Gielgud, John, 1904-2000
Person
Dates
- Existence: April 14, 1904 - May 21, 2000
Biography
John Gielgud (1904-2000), English actor and theatre director.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1012
Abstract:
The collection consists chiefly of correspondence to the piano duo Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale. Correspondence, dating from the mid 1950s to the end of their professional career in the early-mid 1980s, includes large files for Fizdale's family and their mutual friend Harold Talbott, as well as small files for writers, artists and performers, cultural figures and philanthropists, and others. Correspondents include: Brooke Astor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elizabeth Bishop, Eleanor Clark, Alice...
Dates:
1954-1991
Myers family papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 27
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence with family, friends, and acquaintances, plus a variety of personal papers, including obituaries, letters of sympathy, diaries, and scrapbooks documenting the lives of Richard E. and Alice Lee Myers and their children. Prominent correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Nadia Boulanger, Grace Flandrau, John Gielgud, Charlotte Kett, Archibald MacLeish, and Gerald Murphy.
Dates:
1908-1986
The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 52
Abstract:
The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers consist mainly of photographs taken by the German-American recording engineer and photographer Frederick Plaut (1907-1985). Correspondence and other papers relating to Plaut and his wife are also included.
Dates:
1907-1986 (inclusive)
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection
Collection
Call Number: MSS 54
Abstract:
The collection includes the correspondence of and with various secretaries of the Royal College of Art (RCA) Students’ Group, or Sketch Club, and contains 79 letters and postcards and 11 draft letters, written between 1934 and 1937. The materials focus primarily on the group’s annual exhibition, and discuss the facilities, invite prominent figures, and solicit donations and judges for special prizes. The letters’ authors include, in addition to the groups’ secretaries, several notable...
Dates:
1934-1937