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The line king : the Al Hirschfeld story

Title: The line king : the Al Hirschfeld story [videorecording] / Castle Hill Productions presents a New York Times History production ; produced, written and directed by Susan W. Dryfoos ; [video producer] Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc., c1997.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (87 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Documentary on the life and career of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld (b. 1903), who specializes in prominent personalities from the entertainment world. Features interviews with a number of Hirschfeld's subjects, friends, associates, and relatives, archival footage from plays and films he has covered, and family home movie footage.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Cabin Fever Entertainment.

Subject

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.

Note

Videocassette release of the 1996 motion picture.
Credits at end of tape.

Credits (note)

Associate producer and editor, Angelo Corrao ; cameras, Richard Blofson and Jeffrey Grunther ; sound, Sam Russell, Scott Nielsen, John Tipton, and John Andres.

Performer (note)

Interviews: Al Hirschfeld, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Jules Feiffer, Robert Goulet, Katharine Hepburn (voice only), Barbara Walters, Robert Loggia, Geoffrey Holder, Cy Coleman, Florence Rome (voice only), Stefan Kanfer, Philip Hamburger, Maria Riva, Dolly Haas, Daniel Mayer Selznick, Paula Laurence, Adam Gopnik, Arthur Gelb, Joseph Papp, Nina Hirschfeld, Clara Rotter, Margo Feiden, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Dr. Calvin F. Nodine (voice only), Eric Goldberg, Louise Kerz.

Call Number

NCOX 1421

OCLC

38052486
NYPG01-F288

Title

The line king : the Al Hirschfeld story [videorecording] / Castle Hill Productions presents a New York Times History production ; produced, written and directed by Susan W. Dryfoos ; [video producer] Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc., c1997.

Credits

Associate producer and editor, Angelo Corrao ; cameras, Richard Blofson and Jeffrey Grunther ; sound, Sam Russell, Scott Nielsen, John Tipton, and John Andres.

Performer

Interviews: Al Hirschfeld, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Jules Feiffer, Robert Goulet, Katharine Hepburn (voice only), Barbara Walters, Robert Loggia, Geoffrey Holder, Cy Coleman, Florence Rome (voice only), Stefan Kanfer, Philip Hamburger, Maria Riva, Dolly Haas, Daniel Mayer Selznick, Paula Laurence, Adam Gopnik, Arthur Gelb, Joseph Papp, Nina Hirschfeld, Clara Rotter, Margo Feiden, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Dr. Calvin F. Nodine (voice only), Eric Goldberg, Louise Kerz.

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Added Author

Dryfoos, Susan W, producer.

Dryfoos, Susan W, director.

Dryfoos, Susan W. Line king.

Corrao, Angelo, associate producer and editor.

Blofson, Richard, camera operator.

Grunther, Jeffrey, camera operator.

Russell, Sam, sound.

Nielsen, Scott, sound.

Tipton, John, sound.

Andres, John, sound.

Hirschfeld, Al, interviewee.

Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014, interviewee.

Channing, Carol, interviewee.

Collins, Joan, 1933- interviewee.

Feiffer, Jules, interviewee.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, interviewee.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, interviewee.

Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022, interviewee.

Loggia, Robert, interviewee.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, interviewee.

Coleman, Cy, interviewee.

Rome, Florence, interviewee.

Kanfer, Stefan, interviewee.

Hamburger, Philip, interviewee.

Riva, Maria, interviewee.

Haas, Dolly, 1910-1994, interviewee.

Selznick, Daniel Mayer, interviewee.

Laurence, Paula, interviewee.

Gopnick, Adam, interviewee.

Gelb, Arthur, 1924-2014, interviewee.

Papp, Joseph, interviewee.

Hirschfeld, Nina, interviewee.

Rotter, Clara, interviewee.

Feiden, Margo, interviewee.

Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, interviewee.

Robards, Jason, interviewee.

Dewhurst, Colleen, interviewee.

Nodine, Calvin F, interviewee.

Goldberg, Eric, interviewee.

Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- interviewee.

Castle Hill Productions.

New York Times History Productions, producer.

Cabin Fever Entertainment, Inc.

Research Call Number

NCOX 1421

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