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Interview with June Taylor
- Title
- Interview with June Taylor [sound recording]
- Author
- Taylor, June, 1919?-2004.
- Publication
- 1964.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1939 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 sound cassette (23 min.)
- Summary
- Ms. Taylor discusses the stresses of choreographing for a weekly live television show; the criteria for selecting dancers for her company; the performance schedule for the Jackie Gleason show; her first television work in 1948 for the Ed Sullivan show; the technique involved in staging dance for television; Duke Ellington composing A train in 1948 for the June Taylor Dancers; her own dance background; training with Merriel Abbott in Chicago; making a Hollywood screen test; contracting tuberculosis at age 18, which curtailed her dance career and led her to choreography; and her philosophy of dance.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.
- Uniform Title
- Profiles (Radio program)
- Subject
- Note
- Interviewed by Marian Horosko for radio station WNCN, New York City, as part of its series Profiles.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1939
- OCLC
- NYPY96-R99
- Author
- Taylor, June, 1919?-2004. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with June Taylor [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1964.
- Local Note
- Archival original: *MGZTO 7-1939. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in. reel.Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1939. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester; half-track.
- Local Subject
- Television. Ed Sullivan show.Audiotapes -- Taylor, J.Audiotapes -- Horosko, M.
- Added Author
- Horosko, Marian. InterviewerDHCA.
- Added Title
- Profiles (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1939