hawke’s School of Dance, Hayes was spotted by Lew Fields. Fields, half of the Weber and Fields comedy team, as well as a producer, recognized Hayes’s tale...

Kiesler, Frederick, 1892-1965

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Frederick John Kiesler, (born Sept. 22, 1892, Vienna, Austria—died Dec. 27, 1965, New York, N.Y., U.S.), Austrian-born American architect, sculptor, and stage designer, best known for his “Endless House,” a womblike, free-form structure. After study at the Technical Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Kiesler worked on a slum clearance and rebuilding project in Vienna with Adolf Loos. In the early 1920s Kiesler began to design for the stage. He designed what was probably the first...

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979

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Richard Rodgers, composer and producer, was born in New York on June 28, 1902. He composed his first song, My Auto Show Girl when he was fourteen years old. (This is included in the collection Box 16, Folder 6) In 1918 Rodgers met his first professional partner, Lorenz Hart. Together they presented their first hit show, The Garrick Gaieties in 1925. In 1929 Rodgers and Hart appeared in a two-reel autobiographical short, Masters of Melodyproduced by Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and written and di...

Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960

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Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers, whose musicals include Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music....

Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944

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Frederick H. Koch was the director of the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author and editor of several books on drama. From the description of Frederick H. Koch letter to Dear Art, and publications, 1940-1943. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 64582065 Professor of dramatic literature at the University of North Dakota and University of North Carolina; founder and director of the Carolina Play...

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1899-1979

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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American writer, monologist, and actress. Born on either May 30, 1899 or 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, Skinner was the daughter of actors Otis Skinner and Maud Durbin. Skinner attended Bryn Mawr College, but left during her sophomore year to move to Paris, where she attended the Sorbonne and studied acting at the Jacques Copeau School and the Comedie Francaise. Skinner began her acting career in 1921, debuting as Dona Sarasate in the stage adapt...

Hume Cronyn

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Walter Hampden

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Lillian Hellman

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National Theatre Conference.

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A co-operative organization of directors of American community and university theatres organized collectively to serve the non-commercial theatre. From the description of Records, 1932-2001. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 51340796 ...

Van Druten, John, 1901-1957

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John William Van Druten (1901-1957) was a playwright, director, screenwriter, and novelist. In England, where he was born, he was a solicitor and lectured on English law and legal history at the University College of Wales. His first successful play was Young Woodley which played in London and New York. In addition to his later plays which were mostly comedies, he wrote novels and directed musicals. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. ...

Carl Van Vechten

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Isabel Wilder

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Archibald MacLeish

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Laflin, Louis Ellsworth, 1898-

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Laurence Olivier

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ANTA (Organization)

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Mildred Adams

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Elemer Nagy

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John Gielgud

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Hartnoll, Phyllis.

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Domenico Vittorini

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Marta Abba

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Alfred Lunt

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Barrett, H. Clark

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Abraham Mandelstam

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Paul Newman

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Gilder, Rosamund

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Carlotta O'Neill

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Kenneth Tynan

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Katharine Cornell

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Jo Mielziner

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Carlino, Lewis John.

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Jean Renoir

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Dorothy Gish

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Franz Rapp

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Joshua Logan

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Mary Martin

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Thornton Wilder

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Ralph Bellamy

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Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993

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Actress, director. From the description of Reminiscences of Lillian Gish : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742647 Actress. From the description of Papers of Lillian Gish, 1920-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130921 Actress whose career spanned the silent film era till the 1980's. From the description of Papers, 1919-1997. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 392...

Harry W. L. Dana

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Freedley, George, 1904-1967

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George Reynolds Freedley, author, librarian, lecturer, educator, and theatre critic was born September 5, 1904 in Richmond, Virginia. He was the son of George Jacobs Freedley and Maude A. Reynolds. Freedley graduated from the University of Richmond in 1925. He studied at Yale University, where he was a student of George Pierce Baker from 1926 to 1928, and received his Master for Fine Arts in drama in 1936. After leaving Yale in 1926 Freedley worked in the theatre in vari...

George Jacoby Freedley

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Ruth St. Denis

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Garson Kanin

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Elia Kazan

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Hermione Gingold

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Edna Ferber

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Robert Anderson

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Lissim, Simon, 1900-1981

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Artist and stage designer who emigrated from Russia to France in 1919, and from France to the United States in 1941. From the description of Simon Lissim Papers, ca. 1919-1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 320409768 Porcelain, theater, and metalwork designer. Born, Kiev, Russia, 1900. Lissim left Russia in 1919 and moved to Paris where he resided until 1940. In all of Lissim's designs, his appreciation for nature is apparent in his use o...

Otis Skinner

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Lincoln Kirstein

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Jessica Tandy

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Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969

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Hallie Flanagan was the national director of the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. From the description of Federal Theatre Project visual materials, 1935-1937 and n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 748689080 Hallie Flanagan Davis, whose professional name was Hallie Flanagan, taught drama at Vassar, 1925-1942, and founded its experimental theater; in the 1930s she served as the director of the Federal Theater Project. From the description of Hal...

Samuel Freedley

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Mary Vaughan

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Joan Fontaine

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Lillian Gish

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Henry Schnitzler

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Carson McCullers

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Marc Blitzstein

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Herlihy, James Leo.

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James Leo Herlihy’s stories about the underside of American culture, told through the experiences of those outside of the mainstream, have garnered their author comparisons with Sherwood Anderson. Herlihy was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 27, 1927. After leaving high school, he enlisted in the Navy in 1945, receiving his overseas orders just two days before the end of World War II. From 1947–48, with money from the G.I. Bill, Herlihy attended Black Mountain ...

Alrik Gustafson

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Tyrone Guthrie

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Lawson, Kate Drain

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Tennessee Williams

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Alan Dent

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William Inge

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Kaufman, George S. (George Simon), 1889-1961

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George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was a playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. His most successful solo script was The Butter and Egg Man, 1925. As a collaborator, Kaufman was prolific: with Marc Connelly he wrote Merton of the Movies, Dulcy, and Beggar on Horseback; with Ring Lardner he wrote June Moon; with Edna Ferber he wrote The Royal Family, ...

Dawn Powell

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Dreyer, Carl Theodor, 1889-1968

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Eva Le Gallienne

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Edward Albee

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Sue Jacoby

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Robson, Flora, 1902-1984

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English actress. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) and typed letter signed : [n.p.], to Denys Blakelock, 1949 July 22, 1960 June 22 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872180 Epithet: DBE, actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000544.0x000043 ...

Norman, Gertrude.

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Marcia Van Dresser (1880-1937) was an American opera and concert singer. She sang soprano roles with U.S. and European opera companies and appeared in concert. Gertrude Norman (d. 1961) was for many years Van Dresser's secretary and companion. From the description of Van Dresser-Norman papers, 1895-1956. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378781 ...

Charlton Heston

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International Theatre Institute.

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Maurice D. Colbourne

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Celeste Holm

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