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{"value"=>"1880s-2011", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1880/2011"}
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{"value"=>"Barnard Hughes and Helen Stenborg papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"28 boxes, 1 oversize folder", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11.30 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Barnard Hughes (1915-2006) and Helen Stenborg (1925-2011) were prolific stage and screen actors. Hughes was best known for his award-winning turn as the titular character in <span class=\"title\">Da</span>, and Stenborg performed extensively with the Circle Repertory Company. Their papers date from the 1880s to 2011, and chronicle their professional careers and personal collecting interests through posters, programs, photographs, correspondence, engravings, scripts, manuscripts, and award trophies. The collection also contains theater memorabilia that Hughes inherited from Thelma Chandler, a stage manager. The Chandler memorabilia includes correspondence from Margaret Webster, the American director, producer, and actress."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Barnard Hughes (born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes; 1915, Bedford Hills, New York) was an actor on the stage and screen, best known for his 1978 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award-winning turn as the titular character in the play, <span class=\"title\">Da</span>. Hughes attended La Salle Academy and Manhattan College in New York City. He made his professional stage debut in 1934 at the age of nineteen in the Shakespeare Fellowship of America production of <span class=\"title\">The Taming of the Shrew</span>. Shortly after his debut, Hughes left Manhattan College, changed his stage name to Barnard Hughes, and toured the United States with a Chicago-based repertory company and comedy troupe.</p> <p>Although Hughes made his Broadway debut in the 1939 flop <span class=\"title\">Please, Mrs. Garibaldi</span>, he went onto a successful stage career. He appeared in twenty-two Broadway shows including <span class=\"title\">Advise and Consent</span> (1960); <span class=\"title\">Hamlet</span> starring Richard Burton (1964); <span class=\"title\">How Now, Dow Jones</span> (1967); as Dogberry in <span class=\"title\">Much Ado About Nothing</span> (1972), which earned him a Tony Award nomination; <span class=\"title\">Da</span> (1978); <span class=\"title\">Angels Fall</span> (1983); <span class=\"title\">The Iceman Cometh</span> (1985); <span class=\"title\">Prelude to a Kiss</span> opposite Alec Baldwin (1990); and <span class=\"title\">Waiting in the Wings</span> (1999).</p> <p>From the 1950s through the 1960s, Hughes played minor roles in motion pictures and television series. He appeared in several films including <span class=\"title\">Midnight Cowboy</span> (1969), <span class=\"title\">The Hospital</span> (1971), and <span class=\"title\">Tron</span> (1982). In 1978, he won the outstanding lead actor for a single appearance in a drama or comedy series Emmy Award for an episode on <span class=\"title\">Lou Grant</span>. Hughes returned to the eponymous role of <span class=\"title\">Da</span> for the 1988 film adaptation.</p> <p>In 1946, Hughes met Helen Joan Stenborg (born 1925 in Minneapolis, Minnesota), an actress, while rehearsing for a veteran's hospital show. They married in 1950, had two children, Doug and Laura, and appeared in several plays together including, <span class=\"title\">Waiting in the Wings</span> (1999) and the national tour of <span class=\"title\">Da</span> (1979).</p> <p>Stenborg also had a profuse stage and screen career. She was a longtime member of the Circle Repertory Company, appearing in several original Lanford Wilson productions. Stenborg received a Tony Award nomination for her role in Noel Coward's <span class=\"title\">Waiting in the Wings</span> (1999) and a Richard Seff Award for her performance in <span class=\"title\">Vigil</span> (2009). In addition to <span class=\"title\">Waiting in the Wings</span>, she appeared in eight other Broadway plays including <span class=\"title\">A Doll's House</span> (1975), <span class=\"title\">A Life</span> (1980), and <span class=\"title\">The Crucible</span> (2002) starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Stenborg also worked extensively in television and film. Her film appearances include <span class=\"title\">Marvin's Room</span> (1996), <span class=\"title\">Enchanted</span> (2007), and <span class=\"title\">Doubt</span> (2008).</p> <p>Helen Stenborg died in New York City in 2011. She was predeceased by Barnard Hughes who died in New York City in 2006.</p> <p>Thelma Chandler came to New York City in the 1920s and initially worked as a dancer with the Albertina Rasch Dancers. Chandler started working for British-born actress, producer, director, and writer, Eva Le Gallienne as an office girl at the Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th Street. She learned stage managing from the stagehands at the Civic, eventually working her way from fifth assistant stage manager to stage manager. Chandler worked extensively as a stage manager on theater productions directed and produced by Margaret Webster. She also served as the stage manager for many touring productions, including the 1957 to 1959 tour of <span class=\"title\">No Time for Sergeants</span> and the 1965 to 1966 North American tour of <span class=\"title\">Funny Girl</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Barnard Hughes and Helen Stenborg papers, dating from the 1880s to 2011, recount the couple's professional lives and collecting interests. The bulk of the collection highlights stage productions, repertory companies, and accolades from the Hughes' stage careers through correspondence; programs; annotated scripts; play manuscripts; photographs; notebooks; posters; a video recording and transcriptions of award introductions and speeches; honorary certificates and plaques; and award trophies and statuettes. A few of Hughes' motion picture and television roles are represented by way of annotated screenplays, photographs, and premiere programs. The collection holds some personal material, including an engravings collection of famous 19th Century British and American actors, and notebooks with inspirational quotes about acting, poems, and blocking notes. The papers also include a series of theater memorabilia from Thelma Chandler, an American stage manager. The Chandler series details her work and relationships with Margaret Webster and Eva Le Gallienne.</p> <p>The collection is arranged into four series: Theater and Film Productions and Events; Awards and Accolades; Hughes and Stenborg Personal Files; and Thelma Chandler Theater Memorabilia.