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Interview with Jane Alexander
- Title
- Interview with Jane Alexander [videorecording] / [video prod. company, Character Generators] ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Publication
- New York, c1999.
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- Description
- 2 videocassettes (72 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Summary
- Actor and former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts Jane Alexander discusses her career, beginning with her lifelong interest in theatre, her education, and her early professional experiences, including Howard Sackler's play The great white hope, in which she co-starred with James Earl Jones, and the television mini-series Eleanor and Franklin, in which she portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt. Ms. Alexander discusses at length her 1993-7 tenure at the National Endowment for the Arts, and also touches on the related issues of arts funding, the possible establishment of a national theater, and the potential for women to hold high governmental positions. A question and answer session follows the discussion.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Interview conducted at a meeting of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Introductory remarks are made by several speakers.
- Due to an audio malfunction, there is no sound during the first 30 seconds of the second cassette, during the opening of the question and answer session.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Margaret Croyden.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Signature Theatre Company, New York, N.Y., May 19, 1999.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
- Call Number
- NCOW 225
- OCLC
- NYPG00-F24
- Title
- Interview with Jane Alexander [videorecording] / [video prod. company, Character Generators] ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c1999.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Margaret Croyden.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Signature Theatre Company, New York, N.Y., May 19, 1999.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
- Added Author
- Alexander, Jane, 1939- interviewee.Croyden, Margaret, interviewer.Corwin, Betty L.League of Professional Theatre Women.Character Generators/Video.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 225