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Actors

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered general works on both male and female actors collectively, works on both male and female stage actors collectively and works on individual male and female stage actors. Works on male actors collectively are entered under Male actors. Works on female actors collectively are entered under Actresses. Works on actors, collectively or individually, specializing in particular media are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. Television actors and actresses, with an additional heading Male actors or Actresses, assigned as appropriate to works of collective biography.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Jack Randall Crawford Modern Drama Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 10
Abstract:

Photographic prints and clippings relating to English and American Drama as collected by Jack Randall Crawford, the staff of the Drama Library, and others.

Dates: 1850-1979

Crawford Theater collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1387
Abstract:

The collection consists of playbills and programs, photographs in a variety of formats, engravings, posters, clippings, and other printed material which document the performing arts in the United States and throughout the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Material relating to dramatic performance forms the nucleus of the collection, but dance, opera, motion picture, circus, radio, and television performances are also represented.

Dates: 1663-1992

R. G. Davis papers relating to Dario Fo

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1520
Content Description:

The R. G. Davis papers relating to Dario Fo contain correspondence, writings, printed material, contracts, programs, photographs, audiovisual materials, and other papers that document Davis’s productions of plays by Fo, including The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, and Female Parts, in 1979 and through the early 1980s.

Dates: 1950-2017 (bulk 1979-1986)

Joseph Norton Ireland papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 621
Abstract: The collection contains material relating to Ireland's research and writings on American theater and personal papers. Forty-nine volumes in the collection contain clippings, printed ephemera, such as playbills, autograph manuscript material, letters, and other material, as well as lists of theatrical performances and lists and profiles of stage performers. The collection features drafts, proofs, and an extra-illustrated version of Ireland's major publication, Records of the New York Stage...
Dates: 1770-1902

Henry Hurford Janes-Josephine Baker collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 2
Abstract:

The Henry Hurford Janes-Josephine Baker Collection consists of letters, biographical materials, clippings, and photographs collected by Mr. Janes documenting Josephine Baker's life, principally after 1943.

Dates: 1926-1986

George Platt Lynes scrapbooks

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 139
Abstract: Two scrapbooks, with loose pages and items, containing clippings, original photographic prints (by Lynes and others, including PAJAMA and Brassai), postcards, and reproductions of artworks. These volumes document Lynes's focus on photographic design elements and his developing aesthetic in his early years. Among the subjects represented are: Royal families; athletes; popular musical and film performers (with numerous images of Johnny Weismuller and Marlene Dietrich); nude models; Pavel...
Dates: circa 1900-1955

Paul Newman scripts and films

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 384
Abstract: The collection consists of scripts and film reels documenting aspects of the film and theater career of Paul Newman. Scripts include annotated typescript drafts of screenplays (annotations seem to be those of Newman) for films, including The Color of Money, that shed light on Newman's creative process as an actor and his contributions to the screenplay revision process, as well as bound typescript copies of screenplays with photographs that document the production of certain films, such as...
Dates: 1956-1989

Nineteenth-century photograph collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 25
Abstract:

Collection consists of nineteenth-century photographs and carte de visite.

Dates: [1877-1891]

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)

Aileen Pringle papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 56
Abstract:

The Aileen Pringle Papers consist of letters, photographs and personal papers relating to Pringle's career as a silent film actress and her relationship with H. L. Mencken.

Dates: 1887-1970

Lloyd Richards papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 176
Abstract: The Lloyd Richards Papers document the life and work of the director, educator, and actor Lloyd Richards. The papers consist of production files, professional papers, photographs, correspondence, programs, audiovisual and printed material spanning the years 1944 to 2004.The papers primarily document the professional life of Lloyd Richards through his production files, professional papers, and Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center administrative files. Production files contain materials...
Dates: 1944-2004

Souvenir Theatrical Postcard Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 26
Abstract:

The collection consists of 19th century and early 20th century souvenir theatrical postcards documenting performers in full costume.

Dates: circa 1880-1920

Donald Crossley Vining papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 524
Abstract: The papers consist of the diaries of Donald Crossley Vining for the years 1932-1958 and for 1971-1985, as well as typed transcripts from his diaries for 1926-1927. The diaries provide a detailed account of the life of an intellectual, homosexual man in the 1940s and 1950s. Vining, who spent most of his adult life in New York, took a great interest in the arts, and his diaries contain descriptions of operas and plays which he attended; outlines of his current writing projects and theater...
Dates: 1926-1997