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(American & British Theatre Material.) Archive relating to the prominent theatre producer Gilbert Miller (1884-1970). Miller was active as a producer, theatre owner & sometime director on Broadway & London from 1904-1965. The material in this archive spans the period 1920-1960, most of the material represents the years 1935-1955. This archive holds approx. 3,500 pieces, these include typed & autograph letters from playwrights & other authors & adapters, performers, other theatre & motion picture producers; these letters are often accompanied by Miller's production company's copies of their own letters. The archive also includes many signed Actors' Equity & other contracts, a few original stage set design drawings, 8 x 10 photos of several productions, playbills & other ephemera, letterheads of Hollywood studios, Broadway & London theatre production companies. A list of many of the individuals represented in this archive by Autograph & Typed Letters Signed & Signed Documents follows below; a list of many of the plays represented by material in this archive then follows.
Individuals represented in this archive by signed & autograph material - partial list: Marta Abba, George Abbott (TLS, 1936), Stella Adler, Brian Aherne (ALS, 1927), Richard Ainsley, Jean Anouilh (7 ALS's & TLS's), Jean Arthur (signed contract), Peggy Ashcroft (ALS, 1951), Brook Atkinson, Lemuel Ayres (re: Meet Me in St. Louis), Tallulah Bankhead (TLS, 1940), Mary Barclay, Barbara Bel Geddes (signed contract), Irving Berlin (TLS 1950), Lucian Bersnard, Vivian Blaine, Guy Bolton (TLS's), Beulah Bondi, Major Edward Bowes, Romney Brent, Harold Bromley, Billie Burke (ALS), Yul Brenner, Eddie Cantor, Mary Cass Canfield, Kitty Carlisle, Leo G. Carroll (6 ALS's, 1940s), Bennett Cerf (3 TLS's, 1936, Random House letterheads), Maurice Chevalier (7 ALS's + DS), Colin Clements, Montgomery Clift (ANS), Charles Coburn (4 TLS's, 1940s), Colette, Benita Colman, Walter Connolly (signed contract), Gladys Cooper, Wendell Corey, Hume Cronyn, Joan Crawford (ALS, 1940), Clarence Derwent (ALS's, 1930s & 40s), Helen Deutsch (TLS's - 1 relating to Otto Preminger), Thomas E. Dewey, Robert Donat (TLS's, 1947), Denis P.S. Conan Doyle, Raoul Dufy, Maurice Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bus Fekete (signed contract, 1932), Mel Ferrer, Lynn Fontanne (TLS, 1949), Christopher Fry (signed contract - Ring Around the Moon), John Gilgud (TLS, 1953), Max Gordon, Ruth Godron (signed contract, ALS, 1941), Maurice Goudekt, Alec Guinness (signed payroll voucher - Flare Path, 1942, signed contract - Cocktail Party), Margaret Hamilton, Oscar Hammerstein, II (4 TLS's), Otto Harbach, Cedric Hardwick, Rex Harrison (TLS, 1943), Moss Hart (4 TLS's), Helen Hays (25+ ALS's, 1930s & 40s), Ben Hecht (TLS - re: Lily of the Valley, 1941, signed contract), Van Heflin (signed contract), Lillian Hellman (5 TLS's & ALS's + NS, 1949-50), Leslie Howard (TLS 1936), Sidney Howard, Alfred Hunt, Ian Hunter, Wilfred Hyde-White, Sam Jaffe (signed contract), Helen Jerome, Elia Kazan (2 TLS's + ANS), Garson Kanin (TLS's & ALS's, 1 re. Born Yesterday), George S. Kaufman (3 TLS's), Deborah Kerr (ALS), Walter Kerr (signed contract), Dorothy Kilgallen, Alex Korda, Andre Kostelanetz, Hedy Lamarr (TLS, 1943), Jessie L. Lasky, Gertrude Lawrence (5 ALS's & TLS's + signed contract), Margaret Leighton (ALS, 1949), Beatrice Lillie (TLS, 1948), Eva Le Gallienne (TLS, 1934), Joshua Logan, Anita Loos (TLS's), Clare Booth Luce (TLS's, 1940s & 50s), Rene Maurice Maeterlinck, Jack Manning, Arthur Margeston (signed contract), Herbert Marshall (3 TLS'S + ALS), James Mason (ALS, 1947), W. Somerset Maugham (ANS, TLS), Leo McCarey (TLS, 1940), Mercedes McCambridge, Dorothy McGuire, David Merrick, Diana Merrill, John Mills (TLS's), Ferenc Molnar (4 ALS's), Robert Morley (TLS's), Cathline Nesbit (TLS's), Alfred Newman, Paul Osborn, Bill Paley, Ernest Pascal (signed contract), Erwin Piccator, Luigi Pirandello (signed contract, 1936), Tyrone Power (2 TLS's), Claude Rains (TLS, 1951), Gregory Ratoff (10 TLS's & ALS's, 1930s), Michael Redgrave (4 TLS's), Ralph Richardson (ALS, 1953), Flora Robseon, Winthrop Rockefeller, Richard Rodgers (2 TLS's, 1947, 1950), Ginger Rogers (TLS, 1951), Billy Rose, Baron Henri de Rothschild (TLS's, 1939), Sig. Rumann, J.P. Sartre (contract signed by his publisher), David O. Selznick, George Bernard Shaw (TLS, 1935), Robert Sherwood (4 TLS's & ALS's - 1 re. Petrified Forest), Lee Shubert, Preston Sturges (TLS, 1941), Margaret Sullavan (signed contract, 1942), Gladys Swarthout (TLS's), Jessica Tandy (ALS, 1941), Franchot Tone (1941), Walter Wagner, Ray Walston, Margaret Webster, Rex Whistler, Ruth Wolfgang, William Woodson, Irene Worth, Jane Wyatt (ALS, 1938, TLS, 1945), Gig Young, Roland Young (2 ALS's), Darryl F. Zanuck (TLS, 1945), Lajos Zilahy (TLS, 1932), Adolph Zukor (TLS, 1945).
Plays represented by material in archive: The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse, Anne of England (incl. signed contracts), Antigone (J. Anouilth), Beyond the Farthest Star (incl. signed contracts), The Big Story, Bride of Torozko (incl. signed contracts), Brighton Rock, The Cocktail Party (incl. signed contracts), The Country Wife, Crystal (incl. signed contracts), Dial M for Murder, Edward My Son (incl. signed contracts), The Firebird (incl. signed contracts), Flare Path (incl. signed contracts), French Without Tears, Gigi (incl. signed contracts), Harriet, Heart of a City (incl. signed contracts), Her Excellency's Tobacco Shop, Hope for the Best, Horses in Midstream, I Have Been Here Before, Kind Lady, Laburum Grove, Ladies & Gentlemen (incl. signed contracts), Ladies in Retirement (incl. signed contracts), The Late Christopher Bean, The Living Room (incl. signed contracts), Murder in the Cathedral (incl. signed contracts), Once is Enough (incl. signed contracts), The Petrified Forest, Promise, Riviera (incl. signed contracts), The Swan (incl. signed contracts), This Side Idolatry, Three Dozen Roses, Tovarich, Witness for the Prosecution (incl. signed contracts).