Vaughn Monroe photo collection, 1928-1952.

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Vaughn Monroe photo collection, 1928-1952.

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Photographs include publicity stills from Monroe's films, Monroe with guests at various functions, pictures of Monroe with staff from The Meadows, and pictures of Monroe with early bands he belonged to while living in Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a framed membership certificate from ASCAP and a framed advertisment from the Dec. 27, 1952 issue of Collier's that has Monroe promoting Camel cigarettes. Notable people photographed include Spike Jones, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Ginny Simms, Charlie Spivak, Ella Raines, Walter Brennan, Jeff Corey, Ward Bond, Joan Leslie, Benny Goodman, Bob Hawk, Jimmy Durante, and Martin and Esther Block.

39 items (1.6 linear ft.)

New England Conservatory of Music, Harriet M. Spaulding Library

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New England Conservatory of Music, Harriet M. Spaulding Library

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Monroe, Vaughn, 1911-1973

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Vaughn Monroe (1911-1973) was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor. Born in Akron, Ohio, on October 7, 1911, he graduated from Jeannette High School in Pennsylvania in 1929, later attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In the late 1930s he studied voice at the New England Conservatory of Music. Monroe formed his own band in Boston in 1940, and immediately had a big hit with There I Go, quickly followed by My Devotion, When The ...