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Interview with Elaine Stritch
- Title
- Interview with Elaine Stritch [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Publication
- New York, c2005.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (91 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Veteran performer Elaine Stritch discusses her career with her sometime-collaborator John Lahr. She begins with her earliest acting experiences at a convent school, and examines the impulse that drove her to become a performer. She discusses a number of her colleagues and other show business figures she has encountered, including Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman, Noel Coward, Stephen Sondheim, and Frank Sinatra. She also examines differences between the theater of her youth and the theater today.
- Subjects
- Merman, Ethel > Friends and associates
- Sondheim, Stephen > Friends and associates
- Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 > Friends and associates
- Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 > Friends and associates
- Stritch, Elaine > Interviews
- Interviews
- Actresses > Interviews
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Acting > Technique
- Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968 > Anecdotes
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 12, 2005.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
- Call Number
- NCOW 280
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F10207
- Title
- Interview with Elaine Stritch [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c2005.
- Access
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Performer
- Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis and Sheilah Rae.Interviewed by John Lahr.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 12, 2005.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
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- Added Author
- Stritch, Elaine, interviewee.Lahr, John, 1941- interviewer.Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.Rae, Sheilah, speaker.Hoffman, Patrick.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 280