Scrapbook collection, 1933-ca.1985.

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Scrapbook collection, 1933-ca.1985.

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The collection consists of scrapbooks ranging in date from 1933-1938. The scrapbooks hold newspaper clippings highlighting Venable's stage and film career. Also included is a series of loose newspaper clippings of which there are subseries related to Venable's teaching career at UCLA, her father Professor Emerson Venable, and a collection highlighting the stage career of Shakespearean actor Walter Hampden. Also included is a series dedicated to Venable's roles in Shakespearean stage performances. Of particular interest is a landscape watercolor, attributed to an "E.V." possibly Venable or her father, as well as an eight page typed poem by her grandfather, William Henry Venable.

4 boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Venable, Evelyn, 1913-1993

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Evelyn Venable was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 18, 1913, the only child of Professor Emerson Venable and Dolores Cameron. Evelyn's acting career began in her junior year, when at the age of 14 she was cast to play Juliet in her high school's production of "Romeo and Juliet". The praise from critics led to her professional debut in the Cincinnati Civic Theatre production of "Dear Brutus". Evelyn went on to play Rosalind in "As You Like It" during her senior year at Walnut Hills. At 16, ha...