Found 5 collections related to Moorehead,%20Agnes,%201906-1974

Georgia Johnstone Papers regarding Agnes Moorehead consist primarily of correspondence between actress, Moorehead and Johnstone, her personal secretary. The letters by Moorehead are rich in the details of her life and her acting career. Letters written by Johnstone on which Moorehead scrawled her answers are filed with the letters Moorehead wrote. There is some correspondence each woman had with third parties, but it all pertains to Moorehead. Also includes a small amount of production material such as scripts she considered and texts for her one-woman show, two speeches she gave, a few programs and itineraries, memos of the Agnes Moorehead fan club, and biographical sketches, clippings and two scrapbooks about Moorehead. less

Donehue was a director working primarily for the New York stage and television in the 1950s and 1960s. He also directed two films in Hollywood. The collection includes personal correspondence; production files containing notes, letters, partial scripts, cast lists, contracts and financial papers; complete scripts, many for television shows; clippings of reviews; and a few manuscripts and photographs. less

The Railroad hour was a program which presented excerpts of famous musical comedies, as well as original stories, for radio audiences. Each half-hour episode of the program presented the highlights of one musical. Gordon MacRae was the host and leading man for each episode; his leading ladies came from radio and the Metropolitan Opera. less

The Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings forms a part of the Toscanini Legacy housed at The New York Public Library. The recordings collection consists of acetate discs, shellac discs, vinyl discs, reel tapes, Selenophone recordings, kinescope films, and metal parts for 78 rpm recordings. It includes a set of 1926 La Scala rehearsals for concerts on October 7-9, 1926, then skips to the 1939/40 season, beginning with the rehearsals on April 10-12, 1940. The collection contains comprehensive holdings of rehearsals from the 1946/47 season to the 1953/54 season, as well as performance recordings from the 1932/33 season through the 1953/54 season, and recording sessions from 1920 to 1954. less