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Bethel Leslie in an evening of Clifford Odets

Title
Bethel Leslie in an evening of Clifford Odets [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication
New York, c1998.

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Moving imageRestricted use NCOW 211Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Additional Authors
  • Pally, Alan J
  • Leslie, Bethel
  • Corwin, Betty L.
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Description
1 videocassette (62 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
Summary
Actress Bethel Leslie conducts a tribute to playwright Clifford Odets in which she reads a number of his letters, including several concerning his play The country girl. Ms. Leslie also reads a short story he wrote but never published, an obituary essay about Mr. Odets written by critic Brooks Atkinson, and a response to the essay by playwright Robert Anderson in which the status of playwrights in contemporary theater, and the profession's attitude towards them, is criticized. Tape incomplete: Ms. Leslie's reminiscences of working in television in the early 1960's with Clifford Odets on The Richard Boone Show, whose scripts he supervised, were not recorded in their entirety.
Series Statement
Theatrical treasures
Subject
  • Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 > Correspondence
  • Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963 > Friends and associates
  • Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
  • Leslie, Bethel
  • Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984 > Correspondence
  • Anderson, Robert, 1917-2009 > Correspondence
  • Boone, Richard
  • Dramatists > United States
Note
  • Theatrical treasures was a series of free public programs celebrating the holdings of the Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Series producer, Alan J. Pally.
  • Copy of program available.
  • Incomplete: conclusion of program not recorded.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York, N.Y., April 27, 1998.
Call Number
NCOW 211
OCLC
NYPG99-F997
Title
Bethel Leslie in an evening of Clifford Odets [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Imprint
New York, c1998.
Series
Theatrical treasures
Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York, N.Y., April 27, 1998.
Local Subject
Tributes.
Added Author
Pally, Alan J, producer.
Leslie, Bethel, speaker.
Corwin, Betty L.
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 211
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