Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1897, Oct. 8 | Born, Tiflis (now Tiblisi), Georgia, Caucasus, Russia |
| circa 1906-circa 1907 | Lived in Paris, France. Went by the name of Robert Mamouloff |
| circa 1915-circa 1917 | Studied law, University of Moscow, Russia Studied at Vachtangov Studio, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia |
| 1920 | Moved to London, England |
| 1922 | Director, The Beating on the Door, a play by Austin Page |
| 1923 | Emigrated to the United States |
| 1923-1925 | Vice director, Eastman School of Music operatic department, Rochester, N.Y. Directed operas performed by the American Opera Co., Eastman Theatre, Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1925-1926 | Director, Eastman School of the Dance and Dramatic Action, Rochester, N.Y. |
| 1926-1927 | Directed productions, Theatre Guild School, Scarborough, N.Y. |
| 1927 | Director, Porgy, a play by Dorothy Heyward and Du Bose Heyward |
| 1928 | Director, Marco Millions, a play by Eugene O'Neill Director, These Modern Women, a play by Lawrence Langner Director, Café Tomaza, a play by William Dubois Director, Women, a play by Edith Ellis and Edward Ellis Director, Congai, a play by Harry Hervey and Carleton Hildreth Director, Wings Over Europe, a play by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne |
| 1929 | Director, R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), a play by Karel Capek Director, Game of Love and Death, a play by Romain Rolland Director, Applause, a Paramount Pictures film |
| 1930 | Granted U. S. citizenship through naturalization Director and adaptor, A Month in the Country, a play by Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Rouben Mamoulian Director, Die Gluckliche Hand, music by Arnold Schoenberg Director, Solid South, a play by Lawton Campbell Director, A Farewell to Arms, a play adapted by Laurence Stallings |
| 1931 | Director, City Streets, a Paramount Pictures film Director, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a Paramount Pictures film |
| 1932 | Director, Love Me Tonight, a Paramount Pictures film |
| 1933 | Director, Song of Songs and Queen Christina, Paramount Pictures films |
| 1934 | Director, We Live Again, a Samuel Goldwyn Co. film |
| 1935 | Director, Becky Sharp, Pioneer Pictures, the first Technicolor feature film Director, Porgy and Bess,a folk opera with music by George Gershwin |
| 1936 | Director, The Gay Desperado, a Pickford-Lasky Productions film |
| 1936-1939 | Board member, Directors Guild of America (originally Screen Directors Guild of America) |
| 1937 | Director, High, Wide and Handsome, a Paramount Pictures film |
| 1938 | Director, Porgy and Bess, Los Angeles, Calif. |
| 1939 | Director, Golden Boy, a Columbia Pictures film |
| 1940 | Director, The Mark of Zorro, a Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. film |
| 1941 | Director, Blood and Sand, a Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. film |
| 1941-1942 | Director, Rings on Her Fingers, a Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. film |
| 1943 | Director, Oklahoma!, a musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) |
| 1944 | Fired as director of Laura, a Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. film Director, Sadie Thompson, a musical play by Howard Dietz and Mamoulian with music by Vernon Duke |
| 1944-1946 | Board member, Directors Guild of America |
| 1945 | Married Azadia Newman (died 1999) Director, Carousel, a musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) |
| 1946 | Director, St. Louis Woman, a play by Arna Bontemps and Countee Cullen with music by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer Director, Summer Holiday, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film |
| 1948-1949 | Director, Leaf and Bough, a play by Joseph Hayes |
| 1949 | Director, Lost in the Stars, a play by Maxwell Anderson with music by Kurt Weill |
| 1950 | Director, Arms and the Girl, a play by Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields, and Mamoulian with music by Morton Gould and Dorothy Fields |
| 1952-1953 | Board member, Directors Guild of America |
| 1953-1958 | Board member and first vice president, Directors Guild of America |
| 1954 | Director, Carousel, Civic Light Opera, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif. |
| 1955 | Director, Oklahoma!, Salute to France program, Paris, France and tour of Rome, Milan, Naples, and Venice, Italy |
| 1956-1957 | Director, Silk Stockings, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film |
| 1958 | Fired as director of Porgy and Bess, a Samuel Goldwyn Co. film |
| 1959-1961 | First director of Cleopatra, a Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. film; resigned Jan. 1961 |
| 1964 | Published Abigayil: The Story of the Cat at the Manger. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society |
| 1965 | Published Shakespeare's Hamlet: A New Version. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co. |
| 1987, Dec. 4 | Died, Los Angeles, Calif. |