Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection miscellany

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Includes correspondence and press releases from or to Richard L. Coe, theater critic at the Washington Post. Includes press photographs of individual actors and actresses including Anne Fielding, Richard Basehart, Christopher Plummer, Eric Christmas, John Collicos, Peter Donat, Bruno Gerussi, William Hutt, Douglas Rain, Kate Reid and Toby Robins for performances at the 10th Canadian Stratford Festival in 1962. Includes press photographs of Carolyn Jones, Ava Gardner, Joan Collins, Judy Holliday, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Lana Turner, Jean Simmons, Jimmy Stewart, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Bing Crosby, Vittorio de Sica, Gloria Swanson, Brigitte Bardot, Howard Keel, Jay C. Flippen, Anthony Franciosa, Jane Pickens and Burl Ives from movies including "The Actress" (1953), "Bachelor Party" (1957), "The Country Girl" (1954), "It Should Happen To You" (1954), "Kismet" (1955), "The Little Hut" (1957), "Lust for Life" (1955), "The Merry Widow" (1952), "Mogambo" (1953), "My Son, Nero" (1956), "The Opposite Sex" (1956), "Pat and Mike" (1952), "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957), "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1955), "Trapeze" (1956), "The Women" (1939), and the U.S. Steel Hour production "To Die Alone" (1952). Includes individual scattered issues of magazines and newsletters including A.C.T. Backstage Newsletter, Equity, The Establishment Theatre Report, Panorama, St. James School Alumni Quarterly, Theatre Guild, Theatre World, World Premieres Mondiales, World Premieres Monthly Bulletin, Also includes brochures including those from the Arena Stage, Back Alley Theatre, Carter Barron Amphitheatre, Catholic University, Hartke Theatre, The Folio Society, Georgetown University Theatre, Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society, Institute of the American Musical, Inc., John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, National Theatre, Olney Theatre, Prince George's Community College, The Provincetown Playhouse, Ringling Museums and the Washington Theater Club. Also includes personal correspondence to Coe from Harry Danner and to his wife Christine Sadler Coe including letters from Constance O'Keefe Helms and Edith Susong. Includes newspaper clippings, notes on scrap paper and miscellaneous ephemera.

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