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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"2.44 linear feet (4 boxes, 2 scrapbooks)"}
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 1999-025", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21528", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"Elisabeth Fraser papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division."}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Elisabeth Fraser was a stage, screen and television actress. Her papers consist of correspondence, diaries and journals, scripts and ephemera documenting her career."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Elisabeth Fraser Papers, *T-Mss 1999-025, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Fraser, Elisabeth", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"persname\">Elisabeth Fraser</span>, actress of the stage, screen and television, was born Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, NY in 1920. Miss Fraser attended school in Haiti, France and New York, graduating from Washington Irving High School. As a result of her various travels she learned to speak several languages. She also spent a number of summers in Vermont performing in summer stock companies.</p> <p>Elisabeth Fraser made her New York debut in 1940 in a production of Robert E. Sherwood's play <span class=\"title\">There Shall Be No Night</span>, produced by the Playwright's Company and the Theatre Guild and starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She played the character of Kaatri Alquist, opposite Montgomery Clift. In the midst of the national tour of the production, Fraser went to Hollywood and completed a successful screen test. She made her screen debut in 1941 playing the character of Eileen Spence in <span class=\"title\">One Foot in Heaven</span>, which starred Frederic March.</p> <p>For the next forty years she worked continuously on the stage, screen and television. Her best known appearance was as Sergeant Joan Hogan on the CBS television series<span class=\"title\"> The Phil Silvers Show</span>, from 1955-1958. She also made guest appearances in numerous other television shows including <span class=\"title\">Maude</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Monkees</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Man From U.N.C.L.E.</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rawhide</span>, <span class=\"title\">Perry Mason</span> and <span class=\"title\">Alfred Hitchcock Presents</span>. Her stage and screen appearances include <span class=\"title\">Winged Victory</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Tunnel of Love</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Best Man</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Man Who Came to Dinner</span>,<span class=\"title\"> Commandos Strike at Dawn</span>, <span class=\"title\">Death of a Salesman</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Glass Bottom Boat</span>, <span class=\"title\">Seconds</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Way West</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Graduate</span> and <span class=\"title\">Nine to Five</span>.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Elisabeth Fraser Papers were donated by her daughter, Liza McDonald, in 1999.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Elisabeth Fraser Papers consist of <span class=\"genreform\">correspondence</span>, a <span class=\"genreform\">diary</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">journal</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">clippings</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">scripts</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">screenplays</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">photographs</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">programs</span> and ephemera relating to her various stage, screen and television roles. The collection is divided into three series: Personal Papers, Productions, and Scrapbooks. The bulk of the collection contains material directly related to a number, but not all, of the various productions she appeared in throughout her career. This material consists primarily of programs, opening night telegrams, sides, photographs and a few contracts. The photographs are all organized in a separate scrapbook. There is one full script, for <span class=\"title\">Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole</span>; two screenplays, one for <span class=\"title\">The Tunnel of Love</span> and one for <span class=\"title\">The Way West</span> ; and a teleplay for <span class=\"title\">The Scarlett O'Hara War</span>.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Elisabeth Fraser papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21528#c309642'>Series I: Personal Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1939-1966</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The personal papers consist of <span class=\"genreform\">correspondence</span>; a <span class=\"genreform\">diary</span>, which she kept during the national tour of <span class=\"title\">There Shall Be No Night</span>; and a <span class=\"genreform\">journal</span> she wrote during the filming of <span class=\"title\">The Way West</span> and ephemera. The journal for <span class=\"title\">The Way West</span> encompasses nearly half the collection. There is both a handwritten and a typewritten manuscript copy of the journal, along with background material such as notes and correspondence. The overall correspondence is minimal, but it does include personal letters (including letters from her mother to her grandmother) as well as a few business letters. Some of the letters are photocopies.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21528#c309658'>Series II: Productions</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1940-1979</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The production papers include <span class=\"genreform\">clippings</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">scripts</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">programs</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">contracts</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">press releases</span> and opening night <span class=\"genreform\">telegrams</span>. The scripts include <span class=\"genreform\">sides</span>, <span class=\"genreform\">screenplays</span> and a <span class=\"genreform\">teleplay</span>. The one full script is for <span class=\"title\">Blood, Sweat and Stanely Poole</span>. There are two screenplays: <span class=\"title\">The Tunnel of Love</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Way West</span>; the teleplay is for <span class=\"title\">Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War</span> and the sides are from <span class=\"title\">There Shall Be No Night</span> (under the working title <span class=\"title\">Revelation</span>), <span class=\"title\">The Russian People</span> and <span class=\"title\">Winged Victory</span>. There are also a few <span class=\"genreform\">souvenir programs</span> and excerpts from a radio script of a 1941 interview in Memphis, with Elisabeth Fraser and Montgomery Clift promoting a production of <span class=\"title\">There Shall Be No Night</span>. This series also contains two editions of <span class=\"title\">The Luntanne Tattler</span>, a weekly newsletter of the Lunt-Fontanne Company that was touring <span class=\"title\">There Shall Be No Night</span> in 1940-41. There are also three editions of the <span class=\"title\">Gremlin</span>, a weekly newsletter put out by the cast of Moss Hart's <span class=\"title\">Winged Victory</span>.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/21528#c309705'>Series III: Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1920-1999</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 scrapbooks</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The scrapbooks in the collection consist primarily of clippings and photographs. One scrapbook is a collection of photographs organized and arranged by her daughter, Liza McDonald. The photographs are arranged by type with occasional captions provided by Miss McDonald. They include publicity shots, production stills and family snapshots. There is also an index and separate sheets of biographical notes, written at different points during her career. The scrapbook of clippings also includes reviews, some photographs (mostly photocopies) and ephemera, with occasional comments pasted in after the fact by Miss Fraser.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>Series I: Personal Papers</li> <li>Series II: Productions</li> <li>Series III: Scrapbooks</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division.</p>"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1920-1999", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/1999"}
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1920
- date_inclusive_end
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1999
- acqinfo
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{"accession_number"=>"THE 1999-025"}
{"date"=>"1999", "source"=>"McDonald, Liza", "method"=>"Gift", "extent"=>"2.44 o", "value"=>"Gift, McDonald, Liza, 1999"}
- keydate
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1920
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Mark C. Maniak.</p>"}
- date_start
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1920
- date_end
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1999