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Motion picture actors and actresses -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Dean Jagger papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 60
Scope and Contents The collection includes correspondence, photographs, scripts, tape recorded interviews with transcriptions, publicity material and production stills relating to Mr. Jagger's show business career. While material on most films is limited to a still or a press clipping, the bulk of the collection covers the years 1934-1965 and more comprehensively documents major theater performances and the motion pictures "Brigham Young" (1940), "Western Union" (1941), and "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949). The...
Dates: 1905-1974

May Mann papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1449
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper-column and magazine-article tearsheets and typescripts; book drafts; and other materials relating to her journalism career.

Dates: 1930-1982

May Mann advertising files, 1939-1975

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains business and promotional Christmas cards, movie stargraphs, fliers and broadsides, newsletters, advertising memos, press passes, catalogs, and commercials.

Dates: Other: 1939-1975

May Mann business correspondence, 1930-1982

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains letters that are connected with Mann's career in any way. There are letters from her publishers, rejection slips, and correspondence from her colleagues. There are also letters from many of the stars she wrote about. These include letters from Carol Burnett, Joan Crawford, Lou Costello, Bette Davis, Jimmy durante, Richard Nixon, Mary Pickford, Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Stanwyck, Connie Stevens, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and a complete folder of correspondence with the...
Dates: Other: 1930-1982

May Mann business papers, 1930-1982

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, advertising, and financial records dealing strictly with the promotion and selling of Mann's writing.

Dates: Other: 1930-1982

May Mann calendars, 1974-1981

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains Mann's personal calendars, which include her annotations on events and activities.

Dates: Other: 1974-1981

May Mann columns, 1936-1981

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Tearsheets and typescripts from Mann's columns entitled "Going Hollywood", "Hollywood Stardust", "Hollywood's Younger Set", "Dear Betty Ann", "Young Hollywood", "Weekend in Hollywood", "And That's Hollywood", "Filmland gossip", "Private Wire", "Talk of TV", "Hollywood Day by Day", "Hollywood Headlines", "Hollywood", "May Mann's Hollywood", "Intimate Hollywood", "Here, There, and Everywhere," and "May Mann"; as published in assorted newspapers such as the Ogden Standard Examiner, Hollywood on...
Dates: Other: 1936-1981

May Mann correspondence, 1941-1982

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains general correspondence, as well as those between Mann and Al Leon, Buddy Baer, Donald Maloof, George Dareos, Benito Prezia, and Sheery Spilkoman's grandchildren.

Dates: Other: 1941-1982

May Mann feature articles, 1936-1979

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Typescripts and photocopies of Mann's pieces on actors, actresses, films, and events.

Dates: Other: 1936-1979

May Mann fiction, undated

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 1449 Series 3 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains typescripts of early material (subjects or titles unspecified), and drafts of an article "I Was a Discarded Wife".

Dates: Other: undated