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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"4 boxes and 4 oversized folders"}
- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Vim 1967-002", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21503", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Vincent J. Donehue designs and plans"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts."}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Vincent J. Donehue was a director of stage, film and television. The collection contains set designs for plays and television programs."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Vincent J. Donehue - Designs and Plans from the Collection, *T-VIM 1967-002, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Donehue, Vincent J., 1915-1966", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Director Vincent J. Donehue was born on September 22, 1915 in Whitehall, New York to Julian B. Donehue and Helen E. Vincent. His father was director of redevelopment in Albany, New York. Vincent Donehue was educated at Christian Brothers Academy and the State University of New York and studied for the stage with Tamara Daykarhanova and with Fanny Bradshaw at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-on-Avon, England. He made his radio debut in 1937 and in the years prior to World War II was heard on over 1500 radio shows. He also acted on Broadway during this time appearing as Cinna, the poet in Orson Welles' production of <span class=\"title\">Julius Caesar</span>, and in Katharine Cornell's <span class=\"title\">Herod and Marianne</span>, Guthrie McClintic's <span class=\"title\">Christmas Eve</span>, the Theatre Guild's <span class=\"title\">Jeremiah</span>, by Stefan Zweig, John Golden's <span class=\"title\">The Old Foolishness</span> by Paul Vincent Carroll, and <span class=\"title\">My Fair Ladies</span> with Betty Furness and Celeste Holm.</p> <p>Donehue enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1941 and served through 1945 attaining the rank of Major. While overseas he co-authored, produced and directed a play San Francisco which toured France and Germany. After the war he and playwright Horton Foote established Productions, Inc., an acting school and professional theater repertory company in Washington D.C., sharing the responsibilities of producer, director and manager together. This repertory company staged productions ranging from J. M. Synge's <span class=\"title\">Deidre of the Spirits</span> to William Saroyan's <span class=\"title\">My Heart's in the Highlands</span>.</p> <p>In 1950 Donehue signed as a director for NBC-TV's <span class=\"title\">Chevrolet Theatre</span> with Fred Coe, who had been his summer stock roommate back in 1935. Subsequently Donehue was producer-director for the <span class=\"title\">Gabby Hayes Show</span> dramas, an alternate director for <span class=\"title\">Robert Montgomery Presents</span> (1952), director of <span class=\"title\">Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse</span> (1952-1956), and <span class=\"title\">Producer's Showcase</span> (1957-1958). He staged many teleplays during TV's \"golden age\" including Thornton Wilder's <span class=\"title\">The Skin of Our Teeth</span>, Robert E. Sherwood's <span class=\"title\">Reunion in Vienna</span>, Clare Booth Luce's <span class=\"title\">The Women</span>, Paddy Chayefsky's <span class=\"title\">The Big Deal</span>, William Faulkner's <span class=\"title\">The Sound and the Fury</span>, Rudolf Besier's <span class=\"title\">The Barretts of Wimpole Street</span> with Katharine Cornell, and the Mary Martin production of J. M. Barrie's <span class=\"title\">Peter Pan</span> (1960), one of the first television productions filmed on magnetic tape.</p> <p>Donehue's career as a director on Broadway began with his staging of Horton Foote's <span class=\"title\">The Trip to Bountiful</span> with Lillian Gish in 1953. This was followed by Foote's <span class=\"title\">Traveling Lady</span> (1954), Tennessee William's <span class=\"title\">Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton</span> (1955), Dore Schary's <span class=\"title\">Sunrise at Campobello</span> (1958), Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein's <span class=\"title\">The Sound of Music</span> (1959), Morris L. West's <span class=\"title\">Daughter of Silence</span> (1961), S. N. Behrman's <span class=\"title\">Lord Pengo</span> (1962), Arthur Schwartz's <span class=\"title\">Jennie</span> (1963), and Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert's <span class=\"title\">Catch Me If You Can</span> (1965). He also directed two films: <span class=\"title\">Lonelyhearts</span> (1959) and <span class=\"title\">Sunrise at Campobello</span> (1960), both produced by Dore Schary.</p> <p>Vincent Donehue received a Tony Award and a Film Daily Award for his direction of <span class=\"title\">Sunrise at Campobello</span> and a Director's Guild Award for his television direction of <span class=\"title\">Peter Pan</span>. He died of Hodgkins disease on January 17, 1966 in New York City. He was fifty years old.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection was processed and cataloged in 1997. Visual materials were recataloged in 2000.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Consists of drawings of floor plans and scenery for the following theatrical productions: <span class=\"title\">Daughter of Silence</span>, <span class=\"title\">Jennie</span>, <span class=\"title\">Traveling Lady</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Trip To Bountiful</span> and <span class=\"title\">27 Wagons Full of Cotton</span>, set designs for the weekly <span class=\"title\">Gabby Hayes Show</span> on NBC, 1951-1952, and designs for many of the other television shows directed by Donehue, mostly on NBC in the 1950s, including productions for <span class=\"title\">Goodyear Television Playhouse</span>, <span class=\"title\">Philco Television Playhouse</span>, <span class=\"title\">Playwrights 56</span>, <span class=\"title\">Producers' Showcase</span> and the <span class=\"title\">Robert Montgomery Johnson Wax Theatre</span>. Particularly detailed are the drawings for the teleplays <span class=\"title\">The Women</span>, <span class=\"title\">A Child Is Waiting</span> and <span class=\"title\">Letter to Edith</span>. Designers represented include <span class=\"persname\">George Jenkins</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Tom Jewett</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Otis Riggs</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Oliver Smith</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Sointu Syrjala</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Rouben Ter-Arutunian</span>.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Vincent J. Donehue Papers - *T-Mss 1967-002</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Photocopying prohibited. stored off-site.</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"=>"1950-1963", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1950/1963"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1950
- date_inclusive_end
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1963
- acqinfo
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{"date"=>"1966", "materials"=>"Designs", "source"=>"Estate of Vincent J. Donehue", "method"=>"bequest", "extent"=>"4 o", "value"=>"Designs: bequest, Estate of Vincent J. Donehue, 1966"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Donehue, Vincent J. Papers, designs and technical drawings</p>", "type"=>"host"}
- keydate
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1950
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Elisabeth Elkind.</p>"}
- date_start
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1950
- date_end
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1963