An oral history interview with Saul Bolasni / conducted by David Farneth and Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, New York City, 1991 April 18 : recording and transcript.

Adler, Stella

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Actress and acting teacher. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1982-ca. 1985]. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 21485822 American composer and lyricist. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (2), dated [New York], 9 February 1979 and 20 June 1980, to Joan Peyser, 1979, Feb. 9 and 1980, June 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991896 ...

Bolasni, Saul, 1923-

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American costume designer. From the description of An oral history interview with Saul Bolasni / conducted by David Farneth and Peggy Meyer Sherry for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Weill-Lenya Research Center, New York City, 1991 April 18 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 152674934 ...

Merrill, Scott

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Pitkin, William

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Rae, Charlotte, 1926-

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Lortel, Lucille

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Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) began her theatrical career as a performer, eventually turned producer, founded the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, acquired the Theatre dy Lys in Greenwich Village, and became a seminal force in the Off-Broadway movement. Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and with Arnold Korff in Europe. She had her first notable role in the...

Price, Gerald (Pianist)

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Valentina

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Capalbo, Carmen

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Theatrical producer and director, born in 1925. Attended Yale Drama School and moved to New York after World War II. Best known for directing the off-Broadway revival of The threepenny opera (1954-1961), he had several successes on Broadway, notably O'Neill's Moon for the misbegotten in 1957. He also produced and directed Weill and Brecht's Mahagonny off-Broadway in 1970. From the description of An oral history interview with Carmen Capalbo / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation f...

Worth, Irene

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Irene Worth (1915-2002), American actress, winner of three Tony Awards, who appeared in Thornton Wilder's The Alcestiad ("A Life in the Sun") at the Edinburgh Festival in 1955 and in the stage version of "The Woman of Andros" in 1963. From the description of Irene Worth papers relating to Thornton Wilder, 1955-1977. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171891 Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_...

Farneth, David

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Blechman, Marcus

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Bolasni, Eleanor.

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Dietrich, Marlene, 1901-1992

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Marlene Dietrich (b. December 27, 1901, Berlin, Germany–d. May 6, 1992, Paris, France) was a German actress and singer. Throughout her long career, spanning from the 1910s to the 1980s, she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich acted on the stage and in silent films. Dietrich starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and Desire (1936). Throughout World War II, she was a high-profile entertainer in the United St...

Paxinoú, Katína 1900-1973

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Lenya, Lotte

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Born in Austria, Lenya became an actress in Zürich, then moved to Berlin where she met and married Kurt Weill. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1935, where Lenya lived until her death a few months after this interview was recorded. From the description of An oral history interview with Lotte Lenya / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Alan Rich, New City, N.Y., 1981 : recording and transcript. (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison). WorldCat record id: 12258368...

McBride, Patrizia C.

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Blitzstein, Marc

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Marc Blitzstein was an American composer of theater works and oratorios. Shortly before his death in 1964, the Ford Foundation commissioned him to write an opera on the subject of Sacco and Vanzetti for production by the Metropolitan Opera, but the work was not finished. From the guide to the Letters received, 1960-1963, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) ...

Sherry, Peggy Meyer.

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Livingston, Dory.

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Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982

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American dancer and choreographer. From the guide to the Valerie Bettis collection, ca. 1941-1967, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.) Valerie Elizabeth Bettis was born on December 20, 1919, in Houston, Texas to Royal Holt and Valerie Elizabeth Bettis. Her father died when she was thirteen, and her mother later married Hugh Prather. Bettis began ballet lessons when she was ten with Rowena Smith in Houston. She also studied with Tina Flade,...