- unitid
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{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2006-018", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18894", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b20258521", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1905-1949", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1905/1949"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Peggy Hoover and Buddy Doyle papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".88 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"22.19 gb (645 computer files)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"id"=>"THE", "value"=>"Billy Rose Theatre Division"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Peggy Hoover and her husband, Buddy Doyle, were American vaudevillians and performers for Broadway and film. The collection (1905-1949) documents their careers through scrapbooks, photographs, and sheet music."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Peggy Hoover and Buddy Doyle papers, *T-Mss 2006-018. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Doyle, Buddy", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Peggy Hoover was an American dancer and actress for vaudeville, Broadway, and regional theater. She began dancing as a child in Denver, Colorado under Gladys Moore. During her freshman year of high school she was picked up by vaudevillian Gus Edwards to perform in his fifteenth annual revue at the Orpheum Theatre in Denver. Hoover would continue to perform with Edwards for several years in shows across the United States and in London. She also appeared in Bobby Sanford's well-received Showboat Revue and performed in multiple editions of Earl Carroll's Vanities. She made her Broadway debut in Hello, Yourself in 1928. She met and married Buddy Doyle in 1927.</p> <p>Buddy Doyle (born Benjamin Taubenhaus) began acting in high school in minstrel shows in Brooklyn, New York. After he was discovered by comedian and vaudeville actor Lew Dockstader, his career as an impersonator, comedian, and singer landed him lead roles in all the major vaudeville circuits. On Broadway he performed in the original 1923 revue Artists and Models. His film credits include At a Talkie Show (1929) and The Great Ziegfeld, which he understudied for before playing Eddie Cantor. He also performed in several editions of The Ziegfeld Follies and was a replacement actor for Henry Williams in the 1928 Broadway production of Whoopee.</p> <p>Buddy Doyle died after surgery for appendicitis in 1939. Peggy Hoover later remarried and continued her career in radio and melodrama under the name Peggy Bloodgood.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection (1905-1949) documents the careers of Peggy Hoover and Buddy Doyle through scrapbooks, photographs, and sheet music. The two scrapbooks, one for Hoover and one for Doyle, largely contain newspaper clippings. Hoover's scrapbook documents her career as a vaudeville performer from her first Gus Edwards revue in her hometown of Denver, Colorado until the 1940s when she became more involved with melodrama as a member of the Riverside Community Players in Riverside, California. Doyle's scrapbook documents his well-received film performance as Eddie Cantor in The Great Ziegfeld (1936), as a fill-in for Henry Williams in Whoopee (1928), and his work as a comedian and singer for vaudeville and radio shows.</p> <p>Photographs in the collection primarily consist of headshots and staged group photographs of Hoover from the 1920s. Several of the images feature her posed in her dance costumes. Productions pictured include the Broadway show Hello, Yourself (1928) and the film Follow Your Heart (1936). Photographs of Doyle primarily consist of publicity headshots of him in blackface for the Broadway Production Whoopee (1928). Production stills featuring Doyle in short films, such as Lalapaloosa (1936), are also here.</p> <p>The sheet music consists of music from shows Hoover and Doyle performed in including vaudeville acts by Bobby Sanford, Gus Edwards, and Billy Rose. Also present is a score written and composed by Buddy Doyle and Gene Austin entitled All That You Left Me Were Two Empty Arms (1926). Some of the sheet music is autographed with notes to Hoover.</p> <p>The collection holds electronic records. They consist of scanned images of most of the photographs in the collection and the entire Buddy Doyle scrapbook. Materials were scanned in 2006.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged into three categories: Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Sheet Music.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Georgene Litten Smith and Candace Bartsch, 2006.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Robyn Hjermstad</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>The author/creator retains copyright of materials. For information on obtaining permission to publish, contact the Theatre Division at theatre@nypl.org.</p>"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- date_start
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1905
- keydate
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1905
- date_end
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1949
- date_inclusive_start
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1905
- date_inclusive_end
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1949
- extent_statement
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.88 linear feet (3 boxes); 22.19 gb (645 computer files)