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Women in theatre.
- Title
- Women in theatre. Ruby Dee [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.
- Publication
- New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Dee, Ruby
- Winer, Linda
- Robins, Isobel
- Slaughter, Harriet
- Mayleas, Ruth
- Corwin, Betty L
- Isaacson, Robert
- Malone, Audra D
- CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
- League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.
- City University of New York.
- League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.
- CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (29 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist Ruby Dee discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Dee speaks about being denied a role because of her race as a high school drama student in Manhattan; performing in Harlem's American Negro Theatre in the 1940s; being one of the first African American actresses to play important Shakespearean roles with white actors during the 1960s; meeting her husband Ossie Davis during the production of Jeb in 1945; her longstanding involvement, along with her husband, in political activism; the writing of their joint autobiography; being cast in the stage play A raisin in the sun as Ruth, a suffering housewife in the projects; her view of herself as a "fighter" influenced by her early encounters with racism; her kinship with directors and writers with whom she has worked; and the need for more dramatic works about African Americans.
- Series Statement
- Women in theatre
- Alternative Title
- Dialogues with notable women in American theatre
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Television.
- Talk shows.
- Interviews.
- Note
- Credits at end of tape.
- "Discussion program spotlighting prominent women from the theatre, including performers, playwrights, producers and designers."
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Linda Winer.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 15, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, March 26, 2004.
- Call Number
- NCOX 2040
- OCLC
- 170969837
- Title
- Women in theatre. Ruby Dee [videorecording] / produced by the League of Professional Theatre Women, Isobel Robins, Harriet Slaughter, co-presidents ; Ruth Mayleas, executive producer ; Betty L. Corwin, director of special projects, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive ; Bob Isaacson, executive in charge of production ; Audra D. Malone, director ; [produced for] CUNY-TV.
- Imprint
- New York : CUNY-TV, c2004.
- Series
- Women in theatre
- Performer
- Interviewer: Linda Winer.
- Event
- Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios, New York, N.Y. on Dec. 15, 2003. First aired on CUNY-TV, Channel 75, March 26, 2004.
- Local Note
- Gift of The League of Professional Theatre Women and CUNY-TV.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Dee, Ruby, interviewee.Winer, Linda, interviewer.Robins, Isobel, producer.Slaughter, Harriet, producer.Mayleas, Ruth, producer.Corwin, Betty L, producer.Isaacson, Robert, producer.Malone, Audra D, director.CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.League of Professional Theatre Women, producer.City University of New York.League of Professional Theatre Women, donor.CUNY-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), donor.
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 2040