Papers of Booton Herndon. [manuscript], 1970-1988.

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Papers of Booton Herndon. [manuscript], 1970-1988.

Papers of Booton Herndon consisting of material pertaining to the researching, writing, and publication of his book, "Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks." The papers include manuscripts; drafts; revisions; contracts; correspondence; photographs; interviews; tear sheets; outlines; chronologies of the lives of Pickford and Fairbanks; sources and notes; publicity, sales and promotion material; recordings including a psychoanalysis of Pickford and Fairbanks by Seymour Rabinowitz; clippings; and a record of expenses. There is correspondence about the production of the book and its subjects with agent Sterling Lord; publisher Eric Swenson; relatives and friends of Pickford and Fairbanks, including Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Matty Kemp; and Ted Galvin on film out-takes. A folder of interviews and short biographies contains information on Johnny Mack Brown, Allan Dwan, Arthur Edeson, Lucky Humberstone, Chuck Lewis, Anita Loos, Frances Marion, Buddy Mason, Hal Mohr, Bull Montana, Mickey Neilan, Paul O'Brien, Buddy Rogers, Bobby Rose, Larry Tailer, Charles Rosher, Blanche Sweet, and Bob Thomas.

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Herndon, Booton, 1915-1995

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Booton Herndon was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on December 9, 1915. He attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and later relocated to New Orleans, where he worked for the Item Tribune. He served in the United States Army from 1943 through 1945, and resided in Manhattan, in New York City in the late 1940s. Herndon wrote prolifically, authoring dozens of books on a variety of topics, and thousands of articles. He died in Charlottesville, Virginia on March 29, 1995....

Galvin, Ted,

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Edeson, Arthur, 1891-1970

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Lewis, Charles E., 1928-

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Pickford, Mary, 1892-1979

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Actress; interviewee married Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and Charles (Buddy) Rogers. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Pickford : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419352 Star of the silent screen, Mary Pickford, called America's sweetheart, was perhaps the most famous actress of her day. From the guide to the Mary Pickford scrapbook, 1915-1917, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Divisio...

Fairbanks, Douglas, 1909-2000.

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American actor and writer; b. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; d. 2000. From the description of Douglas Fairbanks collection, 1888-1980. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70925544 Epithet: actor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000472.0x000376 ...

Mohr, Hal, 1894-1974

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Rogers, Buddy, 1904-1999

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Lord, Sterling, 1920-

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Brown, Johnny Mack

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Actor. From the description of Reminiscences of Johnny Mack Brown : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619622 ...

Kemp, Matty

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Montana, Bull, 1887-1950

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Loos, Anita, 1893-1981

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Anita Loos, screenwriter and novelist, was born on April 26, 1893, in Sisson, CA, the daughter of R. Beers and Minnie Ellen Loos. Miss Loos wrote the subtitles for D. W. Griffith's film, Intolerance, in 1916. Her best known work is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She died on August 18, 1981, at the age of 93. From the guide to the Anita Loos papers, 1917-1981, (The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.) American author and screenwriter. From the descrip...

Humberstone, H. Bruce, 1901-1984

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Dwan, Allan, 1885-1981

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Allan Dwan was a film director. He was born in Toronto, Canada on April 3, 1885. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in electrical engineering. Allan worked for Essanay as a scenario editor, later moving to the American Film Company. He married Betty Marie Shelton and had no children. He directed more than 400 films from 1909 until his death. His pictures included "Hold Back the Night", "Restless Breed", and "Rivers Edge." Allan Dwan died of heart failure on December 21,...

Swenson, Eric, 1918-2003

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Rose, Bobby

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Sweet, Blanche

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Actress, producer; interviewee married Raymond Hackett. From the description of Reminiscences of Blanche Sweet : oral history, 1981. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738484 American actress. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : [New York], to Edward Wagenknecht, 1970 Sept. 6 and Oct. 22, and [1975]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270867459 ...

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973

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Screenwriter. From the description of Reminiscences of Frances Marion : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528565 ...

Thomas, Bob, 1922-2014

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Robert Joseph Thomas was born January 26, 1922 in San Diego, Calif. He grew up in Los Angeles where his publicist father, George Thomas, worked for Mary Pickford and a number of movie studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount and Columbia. Thomas attended the University of California, Los Angeles (graduated 1943), where he wrote an entertainment column for the UCLA humor magazine, The Claw, which he edited. He joined The Associated Press in Los Angeles with the hope of becoming a war corre...

Neilan, Marshall A., 1891-1958

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Rosher, Charles, 1885-1974

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Rabinowitz, Seymour.

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Mason, Buddy.

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Fairbanks, Douglas, 1883-1939

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O'Brien, Paul

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Tailer, Lorillard S.

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