Herbert Marshall collection of Paul Robeson, 1934-1974.

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Herbert Marshall collection of Paul Robeson, 1934-1974.

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This collection consists largely of playscripts and screenplays including "Show Boat," "Stevedore," "John Henry," and "Porgy," in which Robeson played leading roles. There are also two musical scores in the collection, one of which is for Show Boat. Also included is one folder of correspondence, two manuscripts concerning Robeson, a playbill from Plant in the Sun, and a publicity poster from The Proud Valley. Photographs and newsclippings complete the boxed material. Robeson's personal library comprising seventy-three volumes includes an annotated copy of Othello and many of the books bear his signature or that of his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson.

3.00 boxes.

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7309120

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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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 ...

Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991

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Professor, Center for Soviet and East European Studies in the Performing Arts, at Southern Illinois University. From the description of The fate of the great Soviet film artist, Sergo Paradjanov : typescript, 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870865 Herbert P.J. Marshall was a British writer whose career also embraced film making, theatrical direction and design, education and Russian literature. Marshall was born in 1906 in East Ham London, England. He studied film ma...