Nell Shipman files, 1916-1996.

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Nell Shipman files, 1916-1996.

Correspondence, research notes, newspaper clippings, grant applications, and other papers, relating to Trusky's research on silent filmmaker Nell Shipman, the posthumous publication of her autobiography and Trusky's work to save and restore her films, particularly those made in Idaho.

ca. 4 ft.

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Morris, Peter, 1937-

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Trusky, Tom

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Professor of English, Boise State University, and resident of Boise's North End neighborhood. From the description of North End Neighborhood Association files, 1976-1982. (Boise State University). WorldCat record id: 653279981 ...

Shipman, Nell, 1892-1970

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Nell Shipman's life in show business began on the repertory and vaudeville stages and spanned the eras of silent film, radio, the talkies, and television. She toured with the likes of Jesse Lasky, Paul Gilmore, Dick Sutton, and Charles A. Taylor in the first decade of the twentieth century, made silent films in the 1910s and 20s, and spent the next forty years writing novels, plays, film scenarios, and short stories. She lived in Los Angeles and New York, Miami and Seattle, New Engl...

Shipman, Barry, 1912-1994

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The son of two show-business parents, Barry Shipman (1912-1994) spent a lifetime in the film industry. He made cameo appearances in silent films, scripted some of Flash Gordon's and Dick Tracy's most memorable adventures, penned television Westerns, and produced technical films on the space program and Cold War weapons systems. His father, Ernest Shipman, was a theatrical producer and financier who met Barry's mother, Nell, an actress, when she auditioned for a part in one of his sh...