Research Catalog
Nila Mack papers
- Title
- Nila Mack papers, 1910-1953.
- Author
- Mack, Nila, 1891-1953.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1953-002 Box 2 | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1953-002 Box 1 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Nazimova, 1879-1945.
- Description
- .63 lf. (2 boxes).
- Summary
- The Nila Mack papers contain correspondence, personal papers and ephemera, photographs, clippings and scrapbooks.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photographic prints.
- Correspondence.
- Printed ephemera.
- Scrapbooks.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Elaine Ivans
- Biography (note)
- Nila Mack, actress and radio writer, director and producer was born in Arkansas City, Kansas in 1891.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1953-002
- OCLC
- NYPW95-A89
- Author
- Mack, Nila, 1891-1953.
- Title
- Nila Mack papers, 1910-1953.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Nila Mack, actress and radio writer, director and producer was born in Arkansas City, Kansas in 1891. She began her career in vaudeville and as a leading lady in a traveling repertory company. When her husband, Roy Briant, joined Paramount Pictures as a writer, she became a member of Nazimova's company. Nila Mack was in the film WAR BRIDES and also wrote scenarios for screen shorts during this time. In the 1930's she took over creative responsibility for the radio program THE ADVENTURES OF HELEN MARY which became LET'S PRETEND and which she produced for the next 23 years. Nila Mack won awards for LET'S PRETEND and other works and was known as the "Fairy Godmother of Radio". She died in 1953.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.
- Local Note
- Some materials in this collection previously cataloged as MWEZ+ n.c. 20246-20247.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Nazimova, 1879-1945.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1953-002