"An actor, ugly and ragged, stands gesticulating, the left arm extended towards Sheridan, who sits in a low chair (right) before a small rectangular table. He fixes Sheridan with a hungry glare, clutching a small cocked hat in his right hand ... In th...
Letters, manuscript poems, financial papers, and other documents relating to David Garrick and his tenure as manager of the Drury Lane Theatre. Letters include a lengthy 1751 letter from Richard Berenger describing theaters and operas in Paris; transc...
Description:
David Garrick (1717-1779) was the most celebrated Shakespearean actor of his time and the successful manager of the Drury Lane Theatre for almost three decades.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Berenger, Richard, 1719 or 1720-1782., Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Garrick, Peter., Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776., O'Brien, William, -1815., Rackett, Thomas, 1757-1841., and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Landscape painting, English, Theater, and Theatrical managers
99 letters from Lady Dorothy Tennant Stanley to the actor, Constant Coquelin, discussing affairs of the Comédie-Française, political events, including colonial engagements in Africa, particularly those with which her husband, the explorer Henry Mor...
Description:
Chiefly in French, some letters in English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and France.
Subject (Name):
Coquelin, Constant, 1841-1909., Stanley, Dorothy, Lady, 1855-1926., and Stanley, Henry M. 1841-1904. (Henry Morton),
Subject: Full length portrait of the actor Edmund Kean standing; facing the viewer; background, a wooded area near a stream. A canoe in the background. Kean wears Native American-style or Wyandot-style clothing with a feathered headress; he holds an a...
Publisher:
Neal & Mackenzie 201 Chesnut Street Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833 and Kean, Edmund, 1787-1833.
Record of the acting career of Charles B. Wells, typescript carbon copy, bound, dated 1921. Dates, cities, theaters, plays, and roles played by Wells, salaries he received, and names of acting companies and actors with whom he worked are listed in a ...
Description:
Charles B. Wells (1851-1924) was an American actor who performed throughout the continental United States and Hawaii Territory.
"J.P. Kemble stoops, with hands on knees, while a small and sprightly child, young Roscius, supports himself on his shoulders and is about to leap over his head. He says: "Alas! is it come to this Ah! woe is me Seeing what I have seen Seeing what I se...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published 30 November, 1804, by R. Akermann, No. 103 Strand
Subject (Name):
Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823 and Betty, William Hen. West 1791-1874 (William Henry West),
Promotional material for the 1970 motion picture Dinah East. Includes a pressbook and eight portraits of cast members Matt Bennett, Andy Davis, Jeremy Stockwell, and Ultra Violet, taken by an unidentified photographer
Description:
Dinah East is a 1970 motion picture that tells the story of a female impersonator working as an actress in 1950s Hollywood.
