An interview with Rosetta Le Noire
- Title
- An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Published by
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound. | Vol/dateDisc 2 | FormatMoving image | AccessBy appointment only | Call numberSc Visual DVD-1351 Disc 2 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Status Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound. | Vol/dateDisc 1 | FormatMoving image | AccessBy appointment only | Call numberSc Visual DVD-1351 Disc 1 | Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Rosetta Le Noire discusses her career, AMAS Repertory Theatre, family, and reminisces about friends and earlier times. Childhood; memories of Harold Jackman; the mission of AMAS Repertory Theatre; where AMAS began and its founders; street theater; anecdote about Mary McLeod Bethune; how she received funding from the NY State Council of the Arts; transition from her basement to several churches; origin of AMAS Eubie Blake Theatre (children's theater); her philosophy of children's theater; her expectations of the children and the theater routine; development of "Bubbling Brown Sugar"; reminisces of Harlem; memories of her father; Charlie Buchanan and efforts to obtain his papers; quote by Avon Long about black actors; where black performers stayed when on the road; racism today; her childhood compared with environment for children today; drug problem; why she is still involved with AMAS; many graduates of AMAS on Broadway now; future shows; Dick Campbell; future shows- "Louisiana Summer," "Blackbirds"; Bojangles; beginnings in theater; memories of Bojangles; anecdotes about Ethel Waters; "Anna Lucasta"; family.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Call number
- Sc Visual VRA-150
- Terms of use (note)
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
- Author
- LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002, interviewee.
- Title
- An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
- Country of producing entity
- United States.
- Type of content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of medium
- video
- Type of carrier
- videodisc
- Digital file characteristics
- video file DVD
- Performer
- Interviewer, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Event
- Recorded October 22, 1982 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Terms of use
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography
- Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research call number
- Sc Visual DVD-1351
- Sc Visual VRB-1591-1592 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-150.