Found 2 collections related to Nolan, Doris, 1916-1998

Doris Nolan (1916-1998) was a theater and film actor. She made her Broadway debut in 1935 in the play Night of January 16. She continued to be active on Broadway and in American film through the 1940s. The Doris Nolan papers (1930-1944) document her career through photographs, scrapbooks, programs, and pressbooks. The collection contains publicity photographs of Nolan and her costars in films such as The Man I Marry (1936), Top of the Town (1937), and Holiday (1938), and in plays such as Arrest That Woman (1936), Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (1937), The Doughgirls (1942) and the touring production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941). Scrapbooks date from 1930 to 1944 and primarily contain clippings and programs. The earliest materials in the scrapbooks document Nolan's performances in high school productions in New Rochelle, New York. The collection also contains pressbooks for the films The Man I Marry and Top of the Town. less

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period. less