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Nazimova collection, 1877-1988
1400 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actress. Correspondence, programs, press clippings, and scrapbooks documenting the American stage and film career of the Russian-born actress Nazimova, particularly during the silent film era.
Vincent Price papers, 1883-1992
60,000 items. 230 containers plus 8 oversize. 92.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor, art collector, and supporter of the arts. Correspondence, speeches and writings, lectures, business records, family papers, scripts, programs, playbills, publicity material, photographs, and other papers documenting Price's career as an actor in the theater, motion pictures, and television, as an art collector, critic, and consultant, and as a gourmet cook.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
May Robson papers, 1849-1955
450 items. 16 containers plus 5 oversize. 7 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actress and author. Correspondence, books, playscripts, and other material autographed or created by prominent actors and producers of stage and screen from the late nineteenth-century until Robson’s death; also includes scrapbooks, playbills, correspondence, photographs, and other material documenting her life and stage and film career.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
Lee Strasberg papers, 1780-2006
100,000 items. 290 containers plus 19 oversize. 123 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor, director, and acting teacher. Correspondence, memoranda, production files, lectures, writings, scripts, biographical material, printed matter, and other papers relating to Strasberg's theatrical and film career, Method acting, the Actors Studio, and theater history.
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Access restrictions apply.
Some or all content stored offsite.
Rudolph and Joseph Schildkraut scrapbooks, 1867-1964
around 1,000 items in 4 volumes. 4 containers. 4 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Rudolph Schildkraut (1862-1930) and his son, Joseph Schildkraut (1895-1964), were Austrian-American stage and film actors. The collection documents their personal and professional lives on European and American stage and screen through photographs, clippings, programs, and iconography mounted in four scrapbooks.
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy papers, 1885-2007
115,400 items. 411 containers plus 68 oversize. 180 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor, producer, and director Hume Cronyn and stage and film actor Jessica Tandy. Family papers, correspondence, annual file, productions and projects file, and scrapbooks documenting Cronyn and Tandy's stage, screen, and television performances and Cronyn's activities as a director, producer, and writer.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
Sid Caesar papers, 1950-1963
2000 items. 46 containers plus 1 oversize. 18.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor and comedian. Chiefly annotated working scripts for "Your Show of Shows" (1950-1954), the television series in which Caesar appeared with Imogene Coca, Howard Morris, and Carl Reiner; and scripts and production files for "Caesar's Hour" (1955-1957), the series in which he appeared with Janet Blair, Nanette Fabray, and Morris and Reiner.
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Some or all content stored offsite.
Sam Jaffe papers, 1915-1991
1,175 items. 4 containers. 1.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor. Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe’s career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s.
Arnold Moss papers, 1935-1987
2,100 items. 11 containers. 4.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor, director, theatrical producer, and crossword puzzle maker. Correspondence, contracts, scripts, playbills and programs, financial records, speeches, writings, drafts of crossword puzzles, and printed matter documenting Moss's career primarily as a stage actor, producer, and director.
Garson Kanin papers, 1941-1965
2,500 items. 18 containers. 7.5 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
Actor, author, producer, and director. Correspondence and production material relating to Kanin's stage and film projects.