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Barnard Hughes and Helen Stenborg papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/29952#c1674752'>Series I: Theater and Film Productions and Events</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1924-2010</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series, dating from 1924 to 2010, consists of programs; annotated scripts and scenarios; play manuscripts; photographs; posters; tickets; caricatures; and correspondence from the Hughes' years performing on the stage and screen. While most of the material comes from the Hughes' work on Broadway productions, their early work in repertory and summer stock companies, such as the Tenthouse Theatre Stock Company, are also present through programs, flyers, and annotated play manuscripts. Hughes' roles in <span class=\"title\">Da</span> (1978-1980), <span class=\"title\">Hamlet</span> (1964), <span class=\"title\">The Teahouse of the August Moon</span> (1955-1956), <span class=\"title\">Much Ado About Nothing</span> (1972), and <span class=\"title\">All Over Town</span> (1974-1975) are thoroughly recorded through posters; photographs; annotated scripts; programs; and correspondence from fans, producers, castmates, and family. There are three annotated screenplays and a few call sheets from Hughes' roles in <span class=\"title\">TRON</span> (1981), <span class=\"title\">The Hospital</span> (1971), and the television movie <span class=\"title\">Where's Poppa?</span> (1964).</p> <p>The series also illustrates Stenborg's work as a member of the Circle Repertory Company, and roles in <span class=\"title\">Waiting in the Wings</span> (1999-2000), <span class=\"title\">A Month in the Country</span> (1995), <span class=\"title\">A Doll's House</span> (1972-1975), and <span class=\"title\">Sheep on the Runway</span> (1970) through annotated scripts, photographs, programs, and correspondence from admirers, castmates, and family. Of note are annotated manuscripts and scripts from various productions; a limited edition screenplay of <span class=\"title\">Da</span> (1987) signed by the film's producers; and a closing night memento dedicated to Hughes and signed by the Broadway cast of <span class=\"title\">Da</span> (1979).</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/29952#c1674834'>Series II: Awards and Accolades</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1955-2010</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series spans from 1955 to 2010, and incorporates correspondence; invitations; honorary citations; programs; tickets; certificates; plaques; a video recording and transcriptions of award speeches; award trophies and statuettes that Hughes and Stenborg received in recognition of their professional work. Most of the series features materials generated from various award events, such as the Drama Desk Awards, Helen Hays Awards, Tony Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the Actors' Fund of America, honoring Hughes and Stenborg. Of note are congratulatory correspondence addressed to Hughes from producers, colleagues, friends, and admirers for his Tony Award win; Doug Hughes' speech from a roast and toast event for Hughes; and Laura Hughes' introduction for Stenborg when she received a Richard Seff Award.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/29952#c1674861'>Series III: Hughes and Stenborg Personal Files</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1880s-2011</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The files date from the 1880s to 2011, and constitute correspondence, photographs, engravings, notebooks, and some ephemera collected and created by the Hughes. Most of the files consist of an engraving collection that features famous 19th Century British and American stage actors, as well as personal correspondence written to Hughes and Stenborg individually and collectively. When Hughes died in 2006, Stenborg retained the sympathy letters and cards that she received from theater colleagues and friends. Of note are Stenborg and Hughes' notebooks that contain insights on their approaches to acting, inspirational quotes from plays, poems, and blocking notes.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/29952#c1674879'>Series IV: Thelma Chandler Theater Memorabilia</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1890s-1976</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series spans from the 1890s to 1976, and contains photographs; correspondence; programs; sheet music; tour schedules; a plugging chart (a hand drawn chart of the sockets in the plugboard and the placement of the stage lights in the theater); production cost lists; set design drawings; and notes from Thelma Chandler's work as a stage manager. The series contains Chandler's biographical notes that explain how she got her start working for Eva Le Gallienne at the Civic Repertory Theatre in the 1930s as an assistant stage manager. Chandler held onto letters from Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, with whom she worked closely for nearly a decade.</p> <p>In the Webster correspondence, Webster describes her daily work as a director and producer, as well as her romantic relationships with Le Gallienne and Pamela Frankau, the English novelist. The series details Chandler's professional life touring with the Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company through correspondence, photographs, programs, sheet music, tour schedules, and production cost lists. Chandler maintained photographs of famous stage and screen actors from the 1890s to the 1950s, some of which are signed. Of note are photographs of Le Gallienne's 1932 stage production of <span class=\"title\">Alice in Wonderland</span> and a plugging chart from the 1965 to 1966 North American tour of <span class=\"title\">Funny Girl</span>.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the Estate of Helen Stenborg Hughes in 2012.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Amy Lau</span> in <span class=\"date\">2022</span>.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Inquiries regarding audio and moving image materials in the collection may be directed to the Billy Rose Theatre Division (theatre@nypl.org). Audio and moving image materials may be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.</p>"}
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1880
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1880
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2011
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1880
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2011
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1940
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1989
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11.30 linear feet (28 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
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{"value"=>"Barnard Hughes and Helen Stenborg papers, *T-Mss 2012-008. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}